A friend of mine got the sales associate to set this up a day early, and as a result got to see what these download stations look like
(A Nintendo DS). He also got to read the information brochure for the sales associate. There are apparently 6 items to obtain. You obtain them by entering Tag mode. My friend made a couple of notes.
1) The item you get appears to be completely random
2) Getting them all is actually quite labor intensive. Buy a bottle, write a note, release into the ocean, save, TAG mode from main menu, download, enter town, scour the beach for item in a bottle. Rinse, Repeat.
3) Releasing multiple notes into the ocean at once does nothing.
Unconfirmed is the ability for different residents to all get something via tag mode... although with the way that works I'm not sure it would save any time.
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