New 3DS HOME Themes Confirmed for Majora's Mask 3D, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and Ace Combat Assault Horizon Legacy+

The Majora's Mask theme would have been perfect if they didn't sell out of the Majora Mask New 3DS XLs in a few hours. :/

Cool themes, but I'm not paying overinflated prices on the eShop to get a 'free' theme.

Also, I'm sorry to be a Grammar Nazi, but it's been bugging me for ages. It's "those who" or "people who". Say "that" when referring to an object, e.g. "the TV that was on" or "the radiator that was warm". But for people it should be "those who do something" or "people who buy games".

I'm sorry to be so picky. The writing on the website is all-round fantastic, and I love your articles. Grammar is just a pet peeve of mine.

I might have to get the Majora's Mask theme

I'm having the Majora's Mask special edition (the one with the poster, steelbook and other stuff) so I'll be getting the 2 themes separately.

Probably getting both those Zelda themes, because they're looking good (and I love me some Zelda)!

@RupeeClock I generally find getting retail copies from ShopTo or Amazon is the cheapest for me. Thanks for the info, though.

Hey I can predict the future! I predict that I will get two Majora's Mask themes for my 3DS in the future!

I like the Monster Hunter themes, but I'm not buying MH digital just to get them. Shame it's only for download games.

I'm getting MH4U digitally, as I've got like £50 on my account and I already have MH3U installed... Plus, I know that it is going to last hundreds of hours. I'll get MM3D in a box to go next to my OOT.

I was planning on getting Majora's Mask digitally, so I can't wait to get the theme!

Sweet, I'm getting Ace Combat and Monster Hunter will be preloaded so I hope that counts. I might just get the Majora's one then if that's all I need.

Lol am I the only one more excited for Monster Hunter Ultimate 4 than Majoras Mask?

I wish the physical version of Majora's Mask came with a code in the box for the theme or something like that. I think they did that with Ultimate NES Remix. I would have gotten the digital version, but I wanted the physical one since I also have OoT 3D boxed version (plus I just really love the box art).

I'm getting Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate physically, but I do plan on getting the theme once I get an eshop card.

@Pokefraker Of course not, there's quite a few people that aren't even getting MM.

Never buy digital what I can get physical is my motto for recent releases. I'll grab the Zelda theme from the shop.

Hell no. Physical always!

I want all three of those Ace Combat themes but I want a physical copy of the game so I guess I'll have to shill out the £1.50 or so for each one.

Digital has its pros but for me personally, they're outweighed by having a physical copy (of course the best would be having both).

The themes should be for EVERYONE who buys these games before a certain date as a thank you for buying them at launch. I think that would have been a nice, and fairer, gesture.

I am curious if I get the Monster Hunter theme from buying the special edition N3ds

I think all the themes should be free as they're advertisements for games.

@Warruz Free downloads count as purchases off the eShop. Even with the DDP on the Wii U, any free DL code you used for a free game got you the DDP rewards ( which infact made it count as if you purchased the game even though it was free). So I'm sure it's no different with pre-installed games.

Must...get...Majora's...Mask...theme!

Wait, will I be eligible for the free theme if I puchase a physical copy of Majora's Mask?

Damn, the one time I'm getting a physical copy of a game and it comes with freebies lol. Oh well, I'll end up buying both themes anyway. Love the shuffle feature.

"This is a week in which Nintendo wants a lot of your money" unless you live in America and wanted a New 3DS but not the XL

Im still upset I can't buy any of the majora bundles over here. Sold out within minutes.
And I know plenty of people who want one as well (game and 3DS bundle)

And the Majora's Mask cover plate is nowhere to be found. ugh

Kind of find it weird that Legacy+ is getting promoted so much when it's such a minor update. Seems like Bamco is really intent on reselling this game at full price with minimal amount of work done.

As usual, North America's left in the dust... :c

If the Majoras Mask theme is available in North America I will do that.

What about physical order? Nothing?(or in my Monster Hunter 4 package will miraculously be code for this themes?) No? F*** y**.
"YEAh" more themes.
You cant made editor for your customers to made any theme we want for free?
DEar Nintendo.

@dkxcalibur
Yes, they should.

Digital only? Boo!

@RupeeClock I had bought the skull kid figure, until i saw it go for $100 on eBay. I mean skull kid is cool and all, but i'll just print out a 99 cent sticker of him.

@RainbowGazelle Amazon used to be cheapest, until they started charging tax in my area. Now they're just average. I was able to get the $20 eShop codes for $5-10 for about a year and a half, so that made Fire Emblem $10 for me new, and all the DLC was about $20. Likewise, I paid $15 i think for Mario Kart 7. I now can only find eShop cards for 20% off, not 75.

@DontPlayDumb ....what?

@dkxcalibur I think posters, t-shirts, and cars with Zelda written on top should be free, since they're advertisements for games.

@Wouwter ...so just buy them? They're like 99 cents

I have 1 euro left for e-shop things... why is a wallpaper 2

@russellohh I'm guessing it will be €2. That is too much to pay. You can disagree, but I don't think a simple theme is worth that amount of money. (You can buy one for me though! )

In the time between my response and yours, the average UK and American citizen made €10. So kay!

@russellohh As far as I know, here in the UK we don't get any money off eShop cards AT ALL. A £20 card will cost £20. A game that's £40 on the eShop, will be £40 as a digital download card. We get no discounts.

@RainbowGazelle In Murica, BestBuy has each card 10-20% off every month. With the bestbuy rewards program, you can get 5% of your total back as a gift card every month, so it works out to be about 13% off on average.

Gamestop messed up their trade values awhile back, a few times actually.

Essentially, a $50 game dropped down to $10 bargain bin status, but gamestop was still giving like 25 in trade for it. Buy 100 copies for $1,000, trade for 2,500.

Just this last weekend, i saw that Call of Duty Ghosts was as cheap as $10, and traded for about 15 still. Trading is rarely worth it- they sell a certain DS game for $12 but give 40 cents in trade for it- but every now and then, I'll notice something like that, and make an extra $200 for free before they update their prices again.

@russellohh That sounds cool. I wish it was like that here.

@russellohh I see where you're going with this. Good point. However, I was thinking that the items you list cost $ to produce and distribute and a "wallpaper" cost basically nothing to develop/program. That's just my opinion and that's the reason I don't own any of the pay themes.

I also worked the Gamestop trade-in loophole that you mentioned in another post. They never left me trade in two copies of the same game but maybe that changed. If not, it's not worth the hassle to me anymore.

@RainbowGazelle Maybe it is somewhere! I'll look over GAME sometime.

@dkxcalibur It was a 2 game limit if identical, 4 units if a controller or cable. Like say, a 99 cent Amazon Basics HDMI cable that Gamestop gave $4 trade for.

Also, have you used many of the themes? They're not like... 3D amazing animations, but they do have audio, scroll, and i believe several do move a little. Based on similar things I've done at work, I'd say they honestly cost about $3,000 to make. Sure, its a simple drawing and animation, but with the size, sound set up, even a quick confirmation of sound and such on each model of DS would take about two weeks from beginning to end.
At least $500 if you're making 2 dozen of them yourself, you get into a rhythm, but the set up- yeah, a couple thousand each.

This is a bit of a side note, but in a website i worked on, a kitten was supposed to meow. He did not. The dog barked, the duck quacked, the kid whined, but the cat didn't meow. Turns out the audio could only stream 7 streams at once, and we already have 7 other animals. so, the sound designer made a call to another filetype on a different server. Problem is, that server didn't run out of space, but was only capable of being called twice per minute- one call when accessed, another to play the sound. Of course, this was only while using a certain plug-in, which...

anyway, that #$^#^ing kitten for the Kid's Birthday Party template animation wound up taking a sound guy, two IT people, a phone call to the plug-in developer, 3 programmers, and a tester working on nothing else to fix over a 5-day period.

By the end of it, I estimated that it cost $10,000 to make that kitten meow again.

Did i mention that all this was just the silly background animation of a website not remotely about animals? We could have just taken out the cat, but the 7-stream limit was universal, and if we didn't find a solution then, we'd just be finding one down the road.

But yup! Even a .wav or a .mp3 of a kitten meowing for two seconds can cost thousands of dollars.

Your site is auto booting the App Store. You need to fix that ASAP.

Guess I'm getting a MH theme then. lol

They should always give you free themes with purchases, retail or digital.

I will buy all the themes, and MH4 and Majora's Mask, in a big frenzy of overspending my game budget, when I buy my new white standard size 3ds with the colored buttons! Oh, that's right. I live in the US. So I guess I will play games that I already bought. MM on the wii, MH3 on my old 3ds, and keep my money in my wallet. Too bad, Nintendo.

@russellohh
What? What...?
Yes if its your own personall creation. Thousands of dollars? Yes if its all your work.
Free? Yes it can be free. There is/was simple editor to create themes on ds flashcards. 90% of them are crap, but 10% are good.
(Maybe even better then all those themes from eshop.)
So why not on 3ds/2ds new 3ds?

I've got the physical bundle on preorder, so no free theme for me! But this okay, I might go ahead and buy that golden majoras mask one anyway though, it looks super nice!

@DontPlayDumb Sweet, show me someone who can draw an animated background with hundreds of colors and sounds and requires no money whatsoever. I'll happily make them work hundreds of hours for zero pay, since according to you, its all free.

OR
this is professional work that has to be edited, reviewed, accessible, typically color-blind accessible, and coded for various formats.

@russellohh
LOL. I never want to say its all free (even air we all breath)
I mean free only what you made for yourself.
Profesional? Yes, but they can give simple editor to made simple things for personal use.
You read all what i said or cut it to pieces?
"Yes if its your own personall creation. Thousands of dollars? Yes if its all your work."
I think you didnt read that what i quoted now.

They made the art, of course its their own work. Or do you mean they should...give away for free the fanart created by fans using someone else's work?
So... yeah, not sure where you were going with that. I guess you could say that a random artist could take a 3D model of Mario, or some concept art made by Nintendo, make their own custom background, and put that up on the store for free.

In 5 seconds we'll have photos of butts and links to porn sites. now of course, you could hire moderators, and quality control people, and artists to make edits... and then charge money for all of it.

Guess I'm buying Ace Combat Assault Horizon Legacy+!

I'm getting the MH4U N3DS bundle. Do I get a free theme then?

I may pick up the Monster Hunter and Majora's Mask ones! They look pretty awesome!

@Obito_Sigma if you want the Majora's Mask design, go directly to a store on Friday.

I work at Target, and we have 5 in stock for Friday, with a potential 5 more arriving on Thursday's shipment. If you hit a store that morning, you won't have any trouble getting one.

I dont always buy digital but when i do i buy nintendo. Especially if its a multi-player game

@russellohh
I always mean free editor for personal use.
It can even to have no option to share with others.
"Or do you mean they should...give away for free the fanart created by fans using someone else's work?" No.
They gave us no options(or only two):
Pay for themes or not.
And basiscally not for free. You read me first comment in this topic?
I guess you wont. Like i said you cut my whole expression.
I bought Monster Hunter 4 physical copy. I paid for it 20th(something) Januray in store. Some off my money fly from my account. And i didn't get themes for Monster Hunter 4 BECAUSE I paid for my game sooner than eshop buyers?
Or i said before:
"or in my Monster Hunter 4 package will miraculously be code for this themes?)"
If so i will apologies them (Nintendo?Capcom?) in this topic. If no, then not.
Simple.

@DontPlayDumb No. People who bought the digital version get a free $2 theme. They're already paying less for the game, because its the eShop version.

You refused to buy the cheaper version, and aren't getting the free items.
Simple. Monster Hunter 3 was $40 the day it came out, and $15 2 months later. The same will happen with 4.
You did pay a lot more, and get a lot less, than people who waited to pay.

Simple.

@russellohh
"You did pay a lot more, and get a lot less, than people who waited to pay."
True and not true. In my country games in eshop are always more expensive than physical copies.

@DontPlayDumb There are always ways to find eShop codes on sale. or sneakily.

@russellohh
Eshop codes on sale? I know that in USA they got baragain prices for this codes. Maybe in other countries too. But not in mine .

Please don't get the gold Majora's Mask theme. The other one is so much better...

Hopefully it's for the U.S to i was planning on getting MH4U of of the eshop anyway

im so hyped for the MH4 edition: to me it looks the most classy
also im really not interested in majoras mask, idk why ...
( played it on N64 already )

If I go to best buy or gamestop and buy a download code for Majora's mask, do I get the free Theme, or no?

This deal is not available in North America. :L

Ya! I'm looking for my free theme and I don't see it anywhere! I still am getting charged $1.99 for the MM3D one...