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PretendoNetwork / archival-tools

A collection of tools dedicated to archiving several types of data from many Nintendo WiiU and 3DS games
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Does this still work? #5

Closed Phantop closed 1 month ago

Phantop commented 6 months ago

Hey, there! I wanted to run the New Leaf dream backup tool, but I'm seemingly getting stuck on downloading offset 0. Nothing is being stored in the objects folder, even after a few minutes. Does this still work? If not, is there an archived backup of the dreams I could grab from anywhere?

jonbarrow commented 4 months ago

I can confirm this does still work. Sounds like a connection issue on your end. And yes, one of our team members @InternalLoss has an archive of ACNL already. Though I'm not sure if he's published it anywhere. We plan to upload all of our archives to the internet archive post shutdown

cheater commented 4 months ago

@jonbarrow @InternalLoss worth chiming in here to coordinate the effort

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1bejk7e/super_mario_maker_servers_are_going_away_very/

jonbarrow commented 4 months ago

@jonbarrow @InternalLoss worth chiming in here to coordinate the effort

reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1bejk7e/super_mario_maker_servers_are_going_away_very

I've left a detailed reply to this post. There's quite a bit of incorrect information there

cheater commented 4 months ago

appreciated. Hopefully this will spur someone to write a new frontend to this and perhaps a proxy server to let WiiU and 3DS consoles still access that cloud data.

jonbarrow commented 4 months ago

perhaps a proxy server to let WiiU and 3DS consoles still access that cloud data.

That's not how this works. You'd need an entirely custom SMM server for this. The game doesn't know where to download courses from on it's own. There's nothing to proxy. The game is told where to download data from via the game server. And if you're writing your own game server, like we do, you might as well just give the real download URLs

cheater commented 4 months ago

Oh yes, definitely, a full backend server is necessary, I agree. The proxy is just to intercept calls going out to the original servers (that will be down) and redirect them to new ones :)

The backend server could itself also source files from archive org directly. This way there wouldn't be a need to actually download the files. Or, from a torrent - and join the swarm to support it.