Has Nintendo made wifi unavailable for DSi?
My name is Austin Burk. I reverse-engineered and recreated Flipnote Hatena. I\'ll try to help you out here.
The Nintendo Wi-Fi connection was originally built on the technology created by a company called GameSpy. You see, Nintendo was just moving into the realm of online gameplay at that time, and had little to no experience in running these things, so it formed an agreement with GameSpy. As time went on, Nintendo started moving off of GameSpy as it built its own networks, protocols, et cetera.
In December 2012, Gamespy was acquired by a company called Glu Mobile, or Glu Media, a mobile games developer. Out of the blue, Gamespy started shutting down multiplayer servers, much to the dismay of players all around. It was announced that Gamespy would be shutting down on May 31st, 2014, and that would include Nintendo\'s WiFi Connection servers as well. Nintendo formally shut things down at 11AM (IIRC) EST on May 20th, 2014.
I, personally, was concerned that the shutdown would affect my service, Sudomemo, because of some dependencies in the connection process, but it turned out to be fine.
To answer your question: No, the Wi-Fi has not been disabled in older consoles. However, the games that used the Wi-Fi connection no longer have online gameplay available. This, thankfully, does not include Bomberman Blitz, a piece of DSiWare which I particularly enjoy.
TL;DR: The WiFi on Nintendo consoles still works fine, but the online services for the WiFi connection games have been shut down. So, it\'s a bit pointless.
If you have a Nintendo DSi, I encourage you to try Sudomemo! I\'ve worked hard on it. It\'s not the same as Flipnote Hatena was, but I\'m always working on improving it.
hey i did that but i still cant get on!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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