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PSA: You can still play Wii and DS games online, even on emulators. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago by randomname@sh.itjust.works to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Thanks to Wiimmfi, Modded Wii's and any DS can still play online. even using Dolphin or MelonDS.

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[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I assume I have to have somebody to play with? There's no random matchmaking like in Mario kart?

[–] missingno@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Standard matchmaking does work on Wiimmfi, but you may not be able to count on actually finding anyone in the queue.

[–] randomname@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Mario Kart DS is a gamble unless its at peak hours, but Mario kart Wii nearly always has a couple hundred people online

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wait it connects to Nintendo servers?

[–] missingno@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It connects to Wiimmfi servers.

[–] MakkaPakka@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least for mariokart Wii I believe the servers are hosted by wiimmfi because Nintendo turned off their official servers many moons ago

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Hrm I think I'm looking into this tomorrow

[–] randomname@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart Wii both have random matchmaking, but for Mario Kart DS the only reliable way to find a lobby is to ping the Mario Kart DS discord server, although at peak hours there may be between 3 and 7 people playing Mario Kart DS even without pinging the chat. I actually played a match yesterday like that.