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asecondduck
Feb 18, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

Yeah, I'm probably gonna buy this. Especially if there are Pixar characters. If Remy doesn't give you cooking lessons that is a terribly squandered opportunity.

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SgtKirby
Nov 19, 2012
I am a bit late for yearly stats, but here is mine. I had it since it was release and just recently upgrade to Zelda XL.

Steps: 897,950 step (Mostly from going to university and EVO in Las Vegas)
Play Time: 56 titles / 661:12


1.) Fire Emblem Awakening- 173:28
I am at the last stage of the game, but I want to do some of the side stuff before finishing it. It my first game for series. Very fun game and enjoy the characters. I am going back to play the old game that got from Ambassador program.

2.) Project X Zone- 108:04
I uhhhh actually like this game for the fan service (their interaction) for all the characters, however doing fights for 3+ hours is a bit too much. I maybe the only one in this thread that actually complete it. :v:

3.) Shin Megami Tensei IV- 80:44
Currently (and playing right now) on my list of stuff to finish and I'm close to the end. And for the life of me, I can't deal with it on normal difficulty and have to lower it down.

4.) StreetPass Mii Plaza
I bought the DLC stuff and it has increase the time that I play on it. Thanks to Pokemon and Zelda, my streetpass rate has increase a lot.

5.) Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney-Dual Destinies - 48:00
I am close to the end and need to get back to that. I am enjoying it and will get the DLC after completing the game.

6.) The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages- 26:21
Not much to say, but never play it as a kid and I enjoy it. I can't believe that I skip this and Season.

7.) Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon- 18:02
Because it's the year of Luigi!!!!

Overall, I am very satisfied with 3DS, despite having a rough start. I am already planning to get Bravely Default when it is release. I don't see the slowing down at all now!

Getsuya
Oct 2, 2013

lelandjs posted:

Yeah, I'm probably gonna buy this. Especially if there are Pixar characters. If Remy doesn't give you cooking lessons that is a terribly squandered opportunity.

Sorry, no Pixar characters yet. However, I would imagine if it takes off in America it might cause Namco Bandai to start putting out more DLC like they did with putting out the Pirates of the Caribbean set and Sleeping Beauty set.

Atlas Hugged
Mar 12, 2007


Put your arms around me,
fiddly digits, itchy britches
I love you all

SgtKirby posted:

3.) Shin Megami Tensei IV- 80:44
Currently (and playing right now) on my list of stuff to finish and I'm close to the end. And for the life of me, I can't deal with it on normal difficulty and have to lower it down.

Grab the EXP and Macca DLC. It considerably reduces the difficulty by letting you upgrade your equipment and fuse better demons basically at will.

Cuntellectual
Aug 6, 2010
So for some reason my 3DS suddenly stopped working as well as it used to. It starts up slower and I can't connect to the eshop/any other internet things with it even though it has full blue bars and is enabled (my internet does work, obviously).

Anyone have an idea of what might be up?

THE AWESOME GHOST
Oct 21, 2005

Is there no Zelda 3ds thread? Weird. Just upgraded from launch 3ds to the gold Zelda XL and I can't believe I spent so much time on the tiny lovely screen, and also Zelda is awesome.

Wildtortilla
Jul 8, 2008

THE AWESOME GHOST posted:

Is there no Zelda 3ds thread? Weird. Just upgraded from launch 3ds to the gold Zelda XL and I can't believe I spent so much time on the tiny lovely screen, and also Zelda is awesome.

The Zelda mega thread is serving as a Link Between Worlds thread.

Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


Anatharon posted:

Anyone have an idea of what might be up?

The way you describe it, it sounds like a problem with your SD card. You may want to try a different one and see if that helps. Just move all your stuff to an empty card and make sure it has the same name as your old one.

Fryhtaning
Jul 21, 2010

I've sent an e-mail to Nintendo as a last-ditch effort, and if I don't get any help, I'm about to just put this thing up on eBay. My StreetPass experience is completely hosed everywhere but with the Mii Plaza itself, and even then I'm now only getting 2 or 3 people per StreetPass relay where I used to get 6. The first week I had this thing was so exciting with all of the notifications that a Shadow Link was waiting for me, or that another FE team was in the game. Now I get neither, far fewer people are at the relays, and to add insult to injury the Mii Plaza will not go above 9 people waiting at the gate, regardless how many spots I hit. It's like I have a permanently corrupted spot keeping me from reaching 10 or from individual games getting access to the visitors. The games themselves are awesome, the 3D is awesome, but the frustration of spending hours a day trying to fix this is deflating.

RyceCube
Dec 22, 2003
Really wish I picked up SMTIV and Devil Survivor Overclocked during the Atlus sale :(. Do they do these with any regularity?

greatn
Nov 15, 2006

by Lowtax

Fryhtaning posted:

I've sent an e-mail to Nintendo as a last-ditch effort, and if I don't get any help, I'm about to just put this thing up on eBay. My StreetPass experience is completely hosed everywhere but with the Mii Plaza itself, and even then I'm now only getting 2 or 3 people per StreetPass relay where I used to get 6. The first week I had this thing was so exciting with all of the notifications that a Shadow Link was waiting for me, or that another FE team was in the game. Now I get neither, far fewer people are at the relays, and to add insult to injury the Mii Plaza will not go above 9 people waiting at the gate, regardless how many spots I hit. It's like I have a permanently corrupted spot keeping me from reaching 10 or from individual games getting access to the visitors. The games themselves are awesome, the 3D is awesome, but the frustration of spending hours a day trying to fix this is deflating.

There is a limit of 9. It's not supposed to go over 9. You are trying to fix something that isn't broken.

Shelf Adventure
Jul 18, 2006
I'm down with that brother
The mii plaza limit is 10.

homeless snail
Mar 14, 2007

Fryhtaning posted:

I've sent an e-mail to Nintendo as a last-ditch effort, and if I don't get any help, I'm about to just put this thing up on eBay. My StreetPass experience is completely hosed everywhere but with the Mii Plaza itself, and even then I'm now only getting 2 or 3 people per StreetPass relay where I used to get 6. The first week I had this thing was so exciting with all of the notifications that a Shadow Link was waiting for me, or that another FE team was in the game. Now I get neither, far fewer people are at the relays, and to add insult to injury the Mii Plaza will not go above 9 people waiting at the gate, regardless how many spots I hit. It's like I have a permanently corrupted spot keeping me from reaching 10 or from individual games getting access to the visitors. The games themselves are awesome, the 3D is awesome, but the frustration of spending hours a day trying to fix this is deflating.
Are you getting tagged twice by the same person? That'd take two slots.

I honestly don't get selling your console over loving Streetpass of all things if you like the games, but do whatever you want. Its a pretty inessential gimmick.

Cuntellectual
Aug 6, 2010

Saoshyant posted:

The way you describe it, it sounds like a problem with your SD card. You may want to try a different one and see if that helps. Just move all your stuff to an empty card and make sure it has the same name as your old one.

Hm, I tried straight up just popping out the SD card but to no avail.

Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


My experience with the relays is that if I pass through one, I get six people, a second one without clearing those six, I get an extra three, and the count doesn't seem to go over nine except in rare occasions, which I assume to be when I actually streetpass a real person. I get something like 12-18 Streetpasses per day thanks to the relays on my way to work and back; I stopped caring about stuff like Fire Emblem teams and whatnot because there's no way to go over all of them anymore, so I just use the hits to get whatever puzzles pieces I don't have and for another stab at Quest II.

RMZXAnarchy
Sep 9, 2011

*Insert Sailor Jupiter joke here*

homeless snail posted:

Are you getting tagged twice by the same person? That'd take two slots.

I think this is the dumbest thing but only because I don't check Mii Plaza everyday so when I get somebody 2-4 times in a row it feels like a waste. But you should see if one of the Mii's hi-fives you twice when you greet them.

flyboi
Oct 13, 2005

agg stop posting
College Slice

Phiberoptik posted:

Really wish I picked up SMTIV and Devil Survivor Overclocked during the Atlus sale :(. Do they do these with any regularity?

Atlus will have a discount on them starting the 13th

Fryhtaning
Jul 21, 2010

RMZXAnarchy posted:

I think this is the dumbest thing but only because I don't check Mii Plaza everyday so when I get somebody 2-4 times in a row it feels like a waste. But you should see if one of the Mii's hi-fives you twice when you greet them.

I'll look out for that... I know I've seen it before, but rarely.

SgtKirby
Nov 19, 2012

Atlas Hugged posted:

Grab the EXP and Macca DLC. It considerably reduces the difficulty by letting you upgrade your equipment and fuse better demons basically at will.

Money is not issue right now... I have over 900,000 Macca and now trying to decide what armor to get at Ginza shopping district. I had the SDF armor (Gray Camouflage) for so long that didn't want to upgrade for the longest time. Thanks for the tip, though.

ChibiSoma
Apr 13, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Oh, hey, rad. Thanks, Nintendo. This is so much fun. On the Yuga-Ganon fight in LBW on Hero Mode. Done everything else there is. Got all my items upgraded (even the net and lantern), got all the Maiamais, got all the heart pieces. All I need is to beat the game. But instead what I'm doing is trying to find a spot to grind loving potion ingredients for an hour or two, because god forbid you're just allowed to buy the drat things.

No idea where the best place to do it is, either. Am I better off in a dungeon, slashing pots and trying to hope for tails, or should I use the big grass patch in Kakariko/outside the Rupee Rush screen?

In a game full of questionable decisions, this is probably the worst offender.

Ragequit
Jun 1, 2006


Lipstick Apathy
I royally hosed up applying the bottom part of the HORI covers because of a single piece of dust. I could not get the drat dust speck off. Now the backside is toast. Is it possible to wash off with water and air dry to start again? It isn't a huge deal, as I primarily wanted it for the top screen to protect it from the bottom bezel. I was just curious.

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


So I've done everything in the Bravely Default demo except get 20 villagers... how exactly is that supposed to work? My kids have 2DSes so they streetpass with me and pop up on my friends list all the time but I'm not getting any more dudes, do they also have to be playing the game or something? Because I figured that only applied to the Abilink or whatever it is where you can get your friends' characters to help you fight.

glassyalabolas
Oct 21, 2006
I want to bowl with the gangsters...

Ragequit posted:

I royally hosed up applying the bottom part of the HORI covers because of a single piece of dust. I could not get the drat dust speck off. Now the backside is toast. Is it possible to wash off with water and air dry to start again? It isn't a huge deal, as I primarily wanted it for the top screen to protect it from the bottom bezel. I was just curious.

how is it messed up? you can try and use scotch tape to pick up the dust.

SC Bracer
Aug 7, 2012

DEMAGLIO!
Yeah they need the game to give you villagers. There's an exploit for it as well but you've already passed the point where you can do it.

Ragequit
Jun 1, 2006


Lipstick Apathy

glassyalabolas posted:

how is it messed up? you can try and use scotch tape to pick up the dust.

The dust was stuck to the film and in the process of removing it I dropped the thing, causing it to pick up more dust. I'll have to try scotch tape later.

Crawfish
Dec 11, 2012



ChibiSoma posted:

No idea where the best place to do it is, either. Am I better off in a dungeon, slashing pots and trying to hope for tails, or should I use the big grass patch in Kakariko/outside the Rupee Rush screen?
The second room in the last dungeon, the one full of skulls. Break all of those skulls with your sword, leave the room, rinse and repeat.

It shouldn't be too hard to max your ingredients in about 15 minutes that way.

Hollow Gaunt
Aug 7, 2007

Speaking of Hori screen protectors, what is the best way to go about applying them if you live in a dusty area? The 3DS XL I ordered arrived, but I'm afraid of touching it without screen protectors, but I'm afraid of applying them wrong and wasting the money.

Dred Cosmonaut
Jan 6, 2010

There once was a tiger-striped cat.

ChibiSoma posted:

Oh, hey, rad. Thanks, Nintendo. This is so much fun. On the Yuga-Ganon fight in LBW on Hero Mode. Done everything else there is. Got all my items upgraded (even the net and lantern), got all the Maiamais, got all the heart pieces. All I need is to beat the game. But instead what I'm doing is trying to find a spot to grind loving potion ingredients for an hour or two, because god forbid you're just allowed to buy the drat things.

No idea where the best place to do it is, either. Am I better off in a dungeon, slashing pots and trying to hope for tails, or should I use the big grass patch in Kakariko/outside the Rupee Rush screen?

In a game full of questionable decisions, this is probably the worst offender.

Is it even possible for you to play games without whining about how bad you are at them

Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


Factum est posted:

Speaking of Hori screen protectors, what is the best way to go about applying them if you live in a dusty area?

Bathroom after a hot bath. Steamy air doesn't let dust particles float by.

Kyoujin
Oct 7, 2009
A hot shower to steam up the room should help. I wish I had remembered that before applying mine.

Hollow Gaunt
Aug 7, 2007

Hot shower before applying - got it. I'm guessing just hot/steamy enough for there to water vapor in the air, and not sauna-like?

Ragequit
Jun 1, 2006


Lipstick Apathy
Scotch tape did the trick! It's not perfect, but there is no visible dust. You can't even tell the protection is there when it's turned on, so I don't mind.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

ChibiSoma posted:

Oh, hey, rad. Thanks, Nintendo. This is so much fun. On the Yuga-Ganon fight in LBW on Hero Mode. Done everything else there is. Got all my items upgraded (even the net and lantern), got all the Maiamais, got all the heart pieces. All I need is to beat the game. But instead what I'm doing is trying to find a spot to grind loving potion ingredients for an hour or two, because god forbid you're just allowed to buy the drat things.

No idea where the best place to do it is, either. Am I better off in a dungeon, slashing pots and trying to hope for tails, or should I use the big grass patch in Kakariko/outside the Rupee Rush screen?

In a game full of questionable decisions, this is probably the worst offender.
How have you gotten that far in the game without having a ton of potion ingredients from killing enemies?

RyokoTK
Feb 12, 2012

I am cool.
Just use red potions or milk.

asecondduck
Feb 18, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

ChibiSoma posted:

Oh, hey, rad. Thanks, Nintendo. This is so much fun. On the Yuga-Ganon fight in LBW on Hero Mode. Done everything else there is. Got all my items upgraded (even the net and lantern), got all the Maiamais, got all the heart pieces. All I need is to beat the game. But instead what I'm doing is trying to find a spot to grind loving potion ingredients for an hour or two, because god forbid you're just allowed to buy the drat things.

No idea where the best place to do it is, either. Am I better off in a dungeon, slashing pots and trying to hope for tails, or should I use the big grass patch in Kakariko/outside the Rupee Rush screen?

In a game full of questionable decisions, this is probably the worst offender.

For what it's worth, I didn't even bother with potions. Bottled faeries were enough for me.

Alliterate Addict
Jul 10, 2012

dreaming of that face again

it's bright and blue and shimmering

grinning wide and comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes

irlZaphod posted:

How have you gotten that far in the game without having a ton of potion ingredients from killing enemies?

Well, either he's bad enough that he used all of them, or sold all of them as he went (like me).

Although I still ended up with a fuckton more after buying all the items, but I also didn't use rupees to buy any golden bees, so I could easily see dumping them for emergency payday loans.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
Yeah I had 99 of all 3 by halfway through the game.

Wait, so you're saying take the screen protector off of the bottom screen, then try some scotch tape to get the dust off and reapply? I'll try that before I go out and buy a second one, thanks.

Ragequit
Jun 1, 2006


Lipstick Apathy

Bust Rodd posted:

Yeah I had 99 of all 3 by halfway through the game.

Wait, so you're saying take the screen protector off of the bottom screen, then try some scotch tape to get the dust off and reapply? I'll try that before I go out and buy a second one, thanks.

Yup - it works pretty well, and mine was loaded with dust after it hit the floor.

absolutely anything
Dec 28, 2006

~As for dreams, she has enough and more to spare~

irlZaphod posted:

How have you gotten that far in the game without having a ton of potion ingredients from killing enemies?

The answer is It's loving ChibiSoma.

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Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
Okay: I'm ashamed to admit that I forgot just how great Devil Survivor: OC and Fire Emblem: Awakening were to play on the go. Why did I subject myself to Project x Zone for so long when I had these 2 greats in my book/games-shelf? Seriously, I know the 3 are supposed to be Tactical/Strategy RPG's, but the difference is jaw-dropping.

While PxZ has some decent voice acting, fist-pumpingly awesome music (Virtua Fighter, Super Robot Wars / Endless Frontier and especially Sakura Wars :3:), and plus it also led me to discover both Super Robot Wars and holy-poo poo JAM Project :ssj:, it honestly pales in comparison to how well done both DeSu:OC and Awakening were.

I started to replay Awakening (on my home>work commute) this Thursday, and just the fact alone that the game both rewards and punishes you for whatever action plan you took feels like a welcome change. The fact that there's a challenge (to not get your characters killed permanently) makes it all the more interesting and I seriously hope that they release a new Fire Emblem game soon. Devil Survivor (work>home commute) is basically a much needed breath of fresh air after the unenthusiastic slogs that the fights in PxZ become after a while.

While I'm going to buy Bravely Default, I honestly cannot wait to play all the backlog that I neglected because of that game.

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