is anyone actually going to use pretendo?

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I think the biggest hurdle for me is making a new account and grinding for levels. eliter unlocks at lvl 18. thats like,,, so many turf wars and I doubt there will be enough players to fill out all the different ranks. I'll still make an account when I have access to my wiiu, I just don't want to get my hopes up
i actually got a lot of games quick
also you can transfer a save from another profile or just download 100% save file and transfer it in, but that is if you are comfortable using mods on your wii u
 

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I’ve been trying out the hackless method as well. I have pretty much had the same experience as you. It’s pretty impressive. Really happy with Pretendo so far.

Biggest downside is having to start a brand new save file when going hackless, but I’ve actually been having fun earning everything again (My original save had everything unlocked so it was actually kind of boring to play in comparison). Also the majority of people I’ve played with other than a couple have started over brand new saves as well so I’m not getting crushed by people with proper gear and weapon sets all that much.

The hackless method is definitely worth trying out for anyone who is potentially interested.
thats cool, and it shows that it really wasn’t just luck that i was playing at exactly the right times
…unless we both did but that is probably not that likely

i really did not want to grind for weapons and gear, because i never played splatoon 1 before and wanted to try out all the new stuff so i just got a 100% save and transferred it in. yes, it was with mods which means i could have just done the non-hackless method but i actually haven’t taken out my sd card from my wii u since the last time i tried pretendo and the hackless method is so easy anyway.
 

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Is anyone else having a problem where Pretendo is working for other games like Mario kart but when you try Splatoon is gives you the error message 104-2210?
I know Im not the only one with this problem cause somebody else is having the problem in this video
 

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Is anyone else having a problem where Pretendo is working for other games like Mario kart but when you try Splatoon is gives you the error message 104-2210?
I know Im not the only one with this problem cause somebody else is having the problem in this video
i have not seen this error before and i tried searching it up and even on pretendo's website
the only thing i found is that 104 is related to spotpass, which was also said by the dev in the comments of that video, which i should have looked at first. they said that it is something that they are still looking into.
 

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I got the same error, although it was working for me before the shutdown of the official network. A ton of people in the pretendo discord get the same thing, and it seems to be in specifically splatoon. I haven't looked into it much but several people in the support forum seem to have solved it so I'd suggest looking there.
Here are a couple relevant threads but there are tons (bc a lot of ppl are having this issue)
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also a link
 

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Is anyone else having a problem where Pretendo is working for other games like Mario kart but when you try Splatoon is gives you the error message 104-2210?
I know Im not the only one with this problem cause somebody else is having the problem in this video
I had this error later on one evening. Not sure if it was because the server was overwhelmed or something else. It worked perfectly fine a few hours before, and I was also able to get on just fine the following day. Maybe try again at a different time to see if you still get the error?
 

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Thanks for the help people I am trying the fix now (and by that I mean I am making my brother do it cause I am scared)
 

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I got it working!!! thanks people this game is great
Where did you put the files for nimbus? (And which files?) I can't figure it out and I can't find anything online about it. Not even in pretendo's own guide

edit: ok nvm im stupid that's not even the right thing
 
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For what it's worth, finding matches for turf is pretty easy at the moment. Sometimes you have to wait a bit longer, maybe time out and queue back in, but I'd say that getting actual matchmaking errors is much more rare than in newer games in the series. There's a bunch of downtime here and there though, and some features are a bit flaky. Considering the lousy quality of the NSO service on switch, I'd say it's pretty decent already, and it only keeps getting better.

On the other hand, ranked battles are pretty notorious for not having anyone to play when I want to give them a shot, so being able to play at all is quite rare, even when the NEX implementation used by Pretendo doesn't consider rank at all and throws random people into the game.

As for new accounts, from what I understand, it's totally possible to transfer over save data, and it's documented in the Pretendo setup guide, but it seems like plenty of people don't bother to scroll down to get to that part. In general, I don't get why people would be hesitant to mod their Wii U, as it's quite easy to do and vastly expands what Pretendo can do on top of a bunch of improvements that can be made to the experience. A straightforward Aroma setup is extremely easy to set up, and even results in homebrew popping up as standard icons on the home screen. It doesn't even come with any tools that enable piracy out of the box.

Also, I have a question to anyone here who might be already paying for Pretendo: how's the population of the beta servers? I've been actively considering paying for access, and maybe even taking a stab at doing a bit of development here and there, although my sights right now are on another project for the Wii U scene.
 

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I tried Pretendo briefly, and it worked fine, but I don't see myself playing on it regularly. While I love Splatoon 1, at this point I've already gotten past the nostalgia stage for it and am moving onto the nostalgia stage for Splatoon 2.
 

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