Miiverse and Wii U web services ending in November

[nocturnal YL]

Rather than saying goodbye, I'm now using this as the last chance to make 3DS screenshots. Wii U's fine, since I can use my screen capture device (and nothing interesting ever happens on the GamePad), whereas 3DS has no way of taking screenshots without hacking or hardware modification.

[Nester the Lark]

My final Miiverse post...



EDIT: Updated to include YL's Yeah.

[nocturnal YL]

Made it in time to give a Yeah! Saw yours too!

It's been a fun ride. Even though half of my posts are for Project mirai DX which already has an in-game screen capture function for a lot of the modes (but not, say, Puyo Puyo 39 or the song selection menu), I'll miss it.

I may start to think about 3DS hacking (for region lock breaking, save backup and screenshots) now that it's becoming an offline machine (I don't use Nintendo Network often) but that's another day's story.

I've made backups of all of my own posts and posts I Yeah'd (browsers like Opera and Vivaldi have a handy save as .mhtml function, making single-page archival easy), and I may re-post them on Twitter. Until then!

EDIT — And it's gone, right at 15:00 JST sharp.

[Nester the Lark]

I was there 'til the end, also. I've still got my profile page and the Breath of the Wild community tabs open, and I feel bad about closing them. I also went on a bit of a Yeah spree at the end and followed a couple of random people because why not.

Here's a pic of my final profile page:



Well, that's it. End of an era.

[Nester the Lark]

Got my Miiverse post archive this morning. The file was only about 25 MB, and contains 362 posts and 98 screenshots.

My busiest year was 2015 with 138 posts, mainly for Splatoon, Sin & Punishment, Super Mario Maker, and Hyrule Warriors.

I may post some highlights if I get a chance.

[nocturnal YL]

I didn't know I've got mine because it went straight to the jumk mail box. It's 60 MB (both zipped and unzipped, which isn't surprising since JPEG images are already compressed), with 303 posts and 100 screenshots.

To those who are curious, the archived posts are made in form of a local web page, with posts laid out like the way they do in Miiverse, except that they are categorized by year and there are no sub-pages of each post (which are not needed because comments are gone). Trying to open the screenshots alone will show the image in 400×240 (3DS) or 800×450 (Wii U), just like in Miiverse. That's a pretty cleaver way to it on Nintendo's side, since they can just reuse the Miiverse's layout with the added benefits of the posts looking like actual Miiverse posts.

And just as I thought, this archive does not retain the stereoscopic 3D versions of the 3DS images.

Starting from August 2015, Miiverse went through a revamp that split the sumissions into three categories. I completely forgot about that, and assumed my August 1 post to be my actual first Miiverse post. I didn't post much before that, though.

I may repost some of them in Twitter if I feel like to. Actually, I already did for some of them.

[Nester the Lark]

Here are a few of my Miiverse highlights, split into two posts because I can only add so many attachments at a time.

This is my very first post, a SpotPass post in New Super Mario Bros U. Also an M.C. Hammer reference.


I usually felt like I needed to point out when I was making a movie reference. My references tend to be on the obscure side.


I completely forgot that I had dawn a fan art of Riki from Xenoblade, and for some reason, I didn't post it with my others in the Miiverse art thread.


(On a side note, it's interesting that hotlinks to Miiverse art still work, but that probably won't be the case after December.)

[Nester the Lark]

This is the post I got the most Yeahs on. It was posted in the Inkopolis Plaza in Splatoon, and sometimes those posts tend to catch fire pretty easily.


My humble Splatoon tribute to Mr. Iwata.


I was disappointed this post didn't get more Yeahs.

[Da Robot]

REMINDER! You have to go download the Miiverse ZIP file from you email before Jan 31st is over otherwise it will be gone forever.

[Nester the Lark]

So, that guy who was trying to archive all of Miiverse apparently finished it, and put it online at archiverse.guide. It seems to be down right now, though.

[nocturnal YL]

It did better than I thought. I checked my own posts (username: nocturnalYL_JP), and besides a few missing pictures in the middle, they managed to get most of my posts and missed only my final day of rapid-posting.