RIP: Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection is now officially offline
The plugged has now been officially pulled on the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Nintendo DS and Wii games with online features are now reporting an error code 20110 with a message about the service being discontinued.
Some online matches are still running at the time of writing but for the most part all online features of DS and Wii games are now dead. All those poor Pokemon forever trapped in the GTS.
The Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection was launched in November 2005 originally on the Nintendo DS with titles like Tony Hawk’s American Sk8land and Mario Kart DS. The Nintendo DSi Shop, Nintendo DS Browser and Nintendo DSi Browser will continue to operate and on the Wii the Wii Shopping Channel, Internet Channel, Youtube and Hulu are still around.
The closure of these online services is due to GameSpy discontinuing their services, many more companies than just Nintendo will and have been affected.
There’s a shred of good news here with fans already working on ways to get games and DLC available again with server emulators. Check out their progress here, you will need some homebrew tools to get it work.
RIP Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. You were fun.
and goodbye to Boom/Fortune Street 🙁 Thanks @josh64128 @f00had and others who played it with me pic.twitter.com/iRfE8Ix6dA
— Darren (@darrenkerwin) May 20, 2014
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I have the same screenshot, but I took it in 2009:
“@HarmonyOfHeroes: Goodbye Brawl online… pic.twitter.com/jrTMtJoR03”
— James Charlton (@famicomplicated) May 20, 2014
See you sweet prince. 🙁 R.i.p. Nintendo Wifi pic.twitter.com/1Pq4jiwUcY
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— SuperCodeman (@Codeman435) May 20, 2014
Well, it's over. Farewell, Wi-Fi Connection. Thanks for all the memories over the last 9 years! pic.twitter.com/KOrFYmgh8D
— Joe Merrick (@JoeMerrick) May 20, 2014
can you fix it on the wii for mario cart wii
Can Nintendo please, please, please, please, please, please bring back Nintendo Wi-Fi connection because now all the games are just getting boring without Wi-Fi connection. 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁
I NO RIGHT I DONT NO HOW I WISH I COULD PLAY IT :((((((((((((((((((((((((
Please bring back wifi connection I’m playing mario kart wii and its getting boring without the connection
Boring without connection and very sad that technology moves on and the good things get removed. I don’t know who makes these decisions but it does not look good on Nintendo! Grrr…. I wanted to play Mario Kart Wii against the World! If they don’t bring WiFi back on the Wii, I will be looking at other brands when I update my console! :-/
Nintendo didn’t have a choice in the matter unfortunately.
How do they have no choice? Please explain.
The costs were high for keeping it up, and eitherway, GameSpy shut down it’s services at the same time. GameSpy was responsible for many servers for multiplayer games, including servers for Nintendo Wi-Fi.
This is so lame. I had nothing to do over the summer because they wanna do this. THEY THINK THEY CAN DO THIS TO ME. lol but no seriously it really sucks cause the computers are just too easy to beat.
we are IN mario kart i will play this online says error code 20110 no way you can play mario kart wii online
no way can u realy play mario kart wii online
I wanted to try and play then it went off. Now thanksgiving is not thanksgiving anymore! 🙁
Nintendo you have to fix this!
I want it back because i cant acess shop on just dance 3 4 2014
Stupid get wifi back!!!!! I wanna play online again because you get to get points and stuff BRING IT BACKKK!!!!!
Please fix it as fast as you can I was always playing alone with CPUs and it’s boring so much thank you
These games are so boring can nintendo please bring back wfc for ssbb and pkmn games please i would be the happiest kid on earth
BRING BACK WFC PLEASEE
NOOOOOOO THERE IS A MEWTWO EVENT FOR POKEMON BLACK AND I MISSED IT NOOOOOOOOOOO! :'(
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Nintendo it all your fault that everyone in the world have quit nintendo cause you ended the wifi connection bring back the WiFi or you be reported as wrose game console company
wifi connection bad idea
they removed it cause gamespy servive shut down cause the cost to keep the survive Nintendo bring the wifi back now