With Pikmin 3 already preoccupying Wii U gamers in Europe and all set to do the same in North America, it seems that there are some hidden treats to hunt out. Shigeru Miyamoto has updated the game's announcement community on Miiverse to state that secret memos hidden throughout the game will actually reveal a code, though the famous designer is holding back on further details.
Below is the full post, as Miyamoto-san pulls us in with promises of secrets before teasing us with a future reveal.
Even if you have the memos and the numbers, it's still unclear how to use them and what they do. No doubt the online community will get to work, however, and it's a question of whether the code can be broken before Miyamoto-san reveals more.
Have you found any secret memos in Pikmin 3, or do you even have the foggiest idea of what the code could be?
[source polygon.com, via miiverse.nintendo.net]
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It couldn't be an eShop promo code could it?
I've got all the memos but no idea how to use the code. The memos show certain pikmin types with certain numbers so I tried adding them up and taking the respective number of pikmin out of the onion and even beating the final boss with just those pikmin, but no dice.
The fact that the game STILL isn't out over here yet and that even Miyamoto himself is starting to give out spoilers in really getting on my nerves.
it better not say: 'congratulation! you win!' (please note the game reference)
oooooo, a secret.....I wonder what the reward is for using the code......
I got all the secret memos, interestingly, the code is different for everyone.
It's a string of 10 numbers (so one could be 199002356, for example). I have no idea what they're for though.
The code is "be sure to drink your Ovaltine"
@WingedFish I agree, it's really annoying, especially since I don't have my Wii U yet so I'll get even more spoilers. u__u
A 100% discount off your next eShop purchase. /dream
i doubt it would be a code for any kind of discount, tho perhaps it might be a teaser of his new IP? only time will tell when this is going to show up on youtube
Me and my crew will do whatever it takes to decipher it.....As SOON we get the game Sunday.
We're good sleuths, but if I had to guess. It'll be a note, teasing an upcoming not revealed game. A new I.P? or a old one that is in need of some spotlight?
After some discussing on Miiverse I discovered that everyone has a different code and in my second playtrough I got a different code then in my first playtrough. I could find 7 of the numbers, 3 of them remain hidden for me.
@jrob23:
Are you sure it isn't, "Make sure to buy Fire Emblem: Awakening and Shin Megami Tensei IV for $30 eshop credit.
I found all but 1 number. I'm repeating my Final day trying to find the missing number. Hope its for something cool, but only being 10 digits its unlikely to be a eShop code, I'm guessing its a web code or theres an update due for Pikmin 3 that will include a code entry menu to unlock somesort of bonus.
@JayceJa lol a christmas story
TO UNLOCK NEW PIKMIN OR A ONLINE MODE TO PLAY IN THE GAME PLEASE
@#20 Lol... Online mode.
@GiftedGimp Or maybe the code entry screen is already in the game, and we just don't know how to access it yet.....there is precedence for such a thing....
I'd be willing to bet each set is a cryptogram. IF gravity falls has taught me anything it's this: http://gravityfalls.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_cryptograms Maybe one of these methods deciphers the code?
I bet if you enter the Konami code at the title screen, this pops up.
@Silent
That's exactly how we solve this, beat out of miyamoto lol, even though I don't have the game but might get it.
The child in me is hoping for something grand. The adult in me is expecting a download code for some high-res desktop wallpapers.
Very interested to see what this turns out to do...
Don't get the notion of spoilers - games are experiential - it's not a huge spoiler to say where you can find the end credits in Animal Crossing New Leaf or that expensive bugs come out at night etc.
The only Pikmin code I care about right now is my download code from Gamestop.... I really hope GS doesn't screw this up and I'll be playing as early as tonight.
Since everyone's secret code is different, maybe its a code to get a discount on a game thats on the eshop?
hey NOA, how about giving us the 30% of TW101 for buying Pikmin digitally as well.
To everyone saying it's a download code for a discount, etc: It's not. Did it ever occur to anyone the fact that you get different number sets with each playthrough? If each of these codes were a download code in their own right, then Pikmin 3 would no longer be a game, just a $60 coupon printing machine. Nintendo's not going to just give out endless discounts. Otherwise, they would break their own digital economy. The code is much more likely to unlock something, like new levels, gameplay modes, cutscenes, etc.
@Garo Remember how in Pikmin 2 (I think it was the second), if you gathered x amount of Pikmin together they sang that popular song? Maybe it's something of that nature. Gather the amounts of each Pikmin type in the memos and group them together, see what happens?
I also think it might be something to do with a mode or unlock some eventual free DLC.. maybe a special video of how the game was made.. who knows.. all i know is.. TOO EXCITE!!!!
I hope they put some context to the numbers so we know which order they're in. There are 3,628,800 combinations. -assuming 10 numbers of course
I found only 8 of them. I wonder in which levels the last two where...
When you get all the numbers you translate them to letters with a special device and the message reads, "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."
ooo, it'll be just like in Metroid Prime 3 ^.^
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