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Someone should probably write something about the importance of turning off updates if you want to keep this functionality, because Nintendo is probably working right now on wrestling your hardware back into their control...

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Doubtful. Wii U has been thrown open for years, the last update was 13 months ago and weirdly only for North America and didn't break any current exploits. The store is dead, it loses online play in a few months and the hardware is long discontinued. I don't think they really care about it.

It was also a source of major shame and embarrassment for Nintendo and I would not be surprised if they just wanted to forget it.

They fixed the easy to use exploits on the 3DS not too long ago after it had been discontinued and store shutdown etc

It wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo went back and fixed something that wouldn't make sense like this.

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