Nintendo killing many games related Online Services for Wii & DS

[Floating Seal]

They say Grown Men shouldn't Cry but Fudge it

What these guys said.

 

[windwakr]

...but I'm not sure if DeSmuME or any other DS emulator has online support.

DeSmuME does have WiFi support(but not enabled in their release builds). I'm currently using it to grab all the puzzle packs in Picross 3D. Someone needs to compile a list of games with content available through the WFC so we can start grabbing this sort of stuff.


EDIT: Would probably be a good idea to make a thread for this in the DS section.

 

[Mewster]

...so if I still have a shitload of nintendo points, I have to use them on the wiishop while I still can?

nevermind, I read "affected"

 

[Foxi4]

vWii used by Wii U doesn't have WiiConnect24, so online service for Wii is already much broken.

C'mon, man - WiiConnect24 is useless. I can't think of anything useful that actually uses it, or any important gameplay feature for that matter. That said, you have a point - if it's not supported, it's not full compatibility.

 

[Toad King]

DeSmuME does have WiFi support(but not enabled in their release builds). I'm currently using it to grab all the puzzle packs in Picross 3D. Someone needs to compile a list of games with content available through the WFC so we can start grabbing this sort of stuff.


EDIT: Would probably be a good idea to make a thread for this in the DS section.

In that case packet captures for DS games should work just fine from the emulator so you don't need a CFW router or fancy wifi tapping hardware.

 

[Qtis]

I'm honestly surprised by the shutdown of games like Pokémon, which have a ton of players even now, not to mention links between games. I'd imagine they'd want to enable some kind of third party servers to lower costs, but seems highly unlikely.

This also shows the sad state of dedicated online servers without peer to peer gaming. At least a lot of original 90s pc games are playable thanks to p2p hosting.

 

[Toad King]

I'm honestly surprised by the shutdown of games like Pokémon, which have a ton of players even now, not to mention links between games. I'd imagine they'd want to enable some kind of third party servers to lower costs, but seems highly unlikely.

This also shows the sad state of dedicated online servers without peer to peer gaming. At least a lot of original 90s pc games are playable thanks to p2p hosting.

The thing is I'm guessing a lot of these games use P2P for the actual gameplay part and just use the central server for matchmaking and such.

 

[Black-Ice]

I'm honestly surprised by the shutdown of games like Pokémon, which have a ton of players even now,

Everyone's moved on to X and Y.
The Pokemon BW online services actually shut down a long while ago with the launch of X and Y.

With MK Wii, they want to ensure people get 8 and a Wii U.
With Brawl, well that online system never worked too well anyway.

 

[Tomobobo]

I had over 4,000 wins on Mario Strikers Charged... Great times, I'll miss WFC.

I never did understand why consoles never gave the server/client options to the players. Even if it was a secondary way to play you could be assured that at anytime in the future you could host and play without having to go through some silly service that mucks up the whole process.

Now it seems a lot of PC titles go the same way engraving the death of each of the titles online communities.

I guess you can't expect everything to work forever, sad that xlink kai never got around to figuring out the local rsa encryption or whatever or we could at least still tunnel on download play or local wireless or whatever they called it.

 

[McHaggis]

I wonder if this has something to do with the recent problems they had when they released the Pokemon Bank stuff. The downtime affected Wii, DS and DSi services as well as those on the 3DS and Wii U. Perhaps they're compensating for the increased costs they just incurred, dumping the old services to save some money.

Nevertheless, though it doesn't affect me because I never really played the Wii or DS online, I feel bad for those that do. I thought they might have supported those platforms for at least another year or two.

 

[2ndApex]

Project: M still is AFAIK. If not that, people like me are modding the hell outta Brawl

Meant the Wifi community, Project M's definitely still active and it's bigger than Brawl now

 

[the_randomizer]

Meant the Wifi community, Project M's definitely still active and it's bigger than Brawl now

Some of the modding that went into that project is nucking futs, ASM hacking, clone engine development, I hope they have a contingency plan.

 

[BvanBart]

How will the internet channel be affected?

 

[Qtis]

How will the internet channel be affected?

Shouldn't be affected at all according to the news. You're good to go if you still want to use it

 

[BvanBart]

Shouldn't be affected at all according to the news. You're good to go if you still want to use it

That's what I thought as well so maybe remove it from the OP's post?

 

[the_randomizer]

Nintendo + this logic = no such logic. What fresh hell is this?

 

[Veho]

That's what I thought as well so maybe remove it from the OP's post?

You mean where it says

The following services are not affected by the termination, and will continue to be available after May 20th:

Internet Channel

?
Did it confuse you?

 

[BvanBart]

It did! lol

 

[heartgold]

You guys are saying Pokemon is affected. The core players have mirgrated to Pokemon X and Y. Pokemon X and Y has already sold close to 12 million end of last year in 2 months. Not to mention better online setup, don't see anyone going back to b2/w2 for online when they own X/Y.

 

[Qtis]

That's what I thought as well so maybe remove it from the OP's post?

Updated the thread title to reflect the main functions being shut down.

You guys are saying Pokemon is affected. The core players have mirgrated to Pokemon X and Y. Pokemon X and Y have already sold close to 12 million end of last year in 2 month. Not to mention better online setup, don't see anyone going back to b2/w2 for online when they own X/Y.

I know, right? I would never want to play Pokémon black2 online, right?