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Is that pretty much just splatoon 1? I know it had trouble with the servers a few months back.
Splatoon and MH3U are the big ones
There's still a lot of people playing Splatoon
People playing Mario Kart 8 as well who already spent the game + DLC and don't want to again lol.
>MH3U
Damn that’s a tough one to lose. Is there any online exclusive content I need to get before it goes down?
Also will I still be able to use Freeshop on 3ds?
Pretty sure Freeshop yoinked stuff directly from their servers. If that goes down, then you’re out of luck
Huh that sucks, I better get everything I want now then
Freeslop, more like it
Be sure to grab all the event quests. I’m not sure how many existed for 3U, but 4U and Gens had a fair bit
Good call, thanks
Kid icarus uprising bros…it’s truly over…
You can still play that with bots online
This really only effects splatoon 1 and mario maker 1.
Oh shit really? Gonna boot up KIU brb
wait shit i take
back
you morons better still be playing light vs dark when the time comes
I can’t find my old physical copy. Gotta go looking for it before the servers shut down. Damn, it was the greatest 3ds game ever man.
Sadly, my 3DS XL stopped charging for no real reason so I won't be able to join you guys. It's a real shame too since I had some pretty great clubs I wanted to show off.
If the battery shit itself, Nintendo is still selling replacement batteries on their website.
I'll be sure to their website out. The battery dying out seems like the most likely scenario. Perhaps I may be able to save my 3DS after all. Thanks for the recommendation.
No problem. I was gonna say you could just get a Switch Pro controller battery, but apparently those only work with the og 3DS and 2DS models as the XLs take different batteries.
>Oh no, not the Xenoblade X and WW/TP HD Machine's online games!!!!
nothing of value was lost
3ds.hacks.guide
wiiu.hacks.guide
Is there private servers to keep online functionalities working for Wii U like there is for DS games?
Pretendo
I will now check out your site.
I hope they aren't homosexuals and will support all regions for games.
>I hope they aren't homosexuals
worse
It was nostalgic using the animal crossing online but I will probably never use it again anyways
why is nintendo allowed to do this? I bought a Wii U. They promised free online. now they're taking it away? how is this fair
It’s not
But they probably wrote it into the purchase agreement
>They promised free online
They gave you free online, for ten years.
But I want free online for infinity years. I deserve all the everything for free!
Steam doesn't force you to pay for online. Why is everyone else allowed to? Should be put under scrutiny more often.
The difference is Nintendo is a small family company
anon, who do you think pays for all those dedicated servers?
Because “until it becomes so outdated that nobody cares anymore” is always implied. I’m amazed it still is up now.
Will the internet still work and all the nintendo online stuff get taken down or will your 3ds just be lobotomized and will never be able to connect again?
It can still connect to Wi-Fi, you just can't play games online (on official servers) anymore.
Okay that's all I need to know thanks
All online services are ending, but they aren't patching out online connectivity on a hardware level. If you connect to third party services via homebrew/hacks, those should still work unless they're based on Nintendo's services.
And this announcement is giving people plenty of time to create another Wiimmfi, just like DS and Wii.
splatoon 1 switch port hype
Press F for all pre-Switch Pokemon transfers.
Bank will still work though
we're so back
Pokebros we won.
Just shows you which franchise truly matters.
Wtf is even the point of this anymore since they cut out the national dex
He won.
>10 years ago
jesus christ I'm old
I miss him so much.
Reminder that Nintendorks got so angry at him they doxxed him, falsely accused him of rape, gor kicked out of his university and is now in jail
based, people who use the word "dork" unironically in the current year deserve worse
>falsely accused him of rape, gor kicked out of his university and is now in jail
Based if true. Source?
You know they just made that up
Not true. He is fine and a father of 4 beautiful white kids.
He was in high school, someone sent his principal a post he made on Ganker where he threatened to shoot up the place, and he got grounded without internet by his parents.
well played quentin, well played
reminder that he was ALWAYS right
Where is your tripcode homosexual?
>making friends
>on le 4chin
Did he made any friends? Is that why he dissapeared?
apparently he disappeared because he got arrested for threatening to shoot up his college or something
>strawman starts smoking a blunt mid-comic
It’s the little things.
whos quentin
a lanced jack copycat derivative
daily reminder that if you sucked quentin's wiener, you're directly responsible for soijacks and other symptoms of Ganker irony rot
Ask me how I know you were depicted in a Quentin meme.
Basedjak is one of the best memes ever made and the seething it causes makes it even better
i don't know dude all of that looks pretty sincere to me
this is like saying hitler won because churchill died of old age
Ironically the Switch is even more popular with the general public.
I miss Quentin and the moe brigade
we had a guy in school who acted and looked like this quentin. Shitting on consoles and talking about how PCs are better at everything.
He was such an outcast, even the outcasts bullied him.
The definition of a nerd that tries to be *better* and fails
I prefer my 3ds. Switch is too big, doesn't fit in pockets and the joycons are annoying
That's the one thing I don't like about new handhelds. They're too big.
Quintin must have had a mental breakdown when he sees people with the Switch in public.
Port. Now. I don't want to say farewell forever...
AHHHHHHHH
Still not paying Nintendo Switch paypwalled online
>love the 3ds to bits
>this is happening
>close to my birthday
i've already had it bad enough this year, would it kill you to at least wait a few more months you slit eyed israelites?
April 2024 shutdown might mean that Switch 2 May 2024 rumors are real. They shut down these cost draining dead servers just as the new system hits.
So how would the modding community save the 3DS in this instance? Is it possible?
I'm really gonna miss XY and ORAS PSS.
Chances are, no, they can't just recreate their own massive network infrastructure for everyone to connect to. But, much like the wii and original DS, they'll set up servers you connect to directly for specific games. Same way you play the pservers for mkwii.
I would assume big games like The Pokemons, Mario Kart, Kid Icarus and Animal Crossing would be salvaged?
Usually people don't bother with pokemon because there's just not a large enough community (As it has high transition to new entries), but it's possible. There never were for gen4/5. At least not to my knowledge.
Mario kart, maybe, kid icarus, maybe, animal crossing, unlikely, again, new leaf stopped being popular a REALLY long time ago.
More likely, you'll see titles that just had DLC distribution or online events have servers set up that have low cost just so people can unlock the content. As an example, someone has a server set up you can connect to for DQ9 on the DS, for each region's release (even korea) that you log in to, get your dlc quests, and can log off, it even rotates like the real thing.
There's a server set up to let you download the DLC missions for advanced wars DOR, and some others like that, one for spectrobes I think.
But no one really went through the trouble to set up full on replacement servers for these titles, as the community just was not worth the size. MK wii was the last worthwhile MK title before 8 came out (Sorry, not sorry, 7 was pretty bland), and nobody actually owned a wiiu so there was a lot more interest, plus there's a version of the server you can connect to that uses one of those content mods for mkwii, and lets you play with all the new chars and courses and all that shit.
switch, like it or not.
b***h Gen 4 and 5 have community online servers.
https://pkmnclassic.net/gts/
Does this mean Mystery Gift servers for Gen 6 and 7 pokemon games will come around soon?
Nintendo WFC was backed up thanks to Mario Kart Wii modders making their own servers, then sharing their work to reverse engineer other games' online. I don't think there's anything similar for Wii U and 3DS, so chances are they won't be able to salvage anything from scratch in just half a year.
shut the frick up, because of people like you this industry keeps getting shittier. you boiled up frog ass.
there's already pretendo network to replace 3ds and wii u online servers, which works right now
it's still very much wip
Need to make way for new servers for Switch 2.
December 6th, 2024 Release date???
That's Iwata's 65th birthday.
use pretendo
I literally just bought a 3DS. Wtf Furukawa!!
In five years, they'll do another update just to frick with the homebrew community.
One step closer to that new console
He wouldn't allow it.
He's dead. Nintendo's full israelite now.
rest in peace you customer-money-saving madman.
and then Animal Crossing became a gacha
To be honest, I generally agree with his sentiment, but I would say I largely haven't felt ripped off by any of Nintendo's DLC offerings after his passing. Granted, if I think it's a bad deal, I just don't buy it, but still.
He allowed Wii and DS online to shut down. This was always going to happen.
Wii and DS online were hosted by Gamespy. There was nothing they could do about it. Gamespy died and their services went with them.
>badge arcade is deadzo
>now swapdoodle will be too
this fricking sucks
Wtf am I looking at
AI slop
AI sloppa
Nintendo throwing one final wrench at modders.
Will they be able to salvage this?
Wait why is the 3DS ending?
It still doesnt have a successor
Introducing....the FOURDS.
Compatible with 3DS games btw.
The switch.
switch lite.
Switch already fills in for the Handheld market
>people responding to this acting as if the switch is a successor to the 3DS
True handhelds are dead, they could've at least kept the servers up for the 3DS so something remained.
For how long? It's been 13 years. Pretty sure the DS servers lasted less.
Indefinitely, PS3 servers are still up, there is no good reason for shutting down 3DS servers.
With the DS it was because of Gamespy shutting down.
>there is no good reason for shutting down 3DS servers
They just don't want to do maintenance anymore. Also what do you mean indefinitely? You expect the servers to be up 100 years from now?
The 3DS servers can shut down when Nintendo as a company does.
up and empty, they're good bragging points but it's literally pointless to keep them online if you're not going to get matches regardless
>there is no good reason for shutting down 3DS servers
Nintendo doesn't actually host the 3DS servers themselves.
There's a whole lot to the story but basically way back in the day Nintendo outsourced all their online stuff to a third party company which itself has gone through various acquisitions and such over the years.
The Switch is the first Nintendo system where Nintendo is handling the online servers in-house.
Either the third party company handling 3DS stuff is shutting down or Nintendo wants to get out of their business relationship.
>true handhelds are dead
They aren't but ones that have dedicated software for them are no longer being made. There are tons of companies investing into android portables that will run medium and high end PC games and more nowadays.
How anyone can think Nintendo killed off their handheld line instead of the console line is beyond me. The Wii U does not have a successor. Nintendo consoles are dead, they're hard carried by portability now.
>Multi billion dollar company
>Multiplayer that's p2p
>People unironically pretending Nintendo couldn't afford to keep a fricking matchmaking server online until the oceans evaporate
Problem is that Pokemon games rely a ton on online connectivity and even if Bank still works many shit in those games won't.
So why would they still have issues with emulating when they no longer support their own games?
Because then it devalues their ports and remakes. They're bringing Luigi's Mansion 2 to Switch, for example, so people being able to play the original online and/or via emulator devalues that experience. They want to take away the games you already own and then sell you them again.
>Cringe Emblem Awakening
The problem is that the emulated online is not 100% functional or does not have the same amount of people as the official online services, which were also free on the Wii U
and this is coming from someone who had that console and emulated many games on dolphin, cemu, yuzu and ryujinx
Because Nintendo wants to resell or rent those games back to you. They love creating artificial scarcity and limiting access as much as possible.
>killing off online for 3DS and Wii U, removing functionality
Remind me again why anyone should buy a console?
They can't double-dip if you emulate, moron.
Splatoon 1 bots when then? People have modded in bots with 2 and 3. So please when will it be for 1?
the 3ds had so much work into system
preloaded games and software, streetpass, themes
the switch menu looks like it was done in 2 weeks top
the switch eshop runs in a browser btw[/spoiler
>Splatoon 1 disc is about to become a coaster
It's not fair. Even though I have 2 and 3, I still go back and play 1 regularly. Even now, there are plenty of people playing it and you can find matches no problem.
I skipped the whole 3DS and Wii U era.
I say this as someone who is the most jaded millenial boomer but the 3DS is worth it. You actually missed out. The WiiU was trash compared to switch and worth skipping.
Learn how to crack your WiiU now if its possible, or start playing on Emu, people will make private servers/p2p connectivity. The Nintendo scene is autistic like that.
inb4
>ITS NOT THE SAAAME
its the same.
>>ITS NOT THE SAAAME
>its the same.
It's the same as long as enough of the community migrates to it. If too few people do it and it's hard to find a match, then it would be fair to say it isn't the same.
Do enough people still play splatoon 1 regularly enough that you can find matched any time of day?
I tried playing last week and got into matches within a min.
Yes, it's actually shocking how easy it is. It seriously feels exactly the same as when the game first came out in terms of finding matches. If it weren't for the miiverse features being gone, I wouldn't notice anything changed.
Same
I stop by Ganker every few years and spend a couple of weeks
Last time I got tricked into buying a 3DS back in 2015 / 2016 / 2017
I have 30 hours at most of playtime on it
Terrible moronic two screened device
All I played was OR and SSB
Switch 2 could be cool if the games are good
Honestly I think the 3DS might be my favorite console of all time, as it had access to the best handheld library (DS) while also having a good library by itself and decent emulation capabilities. I don’t think I’ll ever finish my (3)DS backlog.
Missed out big time anon, it was unironically the last soulful era of videogames will we ever have short of a industry wide crash.
You didn't miss that much. Most of the good Wii U games got ported to the switch by now. 3DS had some good games in it's library if you're obsessed with jrpgs
But paying for online still sucks.
As a zoomer who grew up with 3DS/Wii U these anons
are pretty much right. The only thing you missed was the Miiverse wild west and playing certain games before they got ported to Switch. Though I would still try to pick up a 3DS before they skyrocket further in price, lots of soulful offline games on it.
3ds was peak era for handhelds
Now the industry will never return to that form thanks to phones and the Switch
3DS was meh/10, Wii U was a total piece of shit. There are a handful of good games between the two of them
Switch wouldn't be what it is without all the ports it got. By far the best selling game on the system is a Wii U game.
And every Wii U game except MM1 and Pikmin 3 play better on Switch
>he never played pokemon online or used wondertrades
>he never played puyo puyo chronicle or 20th anniversary online
>he never played any 1st party 3DS exclusive online
kill you're self
Those are 3DS games, yes. I am talking about Wii U
>Missed the Wii U
Didn't miss much, most of the good shit was ported to the Switch.
>Missed the 3DS
Depending on your age, you missed a lot. I think if you were in high school or university, and lived in a city (or densely populated area), it was a great system to have. It was cool getting streetpass hits from people all over the world. It was a great passively social system. A ton of fun to play with friends, or with people online. I don't think it's really worth getting in the modern day, but for its time it was a blast.
Wait a fricking a second, this means they are porting Luigi Mansion 2 to save its multiplayer, WHY THEY AREN'T DOING THE SAME WITH KID ICARUS UNPRISING?! Its multiplayer is much better than the stupid luigi mansion's tower!
>WHY THEY AREN'T DOING THE SAME WITH KID ICARUS UNPRISING?
Because that game only existed to damage people's tendons.
BULLSHIT, I played it shitloads of hours and NEVER got my hand hurt and in any case a port with switch controls would fix that "problem".
LM sold much more
okay, but i'm still not buying the Nintendo Switch online service.
i know, i know, it's just... i'm not paying for online is all.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I dont think I like this online age very much...there's gonna be a constant longing for things you can no longer access now going forward...and that list of things will only get bigger and bigger...
There are tons of historical records that have been lost to time.
Also consider the fact that a meteor could hit earth at any time and everything could be lost forever.
Funny, I was just imagining an airplane crashing into my house and dusting me in an instant.
dumb amy poster!!!!!
Why do you care? I'm 100% sure you weren't playing anything online in those consoles, and if you were most of the time you were looking at empty lobbies since you already missed their prime, there's no point in feeling miserable over the hypothetical loss you're having, and if you really cared about it there's always alternative solutions
I just had an online battle in XY...got it an instant...they used Sub Infestation Gengar...i'll never fight a Levitate Gengar again...
They'll have private servers up months before the official ones are down
Ahem
Does it still connect to online though? Will Nintendo be petty and sever those abilities?
Pretendo chads rise up
Glad to see someone's on top of it. Splatoon is still a good time, but I'm not paying for the rehash or to use my own internet, Nintendo can such a fat one.
>Mario Kart 7 [0%]
Damn
Don't worry, there's already an alternative for that game. Mario Kart 7's CTGP mod pack offers a vanilla mode with its own servers, designed to help people tired of cheaters on the official 3DS servers. Priitendo also intend to speed up development in response to the shutdown, so maybe they'll nip that one in the bud too.
Man this sounds like I should start hacking my stuff. I somehow never dared to, out of fear of breaking stuff.
You gotta go for it man. No reason not to. If you care about playing these games online, you'll need Priitendo (hacked) when it's ready. if you want to enhance pre existing games, you'll need it hacked too. It's worth it! There was this cool plugin for Monster Hunter XX/Generations Ultimate that'd let you connect to the US Switch version.
By the end of a console's life, hacking it is usually fool-proof, with the worst outcomes 95% of the time being things didn't work properly because you missed a step or something, and the other 5% being something annoying like a soft brick, which is still fixable.
>MK8 WiiU
Why? MK8D is so much better, Defensive play doesn't exist in MK8 original except track litter which quickly gets eaten up. A fraction of the tracks, less racers. Why even bother? Games preservation is fine but like at least preserve the version that isn't rotten ass.
For mods, of course. MK8 on WiiU get their own booster courses long before Nintendo announce it
only tryhard homosexuals will play on it like on Wiimmfi.
I remember when Wii online shut down and we had threads with people getting as many games in last minute. Most people where playing Smash but I found one person here to play Tatsunoko vs Capcom to play with.
You just now that there are people in the comments of that post acting like Nintendo killed their dog because they won't be able to play the online of a game they haven't thought about in 5 years with an active userbase of 10 japanese hackers
>They're only doing this to move all the last remaining players in Luigi's Mansion 2 to the Switch version.
I had a feeling, frick, this really IS the worst luigi's mansion.
Shit that make sense, get ready for Kid Icarus Uprising coming to the switch too lol
I’d rather fricking have Super Princess Peach ported then yet another Luigi Masion
Next Direct is going to have Xenoblade X and Uprising port
Only if it's to showcase the upscaling and lighting for Switch2. There's no way XCX gets a Switch port this late in life.
It's always people who haven't touched those consoles for the past 3 years crying about it, and a lot of the replies seems confused about what's being shut down whining about digital only games
>It's always people who haven't touched those consoles for the past 3 years crying about it
Are you old enough to be on this site? 3 years is nothing. Once I buy a game I should own it and be free to play it whenever I feel like it. I should not be forced to play it within a specific time window before it arbitrarily stops working.
You can still play your games, and staring at the error message when trying to play them online now would be the same experience as staring at the empty lobbies
I'm complaining about it and I regularly play 3DS games.
There are absolutely still people playing, you can still easily get matches in Smash and gen 6 Pokémon.
Those games are the exception to the rule not the norm. Go on Resident Evil Revolutions and tell me how long it takes to find a match
I can still find games for Operation Raccoon City.
I just let the modders know. They told me they're on it.
bros...
Rip Sonic Lost World, Sochi 2014, and Boom
Yup never forget that deal Sega made with Nintendo
Gentlemen, it's been an honour. Would anybody like to exchange friend codes, for old times sake?
0748-5449-8994
Sure I'll add people some time tomorrow
Hell yeah
2380-6746-4143
Wait does that mean XCX's online is finally going to die? Maybe I should beat it before this.
Never feel like I got enough out of gen 6 pokemon and New Leaf
but ah well
I'm gonna miss it man
That generation feels like the last one that didn't try to mainly appeal to normalhomosexuals
Personally life got in the way for me 2013-2016 so I never felt like I got my full mileage out of the 3DS. I'm sure everyone feels like this at a point but to me it feels like squandered potential I had.
Of course there are still plenty of games I can go back and play / finish, but it's tough to not feel the sad tinge of nostalgia.
The Remaster Era will be horrible and painful, thanks God I'm fully PC now
Was just thinking the same thing. Pretty obvious where it's all headed and I'm glad I finally got out of consoles.
Where did all this soul go?
I heard a while ago that the switch had no functional UI for a long time and they had to rush it out
We posting soul music? Well here’s something I’m very attached to when I think of the various Eshop Themes
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The next thing Nintendo does better have fricking system music this time. So many aspects of the Switch itself feel lacking. The fact that the thing struggles to even run the goddamn eshop is insane to me.
RIP gotta protectors 3ds
It was online?
I think it was
You gays ready for the awakening port where it replaces gender with body types? lmao
That shit's so universal now it's not even worth mentioning, yeah it sucks but trying to paint it as a flaw in any individual game is silly. I don't understand why it took until starfield for people to really start getting mad, maybe if they had gotten mad when it first started we wouldn't be in this situation now
>That shit's so universal now it's not even worth mentioning
And to think that before it was something only in America, pic rel, and now even Japan does it, everyone does it
Also worth mentioning that Starfield still defines genders in their internal files, and I imagine the same with many current games
I don't know how so many people thought it was going to stay an english only thing, when has progressivism ever had a point where it stops
Mostly because the perversion of gender as a concept only really linguistically functions in english.
it got cancelled last week
the english version was already butchered in a number of ways, a change like that is pretty minor in comparison tbh
Fire Emblem localizations are so garbage I don't know if I'll ever pick another one up anyway
Nope, frick Awakening and it’s success which snowballed into more garbage
I’m more concerned with Fates, and how any remaster would just give all the women burka armor. Not to mention another pass with localization (though I guess body type A/B bs is just a form of localization in itself)
Gender actually matters in Awakening though, they'd have to do a lot more than just change the text on the character select screen to alter the fact that Male Robin knocks up women and female Robin gets knocked up by Chrom.
It doesn't say body types though usually just "form" which is whatever.
>female Robin gets knocked up by Chrom
They will probably remove getting Chrom'd outright in a remaster.
Jewtendo strikes again
Everyone realizes that when 3DS and Wii U online shut down, that’s it for Free Online Gaming, everything will be yearly subscriptions from now on.
free online still lives on with steam
>that’s it for Free Online Gaming
PC bro. They can't get away with that type of shit on PC, there's no big unifying cancer like a console and everyone would immediately pirate the game and reviewbomb it if anyone so much as tried.
Guess Pokemon Home is dead as well, which means no cross-generation transfer after that date.
Not that it matters since you can just PKHex shit anyway.
You will own nothing and you will be happy.
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Not only is the switch eshop bland, its embarrassingly laggy as frick. always feels like my switch is going to catch on fire browsing it.
No console has ever had a good store running on the console itself, they're always laggy or cumbersome to navigate
There's a big difference between something like the PS4 store which is a bit awkward, and the Switch eShop, which genuinely doesn't work. The Switch eShop is only BARELY better than the PS3 store, and that's saying a lot.
The switch eShop runs within a embeded browser because they were apparently too lazy to make it native
False, the PS3's 2nd PSN Store was kino. Snappy, Efficient and Clean looking UI
I'm still mad that they replaced this.
What the FRICK were they thinking with the current store?
Me too anon. I remember the excuses people had back then was that they were trying to make it reach parity with the PS4 Storefront but it was just ass. It was constantly laggy, search was abysmal with content routinely not showing up and was just all around slower to navigate through. Definitely the worst piece of shit I ever had the displeasure of using.
I don't understand why people claim that the aero aesthetic bloats shit in UI when shit like the nu-PSN's UI is far more slower and bloated compared to the old PSN.
How do people even justify this shit?
Frick man we can't even change our wallpaper on PS5 it's embarrassing.
SOVL
>3DS and Wii U were released over 10 years ago
>online is finally ending
>no true handheld successor to the 3DS is planned
>the end of another era
Time – He's waiting in the wings
He speaks of senseless things
His script is you and me, Boy
Time – He flexes like a prostitute
Falls wanking to the floor
His trick is you and me, Boy
>10 years ago
Feel free to share all your moments and memories anon, I’m hear to listen
Why the frick did that hurt me.
>bought Y right before I went to see my great grandma after she had a bad fall on ice that the city never salted
>the meds they gave her massively sped up her dimentia, taking her from a 1/10 to a 6/10 in months
>she died in last year after all this time
>her husband (my great grandfather) died literally before they shut down the world for COVID
Time is just flying
>most of these games were terrible
>Redditsuba
Checks out
>obsessed
>also a moron
checks out
Behold, the king of 3ds games
3ds had a pretty lousy library now that i think about it
Anybody still got their 3DS Ambassador Games?
>does SNES on 3DS
>never does it again
why is nintendo like this
They did it kinda late, it should’ve been a day one thing for 3DS
yup
when my top 3 most used apps on Wii U are Netflix, MH3U and MK8
My 3DS's battery blew up and took them all with it.
Me, on my Silver Medal (MH4U N3DS)
Hell, I still have my 3DS ambassador badge/program/certificate thing. It'll be worth billions some day, I'm sure of it. Not hacked, totally genuine, definitely very rare.
>The last good pokemon gen is losing online
bros...
No one in this thread owns a Wii U
I have an 8GB one.
I have a Wii U and 3DS and respect the Nintendo of that era far more than this modern soulless one. Switch made me go PC only.
I literally played splatoon online on it a few days ago
you will own nothing
>3ds
Are there STILL people playing those games online didn't everybody jump ship after the switch was revealed?
You can play MK7 online for free, and it’s better than 8 by a mile.
Enjoy your free online until it lasts, goy
don't forget, it's just 20 bucks/year for our ~~*((improved*~~)) service with cloud saves and a bunch of rom rentals, goy
It's honestly still a better deal than any other paid online, but the moment they raise that shit up I'm done defending them lmao
>bought 3U on Wii U for another playthrough and was planning on going through it with some buddies
>online gets shut down a year later
Fricking why? Running these servers shouldn’t be expensive at all
they want you to ~~*move on*~~
Don't worry, Capcom will surely release an old school MH HD collection any day now :*~~
>World is Capcom's best selling game
>Rise is Capcom's second best
>New worlders constantly say the old games are outdated with no reason to go back to them
An HD collection is a never ever unless if they're remade in the style of World/Rise
Lmao, it's like
said; the most you can hope for is Generations Ultimate getting ported to PS/Xbox/Steam with crossplay. The majority wouldn't care about the Old World otherwise, and even GU's insanity is a stretch compared to 5th Gen's universal reception.
Why the frick is the text so fricking small in 3U?
Please buy monster hunter Rise. Thank you for upur continued support of our products, gaijin piggu
Mario maker bros…..
Can they really not afford to keep the servers up? Always wondered if there's ever been an official reasoning behind these shutdowns. Even an outright "we're too stingy to empty our tip jars" would be better than nothing.
The last one was because Gamespy.
ITS OKAY WHEN NINTENDO DOES IT
i literally never played online with either of these consoles.
>nintendo trying to erase the fact online used to be free
People take it for granted, but technically Steam doesn't HAVE to offer its servers for completely free use in any multiplayer game that is able to make use of them.
Better pay up for NSO and Pokemon Home if you don't want your decades old pokemon forever trapped in the GBA/DS/3DS eras.
>if you don't want your decades old pokemon forever trapped in the GBA/DS/3DS eras
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Just emulate the games and use pokesav and get every pokemon.
Lol the Pokémons are just data
Why would anyone care about that?
Everything is just data if you crack down to atom level
current year nintendo in a nutshell:
I'm happy new people will get to experience the game I loved as a kid.
It's at 30fps it looks like. A little disappointed in Nintendo.
>Muh Frames
personally i just find it hysterical that every single time nintendo throws old fans a bone, they immediately follow it up by jamming their middle finger up our eyes. such an eternally frustrating company
That's true too. It seems like they do it on purpose, but that would be weird because the smart thing to do would be to do it the other way around.
>x.com
i ain't clicking that
>Splatoon
>Pokémon
>Monster Hunter
>New Leaf
>Xenoblade X
Is this everything serious actually affected by this? Mario Maker was already gutted sadly.
Fellow KIchads, our moment is closing in
I can feel it
>the best Fire Emblem game will be forever stuck on a dead console
I hate israelitetendo so much bros
SoV is fricking dogshit for a remake and for a FE entry so late in the 3DS era.
Also that game literally has no multiplayer when compared to Fates, so it's going to be perfectly fine for the shitty mess it is lol
Still better than your shitty self insert avatar wank games
Oh look its another moron who blindly just accepts Alm's dad moronic plan lmao
No it isn't. Just because you want to be a contrarian hipster doesn't mean it's better than Awakening or Fates, especially in terms of gameplay and DLC content.
Maybe you'll see a port next year? The Switch is at the point in it's lifecycle where Nintendo is going to pump it with either low budget 1st party games or ports/remakes.
You might see FE echos or a remake of some SNES or GameCube FE game
Only mentally ill people play online games.
bring back smaller downlodable first-party titles that are not just GaaS battle royales, like during the 10s
give me a new NES/Whatever Remix while you're at it
Meanwhile the PS3 store launched in 2006 and is still online. Is Nintendo just poor or something?
Happy.
>There's a website that let's you input literally almost any prompt and it will dream up unimaginable, amazing artwork with the quality of master artisans
>B-B-B-B-BUT WHAT IF I WANT TO SPEND MY TIME ON 10 YEAR OLD ONLINE JANK SLOP?!?!?!?!
Really? Nothing better to do?
I'm so glad I never ended up being an AI cuck like this.
People who have never been able to create something in their life are now finally able to experience what it's like to have a crumb of talent. Let them have their moment.
Keep seething drawcucks, this is the future and it's impressive as frick.
a poojeet made this post
Nope, but even if I was, at this point it's not even an insult. If pajeets are willing to use AI more liberally than the west with all its restrictions to "protect" artists they WILL surpass us in no time.
This is fact.
poo in the loo
>samus' armor has four arms
this is dogshit and I can't believe that you saved this
It's scifi. A literal power armor. Nothing says it can't have four arms, except for your lack of creativity.
>being bad is actually a good thing!!
have a nice day aislopper
Nobody brought up drawing. This thread is about an online service for vidya shutting down and you gays came in to shill AI art which is literally unrelated to the discussion.
Jesus Christ. You people are becoming more insufferable than artgays. How is that even possible? You gays claimed to want to produce art without the dramawhoring and attention whoring of artgays yet here you are becoming the very thing you swore to despise.
Embarrassing.
Thr only reason you find me insufferable is because you know you're wrong.
Why is she covered in cum?
AI can make literally anything. Someone wanted it to be this way, and that's why it is this way.
Yes, the technology is that powerful.
>Thank you very much for your continued support of our products.
I never supported your products in the first place
being an indian should be a bannable offense
YOKAI WATCH BROS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Anyone made a list of impacted games? I know Kid Icarus and Mario shit
So basically Nintendo is forcing everyone to move to emulation/homebrew for netplay. Do they not use the same hosts for 3DS/Wii U for Switch?
it's ok when nintendo does it
Said no one
>entire thread celebrating this
sure tendie
Show me 10 posts doing that then
i really hope those ricer 3dses manage to be good and can run 3ds software
Will local multiplayer still work if two people own the game and their own 3DS and are sitting next to each other?
we'll just have to frot instead ;_;
Local yes.
>for your continued support of our products
i gagged
If this is AI that Frog should’ve been Pepe for the lolzzz
So does this confirm Switch 2 for April/May 2024?
no
No. Maybe late next year, but there’s no reason decade old hardware losing online support is going to tie into a new platform.
You did play Toshin Toshi: Girls Gift anon right?
>buy game
>do nothing
>money stolen
rip those 3-4 games that are only affected.
4ds U confirmed
Good. It's always nice to see people get fricked.
what is your problem?
Goodbye New Leaf
Goodbye Splatoon
Farewell Xenoblade Chronicles X
Why would that need an internet connection?
i just bought an used 3ds
esl moment
they better release those MonHun remakes then
>Original Splatoon
>Smash 4 (3DS and Wii U versions)
>Triforce Heroes
Frick them
Fighting games will still work right? Since they don't use servers but peer to peer
Connections between players are peer to peer, but fighting games use servers to inform players that other people are playing and connect them together (like when someone has a room up and you join it, or when you queue up for Ranked and it puts you into a "this person is this rank and is available to play" state), so they're fricked too.
Killing spotpass for 3DS will frick up a lot of games. FE Fates with no ability to connect to other my castles is going to be rough. You'll pretty much have to rerall your file if you get a bad resource like Topaz.
And just when I was getting around playing the 3DS' Monster Hunters. What the frick
well now you've got 6 months, that's plenty of time to do one solid playthrough of one monster hunter game. You'll have to give up on the other one though.
Aww man, I can only hope the community does something like they did with MH Tri and make their own servers.
get in the bin you piece of shit!
Why do these things always put a diaper rash on their faces? Mdrns
you too wii u!
goodbye forever!
I wiah they would have done that streetpass system for switch too. It was really cool to meet gamers
RIP the good Splatoon
Just port Xenoblade X and Kid Icarus Uprising already, then you can pull the plug on the online for all I care.
Why do these games need online?
They both have online multiplayer modes. For Xenoblade X, it was the fastest way to grind for end-game upgrade equipment, and in KI:U, there was a really fun online arena team battle mode called Light VS Dark.
I never did either of those things. Seems non-essential.
>Seems non-essential
It's a video game you double moron, nothing about it is "essential"
Wrong. It's essential that it works, or it isn't a video game.
>It's essential that it works
I've seen enough bethesdashit to know that's just not true.
Well guess what, the online multiplayer portions of those games will stop working.
>4 Ultimate online is fricking dead
The best MH Experience...ruined. This'll burn worse than the last sandstorm before Loc Lac City closed...
>no more Smash 3DS online play
>For Glory gone forever
Genuinely wtf were they thinking with ultimate? You can’t even change characters and rematch the same player.
They want you to use the gay arenas
Will we still be able to play MH4U online
Here's hoping
Is there any hope of Save WFC like with the Wii and DS?
Does this mean Street Pass will officially be over?
i’m pretty sure street pass is entirely local and unaffected by connecting to the internet or nintendo servers
not that you can street pass with any body any more any ways
Anime Cons are good for StreetPass
pirates win again
>I'm so glad I gave corporation all that money
>buy nintendo console
>it becomes worthless by the time of the next generation
>every time
>repeat ad infinitum
YOU VILL OWN NUSSING AND YOU VILL BE HAPPY, DUMMKOPF
How so? Nintendo games are the least dependable of online shit ever. Majority of games will have minor features removed, and you can install updates/DLC with homebrew.
it's the same cycle as with literally every other console
>grab the orange box disc for Xbox 360 i bought back in 2007
>insert it into SeX
>play 2007 tf2 online with people still using 360
you can't play online on the 360 anymore
weird
Some games are hosted by the developers with their own servers. The Call of Duty games on Wii actually still had servers for several years after the Wii went offline
I'm pretty sure Goldeneye servers are still up, somehow
They probably downsized the serves due to the smaller playerbase and it costs pennies a month to keep up.
expected but still a shame
>expected but still a shame
yeah. Sems they pulled the plug a lot faster than with the Wii and DS
>nintendo a few years ago
>The switch won't replace the 3DS guys
Loving every second
guess i gotta replay mh4u one more time
>try to replay Bravely Default
>you have to rebuild Norende by yourself
>can't fight any of the Nemesis
shit sucks
not a problem silly goy, you'll only need to buy the game again once it gets ported to the Switch 2 and you can have (temporary) access to those features while those new servers are still up
>games are turning into ~~*services*~~
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST!
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST!
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST!
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST!
>tfw remember when weekly Ganker Smash Wii U tournament threads were a thing
They botched online tournaments so badly in Ultimate, holy shit.
>Mario party 8 online gone
>Mario maker 1 online features gone
>MH3~Mh4 online gone
>Animal crossing : New leaf online gone
>Splatoon 1 online gone
>Pokemon online gone
You will own nothing.
>>>
Party 8 online
Those online features going away is no different than previous entries in those series not having online
Mario Maker and Splatoon is a loss tho. But Animal Crossing and Pokemon losing online is no different than the gamecube and gba games that didn’t have online to begin with
>Announcement of Discontinuation of Online Services for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software
>Applies to: New Nintendo 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS XL, New Nintendo 2DS XL, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL, Nintendo 2DS, Wii U Deluxe, Wii U Basic
>Thank you very much for supporting our products.
>In early April 2024, online play and other functionality that uses online communication will end for Nintendo 3DS* and Wii U software. This also includes online co-operative play, internet rankings, and data distribution.
>You can find more information about badges for decorating the Nintendo 3DS HOME Menu using Nintendo Badge Arcade here.
>We will announce a specific end date and time at a later date.
>Please note that if an event occurs that would make it difficult to continue online services for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software, we may have to discontinue services earlier than planned.
>We sincerely thank players for using the online services of Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software over a long period of time and apologize for any inconvenience.
>* This includes software exclusive to New Nintendo 3DS.
>Q&A
>Will I still be able to play offline even after online services end?
>Yes. Players will still be able to use features and game modes that do not require online communication.
>Will any online services still be available even after online services generally end?
>It will still be possible to use online services for the following software but that may also end at some point in the future.
>'Pokémon Bank
>Are you also ending online services for software from publishers other than Nintendo?
>With some exceptions, online services will end for all Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software. Please contact publishers for information about the online services for their software.
Will it still be possible to download update data or purchased software?
>For the foreseeable future, it will still be possible to download update data and redownload purchased software and downloadable content from Nintendo eShop.
When online services end, will StreetPass and SpotPass no longer be available either?
>StreetPass uses local communication between Nintendo 3DS family systems, meaning that it will still be available even after online services end. However, because SpotPass uses online communication, SpotPass features will no longer be available.
>For example, you will be able to use StreetPass in StreetPass Mii Plaza, which is pre-installed on Nintendo 3DS family systems, but you will no longer be able to use features that use online communication (such as receiving new panels in Puzzle Swap).
>Information on Nintendo Badge Arcade Service Discontinuation
>Applies to: New Nintendo 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS XL, New Nintendo 2DS XL, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL, Nintendo 2DS
>To Nintendo Badge Arcade users and those who decorate their Nintendo 3DS HOME Menu with badges
>In conjunction with the discontinuation of online services for Nintendo 3DS software, service for all features of Nintendo Badge Arcade will also end. Prior to the end of services in early April 2024, please have a look at the points below.
>After service ends, Nintendo Badge Arcade will display an error screen when launched.
>If Nintendo Badge Arcade is launched after service ends, an error screen will be displayed and it will not be possible to use the software. As a result, the Practice Catcher will no longer be available.
>It will no longer be possible to place badges in the badge box.
>Once service ends, badges obtained in Nintendo Badge Arcade will continue to be available for decorating the Nintendo 3DS HOME Menu. However, it will no longer be possible to place badges in the badge box, meaning that users will only have access to a maximum of 100 categories and 1,000 badges that are in the badge box. We recommend that users finish placing badges before the end of services for this software.
>Please note that badge data for decorating the HOME Menu will be saved as additional data to the SD card. If data is lost due to the SD card malfunctioning or some other reason, it will not be possible to restore badge data after the end of services in early April 2024. Therefore, we also recommend that users back up their SD card in preparation against unlikely events.
>You can prepare multiple SD cards and save different data to each of them.
>You cannot combine data from multiple SD cards into a single one later.
>We sincerely thank Nintendo Badge Arcade users for supporting the software for so long and apologize for any inconvenience.
All those original Ashleys will be lost...
best part of badge arcade
all the cute new Ashley art
>Will I be able to play offline after online services end
>Yes
Well of fricking course
So if gamefreak ever accidentally makes a good pokemon game again I won't be able to bank them to the switch from 3ds?
>Use your old consoles too long
>Money stolen
I WARNED YOU ABOUT ONLINE
I WARNED YOU DOG
Anyone still buying anything after the wii deserve to be scammed at this point
>thinking online games will last forever
it's all coming down one day
Not if you can self-host. Self-hosting strikes fear into the israelite's heart.
you can still redownload your old games moron
Snoy thread
>Nintendo has been pulling this you will own nothing server shutdown shit for over a decade
>Ganker still worships them and acts like they can do no wrong
>meanwhile le snoys who are apparently cultist brand worshippers actually have somewhat of a spine and get Sony to keep the PS3 and Vita stores up
Everything you see tendies ascribe to snoys is pure unfiltered projection.
>snoys convinced snoy to leave the ps3 and vita servers up
congrats, if only there were games to play with them
Obviously there are if people actually fought to save them. Meanwhile why do you think no one cared about the 3DS/Wii U eshops shutting down?
>fought
nobody fought shit
it was a good PR move they'll close that shit the second they're in good graces with normalgays
Yeah no one fought shit, that's why they specifically acknowledged that there was backlash and rescinded the move, meanwhile you tendie bootlickers just continue to roll over in perpetuity because daddy made le Mario games when I was a kid.
>swapdoodle dead
>Thank you for supporting our products
>By the way, we're gonna shut down functions of those products...forever.
>Tee hee
at least they have products people want to play, unlike snoy
>consolewarring tard
yes, goy, corporations are your friends. keep patronizing them.
>can download game
>but the game is crippled
based moron
also it's not like Sony keeps their legacy servers up forever either. Demon's Souls (PS3) shut down a while ago iirc. And didn't Gravity Rush 2 shut down their servers after only like a year?
>Demon's Souls (PS3) shut down a while ago iirc
fatlus shut the servers down
Ah, right, Sony doesn't actually host any of their own games do they? since they barely have games to begin with it's always someone else's fault.
>yes I'm getting buttfricked...BUT WHAT ABOUT SONY!
Obsessed
The only people getting buttfricked are the losers still playing the wii u
And the 3DS, which never received a proper successor (the switch is an iphone)
The Switch is the natural progression of portables. Nothing better than a portable you can dock to play on the big screen.
It’s trying to do both while succeeding at neither. You see any company making games for the switch? No, because it’s underpowered since they wanted the best of both worlds, only to make the worst instead
Yea it’s just as bad as the time the online servers for the Gamecube and Gameboy were shut down!
And developers go out of their way to give you no way to host your own peer to peer servers like the old days.
Isn't planned obsolescence great?
Peer to peer, on consoles. Like what, Halo 1 via LAN and Quake 3 on Dreamcast, that's about it?
Xboxhueg had systemlink. Some Gamecube games did too (most famously, MK Double Dash) They got rid of system link halfway through 7th gen to kill off Xlink Kai.
This sucks. I never got to play MH with randos and pretend the clock went back to 2015.
I'm getting real fricking sick of telling you to make a KI:U port Nintendo.
I don't like how the chick reacted late to her friend being punched. Who animated this?
Aren't we just overreacting? Won't modders just swoop in after Nintendo fully drops the 3DS and do their thing to keep servers afloat?
i thought the wii u and 3ds network was already down????
why is nintendo always the ones shutting down services first
Imagine supporting such a shit company that hasn't offered anything good as a first party since the N64 (and 3ds but they killed that). They could dockerize these legacy servers and it would take a few dollars a month to keep them online for preservation purposes.
Imagine thinking the N64 was good.
i sure love playing my games at 20fps
Mmmm, love shitty controls and lazy level design.
modders will fix this.
Time to hack and pirate the 3DS.
And this shit will happen the Switch too later.
Frick I gotta find 2 people to beat Triforce Heroes with now
You have my sword
mental illness
The only game that really worries me after this shutdown is splatoon, game is almost worthless without online.
As a splatoon lover, I really hate how dependant on online these games are, Wish they had more stuff to do for single player.
don't worry, they are going to port it to SWITCH 2
Full price of course
Splatoon 2 and 3 basically are ports.
t. moron
I own all of them and get sick of them faster every time because they add nothing compelling aside from one or two more weapons each game. The Adventure modes are almost identical, the Octo Expansion they made you pay extra for and the DLC will almost certainly be the same shit for 3. 3 feels like even more of a port than 2 because there's so far almost nothing new in it. le ebin Turf War festivals can only sustain my interest for so long.
dog shit
So Pokemon from gen 7 and earlier are cut off? I can't think of anything else that still uses those online services
They said Bank will still run for the time being. No cut off date has been set yet.
>pay with your time
>time stolen
apparently. pretendo is already working on a solution.
Don’t forget to download the free online DLC for games like monater hunter for puzzle & dragon X before the 3ds online servers goes down
It is painful trying to find DLC files after they go offline
Hopefully they find a way to back them up. They managed to find a way to do it for MHFU back in the PSP days.
At least not many games have the free online DLC that I can remember off the top of my head outside of those two.
Does pokemon mystery dungeon have online DLC if anyone played those games?
April 2024 launch window for "switch 2"?
That's stupid. You're stupid
No (You)
Dang
Maybe it's time I boot up MK7, for old time's sake. I grinded the shit out of Rainbow Road back in the day and could smoke people online even without items.
Time to shitpost non stop with “it’s okay when nintendo does it” and “you will own nothing” moronation
message from the Pretendo devs
I hope some assmad player goes on a shooting spree at Nintendo HQ over this. Those motherfrickers deserve it.
How gay.
Are any of the online features actually super important or are most of them just basic multiplayer functionality? I mean the loss of convenience fricking sucks I understand, but you’ll still have access to your game, local multiplayer would still work?
Devs just fricking LOVE to lock content behind online cancer
Fire Emblem Fate's for example, will have its forging system fricked even further because the devs really wanted the players to go online and get shit that isn't available in their save file
Damn that sucks, yea shit like that is completely stupid. Like I get wanting to give bonuses for people connected online but nothing exclusive should be locked behind it.
I remember Layton games that had puzzles downloaded from the internet.
Wonder Trade is an obvious casualty.
That sucks. I still like the first Mario Maker more than the second.
HATE CONSOLES
Wait is this going to frick over me trading pokemon between games on my two 3DS?
How would it stupid
It's an online communication?
>t. fricking brainlet
Think really hard about having two 3DS' next to each other and trying to trade between them.
I'm a moron, got it. That was a dumb thing to ask.
yes, nintendo will 100% re-release these games on switch version 2.
Splatoon 3 has Splatoon 1 menu
…and it was resold for $25 as DLC “content”, you forgot to mention that part
Does that mean I won't download extra content for Dragon Quest anymore?!
Emulation wins again
If I can't snugly fit it in my pocket, how is it portable?
If Nintendo can just do this, why buy any Digital Switch game or online service? When they go to their next console and start again, they will pull the plug with the Switch online shop and services too?
Yeah, I think I just won't give Nintendo my money.
It’s almost like you still have the game you bought
how is this a good argument or point you're trying to make? If they shut the service down, it means you can't buy anything ever again.
You know the game SMT IV Apocalypse for the 3DS? The physical copy is just the base game. But Atlus made an amazing DLC for it that was only on the eshop. Well guess what? If you never bought it, the eshop doesn't exist now. I guess I don't have the game or I have an incomplete game unless I bought it before NIntendo pulled the plug.
Next you'll say "your own fault for not buying every single eshop software before they turned it off". Go frick yourself.
Plenty of games have had their dlc delisted leaving only physical base games left. I’m not saying it’s okay, but pointing the finger at Nintendo like they’re the only ones is just moronic shitposting for the sake of shitposting.
It’s risk we’ve had to accept for years. Sometimes the stores and servers last long than others, but’s something people take for granted until it’s gone.
Kid Icarus Uprising online used to be the best thing.
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63227/
IT'S JOEVER
>Please note that if an event occurs that would make it difficult to continue online services for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software, we may have to discontinue services earlier than planned.
They really hate us, huh
>SMT Apocalypse
>Amazing DLC
>moving the goalposts
classic nintendo mutt
Not from few posts above but the DLC isn't anything amazing. It's just fanservice nostalgiawank and some shitty Doi demons.
whether you think the DLC is shit or not is irrelevant to the point I made you fricking c**t
That’s because those two people aren’t me
This is me
NOOOOO THE ONLINE FUNCTIONS OF MY SINGLEPLAYER GAME ARE GOING OFFLINE, NINTENDO IS LITERALLY STEALING MY MONEY
Switch online service ending in 2030
That you ross
I never got to Level 50 on Splatoon 1. I'm half a level away
>nintendo hates piracy and actively fights against it, usually with cease and desists, threats or lawyers
>also nintendo: we are turning off all the online services
this company man
Nintendo needs to be strict with its IPs or some israelites in shartistan will steal them away in court.
>Won't be able to visit New Leaf villages online anymore
Frick, that's kind of sad. I know the game is a shadow of its former self activity wise, but there's a small dedicated community of people still playing it regularly.