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Official "Free" NES/GBA games for 3DS thread of Nintendo's guilt
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Galactic Fork said:
Fuck, I just checked the bulletin message again and it doesn´t say " you are an ambassador" it says " make sure you get your games with the ambassador program!"...
(this is a translation from the German text by the way, Euro-land here... maybe that plays a part as well)
hoverboarder
Member
Leaf Green would be greeeat. Although it was never the same without a Missingno on my team.gwiz210 said:
Seven Force
Banned
This was the message I got when going to the eShop news section:sphinx said:
I'll bet money that that notice doesn't actually check your system to know for sure if you are an ambassador. I'll bet it just assumes that everyone who can see it is an ambassador, because you have to access the shop to see it and that's all you have to do to become an Ambassador. 
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Lucky Number Seven Force said:
Electivirus
Member
qq more said:
I honestly don't hear a difference.
I think that was part of what he said earlier:firehawk12 said:
Everyone's supposed to receive a message through Spotpass (generic message about the program basically as a reminder).
By accesing the eShop News, you get the message from that pic (You are an amabassador...); apparently a confirmation for anyone the went to the eShop.
Someone earlier said something about not having that message on the News section; so who knows. Maybe there's a waiting period.
WordAssassin
Member
They replaced Yoshi's awesome zipper sounds with bullshit fucking Yoshi's Story grunts and yelps.Electivirus said:
Yoshi's Island Advance would be the definitive version of the game thanks to the extra levels if it wasn't for those awful, awful, awful sounds. Why did they have to fucking do that.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Ugh I HATE new Yoshi.
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
MoxManiac said:
No, updates are mandatory. Got any temp wi-fi you can mooch off of?
A Twisty Fluken
Member
People get angry over the strangest things.WordAssassin said:
I updated mine two days ago, bought xevious and links awakening. Got the spot pass announcement notice, but no ambassador confirmation message as yet in the news section. This is on an Australian system.
The store updates next on the 11th here, going by the Thursday pattern, so I expect my notification to turn up then. I hope.
The store updates next on the 11th here, going by the Thursday pattern, so I expect my notification to turn up then. I hope.
Electivirus
Member
Clunker said:
I'm sure that McDonald's requires browser authentication, yes.
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
Every local coffee shop or cafe in my area has unencrypted wi-fi ripe for the taking. Once my internet was out for a month so I brought my laptop there and certified my Steam games for offline play. Good times.
hardcastle_mccormick said:
I'm at my Dad's house tonight and his internet is uber shit DSL. I'm thinking this may be the issue. I'm working all day tommorrow and have a stupid company lobster bake after work so i won't have much time when I get home tommorrow to update anything. I have what, until thursday night?
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
MoxManiac said:
From Nintendo:
"uses a wireless broadband Internet signal to connect to the Nintendo eShop at least once before 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on Aug. 11."
(Lazy way of saying yes)
On the plus side, it tends to be a very fast, easy ordeal once you're on internet that doesn't suck. I got my 3DS last week and updating took all of three minutes.
Okay, I poked around the help page and used a manual DNS for the 3DS and turned off the firewall temporarily in my dad's router and the update is working and going faster then before. crossing fingers!
Worst case if I can't get it done here or at home i'll swing by a mcdonalds or best buy to do the update.
Worst case if I can't get it done here or at home i'll swing by a mcdonalds or best buy to do the update.
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
jackdoe said:
Alone in the house with 15 mbps wi-fi might make a difference. I might have underestimated the importance of that. Ooops.
It doesn't help that there was a minor update released today. Nintendo's servers are probably hammered, tripping balls and mumbling something about infinite space.
06nbarnhill
Member
Anyone have any tips for finding Wifi that can actually be used to update the system to add store? I have none at home and stopped at several good joints with free Wifi and I couldn't update from any of them. Also tried Best Buy but no luck....and no one I know (just moved) has wifi -.-
WordAssassin
Member
Well when one considers Yoshi's Island to be the pinnacle of 2D platforming, and they go and ruin it with those obnoxious grunts, yeah, gonna get mad.A Twisty Fluken said:
06nbarnhill said:
Macbooks can share ethernet connection via their Airport. That's how I updated mine, didn't know you could til Monday. If you know someone with a MBP, ask them to help. Go to system preferences, internet and wireless, sharing, select internet sharing to be on via Airport, then set up your 3DS.
06nbarnhill
Member
RandomVince said:
Don't think I know anyone.......I still don't get why I can't update my system on free Wifi at stores.....
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
06nbarnhill said:
A lot of those stores will force you to open up your internet browser and agree to a legal agreement of some sort, and you can't connect to anything else before that. Devices like 3DS' tend not to support options such as these. They're extremely common though, so if it doesn't work you can usually assume fairly freely that they're using such a system.
06nbarnhill
Member
hardcastle_mccormick said:
Lame. I may just drive around a residential area until I find a free signal.........
If I woulda known it would be such a pain I would have waited till after price drop to buy....but now I want my games
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
maeda said:
Controls are fine, but there are some problems with the port. In addition to the obvious sound downgrade and brightened up graphics that are characteristics of most SNES to GBA ports, there are some missing special effects (the famous Kamek magic effect on bosses is gone and the "touch fuzzy get dizzy" effect was botched horribly) and there's some slowdown in a few places.
Also the hidden multiplayer mode for the minigames is gone now (just single player)
The extra levels are really good though. Really well designed and just as good as the ones found in the main game.
As for the Yoshi voice added to the game, I'm fine with it. I found the Mario voices in SMA 1 and 2 to be annoying and the young OoT link voice in ALTTP GBA was ear piercingly horrible (YA, YA, YA, YA!!!), but Yoshi in SMA 3 is perfectly fine (same voices as in Yoshi's Story)