[Nintendo 3DS] THIS THREAD IS DEAD! POST IN THE NEW ONE!

MNC Dover

Welcome to the Nintendo 3DS thread!

This is the thread for general 3DS discussion. To keep the conversation from getting too busy, try to look for other threads before posting about something in here. For example, the eShop Thread is a good place to talk about Nintendo digital store. Big game releases like Mario Kart or Zelda also tend to have their own threads. There's no hard rule against discussing those games in here, but this is a nice place to talk about smaller titles that would be unable to sustain their own threads, and obviously those larger games can easily crowd everyone else out. Finally, don't be discouraged from making game-specific threads if you feel it warrants attention. This is sort of a catch-all thread.


Games, Games, Games!


Great 3DS games that you should totally own (in no particular order):

Cave Story
Super Mario 3D Land
Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars
Super Street Fighter 4 3D
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
Star Fox 64 3D
Shinobi
Nano Assault
Sonic Generations
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked
Mario Kart 7
Dead or Alive: Dimensions
Resident Evil: Revelations
Tekken
Tales of the Abyss
Kid Icarus Uprising
Rhythm Thief
Kingdom Hearts: Drop Dream Distance
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
Paper Mario: Sticker Star
Mario Tennis Open
New Super Mario Bros. 2
Harvest Moon: A New Beginning
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Monster Hunter 3: Ultimate
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Mirror Fate
Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
Etrian Odyssey 4
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
Shin Megami Tensei 4
Pokemon X/Y
Rune Factory 4
Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Mario Golf: World Tour


Upcoming games to look out for in the future:

Monster Hunter 4
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
Mutant Mudds 2
Yoshi's New Island
Mario Party
Scram Kitty on his Buddies on Rails
Bravely Default: Flying Fairy
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy


eShop, Virtual Console, DSi, and Club Nintendo games


The Nintendo eShop

Plenty of games, movies, and apps to be found here. Download Virtual Console and DSi games, movies trailers, demos, or try out some new 3D remakes of classic games. For a complete list of games available, click on this link.

Download Full Games!

With the release of New Super Mario Bros. 2, Nintendo has finally stepping into THE FUTURE and offering their "full" retail games as digital downloads. Just slap in an SD card, and you're good to go. Death to the cartridge!

Great eShop games that you should totally own (in no particular order):

Twin Bee
Mighty Switch Force
Pushmo
Crashmo
VVVVVV
Zen Pinball
Mutant Mudds
Kid Icarus
Sakura Samurai
Liberation Maiden
Excitebike
Bomb Monkey
Kirby's Adventure
NightSky
HarmoKnight
Dillion's Rolling Western
Dillion's Rolling Western: The Last Ranger
Unchained Blades
Picdun 2
Gunman Clive
Cave Story
Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move (eShop)
Ace Attorney 5


Virtual Console games

You can download older games on the 3DS. Classic portable systems such as the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Gear, and the TurboGrafx-16 and NES. For a complete list of games available, click on this link.

Great VC games that you should totally own (in no particular order):

Super Mario Land (GB)
Donkey Kong (GB)
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (GB)
Metroid II: Return of Samus (GB)
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (GBC)
Blaster Master: Enemy Below (GBC)
Tetris (GB)
Gradius (NES)
Ghost and Goblins (NES)
Wario Land (GB)
Goemon (GB)
Mole Mania (GB)
Mario Golf (GBC)
Kirby's Dream Land (GB)
Castlevania (NES)
Megaman 1-3 (NES)
Legend of the River King (GBC)
Super Mario Bros (NES)
The Legend of Zelda (NES)
The Legend of Zelda: The Adventures of Link (NES)
Donkey Kong Jr. (NES)
Punch Out!! (NES)
Ninja Gaiden (NES)
Mighty Bomb Jack (NES)
Super Mario Bros: Lost Levels (NES)
Super C (NES)
Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (GBC)
Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (GBC)
Shantae (GBC)



DSi games

Older DSi games are also available for download on the 3DS as well. There are plenty to choose from and, to make everyone's life easier, our own UncleSporky has created a list of some of the best games to get. Here is a site that reviews DSiware games.The only site I know of that reviews every DSiware game

Great DSi games that you should totally own (in no particular order):

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure
Shantae: Risky's Revenge (amazing platformer)
Art Style: AQUITE/AQUIA (puzzle game with a neat aesthetic)
Art Style: PiCTOBiTS (pixel puzzle game)
Dark Void Zero (old school platformer)
X-Scape (first person space shooter thing)
Dr. Mario Express (classic puzzle game)
Puzzle Challenge Express (classic puzzle game)
Photo Dojo (simple but hilarious 2 player fighting game)
Rayman (classic 2D platformer)
Mighty Flip Champs! (platform puzzler)
Alphabounce (long, extensive brick-breaking RPG)
Soul of Darkness (quality Castlevania knockoff)
Inchworm Animation (full featured animation studio)
Ivy the Kiwi? Mini (weird little platform puzzler)
Mighty Milky Way (gravity-based puzzler from the Shantae people)
Dragon Quest Wars (tiny strategy game)
Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! (great puzzler)
Castle of Magic (action platformer)
Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ (just...what)
Chronos Twins (interesting dual screen mechanic action game)
Plants vs. Zombies (duh)
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (if you haven't played it yet)
Viking Invasion (tower defense)
Gaia's Moon (side scroller action)


Free games via Club Nintendo:

Nintendo is now allowing players to buy download games for their Wii, DSi, and 3DS via the Club Nintendo website. All first party games, and some third party titles, offer codes that you can enter on the official Nintendo website. Fill out a survey and earn coins (and an additional follow-up survey for extra coins). The coins can buy a variety of posters, cases, and various neat stuff. But the games are where it's at. Every month, Nintendo is offering up four games to download.


Featured Applications:

Nintendo Video: A free download app that randomly adds short 3D movies to watch. Blue Man Group, College Humor, and Dreamworks have all contributed.
Netflix: Link your account to your 3DS to watch (2d) movies on the small screen.
Hulu Plus: Just like Netflix, link your account to watch TV shows on the go.
3D movie recording: Record up to 10 minutes of 3D footage and upload it to youtube.
Game demos: Download demos of upcoming 3DS releases.
System Transfer: Transfer information from an existing DS, DSi, or 3DS to a 3DS. Great for when the inevitable redesign hits the scene.
A full list of additional built-in software can be found on Nintendo's 3DS site.


Other final things to do/know as a 3DS owner:


Connect with fellow PA people

Sir Ultimos has created a friend code matching system for us to easily connect with each other. Check it out: Sir Ultimos web site and friend code matcher.


Transferring data from the installed SD card to a bigger one


Description:
Step by step instructions on how to transfer data from one SD Card to another SD Card.


Important Note!

Need: Two compatible SD cards or SDHC cards
Need: An SD Card slot on a PC or Mac or a commercially available SD card reader/writer
Do Not: Alter, move, or erase files in the Nintendo 3DS folder.
Do Not: Overwrite data by recopying to the same SD card.

What to do:
Insert the SD card with the Nintendo 3DS data into the SD card slot or the SD card reader/writer.
Open Windows Explorer (for PC) or Finder (for Mac) and access the SD card.
Highlight the data and drag it to the desktop.
Eject the first SD card.
Insert the second SD card into the slot or reader/writer.
Using Windows Explorer or Finder, locate and access the SD card again.
Drag the data from the desktop to the second SD card.


Hat guide by day for the Mii Plaza.

Our good friend UncleSporky decided to focus his anger at the GFAQ hat list and reorder it by date:

Day 01 Super Mushroom Hat
Day 01 1-Up Mushroom Hat
Day 01 Fire Flower Hat
Day 01 Super Star Hat
Day 02 Isabelle Hat
Day 02 Wedding Veil
Day 02 Jack-o'-Lantern Hat
Day 02 Santa Hat
Day 03 Cowboy Hat
Day 03 Bovine Skull Hat
Day 03 Lion Hat
Day 03 T. Rex Hat
Day 04 Link's Costume
Day 04 Princess Zelda Wig
Day 04 Sheik Mask
Day 04 Chicken Hat
Day 05 Rhythm Monkey Hat
Day 05 Strawberry Hat
Day 05 Pineapple Hat
Day 05 Moai Hat
Day 06 Donkey Kong Set
Day 06 Diddy Kong Hat
Day 06 Barrel Hat
Day 06 Palm Tree Hat
Day 07 Meta Knight Hat
Day 07 Captain Falcon Hat
Day 07 Ice Hockey Hat
Day 07 Spartan Helmet
Day 08 Mario Set
Day 08 Luigi Set
Day 08 Green Shell Hat
Day 08 Red Shell Hat
Day 09 Tom Nook Hat
Day 09 Elephant Hat
Day 09 Whale Hat
Day 09 Bird's Nest Hat
Day 10 Olimar Hat
Day 10 Rupee Hat
Day 10 Treasure Chest Hat
Day 10 UFO Hat
Day 11 Goomba Hat
Day 11 Cheep-Cheep Hat
Day 11 Spiny Hat
Day 11 Lakitu Hat
Day 12 Ice Climber Hat
Day 12 Eggplant Hat
Day 12 Glove Hat
Day 12 Windmill Hat
Day 13 Yoshi Set
Day 13 Yoshi Egg Hat
Day 13 Peach's Castle Hat
Day 13 Apple Hat
Day 14 Doctor's Hat
Day 14 Caffe Latte Hat
Day 14 Black Tea Hat
Day 14 Tomato Pasta Hat
Day 15 Demon Doctor's Hat
Day 15 Sushi Hat
Day 15 Geisha Hat
Day 15 Castle Hat
Day 16 Falco Hat
Day 16 Wolf Hat
Day 16 Steak Hat
Day 16 Baguette Hat
Day 17 Waddle Dee Hat
Day 17 King Dedede Hat
Day 17 Yarn Kirby Hat
Day 17 Fluff Hat
Day 18 Tanooki Mario Set
Day 18 Bowser's Doomship Hat
Day 18 Frog Hat
Day 18 Pyramid Hat
Day 19 Tingle Hat
Day 19 Fried Chicken Hat
Day 19 French Fries Hat
Day 19 Curry Hat
Day 20 Fox Luigi Set
Day 20 Wiggler Hat
Day 20 POW Block Hat
Day 20 Goal Castle Hat
Day 21 Gamecube Hat
Day 21 Nintendo 64 Hat
Day 21 SNES Hat
Day 21 Super Famicom Hat
Day 22 Nintendo DS Hat
Day 22 GB Advance Hat
Day 22 Virtual Boy Hat
Day 22 Game Boy Hat
Day 23 Disk-kun Hat
Day 23 R.O.B. Hat
Purchasing Streetpass Battle Monarch's Castle Hat
Purchasing Streetpass Force Mii Force Helmet
Purchasing Streetpass Garden Floral Headdress
Purchasing Streetpass Labyrinth Smiling Spook Hat
Registering 20 Flowers in the Notebook in Streetpass Garden Flower Master Hat
Updating to ver. 3.0/3.1 Pixel Mario Hat
Completing Floor 50 in Streetpass Labyrinth Daemon King Hat
Completing stage 5-3 in Streetpass Force Squad Leader's Ship
Conquering 20 countries in Streetpass Battle Emperor's Crown

Skull2185

Got dang unsupervised tweens and their dick pics Dover and his RPG...

Swapnote was fun =(

MNC Dover

I think we can all agree that Swapnote wasn't killed off because of wang pics, but rather because my Swapnote RPG game was taking the world by storm!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrDFhhh-MuQ

OK, maybe it was the wangs...but still, farewell my app mod.

Brainiac 8

If there were less wangs and more bewbs, we would have been ok....right?

BronzeKoopa

RIP Nikki

maximumzero

Hopefully we get less "Nintendo is backwards in their policies and business." talk and more "Holy shit look at deez gamez!" talk in this thread. :P

Malakaius

3ds XLs are on sale for $169.99 at US Amazon and Best Buy..

I for one never used swapnote, but it is sad to see the 3ds lose a feature. Where will I get my crudely drawn penises now Nintendo? WHERE?!?

MNC Dover

Let's honor our new thread and mourn our Swapnote loss by posting our October statistics!

October 2013

Steps: 171, 012
Titles: 16 titles/27:01

Picross e - 8:23
StreetPass Mii Plaza - 7:50
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - 5:52
Sakura Samurai - 1:04
Swapnote (RIP) - :08

RockinX

Maz- wrote: »

RockinX wrote: »

Well, if you have no way of sending notes, why would you need new stationary?

You can still send notes via Streetpass.

You won't be sending nearly as many now.

I never use Streetpass, either.

Maz-

3DS? 2DS? Pshaw.

I'm waiting for the 0DS. Just an unassembled mess of buttons and wires. No screen.

Enlong

The 4DS will be going to have been great.

Malakaius

Enlong wrote: »

The 4DS will be going to have been great.

I'm waited for the Blue one. It was bigger on the inside.

Maz-

Let's look at those shameful Pokemon numbers:

October 2013
Steps: 14,732
Play Time: 9 titles / 252:22

Pokemon X: 202:17
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: 40:02

Shameful.

Brainiac 8

Enlong wrote: »

The 4DS will be going to have been great.

Smell-o-vision ahoy!

Just don't sniff when behind Epona!

Malakaius

October 2013
Steps: 7,232
Play Time: 16 titles / 20:10

Pokemon Y: 16:06
Streetpass Mii Plaza: 1:40
Friend List: 0:27

and a bunch of stuff I checked street passes for after the Zelda Symphony... I know, Horrible

skeldare

New thread time.

October 2013

Steps: 4,498
Play Time: 15 titles / 101:18

Pokemon Y - 64:17
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Dual Destinies - 8:59
Rune Factory 4 - 7:03
Animal Crossing: New Leaf - 5:36
Kid Icarus: Uprising - 5:33
Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - 3:01
Sonic Lost World - 2:36
Nintendo eShop - 1:41

Man of the Waves

Steps: 61,590
Play Time: 20 titles / 138:07

Pokemon X - 117:06
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Dual Destinies - 5:26
Knights in the Nightmare - 4:32
Friends List - 3:07
Theatrythm - 1:37
Etrian Odyssey IV - 1:21
Gunman Clive - 1:20
Nintendo eShop - 1:07
Etrian Odyssey - 0:34

carmofin

October:

Steps: 126.200

Playtime: 38 titles / 101:22

Pokemon X - 29:38
Fire Emblem - 19:16
Zelda A Link Between Worlds - 18:17
Phoenix Wright - 12:02
Streetpass - 7:16
Denpa Men 2 - 2:57
Picross e2 - 1;32
Professor Layton 5 - 1:12
Monster Hunter 3 - 1:07
Professor Layton 6 - 0:56

and so on...

Enlong

How is the level design in 3DS Lost World?

The Wii U Version is fun, but I've seen footage of the 3DS boss fights, and now am certain that I also need that version.

skeldare

For those who maybe don't want to deal with Best Buy or something, looks like Amazon price matched the sale of Mario and Luigi Dream Team at $25.

Sticker Star is $20 though, so not as good of a deal.

carmofin

No, the 3DS version is downright unplayable, i REALLY tried to like it, its impossible. The engine is great, but the level design is just abysmal.

skeldare

I'm enjoying the 3DS version of Sonic Lost World. It's obviously smaller scale and some parts can be annoying (specifically anything wisp related and the stupid motion controlled special stages) but I'm having fun.

carmofin

Well the first level is fun. I was letting someone try it and warned them to skip the first level, which they ignored, they played it and started to enjoy the game. I told them to try a later stage, which they finally did and I could literally watch the joy drop from their face in a matter seconds. It was remarkable.

SniperGuy

So I'm debating trying to sell my black/blue XL and get a Zelda bundle. What is the possible value I can get for that? Best Buy will give me 80, Gamestop 75. On Ebay and Craiglist I'm seeing ~150. But then I see like, this: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B008GEH9HO/ref=nosim/cheapassgam08-20 for 170 so I can't imagine my used one can actually fetch 150, can it? Plus i'd want to wait till the 22nd to get my data transferred to actually sell it.

Because getting 80 for it and having to pay 140 for a new DS/game is outta my range, I think. But paying 70 for a new DS and game? Could do that.

skeldare

SniperGuy wrote: »

So I'm debating trying to sell my black/blue XL and get a Zelda bundle. What is the possible value I can get for that? Best Buy will give me 80, Gamestop 75. On Ebay and Craiglist I'm seeing ~150. But then I see like, this: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B008GEH9HO/ref=nosim/cheapassgam08-20 for 170 so I can't imagine my used one can actually fetch 150, can it? Plus i'd want to wait till the 22nd to get my data transferred to actually sell it.

Because getting 80 for it and having to pay 140 for a new DS/game is outta my range, I think. But paying 70 for a new DS and game? Could do that.

Not sure, but you're going to want to make sure you keep it at least until you can transfer over to the new XL.

spookymuffin

October!

Steps: 55,006
Play Time: 10 titles/48:13

Pokemon X - 30:50
Swapnote - 6:04
Run Factory 4 - 4:51
StreetPass Mii Plaza - 3:02
Theatrhythm - 1:21
Scribblenauts Unmasked - 1:17

How are you guys playing Pokemon for 200 hours? Don't you have jobs?

I mainly play at work

Enlong

So I don't really get which parts of Lost World 3D are supposed to be poorly designed? I looked at some footage of it and the levels I saw (from the Desert and Forest zones) looked fine.

Maybe it's something that look fine, but plays less smoothly than it looks?

skeldare

Enlong wrote: »

So I don't really get which parts of Lost World 3D are supposed to be poorly designed? I looked at some footage of it and the levels I saw (from the Desert and Forest zones) looked fine.

Maybe it's something that look fine, but plays less smoothly than it looks?

I wouldn't say poorly designed, but there are some parts that I don't really enjoy. There are some levels that require wisps in order to complete, but they control pretty badly and I'd rather just use Sonic himself. Still like the game, I'm only on World 3 though.

pirateluigi

spookymuffin wrote: »

How are you guys playing Pokemon for 200 hours? Don't you have jobs?

Maz- got the game a week early. I am still jealous.

Steps: 15,489 (I always forget to turn it on when I'm walking around)
Play Time: 9 titles / 121:14

Pokemon Y 119:13
Friend List 0:48

Gots to add all those Pokemon friends!

Maz-

Yeah, and luckily during a week in which I had nothing else to do.

Still shameful though :P

ArcSyn

Picked up Sticker Star at lunch. Woo!

October 2013
Steps: 110,953
Playtime: 10 Titles / 9:10

Streetpass Mii Plaza: 6:00
Crashmo: 1:46
Swapnote: 0:33

Swapnote ALL TIME: 97:05
97 HOURS
I've launched it 801 times.
First Played: 12/22/2011
Last Played: 10/29/2013

43+ Special Notes were sent out from Nintendo to customers. Some to everyone, some to those who purchased specific games, some to different regions.

71 Additional stationery were released for a total of 111 different stationery. This doesn't account for regional/language differences (Crashmo in US, Fallblox in EU) which could account for around 10+ additional variations.

New Super Mario Bros 2 and Denpa Men 2 tied for the most stationery for a single game with 4 different types.

skeldare

Some of the new Nintendo Videos are out now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hfBBngjLyE0

ArcSyn

Does this mean we may not get Flipnote? Or does that operate on a different channel/method entirely?

Ov3rcharge

ArcSyn wrote: »

Does this mean we may not get Flipnote? Or does that operate on a different channel/method entirely?

Flipnote already has its own site, mods, and TOS so to keep the fun wangs out.

tuxkamen

...well. I finally filled out all the surveys and codes that I've neglected for four or five years. Now I'm gold. ._.

I see that I can buy the original Legend of Zelda, which is nice, but considering I still have three or four Zelda titles to finish, I'm not sure that adding the original to the backlog is an efficient use of coins.

maximumzero

skeldare wrote: »

For those who maybe don't want to deal with Best Buy or something, looks like Amazon price matched the sale of Mario and Luigi Dream Team at $25.

Sticker Star is $20 though, so not as good of a deal.

Sticker Star is $8, actually.

skeldare

maximumzero wrote: »

skeldare wrote: »

For those who maybe don't want to deal with Best Buy or something, looks like Amazon price matched the sale of Mario and Luigi Dream Team at $25.

Sticker Star is $20 though, so not as good of a deal.

Sticker Star is $8, actually.

Not on Amazon. You can still get it for $8 at Best Buy though.

maximumzero

skeldare wrote: »

maximumzero wrote: »

skeldare wrote: »

For those who maybe don't want to deal with Best Buy or something, looks like Amazon price matched the sale of Mario and Luigi Dream Team at $25.

Sticker Star is $20 though, so not as good of a deal.

Sticker Star is $8, actually.

Not on Amazon. You can still get it for $8 at Best Buy though.

Ah, I glazed over the "Amazon" part of your post. Sorry.

RidleySaria

I feel sad for Nikki. I hope she can find a home in some other piece of Nintendo software.

skeldare

RidleySaria wrote: »

I feel sad for Nikki. I hope she can find a home in some other piece of Nintendo software.

Nikki for Smash Bros.

Maz-

I wouldn't be surprised if she got a trophy or sticker or something.