Backup DS VC to the cloud

Hello,

I hope some of the gurus here have an answer for this. Apparently there's a procedure for this posted in the Tutorials section, on this thread. I already wrote there, but received no answer. My question, as I already stated it in the linked post, is whether or not a backup can be restored on a fresh, formatted WiiU. The only reason I want to make a back is if one day my NNID gets banned from eshop and/or N removes the DS game I use for Haxchi and/or removes VC DS games all together and/or WiiU network services get cut off like it happened for the Wii.

The backup procedure make you extract a .tik file from your purchase that's unique to your account, so if any of the above occur, how do you link your WiiU to your account thus legitimizing the purchase?

Cheers,

 

Thanks for your reply, felek666!

So basically you are saying that even when an account is banned (from eshop), one can still create on the WiiU a user with said banned account credentials and be able to link it. The E-shop uses servers that are different from NNID authentication ones? Seems weird, even if so, that they would not cross-reference the two. I mean, even if they let you login into your WiiU but not in the Eshop, what good would that do to anyone (including N), if they wouldn't let you redownload or buy content.

Obviously I'm not fighting what you are saying :-P just want to make sure I understand your reply correctly!

Cheers,

 

Thanks again for your prompt reply!

So, right now I don't have a NNID, let alone a banned on. Essentially, what I'm asking is:

DAY 1: I create a NNID, buy the DS VC game, back it up properly and save it to the cloud.
DAY 2: My NNID gets banned (for whatever reason, I can't even imagine) AND my WiiU explodes (surely a tough day :-P)!
DAY 3: I buy another WiiU, retrieve my backup from the cloud and try to restore it.

Would I be successful with the restoration attempt on DAY 3 (bearing in mind that restoration would occur on a different WiiU)?

Cheers,

 

Thanks to all of you for chiming in!

So to sum up, because N allows a NNID to be linked only with one WiiU, and the only way to link a second unit is to unlink the first one through the mean of a system transfer, if the first unit has exploded like in my example, or bricked and or inaccessible at any rate, it will take with it account and any purchases associated with it?

N maybe will transfer the link to a second unit, but would they do that if the account in question was a banned one?

And when N phases out the WiiU for good (on the software side too), like it did for the Wii what happens? From this discussion it would appear that legitimately or not, there won't be a way to put the DS VC for Haxchi on a WiiU that didn't already have it before. In other words, there is NO WAY to future proof the hack for posterity (since the backup can only be restored on the unit it came from or one that it has been transfered to before hardware failure)?

Cheers

 

That's what I'm thinking too, especially since for them it would be really unnecessary work given that at the same time they would not allow the account to purchase or redownload; so effectively one would be requesting to get the recipient of the system transfer to be a locked out device. lol

Hence, presently, the only reason to have a backup of your DS VC for Haxchi is in case your account gets subsequently banned but you still have the unit linked to the banned account in working order AND not formatted (post-ban). And at same time, everything falls apart when N completely pulls the plug on the WiiU like it did for the Wii (and the DS, as I gathered, starting April 1st).

Hopefully a real way to future proof Haxchi will be found before that happens.

Thank you and everyone else that joined and contributed to the conversation!

Cheers,