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| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-18, 12:22 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
 Post: #1073 of 1317 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1 day Last view: 6 hours |
We all know that Nintendo has been slowly dismantling the online services for its legacy consoles, including the Wii: - WC24 shutdown in 2013 - Onlime play shutdown in 2014 (due to the demise of GameSpy) - Wii Shop Channel closed in 2019 But the Wii wasn't completely dead in the water, as Ninty's NUS servers were still up for two reasons: - Allow people to redownload their purchased WiiWare/VC games - System updates ...until yesterday: https://nitter.eu/OatmealDome/status/1504206758213947394 I heard of this at Dolphin's IRC channel, and initially people thought Nintendo finally found a way to block emulator users, but after some quick check with Wireshark and our web browsers, turns out that most of NUS infrastructure for the Wii is down - apparently Nintendo had a network services failure two days ago, but they claim that all services are up again. Most Wii NUS servers (including nus.shop.wii.com and ccs.shop.wii.com) are still down, while the CDN-backed nus.cdn.shop.wii.com has been giving HTTP 503 errors, until this morning - now it gives bad SSL cert errors (as the cert now belongs to a bunch of Chinese hostnames!) despite resolving to the same IP. This basically kills the remaining Wii online features, as we can't download updates or purchased content anymore! (as the Wii Shop Channel won't even open anymore). Emulator users are affected too, as you now need to rely on console NAND dumps for installing the System Menu. Interestingly enough, noone in the media seems to care... and Ninty doesn't either. While they have yet to announce a final sunset date for the Wii online services, I guess this is the (unofficial?) end - if that's true, well, RIP Wii (2006-2022), it was a good run~! ...oh, this failure also impacts the deader-than-dead Wii U as it uses the exact same servers... except that the Wii U got a firmware update last year (if only to update expired root certs) UPDATE: The outage also impacts the DSi: https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-dsi-shop-wii-shop-channel-quietly-pulled-offline-with-no-ability-to-redownload-titles.609415/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 22-03-20, 07:14
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Custom title here
 Post: #1065 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 65 days Last view: 2 days |
Might have been fixed. My Wii U can open the Wii U shop and browse right now. I don't think I have anything to download that isn't already onboard... Oh! I can test with a demo! Yup. Wii U, at least, can download things. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-03-20, 17:19
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Dinosaur
Post: #1074 of 1317 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1 day Last view: 6 hours |
Well, I guess the Wii U doesn't share as much NUS infrastructure with the Wii anymore. The Wii/DSi servers are still down, with no official word from Nintendo yet. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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