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Hacking Homebrew The FULL lore about the Wii Shop Channel revivals + my thoughts

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Released on the 2nd of March, 2025. it tricks Nintendo servers into thinking you bought the wanted game and you are trying to redownload it, when actuallly you never bought it. AKA, 100% piracy.
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Of course it would be a hard brick or a soft brick, or a banner brick. idk about Wii much, but of course, but you know, there is also a Wii Shop thing that is exact same thing as WSC, but it downloads WAD's from a Google Drive link and of course you need to mod the console before installing it.
URL: no because I'm a Newbie.
 
UselessHammerBro said:
Of course it would be a hard brick or a soft brick, or a banner brick. idk about Wii much, but of course, but you know, there is also a Wii Shop thing that is exact same thing as WSC, but it downloads WAD's from a Google Drive link and of course you need to mod the console before installing it.
URL: no because I'm a Newbie.
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what are soft and hardbricks? I know what banner bricks are.
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LNLenost said:
(This is going to be a long post, just so you know.)


This is the full, uncensored lore of the Wii Shop Channel revivals. If I missed something, let me know.

RiiShop
Status: SHUT DOWN

When it released I was 12 and I had almost no technical knowledge about the Wii. It was slow, but almost functional: you couldn't download titles though. The project died for a ton of reasons: first of all the security was weak (in fact the source code has tons of leaked IPs and serials), also it gained a ton of success (they even wrote blog articles about it!) and that probably didn't help the devs.

New Shop Channel
Status: SHUT DOWN

NSC was made with the collaboration of Fin, which did most of the job. There weren't a lot of progress though. I worked on this project as a translator, since my coding skills were bad (they still are...)
It shut down because the owner didn't even know how to code and that led to various arguments and then the project's shutdown.

Reviive Shop Channel
Status: SHUT DOWN

Reviive was made by ChrisPlayzwii. It had a website where they updated on progress, a relatively small Discord server, and a GitHub README. All of the work was made in private repositories so we do not know **exactly** how it was going. There was a public beta but the project was shut down because of raids.

Wii Shoplifting Channel
STATUS: working, but dangerous

Released on the 2nd of March, 2025 by @Larsenv , it tricks Nintendo servers into thinking you bought the wanted game and you are trying to redownload it, when actuallly you never bought it. AKA, 100% piracy.
The problem with this is that you have to overload your NAND with tickets, which could cause a banner brick. Personally I tried it (AFTER backing up my NAND) and it works, but yea it is really dangerous. The WiiLink team released a tool called "WiiUnShoplifter" to remove the app's files.

Wii Like To Party
STATUS: working

Wii Like To Party is a fork of @Larsenv's Shoplifting Channel. It is not much different... what it does is that it directy downloads the ticket onto the NAND instead dowloading a massive size of tickets and causing a banner brick.

WiiMart
STATUS: working

WiiMart is a WSC revival that's currently up and running. Downloads work as of now, but only on real hardware.

What do I think?

I'll be short: idk. Surely the people who have the skills to do it can't do it by themself. Also, Nintendo is always watching us and the first thing we do wrong they give us a DMCA. So... please stop. Stop for now.
Dont get me wrong, I worked in like 3 different revivals and I am happy to see another one that finally works, but for me it's just becoming an obsession. What is so urgent in reviving this? Is it even needed? Like... why?



If you want to learn more about other WSC revivals, you can check this out.
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We dont need a revival. I mean, most of the people saying: "Rest in Peace Wii Shop we will never miss u", are just kids, that never used it. I mean, why do we even miss it? We still can enter it, see the guis, description of games, see the downloading sequence and listen to the music.
It isn't dead, it still lives, just limited. I am thankful to Nintendo that they keep some servers for the Wii. (NUS, Wii Shop, Zelda thing, Wii U Transfer tool servers...)
 
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WiiWare_lover said:
We dont need a revival. I mean, most of the people saying: "Rest in Peace Wii Shop we will never miss u", are just kids, that never used it. I mean, why do we even miss it? We still can enter it, see the guis, description of games, see the downloading sequence and listen to the music.
It isn't dead, it still lives, just limited. I am thankful to Nintendo that they keep some servers for the Wii. (NUS, Wii Shop, Zelda thing, Wii U Transfer tool servers...)
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So you mean you WANT no revivals for WSC because Nintendo just limited it.
Example... You bought a brand new Wii from eBay, then opened WSC, of course you can't redownload apps from Titles You Downloaded list, that's why we need to mod it then install WiiMart on it.

Of course if I made my own server, then I would install it.
 
UselessHammerBro said:
So you mean you WANT no revivals for WSC because Nintendo just limited it.
Example... You bought a brand new Wii from eBay, then opened WSC, of course you can't redownload apps from Titles You Downloaded list, that's why we need to mod it then install WiiMart on it.

Of course if I made my own server, then I would install it.
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Why should I redownload games on a different wii? I can just use the Wii, I downloaded them.

Nobody says:" OMG this game is soo good I have to pirate it", because most of the people, that play Wii Shop games, just play it, because of nostalgia.
The only reason is, if u had a demo version of a game and want have the full version.

Also, even if Wii Shop "revivals" dont exist, I could theoritically pirate them, which I ofc dont do.
 
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