Go The Whole Hog With This Amazing SNES New Nintendo 3DS Skin

One of the things I like most about the regular-sized New 3DS, besides the availability of faceplates (MM Skull Kid faceplate FTW), is the fully-colored buttons. In the XL only the letters are colored. Another reason NA should get it.

The PAL SNES/SuperFamicom are things of beauty. Not quite as gorgeous as a SEGA Saturn or Dreamcast, but definitely beautiful. This skin's a cool thing.

The SNES-colored buttons on the N3DS could also hint that SNES VC is coming to the N3DS?

Surely the outer skins should be cover plates & inside skins? Never used skins before so not entirely sure how it works.

it first i was thinking.... lame, but then i saw the inside stickers and the back one and it actually looks pretty cool.

The outer skin looks tacky, but the inner looks awesome! The SNES is still the sexiest console of all time! (American model excluded of course lol)

I love it but wish it was just the cover plates. Don't want to be putting the stickers on the inside. But damn it all looks cool!

Purchased,this is the reason I got a white one.

I will hopefully get one this year. (I hope), and i would lovw for faceplates rather than a new model all together, but if they sell stickers and faceplates in the future then im all down for that.

@outburst haha lol, i like your thinking and i would love that too, the first game id get, if the new 3ds has it on vc, is the super mario world. Thats my favorite.

ubercool! ordered! There are already skins for N3DSXL, mainly on Etsy and Ebay US. The coverplates are an awesome idea. I absolutley love how I can so easily change the whole look of the console. Bought both regular and XL at launch and will sell XL as extra screen size not mattering and actually smaller screen better for retro games (VC, Ambassador GBA and some nds carts)

I'd feel so ridiculous if i put this on a console that doesn't even have a SNES Virtual Console.

ook, now I wish NOA brought the N3DS to the U.S. .......

@Sakura I chose the XL model for retro gaming. I think the XL is better suited as when you hold select when booting up VC gameboy games it's the original screen ratio whereas on the smaller model it's not 1:1 it's actually smaller than a real gameboy. It's the same for DS cartridges.

Awesome I love it!

I know that the new 3ds back plate is replaceable in theory due to you can remove the back side to access the sd card and battery so why they cannot make backplates that are changeable on the new 3ds xl but next can they make the buttons look like the new 3ds a, b, x, y b buttons

@Farpun Thanks! I didn't know you could do that - press select on launch. Not sure that it will make me change my mind though because although that is way better on screen!!!, the size of my hands can't be changed and the XL is a bit unwieldy. And a fingerprint nightmare. And it's black. A red one might be alright, but that's not EU. And I can't change the look of the console easily. And it doesn't fit neatly into my bag... A real shame about the res on VC games though. If I had unlimited funds, then I might just have one of each. Can't justify that though and anyway, I'd have to have 2 sets of data because NNID etc can't easily be changed across consoles. I'll have to put up with the slightly less beautiful graphics for VC and DS It actually doesn't bother me unless I can see the direct comparison on the XL so the sooner I flog it, the better. Can't help wondering why Nintendo didn't just combine all the good features into one console... a white not-quite-so-big XL with changeable faceplaces, SNES buttons.. hmmm You're absolutely right though, the XL is better for retro when you use the select button...

Wowza! I love it. The plates are cool looking but I doubt I would have bought the smaller 3DS even if it were available here in the states.

I never had a SNES, but the top faceplace looks more like a Nintendo 64(which I own) than it does what I recall what a SNES looks like.

Is the interior just stickers? Not too into the cover plate. Would still probably buy this if it were available to me.

Pretty cool for the people who have a use though.

@Knuckles The NTSC SNES is different from the PAL SNES.

http://www.cvgm.net/static/media/platform/image/Super_Nintendo_and_Famicom_thumb.jpg

@Jenraux Ah thank you! Just woke up and forgot that NA had the Gray/Purple system and not the 4 colors I always think of when I think SNES.

Either way, I didn't know the tops of the system were different, so thanks for educating me!

I agree with the first poster... Why they didn't give the XL full color buttons as well is beyond me... It only makes sense to me to make one set of buttons and put them into two systems rather than 2 sets of different buttons for 2 different systems that use the same size buttons... They DO use the same size buttons right? If there's ever a chance for me to take my system apart and put my own buttons in I'll do it.... I'LL DO IT, NINTENDO!!

I'm still suprised North America got skipped on a flagship console release.
When, if ever, will the standard New 3DS be available for NA?

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@Shiner1776 I personally expect Nintendo to release it in Summer or Holiday 2015

@Knuckles thanks, Knuckles- I'll be bummed if we have to wait until winter though... So I bet that's exactly what they'll do.

Life goals.

cool

This would have made my day... Too bad that NoA wants to "care about its fanbase."

@Sakura honestly each to his own I prefer the xl as I have large hands but that might not suit you. I would love to get a stardard n3ds because 3ds games aren't so stretched out and the image is denser but cant justify getting one. There's pros and cons for both sizes. With the XL I always use skins theyre a great way to customise your 3ds with no residue, it keeps them free from scratches aswell.

@Farpun
Ah yes, but I still want the best of both worlds! My hands are small and womanly because I'm a small woman so no surprise there. The XL is just that bit too big to be entirely comfortable. But I do like the res for the VC games now I know about select. If I were to keep the XL I'd definitely go with some skins. I don't think I can though. Won't be able to afford any games if I do! Glad to at least have the choice in Europe. It might have been a real turn-off if I were told I was only capable of understanding the choice between a red or black XL, the choice of the smaller models providing a layer of complexity my tiny brain couldn't deal with! At least NOA distributes the Special Miis though! Another one today. That makes, what, 4 times as many at least than we've had. Well, Nintendo I hacked my old toad console with that retail game to put a special mii on that and now I'm all sorted. My one and only venture into anything remotely naughty, but really not caring. Sometimes I don't understand their decisions. Nintendo are brilliant, just not cohesively so.

I've just gotta say, Shovel Knight looks really good on that system. Like, gorgeously good.

Looks like crap

@Starz That was my hope aswell, maybe we can see someone else do those in faceplate form. The inside i dont mind beeing stickers, but the outside id prefer to have as real faceplates.

True real faceplates would be better. But this just lokks way too cool not to have So i ordered it.

I'd be so happy if they released a 'brick game boy' skin for the N3DS. I think my mind would explode and I would buy 10 of them.

Are these cover plates?