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My opinion on the Amiiqo is similar to emulators, they can be used to pirate, but on their own there's nothing wrong with them, if they're used in a legal way.

@NintendoLife
http://www.amiiqo.com/, the price is going to be $50 from now on and they are making a amiiqo that operates via USB so you don't need an NFC enabled phone, that model is going to be $30.

@Minotaurgamer MKwii was eh, I've had a ton of good memories while playing it but at the end of the day it was just another Mario Kart. My personal ranking of the recent MK games (plus 64) would be MK8=64>DS>Wii>>7.

First game I ever played, great game and IMO it had the best track design.

@DBPirate Just noticed that, pretty smart, especially as it gets closer to 9/11 as people start remembering what that date is.

@Aneira How? The old UU was a terrible map, the only way to get into the middle was via one of three choke points that were easy to guard, now no matter how good the other team is you can at least break out into the middle.

@TsukiDeity I would've probably bought the localized Limited Edition (if I was actually able to without waiting for a one minute period of availability) after if I had the JPN game. I don't speak Japanese but I am pretty good when it comes to figuring stuff out the hard way. But since it isn't region free I'll just have to hope and pray the LE doesn't sell out in minutes otherwise I'm downloading it.

@KodyDawg GBA games on a n3ds won't run full speed if there emulated and not installed (it's impossible to install them above 9.2 for now). But most games would run fairly well.

@ryanator008 Well, you implied that it was "open", and then compared it to android in terms of openness. Windows is closed source and owned by MS, the people who are more concerned for the NSA than you (http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/08/22/nsa-windows-8-exploit/), the company that used to hate openness and (stock) android is completely open source and actually "open".

@LuciusHellmonde America isn't the entire world you know, you brought up a point about how you've signed a EULA, I showed evidence that in many parts of the world that means zilch.

@BoshiBoy Again, naiveness in thinking that every hack is made for piracy, this couldn't even launch/install games because no ARM9 kernel which is WAAAAAY harder to get at then ARM11 kernel. And like I said before, it should take no more than a few days once the exploit comes out to patch it and submit it to NoA for re-approval.

@LuciusHellmonde Canada actually, but our copyright laws aren't all that different, and those Europeans signed the same EULA that I did, if it failed over there it goes to show that EULA's aren't iron-clad contracts that I must abide by or else. I don't know what it is like in the US but here's a good example of our law in Canada
http://list.digital-copyright.ca/pipermail/discuss/2005-June/005343.html

@LuciusHellmonde If they want to take me to court for doing nothing illegal than so be it. http://bgr.com/2014/01/23/nintendo-console-hacking-court-ruling/ http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-12171423

@BoshiBoy "be honest no one cares that much about import games the only reason people want this is because it would mean free games." That's utter crap and you (should) know it. It shows how naive you are when you think that a ARM11 kernel exploit will lead to piracy. Yellows8 (a VERY reputable 3ds hacker who generally just finds stuff out) has even said that 9.3+ will take A LOT of effort to get any deeper than what this is.

@ryanator008 "If you want your devices to be open, just use Android or Windows. There is no need for all of this."
->Windows, I lol'd

@Chaoz IKR, it seems like half these people have a personal grudge against hacking.

@kensredemption To be fair Ninjhax 2.0 (the one that works on every firmware) was delayed by over a week because of Iwata's death, much to the disappointment of many people.

@Nintendo_Ninja I think what @HADAA is trying to get at is that is you go on the forums for example and try create a thread about these types of thing they'll instantly get locked, but yet NL regularly puts out articles on these exploits (kinda hypocritical really).

@Spoony_Tech, IIRC these exploits rely on buffer overflows (I know for a fact the original did), pesky things that are all to easy to create in C/C++ (see http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6701), they are not hard to patch and companies will hardly loose money from this, nevermind the fact that most of the free stuff on the eShop is made by Nintendo/Google or is a demo. Devs could actually make money if the next exploit was on a paid game, as all of a sudden there would be lots of people buying it.
"And if Nintendo as a company wants to do region lock then so be it." Well, not sure about you but, I'm not paying $300+ to import a Japanese N3DS and FE:if-SE. Just because you obviously don't import games or have enough money to buy two consoles doesn't mean everyone else is like that. Heck, if the Wii U was region free or had a publically released IOSU exploit I'd be playing Xenoblade X right now.

@Spoony_Tech crap, like doing Nintendo's job and making the 3ds region free? And not requiring people to spend hundreds (devkits) to become an "official" developer just to get some neat stuff like custom themes (they aren't even hard to make)? In the PS hacking community there's a joke about "the game of the week" that gets taken down due to exploits, yet they always come back up when they are fixed. And the miiverse things is one of the silliest reasons ever for him to target another app. And don't even get me started on the fact that Nintendo hasn't made SNES VC for the 3ds a thing but the homebrew scene already has a pretty decent emulator, and the have pretty much every GBA game running natively.

@BacktoNarnia http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/01/03/xenoblade-pirates-dont-be-stupid
This was all BEFORE the prices reached $100+ on ebay. If NoA wanted Xenoblade to have a chance they could've done a whole lot more like, not limit a small shipment to GS where they tore the packaging then sold them for $100 as 'used' games. I'm willing to bet many of the pirates were genuine, hardcore JRPG fans and not some loser who doesn't want to get a job (why would a person like that even want a fairly niche JRPG).

@BacktoNarnia + apparently 1 million people in NA pirated Xenoblade before it came out, it was one of the most pirated games on the Wii before it finally released in NA, right up there with SMG2.

@BacktoNarnia because NIS and Atlus specialized in those types of games and any profit to them is good profit. Whereas Nintendo could A)Spend 6 months on one niche JRPG that likely only profit a few thousand or B)localize not niche game in 6 months or less that'll likely make a few million in profit.

@Nintendian How 'bout YOU stop your naiveness. Ninjhax 1.1, which can be run only on consoles < 9.2 CAN launch rxTools which is essentially a free Gateway3DS minus one or two things. Ninjhax 2.0 which is the only solution for > 9.3 CANNOT lead to launching CFW for a LONG time as the system is locked down very tightly (yellows8 himself). And WTH you talking about "the exploit is not stable and can easily crash your 3ds", no it's not. The exploit is perfectly fine, the crashing is probably cause by launching unstable apps.

edit: And to all those people that want homebrew to die and that it's pointless, how you enjoying all those SNES games and easy to make custom themes on your 3ds? oh wait... you need homebrew to do that.

@PlywoodStick " Having a form of order where the top boss doesn't get paid up to 100 - 800 times more than their lowest paid worker, as is so common in the USA, is not a pipe dream, it is called a Democracy." WHAT??? So the random person who gets hired as the front desk worker deserves anywhere near as much money as the person in DC (who has likely spent his/her entire career becoming a CEO/COO etc.) making multi-million, if not billion, dollar decisions?? That's like a waiter in a high-class restaurant getting as much as the head chef, it takes a lot more skill to be a top-notch chef than it does a waiter, it also took much longer for the chef to be where he is then the waiter. One more analogy, you work at a company as just an average worker and have been doing a pretty good job for over 30 years, staying with the company throughout the highs and lows, making personal sacrifices to help the company. But then, your company hires a college kid who, isn't close to as good as you, or anyone, is but he gets an identical job to yours, and makes just as much as you.

@coolerz Wow, you really seem to know what your talking about. Makes a ton of sense too. There was 1/1,000,000 chance someone would make a REALLY good point and you sir/madam are that one.

@Mando44646 No they aren't, in ANY other company, if you sign a NDA and then break it, you'll get fired on the spot. He pointed fingers at Sakurai, and insulted fans in multiple ways (I'm an idiot for wanting x game localized and your telling me that I don't like well developed characters?). Tell me how that wouldn't break a NDA

@123akis YES thank you!!!

@123akis wait, that happened? lol where is that!

@FLUX_CAPACITOR smashing your head on a brick wall would be more productive than trying to change kirk's views.

@Pandaman "My point with this story that many people have seemingly glossed over (or I didn't do a good enough job stressing) is that just because you can get fired for talking about interpersonal work topics, doesn't mean you should (or maybe even shouldn't, to be fair!),"
because Catch 22, they fire him and people backlash against Nintendo, or they don't and then anther employee says even worse (even untrue) things but Nintendo can't fire said guy because they could get heavily sued for discrimination as Pranger didn't get fired when he spoke out so why should he/she.

And I'm not disagreeing with the secnd part of that paragraph but could you give some examples of people doing that that aren't high-ups in the company (ie Gabe Newell, Phil Spencer) or indie devs.

@Kirk For all we know him talking about his job (other than, "I translate games") outside of events like E3 was a violation of his NDA. He made some accusations at Sakurai, essentially said Nintendo was cheap when it comes to voice actors, and he called some fans and told people that "fans lack appreciation for character localization insofar that their favourite characters are, in some cases, lightly written or not written at all, and thus logical character development is seen as an affront to the fans". Yeah cause that's not insulting at all, you're telling me that I think good, logical character development is "offending" to me.

@Kirk He broke his NDA, Nintendo is in a Catch 22, they fire him and people backlash against Nintendo, or they don't and then anther employee says even worse things but Nintendo can't fire said guy because they could get heavily sued for discrimination as Pranger didn't get fired when he broke his NDA so why should he/she. This whole thing is really stupid, I feel like Nintendo Life just lost my daily visit for this 'journalism'.

What's shameful is that only one of those games in the top 10 has a Wii U port.

@JusticeColde nope, it's Personal Computer Station Box 3D U for Vita!! Thumbs up if you get the vita part.

@wisdomsprince because it's helpful to be able to see the stats while your away from the game.

@Yorumi Splatoon actually made sense, they wanted it so lvl 1's (or people who just got the game and sucked) couldn't screw over good players in ranked who are playing for the first time and are in C-. But you needed to get good/better before you could join, makes sense and saves frustration. But there wouldn't be enough lvl 10's at the beginning to actually get put in a match without waiting forever, so they deciding to spare people the waiting just waited for enough people to reach lvl 10 before they unlocked ranked. That way there were enough people at level 10 to actually get a match.

In the weapons case, it has also been smart if anything, honestly, if they released all the weapons at the beginning, I would probably be burnt out and would rarely play Splatoon, but instead I have a reason to keep coming back and trying new things. It also helps give people time to use each weapon to its fullest before you get more, then you play with those new ones, then get some more new ones etc. Honestly, I haven't used about half of the 'original' kart parts in MK8, but I've used all of the DLC ones even though some of the DLC ones were similar to the ones I didn't use/like in the original game.

@Dr_Lugae LOL WHAT!? It was literally 'get x item, you win'. Did you beat the desert boss pokey?? Like, it would literally tell you what you needed to get if you died several times while facing him, he was really good for a world 2 boss but he wasn't even a challenge if you had the right item (and experimenting wasn't even encouraged as it would give an obvious hint at the right thing to use). Stuff like that absolutely plagued the game pretty much everywhere.

PM (which was one of the first games I played, and my first RPG which is now my favourite genre) and TTYD were both great, SPM was a great game but a bad paper mario, and SS was just a bad game period. Haven't finished any M&L game yet. Really hope they either re-release TTYD (in any form, VC or remake) on the Wii U.

@GiSWiG That game that is coming out on the 3ds and (possibly) NX just happens to also have a PS4 version as well. For all we know thy are hoping to make the NX a port of the PS4 game.

@MeloMan That was actually exactly what I was going to write. lol

@DarkEdi you could then just install the homebrew channel (fully legal btw) then import a fully legal save and cheat the system 100% legally.

@OlicityBlows Yeah that would've probably screwed you. I probably got like 50 bonus levels-up on everyone combined by using the bonus exp.

@Dr_Lugae Glad I'm not the only one whose actually played it... like, you miss out on nothing if you don't use it, it's WAY faster to gain support (+ exp) points if you just fight skirmishes.
@OlicityBlows FE10 on easy was my first FE, still think that the first chapters of Awakening (on hard) were harder than pretty much any RD map (minus that stupid Dawn Brigade one where you're stupidly underleveled).

@Kaze_Memaryu " Get TS, it's miles better than the awful GamePad mic, anyway." That's so true it isn't even funny. Like anyone who wants to play semi-competitively with friends or others wouldn't/shouldn't use the gamepad mic even if Splatoon had voice chat.

If you screw this up NoA....

Cubic Ninja has (mostly) been irrelevant for awhile now, rxTools can be launched via MSET and the Internet Browser. Unless you updated pass 9.2.

North Pole has (a lot more) seals, and sharks bigger than Great Whites, so why would you vote for penguins. (Which is going to be what it comes down to).

@Luffymcduck Your comment is absurd, we can't have reasonable, well thought out comments when competitive Smash is the topic. /s

@MadAdam81 Good games are just a lot harder to find and often don't make as much money as other crappy 'addictive' games.

@Damo The range blaster is a different (completely new) weapon, it just looks like the normal blaster, think 52 vs 96 gal.

@whodatninja You got Xenoblade a year before us.

Wait, Dragon Quest X coming to N*X* wasn't a joke

edit: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2015/07/28/the-first-games-announced-for-the-nintendo-nx-are?utm_source=IGN%20hub%20page&utm_medium=IGN%20(front%20page)&utm_content=5&utm_campaign=Blogroll It's only under consideration guys, nothings confirmed