So somewhat recently, like a complete moron, I managed to brick my childhood Wii and ended up buying another Wii off eBay. I'm now wondering though if it is possible to recover my Wii Shop purchases from my bricked Wii, whether that be through official means or not. I have a NAND backup from 2019 after I made all of my Wii Shop purchases prior to the shutdown and when I import that backup into Dolphin I can see my Wii Shop purchase history.
But is there a way for me to get this purchase data or some other related data onto my actual working Wii? I actually have most of the games still downloaded to my SD card, I just can't open them since they're tied to the bricked Wii. I see there's an "Extract Certificates from NAND" option in Dolphin but I don't know where it extracts them to or if it's of any use for this. In a worst case scenario I guess I could manually type out a list of every game in my purchase history and figure it out from there but that'd be pretty tedious and I want to make sure I'm not missing some easier method. Would greatly appreciate any suggestions.
As an aside, I tried calling Nintendo of America's support number to have an official serial number transfer done, but they said they had stopped doing those. I'm unsure how accurate anything I was told was though because the person I talked to seemed confused (which I don't blame them given how I'm sure they're hardly trained, if at all, to handle Wii requests nowadays) and said there should be a tool to transfer data between Wiis if they were both working. I think they misunderstood the purpose of the Wii U transfer channel. I could've sworn I saw gbatemp thread where someone said they successfully had support transfer their Wii Shop purchases in 2024 but now I can't find that thread so maybe I'm mistaken. Either way I just wanted to mention this in case anyone else is looking for info about official transfers in this day and age. Seems unlikely that official transfers are still possible but I'd love to know if someone has had better luck with support recently.
But is there a way for me to get this purchase data or some other related data onto my actual working Wii? I actually have most of the games still downloaded to my SD card, I just can't open them since they're tied to the bricked Wii. I see there's an "Extract Certificates from NAND" option in Dolphin but I don't know where it extracts them to or if it's of any use for this. In a worst case scenario I guess I could manually type out a list of every game in my purchase history and figure it out from there but that'd be pretty tedious and I want to make sure I'm not missing some easier method. Would greatly appreciate any suggestions.
As an aside, I tried calling Nintendo of America's support number to have an official serial number transfer done, but they said they had stopped doing those. I'm unsure how accurate anything I was told was though because the person I talked to seemed confused (which I don't blame them given how I'm sure they're hardly trained, if at all, to handle Wii requests nowadays) and said there should be a tool to transfer data between Wiis if they were both working. I think they misunderstood the purpose of the Wii U transfer channel. I could've sworn I saw gbatemp thread where someone said they successfully had support transfer their Wii Shop purchases in 2024 but now I can't find that thread so maybe I'm mistaken. Either way I just wanted to mention this in case anyone else is looking for info about official transfers in this day and age. Seems unlikely that official transfers are still possible but I'd love to know if someone has had better luck with support recently.
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