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A Makeship petition page for the Bandwidth Plushie. It is completely supported!

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!

A Makeship petition page for the Bandwidth Plushie. It is at 159 supporters of 200, and 79 percent of the goal.

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! www.makeship.com/petitions/ba...

A promotional image of a store page, displaying a Makeship concept page. It links to "https://preten.do/makeship".

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!

preten.do/makeship

A new video is out now, covering one of Nintendo's most dangerous oversights; a remote code execution exploit within Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Special thanks to @pretendo.network for their help with this video! Hope you find it interesting! 🧱

Starting right now, Splatoon has special stages for the entire weekend! Various maps that were taken off the rotation by Nintendo will be in the rotation when those modes appear. This event will end in 2 days, so play them while you can!

For details, see splatoon.oatmealdome.me/one/pretendo...

Screenshot of a discord message from developer shutterbug saying: “## Animal Crossing: New Leaf available to everyone & more Hey @everyone, 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!”

4 new game updates today!

Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Yo-Kai Watch 2 have officially LEFT beta testing!

Tri-Force Heroes has been brought back online as well as Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure, which has also left beta testing!

Full announcement below:

We're experiencing some temporary instability on the side of our server host. We have contacted them regarding the issue and are awaiting their response. We apologize for the downtime while we sort things out. Until then, most services will be offline/spotty

Join @pablomk7.bsky.social and our very own DaniElectra as they give a talk (in Spanish) about emulation, retro games and Pretendo! Stream will be held at videoapuntes.upv.es/streaming/ev... at 4:30pm CEST, 2:30pm UTC

Screenshot of a Discord message from user "@mrjvs" reading: "Animal Crossing: New Leaf in testing & more Hey @everyone, we have some exciting news to share: Animal Crossing: New Leaf is now available to beta testers! (Thanks to @shoginyam) While Dream Suite is not currently available (still a work in progress), the rest of the online functionality is available. Super Smash Bros for Wii U & 3DS are now stable enough and are available to everybody! Only fights are available at this time. Sharing of elements such as Miis, Stages, etc. are still in development. Pokken Tournament is functional again, thanks to the effort of @SuperMarioDaBom Unfortunately, Friendly Matches with Friends Only do not yet work - We are aware of the issue and are currently investigating. Super Mario 3D World can now use Miiverse once again, also thanks to @SuperMarioDaBom Ghosts are still not available however. That's all, enjoy the updates to Pretendo!"

Several exciting updates for you all today! Animal Crossing: New Leaf has officially entered beta testing, and Smash has been moved OUT of beta testing and is available to the public on both the Wii U AND 3DS, among other changes! See our full announcement below for details! 💜

Screenshot of a Discord message from Jon reading "Second big announcement of the year! Yo-Kai Watch Blasters (Busters) - all variants - is now available for beta testers thanks to our newest Junior Developer, @shoginyan! As with all games, especially those in beta testing, not everything is functional yet. Bugs and instability are to be expected. Currently only public ("Far Away") matches are supported. Friend matches are not implemented at this time. At this time, the game's built-in region locking is still in place. North American and European users will be unable to match with Japanese users. However we are looking to try and potentially lift this restriction, as we have done with Monster Hunter and Tri-Force Heroes (though nothing is set in stone). We hope you've all had a good 2025 so far, and we thank you all for your continued support!"

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💜

screenshot of a Discord message reading: "Hello everyone! As part of this New Year 2025 we've got two special announcements to make: Monster Hunter for everyone After some time seating in beta testing, Monster Hunter 4 G/Ultimate is now ready for the public and being released today! The game is (almost) feature complete, only missing the ability to blacklist people. We also feature the possibility to crossplay between the Japanese and the international versions (MH4G and MH4U), thanks to some modifications on the server to remove the region locking placed by the game. Pretendo Game Night - January 3, 2025 Alongside that, we'll be hosting a game night on Friday, January 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM to around 1:30 AM! We will be hosting the event in the ⁠events channel, and we are excited to play with everyone! The games we'll be playing are from the Jackbox series and include: Trivia Murder Party 2, Tee K.O. 2, Job Job, Quiplash 3 Anyone will be able to get involved - and we're looking forward to seeing as many people as possible join us. Please note that you will need to log in with Twitch when joining. If you would like to be pinged for future events, get the @EventPing role from ⁠Channels & Roles!"

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!

Quick point of clarification:

For those unaware, Juxtaposition (or Juxt, for short) is Pretendo's reimagining/reimplementation of Miiverse. This is a social media platform tightly integrated with Wii U and 3DS systems & games.

These past few days, we've been adding new communities to this service; these are not game servers. Game servers (e.g. online multiplayer) are developed separately, and will have their own set of announcements as needed.

Quick point of clarification:

For those unaware, Juxtaposition (or Juxt, for short) is Pretendo's reimagining/reimplementation of Miiverse. This is a social media platform tightly integrated with Wii U and 3DS systems & games.

On Day 2, we added Pokémon Rumble World and Pokémon Rumble Blast.
On Day 3, we added Pokémon Sun/Moon and Pokkén Tournament.
Today, we added Pokémon X/Y, Pokémon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, and Team Kirby Clash Deluxe.

Tune in tomorrow for the final day! 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.

Both the teams who have come together to make this new emulator already had support for our servers built into their respective forks. We believe it’s pretty likely that this new emulator will also have this

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.

There was simply a delay with the update, just an error on our end. They have been updated now! We apologize for the wait

October Progress Update | Pretendo Network Blog Archiverse, new team members, new server architecture and more!

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! 💜