Important notice for Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon

[Spectremint]

Nintendo announced earlier this morning that the online servers for Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 have been temporarily disabled, most likely due to ENLBufferPwn, an exploit capable of remote execution and hacking of a Nintendo console by doing as little as connecting to the game servers. No word on when they'll be re-enabled. They updated various Switch and 3DS (!!) games to fix this already, but I'm guessing it might be a harder fix on Wii U.

 

[Ewpb]

Here's the article from The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/3/2...kart-8-splatoon-offline-vulnerability-exploit

 

[TheDerpyDolphin]

I’ve been meaning to get back into playing Splatoon. I’ve not played in years but it’s been on my mind the past few days. Talk about bad timing.

 

[ComicallyCartoony]

Well, I was gonna disconnect from pretendo to play MK8 online with my brother, but, good thing i didnt lol

 

[cvskid]

This should be on the front page for news. Guessing super smash bros wii u has this security issue too.

 

[godreborn]

someone already posted an article about this security issue. I can't find it atm, but it's on temp.

 

[Jilou]

What bag news T. T
For the moment an alternative to Mario Kart 8 on Wii U there are Mario Kart Wii online or Sonic and all stars racing transformed Wii U, I hope many people will play on line here meanwhile Mario Kart 8 Wii U online is closed T. T
For Splatoon I don't know... Worms Battle island on Wii online or Bomberman Blast on Wii online... I don't know... Do you have any idea ? Oo

 

[filipe_m]

Still offline?

 

[Ettino]

Still offline?

Well, can you connect to it? If no, then yes still offline. Doubt if they even going to bring it back really at this point. You can always look up Pretendo if you really want to live in the past.

 

[V10lator]

You can always look up Pretendo

^- This. Pretendo opened their splatoon and mk8 servers to the public so people are still able to play online while we continue to wait for the slowest Nintendo employee to write like one line of code.

Note that at the time of writing you need to have Aroma to be able to run Pretendo (servers changed so legacy can't connect anymore) : https://pretendo.network/docs/install/wiiu

 

[filipe_m]

Thanks for point me the way ...

I will read about aroma because I have zero knowledge about it and try to install it!

It's not a really question about live in the past... Is more about the use the resources I have at this point!!

Thanks again!

Post automatically merged: Jun 21, 2023

^- This. Pretendo opened their splatoon and mk8 servers to the public so people are still able to play online while we continue to wait for the slowest Nintendo employee to write like one line of code.

Note that at the time of writing you need to have Aroma to be able to run Pretendo (servers changed so legacy can't connect anymore) : https://pretendo.network/docs/install/wiiu

I was able to install the Tiramisu, then the aroma and connect with the Pretento. Thanks for the tips.