Wii Shop & DSi Shop maintenance is over, shops are back online

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While it really did seem like the end of an era, it apparently was not, and was just like last year's eShop incident! Today between 2:00PM and 3:00PM CEST, the Wii Shop Channel & DSi Shop came back online after almost 4 months of maintenance, allowing once again to download handselected titles and redownload titles you've previously purchased. You can also update your Wii to v4.3 if you've held onto an older version long enough. You might encounter some hickups reopening the DSi Shop, where it's possible you'll have to reaccept the store's EULA or the store thinks the console's country settings was changed. Besides that, it should work just fine.

Be sure to redownload some titles you weren't able to redownload during the maintenance before Nintendo really pulls the plug on their servers. Some free titles remain to be downloadable regardless if you've downloaded them before if you desire filling up your consoles with free software.

Wii:
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Save Data Update Channel
Wii (U) Transfer Tool

DSi:
3DS Transfer Tool (exclusive to Europe and Japan)
Nintendo DSi Browser (exclusive to Japan)

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That's the whole point of that setting. Why would that be a surprise to anyone?
That part cracks me up lol. That's as if there's an option in Priiloader to always eject a disc, and you start warning users on forums that your disc drive fails by turning on this setting. It's in the name.

I bought another Wii not too long ago, the Wii Shop Channel wasn't up to date and it had no problems updating that.
 
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There's no real reason to do this but I imagine the operating costs for distributing old games is negligible compared to the costs of distributing Switch games. I wouldn't be surprised if someone at N got permission to work on it as a passion project. Tbh it would be funny to see them release a system update that patches the exploit entry points in 2022.
 

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nothing, people just dont make bad publicity saying nintendo closed down the store.

Sony also closed down ps3/vita and then due to social media backlash they backed down and left them open afraid of bad publicity, but they are doing it in phases like nintendo first shutting down purchases and then the rest in time.
so its not really nothing than
 

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Game companies need to realize that when you offer digital games, we still need to be able to access those games we purchased, well, forever. Unless they want a lawsuit.
 
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Game companies need to realize that when you offer digital games, we still need to be able to access those games we purchased, well, forever. Unless they want a lawsuit.
On the other hand, Gamestop's digital download service (based on Impulse, formerly from Stardock) is completely kaput and I bet most of the people who bought games there don't even realize it.
 

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On the other hand, Gamestop's digital download service (based on Impulse, formerly from Stardock) is completely kaput and I bet most of the people who bought games there don't even realize it.
Well I meant from reputable places, like Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Steam, etc... Not shady places like GameStop.
 

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