8th April 2024, 10:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 8th April 2024, 12:00 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
I've got some good news:
https://pretendo.network/
And yes, a part of this network restoration involves all those beaten Mario Maker levels getting steadily added to these fan servers.
Oh and, if you want the most streamlined "just follow this recipe" method of hacking your Wii U and your 3DS, follow these guides:
https://3ds.hacks.guide/
https://wiiu.hacks.guide/
The fan communities behind these projects have really managed to make all this stuff as streamlined as easy to follow as possible. I mean, I'm with you, I don't like that these services have been shut down. In an ideal world, they'd have published tools to allow anyone to host servers for all these games and no hacking would be needed, just plugging in an IP address for a host server. Unfortunately, this is the best we can get.
The games and DLC itself will need to be attained via... well... not to put too fine a point on it, piracy. If they're not going to sell the content, they're not missing out on lost sales by definition.
But, in any case I'd hack your Wii U sooner rather than later. The internal flash on that system is known for failing at this point so hacking is the only way to allow you to backup your interal flash and allow you to recover down the line. Sadly, Nintendo used rather poor quality internal flash on everything from the DSi to the Wii U. I can only hope they didn't cheap out when it came to the Switch.
https://pretendo.network/
And yes, a part of this network restoration involves all those beaten Mario Maker levels getting steadily added to these fan servers.
Oh and, if you want the most streamlined "just follow this recipe" method of hacking your Wii U and your 3DS, follow these guides:
https://3ds.hacks.guide/
https://wiiu.hacks.guide/
The fan communities behind these projects have really managed to make all this stuff as streamlined as easy to follow as possible. I mean, I'm with you, I don't like that these services have been shut down. In an ideal world, they'd have published tools to allow anyone to host servers for all these games and no hacking would be needed, just plugging in an IP address for a host server. Unfortunately, this is the best we can get.
The games and DLC itself will need to be attained via... well... not to put too fine a point on it, piracy. If they're not going to sell the content, they're not missing out on lost sales by definition.
But, in any case I'd hack your Wii U sooner rather than later. The internal flash on that system is known for failing at this point so hacking is the only way to allow you to backup your interal flash and allow you to recover down the line. Sadly, Nintendo used rather poor quality internal flash on everything from the DSi to the Wii U. I can only hope they didn't cheap out when it came to the Switch.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)