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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.

 

[SylverReZ]

Larsen is the definition of cringe.

 

[ROllerGuy]

holy hell what a shitshow

 

[SylverReZ]

holy hell what a shitshow

The Wii scene is always a shitshow in all honesty.

 

[Niels Van Son]

It's funny, because so much of this all comes off as petty high school drama regardless of the context. Being a decent human being that doesn't immediately and emotionally react to everything would solve literally all issues related to the project

 

[MaxiBash]

Larsen is the definition of cringe.

huh...you're not wrong.

Post automatically merged: Jan 20, 2024

Well, that was quick. Can we take this off the front page now?

 

[daemonspudguy]

Apparently the service was a major piece of shit and Larsen doxxed multiple people, so it is dead. And nothing of value is lost.

 

[pedro702]

lol its dead before it even started... one shows people info and another uses donation money to buy stuff, what a team xD

 

[a_username_that_isnt_cool]

Man and I was excited. Back to myrient
If only they had better staff (or something idk i need a tl;dr on the situation)

 

[SylverReZ]

Man and I was excited. Back to myrient
If only they had better staff (or something idk i need a tl;dr on the situation)

Excited about this whole thing? Do you know how to search for ROMs?

Like I said previously, this whole project was such a bad idea in the first place and everybody knows that.

 

[Xdqwerty]

Like I said previously, this whole project was such a bad idea in the first place and everybody knows that.

Why?

 

[SylverReZ]

Why?

Be-cause... piracy, and Nintendo takes serious action against communities sharing ROMs.

 

[MaxiBash]

Excited about this whole thing? Do you know how to search for ROMs?

Like I said previously, this whole project was such a bad idea in the first place and everybody knows that.

it was an interesting attempt at using Nintendo's official assets to recreate a Wii Shop experience, but without spending. other than that, nothing is really lost.

 

[Xdqwerty]

Be-cause... piracy, and Nintendo takes serious action against communities sharing ROMs.

Makes sense

 

[a_username_that_isnt_cool]

Excited about this whole thing? Do you know how to search for ROMs?

Like I said previously, this whole project was such a bad idea in the first place and everybody knows that.

I do, as I said Myrient (and MarioCube), however this would make the experience more immersive and I wouldn't have to copy files from my PC to my SD card over and over again.

 

[SylverReZ]

it was an interesting attempt at using Nintendo's official assets to recreate a Wii Shop experience, but without spending. other than that, nothing is really lost.

Aside from the backlash going against the RiiShop team, it was an interesting attempt at re-creating the Wii Shop to a functional state.

lol its dead before it even started... one shows people info and another uses donation money to buy stuff, what a team xD

Just clearly shows how unorganized this whole thing really was.

 

[Metoroid0]

people just find the wads you want with a simple google search... this isnt needed at all, most people must already have everything they need on their wii anyway after all this time...

i couldnt agree more. though it would be nice to have wiishop access like a museum, without actual downloads.

 

[linuxares]

i couldnt agree more. though it would be nice to have wiishop access like a museum, without actual downloads.

Or something like this - https://github.com/zach-morris/plugin.program.iagl

 

[SylverReZ]

i couldnt agree more. though it would be nice to have wiishop access like a museum, without actual downloads.

Only if their internet connection can support it.

 

[Metoroid0]

Or something like this - https://github.com/zach-morris/plugin.program.iagl

no i mean authentic experience

 

[Kingy]

Larsen, you fucking wanker. You've done it again.