Nintendo to disable online play in most Wii and DS games and DS data download, May 20

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, I thought that the online stores were fine. The issue is that for original DS games that download stuff, I believe they get it from the same system as online games, so if they take down Wi-Fi Connection, they will almost certainly be disabling DS data download (for Picross DS, etc.) as well as online games.

For newer consoles which have dedicated stores, though, including the DSi, 3DS, Wii, and Wii U, software purchase and download will continue to be available. As for the DLC downloads within Wii games,though... good question. I would expect they'll still be available, since the Wii Shop channel will be and it probably goes through that, but I'm not 100% certain on that.

Well, the DLC was free to begin with, so it's hardly "piracy", but you forget the technical hurdles here. Not only will they need to reverse engineer up a local server that a DS or Wii can connect to, they'd need to somehow "pull" the DLC off of cartridges, and hope they can get a full accounting of all of it (such as in the case of Picross DS where you literally are unable to download ALL the DLC on one cart, it won't all fit). Again, more reverse engineering and it'd require a full community working together.

For stuff like Picross or Mario vs. Donkey Kong, you'd probably just need roms, or multiple roms, with the stuff downloaded in them, yes?