Hmm. Paying for expanded SpotPass functionality? I’ve never heard of that one before. Interesting. More games… Oh!, are you talking about the extra games you could buy in the StreetPass Mii Plaza? Yeah, that’s StreetPass, not SpotPass. Those games you bought were StreetPass games that were essentially DLC’s for the built-in game called StreetPass Mii Plaza. You bought them with your Nintendo Network account, which that network has no connection to the SpotPass network and are a separate thing. I know, confusing right?
This isn’t correct, you’re getting confused between StreetPass and SpotPass. Yes, SpotPass is a wireless tech, but it has nothing to do with connecting to other 3DS’s or Wii U’s (and the Wii U did not have StreetPass; only SpotPass). A StreetPass-like feature would be pointless on a Wii U because you couldn’t take it out of the house without it losing range from the console. The 3DS on the other hand, had both features. So yes, the SpotPass did provide you with “DLC’s”, but it did not have the same features as StreetPass.
Also, the users’ profile and their favourite game was shown in the friends list, which was not a part of SpotPass. I can’t remember for sure if you needed a Nintendo Network account for adding friends, but I do know that you can add friends offline through the local network, but this does not use the SpotPass network, as the SpotPass network requires internet (and most games which had SpotPass warned you of this prior to activation).
The local wireless connection used in the friends list is the same connection used in local multiplayer games, the same as how it works on the Nintendo Switch.
I think you’re getting confused between the Nintendo Network and SpotPass. Miiverse didn’t use SpotPass at all (except for notifications; which were also a function of SpotPass). Miiverse used the Nintendo Network, which as you know, the Nintendo Network was recreated into the Pretendo Network; but this has nothing to do with SpotPass, which is a separate service altogether.
I know how you feel. I understand because I lost my game case back in 2016 which contained ALL of my 3DS and DS games in it (plus my wallet); it was possibly stolen. Lost all my games and saves too
My Mii’s in Tomodatchi Life probably starved to death, rip.
Huh. Thanks for letting me know that. I’ve had quite a few people ask me this question and I’ve linked them the same image again but didn’t know people were having trouble loading it. Well, the image is a Discord message in the server which reads:
“-obligatory not a dev team member- It is dumpable after the 8th, however, the data this project uses is not the dumped data of the spotpass, but rather the url that leads to the source of the SpotPass (i.e. nintendo or 3rd party servers that distributed spotpass data). You can dump the data still, however, the servers will be gone after April 8th, and as such, submitting the dump would indeed be useless after April 8th.
The data submitted carries a very slim chance, (~10) of actually including sensitive information, however this is due to a system level flaw of the system itself. (Nintendo messed up while coding) It includes a bit of data which is whatever the nand was processing at the time of the dump. Most of the time this is garbage data, and nothing private. The dev team automatically anonymises all the data however, and it is not recommended to ever share your dump data outside of the dev team. (Without previous discussion at least.)
To summarise, the date is when the servers shut down, the url of which is what we are extracting from the spotpass dumps, the team is then accessing those servers to get all the spotpass data they can from there. There is a sub 10% chance of the dump containing any personal info, and as such the dev ream anonymises any and all dumps that are submitted.
Hope that helps, I’ll link a message with a more in depth explanation if necessary.”
Also, let me know if the link works now. I accidentally shared a private link, so it should work now. Let me know, thanks.
Please help preserve your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late! (lemm.ee)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/28549378...