Pretendo Network

We're happy to announce that we now have a guide for using Pretendo with the Azahar 3DS emulator! Check it out: https://pretendo.network/docs/install/azahar

Juxtaposition Update #570:

• Updated report reasons: The reasons shown to report a post now reflect our rules
• Database separation completed, swapping to PostgreSQL in progressOn web:
• Sorting in post replies: Sort replies by old and new!
• Improved reporting
• 6 more!

View all the changes: https://forum.pretendo.network/t/29151

Shutdown reminder!

With just 2 weeks left until the Nintendo Network shutdown, we'd like to take this time to remind everyone that we are accepting network packet dumps for all games, for both the Wii U and 3DS! These packet dumps give us a glimpse into how the games operated when the official servers were still online. While technically possible to do without these dumps, having reference material like this will make the job of making replacement servers FAR easier once these servers go offline!

This is ESPECIALLY true for more obscure/less popular games, and games which have custom additions to them. Having network dumps for smaller games is just as, if not more, important than the bigger ones as we'd likely have much less reference material for them! We know everyone is excited to help get the big names going, but we can't forget the little guys either!

That being said, we appreciate ALL users who help us with this crowd sourcing! We have gotten a LOT of amazing data from everyone so far, all of which will definitely help us moving forward.

For those interested in contributing network packet dumps, see our guide on our website here https://pretendo.network/docs/network-dumps. This page also includes a section listing some games we consider "high priority", though these are NOT the only games we still need data for.

For those curious about our current network dump stats, so far we have:

• 99 HokakuCafe dumps (specifically Wii U)
• 528 HokakuCTR dumps (specifically 3DS)
• 15 general WireShark dumps (applies to both consoles)
• 65 general proxy dumps (applies to both consoles)

NOTE: These numbers come from the number of network packet dumps submitted through the Bandwidth upload command, and may not represent the real total number of dumps submitted.

Juxtaposition Update #494:

• Lots of bugs squashed: Fixed a lot of things, check the full changelist for info!
• Migrating databases: Internal databases are in the process of being simplified
• Automoderator: An automoderator was added to help catch rule-breaking posts

View all the changes: https://forum.pretendo.network/t/27865

Juxtaposition Update #514:

• Web font: Juxt now has a proper font on web
• More database unification: The database simplification mentioned in the last update is almost complete!
• Community list now shows all communities: A bug was fixed that was preventing them from appearing

View all the changes: https://forum.pretendo.network/t/28083

Juxtaposition Update #484:

• Fixed community links: Community links were adjusted on 3DS to work no matter where they're tapped
• Direct message removal: Direct messages are no longer available on Juxtaposition

View all the changes: https://forum.pretendo.network/t/27701

Hey all, we got a nice batch of updates for you:

Animal Crossing: New Leaf & Yo-Kai Watch 2 is now available to everyone. It has moved from testing to the general public. Enjoy!
Reminder: Dream suite is not available for ACNL, it's still work in progress.

The Legend of Zelda: Tri-Force Heroes is back online. It wasn't online for quite a while, but now it's officially back!

Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure is back online and has been made available for everyone.

Enjoy the updates and happy gaming!

We have reached the amount of pledges needed to start creating a plushie!

Thank all of you for your amazing support, you're the best!

We'll start designing with Makeship, and he'll be available for purchase for 3 weeks in 1-4 months!

Juxtaposition update #532:

• Community searching: Communities can now be searched
• Profile privacy settings: Choose whether logged-out users can see your profile in account settings
• Web redesigns for profile and community pages
• 2 more, view all the changes: https://forum.pretendo.network/t/28472

We're partnering with Makeship to bring you a plush of Bandwidth, our lovable racoon mascot!

He will cost $30, and we need 200 pledges of $2 to start making him!

We have 10 days to reach our goal until the petition ends, so help him escape into the real world and support now!

https://preten.do/makeship

We have less than 48 hours left and we need 41 more $2 pledges to make the Bandwidth plush real by partnering with Makeship! If the goal isn't reached, you'll be refunded. If we succeed, you'll be charged the remaining $28 to get your plush.
Pledge now! https://www.makeship.com/petitions/bandwidth-plushie

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!

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!

A new blog post for the month of October has been released. This is our first blog post where we focus specifically on the more technical/behind the scenes side of things, rather than actual feature updates. Let us know if these are the sorts of updates you'd like to see in future blog posts!

This months blog post goes over a number of internal affairs and in-development experiments we've been running, including a new relationship with the Archiverse team, some experimental new server software, and new internal tooling to hopefully streamline the creation of new servers for simple games!

For all the details, see https://pretendo.network/blog/11-1-24 (as there are far too many to go over here!)

A few days late, but with July now over we've got another round of updates for you all! This includes an overview of all the new changes to existing games, some future goals, and new information regarding Animal Crossing: New Leaf :D

https://pretendo.network/blog/8-2-24

Note: We know that we have released monthly progress update posts twice in a row now, but to be clear this may not consistently happen. Much of our work is research related, deals with internal tooling, making updates/improvements to our helper libraries, etc. These updates are not always necessarily interesting enough to make it into blog posts, so there may be periods where we do not publish any. However if you'd like to see these smaller things featured in blog posts, we may begin to include them

With June coming to a close, we'd like to take this time to talk about some recent updates, and future plans, for Pretendo. The full announcement is too long with a single post here, so see our full blog post for all the information: https://pretendo.network/blog/6-29-24

In this blog post we go over some unreleased new updates to our server libraries which should help with overall stability, the details of ten games receiving either new updates or beta testing (including Smash, Pokemon, and Puyo Puyo), and more!

Thank you everyone for your constant support and patience! 💜

Starting right now, Splatoon has special stages for the entire weekend!

As we’ve done previously, we’re bringing back banned stages! Various maps that were taken off the rotation by Nintendo for Rainmaker and Tower Control will be in the rotation when those modes appear. This event will end in 2 days, so play them while you can!

To view the special stages in use during this event, you can use OatmealDome's website.

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)

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/glitch

We have been given the green light to announce this. 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 blog post can be found here https://pretendo.network/blog/12-27-23

If there are more updates we will update that blog post, or create a new one if the changes are significant enough