How to get pretendo patcherfiles for Wii U3DS?

[barren sundial]

I haven't homebrew my Wii U and 3DS yet but I still want to know how to install pretendo and it's affiliated services.

Thanks in advance.

[eternal dragon]

I'm also in the same!

They told me that now you can only install it if you pay, because they didn't open a beta test anymore

[barren sundial]

for wii u you need aroma or tiramisu you can find out how to hack your wii u on https://wiiu.hacks.guide on aroma you have to download the inkay patcher and put it in the aroma plugins folder for tiramisu you have to download the nimble patcher and put it in the tiramisu modules folder

and then after that you sign into a pretendo account like its a nintendo network account

I don't know much about 3ds but when it comes to hacking it you should follow https://3ds.hacks.guide

[barren sundial]

Can you explain?

[barren sundial]

you don't pay to install it

but you have to pay to access the servers when a public beta is not happening

[barren sundial]

Oh. I'm broke

I mean I have a bank account but it is empty

[barren sundial]

well then wait for a public beta to happen

[barren sundial]

Din't worry, I haven't planned on homebrewing my Wii U and 3ds from now on

[barren sundial]

I highly recommend you to mod your wii u and 3ds I wouldn't use my wii u if I couldn't mod it
(I own a japanese wii u and play english games on it)

@barren sundial
Well then I will wait first that pretendo is fully finished first

[willow shadow]

There's nothing but benefits to Homebrew even if you can't use Pretendo rn.

There's also the vWii too.

[barren sundial]

If i homebrew both consoles, i'm scared bricking them during setup

[barren sundial]

I already own a wii

[willow shadow]

as long as you follow the guide you'll be fine

Wii U homebrewing as gotten a lot safer. Tiramisu is a safe method.

[barren sundial]

don't worry the wii u practically has a 0% brick risk even if you failed to change the boot title to the environment loader you would still be able to fix it

[barren sundial]

Ok, but homebrewing can voir my warranty even after un-homebrewing

[barren sundial]

Bcse of what is happening on Wii U now

[barren sundial]

frr????

how?

[barren sundial]

Yes

[willow shadow]

Your warranty is likely expired by now.

[barren sundial]

Because you would know even after removing homebrew your console is no longer original

[barren sundial]

no one could tell

[barren sundial]

I learnt that with android phones homebrew

[barren sundial]

not all homebrew stuff is the same
most wii u homebrew goes on the sd card not the nand and even if it goes on the nand its stuff like virtual console injects

[willow shadow]

He's right in that sense. It's in the TOS or whatever it's called. Warranty isn't infinite though. It depends when the Wii U was bought.

[barren sundial]

Yes but i'm not ready also... I'll be right back

[willow shadow]

at least with Tiramisu, you still have a brief message saying that it's booting normally

[barren sundial]

wdym???

you can remove payload loader easily using the unistaller

[willow shadow]

huh ok I guess that's true

[barren sundial]

you can also change the title id back to the wii u menu

and after that uninstall any homebrew apps you have

and take out your sd card and no one can tell that it was hacked before

[willow shadow]

you're right about that

At the end of the day, it's your Wii U. I know I was nervous about Homebrewing my Wii and was trying to look into Emulator stuff, but it's really not as bad as you think and I wish I didn't spend so much time on that area. It's like an open gate. If you've had the Wii U for awhile (as well as used if you bought it) the Warranty is likely expired, and even if it isn't you likely wouldn't need it anyways.

[barren sundial]

@barren sundial
The thing that scares me more about homebrewing is the corrupted sd cards

[barren sundial]

wdym?
I'd be more worried about that before the wii u is hacked not after

[willow shadow]

What do you mean? The sd card no longer being able to be used?

[barren sundial]

@willow shadow yes

@willow shadow that happened on my old 2DS

@barren sundial
All of my SD cards are fully working

[patent wigeon]

as long as its a known brand like SanDisk or similar the SD card should be just fine for a long time, whether you use it for Homebrew or not shouldn’t change that

and even if the file system somehow corrupts, copy the files over, format, copy the files back and it should be fine again

[willow shadow]

Yeah I've used a 2GB sd card for two years for my old Wii and a 32GB one for my Wii U for 6 months so you shouldn't have any problems if you use Sandisk.

[patent wigeon]

the SD card in my Switch gave up before the ones in my 3DS and Wii U heh

though that issue on the Switch also just seemed to be the file system - formatted and ran it through a checker, worked perfectly fine again

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon hmm ok

Still i'm not ready

[patent wigeon]

why not?

its really really easy and if you mess up you can likely revert it easily

[willow shadow]

I get that, at least with Switch Homebrew there's reason for concern but anything under that really isn't.

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon I wait first that Nintendo kills off the support for the Wii U and 3DS first

[willow shadow]

The Wii U barely makes Nintendo any money. They don't support the Wii U.

[patent wigeon]

you mean when online multiplayer is dead? id personally assume thats still gonna take quite some time for most games - theres really only benefits from Homebrewing right now

[willow shadow]

Nintendo isn't going to make an update unless it's to discontinue a service or to patch something critical.

[barren sundial]

@willow shadow also by homebrewing the Wii U I don't want people to think "he's pirating games!" Or "look he's using cheats!"

[willow shadow]

Pretendo doesn't allow discussion of piracy.

That should say something

That's a sterotype. As long as you know you're doing the right thing that's what matters.

[barren sundial]

@willow shadow I might think they will shut down Nintendo Network at the same time they will shut down the 3DS and Wii U eshop

[willow shadow]

That ain't happening

[patent wigeon]

they said NNIDs and Nintendo Accounts can still be merged until March 2024 so Nintendo Network in general also definitely still has time until then

[barren sundial]

Just so you know i'm not a awful pirate

@patent wigeon so after this they will shut down Nintendo Network?

[patent wigeon]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

id expect not

but we would need to see

[willow shadow]

I know that. I'm just saying that the stereotype you're bringing is not true.

[patent wigeon]

if you dont want someone to see you have a hacked Wii U, you can also definitely do that, you can hide everything, nobody would notice anything unless they look at your SD card‘s contents

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon I just don't know concerning the e-shop if they will remove DLC from the store because I want to get the mariokart8 DLC so he
Ard

Hard

[patent wigeon]

once the eShop is gone tomorrow you cant get anything anymore

gone = gone

only already obtained stuff to redownload it

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon bc I saw this

[patent wigeon]

as it states, the DLC for that game is available until tomorrow where the eShop closes

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon also badge arcade will be GONE

[willow shadow]

The Wii eShop technically isn't shut down even. You can still download 2 channels and anything that you purchased.

[patent wigeon]

yup - they already got rid of free plays and a bunch of other things, people said its just a bug but i dont really believe that

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon or dosen't even displays the menu themes anymore

[patent wigeon]

mhm, sad tbh i kinda enjoyed that game

but im just gotta import custom badges or get the ones i want into my save data (does that count as piracy? idk)

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon say "thank you Nintendo for giving us depression"

[patent wigeon]

absolutely, i loved my 3DS

[barren sundial]

The same for the mk8 DLC? Bc if after closing the store I can get this dlc

@patent wigeon I loved both the 3DS and Wii U

[patent wigeon]

the same for everything, wont be able to make any new purchases anymore

[patent wigeon]

i got a Wii U really late so i didnt get to enjoy that many parts of it but yeah, still a nice system, definitely deserved better

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon actually I wasn't even able to put funds anymore already

@patent wigeon yes

[patent wigeon]

yes, that already ended in i think august of 2022 or somewhere in that area

i had to do it through my switch to get the last couple of themes and stuff

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon so my mk8 DLC argument was already broken

[patent wigeon]

youd either have to get it now or you wont be able to through the eShop later on then

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon when adding funds on switch I couldn't even choose a custom fund. I had to get the one that Nintendo put

@patent wigeon My DLC costs 12€ but you can't either add a custom fund or add a 15€ funds. The lowest one were 10€ And 20€

[patent wigeon]

yeah thats why my idea became themes and also badge arcade plays then heh - my collection is still quite incomplete (themes, badges, basically everything) but i got everything i wanted now

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon not me 😦
I want to cry now

[patent wigeon]

sad

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon terrible idea from Nintendo

I mean why do they have to shut down servers?

[patent wigeon]

because they want to get more and more people to the Switch ofc

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon and? How about old Nintendo Wii and DS users?

[patent wigeon]

sure, the Switch is also a nice system but it doesnt give the same experience als scrolling through the eShop on your 3DS, looking at Miiverse posts - quite said

[patent wigeon]

Nintendo also already killed that off - Wii Shop Channel closed quite some time ago, online services for DS(i) all pretty much gone

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon in my opinion, the Nintendo switch was awesome at launch. Now it sucks.

[patent wigeon]

yeah i can understand that

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon they didn't had to do that

[patent wigeon]

getting quite off topic now, anything still regarding support or? otherwise id say move to #offtopic for example

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon I have a discord server. Want to join?

[patent wigeon]

whats it about?

[barren sundial]

@patent wigeon My channel, and Nintendo and we can keep the conversation on my server

[patent wigeon]

sure, send me the invite in dms then

[barren sundial]

Feel free to write whatever ya want then