3DS WiFi Fire Emblem Servers Gone Forever 

o7

For anyone wondering, yes there is a custom server that allows people to play online for modded 3DS, downloading it right now, so fingers crossed it works for Fates

A reminder that Pirating Nintendo games isn't a problem, it's an obligation.

These three games were a massive part of my teenage years. I still remember booting up the demo for awakening for the first time and being shocked by how much fun it was. The 3ds servers will be missed. Hopefully the fan community will be able to preserve 3ds online gaming

Let's not forget that if it wasn't for these games, Especially Awakening, the Fire Emblem series might not even be alive today. I'm gonna pray for some Echoes someday.

This is one of the reasons why video game preservation is important. Nintendo don't give a shit about it, they hate it in fact. They know that some ppl prefer to play the old content instead of new games, so they just pull the plug of servers like the 3DS store in order to make us buy only the new stuff.

o7s for Fates online. It was a wonderful time

Awakening on the 3DS was my first Fire Emblem game. So far the only I've beaten. Much like Fates and Echoes, it will be missed.

Rip Monster Hunter 3 and 4 multiplayer The worst part about Echoes is that many physical copies quickly become unplayable due to crashes, including mine...

Sad to see these servers go down but I get why this happened. Thank God people are smart enough to already start preservation projects for this so Corrin only runs could still happen in the future.

While fates online was a complete mess at times, playing against peoples max stats +7 weapon midori's was pretty funny. Who knows, maybe some day they'll release a fire emblem 3ds collection on one of their new consoles, although I'm not holding my breath on that one.

"Don't do the oh no anyways," Mangs 😭😭😭 revelation was my favorite!! Out of the Birthright and Conquest

We will miss you, 3DS Fire Emblem. Hopefully your predecessors will be like you in the future. o7.

3ds cutscenes were so amazing almost better than on switch

Thank god for CFW. That is the primary reason I installed custom firmware on my 3DS, I knew that one day Nintendo will shut down the online stores and the only way for me to get the copies of some games will be to download "unofficial" versions of them and run them on a modded 3DS.

3DS Era was indeed the best Era for Fire Emblem, it had just about all you could ask for and it truly revitalized it. I don't think I would have got into Fire Emblem if I didn't see or play Awakening's demo to be honest. You were a truly legendary and kept me in throughout my whole life, Awakening, Fates, and Echoes. Thank you for everything... o7.

Can't Believe the Black Knight Procked Eclipse to the 3DS/Wii U servers SMH

Sealing content like this forever is why the Ocean Seal is the most valuable promotion item.

The 3DS Fire Emblems were some of my favorites, but mostly Fates. Played that a lot. I do remember playing the Awakening demo and liking it after playing all the GBA Fire Emblems. The series that kinda got me thinking in general. Gonna miss the 3DS Fire Emblems.

Rest in peace 3DS, you were truly my childhood.

I'll always remember getting into fire emblem it was fate birthright from my local swap meet and after beating birthright I went back to my local swap meet and bought the rest of the 3ds fire emblem they have

It does suck that Nintendo just doesn't care about game preservation. It really is saddening that the fun content will be disappearing or by now, has disappeared. Awakening is my 2nd favorite game in the series (just after Sacred Stones) and I adored the sandbox nature of the game. Variety in classes, DLC maps being remakes of fun maps (which is something I wish to see more of), and the 100+ extra characters in the Spotpass Bonus Box to swap out between Awakening's roster. It was fun playing Awakening with crazy combinations and DLC giving us unique armies. Sandbox FE games may not be for every fan but I do enjoy the idea of building whatever I want and hoping it succeeds. For Fates it is fun, the 3 Routes, that game's DLC, (Which admittedly I have not played, in fact I only beat Birthright) I really enjoy the My Castle, recruiting Corrins was really cool. To me when I saw a RU-vidr play Fire Emblem Fates, I wanted to recruit them. Now that we can't we just have to rely on our Logbook with gold... thank god I am keeping Mangs and Bethany locked so I don't lose them. Echoes is definitely the game I played the least. Yeah it's gorgeous, yeah it has sandbox elements but I just can't get behind the gameplay. It's such a drastic change that when I played it for the first time, I didn't finish it. And honestly, I have no plans on doing so. Despite playing every English Released game prior to Echoes, I just can't bring myself to finish Echoes. So yeah a shame that these won't be able to be accessed again. These really were some great Gems. Quality varies by player. Still, o7

These games were a huge part of my teen years, now it feels bittersweet to know that the 3ds era is officially over. Awakening introduced me to the franchise in 2015 after playing smash 3ds and I wanted to expand the franchises I played (I only played pokemon/mario etc.). I remember the wait for fates felt like forever as a teen after it released in Japan and NA (had to wait for May in EU…) and I watched content of it endlessly. I was there for the release of fates and echoes, even played the gba games on the wiiu virtual console during high school. And I discovered you bc of your fates content. Crazy how quick time has gone, bc now I feel nostalgia for my teen years in my mid 20’s😭

Fates is gonna feel lonely now, I used to visit a lot of castles for fun between chapters.

If purchase isnt ownership, then piracy isnt theft

The Fates Era was when I wanted to play every single fire emblem game and try to beat them on the hardest difficulty they could give (Except Maniac mode for PoR and the Lunatic mess in Awakening).

Echoes is now and likely will forever be my favorite game in the franchise. I’ve played all the western releases but I keep finding myself back in Valentia. I hope Nintendo can make more games like these.

A special time for the community for sure. Bring on the renaissance part 2!

I do hope that all three of these games will have a Switch port with all of the DLC.

Personally Fire Emblem Fate Revelation was for me the 2nd best game i ever played in the entire Fire emblem series so far for now i think ive spent so much time in it because it was so fun and a lot of contents like making two army in one. Anyways thank you for your opinion Mangs i hope too that they will one day make these three games come back again in the Nintendo online games maybe ❤️❤️❤️

I'm pretty bad at fire emblem, so I've actually been grateful for the timewheel, especially during my first playthrough of three houses. However, I absolutely agree there should be a difficulty or option that allows you to disable it. Just make it an option, allow people to choose. Doesn't hurt in any way, and allows those looking for a challenge to really get that challenge without having to impose their own restrictions.

Thank God I acquired Flipnote 3D before this.

I loved all the 3ds FE games. The online for fates is what I’ll miss the most. I spent an absurd amount of time collecting skills through other peoples my castles, getting aptitude and other ridiculous hacked skills for as many units as i could just for laughs. It was so broken. I’m pretty thankful I actually got the special edition cartridge. It’s probably now the most valuable singular game I own which is crazy to think, can’t imagine ever selling it though.

i think it's nice that people in both this and Pokemon's community are keeping the online part alive with custom wi-fi servers and things as now when the wi-fi goes down you lose a chunk of the games content and soul.

Nice touch on the final clip for this video.

I totally hopped on for fe fates dungeons just to look around at castles

I found your channel about ten years ago now that I think of it. During the fates era. I can’t believe it’s been that long.

Mangs, without your channel I wouldn't have ever gotten into Fire Emblem as much as I have! Thank you! It was your Fire Emblem Fates series that started it all for me, and I can't believe My Castle is now disappearing forever. It was such a big chunk of my life and now it's over.

Pirates: ITS SHOWTIME

07 to the 3ds online, it will always be the best handheld

Even after playing through the overwhelming majority of FE games Conquest remains my absolute favorite. Gonna miss the my castle stuff alot 😒

DAMN, i just realized that now i cant play Luigi's Mansion 2 multiplayer no longer. Very sad days are ahead of us. :(

My opinion in the awakening dlc many felt like filler and fan content. But the future past dlc as well as apotheosis actually testing your skill were peak in my opinion, best dlc in the series imo

Let's hope the new Switch has the 3Ds games available in the online shop.

Just for the record, there are fan servers in the works. Pretendo is a service that, while still in progress, aims to preserve 3DS and Wii U online functionality. So far a lot of online games like Splatoon and Mario Kart work flawlessly. So Corrinquest possibly has a future yet

Echoes will probably always be my favorite game, rip my 30 dollars spent on DLC tho

Rev mentioned Alarm!!! Rev Gang!

*Sadly, I dont blame them.* 8-10 years ig since Awakening, 3ds Its not their priority anymore, and severs cost money to stay up ig, and everyone already gave their money for the 3DS FE games years go. So, as sad as it is, makes sense...

0:26 the real tragedy: Having started with Awakening, what an era 3DS was for FE. I sure will miss it...

So sad that its gone. While I did heavily get into Fire Emblem with the 3ds era and even though they may not be my favorite I will truly miss the good times I had. o7

It's over. The 3DS has fallen...

F. Truly the end of an era. Just hearing awakening's OST is enough to bring all the memories flooding back.

It's been a journey, good thing hacking a 3ds takes like 15 minutes and is idiot proof to do. With the custom servers, just like how DS pokemon still has the servers alive ever since they shut down 10 years ago, so will fates have them alive.

Ironically, Echoes was the only 3ds fire emblem game out of the 3 that I finished. By the time I got my hands on a 3DS, I had already watched so many gameplays on Awakening and Fates that I couldn't particularly enjoy the games because I already knew what was gonna happen or what to expect. Plus, I got them after Echoes bc they were unfortunately hard to find in stores. I went in blind with Echoes, so I think that helped me thoroughly engage and enjoy the game as I did with previous titles. It quickly became my favorite on the 3DS and will always be special to me.

This era was my introduccion to the saga, i Will always remembrr this Game with love and frustration because dammn My fisrt playtrouhgt in hard/Classic was so stressfull but satisfactory and here i am now playing all the saga c:

i got all the fire emblems and dlc saved to my 3ds. hopefully i will never delete it by accident or something bad happens. Awakening started it for me, like fates and its dlc, Echoes was amazing. Still got more fire emblem to play but these 3ds games i will replay or or revisit from time to time

It is truly a shame to lose the servers, even though I personally didn’t use online features (at least not much). By the way, if the labyrinth in Echoes you are referring to is the Thabes Labyrinth, it isn’t DLC, it’s just a post-game thing.

It was fun while it lasted, My Castle was fun and such an unnecessary mechanic but so fun to use and visit castles

I could buy the Game legally on hardware now that the servers are down... "Or I can use the hShop staff!"

Idc what anyone says, my first experience with awakening was incredible and i still look back on it to this day.

So long 3ds and Wii U, it's been a blast!

Thats pretty much the unspoken green light. Fetch me my Jolly Rodger!

My biggest question is whether dlc you've already bought is going away. I have all three Fates paths downloaded as well as some DLC for Awakening and Echoes. Will I lose all that?

RIP, whodve thought the 3DS servers had information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton. 😭😭 Jokes aside I HATE this concept of games and tons of content ONLY being available digitally especially since companies can force updates to permanently change the game or just straight up remove content YOU have already paid for. Only time will tell where we go from here...

That "Oh no, anyway..." made me crack up so hard.

I remember my first Fire Emblem was awakening but It belonged to a friend. I only got to play it for 10 minutes. Once Fates came out my roommate saw my 3DS and purchased Birthright for me as a surprise. I’ll admit Fates was an interesting first look at Fire Emblem. It has my favorite character ever in Setsuna so I can’t say too many negative things about it. I’m glad I have all the DLC for Fates and Echoes. Time surely has flown by. I’m going to miss the 3DS online servers.

I still have my DLCs for Awakening, Fates, and Shadows of Valentia..... but I regret now, not having been able to get all of them. ... This is too heartless. Uuu....... eee........... eee eee........ I wanna sob.

Rest In Peace

Question, does anyone know if the DLC for awakening/fates is downloaded to the game card or to the 3ds itself? Like if my current 3ds breaks can i just move my game card to another one and play the DLC on that?

Looking back at it, yeah, the 3DS era really was special, probably my favorite... But hey, the games are still there, just watching this video made me want to pick my 3DS again

I didn’t hear about the shutdown until just today and now I’m sad I likely have missed out on a bunch of stuff by having put off finishing these games when I bought them years ago.

Rip friend safari

Gonna miss those cracked Corrins now. O7 🥚 Valentia to the switch when please?

I don't really take any issue with tge Turnwheel as a mechanic But its definitely not great narratively, since there always needs to an excuse for why its there, and its existence inevitably leads to questions of "why didnt the protag just turn back time in this situation" like i remember happening in 3H

Good thing Last Year I made a Lunatic Save after Chapter 6 for all three Routes and got EVERYTHING I wanted using other My Castle recruits at End Game Level to: "Get Anna Early, complete the Item/WEapon DLC a few times to get some interesting weapon and items. Get some skills from the other My Castles to record. Complete the Money DLC a few times for alot of Starter Money (Not the 9999 Max, but enough as a "getting started") then deleted all those recruits. Leaving only Corrin (Conquest & Revelations is Female, Birthright is Male), Anna (who is untouched and at where she is when you're suppose to have gotten her) and whoever you're suppose to have at that point (Conquest: Jakob, Revelations: Jakob and Azura, and well you get the idea for Birthright! Felicia suffers from not having early Ch 2-3 level ups, but she can live since it's BIRTHRIGHT!) Those saves provided I never lose the 3DS I did it in which I won't should tied me over whenever I want to start a playthrough since I will just go off of those saves and if I don't want to play Lunatic, I can always lower it to Hard which I prefer to play FE anyway! Not till 3H and Engage have I EVER gone beyond Hard. Hell Fates is what let me GIVE Hard Mode a chance in the series....and helps Radiant Dawn TRICKING me into playing Hard Mode when I thought I was on Normal helped with this! But yeah I like 3H & Engage Maddening! Engage Maddening alot more because less BS then 3H though 3H hard DOES keep me from OVERLEVELING, same with Engage which was always a thing I hated to do by accident as it trivalizes the challenge till Late game. People get mad at how easy the final bosses are! Fuck those people! I prefer FE tradition of making the final bosses JOKES IF I use the "legendary Falchion weapon" like the story TOLD ME TO DO. Because I can do the "Seliph beats Julius" thing to make it a CHALLENGE and give a STORY reason of "it makes better sense then NAGA TOME GO BRRR...." which makes Seliph as pointless as his ancestor was! and 3H KILLED any care about "making Final Bosses HARD as Maddening Silver Snow Immaculate One STILL gives me Nightmares! I want BALANCED, not "HP Sponge Nonsense" which is what keeps me from leaving the safety of CASUAL when playing Maddening! At least a mistake DOESN'T make me have to RETRY to avoid losing anyone! Not a fan of Ironman myself! Love watching others, but me doing it. Nope most likely NEVER unless it's XCOM Still sad and hope future FE after Engage AREN'T reliant on Online connections for a STRONG amount of their functions so if the servers ever go down or not working, I can still use a LARGE amount of their functions (A plus of Engage over Fates is because I can't do that level of BS, I'm still playing a "FAIR" game even with all the DLC and Update stuff they give you! Hell at least they feel more like REWARDS and REALLY help in Hard-Avoid over leveling & Maddening. And Maddening 3H at least makes grinding FUN as Hard Mode 3H when I had to grind BORED me! Hard Mode 3H was fun when I DIDN'T grind, but if I had to, I was BORED. Grind in Maddening is simply trying out builds for my main cast! Engage Maddening gives me what I wanted from FE period! No Grinding at ALL! Yeah, not having access to Skirmish's REMOVES the distractions and makes me HAVE to rely on balancing everyone to get the most out of LEVELS! Even with the DLC Bracelet Island stuff. I still find myself not OVERKILLING often and actually feeling the ANXIETY I love to feel from this series when one of my units is in danger, except unlike in Conquest, I have REWIND for when that happens, and no Battle Save temptation which I got over after my 2nd playthrough of Engage means my love that was starting to wane a little after Conquest brought it back for classic FE has returned in full! Originally never was going to touch Maddening like EVER, or even Lunatic. But all the "you got to try it" and beating Hard on all FE 3DS and Switch made me decide to give each a try, and I say I love it! Hard Mode is NORMAL mode when I just want to PLAY, while Maddening/Lunatic is HARD MODE where I want to play a CHALLENGE! I guess cause I'm a RPG type of player, I don't go for the "META" builds, but Builds I feel FIT a character! It means I DON'T abuse the "Make everyone a Wyvern Lord" in 3H or Alear/Corrin EVER leaves Divine Child/Nohr Prince, Princess-Divine Dragon/Nohr-Hoshido Noble Class in Engage/Fates! It's fun to play characters in their WORST classes at least ONCE. But I find SUPER Meta where you pick the "This build goes BRRR" from someone else instead of finding it out myself to be BORING AS FUCK)

Just realized I have been watching your channel for 9 years, started with Days of Ruin. Any chance you will go back to play another run of it?

Despite with all it's flaws, the 3ds era at least received 2 new games (or 4 considering fates as 3 games) +1 remake, I was never so salty about the fact that NDS received no new games only 2 remakes, and 1 of them was jp exclusive

Thankfully I was able to pick up all the dlc for awakening. My favorite of the series

My sd card got corrupted rip my dlc

God I'm so glad some random Review Show in my country covered Awakening. That Show sparked a Flame inside of me. I remember saving up to 50€ to buy that game as a 12-14 year old. And I also remember that same 12-14 year old ass crying at the end, when I chose to sacrifice myself. After that Titel I played every Emblem I could get my hands on. It also inspired me to Work on my own FE8 Rom Hack.

Thank god. Revelations is one step closer to becoming lost media

Don’t agree with all your opinions on the games, but nevertheless enjoy your analysis/PoV.

I lost count on how many times I've played through Echoes.

I was there for your first corrinquest

It's sweet to hear that the community is trying to preserve all this content but there's no way Nintendo is not going to eventually strike it down just like they do everything else.

I was an awakening baby, mostly a fates brat, but fuck man... I dunno if an internet-less fates world is one we wanna be in

I wish I've gotten all the class dlc for Echoes... I sat on my copy for around 3 years, haven't even played it yet, I was planning on getting all the dlc but kept procrastinating... At the last day before the eshop closed, I downloaded Conquest to have Fates completed on my 3DS, cuz I feel like it's the most replayable 3DS FE (alongside Awakening)... but damn, I'm really sad about how I neglected Echoes. :(

Are extra teams you can fight in Awakening to recruit old characters gone now?

Question for those who have played the 3DS games. I've played all FE games from 6 up until Awakening but I sadly didn't get a chance to nab Fates before the e-shop got shut down. Since this makes playing Revelations much harder withing modding or shelling out hundreds of dollars is it worth just getting Birthright and Conquest despite not being able to get Revelations? I do want to eventually move on and play Three Houses but I'm not sure what to do about Fates before I play the switch titles. What do you all recommend?

So the DLC I bought is unplayable now? I require internet access to play what I bought?

Awakening brought me to the series. Fates while not the most well put together game imo still was very fun and was the only time I ever dipped my toes into pvp seriously Echoes had a lot of unique changes that I found enjoyable and has my favorite final map theme in the franchise. Great games gonna still be playing them for years to come and still want to see what the community can do with all of them.

0:52 Remember, THE FRUIT KNIVES ARE TO BLAME.

I was an awakening baby now im an awakening man god bless o7

I'm hoping they port these games to the Switch so we won't have to get new 3DS consoles

Yes. I understand it's all sad, I won't be able to do stuff with my 3ds. But, there's something even sadder. You haven't posted the wedding video. WHERE'S THE WEDDING VIDEO BWANGS?

So if you already own the DLC can you still play it (say if you homebrewed your ds to get it)

Hi, I'm about to ruin your day! What makes this a THOUSAND times worse is that Nintendo as of recently decided that they will no longer be producing Engage and Three Houses physical copies. This means if the Nintendo Switch Eshop ever shuts down. Every single modern Fire Emblem game will be fucking gone! And not just modern fire emblem. EVERY fire emblem game since the beginning of the series will not be able to be played unless you emulate! Save every single one of your Fire Emblem copies because there going to be worth some serious money in the next 3-5 years...

Bye bye 3ds and wii u nintendo servers and welcome Pretendo servers

It's over folks, well, not really, like you said you Can still play pretty much all of the games, dlc included, but still, feels weird. Awakening was the stepping stone the series needed. Fates was the experience we also needed.... And I didn't played echoe so I can't Say a thing about it lol. Honestly ? It's like watching a pet died. You are sad, but know that you must move on..... AND PLAY ENGAGE TILL THE END OF TIME HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Now, Time for my monthly run of Rev After my daily prayer to the altar of the allmigthy Anankos.

So like can you still play revelation if you already downloaded it or have the special edition release with all three games on a "single card"