Pretendo in 2024 - 3DS & Wii U Online is Here to Stay (2025)

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I think we really took Miiverse's implementation in various Wii U games for granted. It really gave each game a sense of community and never felt like you were the only one playing. Seeing the WaraWara Plaza filled with Miis again is awesome. I'm glad that Pretendo brought life back into the Wii U again.

I’ll be posting detailed reviews of the water in every game

this game is fun but i hate my parents

The very first Pretendo miiverse message I ever saw a while ago was "MY BALLS IS HOT! TURN UP!" It's good to be back.

Man, I miss Nintendo. Their online ecosystem during the Wii U/3DS days was really something special. The Switch is a good system but there are so many things about it that just feel empty compared to what Nintendo used to be like.

YES! Im so glad triforce heroes has its online ready on pretendo! The game can live on!

Thank you Pretendo community for recreating the magic of 3D world miiverse

It's still amazing to me how Super Mario Maker 2's implementation of comments was never as good as the miiverse integration with the WiiU version. As the maker of a level, you were able to mark other's comments as spoilers, for example.

I wonder if they'd be able to revive the Badge Arcade rotation, or hell, maybe even have them all at one time, that'd be honestly pretty cool

This is such a great channel. I had no idea ACNL dreams were archived. I’ve been touring Dreams on my channel before the shut down lol. Thanks for sharing

The Wii U and 3DS will never die

Splatoon 1 deserves to live forever

Pretendo works on 3DS?!? Time to do a little modding

Holding out for Xenoblade X to get the support. Since if it doesn't get a port this will be the only way to keep it alive.

Keeping Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and 4 Ultimate online would be so good, given the monsters that are either stuck in their original games like Ceadeus and Abyssal Lagiacrus or are unlikely to return like Gogmazios.

The fact that they're preserving all the existing Mario Maker levels is SO huge. There's no way you could realistically play all of them before the shut down, so having them all saved is SO great (and of course being able to upload new ones as well). This all makes me so happy. The 3DS and the Wii U are both so special to me and mean a lot to me, so I'm happy that Pretendo will help keep these experiences alive =)

I think this is one of the most important projects at the moment for game preservation. As you mentioned, their work is not limited to WiiU and 3DS, and as more servers shut down, these fan servers will become more important.

Bless these guys for preserving that early-to-mid 2010s nostalgia. Might be hard to find matches with certain games as most people have moved on or might be hesitant to make a Pretendo account and just leave those days in the past.

I play Wii U and 3DS more than my switch fr

To think my Mario Maker swimming level "David Schwimmer" will live on... 😄
(But seriously that's so cool. I had a bunch of levels I was very proud of, like WarioWare and DKC themed ones, and it's wonderful that people's old efforts get to live on and that people can continue playing games they love 😊)

One of my childhood core memories is that one episode of Doug where he talks about the 'Super PRETENDO'.
So, this hit me really hard hahaha.

Tbh Team Kirby Clash Deluxe basically requires internet to 100% thanks to that feature, good thing CTGP exists bc everyone deserves to experience 100%ing a kirby

5:00 YO THAT'S ME! (I'm PhoenixE), I AM OFFICIALLY IN A GVG VIDEO! 😄

I never had a WiiU, or used the online services of my 3ds very much. This feels more than a revival- it's a showcase of the love and passion of what makes gaming so interesting and unique. It's time to fish out my modded 3ds and get online!

I love this. But I hope Nintendo don't behave like dicks and attack this project with lawsuits. They are the ones that abandoned these games.

I hope Pretendo support comes to Monster Hunter 3U and 4U. They are amazing games with exclusive monsters still trapped there! But no one can fight them if they don’t have the support of many accepting hunters. I speak from my experience.

3:06 Hello, I was the one who contributed and added Pretendo Support (and custom networks), Once I heard that Cemu was going open, the first thing I wanted to add was Pretendo and I cant believe myself that I did that 😅
I am at a loss of words. And Thank you for sharing and talking about Pretendo ❤

Everyone wants a Nintendo direct.
Bruh. We need a Pretendo Direct.

I really hope Mario Golf World Tour also gets Pretendo support. It uses a very similar Miiverse community system to Mario Kart 7, and the general online options are leagues better than Super Rush in my opinion.

I can’t wait to set this up. Been using my Wii U again more often and it feels lonely with the plaza just displaying generic messages.

can't wait to emulate splatoon online on my deck, this will be revolutionary

only now did i realize that the 3DS & Wii U server shutdown happens the same day as a solar eclipse

@Imora4 หลายเดือนก่อน ⁺¹²

9:34 hey there i am! sad that we couldn't get to play together completely in pokken. but if that footage is enough i don't mind it.

I'm really hoping that with Smash 3DS remaining online, we can see a Smash Run Mod that would let us play that mode online (if at all possible)

I understand why they would want a paid tier and really appreciate the work done. But doesn’t getting money involved inevitably get Nintendos attention?

Speaking of underrated games that only one person defends (me), I hope Metroid Prime Federation Force is made compatible with Pretendo, coop missions were so much fun but just like Tri Force Heroes you'd better use voice chat because it gets too chaotic without proper team communication.

Right after watching this video I found your Mii in Nintendo Land!!
This is an amazing project, props to the people who are working on this.

"Y can't metroid crawl" is back!

Looks cool and all, but if they get Smash Wii U’s Miiverse stage working again, then I’m sold.

Wiimmfi restores multiplayer features on DS/Wii and now we have Pretendo for 3DS/WiiU. Great news.

...Have you ever covered the fan server thing for Super Mario Bros. 35? It's not Wii U/3DS related, but...I feel like that game could use some love. Dunno if its fan server thing is still going, though...but last I heard is that not many people bothered with it. :c

This is such good news! My gut wrenched when I heard that these online services were going away, so I'm so glad this is here to stay! See you all in splatoon!

What I'm concerned about is...will enough Wii U owners mod their Wii Us and set this up for online multiplayer in Splatoon 1 to actually have a large enough playerbase to be viable? It's not like Mario Kart Wii Wiimfi which is one of the best selling games of all time on one of the best selling consoles of all time, so that even if only a fraction of users homebrewed their Wiis and set up Wiimfi it was still plenty large enough to be viable. But with this it's the opposite given how poorly the Wii U sold and Splatoon just not having the same massive appeal as Mario Kart.
But if that ends up not being an issue, this will be great! I just got a Wii U like 3 months ago for an absolute STEAL on Ebay so I could finally play Splatoon 1 in its last days (despite having 2 and 3) and it's been a total blast, but not only that, but apparently the Wii U I got was one that came bundled with a digital copy of Mario Kart 8 pre-installed, which was NOT in the ebay description (again, got it for an absolute steal, cheaper than most other options I saw), so hey, a free copy of Mario Kart 8 Wii U as well was great! So it's great to hear that the fanmade online for both is working well so that these can be preserved! Just, again, I'm hoping enough people actually set it up for it to be really usable.

I absolutely cannot wait to play steel diver sub wars again with people.
That game was a fantastic time killer on the bus and I remember my friends and I yelling at each other over that game lmao

The Wii U, 3DS, PS3 and 360 have an advantage in that online or local play was already possible in a lot of games.
You still have to engineer it on a per game basis to weed out desyncs, but it's a lot harder to add online play to games that had no network capabilities to begin with, but with enough effort, hopefully one day we can bring every multiplayer game and every retro/arcade machine online

I am just SO glad that they are perserving EVERYTHING From Mario Maker basically! So all of those millions of levels and hard work put into creating them all won`t go to waste! And it means you will always have time to get all mystery mushroom costumes and complete the expert and super expert 100 Mario challenge.

5:05 Balloony!!!

We can finally get repeatedly flashbanged on the smash miiverse stage again.

I don’t have my 3DS anymore but have recently picked up a Wii U and this is awesome, created my account just now can’t wait

I hope one day they can get it working for Animal Crossing New Leaf, Fire Emblem Fates and Xenoblade X

For someone to be able to do this basically for free, makes you really wonder why companies take down their online services.

6:15
as someone who played Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury i can tell you that the stamps are still in the game. They even have color now

Once again Jon putting out banger after banger videos. The other members are just there. Feels like this is Jons channel honestly.

What about Bravely Default and Bravely Second? You could get villagers to rebuild Norende and the moon base online. Those games used their own servers, and they have already shut down.

Yes! My childhood game: Minecraft for the Wii U is working. I love this service.

I really hope one day Pretendo can create a server for Pokemon Bank as bank or day shutting down will mean it will be impossible to transfer anything gen 7 and before to the switch games. Be it if the option to transfer from bank also disappears from Home

If it doesnt already, I hope this eventually works for Bravely Default and Bravely Second, since those had independent servers that shut down independently of the 3DS online service and not having that makes a good chunk of content completely inaccessible via natural means.

4:25 Mabel thinking about Sonic. Thanks Racous lol

I'm very excited about this and commend them for the work they're doing. One thing does worry me though.
We've recently seen Nintendo shut down the distribution of yuzu and citra. One thing that some speculate caused this, was the fact they monetized it by having a patreon. The fact that some features are locked behind a paywall in Pretendo makes me concerned that Nintendo might go after them as well. Just a thought tho, the service looks great.
Edit: developer response in the replies, check it out.

finally, i can still play the original mario kart 8 battle mode for the rest of my life

Just wanna note - pretendo is trying and doing great but there are still many games/servers they have yet to even begin tracking progress on (ex: Xenoblade X)

Custom splat festival are always enjoyable, especially if they change up stages such as adding zip lines and conveyor belts in the stages.

I actually completely forgot about all this 3d world miiverse functionality, its sad it dissapeared for so long, but its now back!

18:15
ZombieU could've been so much better if Ubisoft made it so that more than 1 zombie hunter can be playing on the TV screen for 3, 4, or 5 players.

I recently stumbled upon someone Playing Minecraft on wii U and joined their game.
It was surprisingly smooth, even with my shoddy wifi.

While trying to play SDSW online about a week ago, I was unfortunately met by a discontinuation error. But I am glad to see the community support!

Considering I didn't like Splatoon 2 and I'm not sure I'd like 3, I'm glad to have a way to play online Splatoon 1!

Can someone explain to me how the mario maker creator history works?
"user1" would have the same Nintendo account from back on wiiU and then have the same ID and account on switch, right?
Do technically, (if they cared) Nintendo could link the user's "maker history" to catagorize what they made in Mario maker 1 and 2. Right?

Pretendo is looking amazing~ Having even functionality beyond what was there in Nintendo Network! However, I kind of hope some kind of version, or support for Pokemon bank and poketransporter … Do you think they’d add such thing? I believe for home brew there’s some pkmn app, but I mean the official ones, so that we could transfer our pokemon from old ds games to x&y or s&m and betweeen x&y, s&m, and us&um as it was intended~

Pretendo, also known as heckin' validtendo

This is just wonderful. I will certainly be using Pretendo with my Wii U and 2DS XL. Thanks for a great video again, Jon! Here's hoping Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS will be soon be supported...

It's so exciting to think about custom StreetPass events, Miiverse communities, and hidden gems coming back online!

Wii U Online: Pretendo You saved my life.

So cool to see how far this project has come, and I hope it grows even further to truly make all the online games on these systems able to be enjoyed for years to come!
Does anyone know if Pretendo has, or is planning to, support Mario vs Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars to get enough Stars to acquire everything in the game? I remember reading this was an issue once Miiverse support disappeared that it was now impossible to get everything in the game.

is Metroid Prime: Federation Force compatible with Pretendo? that's an extremely underrated game which would be fantastic to preserve the online for.
the entire game is only really fun when played with other people online just like with Zelda Triforce Heroes.

Look, mom! I'm on TV!
In all seriousness, I would appreciate it if you could revisit this once again. While Infrastructure can be reverse-engineered, a lot of Wii U spot passes are going to be lost due to the lack of people with older NNIDs and Wii U able to dump them. It's front and center, the most important thing right now to finish.
This service also seriously needs more active players. There are plenty who want to use Juxtaposition, but there are very few people who play online, which leads to being unable to really play any game. I'm assuming the player account will be increased dramatically once the Online Play shutdown hits, but it's still concerning
Amazing video either way!

You had me at Kid Icarus: Uprising

Thank you for making me aware of the RB3 online being revived. I love that game so much and I can't wait to actually be able to do battle of the bands on RB3!

I really hope they can get the public battles working for Splatoon soon, however from what I've heard they seem to be making good progress on getting the servers to work. Also, being able to use Miiverse brought the biggest smile to my face.

Just went and dumped my SpotPass data from both my 3DS and Wii U for the team. Hoping it's able to help in any small way!

2 games that really need the Pretendo treatment are Mario vs Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars for 3DS & WiiU.
Using Miiverse to give/receive points/exp to/from other players was necessary in order for players to progress through the game.

6:29 what a throwback

Hot damn I might have to actually finish Triforce Heroes!!

Man, I really hope Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and 4 Ultimate get supported on Pretendo ASAP.

Does that also mean all Event Courses (including the Shawn The Sheep one that was later removed) in Super Mario Maker (2015) are playable again or have they not got there yet?

The multiplayer for Kid Icarus: Uprising was a blast. I'm excited that more people can experience that again.

I'm currently playing Fire Emblem Fates. I hope they're planning on My Castles, since that was helpful for getting skills for your units.

Love the enthusiasm, many thanks.

My mom never turned on miiverse for me when I got my Wii U but such a silly community has always looked like so much fun to me. Can't wait to see it. :)

I’m still playing splatoon till this day!

I didn't even know they were gonna restore all the old Mario Maker levels once Nintendo Network goes down. Now I'm actually excited for it to happen. I hope they also get 100 Mario challenge back soon, that was a massive portion of my playtime when I was a kid.

7:56 consider voice acting. You really nailed that "battle mode"

The chance to get the Nintendo Land plaza feeling alive again makes me so happy.
Thank you so much to the people who made this😅

This is just amazing. I’m gonna get it booted up today!

Oh my god this is so cool! Gotta install it right now on my Wii U!

12:40 I've been able to use the Pokemon Rumble World connection with people from all over the world (mostly Japan) but it's still been working for me since it shut down last year. I never modded any of my systems ever either.

Question, does the data saves after you modded your console? For example, I am playing splatoon and I have a few days left before the online servers disappear, if I use pretendo online servers, will I still keep the gear and weapons that I have collected or will it disappear and I have to start all over.

So tempting to find some people to play triforce heroes with... I never really got to finish that game.

Seeing Wind Waker HD have miiverse bottles again warmed my heart
I’m hype to get pretendo