It used to be an pretty interesting game Howhever the online service for both versions sadly ended now and you technically can’t do too much on it since it requieres to connect to the internet so you can download any song. Also sorry If I choosed the wrong topic
Pretendo plans on supporting every game that used Nintendo Network eventually. Please wait until the game you’ve requested is being worked on!
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I don’t know how much of a chance this actually has tbh
I can’t remember how the game worked since I last played it around 9.5 years ago when I got my Wii U but I assume it has copyrighted music? Pretendo would have to license their own music I assume which wouldn’t be easy.
Joysound used to operate the Karaoke service iirc
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Then can’t you contact Joysound?
If I remember correctly, the Karaoke service was offered as a subscription service so there’s no chance of contacting Joysound to do anything. There’s a version out for Switch anyways for Japanese accounts only (Wii U version was Japan + Europe iirc), set up a Japanese account on your Switch if you want to use karaoke 
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I see. But why ONLY Japan and Europe?
I think that they were the markets that it made most sense in.
Karaoke is a popular pasttime in Japan.
That makes sense.
(the 20-character limit rule here is very dumb)
The only way I could see of revival after an long investigation would be somehow managing to get the japanese trial disc to work since it has pretty much all songs and somehow trick the game into thinking you have the trial
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we bouta be singing with 2012 hardware in this one 
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Soon. Very, very, soon…
And it’ll be…
Interesting!
Assuming support for Joysound actually happens, will it have songs from the actual Joysound servers?
Changed the topic category to support
Hi, this belongs in General because this is a general Pretendo question, not a support request.
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Yeah, I thought the same thing personally.
I’m pretty sure that like I said the only workaround would be tricking the game into thinking you have the trial enabled then somehow find a way to make the 18 gb trial disc to work either on the Japanese or English version but that’s pretty far away from what pretendo can do for obvious reasons. Wii u karaoke sadly uses its own server instead of the nintendo one and Technically I think it would be considered piracy to try and get the game to be able to give you unlimited Freeplay as if you were subscribed to it. Yeah, japanese game with trial disc is the only good option afaik
I’ll test that later and see if that works then I’ll update y’all
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I’m getting a Joysound Festa unit in a few days, so if there’s any testing that would need to be done there to possibly get network support running on what is pretty much a Joysound Wii U, please do tell me as I’d be very interested in helping get Joysound support working.
Unfortunately it’s unlikely that the game gets supported any time soon due to copyright concerns.
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First thing the game will do is look for a hard drive with the disk information’s availability otherwise the game will refuse to work. (only applies to the NintendoXJoysound Wii u karaoke game which depends on the specific hard drive.) Regular japanese Wii u karaoke will not really react to the trial disk being there and will just act like it doesn’t exist, going into the trial disc game will force you to exit it then leave you on an infinite loop of going into the health and safety manual over and over. This goes more for something else not related with pretendo so it’s unlikely there could be any intervention there. Plus as they added it’s copyrighted content after all so it’s not worth touching this topic any more.