Wii Fans Are Reviving The Console's eShop With 'RiiShop'

I don't understand... where is this supposedly going to download software from once it's working?

Wait, so this is going to work as basically a repository of fully downloadable non-homebrew software? I must be missing something

@Razieluigi Their own server

Wouldn’t it be easier to download the WAD of the game you want and install into your Wii?

I mean, you’re already doing the same process to install the shop.

Unless they have all the catalog and are just helping you to skip the step of searching your game on the internet.

So hold up, they're hosting all the copyrighted content originally available on the Wii Shop for people to download for free?

Yeah nah, Nintendo's lawyers are gonna kill this one quick 😂

This makes sense since Wii games are so rare and hard to find.

@cmdrmarc Well that should last about 7 minutes before Nintendo puts a stop to it.

I feel like the kinds of people who are savvy enough to have a Wii modded for homebrew already have better ways to get software onto their machine.

@Razieluigi @DashKappei @Yoshif3 every download was preserved/backedup/etc prior to the shop closure. The whole catalogue has existed and been downloadable since 2019, if you knew where to look. Nintendo haven't taken it down in all that time.

So this is technically an easy to use piracy shop. 3DS has one too. Of course Nintendo no longer give us any way to but these old games. It's up to you how OK you are with the whole thing.

Anyway, check out MaBoShi WiiWare download! One of the greatest of all time.

Nintendo doesn't care if you hack their old games or consoles. Just look at all the amazing SNES and N64 romhacks out there, or the homebrew games coming out for NES and GBC. You can get an Everdrive all-in-one gaming library cartridge for practically every one of their classic systems. Companies like Retroid and Anbernic are even copying their handheld aesthetic and selling boatloads of portable consoles that play those old games via pixel perfect emulation. They only step in and stomp a fan project out if it is directly taking profits from the product they're currently selling. Sure they might have taken down fan projects like Pokemon Prism and AM2R in the past but now you can easily download those games with a simple Google search. I for one can't wait for the Riishop to be a real thing, even though I'll use it just for sh1tsngiggles. 😄

This is good for people who want that Wii Shop Channel experience. Searching for games, downloading games, watching Mario run across the screen and shooting fireballs... And there are still games that are no longer available for purchase anywhere else, like Fluidity and Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth... There are also games that were removed from the Wii Shop Channel, and I hope that this app lets you download those as well. I don't know why Nintendo stopped selling Yoshi's Cookie, but it was never rereleased on any Nintendo console since then.

This Wii Shop homebrew app would be useful for Wii Mini owners and will make that system useful since that one never got an online Wii Shop like the rest.

Wonder if this will work on Wii U

@gingerbeardman Oh, I don't doubt that they're out there.

But a centralized source connected to a carbon-copy of the Wii Shop?

That's going down.

@LikeWhoa It's not that Nintendo doesn't care about it. It's that there's no valid legal argument against things like ROM hacks and hardware mods.

But software that provides a direct pipeline to some centralized source of pirated games themselves is another story entirely.

There is a reason why sites like Romhacking only provide access to the patches and not the ROMs.

@Pally356 It will, you just need to jump through a couple of hurdles. Join the Discord to learn more.

(also holy crap lois dakotath on the news)

@ValZ im in. I'll loom up stuff when I get home.

@Razieluigi what would Nintendo be taking down exactly? All of this is done totally outside of their control. At best it's a game of cat and mouse.

There are equivalent stores on PSP/PS3/Vita and 3DS. None of them have been taken down.

@Chinesus Typical Nintendo. They don't want to pay to keep the service up and running officially, but they'll be the first to whine and complain when someone else does.

It feels very weird for this to be called the Wii eShop in the title instead of the Wii Shop Channel. I think the article could have easily been titled "Fans are reviving the Wii Shop Channel with Riishop" and it would convey the same information while being a bit more accurate.

@Chinesus If I had to guess they could be spoofing the nintendo servers that are still up that allow you to redownload games you already purchased into letting you download those games even if you don't purchase the title similar to how NUSpli works on wii u. The reason I think this is because on their discord they mention at the moment you can only download things that you have on your wii.

It seems like RiiShop has officially got into drama with RiiConnect24 due to that one guy that resigned from RC24 joining RiiShop.

Please, for your own safety, do not install RiiShop.

DO NOT USE THIS APPLICATION. Recently, one of the developers shared a tab in a Discord VC that contained Discord usernames, IP adresses, and console serials of every person that's ever used, or uses RiiShop. They've also stolen code from Open Shop Channel (a Wii Homebrew Directory)