Nintendo WiFi Connection problem?

04-11-2014, 09:41 AM #1

Excuse me if I'm missing something entirely obvious here, but I can't seem to get the online to work properly. I've set everything up based on this guide here: https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/guides/wii-network-guide/ but I still cannot get online. I see at the top of the page: "For copyright reasons, some of the files required to access the Nintendo WiFi Connection cannot be distributed with Dolphin and have to be obtained by the user." I'm assuming this is what I'm missing but I have no idea how to go about getting what is needed. Any help would be appreciated.

Nyrii · (This post was last modified: 04-11-2014, 09:17 PM by Nyrii.)

(04-11-2014, 09:41 AM)Roxas3510 Wrote: For copyright reasons, some of the files required to access the Nintendo WiFi Connection cannot be distributed with Dolphin and have to be obtained by the user.

I believe thats referring to the files extracted through NUSd but as far as Nintendo Wifi is concerned the only thing Dolphin can't distribute is the NAND and key required to obtain DLC. After seeing this thread I set up wifi based on that guide, worked like a charm, mario kart against people on their actual wiis, magic! Which game are you trying to connect to and what exactly is happening when you do?

Slightly off-topic but since Nintendo is apperantly shutting down the Wii and DS wifi service in about a month, is there any plan to replicate the servers and allow access to them through dolphin? Just a tought but it'll be sad to see it go. :c

**mbc07** · 04-11-2014, 11:17 PM #3

Which error code you get in the game when you try connecting to WFC?

04-12-2014, 03:39 AM #4

(04-11-2014, 11:17 PM)Jhonn Wrote: Which error code you get in the game when you try connecting to WFC?

"Disconnected from network during data transmission." Error code: 31010

(04-11-2014, 09:15 PM)Nyrii Wrote:
(04-11-2014, 09:41 AM)Roxas3510 Wrote: For copyright reasons, some of the files required to access the Nintendo WiFi Connection cannot be distributed with Dolphin and have to be obtained by the user.

I believe thats referring to the files extracted through NUSd but as far as Nintendo Wifi is concerned the only thing Dolphin can't distribute is the NAND and key required to obtain DLC. After seeing this thread I set up wifi based on that guide, worked like a charm, mario kart against people on their actual wiis, magic! Which game are you trying to connect to and what exactly is happening when you do?

Slightly off-topic but since Nintendo is apperantly shutting down the Wii and DS wifi service in about a month, is there any plan to replicate the servers and allow access to them through dolphin? Just a tought but it'll be sad to see it go. :c

Hm, I must to be doing something wrong. Is it fine for me to use the 4.0.2 version of dolphin or do I have to use 3.5-2143 (it's linked at the top of the page of that guide)? I downloaded that one and followed the guide but I still couldn't connect. I get the same error code as I do when I'm using 4.0.2, "31010". I had my friends set theirs up through the guide as well but it didn't work for them either.

***MayImilae*** · (This post was last modified: 04-12-2014, 07:25 AM by MayImilae.)

Hmm. Looking up the error code on Nintendo.com doesn't show anything. Usually codes show up there, like the notorious 20100.

Googling around, someone said they solved this by doing a "universal mac unban" on a real wii. No idea what that means.

Well, try the latest development version. There are a lot of fixes in it that may help. https://dolphin-emu.org/download/

04-12-2014, 07:56 AM #6

(04-12-2014, 07:22 AM)MaJoR Wrote: Hmm. Looking up the error code on Nintendo.com doesn't show anything. Usually codes show up there, like the notorious 20100.

Googling around, someone said they solved this by doing a "universal mac unban" on a real wii. No idea what that means.

Well, try the latest development version. There are a lot of fixes in it that may help. https://dolphin-emu.org/download/

I tried the latest development version and it worked, thanks. If anyone knows exactly why it wouldn't work with the latest stable version I'd still like to know.

***MayImilae*** · (This post was last modified: 04-12-2014, 08:59 AM by MayImilae.)

Roxas3510 Wrote:If anyone knows exactly why it wouldn't work with the latest stable version I'd still like to know.

Indeed I do. Previously, all Dolphin builds used the same MAC address. Nintendo detected a bunch of users with the MAC address and banned it. Originally the devs weren't going to intervene, but when Nintendo announced WFC was ending, the devs changed it generate a random mac address that can't be banned. 4.0-1019 and up work with WFC again, and everything prior requires a NAND dump.

The only reason I didn't pick it up before was because the error that usually is associated with this problem is error 20115