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Dolphin emulator invalid read11/7/2023 ![]() ![]() or you can backup your Wii NAND root instead, if you wish) BACKUP YOUR SAVEGAMES PRIOR TO DOING ANYTHING ELSE! (Tools->Export all Wii savegames this will produce saves on the very same encrypted format that is used on actual consoles. ![]() Except that these were from a console running 4.2U, and even worse, a console which had been modchipped for running pirate games, and these were in the era prior to Nintendo blocking off-region discs in the System Menu, which led to a rather dirty NAND (duplicate/off-region channels being the tell-tale sign, like a copy of the Japanese News channel next to the American News channel). Luckily I knew someone back from my college years who let me hax their Wii, so I had some old NAND dumps from that console stashed away on my backups. It won't work, trust me on this: either you will get error 23918 or 23915. There is no way around this, and don't even think about doing messy things like hacked console IDs, "revirginized NANDs" or crap like that. The default Dolphin NAND setups are banned ( error 23918), so you need a NAND dump from an actual Wii console, preferably one that has not been used by half the Internet yet. You need to setup a proper NAND on Dolphin, including installing Nintendo certificates. So, here are my notes on getting Puyo Puyo 7 back online, since last time was in late '13, and I was getting my ass served by non-human Japanese cheaters robots with one-hit lethal chains: But then you get to enjoy the sidequest to get back online from within your fake Wii! or not?īecause the Wiimmfi folks have very good reasons to believe that emulator users are more prone to cheat (unlimited cheat codes, being able to use nearly every input device under the sun while console users are restricted to official Wii/GC controllers, and even a slowass PC that struggles to run games can give you an unfair advantage), they have been strengthening the requirements for Dolphin users in order to ensure a fair environment for everybody (read: a PITA if you don't own a real console to pull a BootMii NAND backup, among other rules). For Dolphin it's more or less the same thing. Enter Wiimmfi, which is a nearly drop-in for Nintendo's WFC - all you need is a console that can run homebrew (so pretty much every Wii under the sun, with the Wii Mini being the lone exception for obvious reasons) and some games. But then, given that the Wii has been cracked wide open since forever, curious nerds who can't live without their Mario Kart fix decided to take action and bring back WFC from the dead. except that you can't do that anymore since May 20th, 2014, as Nintendo shut down the WFC service (mostly because their partner in crime, GameSpy, decided to shut down too, leaving Nintendo with no options other than sell you a Wii U discontinue the service for Wii users, legit or otherwise). And since Dolphin aim is to emulate a Wii as good as possible, it means you can also play against other humans around the globe, be it using the native netplay support, or even through the official Nintendo channels to do so, allowing to play against people even on Real Hardware™. My network is shit and I rarely play videogames lately, yet I still keep my Dolphin setup reasonably up to date. ![]()
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