NetPass: A new way to experience StreetPass

[maxmaxmax]

Soru guesses she can officially announce this now: On the 14th April, so one month from now, NetPass 1.0 will release! What all that will entail you'll find out....in a month ^.^

I already said it (in the discord that you should definitely join guys its https://netpass.cafe/discord) but on 14th april its also my birthday

 

[sorunome]

NetPass Anniversary and v1.0.0 release​

As some of you might know, today is the one-year anniversary of NetPass! To celebrate that, after hours and hours, days and days, months and months of development, soru is happy to announce that finally NetPass v1.0.0 is released!

v1.0.0 Release​

This release comes with a slue of new features:

• User on-boarding: Upon startup up NetPass the user will now be asked to review our rules and privacy policy. After that, the user will be on-boarded easily to apply the patches to make SPR (receiving passes in the background) properly.
• Stand-alone: NetPass is now completely stand-alone and does not need Pretendo to work anymore. You can, of course, still use Pretendo if you want to. The two do not conflict.
• Integrations: You don't want to use only NetPass'es SPR but also Pretendo's? That is easy now, just go to the integration settings and then enable Pretendo!
• Background music: You all have been asking for this, and waiting for this, and now it is finally here! NetPass now plays music in the background! This music is also different per-location, however not many locations have their own track yet. Stay tuned for more updates regarding this!
• More accurate interpretation of StreetPasses: StreetPass has a lot of features, some of them rather obscure and not a lot of titles use this. Now, more of the obscure features of streetpass should work properly, broadening the supported titles.
• Special Miis: If you are doing a recurring donation, you can now have the NetPass server automatically mark your Mii in Mii Plaza as special. Miis that were marked special via other means will automatically be marked as normal Miis. (see below for more information)
• Various small features and fixes: A lot of small bugs/issues have been fixed, along with also some bigger ones. Also some smaller features like an in-app about screen exist now!
• Stability: This is a big one: Soru considers NetPass so far into development now that it is stable enough to not have any major bugs anymore (hopefully....you know how it is with software >.<)

Donations / Subscriptions​

Of all these changes, the donations for special Miis is probably the most controversial one. So, let's shed some more light on the reasoning for this: For long now soru has been advertising for people to donate over at LiberaPay, however barely anything is coming in. Soru isn't in the best financial situation and the servers to keep NetPass up and running aren't exactly free.
Additional to this, soru wanted to do something with special Miis since quite some time. Having it be able that literally anyone marked their Mii as special made them feel, well, less special. But, soru also recognizes that they are imperative to some of the minigames and whatnot, so she didn't want them to go away altogether.
Given these two things, soru thought why not combine them together? It'll be even more userfriendly as the person who sets their mii to special does not have to do that on their console, meaning they won't get all the bugs associated with that. The server just marks the Mii as special for you.
This will be available with a recurring donation of 5€/mo. Yes, soru knows that is a rather high pricepoint, however the primary part should be to help NetPass stay out and stay afloat. The marking Miis as special is basically a little thank-you gift ^-^

So, how does this work? You have to log in on the website. You have to do this with a 3DS, the website will give you instructions how to. After that, you can attach other accounts of yourself to the profile, so that you don't need to have your 3DS around to log in. Next, you can select the subscription. You will be re-directed to Stripe, which soru decided to use to process payments. After that, you will automatically get the permissions to mark your mii as special. You will see on the user page of the website a new checkbox to set that for your 3DS. You are also free to add multiple of your 3DSes and mark them all as special.
If you need any help or have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out for help!

Other things​

So....yeah, we have a website now! It is available at: https://netpass.cafe This website also holds our FAQ, Rules and Privacy Policy. Fun fact, this website will work just fine on your 3DS (both old and new models)!

Looking Forward​

This last year has been absolutely amazing, soru could have never imagined that NetPass would grow so big so quickly. It went from a technical demo to an actual working application that tens of thousands use! We currently have 28 thousand unique monthly active users. This is just insane to soru! Additionally, just shy of 2 million (1.92M) messages are being sent every 15 days. Soru could have never dreamed such popularity; thank you every single one of you who went on this journey and continues to do so!

So, with all this, what does the future of NetPass hold? Actually, quite a lot more! The long promised UI-update isn't ready yet for this release, but that doesn't mean wouldn't ever come! Sun/Moon is working hard on this, and soru is looking forward to seeing this being completed.

But hey, that's not all! Soru decided to start looking into SpotPass and see if she can re-implement that for NetPass, too. This is so that things like sending a swapnote to a specific user would work. Or in Tomodachi Life, having a traveler send messages back home. So far, no real work has been done on this, as soru wanted to focus on v1.0.0 first. But, she thinks this is the next logical step for NetPass and it seems fun for soru to work on.

With the new integrations feature other, third-party projects about StreetPass can plug into NetPass. For example, someone could make a browser plugin to have people pass who visit the same website within a certain amount of time. Or, a VR Chat plugin that would use proximity in VR Chat to have two people pass. The possibilities are endless! If you are interested in developing such a thing, please reach out.

Furthermore, there are various other projects / features that soru is bouncing around in her head. None are concrete enough to talk about them yet. But this shows that NetPass is far from done, and is here to stay for the forseable future.

Thank you everyone who is joining along this amazing adventure, on to another year of awesomeness!

 

[Deleted member 663203]

Making it compatible with Citra or derived emulators would be a wet dream, right?

 

[XFoxPrower]

FAQ doesn't say how to change language to English (Mine's in JP. 2DS LL, flashed to US). Must have clicked the wrong thing as now it says I'm banned (1 day, fake reports. Text on bottom screen's english at least). I just want my visitor achievements in Fantasy Life.

 

[sorunome]

FAQ doesn't say how to change language to English (Mine's in JP. 2DS LL, flashed to US). Must have clicked the wrong thing as now it says I'm banned (1 day, fake reports. Text on bottom screen's english at least). I just want my visitor achievements in Fantasy Life.

in settings (second from bottom of main menu), the second entry from the top and then left/right to select language. after that, restart netpass.

Making it compatible with Citra or derived emulators would be a wet dream, right?

emulator support is not planned, however, soru is also not actively blocking emulators. So, if an emulator emulates things well enough that netpass works, then that's that

 

[DarthBra]

Thank you so much Soru, this is amazing.
I’m so pleased I found this app and am loving using it.
Without people like you and apps such as this, the 3DS really would have died a death by now, but thanks to you and all your hard work, it is still going strong. Thank you.

 

[H0thTr0n]

I was very late owning a 3DS for the first time in 2016 with my fire emblem fates 3DS with IPS screens. I fell in love with streetpass with all the conventions I go to, it was so cute and fun and I'm obsessed with Mii Force. Sadly I sold my system in 2019 for hawaiian wedding funds, then I bought a SNES 3ds XL as I missed playing for fire emblem which I sold a year later for moving costs...

Now I'm in procession of a brand new untouched SNES 3ds XL and I leaned how to hack it as sadly, less and less people are going to cons after covid and also with fewer carrying 3ds still. Thanks to learning how to hack and now being able to use Netpass, I love checking daily and seeing that special little green light glow up with meeting people all over the world virtually! Thank you so so much for your amazing talented work in keeping street pass and 3DS alive and fun for all us!

 

[XFoxPrower]

I just got a visitor from Hyrule :o. (Edit: Uploaded bmp screenshot initially, can't delete)

 

[sorunome]

I just got a visitor from Hyrule :o. (Edit: Uploaded bmp screenshot initially, can't delete)

our mods get some special perks x3 congrats!

 

[H0thTr0n]

Is netpass down? I've not gotten any hits the last 2 days and it's showing 1 instead of 2 on the bottom screen of my 3ds. Not even back alley is not giving me any

 

[XFoxPrower]

Is netpass down? I've not gotten any hits the last 2 days and it's showing 1 instead of 2 on the bottom screen of my 3ds. Not even back alley is not giving me any

Worked for me today. You do have to open it to get traffic. Then spend coins for game-specific traffic (list will show games you enabled Street Pass with).

 

[BlueLeafeon]

Ever since I upgraded to 1.0, mii plaza keeps telling me that it couldn't access my SD card during last attempt to spotpass. Because of this, it won't load my puzzles. My SD card is not protected, because my games are saving, and there is more than enough blocks left on it to save things. It's a 64 gb sd card, but not a Nintendo one. Not sure how to fix this.

 

[NetPal]

Cool thing, also im NetPal

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When will the next version come out?

Post automatically merged: Jun 26, 2025

When will the next version come out?

Post automatically merged: Jun 26, 2025

Cool thing, also im NetPal

Post automatically merged: Jun 26, 2025

When will the next version come out?

Post automatically merged: Jun 26, 2025

When will the next version come out?

 

[sorunome]

Cool thing, also im NetPal

Post automatically merged: Jun 26, 2025

When will the next version come out?

Post automatically merged: Jun 26, 2025

When will the next version come out?

Post automatically merged: Jun 26, 2025

please note that this account is not official and not in control of the netpass project

 

[zinn]

how can i fix "failed to enter location 1: -400"

 

[sorunome]

how can i fix "failed to enter location 1: -400"

It was a temporary bug that is fixed by now

 

[XFoxPrower]

Mii Plaza's like "3 people back to back were playing 'Fast Playcoin' ... Would you like to check it out on the eShop?"

 

[LegendBoom]

Hey i’m having the issue of my 3ds presenting an error message when i try open street pass, i’ve done everything all the videos i’ve watched and guides i’ve followed told me to so i know (or i’m 99% sure) i set it up correctly. I’ve tried on and off of pretendo services thinking that could fix it, also tried it on my hotspot and normal internet and i changed my RTC w gm9 and system time with settings.

The error i’m recieving is “Origin: initial_scene(main.c:114)

libCURL error (60): SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK

Make sure that your system’s date and time are set correctly!” (Sorry idk how to send pictures on this)

Then i’m kicked to the settings menu with many of the buttons presenting the same error message..

I’d love some help as i’ve been struggling with this for about a week now

 

[Klausing_B]

I made an account to ask this so forgive me if I posted this in the wrong place, but I've been noticing everytime I get a streetpass from Netpass for Tomodachi Life 3DS, and I never seem to get a traveler through streetpass. I saw a few others on Reddit also not get travelers and apparently it is a bug? Is this true?

When I first started using Netpass about a month ago, I had gotten 2 travelers, but that was a month ago.

 

[XFoxPrower]

To be sure, do the Back Alley option to 'purchase' (with Play Coins. They're free anyay) extra hits and choose the game you want. Street Pass must be enabled in each game to be listed.