About Us
Our Story
The Open Shop Channel was started in March 2018, with the goal to revive the Wii Shop Channel before its planned discontinuation. The original plan for the project was to make a Wii Shop Channel replacement, But over time, our focus went towards providing a general open source repository of apps.
Credits
dhtdht020
Project Lead - @dhtdht020
DarkOK
Maintainer - @darkphoenix10ok
ramblecube
Maintainer - @ramblecube
Spotlight
Former Maintainer - joscomputing.space
Puppercino
Former Designer
Icons8
Provided some of the iconography used in this website - icons8.com
JetBrains
Sponsoring IDEs used by the team - www.jetbrains.com
...And you!
Project Timeline
March 2018
The Open Shop Channel project is launched, with the goal to restore functionality of the Wii Shop Channel.
August 2019
The Open Shop Channel begins providing a repository to replace the one in the Homebrew Browser, with more up to date applications and a larger variety of content.
Download Homebrew Browser
April 2020
Open Shop Channel Downloader, also known as OSCDL, was released. It allows downloading content from the Open Shop Channel on desktop computers, as well as wirelessly sending apps to Wii systems on the same network.
Download OSCDL
October 2020
The public Open Shop Channel API has been released, allowing everyone to make use of Open Shop Channel's services and library directly, and provide custom services and clients making use of it.
View Documentation
November 2021
The Open Shop Channel release a new online library, making use of its public API to provide a convenient location to download apps from the Open Shop Channel.
Browse Library
August 2023
Our new infrastructure, backend and repository system, "Repository Manager", is released, fully open sourcing the repository's contents'.
View Documentation
Who is Danbo?
Danbo is a fictional cardboard character originating from the Kiyohiko Azuma manga series, "Yotsuba&!". We personally love it and have decided to feature it in several pages on this website.
Physical copies of Yotsuba&! can be purchased here, from the author on Book Depository.
We recommend buying and reading the entire series, it's amazing. Danbo makes an appearance on volumes 5 and 10.