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I added everyone in the thread.

The 3D is gorgeous. Makes way more of an impression on me than the upgrade of games to HD. I adore Pilot Wings. I played DQVI on it and was shocked by how colorful it was. (I've been using a launch DS. It is dark.) I am going to take 3D pictures of boobies.

When playing a DS game, the analog slider acts as a D-Pad, but it doesn't work very well. The transition from vertical to diagonal button presses isn't smooth enough to feel right.

Agree that the motion controls on any 3D games is stupid. The window for breaking the 3D effect is larger than some people would have you believe, and in fact it comes back if you tilt further (it sort of comes and goes in waves as you tilt the screen), but motion controls are definitely a no.

Really curious how the battery is gonna do when it comes to VC games. As it stands it is almost exactly as long with 3DS games as my ancient DS is running normally, which is fine for all of my current uses.
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It seems that if you walk over 100,000 steps in a day, it just rolls over and fails to count it. I'm pretty sure that 4-hour venture was more than 20,000 steps!
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I might have been wrong about the step rollover. Some people are estimating 5 miles = 10,000 steps, and that roughly works. I was just sure it was more.

I caved and got Rayman 3D. Since this is my first time playing it, I'm actually kind of impressed. It also does a convincing objects-popping-out-at-you effect. And it's fun to just move around in a 3D environment. The downside: a lot of sprites look out of place. They really should have redone them as 3D objects.
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In the mean time, I'd appreciate some advice from experienced DSIware people on what's worth my time of the following:
Shantae
Dark Void Zero
Legends of Exidia
GG Series D-TANK (vs other GG series games)

Um, any other recommendations, since I can't actually find what games are available by browsing the store and I have to literally know the game and search for the game to find it?
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Thanks Deets.

Also, any opinions on the Anonymous Notes games? They look cute, but also like they could go wrong easily.
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I didn't care about last week's Virtual Console releases, but today we get Xevious 3D! I'm pretty happy about it, actually. It adds a strange difficulty to the game, because my eyes really do have to focus on either the sky or the ground as different entities, making me miss bullets sometimes. I think it's neat! Developers should take advantage of this strange trait--they can now play with human eyesight in a way they haven't before, and really force you to focus on certain things over others, the way movies do. This is much better than Excitebike.

Next week brings Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions. It apparently has Pac-Man CE on it, which I've never played, so I'm also excited about that. Not enough to make up my disappointment for MML3, but enough that I'm still not bummed I bought the system.
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Yeah, I'd say it's worth the bump. Looks like I'm gonna get some free games--some of which I actually want.

Meanwhile, Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions is out. The Pac-Man game kind of reminds me of Kirby Canvas Curse. Levels encourage careful speedrunning. I like it.
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I just noticed in the estore that the DSIware Bomberman game has wi-fi multiplayer. Has anyone tried it? Would any SBros be up for bombing each other?
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Ah, that's on gamecube. On the 3DS, you totally have to clear the regular game first, and it is way unfortunate.
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Huh, I've never played Four Swords before. Looks like it doesn't have wifi multiplayer :(
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So, for those of you who have a 3DS and are sad about the lack of games, IF YOU HAVEN'T BOUGHT PUSHMO DO IT RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.

You will have to get through some handholding at the beginning, but it is amazingly worth it. I haven't been stuck so badly, so often in a puzzle game for a long time. This game regularly makes me feel like an idiot. I love it.
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Huh. That makes the game look a lot better.
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Metal Gear Solid 3 demo up in the eshop.

The controls are unbearable. It is unplayable, I couldn't get past the third screen without turning it off in disgust. How disappointing.
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I liked Revelations. Gonna tear through it on hard mode now. I'd love to go through raid mode with someone, if anyone's up for it. I played the first stage and it was goofy retarded action fun.
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Oh, yes, I forgot about the software rankings. Let's see...

1. Dragon Quest V DS, no surprise there, I got one of every monster and raised Starkers and Rebjorn to level 99. 83 hours, whew.
2. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2
3. Pushmo, at 38 hours. These puzzles really stump me sometimes :(
4. Super Mario 3D Land, at 31 hours. I played through it 4 times.

Only two of these are 3DS games. Oh well. Resident Evil Revelations will push itself up there. Raid mode is very addicting. I have some complaints about it (the leveling system doesn't really add anything except the ability to easily S-rank the stages with lower-level enemies), but goddamn what a good addition.
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They finally released some of the promised Game Gear games on the VC. Check out Dragon Crystal if you've never played it. Really difficult but simple roguelike.
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I'm kind of surprised you got another one so quickly (and jealous you can afford to), but I'm not gonna complain about more potential multiplayer partners in future games.
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I haven't played any of these games on a gba for comparison, but I had to straight-up delete Yoshi's Island since the audio was so offensively horrid. Might just be that game.
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Yeah, it was like someone took the SNES game and hyper limited all the audio. "Fuzzy" doesn't do it justice, it sounded like someone had taken bits out of the music and replaced them with loud static. I don't know if this game had even worse sound on the GBA.
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The Final Fantasy rhythm game is cute and addicting, if you like FF music. Denpamen is a cute Dragon Quest clone, but all dungeons. Heroes of Ruin has pretty smooth multiplayer. I still like this thing.
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Kid Icarus online is pretty sweet, as long as you don't run into someone abusing the Eyeball Orb weapon thingy, which can home in on people and travel through walls. Otherwise it's basically a kind of 3D smash brothers. Use the right items and weapons and don't suck.
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Eyetrack Orbitars, after I looked it up. Here's a video showing off how the homing-through-walls can trump about anything in multiplayer. (I think you actually need slip shot to shoot through walls like that.) In single player they home a little too much, and tend to wrap around enemies that are moving sideways. Also their range is terrible, and range is more useful in single player.

The weapon variations are overwhelmingly for multiplayer. Notice also that most of the attributes on a weapon are totally useless in high difficulty in solo, while those that are useful for that are totally useless in multiplayer. Specifically, for single player, ALL you need is more HP, more defense, more speed, and more power. (A bonus to healing items is nice too.) In multiplayer, a weapon with only those abilities will get probably you killed fast. For multiplayer you really want a status effect like Freezing or Confusion, attack bonuses on specific moves (especially directional dash ch. shot), knockback defense or recover, and a boost to effect duration since you'll be using a lot of powers.

Also notice that many powers are useless in solo. I never in a solo campaign used jump glide, angelic missile, mega laser, black hole, land mine, heavenly light, slip shot, or any status effect attack (including eggplant). All of these are really, really, really useful in multiplayer.

My final multiplayer fighter a burning palm with freeze and a great forward dash charge shot boost, and relied on Aries Armor to keep my character alive as long as possible, switching to Libra Sponge when my health was lower. Black Hole + the weapon's freeze effect were enough to keep a lot of players still long enough to completely cream them, and Libra Sponge + the ch. shot boost were enough to kill many of them in just two hits that way. I was the top or second player in matches about 70% of the time with that strategy. It's a shame the weapon fusing system is so horribly obtuse that it's extremely difficult to get a decent multiplayer weapon without just playing on level 9 difficulty.
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Speaking of. . .



Theatrhythm is probably the most broken rhythm game ever.
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You can usually expect hackers to keep ahead of firmware, though whether those hackers happen to be 2i developers/users is an open question. What happened with the PSP on this front? That's probably the closest comparison.
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Luigi's Mansion sequel is up in the eshop, and has online multiplayer. I never played the first. Any thoughts?
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Later I will play Liberation Maiden on hard and see if I get anything more out of it, but for sure, on normal it is underwhelming.
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Does someone want my (barely used) Supercard DSTwo? Turned out the SNES emulation on DS was pretty bad, and I don't intend to use a flashcard for my 3DS. Biiiiig discount, pm me.
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I found the proprietary DSTwo emulator worked at a higher speed and had better compatibility generally than SNEmulDS, and there's an update called CATSFC that's supposedly even better. I just found the screen cropping obnoxious, and compatibility was still low. I haven't tried any of this on the 3DS, maybe it's better, but I've got a fancy schmancy android tablet for emulation now so I don't care to bother checking it out. In a few days, maybe Remote can report back.
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Most of the 3ds eshop releases are game gear or gb, with a small amount of nes. It's like they're saying, "This is a different virtual console, for handheld stuff because you're playing a handheld!" But then the NES games just defeat that and it's stupid to begin with.
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Hey! New Animal Crossing is out! I bought it on the eshop.

The only other one I've played is Wild World and this is a clear improvement. It's thus far almost the same game, though. I won't really be able to judge the new content until I can properly unlock it--by getting all the townspeople to like me. Then I can go about actually directing my town as its mayor. It'll take a while.

Kinda nice that the game gives you a non-multiplayer way to get non-native fruit very quickly.
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