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NewEgg has got a coupon code that expires tomorrow for  off on Luigi's Mansion.Edit: Luigi's Mansion only looks like. 8-bit Miniboss fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Mar 4, 2013 |
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8-bit Miniboss posted:NewEgg has got a coupon code that expires tomorrow for The promo code EMCYTZT3040 has been closed and is no longer active. Wow, it's even still on the page.
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elf help book posted:The promo code EMCYTZT3040 has been closed and is no longer active. Jeez, I literally just slipped into that one about an hour ago.
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:Do they end up using the Spanish for the South American release or do they get the NA release in English? More companies have recently started translating games into Brazilian Portuguese for the South American market, including Nintendo. They don't do it for every title but it's becoming more of a regular thing. Phantasium posted:I have not missed buying a Castlevania game on release since Chronicles on the PS1. I will not be buying Mirror of Fate on launch day. Unless they've completely changed several things from the demo, there are too many problems with it for me to Making demos takes time and money that subtracts from the main game, so lots of devs just offer up old demos they made for trade shows or whatever.
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Mar 4, 2013 22:45
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Some Japanese chap did an informative video about (big) releases in Japan this month. (The original from NND is here.)
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elf help book posted:The promo code EMCYTZT3040 has been closed and is no longer active. Edoraz posted:Jeez, I literally just slipped into that one about an hour ago. Wow, that's surprising and sucks at the same time. I know it's been traded around a couple StreetPass FB groups. Probably got a lot of action between them... Obligatory "gently caress you, got mine". 
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Mar 4, 2013 23:17
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Sorry for the dumb question, but I'm visiting in the states right now and have an EU 3DS. I can't play American carts on it, can I?
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No, you can't. It's region-locked. If you really feel the need to buy games whilst overseas, there's always the eShop!
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Mar 5, 2013 01:26
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I StreetPassed someone today who gave me a weapon gem, a mystery box, and ghost data, but for some reason they must have disabled StreetPass for StreetPass Mii Plaza because I didn't get their dude. 
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Welp, I've done it. I've just purchased an XL. edit: Argh, Nintendo! What exactly is being conveyed by these gems dropping into an icon during the eShop download process? Can I just have a progress meter, please? Funkmaster General fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Mar 5, 2013 |
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Mar 5, 2013 04:51
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Funkmaster General posted:Welp, I've done it. I've just purchased an XL. But the square is getting fuller!  Oh look, it's the eShop icon guy, he's riding the gems how funny Americans will love this
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Mar 5, 2013 05:07
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If you set your downloads to Sleep Mode you can see an actual download percentage on the main menu.
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Mar 5, 2013 05:12
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When does the E-Shop update? I read there was a demo for the new Pokemon mystery dungeon game coming this week and I'm antsy.
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Mar 5, 2013 05:18
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Thursday.
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Mar 5, 2013 05:20
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Edoraz posted:But the square is getting fuller! Oh, yes. It goes right along with our fascination with representing storage space as unquantifiable "blocks" instead of inferior terms like "megabytes" or "gigabytes."
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Mar 5, 2013 05:29
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KGBAgent185 posted:When does the E-Shop update? I read there was a demo for the new Pokemon mystery dungeon game coming this week and I'm antsy. Nintendo did post two videos of it today, though, so be sure to check them out.
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The Pikmin system transfer is cute. Not having a progress bar is annoying, though.
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Is there any way to disable the shoulder buttons bringing up the camera? I am constantly hitting them by accident.
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Quidnose posted:The Pikmin system transfer is cute. There is a progress bar at the bottom in the form of the flowers, and there is a percentile in the top right. I just did a system transfer this weekend. Funkmaster General posted:Oh, yes. It goes right along with our fascination with representing storage space as unquantifiable "blocks" instead of inferior terms like "megabytes" or "gigabytes." I was just discussing this with my wife. Has there been any conversion posted? How big a block is on any of these systems? I was so glad when I got a ps2 that it gave up the bullshit 15 block memory cards.  Laser Spider posted:Nintendo did post two videos of it today, though, so be sure to check them out. Drowning Rabbit fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Mar 5, 2013 |
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Mar 5, 2013 05:43
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8192 blocks = 1GB, off the top of my head.
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Guilty posted:Sorry for the dumb question, but I'm visiting in the states right now and have an EU 3DS. I can't play American carts on it, can I? Most DS games aren't locked (Pokemon B/W and a few others are, iirc), but all 3ds carts are.
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nerdpony posted:Most DS games aren't locked (Pokemon B/W and a few others are, iirc), but all 3ds carts are. That said, those locks can only be enforced on a DSi or 3DS. The original DS and the Lite both lack the region lockout software that those games check against.
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KGBAgent185 posted:I'll have to check those out. I put in a preorder for it today as I was in GameStop returning the ds adventure time game to get the 3DS one. On that note, if you care at all about Club Nintendo, be sure to go there and say that you intend to purchase it. Do a short survey and you'll get an extra 10 coins when you actually register the game. Watch carefully, as the physical and downloadable versions are considered separate games on Club Nintendo, so don't say that you're going to buy the wrong one. For anyone who is going to get Luigi's Mansion, there's the same offer up for it as well.
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Funkmaster General posted:Oh, yes. It goes right along with our fascination with representing storage space as unquantifiable "blocks" instead of inferior terms like "megabytes" or "gigabytes." In flash memory terms, a block is the smallest useful unit of space. Common block sizes are 128kb or 256kb, but it can vary by manufacture or technology. You can often write or read smaller-than blocksize units but, you can only delete an entire block at a time. Flash memory also tends to have some blocks busted straight from the factory, which has unnerved people backing up their Wii flash memory since that process displays all the blocks onscreen during the operation. In short, blocks are very quantifiable and significant to the tech, where they are used quantify useful memory allocation. It's not goof console lingo any more than "bytes" themselves.
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I know this has been mentioned already, but I am really interested in seeing how the reviews for that new Castlevania game end up shaping out, because I cannot tell if this game is any good or not based on how awful this demo performs. It doesn't look like it would be a bad GoW clone by any means, but holy poo poo, I'm usually not one to notice terrible framerates, and if the first 30 seconds of the game had me going "wow this is performing TERRIBLY" there's something seriously wrong. WHY WHY WHY do companies keep releasing awful demos? I know that it's probably easier to devote manpower to finishing the game if they already have a demo in place, but seriously, how is this supposed to entice me to get the product? What are they thinking here? First that Monster Hunter demo, now this? Get your act together, 3DS developers!
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Sure, but no one talks about hard drive capacity in terms of sectors anymore. Nintendo's use of block is just an attempt to be charmingly anachronistic, like a rotary cell phone.Quidnose posted:I know this has been mentioned already, but I am really interested in seeing how the reviews for that new Castlevania game end up shaping out, because I cannot tell if this game is any good or not based on how awful this demo performs. It doesn't look like it would be a bad GoW clone by any means, but holy poo poo, I'm usually not one to notice terrible framerates, and if the first 30 seconds of the game had me going "wow this is performing TERRIBLY" there's something seriously wrong. homeless snail fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Mar 5, 2013 |
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Chris Kohler will be talking/tweeting more indepth about it tomorrow, but he just finished Mirror of Fate and had the following to say.Chris Kohler @kobunheat posted:I beat Mirror of Fate this morning. It's meh. Fun to stomp through one time, but more low-rent God of War than Metroidvania. Surprise! Kinda curious to see if the abysmal frame-rate was fixed in the final build, but I'll be skipping it anyway.
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So I'll probably be picking up an XL in a few hour's time. But before I do, I'd like to know - how's the battery life in comparison to the original model, and are there any battery addons? Thanks in advance.
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Pureauthor posted:So I'll probably be picking up an XL in a few hour's time. But before I do, I'd like to know - how's the battery life in comparison to the original model, and are there any battery addons? Nintendo quotes battery life for the 3DS XL as being about 25% longer than the regular 3DS: 3.5-6.5 hours rather than 3-5. I'm not aware of any battery add-ons on the market yet, but supposedly there's a third-party one in the works that's meant to extend battery life up to 21 hours.
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Here, have some Castlevania reviews (highest score to lowest): ONM Game Informer CVG GIGA Godisageek Nintendolife Edge Eurogamer EGM Gamesradar IGN Venturebeat No real surprises for anyone who's followed the game and/or played the demo, I don't think.
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homeless snail posted:Sure, but no one talks about hard drive capacity in terms of sectors anymore. Nintendo's use of block is just an attempt to be charmingly anachronistic, like a rotary cell phone. I think you may be giving Nintendo too much credit. They seem to be a company that embraces the worst part of their recent past (remaking the same lovely 2D Mario game three times now), while resisting the advances that every other platform has made. Region locking, having content tied to one system the way it is now, and not having Link to the Past available for download. If Nintendo fixed any one of these three problems, I'd be happy. 
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Chinook posted:I think you may be giving Nintendo too much credit. They seem to be a company that embraces the worst part of their recent past (remaking the same lovely 2D Mario game three times now), while resisting the advances that every other platform has made. Four Swords comes with Link to the Past and it was free for 3DS owners for a while, I have it on my 3DS.
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:Four Swords comes with Link to the Past and it was free for 3DS owners for a while, I have it on my 3DS. The free Four Swords game they gave away on DSiWare didn't include Link to the Past and is no longer available, not even for purchase. The GBA game given away to 3DS ambassadors was Minish Cap, and it's not available for purchase either.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:The free Four Swords game they gave away on DSiWare didn't include Link to the Past and is no longer available, not even for purchase. The GBA game given away to 3DS ambassadors was Minish Cap, and it's not available for purchase either. Oh really? I might be confusing the one I have on the 3DS with the one I have on the emulator, assumed they wouldn't take stuff out. That's really weird that they remove things off the store completely though. Nintendo :I
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:Oh really? I might be confusing the one I have on the 3DS with the one I have on the emulator, assumed they wouldn't take stuff out. The GBA version of ALttP came with Four Swords, not the other way around. The DSi Four Swords is not an emulated copy of the GBA ROM, but a port with additional content.
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homeless snail posted:Sure, but no one talks about hard drive capacity in terms of sectors anymore. Nintendo's use of block is just an attempt to be charmingly anachronistic, like a rotary cell phone.
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Pyrovile posted:Doesn't the Wii U say MBs and GBs instead of blocks? I thought I remembered seeing straight up file sizes when Giant Bomb were looking at the system memory in their Wii U live stream. This is correct.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Here, have some Castlevania reviews (highest score to lowest): Still plan on buying it, but not at full price. Oh well.
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Why isn't the ambassador stuff available for purchase? I just bought a 3DS XL and it seems really stupid that they apparently don't want me to give them money.
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The Machine posted:Why isn't the ambassador stuff available for purchase? I just bought a 3DS XL and it seems really stupid that they apparently don't want me to give them money. Most of the NES stuff is now, I think. The GBA ports are so half-assed that they shouldn't sell them.
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