3DS/2DS Family

To connect to Pretendo Network using a 3DS/2DS system you must use the Nimbus homebrew and Luma patches

Navigate to the releases page on the Nimbus GitHub repository

Now download the nimbus.zip file from the latest release

Extract nimbus.zip and copy the 3ds and luma folders to the root of your SD card. You should now have the 0004013000002F02, 0004013000003202, and 0004013000003802 Luma patches along with the nimbus.3dsx homebrew

Place your SD card back into your console. Boot your console and ensure Luma patches are enabled. Run the Nimbus homebrew and select the network you wish to use (Nintendo Network, or Pretendo Network)

Luma patches

We make use of 3 Luma patches to connect your console to Pretendo:

1. 0004013000002F02 - SSL system module. This patch disables SSL verification, allowing your console to establish an SSL connection with our servers
2. 0004013000003202 - Friends system module. This patch replaces the https://nasc.nintendowifi.net URL with our servers URL
3. 0004013000003802 - act system module. This patch replaces the https://account.nintendo.net/v1/api/ URL with our servers URL

How does it work?

Nimbus will create a 2nd local account set to the test NASC environment. The IPS patches will set the test NASC environment URLs to point to Pretendo. You may freely switch between Pretendo and Nintendo. Your selected mode will persist between reboots.

2nd local account?

You may have thought to yourself; "2nd local account? What's that? I thought the 3DS only had one account?" And you'd be half right. The 3DS only normally supports one account, and you may only have one account active at a time. However Nintendo implemented support for multiple local accounts on the 3DS/2DS which remains unused on all retail units. On a normal retail unit only one local account is ever made, which is set to the prod NASC environment. Local accounts may be set to prod, test or dev. Nimbus makes use of this unused feature to create sandboxed local accounts with different environments