Guide to Access Wii U eShop From PC/Browser
This is a simple guide on how to access the Wii U eShop front-end from your browser. (its somewhat buggy, but it works)
What you'll need
- Wii U eShop certificate (password is alpine)
First, before you even import the certificate, visit geisha-wup.cdn.nintendo.net/geisha/ in a new tab, You'll see alerts that say something like "https://geisha ... says 1119001/1119000", spam press OK until you see an blank page, leave the tab open and now your ready to import the certificate.
How to import the certificate in your browser:
Edge
Click the three dots on the toolbar at the top, Select Settings, search for "certificate", Press "Manage certificates", and Manage imported certificates from..., press "Import", "Browse", change whats in the file type filter to "All files", select "WIIU_WOOD_1_CERT.p12", press Next and it'll ask for a Password, type "alpine" as the password, press Next until it says "Import Successful."
Chrome
Click the three dots on the toolbar at the top, Select Settings, select "Private, search and services", scroll down to Settings, click "Manage Certificates", "Import", Next, Browse..., change whats in the file type filter to "All files", and choose "WIIU_WOOD_1_CERT.p12", press Next and it'll ask for a password, type "alpine" as the password, press Next until it says "Import Successful."
Now that you've imported your certificate, in your browser go back to the tab with geisha and reload. It should now ask for a certificate, Choose "Wii U Wood Prod 1", spam press OK, and it's still blank but now you've finished the first step.
Now, open this in a new tab: https://ninja-wup.shop.nintendo.net/ ... country/JP?type=json
It will ask for the certificate again, choose "Wii U Wood Prod 1" and continue, you'll see some XML like "<eshop>", "<country_detail>", etc. now go back to the tab with geisha and reload, it should now show "geisha... says 1073010", spam press OK, and now the front-page of the eShop should appear.
But your not done yet, First lets get the news working:
Open this in a new tab: samurai-wup.cdn.nintendo.net/ ... JP/news, It will ask for the certificate again, choose "Wii U Wood Prod 1" and continue, you'll see some XML like "<eshop>", "<news>", etc. now go back to the tab with geisha and reload, on the top-bar, you will notice the news has a glowing orb next to it now, select it and if the news shows up, Step 3 is complete!
Now, lets get the games and images to show up.
On the front-page, press the middle icon in the top-bar, notice the 2 selectors on the top are greyed out.. In a new tab, go to samurai-wup.cdn.nintendo.net/... JP/titles/, It will ask for the certificate again, choose "Wii U Wood Prod 1" and continue, you'll see some XML like "<eshop>"... etc. now go back to the tab with geisha and reload, if the top 2 options are no longer greyed out, select the first selector and select the second option, games should appear. If they do, Step 4 is complete!
Finally, lets fix those blank title images, open this in a new tab: kanzashi-wup.cdn.nintendo.net/i/48a8..., It will ask for the certificate again, choose "Wii U Wood Prod 1" and continue, you should see an image in the middle of the page, go back to the tab with geisha and reload, now title images should show up, try clicking a game and it should show more information about the game.
Want to change the language from Japanese?
First, go to inspect element in your browser either by right clicking and pressing "Inspect/Inspect Element", or pressing the keys F12, Ctrl + Shift + I, or Command + I, then click the + option and select Application/App, in the Storage tab, open "Local Storage", select https://geisha.., go to the bottom of the keys, right click the blank spot under the last key and press "Add New", type "lang" for the key & set the Value to "en".
Go into "Session Storage" and delete the key "localized_text" & "resource_key", go to the bottom of the keys, right click the blank spot and press "Add New" and type "language" as the key and set the Value to "en", go to the next blank spot, right click and press "Add New", type "Country" as the key, set the Value to "US".
Finally, reload the page and it should now be in English! (the shop may try to reset to Japanese, keep inspect open for the best experience while browsing with a changed language)
I only showed how to change to the English language here as its one of the languages that is known to work, If you would like, you can try other regions/countries/languages by following the steps above with different values!
Attempted to change the values & the page goes blank on reload? No worries! Just go into "Local Storage", delete the "lang" key, go into "Session Storage", delete all the keys, and reload. It should now reset all your keys back to the default Japanese ones, now you can try changing the values again.
Some extra notices & helpful information while browsing
Go onto a page and its “blank”?
Go into inspect element, and go to the <body> and remove class="display_cover"
IF you still can't see anything and there's no display_cover in the body, there may be some divs on the page with style="display:none;" attached to them, try setting some to display:block;!
Browsing the eShop, finding new pages, and some of them instantly redirect you to the front-page or a dead page?
Open inspect element, go into Network Conditions, and change it to 4G or 3G and slowly press OK on the popups, you may see the page for a split second or 2 before it redirects you to the front-page.
If you want to see the ninja/samurai urls the page is using to get information, go into inspect element, settings, Preferences, and scroll down, you’ll see ‘Log XMLHttpRequests” turn this on and you'll see almost all ninja and samurai urls being requested in the console.
If a page asks to enter a Parental PIN and a blank mii is on the my menu, just enter "0000" as the pin and it will let you through.
Some pages that have been found:
(WARNING: A LOT OF TEXT BELOW!!!)
https://geisha-wup.cdn.nintendo.net/geisha/
index.html#top - Frontpage
index.html#redeem - Enter Download Code
index.html#news?id=_____ - News
example:#news?id=41519 (US)
shelf02_01.html - Charts
#title?title=______________ - title information page
(will only work if clicked from another geisha page, if else it'll redirect to index.html#top)
https://samurai-wup.cdn.nintendo.net/samurai/ws/JP/titles?lang=en&_type=json
ex: #title?title=20010000013608 (splatoon)
#shelf?searchType=&freeword=searchquery
searchType can be "title" "movie" "both"
?platform%5B%5D=&searchType=&freeword=
Platforms:
https://samurai-wup.cdn.nintendo.net/samurai/ws/JP/platforms?lang=en&_type=json
?platform%5B%5D=
?platform%5B%5D=30 (Wii U Retail Only)
?platform%5B%5D=124 (Wii U Download Only)
?platform%5B%5D=125 (Wii U Retail/Download)
?platform%5B%5D=125 (NES)
?platform%5B%5D=168 (Game Boy Advance)
?platform%5B%5D=1001 (New 3DS Download Only)
?platform%5B%5D=18 (Nintendo 3DS Retail Only)
?platform%5B%5D=19 (Nintendo 3DS Download Only)
?platform%5B%5D=103 (Nintendo 3DS Retail/Download)
?platform%5B%5D=164 (Super NES/SNES)
?platform%5B%5D=171 (Wii Retail/Download)
?platform%5B%5D=1002 (New 3DS Retail/Download)
genres:
https://samurai-wup.cdn.nintendo.net/samurai/ws/JP/genres?lang=en&_type=json
&genre%5B%5D=
&genre%5B%5D=3 (Action)
&genre%5B%5D=4 (Adventure)
&genre%5B%5D=2 (Arcade)
&genre%5B%5D=12 (Board Game)
&genre%5B%5D=84 (Communication)
&genre%5B%5D=15 (Education)
&genre%5B%5D=5 (Fighting)
&genre%5B%5D=14 (First-Person Shooter)
&genre%5B%5D=88 (Lifestyle)
&genre%5B%5D=92 (Multiplayer)
&genre%5B%5D=85 (Music)
&genre%5B%5D=89 (Party)
&genre%5B%5D=16 (Platformer)
&genre%5B%5D=82 (Practical)
&genre%5B%5D=6 (Puzzle)
&genre%5B%5D=7 (Racing)
&genre%5B%5D=8 (RPG)
&genre%5B%5D=11 (Shooter)
&genre%5B%5D=9 (Simulation)
&genre%5B%5D=10 (Sports)
&genre%5B%5D=13 (Strategy)
&genre%5B%5D=81 (Study)
&genre%5B%5D=61 (Training)
&genre%5B%5D=86 (Utility)
&genre%5B%5D=94 (Video)
&genre%5B%5D=17 (Other)
&genre%5B%5D=109 (Updates)
&page=
1-????
&sort_id=New (new)
&sort_id=score (Ratings)
&sort_id=name (name)
(I would go over publishers, but there's over 4344 of them!)
https://samurai-wup.cdn.nintendo.net/samurai/ws/JP/publishers?lang=en&_type=json
Movies:
Wiped by nintendo 🙁
https://samurai-wup.cdn.nintendo.net/samurai/ws/JP/movie/undefined?lang=en&_type=json
prices:
&price_min=1&price_max=1
always01_01.html - My Menu (looks kinda off, clicking my menu on the sidebar has better results)
always02_01.html - Search on sidebar & search box on frontpage, page
Most of the pages below, if you go into inspect element, settings, Preferences, and scroll down, you’ll see ‘Log XMLHttpRequests” turn this on and you'll see almost all ninja and samurai urls being requested in the console.
coupon01_01.html - Redeem Coupon code
coupon02_01.html - Your Just for You offers
coupon03_01.html - Your Just for You offers
reco01_01.html - Rated titles (blank but has a script template of the info at the bottom)
reco01_02.html - Rate titles submit info page
history02_01.html - 更新ソフトの確認 (doesn't want to change to english???)
(seems that the "titles" that appear there are just template titles that appear if no data exists..????)
history03_01.html - Your Downloads (pick a item)
history03_02.html - Downloaded Software (blank but has a script template of the info at the bottom)
history03_03.html - Downloaded Content (blank but has a script template of the info at the bottom)
history03_04.html - Downloaded Content 2 (blank but has a script template of the info at the bottom)
history04_01.html - Account Activity (blank but has a script template of the info at the bottom)
history05_01.html - Receipt (redirects you very fast back to frontpage, use network throttling to view it)
history06_01.html - Your Ratings (blank but has a script template of the info at the bottom)
history07_01.html - 自動引き落とし中のソフト (doesn't want to change to english???) and all lead to history01_01 that doesn't exist..
(seems that the "titles" that appear there are just template titles that appear if no data exists..????)
money01_01.html - Add Funds
fun fact: if you go into inspect element, session storage, you'll see nfc available and credit_card_available, set those to true and you'll get 2 more options!
money02_01.html - Redeem eShop card (contains multiple 02_'s within one page!)
money02_05.html - Where can i get an activation code?
money02_06.html - nintendo points cards (japan)
money02_07.html - nintendo points cards (japan) & what stores
money03_01.html - Add Funds with a Credit Card (redirects you very fast back to frontpage, use network throttling to view it)
money03_02.html - Add Funds with a Credit Card Confirmation (based on divs in the html display:none d)
(redirects you very fast back to frontpage, use network throttling to view it)
https://ccweb.wup.shop.nintendo.net/ccweb.html - lost media credit input boxes
money04_01.html - Pick a credit card to use (also has credit card input page) (contains multiple 04_'s within one page!)
money05_01.html - Add funds Note to parents and legal guardians if they attempt to use the credit card
money06_01.html - ??? (Redirects to frontpage far too fast to view)
money07_01.html - NFC transactions page? (based off a json url it asks for : https://ninja.wup.shop.nintendo.net/ninja/ws/my/nfc_transactions/incomplete_transaction)
data01_03.html - Select Close to close Nintendo eShop and return to the game. (maybe a page that shows once you've finished downloading something after being redirected to the eshop by a title or smth?)
data02_01.html - Videos page (whenever your about to watch a video on the eShop, has display_cover)
data02_03.html - Videos page 2? w/ rating
data03_01.html - Blank page?
data04_01.html - show how many days for a ticket? and banner of game? data04_01.js
buy01_01.html - Please review the following information (redirects you quickly tho)
[?title= works]
buy02_03.html - Ready to Download (Thank you! There is no need to download this add-on content because it's already installed.)
[?title= works]
buy03_01.html - blank, but has a display:none; div that has info, seems to be the Processing... Please wait. page
[?title= works]
legal01_01.html - Parental Controls (restrictions on game if its a restricted rating, and requires parental pin) [note: 0000 does not work for this one?]
legal02_01.html - About Nintendo eShop [located in my menus help button]
legal03_01.html - Additional Information (notices about a title, publisher contact, additional fees, etc) ?title= works
legal04_01.html - Limits on Adding Funds (Payment Services in jpn) ?title= works
legal05_01.html - Age Limit block (If your under a specific age, you cannot view info about this title) ?title= works
legal06_01.html - input page for something..? (seems to be blanked out, but based on the js file for this page, its postal code input)
legal07_01.html - redirects to legal01_01 because of age restriction, entering "0000" works tho :)
( it has class="display_cover" on the body, remove that to see the page)
[seems to check your credit info..based on 07_01.js..]
legal07_02.html - weird input thingy that when entered shows a blank popup with OK, by the js it seems to redirect to buy01_01.html?
legal07_05.html - blank page with OK button?
legal07_07.html - Choose Region page
legal08_01.html - PEGI description
set02_01.html - Language
set03_01.html - Notification Settings
set04_01.html - View Credit Card Information, it may prompt you to enter a parental controls PIN, even if not signed in? if not signed in just type 0000 and you'll be past it.
(if you don't see it after pin, go into the html and remove class="display_cover" from the <body>)
set04_02.html - View Credit Card Information - deleted info.
set05_01.html - Customer Support with all publishers support info [located in my menus help button]
set06_01.html - Video Quality Settings (OK redirects to a missing set05_03.html)
set07_01.html - Club Nintendo Account (contains divs set07_01 and set07_03) set them to display:block; to see the page)
fun fact: if you go to my menu, inspect, and session storage, you'll see the "loyalty_system_available" key is set to false.
set that to true, reload and you'll see the club nintendo button on the settings section. (same goes for other false variables)
/geisha/manual/ (eShop Manual)
[located in my menus help button]
manual01_00.html - Nintendo eShop Manual - Table of Contents
manual01_01.html - Important Information
manual01_02.html - About Nintendo eShop
manual01_03.html - Welcome Screen
manual01_04.html - My Menu
manual01_05.html - Search
manual01_06.html - Software Information
manual01_07.html - Watching Videos
manual01_08.html - Adding Funds
manual01_09.html - Acquiring Content
manual01_10.html - Acquiring Downloadable Content and Passes
manual01_11.html - Redeeming Download Codes
manual01_12.html - Charts
manual01_13.html - Q&A
manual01_14.html - How Totals Are Calculated