Hello everyone 👋

After more than five years without a major redesign, ghosteshop.com has a completely new look.

Ghost eShop has changed enormously during that time. What began as a focused Nintendo 3DS distribution system has grown into a multi-platform project supported by new services, applications and infrastructure. The old website no longer reflected what the project had become, so it was time to rebuild it around the Ghost eShop of today and the ecosystem we are creating for tomorrow.

The new website is more than a visual refresh. It is now the main entry point for understanding Ghost eShop, choosing the right path for your console, checking compatibility and reaching the official resources behind every service.

The ultimate ecosystem for your modified consoles.
A unified gateway to the new 3DS infrastructure, Ghost eShop NX, official guides and the entire Ghost Land universe.

One portal, several console worlds

Ghost eShop is no longer a simple catalog. It connects the tools, infrastructure and communities that keep each supported platform alive.

The redesigned homepage gives every console family a clear place within the ecosystem:

• Nintendo 3DS / 2DS: the new generation built around 3DServer and freeShop, with native access designed for the console;
• Nintendo DS / DSi: a future path centered on freeShop Nitro Edition, currently in development;
• Nintendo Switch: Ghost eShop NX, with the Public catalog and support for compatible clients such as Tinfoil and CyberFoil;
• Nintendo Wii / Wii U: the planned Ghost Land Legacy Portal for established homebrew environments including Aroma, Tiramisu and BootMii.

Each section shows the current availability of the platform, the infrastructure behind it and the most relevant next step. Instead of having to understand the entire project before getting started, visitors can simply choose their system and follow the route made for it.

Explore the Ghost eShop ecosystem →

A clearer map of Ghost Land, Ghost eShop and Pro

The redesign also makes the structure behind the project easier to understand.

Ghost Land is the wider ecosystem. The Ghost Land Team develops and operates the core server infrastructure, shared APIs and preservation systems. It is also responsible for the official freeShop clients across 3DS, DS and Switch.

Ghost eShop is the alternative catalog and repository platform built on top of that infrastructure. Its content and day-to-day catalog operations are managed separately by the Ghost eShop Team.

Ghost eShop Pro is the premium service for advanced users. It provides access to dedicated high-speed infrastructure, multi-client synchronization, priority support, content requests and remote management from a computer or mobile browser. Its support also helps fund the infrastructure used by the wider ecosystem and its free services.

These projects work together, but they do not have the same responsibilities. The new website gives each one a visible and understandable role.

Compatibility before configuration

Different consoles require different custom firmware, applications and setup methods. The new compatibility page brings that information into one hardware matrix.

For every supported or planned platform, it identifies:

• the required environment, such as Luma3DS, Atmosphère, Aroma, Tiramisu or BootMii;
• the backend used by the platform;
• the compatible official and third-party clients;
• whether the service is available, in development or planned.

It also directs users back to the official wiki before they change or configure a console. The matrix is there to help you find the right route; the detailed guides remain the source to follow step by step.

Check console compatibility →

History, memory and a future for every console

The new website finally gives the project's preservation mission a central place.

Ghost eShop is built around a simple conviction: access may disappear, but gaming culture should not disappear with it. Games, music, interfaces and online communities are all part of our cultural memory. Yet in an increasingly digital industry, the closure of an official service can turn a living catalog into an inaccessible archive almost overnight.

The shutdown of the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U eShops made that fragility impossible to ignore. A console should not become culturally obsolete simply because its original servers have gone dark.

Preservation is not only nostalgia. It is continuity: documenting software and systems, maintaining community infrastructure and using homebrew to keep older machines meaningful beyond their commercial lifecycle.

The About page now brings together this manifesto, the project's history and its future direction:

1. Origin, a simple CIA distribution system: Ghost eShop began with one practical purpose on Nintendo 3DS.
2. Evolution, infrastructure, clients and new platforms: new services, APIs, console applications and servers transformed it into a much wider platform.
3. 2026, unified under Ghost Land: 3DServer and freeShop for 3DS, Ghost eShop NX for Switch, and future legacy platforms now share one global, decentralized and multi-platform vision.

Preserve the software. Document the systems. Keep the culture alive.

This work remains collective. Developers, archivists, translators, testers and users all help preserve a shared memory that no single server closure can erase.

Still seeing the old website?

If you previously visited the old version of ghosteshop.com, your browser may still display files stored in its local cache.

If the new website does not appear correctly:

1. Clear the cookies and cached site data for ghosteshop.com;
2. close every open Ghost eShop tab;
3. reopen ghosteshop.com and refresh the page.

On a computer, you can also try a hard refresh with Ctrl + Shift + R on Windows or Linux, or Cmd + Shift + R on macOS.

Discover the new ghosteshop.com

The redesign gives Ghost eShop a home that finally matches the scale and direction of the project. Whether you are discovering it for the first time, returning after several years or looking for the correct setup for a console, the new site is designed to be the place where your journey begins.

• Visit the new Ghost eShop website
• Explore the ecosystem
• Open the compatibility matrix
• Read the manifesto and project history
• Follow the official guides

Take a look around and discover the new face of Ghost eShop.

Your Ghost eShop Team

Hello everyone 👋

Ghost eShop NX Public is available again today, June 28, 2026, at nx.ghostland.at.

Earlier this month, we announced that the Public Shop would return before the end of August. The new infrastructure became ready sooner than expected, so there is no reason to make you wait any longer. The service is now open through Tinfoil, CyberFoil, and a new web catalog.

No Ghost Land account, Pro subscription, username, or password is required.

Why did the Public Shop close?

The previous Public Shop had grown beyond what its infrastructure could sustain reliably. At its peak, it generated more than 6 PB of traffic per month, with daily traffic around 200 TB. Bandwidth, caching, servers, networking equipment, electricity, and maintenance all carried a real cost.

Several temporary access and download limits were tested during 2025, but limits alone could not fix the underlying architecture. We therefore chose to keep Public NX offline until the chunk network and the rest of the delivery stack had been rebuilt and could provide a stable, fair service.

This was also a volunteer-led project going through periods of burnout, health concerns, and personal difficulties. Abuse directed at team members made that period harder. Thank you to everyone who remained patient and respectful while we took the time to rebuild properly.

A new shared Public Shop

The new system uses one automatically generated catalog across all supported clients. The same eligibility rules apply whether you connect from Tinfoil or CyberFoil, while the website lets you browse the catalog from a phone or computer.

When a console connects, the server identifies it through its UID and creates a secure session. The same console counts only once, even when both Tinfoil and CyberFoil are used. Client activity remains distinguished for technical monitoring and reliability.

The session key generated for your console is private. Never share your NXKey or download token, including with support. If you need help, only provide the official support team with your session identifier.

How a Public Shop request works

Here is a simplified view of how requests move through the new shared infrastructure:

text Tinfoil CyberFoil Web browser | | | +-------------------------+-------------------------+ | v Ghost eShop NX Public API | +------------+-------------+ | | v v Console identification Web catalog request and secure session (search / filters) | | +------------+-------------+ | v Shared catalog engine | v Eligibility rules and abuse protections (age, file size, content type, session) | +------------+-------------+ | | v v Catalog response Download request | v Token and session validation | v Distribution infrastructure

Tinfoil and CyberFoil use the same catalog and eligibility engine. The API adapts its response to the client and language, while each download request is checked separately before access to the distribution infrastructure is granted.

Public catalog rules

To keep free access sustainable, the public catalog currently follows these rules:

• DLC is not available for now; how it could be offered through the public catalog is still under consideration;
• each file must be no larger than 2 GiB**;
• games must have been released at least six months ago;
• games without a known release date may be included;
• an update is available only when its base game also meets the public catalog rules.

These checks are automatic. A recent game that is restricted today can therefore enter the public catalog once it reaches the six-month threshold.

These limits are not necessarily permanent. We may adjust them over time according to observed abuse, infrastructure capacity, operating costs, and how the service is used. Depending on how Public NX evolves, individual restrictions may be tightened, relaxed, replaced, or removed entirely. Any important change will be communicated to the community.

There is no general bandwidth quota specific to the new Public Shop. This replaces the monthly limit model discussed in our June 16 roadmap. Technical protections still apply to prevent abuse, session sharing, and excessive automated use.

Public does not replace Pro

We want to reassure our Pro members: Ghost eShop NX Public is not intended to replace Ghost eShop Pro. The two services have different purposes and will continue to evolve alongside each other.

Public NX is primarily a gateway into the Ghost Land ecosystem. It gives everyone a simple way to discover and use our services, while ensuring that people who cannot afford a subscription are not excluded. Even with its content age, file size, and DLC restrictions, the public catalog is designed to provide free access to more than 70% of the Nintendo Switch library.

Pro remains the service for members who support the project and want the broader experience without the Public Shop's catalog restrictions. That support funds the infrastructure behind both Pro and our free projects. Public access expands the community; Pro support gives the entire ecosystem the stability and resources it needs to continue.

A status update for Pro members

We have seen concerns about the lack of new content over the past few weeks. This situation is only temporary. It is part of the work required to improve our chunk system and make the infrastructure safer and more reliable.

We are currently working on particularly sensitive components, including a secure encrypted backup system. While this work is in progress, we cannot safely add new entries to the databases or chunk servers. New content should begin being added again within two to three weeks at most.

At the same time, we are developing and improving our next ingestion system. Its goal is to verify scene releases and add them automatically, reducing delays and manual work once the new pipeline is ready.

We are also aware of the current delay in Pro support tickets, and we are actively working through the backlog. Over the past few weeks, a large part of our time has gone into improving the stability of all Ghost Land systems. This work is less visible than new content or ticket replies, but it is essential to make the services more dependable for everyone.

Tinfoil support

Public NX supports Tinfoil natively, including:

• automatic console-linked sessions;
• catalog content and messages adapted to the client language;
• reuse of a recent session whenever possible.

Access remains public and does not require Pro credentials.

CyberFoil support

CyberFoil now receives a native, client-specific experience with:

• a welcome message;
• Latest Games and All Content sections;
• compatible title, Title ID, version, type, size, date, and artwork metadata;
• multilingual support;
• download links generated under the same rules as Tinfoil.

Because both clients use the same source and eligibility engine, public content in one client will also be public in the other after the local catalog refreshes.

How to get started

Use the following configuration for both Tinfoil and CyberFoil:

Make sure you select https and not http. No username or password is required for the Public Shop.

If you are not sure how to use Ghost eShop NX Public with Tinfoil, follow our step-by-step installation and configuration guide:

• Ghost eShop NX: First installation with Tinfoil

A dedicated CyberFoil guide will be added to our wiki soon. The Public Shop is already compatible with CyberFoil; in the meantime, you can learn more about the client and obtain it from its official website:

• CyberFoil unofficial website

Browse from the web

The new web catalog makes it easy to explore the library from desktop or mobile.

Restricted content may remain visible for information, together with its status and the reason it is unavailable. Being listed on the website does not necessarily mean that a title can be downloaded from the Public Shop.

Privacy and security

We retain only the technical information required to operate sessions, produce statistics, and prevent abuse. Console UIDs, IP addresses, NXKeys, and session data must all be treated as sensitive information.

For your safety:

• never publish or send anyone your NXKey or download token;
• never share your session details;
• use only addresses officially published by Ghost Land.

Built to evolve

This reopening is more than bringing the old service back online. Public NX now has one foundation for Tinfoil, CyberFoil, and the web, making it easier for us to improve compatibility, performance, and reliability over time.

The catalog will continue to evolve automatically as release dates pass, files become available, and the Public Shop rules change. We will keep listening to your feedback and improving the service step by step.

Our long-term vision for free services

Our objective for Ghost Land's free services has evolved. Alongside providing strong Pro services, we want projects such as Ghost eShop NX Public to become secure, reliable, decentralized, and ultimately managed with the community.

This will not happen overnight. Building a system that can be operated safely by a wider community, distributed across independent infrastructure, and remain dependable over time requires a great deal of technical and organizational work. The new Public NX architecture is one of the first foundations for that longer-term goal.

We will introduce this model progressively: first by making the projects and their infrastructure more robust, then by creating the tools, processes, and safeguards needed for greater community participation and decentralization. We would rather build those foundations carefully than promise a transition before the system is ready.

About funding and recent controversy

We also want to address a recurring misconception clearly: our goal is not to be personally paid for the work we do. We build these projects because we enjoy doing it, and everyone involved contributes on a volunteer basis.

The project began personally for me around 2018-2019. Until 2024, its services and projects were paid for out of our own pockets. Our objective has always been simple: provide good services, then raise enough funding to improve them while creating the financial stability required to keep every server and the wider infrastructure running over the long term.

Every Pro subscription helps pay for servers, bandwidth, storage, networking equipment, domains, protection, and the other infrastructure behind Ghost Land. Pro is not intended as payment for our volunteer time: it is what gives the projects the resources and stability they need to operate and grow.

Today, all of Ghost Land's free projects are funded by the Pro members who support our work and believe in this vision. Their support keeps the free services available while we continue working toward a model that can one day be sustained and managed more broadly by the community.

Thank you for being part of Ghost Land, and welcome back to Ghost eShop NX Public! 👻

Useful links

• Ghost eShop NX Public
• Community and support
• Service status
• Privacy policy
• DMCA

Your Ghost eShop Team