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Nintendo eShop update officially released [New Update: Fixes Ridge Racer 3DS issue]
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GeekyDad
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Not to go too far off topic, but since Club Nintendo has come up a few times within in this thread, I was wondering if anyone knew if there was a cut off time to use coins? I could swear I remember Nintendo resetting my coins not too long ago. I want to make sure I spend those suckers this time around before that happens.
DMG-01 said:Conversely, I've somehow gotten 3 times the coins for linking my one 3DS.
I haven't gotten any surveys to fill out for any of the DSiware that I've since downloaded though (including Shantae); I think it's only for certain Nintendo published titles or something like that.
I thought I was so special for getting credit twice. You're a dick for ruining it for me.
EDIT - I TAKE IT BACK I GOT CREDITED AGAIN TODAY!!!
lazybones18
Banned
Managed to get a SpotPass notification informing me that Pokedex 3D was available for download. They even put up an Pokedex icon on the menu to select (asking me if I wanted to download the feature or not)
AndyMoogle
Member
It doesn't bother me that much that there is no background downloading, but please show me the download progress in %, Nintendo!
GeekyDad
Member
AndyMoogle said:
Meh...percentages are never accurate for gauging ETA when downloading content anyway. On PSN, you can download something, it say 33% for two minutes, and then, bam! It's at 100% instantly. The progress-bar-type thing they use is sufficient, I think. At the very least, it gives you a real sense of how much of the actual download has been sent.
WiiRevolution1
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So you know that theres only 60 icon slots right? Well after transfering all my DSiWare I hit 60 slots! NNNNNOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Then it doubled to ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SLOTS! Wow that was awsome. My menu is now huge! I wonder if it goes up higher?
AndyMoogle
Member
PKrockin said:
GeekyDad said:
I didn't notice that there was a progress bar already.Razorskin said:
MatthewB92
Member
Wait really? That's sweet!WiiRevolution1 said:
WiiRevolution1 said:
Wait...this may sound silly, but I purchased two DSiWare titles and noticed that X-Scape (or whatever the X game is called) is about 120 blocks. It looked like there was only 888 blocks of free memory, so I estimated I could hold no more than 10 DSiWare titles in system memory. 3DS software has no such limitation, of course...
How many DSiWare titles do you have in memory (a lot, I assume), and why aren't you running low on that?
I know there is limit to how many DSiWare titles you can have installed at a time (40, I thought), and now I'm really puzzled as to whether there's a trick to the memory I'm missing.
Glix said:
DSiWare can't be run off the SD card.
3DS software is installed to the SD and run directly from it, but DSiWare is installed to internal memory.
Edit: Just double checked... I had about 1000 blocks of internal memory before installing my 2 DSiWare titles, and now I have about 888 remaining. This would seem to put a practical limit to 10-20 DSiWare titles accessible at any one time. I thought I heard this was the case on the DSi, and it appears to be as well... given the fact that DSiWare seems far more popular than WiiWare, I'm wondering why NCL hasn't enabled some sort of SD launching for DSiWare titles.
tbh I'd much rather watch the freaking adorable Pikmin progress screen you get when transferring DSiWare.Razorskin said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZc65U0WFFk
It has 3 or 4 variations of how they carry the icon over too (based on file size I think.) Sometimes the icon is big and a bunch carry it, or they'll carry it in pieces, etc.
Great, so now we can't search by title at all?
It is an improvement (and it's not like the store part of XBLA isn't clunky either), but it's also irritating that your search gets cleared after a purchase and there's no "recent searches" memory.
It will be interesting to see where it is in six months. Hopefully Wii will switch to eShop too. It still has another year or more to go...
It is an improvement (and it's not like the store part of XBLA isn't clunky either), but it's also irritating that your search gets cleared after a purchase and there's no "recent searches" memory.
It will be interesting to see where it is in six months. Hopefully Wii will switch to eShop too. It still has another year or more to go...
lazybones18
Banned
Did anyone happen to visit a Best Buy yesterday or today for the SpotPass event/feature they were holding?
345triangle
Member
you can search by title in the japan store, so who knows.
Does anyone feel that they should hardwire the eshop app on the top of the menu panel in the same row with notifications and browser? It just makes sense if they are trying to make it crucial to the 3DS system. I wish there were no connecting screens and it would be seamless like live, where there is one loading at the boot and rare short loadings afterwards.
lazybones18
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http://techforums.nintendo.com/message/37045
I did notice that the light did come back on after I updated the system, but didn't pay much attention to it cause I was still using the 3DS with the AC adapter still plugged in
But tonight, I left the 3DS in the charging cradle to recharge the battery and the LED charge light never turned off. I don't remember the exact time I put the system on the cradle, but I did leave it there for about 4-5 hours (probably more than that)
It's a minor thing, but I do hope it gets fixed
I did notice that the light did come back on after I updated the system, but didn't pay much attention to it cause I was still using the 3DS with the AC adapter still plugged in
But tonight, I left the 3DS in the charging cradle to recharge the battery and the LED charge light never turned off. I don't remember the exact time I put the system on the cradle, but I did leave it there for about 4-5 hours (probably more than that)
It's a minor thing, but I do hope it gets fixed
GeekyDad
Member
Just picked up Escapee Go and Aura-Aura something or other. The Aura-Aura is pretty cool so far, but I didn't play much of it. It uses the buttons, which surprised me. I was expecting it to control with the stylus. Still cool.
Escapee, though, wow! Best $2 I've spent in a while. There's definitely some luck involved, since you can find yourself caught in corners with no hope of escape, but the powers-ups, vibe, and overall premise are just awesome. Kinda reminds me a bit of Exit and Dementium, with a sprinkle of Pac-Man thrown in for good measure.
Escapee, though, wow! Best $2 I've spent in a while. There's definitely some luck involved, since you can find yourself caught in corners with no hope of escape, but the powers-ups, vibe, and overall premise are just awesome. Kinda reminds me a bit of Exit and Dementium, with a sprinkle of Pac-Man thrown in for good measure.
clifftrapremover
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Links Awakening is fantastic on the 3DS. If anyone was worried about being a bad port, there is no need to worry. Only problem so far is saving the game, you need to press start-Select-A-B which is annoying on the 3DS.
The Lamonster
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Same here. Light is STILL on, after 24+ hours hahalazybones18 said:
nckillthegrimace
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clifftrapremover said:
You can hit Y instead of select, which makes things a little easier. Also, it probably goes without saying but Y functions as select in the Virtual Console, so that should make playing some games less of a strain on the fingers.
Black Republican
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just wondering on the 3ds, does the canadian and usa accounts share the same store?
The Lamonster
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So...hoping that Ridge Racer fix is coming soon...
I think it's that pressing B on certain menu screens to go back may cause the game to crash. It's not gamebreaking, and doesn't affect the actual gameplay - just be careful on the menus.Brandon F said:
Also, more people should take a look at Pokédex 3D (even if they delete it afterwards). It is, in my opinion at least, one of the more graphically impressive 3DS 'games' out so far.
The 3D models are smooth and well-animated, there's several examples of shaders and normal mapping (such as Dewott's shells), it has pretty good self-shadowing and nice lighting effects (on the settings menu, choose scene 3; also, Emboar's 'beard' and Zekrom's alternate animation have neat lighting effects), has AA even in 3D mode (haven't seen this a lot), and seems to run at a stable framerate (I'm not one of those guys that can tell 30 FPS from 60 FPS at a glance, but it seems pretty smooth to me). If you use AR markers (basically special low-res QR codes) you can get up to 12 Pokémon on-screen at once (I think you have to unlock this; at first, you can only have 8); I haven't noticed any decrease in quality while doing so (they cast shadows on each other too).