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PSA: You can still play Wii and DS games online, even on emulators. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Thanks to Wiimmfi, Modded Wii's and any DS can still play online. even using Dolphin or MelonDS.

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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's also worth mentioning you can get most (if not all?) event pokemon through wiimmfi! It's also a lot more reliable than I first assumed, I still regularly play Animal Crossing Wild World with a friend through it and never had a single connection issue

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I hated event Pokémon with a passion growing up. I bought my game boy on the US, but I would live half of the year in a country neglected by Nintendo, once back on the states for the working season (my parents) you could only get them by traveling somewhere stupid like New York (I lived in the other coast). Even when they started using mall wifi on game stores as events I still always associated it with a life I would never have and didn’t even bother as I could never legitimately complete a Pokédex so why try to start now. I can see how that would work in Japan perhaps, but maybe the country kids felt left out as well.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Oof I feel you there, I never got any event distribution that was tied to a real life location because they just never did them in the countries I lived in. ;; The wi-fi ones imo mitigated this a bit since you could get them anywhere so long as you had a wi-fi connection, but it is a bummer so many things in these games are now forever locked away due to time

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    • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    But what about things like the Pokémon GTS or Wonder Trade? I know you can make fake GTS servers to get event ‘mons, but it was really fun to complete the Pokédex legitimately putting up starters for trade.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What I really want to know is if there is any way to unlock all the event-only courses for my old Pokewalker.

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    • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I assume I have to have somebody to play with? There's no random matchmaking like in Mario kart?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Standard matchmaking does work on Wiimmfi, but you may not be able to count on actually finding anyone in the queue.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wait it connects to Nintendo servers?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago

    Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart Wii both have random matchmaking, but for Mario Kart DS the only reliable way to find a lobby is to ping the Mario Kart DS discord server, although at peak hours there may be between 3 and 7 people playing Mario Kart DS even without pinging the chat. I actually played a match yesterday like that.

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I just found my 3DS XL a few days ago. Are there custom softwares to install on it?

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