Hacking Homebrew New Shop Channel, another Wii Shop Channel revival, has also been cancelled

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UPDATE: it seems like the project is coming back
Or not...?
Or maybe it is?!?!? They need to decide at this point
The owner confirmed it's not coming back, BUT there's a new project called Reviive!

Reviive is dead too

I guess the prophecy that the Wii can't have a Wii Shop Channel is real, as another one got cancelled. While not a surprise for most, yeah, the thread was deleted, the YouTube channel was deleted, the Discord server was deleted and the website was deleted. So it probably got cancelled like RiiShop =P

EDIT: It seems like if you go to the website, it says "If you came here from New Shop Channel, it's website is gone and I made all of the repositories public. See ya.", so yeah, it got confirmed :/
 
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Yup, another day of script kiddies trying to pass of their own Wii Shop clone, but then ultimately failing.

I knew that this would happen again.
Swear to god, I first read the words "New Shop Channel" like yesterday and now I see this lmao. For real though, I'd love to see WSC come back in the form of like a homebrew app repo, I think Open Shop Channel is chipping away at something like that but I'm not sure.
 

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Swear to god, I first read the words "New Shop Channel" like yesterday and now I see this lmao. For real though, I'd love to see WSC come back in the form of like a homebrew app repo, I think Open Shop Channel is chipping away at something like that but I'm not sure.
Originally, they were going to have the WSC come back, hosting on OSC's servers. But frankly, I've never seen any updates thus far.
 
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Swear to god, I first read the words "New Shop Channel" like yesterday and now I see this lmao. For real though, I'd love to see WSC come back in the form of like a homebrew app repo, I think Open Shop Channel is chipping away at something like that but I'm not sure.
Yeah, you can use Open Shop Channel via the Homebrew Browser (for the Wii, with interface), LibreShop (for the Wii, text based) or OSCDL (for PC), so it would be cool another way based on the WSC for the nostalgia :)
 

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What an embarrassment.

Look, I don't doubt for a second that there will come a time where some warez dealer will find a way of hooking the WSC into their repo like we've seen before. Maybe it will be well-managed, maybe it won't. This project was not going to do that, though.

I made this pretty clear in my original response to the topic, but their team was setting themselves up for disaster from day one. They were managing the project on Discord, hosting on private repos, and not providing a clear answer on how they planned to avoid DMCA issues. In other words, they were teeing up all of the same issues that a certain other project eventually ran into.

Deleting all signs of life is pretty damning evidence of that, on top of being a cowardly way of handling things. If you messed up somewhere along the line, that's one thing. If you messed up so badly that you feel the need to scrub the internet of any signs that you did so, that's worse.

As an addendum, let this be a warning sign that hosting projects (and their documentation) on Discord is a bad idea. Depending on how you look at it, maybe nothing of value was lost here. If this had gotten off the ground though, one admin's decision to close the server could have erased a lot of valuable R&D that would never be seen again.
 

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UPDATE: it seems like the project is gonna come back, as the website updated and it says "we'll be right back" now. Not sure tho
Yupp
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I work in the project. There was some drama between the owner, TheWiiGuy, and the devs. The site's probably going back online soon
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UPDATE: it seems like the project is gonna come back, as the website updated and it says "we'll be right back" now. Not sure tho
Here u go

@JuanMena now you can install Wii Menu 1.0 dev easily! :D
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Since we're here...
New Shop Channel is looking for translators! Translate here if u want: https://crowdin.com/project/new-shop-channel-wiiweb
 

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based on what I heard is that a person I will not name got banned for calling out the owner for not knowing coding skills, they had got banned, and code leaked
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RiiConnect24 had the exact problem before
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and WiiLink
 
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UPDATE x2: the website updated to: "i was lying, join reviive". I didn't really understand what he meant by that, I think either he was just lying and won't continue the project, or he was lying that he cancelled the project, then started working together with Reviive (which is apparently another revival project, but I couldn't find much info about this one).

Man, this is just getting more and more confusing...
 
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UPDATE x2: the website updated to: "i was lying, join reviive". I didn't really understand what he meant by that, I think either he was just lying and won't continue the project, or he was lying that he cancelled the project, then started working together with Reviive (which is apparently another revival project, but I couldn't find much info about this one).

Man, this is just getting more and more confusing...
hmm, interesting
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also i found this: https://www.youtube.com/@ReviiveShopChannel
 

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Originally, they were going to have the WSC come back, hosting on OSC's servers. But frankly, I've never seen any updates thus far.
It's still happening, but you have to be an OpenShopChannel Patreon to access it. I was a Patron briefly and got to try it out, and it wasn't half bad!

The development channel is definitely slow but there is still progress being made there, it's just private and not open to non-Patrons, so it's not exactly clear to the general public if it's being worked on or not still.
 
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It's still happening, but you have to be an OpenShopChannel Patreon to access it. I was a Patron briefly and got to try it out, and it wasn't half bad!

The development channel is definitely slow but there is still progress being made there, it's just private and not open to non-Patrons, so it's not exactly clear to the general public if it's being worked on or not still.
Paying for Patreon to get access to pirated content? Sounds like a lawsuit is about to come.
 

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Paying for Patreon to get access to pirated content? Sounds like a lawsuit is about to come.
OpenShopChannel doesn't host pirated content. They just use the Wii Shop Channel as another frontend for their homebrew database, like the Homebrew Browser or LibreShop, so it's just a homebrew downloader.
 

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UPDATE x2: the website updated to: "i was lying, join reviive". I didn't really understand what he meant by that, I think either he was just lying and won't continue the project, or he was lying that he cancelled the project, then started working together with Reviive (which is apparently another revival project, but I couldn't find much info about this one).

Man, this is just getting more and more confusing...
hmm, interesting
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also i found this: https://www.youtube.com/@ReviiveShopChannel
To reply with both of you, I am one of the developers of reviive shop, we are in the workings rn, we made the point system work, we have a login screen because we dont want a serial leak just like rii shop, and we have our own website. Rn the website is broken for signup, the dev for that is prob working on it. If you want you can join both the discord server, and be updated by the site. Discord: https://ftolnks.xyz/reviivedsc Website: https://ftolnks.xyz
 

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To reply with both of you, I am one of the developers of reviive shop, we are in the workings rn, we made the point system work, we have a login screen because we dont want a serial leak just like rii shop, and we have our own website. Rn the website is broken for signup, the dev for that is prob working on it. If you want you can join both the discord server, and be updated by the site. Discord: https://ftolnks.xyz/reviivedsc Website: https://ftolnks.xyz
Well thanks first of all! I was making the wii website of the old ftolnks.xyz website, so I hope I can help on this new project too!
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To reply with both of you, I am one of the developers of reviive shop, we are in the workings rn, we made the point system work, we have a login screen because we dont want a serial leak just like rii shop, and we have our own website. Rn the website is broken for signup, the dev for that is prob working on it. If you want you can join both the discord server, and be updated by the site. Discord: https://ftolnks.xyz/reviivedsc Website: https://ftolnks.xyz
Do you have any GitHub?
 
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