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Many people remember the Wii days fondly with its gimmick controls, memorable in-app music and homebrew friendly system. Ever since the discontinuation of the Wii Shop service back in January 30th, 2019, users could no longer purchase new titles through it, and were only left with the option to redownload already purchased titles.

Since then, a few homebrew developers have worked on a revival service, formerly known as "LaunchShop" to recreate the Wii Shop servers back when they were fully accessible. As of January 8th, 2024, this revival service has been rebranded into "RiiShop", and is now publicly available for Wii users in a WAD format.

The current open beta can be installed in homebrewed Wii systems as a WAD, and users can enter the Wii Shop menu and browse Virtual Console and WiiWare games, as well as Wii channels that were originally available, complete with what seems to be dummy Wii Points to redeem, but with nothing to do with them at the moment due to downloads not working on the current build yet. It's worth nothing that this will apparently work like a free Shop to download titles from, with no currency being involved.

As with any product in beta, expect some issues to pop up, and bare in mind that the public beta might not have download working, since many people online are reporting downloads not being possible as of yet.

 

[Deleted member 194275]

So GBAtemp purposely promoted piracy on their site?
And I'm sure that's one way to get Nintendo Ninja'd.

if it were posted by a regular user... it would be banned already

 

[ShadowOne333]

As in selling pirated games, I'm pretty sure they're doing the exact opposite. By letting users download WiiWare and VC software for free, which is piracy.

It's so unintuitive.
They're going to allow free downloads, but "charging for other games" is the illegal part?
The mental gymnastics here just are all over the place.

 

[JuanMena]

@ShadowOne333 will get the temp nuked.

 

[ShadowOne333]

@ShadowOne333 will get the temp nuked.

NukeOne333

 

[JuanMena]

NukeOne333

"Tarado, nos van a vetar."

 

[linuxares]

Inb4 Discord server and Riishop will get a nuke.

Also Nintendo, email Costello if you want this removed. Kthxbye!

 

[ShadowOne333]

"Tarado, nos van a vetar."

No plz don't D:

 

[MariArch]

Free my boy Freeshop!, free my boy CIAngel!

Shit was legendary,

newer shop whatever the heck is called is ass, been forced to download cias manually and move em over install via fbi. sad

 

[x65943]

So GBAtemp purposely promoted piracy on their site?
And I'm sure that's one way to get Nintendo Ninja'd.

There is a difference between promoting piracy and reporting the news

It's not like people reporting on wars are pro war

 

[a_username_that_isnt_cool]

*frantically looks for download link*

 

[cloud-strife777]

In discord.

 

[a_username_that_isnt_cool]

In discord.

k thx

 

[fst312]

Hey in the end up of the day, if you could download anything from here for free I say good, no need for a website when this exists. Most importantly if every game is on here, that means if there is any missing Wiiware games that are hard to find, this might be the best way to get them.

 

[cloud-strife777]

But no download works yet.

 

[slaphappygamer]

Until the dev got put into prison for possessing illegal pictures.

How cruel.

 

[linuxares]

How cruel.

yes, owning Child porn is very cruel. This includes videos if I recall.

 

[ChaoticPumpkin]

I mean, I don't agree with current copyright laws and length, but this is just straight up piracy. Not charging for it won't keep them safe from Nintendo, what are they thinking?

 

[Gon Freecss]

Yeah... Let's make it public, that would totally NOT draw Nintendo's attention

 

[Error-1-2435-8325]

This looks Rii-lly cool!

 

[AngryCinnabon]

Lmao who in their right mind would make this? It's basically legal bait for Nintendo if it's anything like freeshop/CIAngel.