With the amiibo figures - and upcoming Super Mario wave - becoming increasingly diverse in both the ranges on offer and the games they support, it's very easy to get mixed up in terms of which toy works in which games. Which games need to save data? Does it matter if I have a Smash Bros. Mario amiibo in Mario Party 10? If you're not paying attention there can certainly be some head scratchers.
In any case, Nintendo of America advertised an official compatibility chart in its Nintendo Direct broadcast, and it's actually rather enlightening. The table has columns for most current and near-released games - more will surely be added soon - and clearly marks figures in each game that are read only or read/write; the latter category is the process seen in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U where each toy saves and updates data based on what's happening in the game; each toy can only hold one set of data, however. Some key points we found interesting are below.
- The relevant upcoming Super Mario toys (pictured above) all work as read-write amiibo in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and (from February) Nintendo 3DS, proving that they work in exactly the same way as the Smash Bros. figures. Only Toad isn't compatible due to him not being in the roster.
- Those Mario Bros. figures (or their Smash Bros. equivalents) are read/write in Mario Party 10, and by clicking on 'Features' for each game in the chart you can get descriptions of what happens. In this case read/write figures in Mario Party 10 affect boards, while individual toys can save items to be used during a game. Notably, any figure outside of these core characters can be scanned as read-only "to play Scratch Bonus and win Mario Party points, letting you unlock in-game bonus content".
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker makes the least use of the range, only supporting the upcoming Toad toy to place 'hide and seek' pixelated Toad characters in levels.
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS will support all the same toys as the Wii U game, and the functionality appears to be the same - customise and train your amiibo. However, it's not explicitly explained as yet - at least as far as we can see - whether you can simply scan in your Wii U toys and continue their progress on the 3DS. We strongly hope and suspect that'll be the case, but Nintendo has seemingly avoided stating that's the case in both the Direct broadcast and on the website.
It's certainly worth checking out the official compatibility chart and details (linked below), for plenty of useful information. The industry of fan-made infographics has undoubtedly taken a hit, however.
[source nintendo.com]
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This is a good chart, but I think even better (and arguably more important at this point) information would concern supply limitations and when they're going to finally have a reasonable number of these in stock in retail outlets.
Nice list. It's convenient seeing Which amiibo give you more bang for your buck if you're not much of the collector type and for what games. Seem like Kirby works with the most games at the moment (not counting selected amiibo use in Hyrule Warriors and Mario Party 10) and is conveniently one of the most common one to find in-stores.
On a side note, it's weird they have Yoshi as TBA in Yoshi Woolly World. That is the one amiibo everyone is sure is going to be used. It's his game after all
All that matters is that I'm getting a Ness amiibo.
Glad to see that the Smash amiibo work in the same manner as the Mario series versions, so I don't have to buy the same characters twice, though I'm a bit upset that I need to erase my save data to use them in Mario Party...
@thesilverbrick But you can backup your data in the Wii U amiibo settings, can't you?
I remember reading about that, but I'm not able to check it right now.
@ultraraichu
It's not finalized yet so it's better/safer if they put TBA on all amiibos. If you confirm Yoshi now, it might send a message and confuse some that only Yoshi will work and nothing else.
@Olmectron I seem to remember that, too, though they didn't mention it in the Direct. I hope that works...
In a related story, more Marths are being released!
@BensonUii
Makes perfect sense, especially when I remember all the people who thought you can lvl up and "fight as" your amiibo in smash bros even though everywhere else (including the box) said with and against your amiibo.
I like the new Mario line. In fact, I like them better than their SSB counterparts.
@GeminiSaint i agree only to a point cause the ssb peach and mario did look cooler but yoshi and luigi look better then ssb counterparts and bowser its hard to say even tho i would prefer a giga bowser amiibo instead.
@NintyMan - me either....I was really hoping it would allow you to use other characters in Captain Toad.....IE sub in Link for toad or something like that. Oh well still no reason for me to get amiibo so I'm saving money
amiibo is really coming along! I am impressed with the STEAM and Mario Party usage, and glad to hear Smash for 3DS has full amiibo features.
I like the sound of the new Captain Toad game mode but I think more could have been done - why can't we look for pixel Mario, Luigi, Link, Zelda, etc? OK, so at least all bonus content can be unlocked with just one amiibo, but it would be cool if you could choose which pixel character you looked for, so those with multiple amiibos get even more out of their purchase.
I hope we see a Mario Kart update soon (before the May DLC) which adds support for some newer amiibo; I love the Fox and Falcon costumes and would love more based on other Nintendo characters (also a Mega Man costume would be brilliant).
That specifically goes against what was said in the EU Direct. (i.e Smash Bros Wario can work fully with Mario Party 10).
I much prefer Luigi's Mario Party amiibo to his Smash amiibo. He looks more, um, dignified.
Really glad about the STEAM integration. Looks actually to be useful and fun, and I was getting the Fire Emblem ones anyways (Marth I got already, Ike is preordered). Also, now I'm almost curious what those four will do in the next Fire Emblem that was announced and in SMTxFE. I hope for something similarly useful at the very least!
I like the SSB Amiibo way more than the new ones. The action poses just look cooler even with those stands that are needed. Also, I am kind of just annoyed at the Super Mario Series in general. All of the characters already have SSB versions except for Toad. Makes me think they introduced this line just so they could make Toad for Captain Toad... which is baffling because I would much rather have a single unique Captain Toad Amiibo... I guess my hopes for Yarn-Yoshi-Plushie Amiibo have just been squashed.
Well that's annoying. So my Smash amiibos will work in mario party 10, but only if I wipe their smash data...yes we need a proper memory management tool. I only really want Toad from the new set, but I guess it all depends on how cool the utilisation is in mario party 10 ultimately...
Where's my Daisy to go along with my Luigi amiibo for Mario Party?
@Shadowkiller97 They mentioned that they were planning to release multiple style amiibo of the same character from the very beginning though, I think. Besides, what's the big deal, really? You just get to pick your favourite version of that character this way. If you don't like the more generic looking ones of the Super Mario line, then just buy the Smash Bros version. It's all about options, I'd say. And I'd like a Yarn Yoshi-style Yoshi amiibo too, but I think that was never really a realistic expectation in the first place.
Everyone is complaining about limited stock at retail. Here, nowhere sells Wii U games or Amiibo, you have to get them online.
It's cool to see that you can use some figures in quite a few games already
Of course; you'd need to keep erasing and rewriting data to actually use one figure across multiple games in many case
They managed to make Skylanders-like NFC figures confusing as heck. Plus the inability to save data from multiple games is far from ideal.
Dear Nintendo, if it requires a chart, you loved up.
Please watch the profanity — TBD
@thesilverbrick no... You don't HAVE TO erase... Nintendo has seen it in their good graces to offer you a SECOND Amiibo of the same name (different style) for the same price as the SSB Amiibo! jerks... All they need is a patch that allows you to "bank" your information (like Pokemon) over the cloud (so you could choose one while at a friends house), is that so hard? They did it for Pokemon...
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