Wii Shop Channel (gamespy)

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It wasn't supposed to be able to go online until tomorrow morning, but Nintendo's Wii online shop is alive and well. How do I know this? Over the last week or so, I've been trying to connect my Wii to the internet, but I kept getting an error stating that the servers were down. This all changed today, and after two different Wii system updates had been wirelessly downloaded, I was able to access the Wii Shop Channel.

The first thing I noticed before I got stuck into some retail therapy was that the new updates had patched certain functionality. Before the patch, I was only able to browse the Wii's internal memory for saved game data. There was no way to copy game saves onto an SD memory card. Well, now I can. This came as big relief, as my precious Twilight Princess game save data is now backed up. Very cool. Heading back to the main menu, I noticed that the Wii Shop was now activated.

After agreeing to Nintendo's long-winded End User License Agreement, I was ready to do some exploring. The following images were snapped in the order I trawled through the menus. Appropriate commentary will be tagged to each photo.

Wii Shop channel now active.

Getting ready to connect...

Connecting, please wait!

Greeting page.

It wasn't supposed to be able to go online until tomorrow morning, but Nintendo's Wii online shop is alive and well. How do I know this? Over the last week or so, I've been trying to connect my Wii to the internet, but I kept getting an error stating that the servers were down. This all changed today, and after two different Wii system updates had been wirelessly downloaded, I was able to access the Wii Shop Channel.

Main menu choices.

Google browsing coming in the future.

Nearly time to see what's available.

System select!

It wasn't supposed to be able to go online until tomorrow morning, but Nintendo's Wii online shop is alive and well. How do I know this? Over the last week or so, I've been trying to connect my Wii to the internet, but I kept getting an error stating that the servers were down. This all changed today, and after two different Wii system updates had been wirelessly downloaded, I was able to access the Wii Shop Channel.

NES titles.

SNES titles.

Nintendo 64 titles (or title).

Sega Genesis titles.

It wasn't supposed to be able to go online until tomorrow morning, but Nintendo's Wii online shop is alive and well. How do I know this? Over the last week or so, I've been trying to connect my Wii to the internet, but I kept getting an error stating that the servers were down. This all changed today, and after two different Wii system updates had been wirelessly downloaded, I was able to access the Wii Shop Channel.

Get ready to add Wii Points here.

Enter the code here from your Wii Points card.

Tells you how many Wii Points are on the card.

Adding Wii Points to your account.

It wasn't supposed to be able to go online until tomorrow morning, but Nintendo's Wii online shop is alive and well. How do I know this? Over the last week or so, I've been trying to connect my Wii to the internet, but I kept getting an error stating that the servers were down. This all changed today, and after two different Wii system updates had been wirelessly downloaded, I was able to access the Wii Shop Channel.

You can also buy more Wii Points using a credit card.

Discover Card users are screwed.

The all-important credit card data goes here.

Check your account activity here.

It wasn't supposed to be able to go online until tomorrow morning, but Nintendo's Wii online shop is alive and well. How do I know this? Over the last week or so, I've been trying to connect my Wii to the internet, but I kept getting an error stating that the servers were down. This all changed today, and after two different Wii system updates had been wirelessly downloaded, I was able to access the Wii Shop Channel.

System settings menu.

A handy indexed help menu.