Homebrew [WIP] Pretendo - Custom WiiU servers

[blackkawa]

Sorry to disappoint, but seeing as you brought up WiiU USB Helper, I assume you think this will be used for piracy. That is not the case. The custom eShop research is mostly for customization. For example customizing the UI, or hosting custom games/rom hacks. Not piracy.

I see, good to know then! But i see some people trying to make some games on wiiu in unity, since nintendo offers a special license and sdk to anyone to try to make something in their personal developing program. I thinked of trying to make a simple game or more in unity to wii u, so i could host it on your custom eShop? I dont want to charge on these, but it simplifies the distribuition and makes easier to someone gets a indie game from someone, not only hacks and such.

 

[KevinLSX]

Wiimmfi fo wiiu. Nice

 

[RedDucks]

I see, good to know then! But i see some people trying to make some games on wiiu in unity, since nintendo offers a special license and sdk to anyone to try to make something in their personal developing program. I thinked of trying to make a simple game or more in unity to wii u, so i could host it on your custom eShop? I dont want to charge on these, but it simplifies the distribuition and makes easier to someone gets a indie game from someone, not only hacks and such.

That’s exactly what this means, yes

 

[Stalls]

You are not Nintendo! You're . . . you're . . . PRETENDO!

(Shout out to anyone who understands that reference)

ahahah i remember that.

 

[RedDucks]

Got Mii data decoding working. Now we can work towards actually rendering user Miis

 

[JBMagination]

Can't wait to see some new things coming out of this.

 

[RedDucks]

Update:

We have now brought on @Superwhiskers to the development team. His main focus: 3DS support! That means the 3DS is now officially planned for support, as are 3DS games!

 

[Deleted member 424454]

hello everyone, if you're on the discord, you already know me, but i'm gonna make my appearance here too. so hi.

 

[wolf-snake]

Update:

We have now brought on @Superwhiskers to the development team. His main focus: 3DS support! That means the 3DS is now officially planned for support, as are 3DS games!

So also preparing for a eventual 3ds online service shut down? nice.

 

[RedDucks]

So also preparing for a eventual 3ds online service shut down? nice.

Well the WiiU and 3DS share many (if not all) of the same servers and endpoints (in fact, if you look at the headers sent to the WiiU from the servers, it says they are the 3DS servers). What adding Whiskers to the team means that any weird quirks on the 3DS can be fixed, and we can work on 3DS PRUDP

 

[linkenski]

Is there any way Pretendo can expand to Switch servers since it's also Nintendo Online or is that entirely different?

 

[RedDucks]

Is there any way Pretendo can expand to Switch servers since it's also Nintendo Online or is that entirely different?

Entirely different

 

[PrincessLillie]

If you need BETA Testers for the 3DS side of things, shoot me a DM on Discord! I'd be glad to help out. sks316#2523.

 

[Lodi429]

Just like SKS, I also wanna test, but on Wii U. DM me on Discord. LodiLovesMuffins#2001

 

[zoogie]

https://github.com/PretendoNetwork/Friends

This is very interesting.
Dumb question, can this be used to get a 3ds's localfriendcodeseed, or at least decrypt friend packets?

Probably butchering the proper way to ask this lol.

 

[SjorsMaster]

I see, good to know then! But i see some people trying to make some games on wiiu in unity, since nintendo offers a special license and sdk to anyone to try to make something in their personal developing program. I thinked of trying to make a simple game or more in unity to wii u, so i could host it on your custom eShop? I dont want to charge on these, but it simplifies the distribuition and makes easier to someone gets a indie game from someone, not only hacks and such.

One problem though, you can’t get Nintendo exports without the Nintendo license for Unity.

 

[RedDucks]

Sorry for the lack of updates here, and on the Reddit post, lately! Project is still going, we have been very busy organizing the team and working on the project.

Since my last update, we have absorbed Foxverse into Pretendo itself (it is now a part of Pretendo rather than a partnership deal), and has changed the name of Foxverse to Reverse.

We have also made massive improvements in our eShop development! Now we have a custom SOAP server, as seen here https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/428612957627219978/429748875763515415/video.mov and we are working on our own Wood API, as seen here https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/408723233030799362/428556643165536256/video.mov

We have also made progress on the PRUDP and NEX side of things. Consoles are nearly able to properly authenticate and connect to secure game servers.

 

[SuperMarioDaBom]

This was posted in Discord back in September, but for those who haven't seen it yet:

We're not dead!

 

[NexoCube]

Since then we've added two things:

- A Prentendo-Installer (patches the IOSU so it uses pretendo URLs)
- We can make our own .idbe files. (Encryption/Decryption/Customization) and they're accepted by the WiiU. This file format is only used by the Friend List and the eShop as far as we know.

Once we've fixed a bug where the WiiU doesn't validate our PRUDP packets, we will be able to make progress real fast.

Screenshot:

(The guy with the sad mii face is me, i was playing Black Ops II and he successfully modified the .idbe sent by the nintendo servers. It means we can make our own server and it will work )

 

[jesus96]

So basically "Soon™" again