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I love the name, Nintendo's StreetPass was such a cool tool. It was awesome just finding someone random to play with in an airport or waiting room.

ganoushoreilly 4y ago
I still bring a 3ds in my bag when I fly just on the off chance I get a street pass. Sure I know you can run your own relays at home, but it was always neat finding a random person, more so when you had a repeat.
- Fatnino 4y ago
  I don't think the home relays have worked for years. Nintendo shut down the backend servers at some point. Nintendo had a deal with someone (att?) that all their free wifi hotspots would work as street pass relays. The way this worked under the hood is that your 3ds would see a wifi network named attwifi and then check the mac address of the ap, then it would report to Nintendo backend "hey, I just passed near mac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx". Then Nintendo would note that down and also make it so the previous 3ds who visited that spot is now a street pass hit on your 3ds. So, you would setup openwrt to broadcast a network named attwifi and make it switch every minute to a random mac from a list shared by everyone else doing this and you had yourself a guaranteed 10 hits a day (10 being the artificial limit Nintendo imposed).
  - ganoushoreilly 4y ago
    Ah, I haven't looked at it in a while, but that would make sense. I have a raspberry pi (1st gen) in a 3d printed nintendo 64 case some where around here that ran the PiPass stuff. I might dig it out and put it on display in the office now. Still, was a cool idea!
delecti 4y ago
Being in college when the 3DS came out was neat. Just wandering around the CS building (GCCIS) I got a ton of hits and was able to beat the adventure.
BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Maybe I'm missing something about this one, then. How is detecting "me" Mastodon links on Web pages similar to discovering people who are online near you? Or as that not what Nintendo's did? Anyway, thanks for any insight.
- yborg 4y ago
  I guess that it finds people "near" to you in the sense that you visit their site. An actual mobile app that worked like StreetPass that broadcast your Fediverse address via Bluetooth would be fun, except that it would hardly ever find anyone unless you are at a conference.
  - BuckyBeaver 4y ago
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- shaunsingh0207 4y ago
  Indeed the name is a bit misleading if you go by the 3ds' streetpass, it's not what Nintendo did. I just had a few good memories with streetpass, so seeing the name again (even in a different context) brought me some joy :)

ganoushoreilly 4y ago

I still bring a 3ds in my bag when I fly just on the off chance I get a street pass. Sure I know you can run your own relays at home, but it was always neat finding a random person, more so when you had a repeat.

Fatnino 4y ago
I don't think the home relays have worked for years. Nintendo shut down the backend servers at some point. Nintendo had a deal with someone (att?) that all their free wifi hotspots would work as street pass relays. The way this worked under the hood is that your 3ds would see a wifi network named attwifi and then check the mac address of the ap, then it would report to Nintendo backend "hey, I just passed near mac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx". Then Nintendo would note that down and also make it so the previous 3ds who visited that spot is now a street pass hit on your 3ds. So, you would setup openwrt to broadcast a network named attwifi and make it switch every minute to a random mac from a list shared by everyone else doing this and you had yourself a guaranteed 10 hits a day (10 being the artificial limit Nintendo imposed).
- ganoushoreilly 4y ago
  Ah, I haven't looked at it in a while, but that would make sense. I have a raspberry pi (1st gen) in a 3d printed nintendo 64 case some where around here that ran the PiPass stuff. I might dig it out and put it on display in the office now. Still, was a cool idea!

delecti 4y ago

Being in college when the 3DS came out was neat. Just wandering around the CS building (GCCIS) I got a ton of hits and was able to beat the adventure.

BuckyBeaver 4y ago

Maybe I'm missing something about this one, then. How is detecting "me" Mastodon links on Web pages similar to discovering people who are online near you? Or as that not what Nintendo's did? Anyway, thanks for any insight.

yborg 4y ago
I guess that it finds people "near" to you in the sense that you visit their site. An actual mobile app that worked like StreetPass that broadcast your Fediverse address via Bluetooth would be fun, except that it would hardly ever find anyone unless you are at a conference.
- BuckyBeaver 4y ago
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shaunsingh0207 4y ago
Indeed the name is a bit misleading if you go by the 3ds' streetpass, it's not what Nintendo did. I just had a few good memories with streetpass, so seeing the name again (even in a different context) brought me some joy :)