When Nintendo announced the closure of Club Nintendo recently, it also confirmed that members in North America would receive Flipnote Studio 3D as a free download - in Europe the app will go to those that sign-up for the replacement programme later in the year. Official details point to an offline, stripped back version of the app, but it's welcome nevertheless.
The good news for North American Club Nintendo members is that they should be able to create their animations - and import their Hatena DSi equivalents - this week. Following Nintendo's huge final rewards update in the region, the page also states that the download will come later in the week; to find it you'll need to go to the 'To-Do' section in Club Nintendo [not the eShop as previously written] to get a code. No precise day was given, but it's not far away.
Are you Club Nintendo members in North America planning to grab this?
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I'll get it, but it's pretty much useless to me. : /
It's too bad it doesn't have the online components (because what's the point if you can't share your creations) but I'll still be getting it. It'll be a great creative tool nonetheless. And it's free.
@TwilightV Same.
Between these codes and the new rewards, the website will be down for days.
I don't see the point if it doesn't have online capabilities. Also why does Europe have to wait to sign up for the new programme? Makes no sense
@Dark-Luigi Same!
Very excited about this. Slightly less excited than if it had online features fully intact... but still very excited overall.
It's the To-Do section on Club Nintendo, not the eShop.
I'm looking forward to this, though it's not something I'm super hyped for or anything, and I'm not very good at drawing so I won't get a ton of use out of it.
I can excuse the lack of online if there is a way to convert them to video so I can post them online.
@ericwithcheese2 @ENTER It should still have the option to convert a flipnote to GIF or a video format as it was shown to have back when the app was first revealed.
If we can still make new animations and still upload to video or other means, I'm all for it! Excited to finally get it.
Does anyone know if it has Street Pass functions?
I'm getting it for sure either way.....
@dkxcalibur Nintendo hasn't said anything about StreetPass for this app.
It's finally coming out, so those that have been pestering Nintendo about this, on the internet and on Miiverse, can finally shut the hell up...
@ENTER Hopefully you can save it on to your SD Card and it gets saved as a GIF file, so that you can upload it...
Meanwhile in Europe this will be added to the list; "Games that are delayed here for no reason", along with Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush, and Devilish Brain Training.
Heck yeah!
Just like Swapnote, this app is useless without online. I don't have the patience or interest to make animations myself but I loved looking at other people's creations (even if I had to do quite a lot of sifting to find anything good).
What's the point if I can't look at people's creations?
Gonna download it and share my flipnotes on Facebook or something.
Yes
I probably won't use it much, but for that price I'm willing to give it a go
Oh snap!
I have no creative talent. My daughter can have it. I presume I can just give her the download code.
Finally I've been waiting since the 3DS came out for this.
Can't wait to try this out soon, I'm hoping that there'll be an unofficial Flipnote website where we can share our flipnotes.
Hey, people are making websites to share Flipnotes.
I've been working hard on reddit.com/r/FlipnoteStudio3D, and I think it will emulate Gallery World pretty well! Check it out!
@TeeJay @ChuJelly @ENTER @ejamer @ericwithcheese2
Share on Facebook, YouTube, and the subreddit I linked to earlier. Follow facebook.com/FlipnoteStudio3D for more options and developments. There will be tons of places to watch other peoples' Flipnotes!!
@mr_nihilism Yes you will
@Sforzando Thanks for bringing this to my attention! Both are bookmarked and I will keep watch of them and maybe even participate myself at some point. Thank you!
At least we're actually getting it.
Flipnote Studio 3D GET!
Hopefully it won't be delayed in Europe again!
Don't really see reason to get it. I don't do animations. I'll continue to use Art Academy.
wtf took them so long!? Hey at least it's better late than never!
I'd planned to pay for this years ago when I had heard about it. It was probably my favorite DSi ware at the time and I'm still pretty excited for it. Will be downloading on all three of our family's 3DS consoles.
@Takerkaneanite6 That is literally all I ask from this app...
Awesome! I never used the first one, and I'm not very good with animation yet, but I'd love to give this a spin.
I've been waiting for Flipnote to arrive in the States ever since the Nintendo Direct announcement (mostly 'cause I do want to go online and search up other people's flipnotes. ) (I can't draw. )
This is a blessing and a possible curse if the online is cut from the Club Nintendo version. I highly doubt that Nintendo will cut anything, even if it is a Club Nintendo exclusive (for now.) There are, literally, thousands of people who have signed up for a Club Nintendo account at some point in their life. And I bet you, when those people hear about this news (provided they didn't trade it in or sell it yet ), they will go out and buy a 3DS, so it'd be kinda stupid for Nintendo to cut the online service from the app. Plus, good ol' Japan got the app a full 2 and a half years before us, so they must have online for that. I'm still gonna download the app when it comes out, but if the online is cut, I won't use as much as I would if it had online.
@TheNintendoGuy2 It won't have online
Where is this so called "To-Do" section? I'm looking on the eshop right now, and I can't find that option.
Really hope they will make the Miiverse integration for Flipnote.
I really want to see the talented stuff that people make, especially from some of the people I already follow in Miiverse.
I guess I'll download it; cheap as free... but what's the point if it's offline only? I deleted SwapNote immediately after they cut that one off.
Nintendo's stupefying inability to understand the internet and relentless insistence on protecting all Nintendo users from anything bad ever happening online is one of its many outdated practices that keeps holding people back. For crap's sake, let people trash talk if they want to among friends... and let the rest of us block or ignore the jerks! Open communication among users certainly hasn't damaged Sony, Microsoft or PC platforms.
I'll be using it. Even if it's offline, because of course it would still have SD-exporting features.
Will Club Nintendo be able to handle everyone jumping on to download this?? I doubt it.
"you'll need to go to the 'To-Do' section in the eShop to get a code". I think you ment "Club Nintendo", @ThomasBW84.
Yeah, it sucks it doesn't have an online mode. I loved swapnote because of that. Made some good friends and now I have no way to know about them anymore u_u
@TingLz That really sucks. How in the Hoenn-Region are you supposed to share your flipnotes now; or do you not? This is really stupid on Nintendo's part. I really wish they got their head out of their Reggie-holes and stop cowering in fear when it comes to internet. Then again, thanks to the yahoos who abused the Swapnote feature, Nintendo is really trying to do the right thing, IMO, by punishing the people who abuse the app, that way they can open back up the internet feature once everything has calmed down. And I really must ask how you know about this supposed internet-feature being cut? Is it something Nintendo stated? Did the download code come out yet? (I didn't see any sign of Flipnote in my "To-Do" list.)
They'd be just silly not to boot up Hatena again a year from now when this thing inevitably becomes universal. After all, Flipnote worked because everyone had it. This thing will be released later for the mortals. We just get it early like beta testers. I'm learning their patterns.
Or heck, maybe they'll link it to miiverse somehow. It seems like a no-brainer. Until they release it to the public I suppose we can get by saving them to the SD card and uploading onto other sites.
Has anyone gotten this yet?
The problem here is Club Nintendo isn't working, so getting to the to-do is impossible. :/
@ENTER agreed. hopefully there are other ways of sharing creations.
Wonder if this comes out today with the weekly update.
How about this, all of you stop trying to log on to club nintendo, let me on and get my code, then resume to trying to get on club nintendo. Problem solved
@icedude545 Just noticed that, it now says later this month instead of this week sadly
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