Packages

A package is a file built for one device, which you install on your own PSP, PS Vita, Nintendo 3DS, iPod touch or Android phone. Downloading packages is a benefit of the membership.

#Download a package

1. Open the game's card in the room. It lists the devices its author uploaded a package for.
2. Press the download for your device. The file starts downloading, and a toast offers the Install guide for that device.

A member downloads a game's packages when the game is published and its author lets members download them. A download that stopped can continue where it was.

#What each device takes

The install guide says, for each device, what it needs to run software that does not come from its maker's store, and how to put the file on it.

#Homebrew

A package is homebrew: it comes from the game's author. A game marked Verified by Pocket Nexus was published or reviewed by Pocket Nexus; the mark says who stands behind the game, and is not a promise about what a package does on your device. Nothing checks what a package does. You install one on your own device, at your own risk, and only on a device that is yours.

#Upload a package

The author of a game uploads its packages from a terminal, in the project:

pocket-studio package moon.3dsx --target 3ds --version 0.1.0

Uploaded moon.3dsx (4 KB), version 0.1.0 for 3ds.
Members can download it from the game's page.

• --target is psp, vita, 3ds, ipod-touch or android. A game holds one package a device; a new upload replaces it.
• The command checks the file's first bytes against the kind its name says, before it sends anything.
• A package is at most 512 MiB, and counts against the account's 3 GiB.
• --version is a label of up to 32 letters, digits, dots, underscores, plus signs and hyphens.
• pocket-studio downloads on lets members download them, and off stops it.

The pocket-studio command uploads packages and does not build them: the author builds each one with the game's own tools.