Nintendo has announced its plans to shut down WiFi services for its older Nintendo DS and Wii consoles. Games that utilize the service for online multiplayer will no longer be able to access those functions. The Internet browser for both platforms will be unaffected, as will the Wii Shop, DSi Shop, and Hulu Wii app. The service will be disconnected on May 20.
Pokémon Games affected:
- Diamond, Pearl & Platinum
- HeartGold & SoulSilver
- White, Black, White 2 & Black 2
- Mystery Dungeon games
- Pokémon Battle Revolution
Other popular games such as Animal Crossing: Wild World and Mario Kart DS will all be affected so make sure to do everything you want to before the shutdown deadline!
Anyone mourning the loss of multiplayer on the DS or Wii?
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Did I cause drama in the comments with my anti-spam post last week? :>
XD unfortunately so… It’s long over with though lol.
Just a little….there was some talk of full on mutiny and revolution but it seems to have (thankfully) blown over.
Some .-.
Yes
No
Maybe
A lot
Yes, yes you did.
No but I miss wifi already.
You guys know why they’re doing this right? To stop people from meddling with the DNS settings and receiving pokes from Check/transfering them through Bank LOL.
Well, we’ll have to get the info directly from pokecheck and all those other sites if they’ll be affected. Since it involves changing dns settings, maybe their not normal GTS will still be up…
It is discontinuing the GTS therefore you will no longer be able to access it at all. It doesn’t affect local wireless so transporter and local trading will still be in tact but distance trading and battles will no longer work.
Note that Pokecheck (and others) work by emulating GTS rather than you connecting to the actual GTS, so there’ s a possibility that Pokecheck might still work, since theoretically the DS/i is not really connecting to Nintendo’s servers.
Actually Pokecheck does require you to access it through your WI-FI connections which simply will not be there after May. They only emulate a server….not the service. With no service they cannot attach their server to it.
Hellllllooooooo…..
Yo!
Oppa Ganplank Style! 😀
Someone gets it!
This is an old song/meme anyway. I may need to find a new name.
Maybe, maybe 🙂
But we’ll see.
Ssshhh….Shhh….iiiii…..nnnnyyyyy……
Diiiii…..aaaaannnnnn…..cccciiiiiieeeeee……
ssssssuuuuuuccccchhhhh Hax!
Wow they really are doing EVERYTHING to try and stop hacking…. seems a tad radical though seeing as BW2 are barely 2 years old….also very unfair for those that don’t have a 3DS and for those that buy these games brand new (still sold at retail price in many stores) who do not know about this rather significant change.
Powersaves then came just in time.
This move sure doesn’t stop powersave. But that probably won’t stop Nintendo from trying a firmware update that is able to detect edited games… heh heh heh.
Don’t say that in here >_>
I’m confident Nintendo is finding a way to stop Powersaves. 😀
O_O….. seriously shhhhh (banhammer will hit you)
Gives them an incentive to get one. Nintendo is about the money.
Mario Kart Wii… The end of an era…
Lost too soon 🙁
……… I don’t get to do World Tourni’s anymore….. 🙁
So troo….
Hey Guys…..
Hai Green
Hai Noivern.
I’m concerned that you’re awake at 5 in the morning.
Oh geez. You’ve accurately pinpointed my time zone.xD
Go to sleep.
No. xD I need time to do some homework that i forgot about .-. I go to school in like two hours.
I mourn the loss of Wi-Fi on the DS. I like playing online multiplayer battle on my White and White 2. Does this also mean no more GTS?
Yes
As heavy stated, i feel as this is to stop people from getting Pokemon through the GTS and by changing their DNS in the DS games. People would do this and their hacked pokemon would get through Transport. All they had to do was improve their check. It is unfortunate for those who still play DS gen pokemon games and want to battle their friends through wi-fi.But i guess it’s time for them to upgrade if they haven’t already.
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Yet they don’t know about flash carts like r4 :(. If this is the case , they just made a VERY bad move
There isn’t much that’s special about the flash carts other than their ability to play games. xD So i’m not sure what you mean and There is nothing they can do about it on the DS anymore. As for the 3DS, I hope they update a patch to stop the device that shall not be named. ATLEAST for Pokemon or keep the amount of cheats limited. Having cheats to include battle advantages online is unfair. Walking through walls is just for fun.
r4 had cheats…… At least mine did XD
I heard that AR pokemon are blocked though 😮 my friend Saul told me that his little brother tried to send over AR pokemon through Transporter and saw no results. So it looks like there’s nothing to worry about.
even if I obtain the device that shall not be named,I wouldn’t use it for inline advantages I still IV ad ev train my pokemon like usually . Walking through walls and stuff like that is fun and doesn’t really hurt society
I was basically saying that the cheats should be limited to things that will cause people to have fun (Walking through walls) rather than exploiting the game and ruining the fun for others (Ex: The Battle Cheats: HP 9999 or something)
That’s why I said “PS” is different from “AR” because AR you have to stick in your DS and spawn unfair cheats like Max evs every stat etc, but “PS” can’t do none of that. It doesn’t connect to your DS, it connects to your PC with the cartridge in it and “modifies” the save. They don’t have cheats like that only stuff that u can tweak your save file with, like money, BP’s, legendaries, but not 9999 HP etc
Now Super Smash Bros Brawl is pointless!
Unless you play against your family…
That is why we’re getting a new Smash Bros for 3DS and Wii U
And if we don’t have wii u 🙁
Then we’re screwed >.>
Wow in an ironic note when they a pounced they will discontinue nintendo wifi , my actual wifi isn’t working ;~; so I can’t watch tv or use wifi … That leaves masuda time 😀
Masuda for a Shiny Numel. Shiny Camerupts are gorgeous.
I’m doing turtwig arm and I have 6 boxes of Unhatched eggs of 3 egg moved 5iv luxury ball shinx! Maybe numel later next week if I get the shinies
0-0 shiny camerupt a looks AMAZING
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/317/b/7/shiny_camerupt_global_link_art_by_trainerparshen-d6u3iji.png Told you xD
My pss doesn’t work ether 🙁 CURSE YOU VERIZON
Havr the polls been closed yet?
No. They’ve stopped ._. (As in people stopped voting) The cap is 30.
Oh ok. I just want to know the results.
We should have results later today :3
Cool 😀
I. Can’t use internet , watch tv , use the wifi, use the phone , yet I don’t have a blackout 🙁 this sucks! Plus I can’t use pss due to wifi
So, how are you using Pokejungle? 😮
My 3G but don’t have it on computer plus I have to stop soon. Casing I pay for it
Read a book or keep MMing the Turtwigs!
“7 other people are typing…” since when were 7 other people on? xD
Laggggggg XD
So, was that you replying? xD
I don’t know… Wasn’t replying 7 times, thats for sure.
There are usually at least 10 people on at any time but that can be 50+ when there’s big news 🙂
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Sure this helps with the whole hacking situation for Pokémon, but I don’t think that’s what Nintendo is going for here at all. They would never make a company decision like this on one of their products that they only have 50% control of. Rather, I think it’s a smart move. It will force people to purchase the newer hardware.
No more trading D:
I was never able to connect to the wifi on my dslite anyways. XD
Sad but we must continue foward
and besides the Wi-Fi on some of those games ain’t too great
So, it wouldn’t work to just connect your DS game on 3DS wifi? That’s what I did on Black, because the DS won’t connect to WPA2, only WEP, which is much less secure and easily hacked, so I’ve heard.
Wait. Disable Wifi on Pokémon BW/B2W2? *sniff* I guess that’s a good thing. :'(
Why are they doing this? I still play the old games such as pokemon black and white? I don’t think I am the only one. Oh well I guess they want more money for people to buy the new system. I guess what is next is that they want us to pay for the wifi service.
And a middle finger to you too.
WTF guys this has nothing to do with cheating. They just can’t afford to pay server costs for rarely used features forever. They have to stop at some point and they saw that the Wii and DS are becoming irrelevant enough now.
I’m so glad they’re aren’t shutting down XY, eventhough BW was really good. I already transferred my pokemon, so I’m cool with it,
Yeah miniryu its sad for them, but it really won’t stop hacking. Only the nintendo server won’t work. By changing the DNS, you connect to a different server. So you can still use stuff like pokecheck.