International StreetPass Week to Bring New StreetPass Games, a Free HOME Theme and 'Exotic' Mii Characters

Looking forward to the new games. I only play like 3 of them now and need some new content there.

HAHAHAHAHA!!! KPN! HAHAHA!!! Seriously, I've been to many different local KPN hotspots over the last few months, and for some reason they all stopped working for me.

On a side note, I'm having trouble with all of Nintendo Zone. Even when I know I'm in a Zone, and the main menu does show internet connection bars, the Nintendo Zone icon doesn't light up and I can't connect to it. Also, StreetPass Relay doesn't seem to work at all. I don't know what's going on, is it something with my 3DS?

I hope the us does something like this

@Poketendo

I'm doubtful it's your 3DS. Sometimes those hotspots don't work for me either. I'm supposed to get streetpass relay hits at Starbucks, sometimes they happen, sometimes they don't.

As for Nintendo Zone, I don't really live by a convenient location, and have only tried it maybe once or twice, so I can't really comment on that part.

I enjoy the streetpass games, so I'm looking forward to more. That said, it's still pretty difficult for me to get Streetpass hits, and I live in a decently populated area. I guess people just don't take their 3DS's out much.

@Poketendo Extended StreetPass relay has been broken for ages. Most people don't notice as the hotspots they use have the 6 hits local to them. It got broken with the release of v 9.0.0.20.

Hoping my homepass will allow the special miis this time, but I won't hold my breath.

I guess I may just have to rely on the gold miis that people have hacked.

So let me get this right I have to connect to nintendo zone at game to get the special Mii and then make sure my Streetpass plaza is empty for the other 6 and all I have to do is walk past it

so i can only get the free home menu when i go to a freaking mcdonalds? i hate those places

@shaneoh As they say specific HotSpotsthey then I'm guessing they will have a list of accepted MAC addresses. Nothing stopping you from spoofing a local Game or O2 Wifi MAC and using that at home like you do with HomePass.

@MoonKnight7 Most Starbucks in the US have switched over to google for their wifi, so the Nintendo Zones have gone away with them. Better for people at Starbucks, but now the primary street pass zones in most cities are gone. And if you still are in an area with AT&T then it is only a matter of time before it switches.

@MoonKnight7 I'm in London and I get quite a few hits. It depends on when and where you go.
At my old job i'd get 10 hits a day commuting to and from work. At my current job I don't rack up 10, but I still get a few a day. Just a different route / different time.
If I go out on the weekend with it though I tend to get a lot of hits.

and the theme wont be free in america. it will be a buck like the previous one and will look terrible, right?

I wish they'd remove the 10 play coin per day cap. I don't get a lot of Streetpasses, so I have to rely on play coins for the most part. And Puzzle Swap and Find Mii suck those up, so I've not purchased any of the games available nor will I likely purchase either of these.

All the Starbucks locations in my town have switched to Google. That leaves McDonald's and strangely enough Home Depot (lol). Streetpass relay can be also be finicky (I don't think I've ever gotten 6 relay hits and sometimes I don't get any at all).

What a not-so-freaking surprize!
NA/USA is left out of free stuff... again!

@wolvesboy You don't usually have to connect to the Nintendo zone expressly. Usually it's enough to just go into a GAME store with your 3DS in sleep mode. They may have changed things though, with the free theme being released. A good idea to clear the plaza so you can get the full 6 hits, instead of the 3 that you get if you've hit another hotspot. I've never understood why a second hit doesn't make it up to ten. Some protocol somewhere that someone will be able to explain (but not to me, I'm not that fussed!).

The relays are a good idea, but still aren't really enough. The only way to get adequate streetpasses is to use Homepass (which I hope they don't shut down because it doesn't cost Nintendo anything and actually covers up for some of their inadequacies. Actually, it extends their network for free!) It's a ridiculous thing to give us some really quite good games and then not let us be able to play them properly because we can't get enough hits to get the characters needed. And special miis? They ought to release one every couple of months, not leave us with 18 months when you don't see a single one. And accomplishments? I know it's at least 100 000 hits. That's 16 667 visits to a hotspot. What's the point?

@No-longer-postin
We don't know that lol. Just because NoE just announced it doesn't mean NoA won't do the same.

My McDonald's doesn't have Streetpass relay anymore. At least it didn't last time I was there. So I don't bother anymore. Maybe in June when I go with my dad to Ottawa I will be able to get Streetpasses then.

@QuixoticRocket Westfield Stratford and the O2 tend to be quite good, but I find that my trip via Liverpool Street really varies. Some days none, other days 10... There's no rhyme or reason to it

Seems a completely useless feature set. Not one 3DS owner I know in person has ever used the Streetpass plaza or games...

Hope we get Street Pass week in the US too 'cause I can't seem to finish collecting the puzzle pieces. I get like one new piece for every 8 people I meet.

Hope NoA does this too.. I love Streetpass goodies..

@ACK Go to a Japanese Culture convention and you will see a massive amount of StreetPass hits from people who use Mii Plaza.

I also know there is a large amount of people who are always trying to complete the puzzles and trying to unlock the hats/costumes and now stamps from playing the add-on games.

@Charlosa I guess you'll just need to wear your best Ninty T-shirt and hope other 3DS users are attracted to it?
Most of my hits are on the underground. I do pass through Victoria and Earl's Court which normally have a lot of people on it so even a low % of users can still give me a few hits.
It was better when I was going to King's Cross. That normally got me a lot of hits.

Streetpass is definitely one of my favorite 3DS features so having more games take advantage of it is just awesome. I wish more games would use the coins too.

Why are prices only shown in USD$ now? Why not GBP£ anymore, just estimates when we already know the prices... :/

@Poketendo Nintendo used to have some partnership with KPN that allowed 3DS owners to get free internet acces (normally those hotspots are paid), but since KPN's partnership with FON that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

Is there a good site about setting up a Homepass? All I seem to find are hodgepodge sites.

I'm hoping that NA joins the fun. I had a blast the last time they did this. I was able to pickup many different countries and usually those streetpass hits had better puzzle pieces then I usually encounter. The only thing that's not better is "Find Mii" because you always get new hits instead of when it's local people that level up through multiple hits. I may have to finally pickup all the Mii plaza games!

Since I live in the States I will be missing out on this but I lost all my StreetPass data so it doesn't really matter anyway.

Nice. I only play Puzzle Swap now, but I did get a lot of joy from the four that were released together, I stopped playing them when I got most of the hats. I might just be tempted!

@lickcheez the original posting about HomePass came from http://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-have-a-homemade-streetpass-relay.352645/ I personally use a DDWRT router which I was originally using when Nintendo had working Extended StreetPass Relay.

Speaking of street pass I traveled through 3 airports and went too 4 cities in the last couple days on my way too Bentonville Arkansas. My first stop was McCarren Airport in Las Vegas to Orange County Airport in Southern California. I scored 8 street pass hits. Today back to Orange county airport to Houston TX where I scored 8 more street pass hits. Got on a plane in Houston to NW airport Arkansas where I got 0 hits. To me these numbers are still low. I do want the fishing game though so will more than likely pick that up. Street pass is still a dud in my opinion in North america. I live in Las Vegas and the last 2 visits too McDonalds scored me 0 hits near my house.

@GauBan They tend to use SSID and IP addresses (for country purposes, no getting free themes from German McDonalds unless you're in Germany) as I really doubt the providers of the hotspots keep a list of MAC addresses.

As my nearest GAME store is ridiculously far away I hope the SSID gets revealed as I would like the special Mii (it has been about 6 months since Europe got one).

@Starwolf_UK It's my understanding that StreetPass Relay only uses the MAC Address of the hotspots wireless card and the SSID is only used so that the 3DS can look for hotspots which it should be allowed to connect to for free.

This is how HomePass works by you just needing to change the MAC address of the wireless card to the matching one for the HomePass area you want to use. Also why you can get hits from Nintendo World in NY using the MAC address 00:25:9C:52:1C:6A

It's also the reason how you can create your own StreetPass hotspot by setting up any router/Phone/PC with wireless network share where you can set the SSID. Let your 3DS try to use it a couple of times over about 3 days and the wireless MAC is added. I used to do this before HomePass started and Nintendo were doing the Extended StreetPass Relay back a couple of years ago. It was great 6 hits for every route/phone I ran as a StreetPass hotspot. Could just sit at home and get 27 hits every 8 hours using 4 3DS and 4 hotspots.

I hope both the Shibata mii and the six hits thing will also come to Finland and Hesburger here since that seems to be the only place that has Nintendo Zones.

Otherwise this sucks totally.

@ACK
I live in Dominican Repulic and I must admit that Streetpass hit are very, very rare. The other day I went with my kids to a college picnic day, and I got a measly 3 hits...

Now, we usually rely on our own 3ds (we have more than 15 of them), to keep the streetpass hits coming, specially for Pokemon Shuffle.

Having said that, I really enjoy the Streetpass games, in small short bursts. We already finished the dungeon one, and we are at the end (we think) of the Mii Squad.

I live in Ireland and the Streetpass relay hits are working, but I can't connect to a Nintendo Zone for the special Mii and theme :-/

I downloaded pack 2 (the new Streetpass games) and I really like them

Ahh man, it really really pisses me off that in Finland we are missing out on this whole international streetpass week.

Would've really wanted to get that special mii since those are pretty much never given out in Europe.

I'm staying in a hotel for a few weeks, and I've been getting these international hits like CRAZY, and had no idea why until just now! I'm getting puzzle pieces and achievements like crazy!

I only found out about this because I checked my eMail for a Goodgame Empire coupon, was wondering why I'd got 5 U.S Mii's and 1 Scottish Mii when I live in England. lmao

Already bought the 2 new games - they're pretty fun, was expecting a little more storyline to Streetpass Zombies but w/e. Am going to get the Special Mii and the Home theme in a minute, hehe.

Quick question - what do Streetpass hits for Pokémon Shuffle do? They're in a list and I got a jewel when I got my first one, but other than that does it even do anything?