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> As it stands, even after the store officially closes, Wii users will be able download any past titles they’ve purchased and downloaded from the Wii Shop Chann

> As it stands, even after the store officially closes, Wii users will be able download any past titles they’ve purchased and downloaded from the Wii Shop Channel, provided they can fit them on either the Wii’s internal storage or an additional SD card. However, Nintendo said that in a yet unknown point in the future, the company will close all services relating to the Wii Shop Channel, "including the ability to redownload WiiWare and Virtual Console games, as well as the Wii System Transfer Tool, which transfers data from Wii to the Wii U system." Seems understandable. At some point you'll hit end of life with software and support will end. I'm sure they'll give plenty of notice, and I'd imagine it's 5-10 years out. I'm sure if you called support and told them that your NES cartridges didn't work any more they'd probably just tell you to blow on it. * Myth debunked: Blowing in your Nintendo games never actually fixed anything – GeekWire || https://www.geekwire.com/2014/blow-nintendo-games/ https://www.geekwire.com/2014/blow-nintendo-games/

bitwize 8y ago
Nintendo used to sell Official Nintendo Cleaning Kits specifically in response to blowing on cartridge card edges, to prevent people from damaging their NES carts due to moisture oxidation. All but the most severely dusty NES carts should work just as well as a clean cart. NES carts failed mainly because of a fault in the NES front loader mechanism. Me, I had a TI-99/4A before owning a NES. Random hangs and glitches were normal to me. (The TI-99/4A was prone to overheating.)
- jandrese 8y ago
  That and Nintendo installed an incredibly touchy DRM chip that demanded a cleaner signal than was strictly necessary for the game to work.
  - rincebrain 8y ago
    My favorite thing about the 10NES is how the easiest way to get a Famicom->NES adapter is to open one of the first wave of NES carts, because those were made on Famicom boards and then have an interposer with the 10NES chip on it. [1] Though in digging up a source for this, I discovered my new favorite thing, which is that Tengen (infamously) made a (mostly) cleanroom duplicate of the 10NES and got sued over it, and when a company recently wanted to make NES cartridges, they reverse engineered Tengen's chip in turn. [2] [1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/frpyh/you_may_already_have_an_official_famicomtones/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/frpyh/you_m... [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC_(Nintendo)#Nintendo_Entertainment_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC_(Nintendo)#Nintendo_Entert...

bitwize 8y ago

Nintendo used to sell Official Nintendo Cleaning Kits specifically in response to blowing on cartridge card edges, to prevent people from damaging their NES carts due to moisture oxidation. All but the most severely dusty NES carts should work just as well as a clean cart. NES carts failed mainly because of a fault in the NES front loader mechanism. Me, I had a TI-99/4A before owning a NES. Random hangs and glitches were normal to me. (The TI-99/4A was prone to overheating.)

jandrese 8y ago
That and Nintendo installed an incredibly touchy DRM chip that demanded a cleaner signal than was strictly necessary for the game to work.
- rincebrain 8y ago
  My favorite thing about the 10NES is how the easiest way to get a Famicom->NES adapter is to open one of the first wave of NES carts, because those were made on Famicom boards and then have an interposer with the 10NES chip on it. [1] Though in digging up a source for this, I discovered my new favorite thing, which is that Tengen (infamously) made a (mostly) cleanroom duplicate of the 10NES and got sued over it, and when a company recently wanted to make NES cartridges, they reverse engineered Tengen's chip in turn. [2] [1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/frpyh/you_may_already_have_an_official_famicomtones/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/frpyh/you_m... [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC_(Nintendo)#Nintendo_Entertainment_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC_(Nintendo)#Nintendo_Entert...