I know I'm probably reviving a dead thread but this whole situation you're having had me interested so I want to give some of my input.
First, I want to go over these:
1) make bans work with IP address: Lots of bans these days use the banning of Ip addresses to forbid the user online if he does something like for example: Hacking. This would be a great alternative to using the NAND as all Dolphin users may use the same NAND BUT they do not use the same Ip address. So if we use the Ip address to ban players we wouldn't have to worry about banning all dolphin users because that's what you were forced to do because all dolphin users had the same NAND
2) Shorten the wait time - I know, I know "Shorten the wait time? how preposterous! who does this 3 year old think he is?" well just listen the Wait time was originally put in place to stop hackers from spamming new consoles to rejoin and I am FINE with that. However I feel A week is just a bit overkill 1 or 2 days would surely already help prevent spam. Now how do I think this will help? well if you remember from my previous complaints of me getting sent back to the beginning of the wait after using the server for 1 or 2 days I was annoyed at the fact that I could only play for 1-2 days then wait another 7. At least shortening the wait to 1-2 days would make it less of a hassle
3). the third and final solution wich will maybe be the most unrealistic one. Make a wiimmfi sort of server that is dedicated to dolphin, wii players can have their server and dolphin players can have theirs. No I'm not saying create and program an emulator or create and program an entirely new build. You could just make 2 severs with the same code but allow one to run on dolphin. I understand this idea may be far fetched because servers are expensive and all that but if we are not going to do this one then maybe we take the other 2 into consideration.
-Hurricane
Here's what I think:
1) This is good thinking however, it is SUPER DUPER EASY to change your IP address especially on a PC.
2) As of 2019, the wait time for Mario Kart Wii is 2-2.5 days (and that is only for Mario Kart Wii, all other games you can play immediately).
3) I think you thinking on this one, but like you say it "unrealistic". Also, I'm pretty sure MKWii is one of if not the only game that has this level of cheat prevention (the rest I think have anti-cheat but not to the extent of blocking Dolphin but please anyone correct me if I'm wrong).
If you still want to play Mario Kart Wii online, here is what I think you should do:
- Go to Goodwill and by a cheap Wii (No we will not be homebrewing it)
- Get an SD Card that is at least 512 mb (again, not for homebrew)
- Get the Internet Channel on the SD card somehow (Either use someone else's Wii or find a copy of it on the internet)
- Put in Mario Kart Wii disc
- Go to the SD card menu and launch the Internet channel
- Go to (and add to favorites) the site:
chadsoft.co.uk/wiimmfi
- Wait a few seconds, and the game will launcher with the Wiimmfi patch
I don't know if this post'll be removed for being on an old thread, but hope it helps...
