Wiimmfi/Error 60000

If you will use Wiimmfi with an profile created by Nintendo servers, you get occasionally error code 60000. This means, that your old profile is not known by the Wiimmfi server and have to clear the profile id of your license or the complete license.

Background

If a Wii or NDS game goes online, it sends a nickname to the server. This nickname acts like a unique identification. If the server knows the nickname, he replies with the related profile id (or short PID). If the nickname is unknown, the server creates a new profile with a new PID.

On the client side the Wii accepts only a new PID, if no old PID exists. Otherwise (on PID mismatch) the Wii stops the login process and shows error 60000. In this case, the user have to clear at least the profile ID to allow a new PID.

There is only 1 way to use your old profiles with Wiimmfi: At the beginning of the project, when the old Nintendo/GameSpy servers were available (which shut down on July 25th, 2014), Wiimm retrieved 2.9 million pairs. Perhaps your profile was also retrieved. In this case you don't see error 60000.

Solutions

If your license is not accepted by Wiimmfi, you have 2 choices:

1. Reset your license and create a new one. In this case you will lose all your achievements.
2. Clear only the profile id (PID). In this case your achievements (statistics, trophies, friends and more for Mario Kart Wii) are not lost and you will only exchange the PID:

To reset your license, enter »License Settings« and then »Erase License«. All games support similar steps.

To clear only the profile id, you need special software. At the moment there is only a cheat code available:

• Cheat »Clear Profile ID«

Outdated solutions

Before August 2017, there existed 2 ways to import an old Nintendo profile id:

• Wiipid extractor
• SET-FC feature of Wiimmfi

Both methods are not longer availabe, because they were used to import hacked PIDs. Very often a private AltWFC server was used to get the hacked PIDs. And because of many AltWFC servers, conflicts (same PID for different profiles) happened.

Since August 2017, all old hacked PIDs are banned. And so conflicts are not longer possible. The result is also, that management and support is a little bit easier. People with hacked PIDs see error code 23219 at login. They can also use the solutions described above.

Nice friend codes

A profile id (PID) is an internal 32-but number. Users see usually a friend code (FC). technical, a FC is the PID (lowest 32 bits) together with a 7-bit checksum. And if the checksum is NULL, then FC and PID are equal. Wiimmfi creates PID in the range 6xxxxxxxx. A FC with NÚLL checksum have 2 leading zeros and looks like »0006-xxxx-xxxx«. Some hacked FC have much more leading zeros, e.g. »0000-0000-xxxx«

There are FC hunters, that will get such nice FC. And because if hacked FC, they delete and create licenses many times. Some players created more than 1000 profiles. And from servers view it is simply waste. But the server don't know, if a license is deletes. SO it have to manage all licenses, deleted or not.

For this reason, Wiimmfi will not create FC with a NULL checksum,. So none have a chance to get such nice FC. And be warned: If you create to many profiles without reasons, all of you profiles are banned someday.

External Links

• Wii-Homebrew forums: Import of old PIDs by »Wiipid extractor« or by »Wiimmfi portal« is not longer supported