http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WriDPkAUfYg&t=2m36sTwinIonEngines said:
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Nintendo 3DS Japanese Launch Thread
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Nikkei Electronics Teardown Squad has been disassembling the unit:Izayoi said:
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20110301/189976/?SS=imgview_e&FD=52237706&ad_q
I really wonder what the story is behind the Browser and Shop not being available until May...
Tied to that, weren't we already told that one of the lights would notify us when we had incoming messages/data? I have to imagine that messaging is coming - the Wii had it, and it seems silly not to have it on the 3Ds what with the incorporated friend list.
Tied to that, weren't we already told that one of the lights would notify us when we had incoming messages/data? I have to imagine that messaging is coming - the Wii had it, and it seems silly not to have it on the 3Ds what with the incorporated friend list.
The Abominable Snowman
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Izayoi said:
Unless they really put 3 diff arm cores within the same package with the PICA200 i think the "leaked" specs are incorrect. Aside from this mystery "Nintendo" chip package there's no other processor
I'd say they rushed to launch. DS and Wii sales were down a lot this year and they needed something radical to boost their earnings for the fiscal year. A late Feb release gives them a full month to the end of FY Q4, and with an assumed successful launch, that would be approx 1 million units. But the infrastructure and software was not totally ready as a result. 1 Nintendo game at launch... really!? Yeah.DavidDayton said:
I don't know if they mentioned messaging specifically, but it does indicate when you get a tag in StreetPass, and there will be other forms of notification from Nintendo too, for system updates and so on.
345triangle
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well, no - i was basing it on the internal storage capacity evidently being a tenth as big as the SD card. i guess maybe the DSi let you take 600 tops?Izayoi said:
Starchasing
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DavidDayton said:
A staggered launch of firmware services makes more sense if you look at it from the bussiness perspective. They are easier to handle, they keep you in the news more time, they reduce stress in the service desk system... and probably allows them to introduce new antipiracy features.
It also goes with the "fresh system" idea they have of a system that surprises you from time to time. They will do this with al the features that people miss on the system like 3D video, messaging with your contacts, adding your contact mii to the mii plaza .. etc etc
StickSoldier
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So I've been wondering about how preordering from Gamestop works. I recently preordered aqua blue from Gamestop, which is actually my first time preordering any hardware. What I'm now worried about is that do they just let as many people come in and preorder, and if so how do they determine who gets first batch and what not. I assume its by who first preordered it? I'm really hoping it doesn't sell out at the store am in and I suddenly miss out on gettin my 3ds.. Can anyone give me some details?
The Abominable Snowman
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probably within that "Nintendo" package. With what is probably a single ARM processorVic said:
donkey show
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TwinIonEngines said:
I took a picture of it awhile back in the thread.
Just hold start and select in the home menu before launching your DS game.
Smiles and Cries
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rpmurphy said:
I cannot wait to see the video of LOVE PLUS AR with these guys
Strafebogey
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donkey show
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Strafebogey said:
Done. =)
sasimirobot
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Somebody should start a 3DS friend codes thread.
I should have mine in a few days.
I should have mine in a few days.
Nuclear Muffin
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Izayoi said:
3 actually. The DS/DSi has an ARM 9 and an ARM 7.
Also considering that nobody has reported any glitches at all with DS games I think its safe to say that software emulation is not being used and instead, the original hardware is included (it's probably used to run the OS functions in the background when playing 3DS games)
donkey show
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Smiles and Cries said:
1) get Love Plus DS
2) create poster sized AR card
3) setup crotch shot
4) ???
5) profit
At least it'll make those Love Plus marriages a little more, er, interesting.
Strafebogey
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Thank you donkeyshow, you just came in live in my Friendlist. 
Played a couple of rounds of SSFIV3D online, got my ass handed to me pretty bad. I'm rusty. No lag whatsoever, but that's probably coz I'm closer to Japan.
Played a couple of rounds of SSFIV3D online, got my ass handed to me pretty bad. I'm rusty. No lag whatsoever, but that's probably coz I'm closer to Japan.
sasimirobot
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AR chess. Animated pieces and fight and eat each other and shit would be neat!
I'll buy it at a high price.sasimirobot said:
BigJonsson
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Smiles and Cries
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I think a lot of people have put their hopes up and hoping AR cards can interact with other AR cards
it would be killer but we have not seen anything pointing in that direction
yet alone something that would be easy to test can two 3DS view the same card
if so can two machines be synchronized on the same card, same animation in real time.
That is the only way we will every see real time battles between players in AR
right now its just cool but the above would be the next step forward if they could get that working
it would be killer but we have not seen anything pointing in that direction
yet alone something that would be easy to test can two 3DS view the same card
if so can two machines be synchronized on the same card, same animation in real time.
That is the only way we will every see real time battles between players in AR
right now its just cool but the above would be the next step forward if they could get that working
sasimirobot
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Smiles and Cries said:
That guy in this thread that bought like a half dozen 3DS should test this out!
Wrestlemania
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Wouldn't be difficult at all. It wouldn't matter if they were slightly out of sync, each player would only see one screen.Smiles and Cries said:
I would imagine something like this would be easily doable.Smiles and Cries said:
The cards don't project any kind of data or anything, all they are is a reference point for the camera.
As long as the AR game doesn't muck up the official cards with a bunch of garbage like the e-Reader shit did then I'm all good.
It's not a matter of if two systems can see the same AR card. Obviously that would work, but the systems aren't interacting so they each just see an AR card.Smiles and Cries said:
For multiplayer, it's not necessarily a matter of AR cards interacting with each other. Like with Invizimals, you'd just have one AR card which simply tells each system where the center point is and what angle to render at. If the systems are communicating then it would be the same as any other multiplayer game, except that each system would center the same battle around an AR card instead of some virtual arena (regardless of whether both are looking at the same card or not.)
Smiles and Cries
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well I hope you guys are right because that sound fun
the real shocker for me was printing out different sizes allows for larger characters or smaller ones
I really hope Nintendo does not drop the ball on AR and really uses it for something special
the real shocker for me was printing out different sizes allows for larger characters or smaller ones
I really hope Nintendo does not drop the ball on AR and really uses it for something special
I think what's throwing people off here is the Star Viewer and Nintendogs being able to tell which mascot card they're looking at. But I'm sure that's probably a simple shape/color recognition.Izayoi said:
They couldn't simply release more characters as cards without also updating the software to recognize each new card, and the more there are the more likely the software will start confusing one for another.
I'm interested more in AR games that project a game onto reality around a single card, rather than games with tons of cards that act as a tabletop game with the AR only serving as a viewport into the game.
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