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There's something about those coins Nintendo produce that makes me wanna give up my first-born for a complete set. Or y'know, money. Either or.

(But not $200, ew.)

It's not a huge deal but I'm glad they're making the FE theme available outside of pre-orders/eShop purchases. It's annoying that themes like the Famicom and Hyrule Warriors Legends ones are tied to the games/eShop purchases.

Usually I'd pick the grass starter in this scenario as I love owls — but I've been a cat person ever since I adopted one I helped to birth. Fire-type starter, 7 gens and counting.

As someone who doesn't even own the game, I'm a bit excited to spend my points on this once I'm home. Well played, Nintendo.

More pics in the link below — by my count, there were 41 skins including a couple of surprises in Petey Piranha (let's face it, he isn't getting the attention he did in the GameCube days) and Super Mario World's Rex! (He's hidden in the background of the image of Bowser and company in his castle.)

http://www.perfectly-nintendo.com/minecraft-super-mario-mash-pack-coming-next-week-retail-release-next-month/

But whether or not all the generic enemies will be playable or were just well-posed enemies, I don't know.

The news I was waiting to hear. So keen!

I'm hoping this won't be the same scenario in Australia — I was late to the punch pre-ordering in store, so I did an online order instead.

My own fault if I miss out, but still, sorry to hear this is a thing that's happened to others.

In less interesting news, the Animal Crossing island theme is a bonus download if you buy at least 10 plays this week.

The actual 3DS theme, mind you, not the music.

Don't forget to download Lilac for Runbow, everyone — she's free.

Amiibo's wearing a little thin on me, but I like Splatoon and this is about as far as I'll go with its merchandise. I'm keen.

Speaking of EB Games Aus and pre-orders, the FE Fates special edition page went down a few days ago, so they seem to have run out of their June restock as well as the initial batch. JB Hi-Fi still has it up for pre-order on their site, though.

I had never actually considered FE as a mobile game before... but it'd work quite well. Looking forward to both.

Could we get some clarification on this regarding the ages of all affected characters? Like, I might understand if that poster model was 15 or 16, but if there's no actual age associated... I mean, I don't care about the changes, but it would be a little strange to change that.

@themightyboost That's exactly how it works. However you'll need to make a second profile with a European NNID. For example, my main account is Australian, and I have a second one set to the UK. You won't get Gold Coins for your Australian My Nintendo account, but if you create another one linking your second account, that will receive 30 Gold Coins. The only extra thing you'll need to keep in mind is the money conversion fee — my bank charges 3% for overseas purchases, which is next to nothing but something to keep in mind.

And this is actually a good idea for vice versa too. UK players pay £6.29 (AU$11.57) for Fire Emblem on the eShop Virtual Console, as an example. Australians pay $9.10 for the same thing, or £4.95. We pay less for our Wii-to-Wii U upgrades too — AU$1.30 (£0.71) as opposed to £0.99 for NES upgrades.

The bad news is the price changes didn't affect Australia (and presumably NZ).

The good news is we can still use a European account to get the discount. ;p

I still use that theme that was bundled with the game when it was first released in Europe and Australia, I'll probably fork out some money for these too. Glad they're doing well for themselves, they deserve it.

Moments like these make me wish both versions of Splatfest shirts were available permanently for people.

I hope whoever thought of that line was shouted a bunch of drinks after work. Sentimental and appropriate for the game, I love it.

I considered getting that 20% off of Pullblox World until I compared the discount with the amount of Platinum coins I'd need to spend. Would rather just pay the extra AU$2.60 than let go of 150 Platinum coins.

I'm grateful they added Classic Controller support — now I don't need to buy any more accessories just for this game. If any devs are reading this, thanks heaps.

@AyeHaley I got codes for the Super Famicom game and theme when I downloaded it in Australia just hours ago. It actually says in the update trailer in this article you will get codes for the both from the eShop too. If you couldn't see the offer in the eShop description, it's hidden by one of the arrows you need to press to extend information (a different arrow from the one hiding the description of the game).

@McGruber Yeah, through the eShop purchase of the 3DS game is the only way nowadays, but I'm only speaking for Europe/Australia. But tbh the Famicom game is pretty reliant on knowledge of Japanese; I didn't expect cutscenes to go for very long. Even the buttons they added on the bottom screen (to restart the game or check the also-untranslated control scheme) are in Japanese. I thought at least that stuff would have been changed.

I probably will get this now, the demo was pretty fun and the perk of the Super Famicom game as a download is great value for the eShop version.

It's worth noting that going to the web browser eShop nets you 30 Platinum coins in addition to the ones you earn by using the console eShops. You don't get notified and it's not a visible mission, they just appear in your account after you've gone to the page and logged into your NNID.

@Retron Switch your region to a Euro one (the UK is what I use), create a new profile to access the eShop, and voila!

Hopefully they plan to implement Classic Controller support eventually. I'm glad they're up to speed with the 360/PS3 versions though.

All I can see is Sailor Venus.

I think I'll still grab this if only because I want to see all the references to the books (the Beast from the East was a neat addition), buuuuut there's no way I'm paying AU$49.95 for it. Even the PlayStation Store has it for less than half that price.

@DarthNocturnal I just had a look at my own copy with the yellow switch scanned compared to a file without, and although Luigi does have his trademark kicky-jump in both, he stays in the air longer with the yellow switch involved. Nothing major, but the option for all the switch changes and feather/boomerang items would have been the cherry on top.

Speaking of the sorry state of the e-Reader, Australia saw two of the cards (both included with the game) — level 1: Wild Ride in the Sky, and the Super Leaf. What a tease.

(At least people were inventive and came across a way around that. )

I want to believe it, but until we hear from Nintendo themselves I'm gonna pretend this was never mentioned.

In fact even if they do reveal it, unless it's akin to the first two games then I don't think I'll be buying.

@Lizuka Coro Coro Castle was renamed to Treacherous Halls.

The only one I never got a chance to play was the second-to-last level, No Time to Dawdle. From what I've read, there was a very limited supply of those cards in Japan and they were meant to be kept by retailers who would scan the level into a customer's game. Nobody ever got the chance to decode the card since those who knew how to never got their hands on one.

@Damo Heads up man — the course in that video isn't actually the Southwest Adventure course, but a demo to just show off the costume.

That's a shame that Aussies can't enter — it's entirely possible for us to access the UK eShop to enter the code. Ah well, rules are rules. Good luck everyone!

Amazing! The only one I've never been able to play was one of the Japanese promo levels. The rest were available through a dot code printer at least, but soooo tricky to get to work.

I don't know how they'd all work when the regular cart only holds 32 levels at a time. And hopefully they include the power-ups and switches, too.

While I can handle waiting a bit for the update, I'm pretty disappointed that the Classic Controller wasn't made compatible with the game. I'm not buying another two Pro Controllers just for to get 4-player in this game specifically.

I never got to go to Universal while I was in the US, but lawd, if they reveal a dedicated Nintendo park just try and keep me away...

I think it's fantastic that Legends has allowed the devs to add content like Linkle. Even though I don't care much for her at the moment, it's neat to see a concept become an actual character.

It'd be nice to say my "No thanks" meant something meaningful to them, but some sucker will buy it and return an obscene profit to them regardless. It looks disgusting. From the gross button-like corners of the watch to the handles pointing out the time, I don't see how this could be worth as much as they're touting. At least make it look like more than some claw machine prize before pricing it so highly.

I ended up getting P&DZ but was disappointed to learn they stopped distributing relics a while back. Not being able to fully complete a game because of things like that is disheartening.

Just like the KotRL's overused voice clip in his trailer, I'm not digging Skull Kid's laugh here.

That's the third game from that preview thing to have been delayed now, isn't it?

@RainbowGazelle Good (?) news! There are Splatoon badges up for us today.

I've spent way more than I should have on this stuff, especially when I'm already hesitant on themes themselves. But it's fun and the prizes are worth more to me than most real-life crane game prizes.

The preview was fun but I couldn't work out how to get past a certain spot. Might've been the big spider. I suppose that getting stuck is the point of the game.

Aussie devs are working on a Zelda title... I don't even care that it's just a remake, I'm pretty proud of them for getting the gig.

I already have the 360 version but I never boot that up these days and my nephews love playing it. I'm putting my dollars down on it.

Sorry, Chibi — you're a pretty neat character, but your recent games just haven't done it for me.

Speaking of Sega and eShop... I reaaaally want them to bring that NiGHTS HD game out for Wii U some day. Very doubtful at this point though.

Speaking of eShop music — the 3DS eShop was advertising that music from Zelda was meant to be playing on Halloween but I was just getting the standard tune. There was music on the Wii U one at least.

I hate to say it but I'm skipping this one. Nothing's beaten the N64 one for me, and tbh I don't really see how they could beat it anyway. It's tennis. At the end of the day it's all the same, mega mushroom or special shot or otherwise.

(Also I've always hated Dry Bowser ever since MKWii. As a boss, great. But to me, I'd rather play as Petey Piranha. If my avatar doesn't suggest so already. )

I admit that I haven't finished it (barely finish any game these days ) but I've enjoyed Lost World and will always have a soft spot for Sega.