I've read on the forums here that this supposedly adds a "recommendation" button to the eShop for japanese users, but other than that this just appears to be your usual attempt to prevent unauthorised devices from working on the 3DS.

i don't notice any difference, i was wondering about the update and what it did

It took 2 seconds to download and that's the last I saw of it.

Thanks for the heads up on this. I'm sure I'll enjoy the 'enhancements in the user experience' getting this update.

I'm so excited....uggggggggggggggggh

Me: OOh update! "Dont get excited" Me: ohh....update

Didn't Nintendo announce in October 2011 that we would be able to access the eShop from computers and smartphones and eventually make purchases? Where is it Nintendo? Where is it? Edit: Contacting NOA for answers.

More flashcart blocks. Oy vey.

To whoever dreams of colours and icons being added to their 3DS folders in a system update...get better dreams.

@PixelatedPixie I'm one of those, and I have many dreams: some big and some very, very small

Just a light-hearted comment for the article, as I doubt the prospect of coloured folders keeps anyone awake at night.

@ThomasBW84 - Yeah, I was kidding too. Seriously though, the blue folders and 3 letter restriction is totally lame.

"Any excuse to show this model"

It does look mighty fine!

All you under 18s out there: don't forget to have an 'adult' touch the download button…the gods only know what will happen to your system if you try to do it yourselves!

Only if they knew about us under 18s tappin that button without consent. :rolls eyes:

I got this last night, 10 pm est. Yes there is a notification in sleep mode. :3

@KromCompany

XD

Thanks for the news. Coloured folders Here I Come!

Does anyone know if i can do a system transfer from this to the 3DS XL without having to do a system update first ?

Funny thing happened as I walked in my local Starbucks with my 3DS, I put it in sleep mode. Opened the lid up, and it stayed in sleep mode and couldn't wake it up. So, hard power down, powered back up, then I was told an update was available when i went to the Nintendo Zone site where I updated it successfully. I hope that so called update took care of THAT ever happening again. It's gave me a pretty good WTF scare, I'll say that much.

starting to care

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone...

Why even bother? The hackers must just keep coming up with new ways to get into it and then we get these responses. But seriously all it does it get my hopes up that we're getting something good and then.... nothing.

We need a firmware update or something. Would be nice if we could continue to use Street/Spotpass and wander around the 3DS menu while playing DS games.

@Nestalgic Really? Is that ALL that it does? It prevents piracy. Piracy=people getting games without Nintendo getting the cash for it=stealing.

Honestly, I'm impressed how frequent this is. It seems they gave up on the Wii/DSi as a whole.

I have a large 16GB SD card in my 3DS. The camera app loads up in 36 seconds now and before took up to 80 seconds!
Also Nintendo letterbox loads up in 10 seconds instead of 30 seconds.
Music I have added pops up quicker in music app.

I think they made it read large SD cards faster.

Yay,a update.
Boo,no Youtube app.

I got this by notification yesterday. Glad to hear what it did.

I only see that this update is to block more flashcarts...
"sigh"...This updates are becoming like the wii updates all over again...adding nothing new and just preventing homebrew...

I love these two second updates, makes me think that they're already downloaded to the 3DS and all you're really doing is installing them, which is fine by me.

A feature has been added to the eshop. If you do not have enough funds to buy something, such a £3.60 game and you only have 3.50 you can top the eshop up with the required amount left, so 0.10p

@123akis: That's not new, they've had that feature for a while now. :3

Icons on a folder would be awesome.

Oh.

I found something new. When you check the detailed user review scores for a game in the eShop, it now tells you what games have also been frequently bought by those who bought this game, like on Amazon.com. For example, the nerds who bought Petit Computer also tend to buy Ace Mathician.

Oh, thanks Nintendo. My user experience is exactly the same...lines in my top screen caused by your poor design and a handful of ancient ROMs in exchange for being an early adopter (ambassador).

Nintendo should give away a free game with the update. That would make a lot update their firmware lol

Come on nintendo, increase the number of coins you can earn to 20!

This is just so you can't pirate downloadable games. Go figure since NSMB2 is coming out for digital download soon.

@TheConsiglio color folders NOT HERE!!

@Miroku Oh that makes more sense now. I was going to say, stopping those flash carts just seems pointless. But if this is for eshop security, then that's clearly something useful. The same people that can steal games can probably steal credit card numbers.

That's very different than someone purchasing a counterfeit game from Hong Kong or something.