Hello, all.

I recently started playing MKW again after discovering Wiimmfi. I still have my original Wii from 2007 connected to a TV and in good working order but I am a big fan of how Wii games look like when running on Dolphin so that's how I play my Wii games nowadays. In fact, dolphin is the reason why I've come back to revisit some Wii games I never got to play.

Having some experience with Wii homebrew, it wasn't much of a problem to set dolphin up with my Wii's NAND dump and get connected to Wiimmfi. After the 1-week waiting period, I've been playing occasionally without any issues and race placements have been correct, since I use the Ishiiruka build and have all or most of my shaders pre-compiled and preloaded upon game launch so I am able to maintain a solid 60FPS with no shader compilation stuttering.

I've just seen the guide here and noticed this instruction:
"Then, go back to the Dolphin Emulator folder, then into Config and go to Dolphin.ini, and edit the WirelessMac line so that it contains your Wii's MAC."

I had no clue about this when I set up my dolphin Wiimmfi connection so I did not change that line in the Dolphin.ini file.
What is the purpose of doing that?
If I go and change it at this point, after I have been playing already for a while, do I risk getting banned because of reporting a different MAC address to Wiimmfi?

Thank you.

Thank you very much for the quick reply!

I'm using the latest and greatest Ishiiruka build of dolphin so this seems to be the case or I would have been banned by now after a few days of playing and a build update in-between.

If I still want to specify my Wii's MAC address in the config file to protect from future changes on how dolphin reports its MAC address, would doing this get me banned from Wiimmfi?

Excellent. In that case, I'll update the file config file just in case.

One more question, if you don't mind, and this one just for curiosity. I don't plan on doing this but if I were to alternate playing MKW on Wiimmfi on my Wii and on Dolphin with my Wii's NAND dump and did not have the Wii's MAC address on the Dolphin config file, would that count as MAC address changes?

Great! Thank you for the answers. You seem to have them all

It's good to know that I have the alternative to use my actual Wii console if I ever decide to do that in addition of using Dolphin.