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Nintendo Downloads - December 2011
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TheLastCandle
Member
How so?
Also, NA hasn't gotten one Picross game and Japan is already on their second one, WTF?
About the messaging app andriasang and Nintendo have some more info: http://andriasang.com/comzfq/3ds_diary/
Here's the app's nintendo site with a video:http://www.nintendo.co.jp/3ds/eshop/jfrj/index.html
Here's the app's nintendo site with a video:http://www.nintendo.co.jp/3ds/eshop/jfrj/index.html
VICTORsaurio
Member
WTF IS WRONG WITH NOA/NOE?
I hope that maybe we'll be getting SUPER PICROSS e or something!!!!!!!
Just watched the video and uh, as robust as it is, it still kinda misses the point for me.
Good thing I had low expectations for this or I would have been pretty disappointed.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
You can send screenshots too?
AWESOME.
Friendly challenges in games without online leaderboards incoming!
Mario3D Land speedruns challenges! :O
Just watched the video and uh, as robust as it is, it still kinda misses the point for me.
Good thing I had low expectations for this or I would have been pretty disappointed.
I'm actually okay with it. Its much more of a postcard/email system than a chat feature. The video does show how you can send "reactions" to letters and how they are organized. It looks solid for what it is. The only issue I have is that apparently you can't send a full screenshot, someone mentioned that images are cropped to fit half the space of a "postcard" instead of the full pic. We'll see.
At the moment I think it will be useful for some gloating or raging if say I have a mario kart race with a friend and clean up or get creamed. It can also still serve as a way to schedule some online matches with friends.
Edit
Dash Kappei it looks like you can send pics taken with your 3ds to your friends although I'm not sure if you can send the full image or not. I said screenshots because Nintendogs lets you take screenshots. But its not a feature of the messaging app to capture screenshots, so 3d land speed run times aren't possible unless you want to jump through some hoops.Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
If only there were some competing software platforms that had this functionality built in or added after the fact, Nintendo might be able to learn by example and implement that kind of thing
Yea, arranging quick matches is probably the most use i'll get out of it. Missed opportunity for sure but that's to be expected.
Were you hoping for more of a pictochat system? I don't know why there isn't one already built into the friends list. It makes so sense just like why Nintendo doesn't have a flipnote 3d out yet and also won't allow the dsi flipnote on the 3ds.
Edit:Here's a user video of swapnote/letterbox for anyone interested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K6ck2FtahZI
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Oh wow, I'd never used the Game Note function. It taunts you even more by giving you the option to focus on the top screen, bottom screen or both together. How hard would it be to give the option to save the top screen as a 3d image file, the bottom screen as a png, or both together as a png (or insert favorite image type here)?
Edit: Or even better, just add a freaking screen capture button in the camera since you can access it from the home menu while a game is running too.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Or make it so that you don't even need to do that at all. iOS is a button combo, Vita is a button combo, Steam has an always-on button, PSP CFW has a button combo. No need for a UI at all
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Or make it so that you don't even need to do that at all. iOS is a button combo, Vita is a button combo, Steam has an always-on button, PSP CFW has a button combo. No need for a UI at all
Well it's different for the 3ds since it has 4 possible screenshot options: top screen 2-D, bottom screen, both screens, and top screen 3-D.
Could still have a button combo to quickly bring up the four options though. Or it could let you set in the system settings what option the button combo uses.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Given that Nintendo insists you can only see 3D content on the 3DS and only releases 2D screenshots and videos of its games outside the 3DS, why not just default to both screens, 2D PNG with the stupid watermark? Yeah, people will grumble about not being able to take 3D screens, and with good reason, but it'd still be an immeasurable improvement to nothing and users are more comfortable if there isn't a UI layer involved breaking up their gameplay.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Not trying to contradict you, (genuinely curious now) but where did the screenshots from
http://www.3ds-screenshot.com/
come from then?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I don't find them to be useless at all. I take a lot of screen captures in Steam, on my CFW PSP, and on my iOS devices. They're handy for testing, handy for promotion initiated by users, handy for reviewers and journalists. The Vita screen thread was just started this week and it's pretty huge already, and I think it's absolutely serving the purpose of making people aware of what's out there.
It's also a very easy function to implement--presumably the hardware has an interrupt system for key presses (it needs to for the home key, but that's also how you'd implement regular inputs). That interrupt system checks for the key combo, push the program execution pointer onto the stack, jump to a routine, dump the screen pixels directly, pop the execution pointer back, continue on with no one the wiser.
*shrugs*
I'm not sure, but some of these appear to be multiple 2d screenshots sewn together. I went to Beyond the Labyrinth and Bravely Default and both seemed like that. Maybe not. They don't seem to be official asset releases anyway. For the ones that are official, I'm assuming someone pulled them from Nintendo's content servers?
They don't have to "focus" on anything - the ability to take screen captures is already right there, but they've made a deliberate decision to disallow regular 3DS owners from saving them to the SD card. This isn't an either-or situation, it's just Nintendo being Nintendo.
EDIT: "they're", what the hell. Ugh.
Pandas can take screenshots?
EDIT: Fooling around with the note feature for the first time, you're right. It already does take screengrabs. While I don't care for button combination hackjobs, the ability to use the currently captured screen as a background to write notes on would make that particular feature far more useful, and it would give people the option to export screens to SD card, so I agree: Implementing that can't be much work and the feature should be there.
Oni Link 666
Member
Tetris Axis is awesome. It's way more than barebones Tetris like on GB. You get a regular Tetris, single card multiplayer, online multiplayer, Bombliss, and AR Tetris. And that's just the good stuff! There's a bunch of other crap in there too. And it has the stupid Russian music in it too.
Swapnote looks cool and I'm glad it's free 'cause I didn't want to read the crying here if it wasn't.
And it has the stupid Russian music in it too.Swapnote looks cool and I'm glad it's free 'cause I didn't want to read the crying here if it wasn't.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Tetris Axis is awesome. It's way more than barebones Tetris like on GB. You get a regular Tetris, single card multiplayer, online multiplayer, Bombliss, and AR Tetris. And that's just the good stuff! There's a bunch of other crap in there too.
Swapnote looks cool and I'm glad it's free 'cause I didn't want to read the crying here if it wasn't.
But as far as I've seen ALL the modern tetris versions have the annoying preview placement thingie that you can't turn off. So I will be getting the GB Tetris because it's free of it!
If I am wrong, please tell me which game doesn't have it!
iamaustrian
Member
I don't get swapnote atm. The video is too confusing.
anyway...will see tomorrow what it's all about.
anyway...will see tomorrow what it's all about.
A Twisty Fluken
Member
Ah, the presence of GB Tetris means Tetris DX is a real possibility. Will definitely get.
You can definitely turn it off in the DS games. I think Tetris Party lets you turn it off from the pause menu, even. Axis is based off Party, so I imagine you can do it in that game, too.
We can only hope it's a feature they're withholding in order to couple it with a new firmware update, similar to what they did with video recording.
I'll have to use it myself to understand...
Can you send messages while in-game? Like going into the internet browser or friend list.
I don't like the look of the app at all. Would like something more similar to pictochat or WhatsApp. Also I can't understand why Nintendo uses such a different interface for each app and doesn't create something more standarized for tools that are going to be on everybody's 3DS.
Somebody should make a new thread for this message app.
I don't like the look of the app at all. Would like something more similar to pictochat or WhatsApp. Also I can't understand why Nintendo uses such a different interface for each app and doesn't create something more standarized for tools that are going to be on everybody's 3DS.
Somebody should make a new thread for this message app.
All the info is in the pdf manual on the JP website that was posted. The video showed a quick use of drawing on the two layers, adding multiple pages, background, sound clips, and pictures, and replying to a received message.
Mockingbird
Member
anyone here tag a special mii yet? It's not possible to do so yet right?
What's a special mii?
Incitemaybe
Member
The gold pants mii's you can't make copies of I think. I have one I got from a QR code.
I've been trying to figure out what that means. My best guess - and I stress it's a guess - is that they'll send Miis on special days... in which case, you may want to expect a Santa Mii through Spotpass on Dec 25th.
Doubtful.
A Pictochat system integrated into the Friend List for messaging is what i was hoping would happen at some point in time, yea. Of course, this was way before the 3ds came out-- back when everyone saw the friends List icon and thought it was actually the same one used in the Pictochat logo.
Mockingbird
Member
Japan has over a hundred of them but they're region-locked. EU has some too. Special Miis are celebrity Miis or Miis of famous fictional characters.
Capcom released 4 Special Miis from Resident Evil: Revelations, which you can scan and DL here (not region locked): http://3ds.nintendolife.com/news/2011/09/get_your_special_resident_evil_miis_now
Once you get a special Mii, you can send them to your mii plaza by pressing Y while highlighting them.
Special Miis sparkle and have gold pants.
Thing is, though I can dl them and send them to the plaza, it still doesn't count as a tag. So where do you go about tagging one? Does that mean you have to tag a celebrity?
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/3ds/specialMii/index.html#Mii100
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
The funniest part currently is how you can export notes to the photo app, but the actual screen grab is stripped. It's like the screen grab is subject to some copyright or somesuch.
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
WTF?! Another new Picross game?! This is insanity. Now Japan have not one, but two exclusive Picross DS sequels.
They're just trolling at this point
UncleSporky
Member
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
Not all of them are. Some of them are fan made 2D to 3D conversions.
Most are official though.
Same here. Downloading now.
AceBandage
Banned
Got the same message.