Pretendo Question Barrage

[sly_snivy]

As some of you may or may not have heard, DUDE is gearing up to play a month of Splatoon 1 via Pretendo. It's got my interest in joining Pretendo myself pretty peaked. Given that I 'd like to ask some questions to both those who have Pretendo as well as those who haven't yet.

If you haven't gotten on to Pretendo yet, I want to gauge your interest in it. How curious are you to try it? What if anything is discouraging you from joining? Would more active Squidboards users using Pretendo have a major effect on your desire to play?

If you are a Pretendo user, I want to know about how the experience is. Did you use the homebrew method or the hackless DNS method, and how was the setup? I'd also be curious to know how big the difference between the two methods is in terms of additional features and how useful they are. How do the amount of connection errors and overall queue times compare to Splatoon 3? How often do you play Splatoon 1 and what stands out as a main draw that keeps you playing?

I think getting more people talking about cool community projects like this is great and worthy of another thread. With that done I look forward to the discussion to come.

 

[Rat L. Boy]

I’ve been using Pretendo with the homebrew method. Not sure how the setup was tho because my brother set it up. I think pretty much the only difference between the two is that the homebrew method brings back Miiverse posting.

Matchmaking wise, you can get into Turf War matches pretty quickly, but ranked queues are completely empty

I haven’t really noticed any connection issues, so overall it’s pretty close to playing the game back when the servers were still up except for the lack of ranked battles, but hopefully DUDE playing will get more people to play ranked.

 

[VentingNonsense]

The homebrew method wasn't very difficult in my experience, the tricky part for me was finding an SD card that worked, but I haven't yet been able to join a Splatoon 1 match