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Nintendo eShop update officially released [New Update: Fixes Ridge Racer 3DS issue]
- Thread starter AceBandage
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Got the update and logged on this morning with no problems. Overall the eShop is a vastly superior interface compared to the DSi and Wii Shop setups -- I love the screenshots and videos, and they need to keep adding more! -- but the main page seems like it suffers from the same problem the original DSi & XL dashboard screens had: Icons are huge and you have to scroll right and left to see anything beyond 2 or 3 menu items. I like the idea of the custom-built searches and shelves that can spotlight different releases, but it's not readily apparent how to browse through the store outside of those Nintendo-provided searches.
What are people's impressions of how DSiWare games upscale? Is it as case-by-vase funky as DS games? Can you do the 1:1 pixel trick by holding Select with DSiWare games?
What are people's impressions of how DSiWare games upscale? Is it as case-by-vase funky as DS games? Can you do the 1:1 pixel trick by holding Select with DSiWare games?
AceBandage
Banned
Shantae is a lot of fun so far. Glad all the DSiWare games were up day one!
Got that and Dark Void Zero.
Got that and Dark Void Zero.
One major improvement over the Wii Virtual Console service: the single save state they give you can be reused over and over. Prevents the frustration of replaying earlier levels to get back to where you died.
Also, Shantae for £10.80 is fucking ridiculous when you can only add credit in increments of £10. Makes the game £20 if it's the only one you want.
Also, Shantae for £10.80 is fucking ridiculous when you can only add credit in increments of £10. Makes the game £20 if it's the only one you want.
Throwaway123456789
Member
Can't access the shop. Downloaded the update just fine, but get an Error Code 005-5819 when I try to connect.
Tried doing the DNS trick, but no luck. Any ideas?
Tried doing the DNS trick, but no luck. Any ideas?
hikarutilmitt
Member
hEist said:
You're not alone. It's annoying me royally because I keep seeing people able to link their accounts with seemingly no issue but I've changed my password for my account 3 times now thinking it may be the issue with formatting or something and it still won't let me.
Psykotik
Member
this method works for me too.VOOK said:
i have a singaporean 3DS (which is really the same as the US version but with region selections for singapore and malaysia added in along with the US territories).
SG and MY regions dont have eshop support however. and i live in brunei.
but i'm able to access the US store by setting brazil as my region and using my bruneian credit card with no problems. this also worked on my DSi.
wonderfuldays
Member
Posted by 3DS.AWESOME!
AceBandage
Banned
I never realized how raunchy Shantae was...
I like it.
I like it.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
My 3DS gets an update error when I try to update, and i never even got a notification for the update in the first place. If Nintendo's press conference wasn't in 2 hours and something I would be kinda pissed right now.
sigh
Nintendo, the things you do to me.
sigh
Nintendo, the things you do to me.
AceBandage
Banned
rhino4evr said:
It's exactly like the Arcade/NES game, but with a track editor and the ability to change the viewing angle via the 3D slider.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
Is it normal for my 3DS to not even get a minute into the update before it gets an error? The bar hasn't even moved yet....
bananaman1234
Unconfirmed Member
So when exactly did the update come up? I got tired of waiting for it and went to bed.
It's official, I have zero interest in actually purchasing Gameboy or NES games. Excitebike looks visually interesting, I do like the perspective change when adjusting the slider, but mang, it's freaking Excitebike. I loved that game when I was seven, wearing California Raisins promotional t-shirts, sitting in my living room in Anaheim, but that was a loooooong time ago. After playing two levels this morning, I felt done with it.
Mario Land is fun as a nostalgia trip, and i'll play through it, first two levels were enjoyable this morning, but lets be serious, how many Gameboy games will I actually pay to download and play for any significant amount of time?
I don't know. Other than Pilotwings, everything about the 3DS has been really underwhelming. Hopefully they bring the heat with some game announcements today, because right now I see Ebay in my system's future.
Mario Land is fun as a nostalgia trip, and i'll play through it, first two levels were enjoyable this morning, but lets be serious, how many Gameboy games will I actually pay to download and play for any significant amount of time?
I don't know. Other than Pilotwings, everything about the 3DS has been really underwhelming. Hopefully they bring the heat with some game announcements today, because right now I see Ebay in my system's future.
AceBandage
Banned
rhino4evr said:
It's just a normal track editor, really. Not sure how it compares to the NES version.
The 3D works great. Like I said, moving the slider up and down changes the viewing angle in the game in real time. It's very neat.
Skiesofwonder said:
Servers are getting pounded, so the service is going up and down. Just be patient.
lawblob said:
Did you really buy the system without looking at the future announced games?
hikarutilmitt
Member
Alextended said:
Absolutely, set to United States. Not using proxy or anything. I tried rebooting the system last night but that was during maintenance, so I'm going to try one more time.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
lawblob said:
Very few, but there are a few. Donkey Kong '94 is one of them. Both other Mario Land games and the three Wario Land games are more.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Dammit. With as many times as an error occurs and forces a system restart, this will end up being a larger download than any PS3 update. Maybe in the future they will use Resume technology.
It took Wii a year and a half to get WiiWare.KaotikMind said:
AceBandage said:
I bought it on the strength of games I knew I would enjoy, like Pilotwings, Mario, Mario Kart, etc. But I don't know. I feel like the 2 screen thing is no longer exciting, my interest in 3D gaming overall seems to be less and less. I can't remember the last time I used my 3DTV for anything.... Im' just hoping for some surprises in 3DS software. I know Mario Kart and Mario Bros will be fun, but right now im' just questioning whether this is a system I really need.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
JoshuaJSlone said:
But it did launch with two killer apps (FFCCMLAAAAAAAAK and LostWinds)
malingenie
Member
AceBandage said:
Yep, you can be informed OR dissapointed. Pick one, people.
Freezie KO
Banned
lawblob said:
I know Vita's got everyone happy, but ostensibly the games that you bought it for are still coming. Super Mario Raccoon thing, Kart, Nintendo franchises, and the Resident Evils. Unless you didn't buy it for those, and then I'd just wonder what you were hoping for.
But as this thread is about the shop, I dunno, I think getting some old Gameboy games is nice. Not why I got the system, but $4 for Mario Land is a good deal to me.
radioheadrule83
Banned
I hope the VC also includes GBA down the line. Gameboy had some games that I will play again, but a whole heap of the greatest handheld gaming resides on GBA.
I really love the Hold Select or Start to have the Gameboy border thing by the way. That forced me to add £10 credit and buy Mario Land... I wouldn't have done it, but my curiosity couldn't be contained. Having actually played it a little bit, I'm enjoying it again. I'm only on world 3... which brings me to another point, the Restore Point (basically a save state) feature is awesome! It'll make those old-school hard as nails Gameboy games a little bit more friendly to play too
I really love the Hold Select or Start to have the Gameboy border thing by the way. That forced me to add £10 credit and buy Mario Land... I wouldn't have done it, but my curiosity couldn't be contained. Having actually played it a little bit, I'm enjoying it again. I'm only on world 3... which brings me to another point, the Restore Point (basically a save state) feature is awesome! It'll make those old-school hard as nails Gameboy games a little bit more friendly to play too
Does clicking on the upcoming releases screenshots work for anyone? I see where you can click through for a few screenshots of OOT, for example, but when I click them it doesn't do anything.
I will say this, the title screen noise and general music for Excitebike is quite an awesome rush of nostalgia. Makes me think of the countless hours spent creating tracks as a kid.
Mank said:
I will say this, the title screen noise and general music for Excitebike is quite an awesome rush of nostalgia. Makes me think of the countless hours spent creating tracks as a kid.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
lawblob said:
Try clicking on them again, sometimes it didn't work for me.
lawblob said:
Donkey Kong 94', Donkey Kong Land, Jurassic Park, Kid Dracula, Kirby's Dream Land 1 & 2, Link's Awakening, Metroid II, Super R.C. Pro Am, Tetris Attack, Yoshi, Yoshi's Cookie, Tetris and the Mario Land series for me. Anything without a nostalgic connection to me won't make the cut.. in all likelihood, because unlike Super NES games for instance.. GameBoy games usually don't age well enough to pickup a title that you're new to.
GameBoy Colour has some unique games that'll be good too. Wario Land 3, Survival Kids, Legend of Zelda: Oracle Series, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, Warlocked.
At least they priced the titles right. $3.99 for a GameBoy title is good enough to convince me to buy a title I already own, just to play it conveniently on the DS. Save states makes a bunch of titles that would otherwise destroy me (Metroid II) more playable.
Really though, I would hope many of these titles would just receive the 3D Classic treatment. But I guess that's being reserved for NES games. I wonder when other systems start coming out (Game Gear, Turbo Grafx, NeoGeo P) if they'll all have their own border for running their games in native resolution.
MasterShotgun
brazen editing lynx
isoku said:
A little after 12:30 EST.
Freezie KO
Banned
angelfly said:
I want Kirby. :/