That was patched? News to me. Got a link on when/where they fixed it?
Not specifically, but the ID "1234" has been banned, so when using
@Nanquitas's fork of Luma a user is faced with a new error code. Ultimately, the pull request he made is probably what tipped Nintendo off, but we'll never know.
November 16th is when account.nintendo.net REQUIRED X-Nintendo-Device-Cert, but it didn't matter, literally anything worked for it. It was just required as an http header whereas it wasn't before (perhaps they just disabled the requirement for a while and just brought it back now? Talking if they had this sorted in something like 2013 but removed it in 2015 or something like that).
And then, November 21th is when account.nintendo.net started refusing invalid Device-Certs and returned "Unauthorized device" if an account was attempted to be created with a mismatching DeviceID/Device-Cert combo.
My theory is that they had implemented this at the beginning of the server software's creation but had either disabled it or forgot to enable it. It either took a while to initialize, or something else. If this was implemented just now, then what the
fuck is wrong with Nintendo's network department?
Additionally, Nintendo banned a lot of DeviceIDs, along with 1234 and all the IDs created on it.
Either DeviceID bans take time to apply, or they are just in clusters. I had an experience once where my 2DS was banned from account.nintendo.net, but not nasc.nintendowifi.net. This might or might not matter, it was banned on the game servers the next morning.
Another thing is that
@PF2M's Wii was banned after just one account that did nothing wrong, but we are using forms that fake the system version, disregards the CTR/CAFE NEX account, etc. So they might just be in clusters. Does this mean it's their decision, or do they issue DeviceID bans to higher-level admins, or..??
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Sacrificing a system or mirroring a system is a must to get unbanned, that's why some of us are hoping we can sacrifice a Wii because we don't have spare consoles.
This is why I hope I can get this working in some way. Most people have Wiis, and the people who care about the Wii Shop Channel either aren't going to be banned in the first place or have Wii Us, so this is a good way to go, though I'm lacking encouragement and I can't access my own Wii myself.