Modules
Premium Bandai
Use Premium Bandai to generate US accounts.
Premium Bandai is US only. Each account is a membership with an email, a password and a verified phone number. The phone number is part of the signup rather than an extra, so every account costs you money. A task does not start without an SMS provider.
There is no login. Premium Bandai's sign-in is down site-wide. In the account group, each account shows NOT LOGGED IN and has no Sign in button.
Set up a task#
| Item | Required | Why |
|---|---|---|
| An SMS provider | Yes | The phone number is part of the signup. Without a number, no account is made, not even a partial one. |
| An OTP inbox | Yes | The signup only completes once the emailed code is submitted. It must be an IMAP mailbox. AETHER reads this code over IMAP only. |
| Profile groups | Yes | Profiles supply the email addresses. Each eligible profile gets one task, which uses that profile's email. |
| A proxy list | Recommended | Some proxy vendors only let a login reach the store it was sold for. A list sold for Walmart may not reach p-bandai.com, and the task then ends on PROXY CAN'T REACH BANDAI. In Proxies, test the list against Premium Bandai first. |
Set up an SMS provider
See SMS providers.Set up an OTP inbox
See OTP inboxes (IMAP). Use an IMAP mailbox, not AYCD. With an AYCD inbox on the task, the email code is never read and the signup fails.Choose your provider on the gen form
Use the SMS provider box. For Premium Bandai this box is always open, because the number is required.
AETHER checks for an SMS provider and an OTP inbox before the task spends anything. The SMS provider box lists the providers you saved under Settings → SMS, and one is always picked. With none saved, the box reads No SMS provider saved — add one under SMS and the task stops.
| Missing | What you see |
|---|---|
| An SMS provider | STOPPED : SMS PROVIDER REQUIRED. The log says Premium Bandai gen needs an SMS provider to rent the verification number — add one under Settings → SMS and pick it on this task, then start it again. |
| An OTP inbox | STOPPED : NO OTP SOURCE. The log says No OTP source — gen can’t read the email verification code. Attach an AYCD or IMAP inbox as the OTP source (Settings -> IMAP), then set it on this task. The message mentions AYCD, but Premium Bandai needs IMAP. |
Where accounts are saved#
Finished memberships go to an account group named after the task group that made them. If the task group has no name, they go to Premium Bandai Genned. The account group card names the retailer Premium Bandai US.
An account group lists accounts that already exist, in email:password form. See Accounts.
The US signup does not ask for a street address, so no address from the profile reaches the membership. Only the email comes from the profile. AETHER reads the first and last name from the email address, or picks random ones. The birthday is a fixed default, and the state is picked at random.
The password is the task's Fixed password, or a random one if that box is blank. If it breaks Bandai's password rules, AETHER replaces it. The account group saves the password that was actually used.
Task statuses#
The task row shows each step of the signup, in this order.
| Status | What is happening |
|---|---|
| STARTING SIGNUP | Registering the address. |
| BANDAI BUSY — RETRYING | Shown only if Bandai turns away the opening request. AETHER tries it up to 4 times in all, a few seconds apart. |
| REQUESTING EMAIL CODE | Bandai has sent the email code. AETHER is checking your inbox for it, for up to 3 minutes. |
| WAITING FOR EMAIL CODE | AETHER found the code and is submitting it. |
| EMAIL VERIFIED | The email step is done. |
| RENTING NUMBER | Taking a number from your SMS provider. |
| WAITING FOR SMS | Waiting for the text. This is the longest wait in the run. |
| ROTATING NUMBER | That number was unusable or already linked, so AETHER is taking another. |
| PHONE VERIFIED | Email and phone are both verified. |
| CREATING MEMBERSHIP | Making the final registration request. |
| ACCOUNT GENNED | The membership is made. AETHER saves it to the account group. |
If something goes wrong
These red statuses mean something went wrong.
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| SMS NEVER ARRIVED | One number got no text within 25 seconds. AETHER cancels that number for a refund and rents another. The row can stay on this status while AETHER keeps trying other numbers. |
| BANDAI REJECTED SIGNUP | Bandai declined the registration itself. |
| PROXY CAN'T REACH BANDAI | The proxy never got through to Bandai. Change the proxy list. The rest of the task can stay as it is. |