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The Nintendo 3DS Citra Emulator is getting real online functionality support a few months away of Nintendo shutting down online services for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U consoles. While this feature is still not available in CItra Nightly or Canary due to the developer team consulting with lawyers the legality of providing this kind of functionality, a fork has been made publicly available which allows connecing to Nintendo Network. Among other things, the following features are implemented:

• Managing friends, which includes getting a friend code that can be shared with real 3DS users.​
• Playing online in most games that support it, including with real 3DS users.​

However, keep in mind that some features such as NNID settings or miiverse are not available. Support for alternative networks such as Pretendo Network is claimed to be added in the future. Installation instructions are provided in the fork's release page.

Release page
Video showcasing Mario Kart 7 going online.

 

[vendettathevhsdvr]

cool

 

[trepp0]

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The Nintendo 3DS Citra Emulator is getting real online functionality support a few months away of Nintendo shutting down online services for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U consoles. While this feature is still not available in CItra Nightly or Canary due to the developer team consulting with lawyers the legality of providing this kind of functionality, a fork has been made publicly available which allows connecing to Nintendo Network. Among other things, the following features are implemented:

• Managing friends, which includes getting a friend code that can be shared with real 3DS users.​
• Playing online in most games that support it, including with real 3DS users.​

However, keep in mind that some features such as NNID settings or miiverse are not available. Support for alternative networks such as Pretendo Network is claimed to be added in the future. Installation instructions are provided in the fork's release page.

Release page
Video showcasing Mario Kart 7 going online.

Holy hell, i have wanted this for so long. Sucks that we are getting it right at the end.

 

[linuxares]

Amazing! Keeping these games alive with multiplayer is huge

 

[PopcornSweetie]

Better late then never. It couldn't come at a better time, now Nintendo is shutting down it's NN next year!

 

[Ligeia]

Impressive !

 

[almmiron]

alternative servers for original hardware: how its doing right now? Any news in this department?

 

[Bladexdsl]

emulation does what nintendontwannakeepdoing

 

[PabloMK7]

alternative servers for original hardware: how its doing right now? Any news in this department?

https://pretendo.network

 

[Marc_LFD]

Hopefully they'll kick/ban hackers from ruining Mario Kart 7 matches.

 

[FanNintendo]

Good!

 

[Evilengine]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_3DS_Wi-Fi_Connection_games

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

TYPO'D!!!!!!!

 

[Kitocco]

alternative servers for original hardware: how its doing right now? Any news in this department?

Pretendo Network opened up its yearly holiday season beta early today, scheduled to end at the end of December as usual!

Just sharing from the announcement on Discord for those not in it

 

[chrisrlink]

iirc there is a exemption in the dmca for online services that are RE'd and no copyrighted code is used also the original online service is shut down so pretty sure nintendo cant go after it unless the exemption is removed

 

[jomaper]

Holy hell, i have wanted this for so long. Sucks that we are getting it right at the end.

At the end of what?

 

[DJPlace]

if only this would happen for the switch...

 

[AkikoKumagara]

Got it working here. This is pretty cool.

 

[DarkCoffe64]

Coolios, guess I'll have a lot more games to maybe play out with some buds.

 

[dudeguy2022]

the developer team consulting with lawyers the legality of providing this kind of functionality​

Nintendo can't possibly send cease & desist letters to them now!