Flipnote Studio 3D Free Download Details Point to a Stripped Back and Offline Experience

At least it is finally coming next month.

@siavm Next month?
Excerpt from official site:
"We’re working hard to create a new programme, which we plan to launch later this year. And as a special offer, users who sign up to the new programme during the launch period will be able to download Flipnote Studio 3D to a Nintendo 3DS system for free. Please stay tuned to the Nintendo website for further details."

So all I get from this is "later this year". Nobody said next month.

EDIT: This is from the official UK Nintendo site. NoA will release Flipnote next month.

@berti they confirmed February

Exciting! I'm not sure if I'll use it, but I would love to try it out every now and then and see the fantastic creations of fellow Nintendo fans.

@TheAceofMystery
Yes, February ONLY for US customers.

@Tsurii897 I sure did. Was merely replying to a comment, so...?

so the wait was for a half donkey app?! Dear Christ just no winning with flip note

@berti Sorry I didnt know it was US only

I guess im the odd one out here, as i dont even have a clue what this is even supposed to be :/

YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Einherjar
I'm with you. Haha.

Ah, I am upset with the discontinuation of Club Nintendo, but I guess Flipnote 3D is good, I forgot about it after my DSi broke due to water damage.

I hope the new loyalty system is good. Also that means Mewtwo must be confirmed for the end of March

Oh no! My brother and I share our Club Nintendo account. Does that mean one of us won't get the program?

@Poketendo As long as you both sign up to the new program I think that's all you need.

@Einherjar You make animations.

@MadAdam81 I sure hope so. We both love the program (ok, we mostly loved it for the online flipnotes, but still). I don't want either of us to miss out

It don't matter to me at least It's coming!!!!!!!!!

@Mus1cLov3r And thats it ? Thats the big ruckus around that "game" ?
At least i now know why i never really heard anything about it

Nintendo needs to stop playing the role of a parent.If they have any online services like Hatena,they should just warn children and parents(who should be actually watching what they are doing online)that some content on there might not be appropriate,as some stuff slips through moderators.Well,at least we still get to upload the animations through PC.

@Einherjar
It was one of the first apps to be digitally downloaded on the DSi by lots of users.Plus it had a (somewhat lacklustre) online community called Flipnote Hatena,which allowed users to upload their animations to a website where others could see it.It went on for a while and was good fun while it lasted.

@Einherjar It had a pretty big following on the Dsi days and believe it or not there was some pretty notable stuff done on the online service which was Flipnote Hatena.

Too bad it's offline only, oh well I'm not complaining as it's been way too long since I've done a flipnote.

What's the point of it if you can't share your work with anyone?

I nearly commented on the forums today when the topic popped back up again to tell people to give up already, glad I didn't now. Can't believe Nintendo is bothering with it after all this time. It's nice it's free but I'm still not interested in using it, especially without online features.

@Einherjar If you don't care about it, you must not be in to drawing...

Being stripped down is disappointing, but the fact it's coming out at all is a huge surprise. Gift horse and all that.

Hopefully this translates to Hey CN people heres the early version of flipnote so other people and u will get the online one later.

Offline Flipnote Studio. If I can turn my animations into GIF or AVI format, I'll be good. But this is bittersweet that this is paired with a closing Club Nintendo. Talk about a downer.

Well, I apparently will have a Flipnote Studio 3D code that I cannot use soon. Guess I can ask and see if any relatives are interested.

"Hay guyz, don't draw a boner." ~Nintendo

Everybody draws boners. Service shuts down.

At least it's finally coming out. I kind of gave up on this.

This would had been something better had it come out ages ago but right now seems like an afterthought. I'm not a Club Nintendo member so I probably won't get it but even if I do, not been able to share it online through Hatena network is a big blow. Flipnote Studio use to be awesome and fun, never thought Nintendo found a way to water it down completely and privately. At this rate better to just continue using the original app on DSi.

I didn't use online anyway. I'm glad it's coming. I just hope the new rewards program is better. In NA at any rate it sucked

@grumblebuzzz - You can still share locally, just not online.

From the US webpage:

http://flipnotestudio3d.nintendo.com/#

"Flipnote Studio 3D allows you to showcase your unique creations in 3D with other Flipnote Studio 3D users over a local wireless connection."

@Poketendo - You can still sign up for new accounts until March 31, so I would recommend one of you make their own new account.

http://flipnotestudio3d.nintendo.com/#

"The ability to create a new Club Nintendo account will end on March 31, 2015."

My family has like 2 or 3 accounts, my original one, then I added a kid, then my wife had one, then she added a kid, then we all got united under a family umbrella account. I'm hoping the new loyalty program runs easier, although I'm sure there will be hiccups.

Local sharing is only good for people in big households with multiple systems. Just like with Swapnote, it's pretty much worthless to most people if it isn't online. Yay, Nintendo! Protecting the innocence of children by neutering any online connectivity whatsoever! <_< Oh well, at least It's free. I'm sure I'll mess around with it a couple times before quickly losing interest.

This makes me question whether Mario Maker will actually end up with an online sharing mode because heaven forbid some kid sees a cluster of question blocks shaped to resemble human male genitalia.

Sign up for 3 or 4 extra Club Nintendo accounts so you can give the codes to the people who were too slow!

If the exporting options are up to par with the Japanese release, the lack of online services won't completely destroy the potential of the application. You can export animated GIFs, sequential GIFs, and .AVI movies.

Exporting AVI's is the easiest way to share Flipnotes with audio, since they can be uploaded to YouTube with ease. However, exported AVI's are horribly compressed. And the audio will be scratchy. Here is a sample AVI Flipnote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDxe3pFkZOY (created by me lol)

However, if you have any video editing software, you can sync the crisp, non-compressed GIF export with the original audio, creating something that is a little easier on the eyes and ears. It takes a bit of effort, but it's not too bad.

Fans will definitely create services and sites for sharing Flipnotes. Collaboration is even possible, since you can send the Flipnote's file to others for editing on their 3DS.

Nintendo have Parental Controls, why can't they just make the ability to access Gallery World able to be restricted by it? Same with online chat. Oh well, people will probably make their own services anyway.

@Drobotic @torotoid64 No wonder that i never heard of it, since i completely skipped the DSi and merely got a handfull of titles from it via the 3DS eShop.
It was just weird having so much demand for something, that looked so..."mundane" from an outside viewpoint.
I guess its the fact that i wasnt part of said community efforts.
But many thanks for clearing that up

@Mus1cLov3r What does that have to do with anything ?
I just didnt understand all the hype for an "animation scribble pad" thingy, that looked, like i stated above, rather mundane for someone, who wasnt involved in its community.
So dont jump to conclusions here

I was really looking forward to Flipnote, but if there's no way to share them, other than locally, I can't really see the point.

Unless there was some way to share them by grabbing the files from the SD card (which would probably involve 3rd party codecs), I have literally no way of getting access to anyone else's animations to watch. I don't know any great animators with a 3DS who'd be willing to hook 3DSes up, and even then, I'd prefer a wider variety.

This is extremely shocking. I thought Flipnote 3D coming outside of Japan was more dead than, uh... Something... That's dead... But here it is! While I don't really have a huge interest in it, (I'm not very good at drawing) it'll still be nice to have it, and I'm sure I'll enjoy making some animations.

That is too bad.. I was looking forward to the cool point system. Oh well. Free stuff!

Well, s**t. I guess it's good that we're getting it at all, but I personally have zero reason to get this app anymore.

I'm just hoping Nintendo of Europe does what this says. In Europe (or at least in the Netherlands) you can't create a new Club Nintendo account without immediately registering a game, and I don't have any unused codes. But if we both create a new account, and then we'll both get the game, then I don't have any objections

@Einherjar I wasn't a part of the original community either, but I'm very excited that I'll finally get to get it.

If you can't save the animations to your SD card, there is absolutely no point.

Nintendo being frightened of adult oriented fan-generated content via a service of theirs is absolutely ridiculous.

Well, I think I'll give it away since I'm not very good at drawing

@AugustusOxy You can http://flipnotestudio3d.nintendo.com/#

Dangit. The online (hatena) was the best part of the dsi flipnote.

FLIPNOTE!!!!!!!!!!!

....was my childhood.

took them long enough

With the disappointment surrounding the New 3DS, I'm actually a little excited about the release (FINALLY) of Flipnote Studio 3D.

I don't get what the deal is with sharing online, though. For a dollar a month...to share online...? They stopped it because of offensive material? Guess it's a good thing they're not in charge of the Colors!3D Gallery, huh?

I dunno. I'd think that for people paying for an online fee, that'd be enough to save the kids from blood, gore, and porn.

Man, I have been waiting for this for a long time...
But it is seriously lame with the no sharing online feature. I never saw any inappropiate material on Flipnote Hatena, and I went on there a lot. Couldn't they just implement the same system, or maybe I missed some important piece of info.
Anyways, I will be getting this. Yay!

i don't care about online features, i just wanna make animations

...great. Well, I suppose this is what we get for two years of patience.

Nintendo, why must you treat us like babies?

@berti American. There's a difference. Canadians get it too, as would mexicans presumably. Not sure about South America.

I'm just glad to have the freakin' thing after SO many years of waiting. But I am really bummed that you can only share videos locally. I mean, what's the point if nobody can see your creations? The friends I have that will be getting this live far away so yeah...I wish you could at least share locally AND with people in your friends list.
Nintendo's nazi-style censoring is one of the only things that bugs me about the big N. The whole idea of a few people misusing a service causing everyone to lose a privilege is never a good idea.

@Poketendo if you have two people on your account you can get one code per person.

@Jrod890 Really? Never knew that! But if Europeans really get a code if they register for the new service then we'll be ok anyway.

@grumblebuzzz +1