Andrefpvs
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If you give it some time since you last passed that particular spot (so other people with the games you have pass it), then yes!
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New 3DS System Update (StreetPass Relay Feature)
- Thread starter Wario64
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If you give it some time since you last passed that particular spot (so other people with the games you have pass it), then yes!
PixyJunket
Member
Great, now I'm going to have to slowly drive by all the Starbucks and McDonald's I pass on the way to (and from) work.
Choppasmith
Member
Sweet! Looking forward to trying this on Wednesday as I ride my bike around town as I have a nice handful of these Nintendo Zones.
Wait, so say I turn my smartphone into a hotspot with the same SSID as a Nintendo Zone (like Best Buy). Does that mean I can use my phone as a portable Nintendo Zone? It would be great if I don't have to carry my bulky 3DS XL around to get StreetPasses. All I would have to do is carry my phone around until someone's 3DS connects to it, then when I'm at home with my 3DS I connect it to the hotspot to receive whatever StreetPass data my phone got.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
... how would your phone know how to get and send the data?
It's very shitty. So, I'll get a new streetpass and then my boyfriend will get my streetpass just after that? This doesn't fix much. Was hoping it'd amass the streetpasses.
Yeah. This is gonna result in problems for groups of siblings (which I see a lot at places like McD) unless say all THREE manage to get the previous person. It really needs to store at least 3-4 people.
Save yourself the trouble and just carry your 3DS around. The Nintendo Zone places probably have special software from Nintendo to get the StreetPass Relay stuff to work.
PixyJunket
Member
It does. I have gotten a pretty good number of StreetPasses from passing cars.
It's certainly got enough range that I got a tag from someone on my 3ds once (still at my desk) from someone sitting at a lunch table two large offices away.
CaptainSchwann
Member
Figures Nintendo releases this two weeks before I leave for Japan.
Astral/H3X
Member
Quick someone set up a weird IP spoof thing so we can set up a virtual Gaf Best Buy.
Has the full extent of its range ever been tested out?
I don't know, but I used it to get the Animal Crossing Best Buy DLC from the comfort of my home. It probably handles StreetPass data differently but...a man can dream.
I'm too embarrassed to carry my 3DS out in the open so I just leave it in my backpack. I don't take my backpack everywhere though, so this would be a good way of potentially getting more StreetPasses. If it worked, of course.
Brainiac 8
Member
You don't have a McDonalds or Best Buy near you?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
This is rather underwhelming, to say the least. But I suppose downloading 10 passes every time you walk by a McDonalds would have been TOO easy.
PixyJunket
Member
The number I've heard tossed around for the 3DS wireless range is ninety to a hundred feet.
So I guess that means two 3DSes need to be within about two hundred feet of each other?
How long does it usually take for the data to transfer to another 3DS? The 3DS would have to be within range for at least 15 seconds if its sending a Mii and that players streetpass game data to your 3DS right?
Someone with two 3ds should test this
But every time you leave home without your 3DS and then come back, even if your phone had interacted with 100 3DSes, you would still only get one StreetPass for your own 3DS.
Solution: grow a pair.
PixyJunket
Member
I am not sure on the exact time, but fifteen seconds seems extreme, I would guess way less.
Brainiac 8
Member
Easy solution: Grow up.
Truckondo2.0
Member
I bring mine to work and when I park next to my friend, the light on the system turns green within seconds. I get 4-5 Streetpasses a day just letting it sit in my car.
Thanks, that fixed it.
entremet
Member
Hint: No one cares about you and they're focused on their life and problems. You learn that as you get older. I'm 32 and play my flame red 3DS on the subway daily and no one cares.
Zero-Crescent
Member
Don't forget that Nintendo put up a short informational video with Bill Trinen on the US eShop last week. It's pretty much the same info as Shibata's during the reveal a few weeks ago.
Astral/H3X
Member
This is something I'm trying to force learn about my taste in music. I know no one cares, but what if someone cares that I listen to Japanese speed metal! What will I do!?
My 3DS, though, I rock loud and proud. Fuck the haters, I know what I like there.
anon_mastermind
Member
Nice, it will be great to get more street passes to use on the new games.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Damn, I thought this would be better than just one person at select locations. Oh well, a walk on campus and by the nearby McDonalds and Starbucks will give me some Streetpasses.
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Jotamide
Unconfirmed Member
Cool shit. I live in front of a McDonalds. Time for all you motherfuckers to water my plants. >
Opinionatedfish
Member
Cool shit. I live in front of a McDonalds. Time for all you motherfuckers to water my plants. >
My side hurts a little now. I kinda want to see "Time for all you motherfuckers to water my plants." on a t-shirt. O_O
RomanceDawn
Member
Yippee! Though will I know if its a Nintendo Zone pass? I love seeing that green light and then observing my surroundings, "which one of these people is a nerd just like me?"
I really hope this is true. I almost never get tags for SSF4.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
I got an Animal Crossing house via StreetPass from someone called PIKMIN 3. The house was all decked out in Pikmin gear, is it Nintendo promotion or a very devoted fan?
Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
I have 2,703 since I got a 3DS XL a year ago.
1,200 was from 4 days of Anime Expo 2013. Anime conventions are a godsend to streetpasses. Too bad about that 10 cap, I know I missed a hell of a lot of people because of that stupid cap. Raise it to 20, 35, or 50 nintendo, it is nowhere near enough for conventions.
Nisei week and Japan Expo USA will add a good 500-800 more people
I've got the same, seems like a promotion.
Add me to the list of people wondering what happens when two people pass the spot at the same time together and have recently StreetPassed each other.
Say we have three people. Persons A, B, and C:
-Person A has data for StreetPass Plaza, Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem, and Monster Hunter.
-Person B has data for StreetPass Plaza and Animal Crossing.
-Person C has data for StreetPass Plaza and Fire Emblem.
-Persons B and C live together and have recently StreetPassed each other.
Obviously, when Person A passes the Nintendo Zone hotspot, they'll leave their data behind for StreetPass Plaza, Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem, and Monster Hunter, all while picking up any previous data.
But when persons B and C pass that hotspot together, what will happen?
Will
1) person B (assuming theirs registers first) get the StreetPass Plaza and Animal Crossing data, leaving person C to get just Fire Emblem data?
2) persons B and C both get the Plaza data because they pass at "approximately" the same time?
3) or perhaps person C just gets nothing at all?
Assuming the first case, will a hypothertical person D with Monster Hunter then get the Monster Hunter data?
The whole thing sounds a bit sketchy simply because of the "last person to pass" wording. I was really hoping it would maybe store each person's streetpass data until it's been distributed say, 10 times, or that person passes again (at which point the counter would reset) thus allowing each person to get multiple StreetPasses each time they pass a Nintendo Zone. Surely this isn't asking too much when some people in rural America are lucky to get 1 pass a day while people in Japan probably get dozens.
I guess I'll find out how this bodes for my two-system rural household next time we take a trip to town.
Say we have three people. Persons A, B, and C:
-Person A has data for StreetPass Plaza, Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem, and Monster Hunter.
-Person B has data for StreetPass Plaza and Animal Crossing.
-Person C has data for StreetPass Plaza and Fire Emblem.
-Persons B and C live together and have recently StreetPassed each other.
Obviously, when Person A passes the Nintendo Zone hotspot, they'll leave their data behind for StreetPass Plaza, Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem, and Monster Hunter, all while picking up any previous data.
But when persons B and C pass that hotspot together, what will happen?
Will
1) person B (assuming theirs registers first) get the StreetPass Plaza and Animal Crossing data, leaving person C to get just Fire Emblem data?
2) persons B and C both get the Plaza data because they pass at "approximately" the same time?
3) or perhaps person C just gets nothing at all?
Assuming the first case, will a hypothertical person D with Monster Hunter then get the Monster Hunter data?
The whole thing sounds a bit sketchy simply because of the "last person to pass" wording. I was really hoping it would maybe store each person's streetpass data until it's been distributed say, 10 times, or that person passes again (at which point the counter would reset) thus allowing each person to get multiple StreetPasses each time they pass a Nintendo Zone. Surely this isn't asking too much when some people in rural America are lucky to get 1 pass a day while people in Japan probably get dozens.
I guess I'll find out how this bodes for my two-system rural household next time we take a trip to town.