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TalkBack / Re: Register The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and Receive a Special Soundtrack 

« on: June 12, 2011, 04:17:05 AM »

Hahaha, the "Hey! Listen!" SFX track joke made me lol.

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TalkBack / Re: Super Mario Impressions

« on: June 07, 2011, 06:16:21 PM »

Actually I always liked Raccoon Mario better than Tanooki Mario.

Besides, since Animal Crossing this is what I associate with tanukis: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=169

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TalkBack / Re: 3DS eShop Is Live

« on: June 07, 2011, 02:58:59 AM »

I really like how if you hold down SELECT or START while you launch a Game Boy Virtual Console game, it shows a Game Boy frame around the image.  Also, holding L + R and pressing Y lets you swap between grayscale (Game Boy pocket!) or green (original Game Boy!) color schemes.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo 3DS Firmware Update Crashes Ridge Racer 3D

« on: June 07, 2011, 12:54:17 AM »

Yay, just before 9:45pm PDT the update became available.   

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo 3DS Firmware Update Crashes Ridge Racer 3D

« on: June 06, 2011, 07:38:16 PM »

Boo, still no update.

I can't wait to pay $4 for Super Mario Land!

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo 3DS Firmware Update Crashes Ridge Racer 3D

« on: June 06, 2011, 04:48:15 PM »

I tried to update twice at lunch, even though it'll probably be worse to know it's in my backpack with the new update and I can't play it.  Oh well, at least I'll get to watch the OK-Go video one last time. 

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo 3DS Firmware Update Crashes Ridge Racer 3D

« on: June 06, 2011, 12:16:30 PM »

The firmware on a 3DS is an operating system.  It provides standard features that games can use, and continues to run in the background so applications can multitask.  While that doesn't tell us exactly why Ridge Racer is being affected, apparently it was doing something that was okay in the original firmware but with the new features of the new firmware it causes a conflict.

The 2.0.0_U update enables automatic system updates, so the mid-month update to fix Ridge Racer should be automatically applied once it's available.

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TalkBack / Re: Virtua Tennis 4 Review

« on: May 28, 2011, 05:43:22 PM »

Okay, now I miss Mario Golf again and want to see Mario Golf 3DS.

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TalkBack / Re: ESRB Reveals Third-Party 3DS Virtual Console Games

« on: May 11, 2011, 02:55:31 AM »

I always really wanted Fortified Zone but we couldn't afford many games back then.  Now's my chance! 

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TalkBack / Re: Miyamoto Reveals 3DS Ideas and Details

« on: April 28, 2011, 01:47:13 AM »

OMG!  Miyamoto's new hobby is living in France... that means we'll get a new France game soon!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Street Pass!

« on: April 05, 2011, 11:31:30 PM »

I've actually passed three or four people in the big cafeteria at the corporate office I work at.  That's been a pleasant surprise!  I haven't met anyone twice yet, though.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: I imported a 3D picture from the interwebs and put it on my 3DS...

« on: March 28, 2011, 01:27:14 AM »

Great, but the question is, how did you import it?

I took a photo and some videos from my 3D camcorder and nothing... although the 3DS Music software will play back the audio from the videos. 

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: 3DS Mii Maker

« on: March 27, 2011, 06:00:54 PM »

I got everything as close as possible to my Wii's Mii as I could, then for the last bits I saved images of each one and swapped the images back and forth on my computer.  I was impressed how close I'd got, and just had to tweak some positioning.  You can vertically squish parts in the 3DS and that's why I couldn't get the eyes right... they were slightly compressed and it looked like I'd somehow managed to get the angle slightly different.

That let me fix things up and when I exported a new image, I'd lined them up perfectly! 

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: The Official 3DS System Friend Code Thread

« on: March 27, 2011, 04:27:38 PM »

nhaines { Nathan } 0602-6258-7103

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TalkBack / Re: 3DS Now Available in North America

« on: March 27, 2011, 01:28:33 AM »

Yay, I won some awesome Capcom shot glasses!

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TalkBack / Re: 3DS Now Available in North America

« on: March 27, 2011, 12:48:53 AM »

Sure, but I'm at the Best Buy in West Hollywood right now, waiting in line. I'm number 6!

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TalkBack / Re: My Week and a Half with the 3DS

« on: March 18, 2011, 12:38:29 AM »

Aw man, unboxing videos are always such a tease.  Just 9 more days to go though! 

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TalkBack / Re: Miyamoto: 'I Wanted to Experience Hyrule in 3D'

« on: March 16, 2011, 05:21:27 PM »

Am I the only one who really, really wants Windwaker on 3DS?

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TalkBack / Re: Pokémon Black and White Feature No 3DS Special Content

« on: February 16, 2011, 09:42:21 AM »

I certainly would have been surprised if there had been any Nintendo 3DS content in Pokémon Black and White.  It's a bit of a shame, but at least we know for sure.  Pokémon release rumors are vicious swirls of fantasy and wish-fulfillment enough as it is. 

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TalkBack / Re: Iwata: 3DS Could Bring 3D Movies into the Home

« on: January 23, 2011, 01:20:19 PM »

DLNA is a industry standard for sharing media, so your computer or network-attached hard drive can sort of "advertise" itself as a media player and advertise the movies/pictures/songs it has stored, and then a DLNA-compliant playback device like a newer Blu-Ray player, TV, or a settop box like a WD TV Live can autmatically show a list of what's on the computer or harddrive.

Basically it means playing files from a computer on your TV across your network is really easy.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo 3DS Launching in Europe on March 25th

« on: January 19, 2011, 01:11:47 PM »

Not to mention that Nintendo always launches on Sundays in the US, so between that and the vastly lower price I think I can live three days.  Besides, I can't pick up a preorder before work on Fridays, so at least Sunday I'll have the entire day to play with my new toy! 

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo 3DS Potentially Hazardous for Children

« on: December 29, 2010, 02:06:36 AM »

This isn't the first time they produced a warning.  The Virtual Boy came with the same warning (and Red Alarm had pause screen between levels), and if I recall correctly, the recommended age limit was 7 or 8 and up back then.  This is just Nintendo being responsible as usual.

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TalkBack / Re: This Week in Nintendo Downloads

« on: December 21, 2010, 01:35:43 AM »

It was released last week in North America and last December in Europe. Oddly they have different publishers here in North America. DTP Young Entertainment published Volume 2, but Engine Software published Volume 1.

Yes, surely a sign of quality if ever there was one.

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TalkBack / Re: Rock Band 3 Review

« on: October 26, 2010, 08:44:22 PM »

Actually, yes, Rock Band 3 supports this just like Rock Band 2 did.  Fortunately, RB3 also supports SDHC cards whereas RB2 did not.

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TalkBack / Re: This Week in Nintendo Downloads

« on: October 26, 2010, 02:18:18 AM »

I use the startup warning screens as flashlights all the time when I don't use my phone.

If My Planetarium is anything like Celestia or Stellarium (both excellent Free Software applications available for Windows, Mac, and Linux) then that might actually be worth it.  I'll wait to see some screenshots though.