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Sorry for the bump, but there is no Best Buy around me that has a Nintendo Zone and I would like the Animal Crossing items that are available through their promotion.

I tried the attwifi SSID and I can get Nintendo Zone fine, but nothing for Animal Crossing. Is there a way to make my 3DS think the Nintendo Zone I have setup is from Best Buy and get the items, or is there some special data at the Best Buy location itself?
 
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Sorry for the bump, but there is no Best Buy around me that has a Nintendo Zone and I would like the Animal Crossing items that are available through their promotion.

I tried the attwifi SSID and I can get Nintendo Zone fine, but nothing for Animal Crossing. Is there a way to make my 3DS think the Nintendo Zone I have setup is from Best Buy and get the items, or is there some special data at the Best Buy location itself?
Maybe try Bestbuy as your SSID, that seems to work.
Btw, I just tried that with _The Cloud, no security, channel 1 - works like a charm, too bad there's nothing that interesting in the Zone (like demos only available there, not in Eshop) :(
 

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Streetpasses work a little differently, you need the mac address of the nzone you're trying to spoof too...
Also, I wonder if the Japanese nzones are secured connections with the passkey/passphrase stored in files somewhere on the 3ds. I know the Bestbuy locations are secured that way. (which is why they're able to have promotional items) most of the Japanese SSID's I'm seeing listed here also seem to have promotional items available from time to time as well... So until we find a Japanese shop with an Nzone but no promo items, looks like we're locked out. (I'm making assumptions here, but based on the evidence seen so far... )

In case anyone here has missed it, there is a thread on how to setup your own streetpass relay here
http://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-have-a-homemade-streetpass-relay.352645/

(sorry if anyone thinks I should have just let this thread die... I'm done now... Until anyone finds a Japanese Nzone SSID that works for us)
 
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Streetpasses work a little differently, you need the mac address of the nzone you're trying to spoof too...
Also, I wonder if the Japanese nzones are secured connections with the passkey/passphrase stored in files somewhere on the 3ds. I know the Bestbuy locations are secured that way. (which is why they're able to have promotional items) most of the Japanese SSID's I'm seeing listed here also seem to have promotional items available from time to time as well... So until we find a Japanese shop with an Nzone but no promo items, looks like we're locked out. (I'm making assumptions here, but based on the evidence seen so far... )

In case anyone here has missed it, there is a thread on how to setup your own streetpass relay here
http://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-have-a-homemade-streetpass-relay.352645/

(sorry if anyone thinks I should have just let this thread die... I'm done now... Until anyone finds a Japanese Nzone SSID that works for us)


The Japanese nzones are named N47973D and use a fixed key stored on the 3ds itself.
 

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Tried all the JPN SSID above unfortunately none of them works...

So far I have tried:
mobilepoint
7SPOT
Freespot
0001softbank
wifine
FON_AP
NRT-AIRPORT
Unfortunately none of them work. All of them returned as Error, unable to connect :(


out of these only wifine and Freespot will work for US sets (no passwords), the others are probably exclusive to JP sets only (can't verified since I do not own one)
 

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Why? (I don't get why this is news?)

Didn't we already know this?

Just Homepass using DD-WRT router. Make two WiFi's, attwifi and McD@NZ1 and then use MAC filter for your 3DS units and leave open. Streetpasses and Nintendo Zone. Although I think attwifi gives to Nzone while McD@NZ1 gives you browser access. Both should get you online play and streetpasses and prompt for Nzone.

You don't even have to connect to receive the streetpasses as long as you don't connect to any other wifi connections.

There's even wifi adapter versions of this. Or you could even RasberryPi one. Or run it staright from your PC.

I don't see why this is limited to Macs...??? PCs have been doing this for a while:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-have-a-homemade-streetpass-relay.352645/
 

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out of these only wifine and Freespot will work for US sets (no passwords), the others are probably exclusive to JP sets only (can't verified since I do not own one)

Till now it is not possible to spoof an actual JP NZ to get their exclusive puzzles, DLC and etc
 

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Till now it is not possible to spoof an actual JP NZ to get their exclusive puzzles, DLC and etc


are you actually from/in Japan? the only other JPN-related zone in the hotspot list for US consoles is N47973D, operated by K-Opticom
It is password-protected, so it cannot be spoofed by normal means, but US consoles should be able to connect to it if they are near a real one


My bet is that 7Spot etc only works for JP consoles, which possibly have a different hotspot list.
 

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still haven't figured out the deal with 7SPOT, but after extensive testing I can confirm that JPN hotspots work, but they do not seem to return multiple miis for the mii plaza passes. This is possibly intended since the multiple mii relay was introduced for the overseas regions, and hotspots are so plentiful in Japan that there should be no need for it.
 

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