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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 fin
by 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 agoI 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 agoAh, 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!