Recomp / Preservation & revivals / Wii U / 3DS
Pretendo Network
Replacement servers for Nintendo Network, rebuilt from the protocol, so Wii U and 3DS online features keep working after Nintendo's shutdown.
Clean-room Human-led wipFacts
- Original
- Nintendo Network (Wii U / 3DS online services) (2012)
- Platform
- Wii U / 3DS
- Method
- Clean-room
- Provenance
- Human-led · Open-source community project since 2018 what this means
- Status
- wip
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Team
- PretendoNetwork
- Started
- 2018
- Runs on
- Wii U, 3DS
- Needs the original
- Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy
How to get it legally
This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of Nintendo Network (Wii U / 3DS online services) you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt clean-room by PretendoNetwork. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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