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due to trouble procuring parts, Nintendo will no longer be offering repairs for Wii consoles after March 31🇯🇵
for reference, the Wii launched in Japan in December '06 & discontinued in October '13, so it had a good run

incidentally, the Famicom & Super Famicom, released in July '83 & November '90, remained in production in some capacity until September '03 & repairs ended October '07
Wii production ended in Japan and Europe in 2013 but they kept making, or at least shipping, consoles in North America and Oceania for quite a while after, idk if they ever officially announced they were done in those regions

they've continued to ship/print certain games too
like, Mario Kart Wii sold well over 50k last year iirc
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Hononichi, the website of MOTHER creator Shigesato Itoi & publishers of "Iwata-san", the book chronicling the philosophies of the late Satoru Iwata, has published the first part of a 5-part interview with Masahiro Sakurai about his memories of Iwata 1101.com/about_iwatasan…🇯🇵
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wow, I honestly thought most of you merely tolerated all that stuff but I guess not... thx all!
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right on, afaik Last Blade 2's the one Code Mystics release left to get to
I looked this up just to be sure—CM also did an emulated version of Metal Slug 3 for consoles, which I completely blanked on

there's also KOF98UM & KOF00UM on PC but those aren't emulated like the others so I don't know that redoing the netcode would be as straightforward
fwiw, these Dotemu releases are still up on PC: Metal Slug 1/2/X/3, both Shock Troopers, Last Blade, Baseball Stars 2, Twinkle Star Sprites

today's Garou update completely overwrites Dotemu's work so maybe, maybe the others can be replaced too

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