[probably fine]

From Tiny Cartridge, with gameplay demo embed:

[RadRad]

Wow, that Band Saga looks...rad! Haha!
Can't wait for that!

Definitely gonna pick up Tappingo 2 now, ProbF! Thanks for the write-up.


And I'm telling you guy, freaking Mario Golf: World Tour.
That's all I played this weekend!
I don't even really like golf, but I'm obsessed with this game!
Its so fun and addicting!
Its like Rusty's Real Deal, but out in the open and all golfin'!
So much to unlock, and many challenges.
Damn this game!
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[notbov]

baseless New 3DS speculation: with the additions made to the New 3DS over the old 3DS, the system now has the exact same setup as the Wii U Gamepad (two sticks, 4 shoulders, a touchscreen). in addition to this, the Wii U has had firmware updates that are pushing towards making the Gamepad less of a necessity (the main one being that the eShop can now be browsed with any controller). lastly, the revelation that in Smash 4, one can sync a 3DS for use as a controller in the console version, which means this could very well be a thing that could get implemented system wide on both platforms

I want Nintendo to be this ballsy and dumb
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[probably fine]

It took a while for me to get it, but I understand now: 3D Space Harrier is incredible, stupid fun!
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[RadRad]

If I could "LIKE" your post, Probably Fine, I would.
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[probably fine]

SEGA 3D Classics retail compilation for Japan.
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[Loki Laufeyson]

still no word of series 2 coming to the west though ;_;
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[RadRad]

Seriously need to get a petition going for Outrun 3DS for the West...
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[probably fine]

I want that Fantasy Zone, too.
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[notbov]

grabbed Code of Princess because why not, it w's on sale on the US eShop

20 minutes and I just want to Go Forward and punch dudes in the face instead of this portable-mandated start-stop-select-mission design. the slowdown (how, there's nothing going on half the time) doesn't help either. at least Dragon's Crown lets me pick if I want to just do 10 minutes of level running or endless belt scrolling and PB Battle Grounds has more than 5 enemies on screen at a time and an arcade mode.

the part where you punch dudes is fun, though.
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[sponkmonkey]

we have come far
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[probably fine]

Ninja Battle Heroes coming to the NA eShop next weeks looks pretty neat. It's by Tom Create, who made that Portable Shrine Wars game that I know some folks around here were fond of. They've actually had a bunch of DSiWare and eShop games localized, and I think that Earth Saver and Tower of Deus look kind of interesting too.
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[Loki Laufeyson]

i have tower of deus, it's okay.
it's mainly about climbing
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[sponkmonkey]

Shin Megami Tensei IV finally arrives in the Old World on October 30th.
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what a ridiculous saga that has been, especially when nisa have been handling things nicely re: every other atlus release

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

so I asked Google if the Nu3ds could play regular DS games, and I saw this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/28/nintendo-3ds-flashcard_n_6057868.html

[BenoitRen]

That's not a very useful perspective to look at, because those illegal downloads come from people stuck on 3DSs with firmware 4.5 or lower coupled with a flashcard.

However, this new flashcard should worry Nintendo, because it opens the flood gates to everyone that owns a 3DS or 2DS.

Personally, I wish this new exploit would get into the hands of homebrew developers to break the region lock.
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[Ymer]

Is there any card that allows me to just play downloaded DS games on a 3DS without needing it to have a year old firmware?
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

well, I believe you can disable wifi to disable firmware updates (although the New 3DS no longer has a physical wifi toggle, possibly in relation to this), but until now you could only use the devices with a 3DS that was still running 4.1 to 4.5, and incompatible firmware came out early 2013 (and games often ship with latest firmware, of course). You also needed both a DS and a 3DS device to pull off the necessary exploit.

http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/3DS_Hacking_FAQ
^ explains some things, including the fact that apparently "firmware" isn't the right word
As you can see, it can be a bit complicated to play games released in the past two years/use online services with this method

Supposedly, this new card doesn't require any trickery at all - you just load the roms on the microSD card, stick the device into any 3DS released to date and go wild. I saw some people theorize it involves tricking the system into thinking that the device is just a normal game. If it's as good as advertised, you go out and buy a model of 3DS/XL/2DS right now ad it would work on that without any hassle. Nintendo will still likely find a way to block it with firmware, and the Australian release of the New 3DS may ship with that. I'm sure the European/American releases will definitely be updated. (I had no idea the system had been out in Japan for two weeks now...)

But! It's apparently useless for:
-regular DS games
-region lock problems (which I think the old method could theoretically get around? i'm lazy)
-homebrew
-eshop games

There's supposedly also a new card coming called K(ing)3DS, which apparently combines a DS and 3DS card into a single device. At the very least, it will apparently be able to run regular NDS games and circumvent region lock (for the ROMs, not physical releases). Also homebrew?!

Actually, the K3DS was announced months ago, and people came to the conclusion it was a hoax/scam. However, they just made an announcement of current firmware support around the same time as Sky3DS (a couple days ago).

Neither card has been really confirmed to exist, let alone tested by people outside the respective development teams (neither of which seem to speak English very well), so it's possible that one or both will turn out to be crap/hoaxes/bombs/Metal Gears.

Still thinking about saving up some money for a New 3DS with capture card installed...a vanilla 3DS would have been fine, honestly, but the head-tracking to auto-adjust 3D sounds delicious.

[BenoitRen]

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[BenoitRen]

I guess if you see it that way, it's not much different. But every other flashcard relied on an exploit that's only available from firmware version 4.1 to 4.5, which had to be triggered by using a DS flashcard first. This card is different in that it's just plug&play.
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[Sakurina]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

I'd heard about the software toggle, but I've never really thought much about wi-fi besides generally classifying it as "magical internet air that sometimes has a password", so it made sense in my brain that the New 3DS might have wi-fi on by default in order to aggressively push new updates the first time you start it up. In retrospect, that is almost certainly not how it works.

Have you actually used one? Having not actually handled a 3DS of any kind (or experienced any glasses-free 3D), I have a hard time visualizing how quickly and thoroughly the revised 3D works. It seems kind of like those paintings where people say the eyes follow you around, except with the illusion of a physical intrusion into the real world.

[Deets]

[Sakurina]

[Takashi]

in somewhat layman technical terms, the 3DS screen has two "lenses" in the front. the 3D effect is made by quickly changing the position of those lenses to the image seen by each eye seems different. Now, while there is a limit to how wide those lenses can move between frames (because physics), there can be a certain amount of offset. So instead of an image going to -15 Degress and another to +15 Degrees, it will go -10 Degrees and +20 Degrees, effectively increasing the sweet spot.

I am really looking forward to try one of these. I also like the new little design flavourings of the New 3DS like the extra contouring, color buttons, and covers. It's quite a different (and attractive) beast from the somewhat unimaginative 3DS.
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[RadRad]

Fantasy Life.

Lots of quests, challenges, stats, people to talk to and complete.
Pretty much Animal Crossing/Harvest Moon/Rune Factory/Final Fantasy all rolled into one. Cute art style, lots of details, good music, funny dialogue, and huge town/world to explore.

Only 5hrs in, and the games story really just started.
This game is gonna have be grinding and questing for a loooonnng while.
Leveling in that Wizard life!
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[probably fine]

There's a post on Tiny Cartridge today about Iwata vaguely hinting at an investor meeting that region-locking might be reconsidered.

Also, Resident Evil Mercenaries and Revelations are on sale for $7.99 and $8.99 on the eShop (in Canada, at least).
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[Rud31]

For the 3DS and WiiU do we know if the region locking is a hardware or a software thing? I mean I know for almost everything it is a software thing. Thinking about it more this is kind of a dumb question.
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[RadRad]

Annndddd the next wave of Sega 3D classics will finally be coming to NA/EU early next year!
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[sponkmonkey]

Nice!

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[Felix]

[Wall of Beef]

[CONSUME_PRODUCTS]

the sega 3d classics will probably come out the same day unaltered, like the previous ones!

the smt4 story is mostly conjecture; it's thought that nintendo were going to publish a retail release with their usual english+french+italian+german+spanish, like bravely default, only for it to fall through and for christ knows what reason atlus decided to publish it themselves instead of handing it over to nisa

so we got it last week after a ton of delays, digital only, unaltered from the us release but at budget price

aint region lockin' great

[BenoitRen]

Contrary to popular belief that just won't die, a European release is not required to have more language options than English.
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