WiIRC
I’ve succeeded in hacking CGI:IRC to be usable with the Wii. That’s right! IRC on the Wii! What does this mean? Well, it makes it possible to chat with friends from the comfort of your Wii. Okay, it’s not all that impressive, but that’s not the point. You can try my demo which can connect to BitlBee or #WiIRC or #wiili on Freenode, or I can give you instructions on how to modify the source to use on your own server.
First of all, download CGI:IRC and extract it to the directory of your choice. A good choice is somewhere in the /cgi-bin/ directory of your webserver. Easy enough, right?
Now, it’s time for the fun part. It seems there is a problem with CGI:IRC and Opera versions later than 7 (I can’t get text to send with Opera 9 on Windows or Wii), but by adding the parameters ?interface=mozilla it appears to work when using normal operating systems. Not quite so on the Wii. To get it to work on the Wii (and other Opera browsers) just apply my patch, a near identical clone of mozilla.pm, by using the following commands from the directory you extracted the package to:
wget http://possum.kicks-ass.org/wii-chat/opera7.pm.patch
patch -p0 <opera7.pm.patch
Now your opera7.pm and mozilla.pm should be almost identical, save two lines. Configure your cgiirc.config to your liking, and everything should be done. Enjoy 
By the way, any developers familiar with javascript and/or perl, especially those intimate with CGI:IRC, please contact me on freenode #WiIRC so we can try and get things like automatic scrolling working. Thanks!
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February 6th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Too much work when there’s a computer 3 ft from my Wii.
UsingFebruary 13th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Personaly, I see this to be usefull, and quite honestly, could be quite fun.
UsingFebruary 16th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Thank you GhOsTly, this was just a toy though. I’d like to eventually get CGI:IRC working with javascript captures for the directional pad to do various things, such as left/right to switch tabs, up for history, down to send. (See http://allnintendo.co.uk/wiigame/ for a proof of concept that was posted on WiiLi)
Anyway, I’ve also maintained loose contact with dg, the main developer of CGI:IRC to try and get things working more smoothly. Lack of time on my part is one shortcoming :/
UsingMarch 4th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Anyone following this, I modified my demo to have increased font sizes using the Default (Gothic) theme so it’s suitable for TV viewing. For do-it-yourself-ers, modify the desired .pm file and change all instances of “12px” to the desired font size.
UsingJanuary 1st, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Isn‘t there some way to get this on arcsec?
UsingJanuary 25th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
@kyevan
Sorry it took so long to respond.
If you have access to arcsecant’s http files, then there is my patch, but I think the latest version of CGI:IRC can work alright with the Wii, provided you add a submit button (it would be about the same functionality as my patch provides).
Note that my patch has some interesting side effects (breaks under certain browsers, namely IE).
That said, I should probably mark this patch as DEPRECATED.
Using