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SpotPass Archival Project announced

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With Nintendo ceasing online communication for Nintendo 3DS, 2DS and Wii U systems next month, SpotPass data distribution will be halted. This will in turn affect games that use SpotPass features such as Mario Kart 7 and some Pokémon games. In order to enable such features to persist even after official support ends, the SpotPass Archival Project was launched. It allows owners of 3DS, 2DS and Wii U consoles to contribute their SpotPass data for archival purposes to assist network revival services in preserving SpotPass content.

The project page notes that when collected, database dumps are anonymized before being sent to network revival services to allow SpotPass features to be replicated later. It further notes that "in the interest of promoting a fair and open ecosystem, this project is not owned by any one network revival service". You can learn more about the SpotPass Archival Project in the source link below.

Thanks to @MaxiBash for the tip!

:arrow:SpotPass Archival Project link
 
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The process is very simple and you have to do very little.

Even if you do not have not done much online with your 3/2DS system, please consider it. It's as close as effortless as it can, if you have a wirless connection set up in your console. I have no Wii U so I don't really know the process of that one.

Might these efforts end up as good as Wiimmfi.
 
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Darth Meteos said:
Excellent news. Future generations will thank us for this work.
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If it can even be used in the future, but given that none of these "online revival services" managed to do so, let alone the chance they will fall by then, it's a mere fools errand beyond having them without something you can use to inject into the spotpass cache.
 
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well on one hand this (should) be protected under a dmca exemption
https://www.wired.com/story/dmca-game-preservation-exemptions-abandoned-games/
basicly if the transport layer of spotpass (and wfc/ 3ds nnid)(aka pretendo network)
were propperly re'd and no copyrighted code was used and the official service is no more unless nintendo lobby congress sucessfully to repeal the exemption there is virtually nothing they can do
edit my bad no exsemption for online Multiplayer servers that are optional guess we should contact the EFF to try to lobby congress for an additional exemption
 
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BlusterBong said:
If it can even be used in the future, but given that none of these "online revival services" managed to do so, let alone the chance they will fall by then, it's a mere fools errand beyond having them without something you can use to inject into the spotpass cache.
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Pretendo has a SpotPass (BOSS) server they're developing, and it's open source on GitHub. These things are definitely happening, the first step to it is just gathering data.
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Ondrashek06 said:
I wish I could recover my spotpass files, I accidentally deleted my MK7 data and with it came the spotpass ghosts :(
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Your system will still contain the data we need. It doesn't matter if you deleted any game-specific data on the SD card.
 
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oh no, no way am i just giving up my personal spotfast data. who knows what theyll do with that information. my cousin lost their house, car, had to abandoned his family. all cause his spotfast was hacked
 
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