Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025)
114 points by todsacerdoti
by msephton
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After playing until late into the night, I would browse the weather channel, searching for places on Earth experiencing thunderstorms. Clicking on the icon would play a short audio sample of thunder. The whole thing was overflowing with personality and charm. Wii remains my favourite video game system of all time, and I've owned them all—from nuon to gamepark and back.
by wizzwizz4
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Since it's HTTP, you shouldn't need to patch the Wii News Channel: you can do all of this in DNS.
by rucury
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Author here, thanks for sharing! Happy to answer any questions or discuss it with folks.
by mystraline
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So, would it be possible to patch Wii and NDS games as to use local servers instead of now-dead servers?
I'm thinking something like Bnetd, but, say NinteNetd.
by dfajgljsldkjag
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I used to check this occasionally back when the console was new. It is interesting to see that people are still keeping it running. I guess there is a niche for everything.
by nubskr
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Seems like sometimes the best tech stack is the one that refuses to die :))
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