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Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 16:42:54 JST Kevin Beaumont

Pretty funny - Nintendo Network shut down today finally and Wii U and 3DS device support ended.
Pretendo, an effort to keep devices online via homebrew, kept quiet an SSL bug which enables them to spoof being Nintendo Network via just a DNS server change 🤣🫡
https://mastodon.pretendo.network/@pretendo/112238381209517548
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  Pretendo Network :bw_fix: (@pretendo@pretendo.network)
  
  from Pretendo Network :bw_fix:
  
  Today we say goodbye to Nintendo Network. As of writing this message, Nintendo has shut down their online infrastructure for the Wii U and 3DS after 12 strong years. We know many of you here have fond memories from this generation, playing iconic titles such as Mario Kart 7, Splatoon, Super Mario Maker, and more. Today marks an end of a chapter in gamings history, and I'm sure many of you wondered why we have stayed so silent for most of the day. Despite this chapter ending for Nintendo, it's just getting started for Pretendo! We won't be going anywhere, and we have many more plans for the future (such as expanding our infrastructure to allow for 3rd party servers, to allow games not under our scope of support to be brought back seamlessly through other teams). We will remain hard at work improving our servers, both in terms of over compatibility with more games and improving the performance of said games as well. Before we get into the main part of the announcement, I would just like to extend one last, giant, thank you to everyone who helped support us recently! The amount of network dumps we obtained is outstanding, getting data for nearly all games! This will be such a valuable resource for us moving forward, as we no longer have a way to see these servers in action. These network dumps are invaluable to life of Pretendo, and we couldn't have done it without you all :purple_heart:. With that, we have 2 big things to announce: ## Patch updates ***A new release of both Nimbus and Inkay has been released! You MUST install these new releases moving forward, as they contain critical updates required to keep multiplayer match making working! Download the latest versions here***: - - ## Hackless Wii U Connections Today we are ***finally*** announcing our private hackless Wii U connection method; SSSL! This new connection method exploits a bug in the Wii U SSL module introduced in firmware version 5.5.5 which allows us to support Wii U users ***WITHOUT HOMEBREW***, using only a DNS change! For information on the setup and limitations of SSSL (as well as other updates regarding Pretendo moving forward), see our full blog post and updated Wii U guide: - - # *PLEASE BARE WITH US AS WE HANDLE THE LARGE INFLUX OF NEW USERS. OUR SERVERS MAY BE UNSTABLE FOR A WHILE AS WE SORT THINGS OUT*
- Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: and iced depresso like this.
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  ExperiencersInternational :shiver: (experiencer@lethallava.land)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 02:05:02 JST ExperiencersInternational :shiver:
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  @asie@mk.asie.pl @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social tbh I'm not sure whether this bug is newly discovered considering Wiimmfi has used Wii U DNS for a bit
  
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  asie (asie@mk.asie.pl)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 02:05:03 JST asie
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  @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social The wild part is that this exploit was introduced in a firmware update in 2021, with seemingly no actual usecase other than to be exploited?
  
  https://github.com/PretendoNetwork/SSSL/
  
  "As of 5.5.5, CA's crafted in a specific way may take a newly introduced alternate path for verification. This allows for a CA's signature to not be verified correctly. Instead, the Wii U simply checks if the CA matches one already known by the system, but not the signature or contents of the CA. We have no idea why this change was made, as it does not benefit Nintendo at all. It almost feels intentional."
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