We have just launched some new ways for the community to help aid development; Submitting network dumps!

Network dumps are one of, if not the, best way to help development of projects like this. They allow developers to see how the servers/clients "talk" during normal operation, which can greatly speed up development on our end. It is not impossible to support games without network dumps, but it makes our jobs orders of magnitude easier when we have reference material.

Starting today we have deployed a way for the community to help us by crowd sourcing network dumps for games before Nintendo Network shuts down in a few months!

For a detailed guide on how to setup your computer and console to capture network traffic, the steps on how to submit them, etc, please see our brand new guide on our website! This page also has a list of high priority games we are looking to get dumps for, for anyone who owns them and is interested in helping the cause! https://pretendo.network/docs/network-dumps

To submit network dumps to us, simply post them to any channel in our Discord server. Our Discord bot, Bandwidth, has been updated to detect these dumps, and will download them from your message, and reupload them privately for a subset of developers to access. Due to security concerns, your original message is then deleted. Additionally, less than 10 people have access to where the dumps are uploaded. Alternatively, if you have concerns regarding uploading dumps to the server you may contact a relevant developer privately. Anyone with the "Shares Dumps" role can be contacted, though Billy (💜) is likely the best as he mostly heads our packet capturing operations.

Thank you to anyone who helps the cause! If you have any issues with the guide, feel free to open an issue on GitHub https://github.com/PretendoNetwork/website/issues