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The official Blue Sky account for the Pretendo Network service, a FOSS replacement for Nintendo’s servers for 3DS and Wii U
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Our 2nd big announcement of the year! Yo-Kai Watch Blasters (all variants) has officially entered beta testing! Region locking is still in place (for now) and friend matches are not implemented, but basic public matches are! See our full announcement below💜

To kick off the new year, we're pleased to make 2 announcements! Most excitingly Monster Hunter 4 G/U is now available to the public, featuring experimental cross-play between the JP and the international versions! We are also excited to announce a game night Friday the 3rd!

Additionally, very happy to see parts of Mikage finally reaching the hands of the people! The majority of the emulator core is now available at github.com/mikage-emu/m...!

Thank you SO MUCH to neobrain for the huge shout out during his talk today at 38C3! Everyone on the team loved the breakdown of the 3DS and look forward to trying out Mikage for ourselves! For those who missed it live, the full talk can be found here! streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/relive/...

Shout out to neobrain at this years 38C3 as he talks about 3DS emulation, Mikage, and preservation outside of emulation! Talk starts at 10am EST (10 minutes) streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/glitch

Check out neobrain talk about Nintendo 3DS emulation at #38c3, starting in 15 minutes! The talk will cover the history of Nintendo 3DS emulation, the technical challenges it poses and the future of 3DS preservation. You can watch it live here: streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/glitch

Good day! We've got one last set of new Juxt communities for y'all to check out: Hyrule Warriors, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Mario Kart 7, and Monster Hunter 3. Merry Juxtmas and Happy Holidays!

In case you've missed it, starting December 21st we began "5 Days of Juxtmas", where each day we've been adding new communities to Juxtaposition. On Day 1, we added Tomodachi Life and Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure.

Check out Azahar, an up-and-coming 3DS emulation collaboration between @pablomk7.bsky.social (originally a Citra dev, who continued to maintain a fork after it was shut down) and Lime3DS, who did great work getting 3DS emulation running on Android! azahar-emu.org

It's truly remarkable to see this! While I'm no longer involved in the project, seeing Archiverse come full circle as an integration into the platform brings me countless joy. It's the rightful home to see these posts in their proper context. We archived it to start with _for_ projects like this.

October update blog post is out now! This months post goes over a number of internal affairs/in-development experiments, including a new relationship with Archiverse, experimental new server software & new internal tooling for streamlining the creation of simple games! pretendo.network/blog/11-1-24

Hi! Finally moved from you-know-where after the recent changes. I do dev stuff, usually related to reviving game servers!

Hello everyone from Twitter! We promise to start posting updates more frequently here, as well as our other socials! Welcome aboard 👍

June's end brings exciting updates and future plans for us! Check out our latest blog post for details on server library improvements, game updates (including Smash & Pokemon), and more pretendo.network/blog/6-29-24 Thank you everyone for your support and patience! 💜

The Wii U account settings app is now officially supported! You can now change user data, including country and region, from the Wii U *Note this is not compatible with SSSL! You will need the latest release of Inkay to access the app* github.com/PretendoNetw...

7 days until the Nintendo Network shutdown! During these final moments, don't forget to submit some network dumps as you play! An updated spreadsheet noting which games we are missing dumps for can be found here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

With just 2 weeks left until the Nintendo Network shutdown, we’d like to remind everyone that we are still accepting submissions for network dumps for all games on both consoles! For those interested, see our guide at pretendo.network/docs/network... (Full announcement attached)

Shout out to our friends over at Insignia! Awesome work getting Halo 2 up and running! Hope your beta goes well 💜

Halo 2 will launch on Insignia in Public Beta on March 15th at 20:00 GMT (16:00 EST, 13:00 PST) with the following 10 multiplayer playlists. Please ensure your console is setup, and you've signed up for your Gamertag. See you soon! :D

Now that bsky is open, welcome everyone!

Come join Jemma today as she streams some #Miiverse development to kick off the New Year! twitch.tv/PretendoNetwork

There have been some positive updates regarding our last blog post about the connection issues with Nintendo Network, and some information on some other issues we had not yet talked about publicly (one of which is also now fixed) Our full update can be found here pretendo.network/blog/12-27-23

We have a bit of a sad announcement to make today. It appears Nintendo has made some changes to Nintendo Network making it so new users cannot play online. In any game. We have gone into greater detail about this issue in our latest blog post pretendo.network/blog/12-23-23

As of today our winter beta is officially fully open! This includes Juxtaposition, our Miiverse replacement service! Most games opened in November, with a select few waiting until December. Juxtaposition was delayed for technical reasons, but is now open!

For those wanting to make backups of the Dream Worlds from Animal Crossing: New Leaf before the shutdown, we have updated our archiver tools repo to add an archiver! github.com/PretendoNetw...

First post! And it's a big one at that! Our yearly beta has begun an early release this year! As of today we have rolled out 7 new servers for public beta testing! For more information regarding what has and has not changed see our detailed announcement post on our Discord server! invite.gg/pretendo