Reach your Wii U using a .local domain

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Installation

1. Download the latest dominiius.wps from Releases
2. Copy it into sd:/wiiu/environments/aroma/plugins

Usage

While the plugin is active, the Wii U becomes reachable by its Wii nickname:

ping wiiu.local

• The domain is active while the console is online
• Spaces and symbols in the nickname become dashes: My Wii → my-wii.local

Technical details

1. Nickname

   • Read once at plugin load — a nickname change is assumed to require a full reboot.
   • Parsed out of sys/proc/prefs/wii_acct.xml from a manually mounted SLC NAND partition.

2. Listener

   • Expects some mDNS traffic every few minutes and will forcibly reconnect if the wire goes quiet.
   • Stops on ON_APPLICATION_REQUESTS_EXIT — waiting until ON_APPLICATION_ENDS risks the socket being double closed by the plugin and the system shutdown.

Building

The repo uses Docker:

docker compose run --rm app make

Credits

• mjansson/mdns
• Wii U Plugin System
• WUT
• libmocha