Competitions / WC24

Could you try to wait a few minutes when this happens?

Maybe your Wii was unable to get the DNS entries / IPs of the server.
The Wii tries to connect to the WC24 servers in a set interval, while system is looking up DNS entries to get the ips of the server(s), it doesn't shut down, as far as I know.
I had this a few times while testing different things – the Wii starts DNS lookups and starts 5 tries per domain if one attempt fails; while it’s trying to get IPs from the DNS it won't shut down (whoever thought this would be a good system … lol).

I wait a few minutes, as you said, and the Wii came into standby correctly!

This is my new Mii, I named it by date, it's white with black heart:
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/62424385/Mii-test-2014-09-01.jpg
Chances are slim that it will show up on someone elses parade, but we can try? I will monitor if the number of new Miis in parade change.

We'd have to play mario kart together so I can get your Mii and you mine.

I see. But still, there is the question - how come I can see brand new Miis appearing on my parade lately, and I don't have any Homebrew or modification installed on the console, and I haven't been using Wiimmfi server yet. Last time I played online was through Nintendo WiFi on May 20th. Am I connecting with other users through something else? (I play a lotta Animal Crossing City Folk.) If i find out that the number of Miis in my parade changes, then something weird is going on with wc24 I think.

Well you could look if any Mii Traffic is sent over your network to your Wii... And I dont think they do without playing online :p

Keep us informed of any news about your WC24!

Just a short update: My overall Mii parade number increased by 7 more Miis. Definitively seeing some new ones and not seeing some old ones anymore. Granted, yesterday I installed HBC and disc-method Wiimmfi patcher for the very first time ever, and played quite a few rounds of MKWii online, so that might caused the increase as well.

A little new update (Sept.06.) is that in last two days my overall Mii parade number has even dropped down by a few. I also forgot to mention that in the period when I didn't have any HBC/Wiimmfi installation on the console I did however play Black Ops online last two weeks (it uses third party server), this is what I forgot, and what might affected the updates in Mii parade. But I also swear that I've witnessed regular changes in number of Miis and in their appearances since the May 20th shutdown till I bought the Black Ops two weeks ago. So that is cca 3-4 months of no multiplayer online activity whatsoever.

yes, the miis interchange works, I have the miis, in my mii parade, from the some players that i played 5 minutes ago O.o and the number of the miis is bigger now

@Leseratte Sorry I haven't gotten you the information yet from my NAND dumps for your WC24 server. I've been testing something out with Animal Crossing and I didn't want to connect to your WC24 server just yet. I don't know if you know anything about Animal Crossing: City Folk but there are certain features that supposedly won't work unless WC24 is enabled. The features are that neighbors can move out of your town and move into your friend's towns, you can send letters to your friends in other towns, and there are other events where there is a baby kitten in one person's town and the mama cat in someone else's town and you have to travel to that other person's town to reunite the kitten with the mama cat, and many more that I won't bore you with. Well I have had every single one of those things I talked about happen while playing with people on Wiimmfi. I saw the comment that you written earlier saying that:



First off, why would there still be some WC24 servers running if Nintendo's official WFC has been discontinued? And second, since I can still do all those extra things does that mean that it's possible that the Animal Crossing: City Folk WC24 server is still running? If it is then I'm hesitant to modify my NAND to connect to your WC24 server if it means I will lose those extra features in my game. Is there a way that I can run traffic dumps on the game while both playing and while it's in standby to see if it is in fact connecting to the real WC24 server? And if I can do that, will those dumps help you out with your server at all?

Sorry for all the questions. I'm just hoping that this information can help you out some even if it isn't related to Mario Kart Wii. Also, I'm still going to get those other Mario Kart Wii files from my NAND dumps you were asking for soon.

Hello @Clutz450, I have to make a correction here - of all the City Folk features you mentioned, only sending letters to other towns required the WiiConnect24. That is, they would be sent, but wouldn't be recieved anymore (which concurs with what someone here posted above that WC24 was more about recieving stuff, not so much about sending stuff - or maybe it's vice versa?).

All the other stuff, the cats Katie & Kaitlin reuniting, moving of villagers to/from friends town - all of this worked even after the June 2013 WC24 shutdown. So I believe these things should work on Wiimmfi normally.

Yes.
And there was also one very interesting thing I documented right after the WC24 shutdown. As you can see in the following video, I was able to send Wii messages through the Message board to another Wii console even in as late as September 2013 (!), 3 months after the WC24 shutdown. It was even registered on 'Today's accomplishments' letter for that day, bottom under "Messages Sent" section.
However, these messages probably never arrived to their destination, but still - they were successfully sent, I didn't get any error notification when sending it, unlike we all get now (shown at the end of the video).

I asked about this in some other discussion, people figured that at the time the WC24 shutdown was done one by one server, not all servers at once, or something along those lines. But still very strange, and maybe it helps in understanding how WC24 messaging worked?

video is here:

There is no chance that I can try the Patched WC24 file without Bootmii@Boot2 or?

Ich schreib das jetzt mal auf deutsch: Ich bin kein Homebrew Profi und glaube das ich einen Fehler machen werde und meine Wii bricken werde.

This is an English thread, so please keep it in English. / Hier wird nur English gesprochen. Wenn Du was auf Deutsch besprechen musst, eröffne ein Thema im deutschsprachingen Unterforum oder starte ne Konversation.


WC24 and WFC are completely independent from each other. The latter was forced to shut down as it was actually run by an outside company (Gamespy) which got bought out and closed. The former is fully Nintendo's own creation so they actually have the ability to enable and disable parts of it as they see fit and deem it necessary. E.g. one WC24 server that is still running (and has to run as long as the Wii Shop is supported) is the one for the network connection check that is required after every network setting change.

@datschge sorry

@Leseratte Did you ever get my email with the 3 zip files from my different NAND Dumps for Mario Kart Wii? Also,



Can you tell me what I need to do step by step with FSToolbox to get you the file you need to patch and how to put it back into my Wii NAND when done?

@pizdek I´ll check my mii parade to see if I find your mii, lol

There's a great chance you will see it if we raced mkwii together or played black ops together. I'm "Iva Erak" on MKWii and "Pizdek" on Black ops.