You know what would be cool? Converting your Wii Shop Channel into a more respectable Homebrew Browser.
I mean, seriously though, who doesn’t want to browse WSC and it’s cheerfully brainwashing music for Homebrew instead of WiiWare/Virtual Console? That’s where we guys come in.
We are a small team that has been researching the inner workings of the Wii Shop Channel, and we’re now getting closer and closer to transmitting Homebrew over the Wii Shop Channel and rebranding it as The Open Shop Channel. Are we another revival concept going nowhere? Not this time.
What is OSC?
We’re a replacement of Wii Shop Channel and an alternative to Homebrew Browser. OSC will be a patched version of WSC that directs to our services.
Why though?
With the Wii Shop Channel's closure in 2019 and Homebrew Repo services becoming outdated, The Open Shop Channel's purpose is to give both Homebrew Developers and Users a more comfortable experience for downloading and installing homebrew.
Who are we?
We are a group of homebrew enthusiasts that want to provide the easiest way to get homebrew in the safest way possible. The team so far consists of (in alphabetical order):
Alright, no actual announcement or GBATemp post about a revival should be complete without our current progress roadmap.
We are looking for homebrew developers that are interested in having their Homebrew published on The Open Shop Channel, you can contact us by joining our Discord. (Invite Code: by6mR5N ) There are guidelines that your Homebrew need to abide by to make sure we aren’t allowing explicit, legally infringing or offensive software from being published.
If you want to learn about our projects within OSC, check out our website which is oscwii(dot)org to find out more.
Our GitHub Organisation is OpenShopChannel, that contains all our open source software and a lot of what we’ve discovered about WSC.
See you later!
(No, it’s not released yet, we plan to release on WSC’s Shutdown day.)
UPDATE: OSC is now a part of RiiConnect24 and is no longer an independent service.
Note 2: We will never, under no circumstance, ever host or distribute WiiWare or Virtual Console. That is illegal, and stands against what we are trying to be. We are a homebrew network, not a warez network of any kind.
I mean, seriously though, who doesn’t want to browse WSC and it’s cheerfully brainwashing music for Homebrew instead of WiiWare/Virtual Console? That’s where we guys come in.
We are a small team that has been researching the inner workings of the Wii Shop Channel, and we’re now getting closer and closer to transmitting Homebrew over the Wii Shop Channel and rebranding it as The Open Shop Channel. Are we another revival concept going nowhere? Not this time.
What is OSC?
We’re a replacement of Wii Shop Channel and an alternative to Homebrew Browser. OSC will be a patched version of WSC that directs to our services.
Why though?
With the Wii Shop Channel's closure in 2019 and Homebrew Repo services becoming outdated, The Open Shop Channel's purpose is to give both Homebrew Developers and Users a more comfortable experience for downloading and installing homebrew.
Who are we?
We are a group of homebrew enthusiasts that want to provide the easiest way to get homebrew in the safest way possible. The team so far consists of (in alphabetical order):
- Billy
- CornierKhan1
- darkphoenix10 (Darky)
- @Lorderpy (dhtdht020)
- @KcrPL
- @Larsenv
- @awesomebing1 (Spotlight)
Alright, no actual announcement or GBATemp post about a revival should be complete without our current progress roadmap.
- We started as an internal project at Disconnect24 during March 2018, but when the idea and proof of concept that the WSC can be modified to external servers, we separated into our own standalone project in hopes that the project doesn’t become endorsed with other revival services.
- After becoming independent, we began collecting and organising the Wii Shop Channel’s JavaScript API into a library we decided to call “WiiCore.js”, after we discovered some very intriguing functions on the WSC’s OSS-Auth pages, we eventually started fishing out most of the SOAP that WSC had hidden within, which would not have been possible without the generous NAND donations from the community.
- By August, we were almost done sorting all of the SOAP into it’s own repo on our GitHub Organisation and development on a custom SOAP Server began. We could have used Nintendo’s recommendation of AXIS, but we thought it would have been easier to develop a SOAP Server designed specifically to work with the Wii Shop Channel.
- September/October came about and our SOAP Server was basically ready to go, we finished up modifying the WSC’s DOL, Banner and we are now mainly focusing on finishing the rest of the JS collection and setting up an SQL Database for SOAP Accounts and Homebrew.
We are looking for homebrew developers that are interested in having their Homebrew published on The Open Shop Channel, you can contact us by joining our Discord. (Invite Code: by6mR5N ) There are guidelines that your Homebrew need to abide by to make sure we aren’t allowing explicit, legally infringing or offensive software from being published.
If you want to learn about our projects within OSC, check out our website which is oscwii(dot)org to find out more.
Our GitHub Organisation is OpenShopChannel, that contains all our open source software and a lot of what we’ve discovered about WSC.
See you later!
(No, it’s not released yet, we plan to release on WSC’s Shutdown day.)
UPDATE: OSC is now a part of RiiConnect24 and is no longer an independent service.
Note 2: We will never, under no circumstance, ever host or distribute WiiWare or Virtual Console. That is illegal, and stands against what we are trying to be. We are a homebrew network, not a warez network of any kind.
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