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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Mario 3D Kart

« on: December 09, 2011, 12:07:08 PM »

No.

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TalkBack / Re: Circle Pad Pro Battery Life Revealed

« on: December 09, 2011, 11:47:39 AM »

At first I figured the circle pad would just run off of the 3DS's battery itself, (guess not).

It uses the IR port for communication. The 3DS wasn't designed with external electrical connections, so this was the best option.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The Nintendo Zone...

« on: December 08, 2011, 11:48:35 PM »

I used it at Starbucks today. I'll try to get impressions up this weekend.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Club Nintendo Thread

« on: December 08, 2011, 08:37:33 PM »

For me a big part of videogames is acting out a fantasy.

I'm glad I'm not limited by that want. Gaming would be a much sadder place.

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TalkBack / Re: Ubisoft Reveals New Drawing Tablet For Wii

« on: December 08, 2011, 06:51:39 PM »

I haven't used the Drawsome tablet, so I can't compare, but the uDraw uses radio tech much like a Wacom tablet, so it's quite precise and responsive.

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TalkBack / Re: Ubisoft Reveals New Drawing Tablet For Wii

« on: December 08, 2011, 03:22:15 PM »

Plus, the tech is newer and the touch panel seems like it will be more precise and responsive.

More precise and responsive than what? The uDraw tablet?

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TalkBack / Re: New 3DS System Update Available Now

« on: December 08, 2011, 01:00:45 PM »

eShop loads way faster for me now.

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Nintendo Gaming / Pushmo / Pullblox / Hiku-Osu QR codes

« on: December 08, 2011, 12:58:58 PM »

Post them here.
Test level from Daan:

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TalkBack / Re: Demos Available Now in the Japan eShop

« on: December 08, 2011, 12:18:11 AM »

I don't get what their fear is. The WiiWare demos were a big success.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: December 07, 2011, 11:57:28 PM »

But the refrigerator itself is not what would be getting rated for power.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: December 07, 2011, 11:52:42 PM »

Refrigerators don't transmit radio signals.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: December 07, 2011, 09:21:18 PM »

I don't think low-power and short-range mean what you think they do. I think it's more in line with what you'd expect in any sort of consumer device as opposed to, say, a radio tower.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The Nintendo Zone...

« on: December 07, 2011, 08:41:28 PM »

I stopped by Best Buy back in June just to check it out and got a coming soon page added to my Nintendo Zone. I haven't been back since.

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TalkBack / Re: StreetPass Mii Plaza Music Player

« on: December 07, 2011, 02:14:53 AM »

The point of this music player is just for Mii Plaza songs. You can play your own music files in the Nintendo 3DS Sound app (MP3 or MP4). Of course, you can't play them while in a game.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U has quad core 3GHz CPU, 768 MB of RAM

« on: December 07, 2011, 12:43:23 AM »

Yeah, Java runs as slow as molasses. Its meant to run on any and all architectures so its not optimized in any way.

It's optimized, but in such a way as to use up a ton of memory (due to the way it does garbage collection).

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: December 07, 2011, 12:38:16 AM »

They were already publicly hiring for Wii U development. There's no doubt they're working on something.

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TalkBack / Re: 3DS Update Features Accomplishments in the Mii Plaza

« on: December 06, 2011, 11:54:49 PM »

Some of those achievements look to be impossible for the average person to get (for example, how would you get 100 StreetPass encounters in 1 day unless you go to something like E3 or PAX?).

Live in a Japanese city.

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TalkBack / Re: New 3DS System Update Available Now

« on: December 06, 2011, 08:29:49 PM »

All I get is "An error has occurred. Unable to update. The system will now be restarted." I'm not sure if their servers are getting pounded or what.
EDIT: started slowing downloading after five tries.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U has quad core 3GHz CPU, 768 MB of RAM

« on: December 06, 2011, 07:18:49 PM »

My shitty 4 year old outdated computer barely runs Minecraft on 2gb of RAM.

Blame Java. It eats RAM. That's not a good comparison to what would normally run on a console.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Further proof the Wii isn't dead yet

« on: December 06, 2011, 05:53:41 PM »

That company's also putting out a new Oregon Trail.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: December 05, 2011, 07:17:02 PM »

Very little chance.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The OFFICIAL Big N rumor thread *bring your own salt*

« on: December 05, 2011, 06:34:21 PM »

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/12/ibm-racetrack/
There's a conference this week covering the upcoming memory technologies, including the 3D stacking and much cooler stuff, though if it's showing up there, that implies that it's not ready for commercialization yet.

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TalkBack / Re: 3DS Friends List Update Spread Through Mario 3D Kart's Download Play

« on: December 04, 2011, 10:49:21 PM »

Anybody else notice a lot of lag when trying to open the friends list while running Mario Kart 7?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Amazing Deals for 3DS, DS & GBA

« on: December 04, 2011, 07:26:13 PM »

Kmart has 5% off customer appreciation today on games, so I was able to use that plus my $20 credit from Zelda, and got another $15 credit for buying Mario 3D Kart.

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Nintendo Gaming / Mario 3D Kart Community Codes

« on: December 03, 2011, 07:14:34 PM »

Post community codes here.

NWR official
52-8882-2728-4207 Balloon Battle All Items
15-7711-2023-1792 Grand Prix 150cc All Items
09-4961-7320-4803 Mirror Grand Prix 150cc All Items
47-7943-9805-7854 No Items Grand Prix

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Mario Cup 31-1814-6257-0573 100cc Grand Prix All Items
Let's Play 33-7111-9830-7925 50cc Grand Prix All Items
Peel Out 35-3432-8592-7103 150cc Grand Prix Bananas only
Bob-omb Blast 05-2097-9533-2225 Balloon Battle Bob-ombs only