When I heard about the Wii Shop Channel closure, well, first I got sad. Then I figured it's about time to do this theme... ...RIP wii shop I love this song Carney ...

TL;DR: The Homebrew Channel, essential for running custom Wii software, has ceased development due to potential copyright infringement involving stolen Nintendo SDK and RTEMS code within its core ...

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After months of service outages, Nintendo’s Wii Shop Channel and DSi Shop are back online. Nintendo’s two virtual marketplace services went down in March of this year. In a statement to Kotaku on the ...

Wii NetPlay (working title) by MrBean35000vr and Chadderz This is a Wii homebrew app that attempts to add online gameplay to Wii games that feature local multiplayer. It is based off BrainSlug Wii, ...

The Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DSi Shop channels have both gone down in recent days without any sort of explanation from Nintendo. As a whole, the Nintendo Wii shop has been closed since 2019, while ...

Bad news for anyone trying to redownload some old DSi games or Wii titles via each consoles’ respective store channels: Currently, players report both channels are down and have been for a few days ...

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It’s a universally agreed-upon truth that the Wii Shop Channel music is a banger. No doubt about it. One of the best pieces of music humanity has ever created. And now, thanks to a nifty and clever ...

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Not much to see here, there is some performance upgrades in the update. The only other thing besides that is the Disc Channel will now tell you when there is disc with an update on it. Apparently the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook As Nintendo previously announced a while back, the Wii Shop Channel will close up shop in just a ...