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Many people remember the Wii days fondly with its gimmick controls, memorable in-app music and homebrew friendly system. Ever since the discontinuation of the Wii Shop service back in January 30th, 2019, users could no longer purchase new titles through it, and were only left with the option to redownload already purchased titles.

Since then, a few homebrew developers have worked on a revival service, formerly known as "LaunchShop" to recreate the Wii Shop servers back when they were fully accessible. As of January 8th, 2024, this revival service has been rebranded into "RiiShop", and is now publicly available for Wii users in a WAD format.

The current open beta can be installed in homebrewed Wii systems as a WAD, and users can enter the Wii Shop menu and browse Virtual Console and WiiWare games, as well as Wii channels that were originally available, complete with what seems to be dummy Wii Points to redeem, but with nothing to do with them at the moment due to downloads not working on the current build yet. It's worth nothing that this will apparently work like a free Shop to download titles from, with no currency being involved.

As with any product in beta, expect some issues to pop up, and bare in mind that the public beta might not have download working, since many people online are reporting downloads not being possible as of yet.

 

[Antho27mellilium]

Like we don't cover piracy stuff or leaked dumps from time to time, the nerve!

We can have the channel can we download (free channel when we see in wii shop channel early 2006 or 2009), But a homebrew game I say yes. I'm not realy fine to piraty a game, is so painfull for the autors. Look what happen about yuzu and citra get killed by big N. This is all of my word. We get carefull about nintendo now, more than in the past.

 

[LandonAndEmma]

How do I download?

 

[DragonMals]

How do I download?

This has already since been discontinued. Also, read the thread to understand the controversy surrounding it.

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If I were you, I would stick to getting Wii games and such through other means. This entire concept surrounding reviving the Wii Shop Channel isn't really great considering that it's just straight upnpirscy at that point.

 

[Tutti382]

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Many people remember the Wii days fondly with its gimmick controls, memorable in-app music and homebrew friendly system. Ever since the discontinuation of the Wii Shop service back in January 30th, 2019, users could no longer purchase new titles through it, and were only left with the option to redownload already purchased titles.

Since then, a few homebrew developers have worked on a revival service, formerly known as "LaunchShop" to recreate the Wii Shop servers back when they were fully accessible. As of January 8th, 2024, this revival service has been rebranded into "RiiShop", and is now publicly available for Wii users in a WAD format.

The current open beta can be installed in homebrewed Wii systems as a WAD, and users can enter the Wii Shop menu and browse Virtual Console and WiiWare games, as well as Wii channels that were originally available, complete with what seems to be dummy Wii Points to redeem, but with nothing to do with them at the moment due to downloads not working on the current build yet. It's worth nothing that this will apparently work like a free Shop to download titles from, with no currency being involved.

As with any product in beta, expect some issues to pop up, and bare in mind that the public beta might not have download working, since many people online are reporting downloads not being possible as of yet.

I tried to find it, but could not find where to download it, so I hope for an official release.

 

[daemonspudguy]

I tried to find it, but could not find where to download it, so I hope for an official release.

It imploded because of it leaking a lot of people's IP addresses among other reasons.

 

[Tutti382]

It imploded because of it leaking a lot of people's IP addresses among other reasons.

Seriously? If true, I'm looking forward to another service.

 

[chazdoesstuff]

maybe get a custom version of steam and OSCWII, then patch the Wii Shop Channel to connect to them

 

[NewGBAXL]

Dudes should just host the frontend while allowing a third party plugin, hostable by yourself, to provide the downloadable packages.

 

[Tutti382]

Dudes should just host the frontend while allowing a third party plugin, hostable by yourself, to provide the downloadable packages.

Can the Wii Shopping Channel eventually be restored by following the steps? If anyone knows, please let me know.

 

[NewGBAXL]

Can the Wii Shopping Channel eventually be restored by following the steps? If anyone knows, please let me know.

What I'm saying is split up the service between the ROMs and the frontend. The frontend is the harder to make, but completely legal. The ROMs, on the other end are relatively easy to host, even by yourself, and easier to take down (DMCA, etc). Splitting it up this way creates a safety buffer between the project and piracy. There is a similar project which I will not link that does just this for a different platform.
This is 100% theoretically possible.

 

[The Catboy]

The 3DS scene was strange…

A good chunk of the hombrew in the 3DS scene was filtered through a mentally ill imp, shit was wild back then

 

[Tutti382]

What I'm saying is split up the service between the ROMs and the frontend. The frontend is the harder to make, but completely legal. The ROMs, on the other end are relatively easy to host, even by yourself, and easier to take down (DMCA, etc). Splitting it up this way creates a safety buffer between the project and piracy. There is a similar project which I will not link that does just this for a different platform.
This is 100% theoretically possible.

In short, are you saying that the ROM and the front end are currently produced separately and will be officially released as a ROM (or front end)?

 

[NewGBAXL]

I'm using the term "frontend" to describe everything but the roms, including the UI, website, images, everything that's not the wads.
I'm actually saying the reverse. Before both roms and frontend were packaged together in a sense, they should be split up.

 

[Tutti382]

I'm using the term "frontend" to describe everything but the roms, including the UI, website, images, everything that's not the wads.
I'm actually saying the reverse. Before both roms and frontend were packaged together in a sense, they should be split up.

I understand. I don't know when that might be, but in the meantime, please let me know when you are ready to release the ROM. (I'm sorry if you can't release the ROM.)

 

[NewGBAXL]

I'm not actually working on the project, just stating hypothetical solutions

 

[chazdoesstuff]

What I'm saying is split up the service between the ROMs and the frontend. The frontend is the harder to make, but completely legal. The ROMs, on the other end are relatively easy to host, even by yourself, and easier to take down (DMCA, etc). Splitting it up this way creates a safety buffer between the project and piracy. There is a similar project which I will not link that does just this for a different platform.
This is 100% theoretically possible.

what about using the still operational "game redownloading" feature rather than self host? could you feasibly set up a system where (using some sort of multiplayer patch like wiimmfi) your Wii could be rigged to connect to as many Wiis as it can and use those Wiis' purchases to access the wii shop's full catalogue so you could purchase new titles?

 

[NewGBAXL]

Possibly yes, although the current setup might be a good fit already. The source code is available online if you want to try hosting it yourself.
One thing that might be worth exploiting is the "Gift" feature of sending a game from one Wii to another. Let's say you have a tool or something that pretends to be a Wii on your PC or whatever and "buys" the game, then gifts it back to the real Wii.

 

[chazdoesstuff]

Possibly yes, although the current setup might be a good fit already. The source code is available online if you want to try hosting it yourself.
One thing that might be worth exploiting is the "Gift" feature of sending a game from one Wii to another. Let's say you have a tool or something that pretends to be a Wii on your PC or whatever and "buys" the game, then gifts it back to the real Wii.

Would you be able to use a hybrid of those systems to restore the wii shop, how would purchasing work? I presume since the wii shop got its data/html/stuff backed up that we could reimpliment purchasing, possibly using bits from Riishop's code/method for adding funds if that is available and missing from the wii shop's various backups

 

[NewGBAXL]

Would you be able to use a hybrid of those systems to restore the wii shop, how would purchasing work? I presume since the wii shop got its data/html/stuff backed up that we could reimpliment purchasing, possibly using bits from Riishop's code/method for adding funds if that is available and missing from the wii shop's various backups

Anything's possible as long as someone wants to code it

 

[chazdoesstuff]

I suppose, but from a legal/code standpoint, is it doable? And how would it be done?