We get some quite exciting news tips submitted by you, our dear readers, from time to time. One such tip arrived in our email inbox from one such follower who was kind enough to alert us that a person they had recently StreetPassed appeared to be enjoying Nintendo's recently-announced Pokémon title, Pokémon Sun.
The tipster even supplied us with photo evidence, which can be seen below. As you can see, the StreetPassed individual - known as Yuki - is listed as playing the unreleased (and unfinished) Pokémon outing, and clicking the game brings up an error message - which isn't that striking as the game isn't available at the time of writing.
So who is this mysterious Yuki? A Game Freak staffer on holiday in the United Kingdom? A time-traveller from 2017? Sadly, the reality is most likely a little less fantastic. Remember not so long ago when several people StreetPassed a 3DS owner at a Zelda Symphony concert who appeared to be enjoying The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 3D? It's possible to easily fake such information if you have a homebrew-ready 3DS console.
It's very likely that the same thing has happened here - some cheeky scamp has created a fake app and loaded it up on their homebrew-enabled 3DS console. A cruel trick for sure, but one that we can't help but raise a smile at.
Have you spotted any other dubious games on your StreetPass travels? Let us know by posting a comment.
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People are just weird sometimes.. Really dont see the point in doing it...
a case for detective pikachu nx, i think. yuki might not even be her real name. hrmmmm... btw why time traveller from 2017? i thought sun & moon were coming out this year? did you let slip a delay that was under an nda?
@Jamotello Holiday 2016 they said, which means around late november/early december as always...
@Damo
The reason this shows is this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/3dshacks/comments/49429k/please_dont_hate_me_for_making_this_a_cia_file/
As for the weird software by streetpassing, I can look at my own log. Specifically activity log. It says I have a whopping 143 hours and 8 minutes in Download Play even though I literally never used Download Play
How bizarre.
I've actually StreetPassed this "Yuki" person TWICE.
Both times they had "Pokemon Z" listed as their "Most Recent Software". This was a week or so before Pokemon Moon/Sun had been announced.
Edit: I wanted to post a screenshot of the offending Mii on my StreetPass Mii Plaza but I can't attach images in the comments.
@Jamotello A time traveller from 2017 would be playing the game as it would have been out for a while by then.
@Favna We all know why that is.
Obviously fake to the eagle-eyed - 'Pokemon Sun' as opposed to the correctly spelt 'Pokémon Sun'...
@Harmunt I was just about to say that!
I've gotten a couple of fake game StreetPass hits over the years but it was usually pretty obvious. Can't remember anything specific... maybe a Bayonetta 3D or something absurd like that xD
@Olmectron ssshhh Nintendo might be lurking 😂😂
It's a "because I can" thing, a "look what I did" thing. Not necessarily negative attributions, but not not having much kudos to anyone outside the hacking scene.
Would be a funny prank if you visited NoA's headquarters with a 3ds like this in your pocket and everyone streetpassed you and started questioning each other if the game leaked or something lol.
Oh look, a female troll.
I had somebody playing a megaman battlnetowrk game on their 3DS once.
Blue moon Europe I think it was?
But thats a GBA game and its on Wii U?
so idk if I was trolled or not....
so if anybody wants to help me out that would be great.
I was thinking of doing one of these as a prank, but I dunno which game would be innocent enough to spoof without setting off an internet catastrophe.
why Does People do these things, is beyond me.
I've seen Pokemon Z before as well.
Oh but Nintendo should leave their systems wide open for homebrew and hacking because it adds so much to the system experience! i mean we can cheat at pokemon and rig street passed and play games for free (nevermind the work of the developers)...we are owed these things right? Right?
Seen plenty of dodgy stuff in street pass; SP Coin setter, people with profanity for names, random miis with golden pants (the only opportunity for me to get gold pants miis)
@MGray
This, exactly this. Hacking your own console to play a game that's just come out? Questionable, but to some extent still understandable. Hacking a console to fake ownership of a game that won't come out in months, on the other hand? What's even the point of it?!
Anyone who fell for this is kinda dumb. The game's obviously still in development if there wasn't an ounce of gameplay in the reveal trailer
@SanderEvers How? This took her very little time and shows she has more ability in this area than you. Far from sad imo
I'm confused as to how people believed this obvious homebrew joke. The icon for the game looks sloppy, "Pokémon" is written without the accent, and, obviously, the game's not out yet.
That said, this is fun to do just for "the lulz." I like doing a similar thing on Steam where I add a non-steam game and rename its shortcut something absurd like "Half-Life 4" just so friends can see the "CrazyRiverOtter is playing..." thing at the bottom of the screen.
It that was real, the game would say Pokémon, not Pokemon. Plus below it would say it was made by Nintendo / GameFreak.
Clearly Yuki is just using a hacked header rom.
"A time-traveller from 2017? Sadly, the reality is most likely a little less fantastic."
Nice to see @Damo always helping us keep things under wraps. I was just listening to this. Heh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILgn4eBflf0
Never underestimate the power of stupidity. Anyone who's been a Poke'mon fan for years would have spotted the error. See: above
@Jamotello Well its coming out Holiday 2016. So it would be 2016 / 2017.
Good news everyone!
Nintendo just f- themselves in the ass again. It is confirmed that you can downgrade from firmware 10.6 to 9.2. For now, the method works for the old 3ds and not the new one.
@AlexSora89 Right, you are, young Alex
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