The Nook Inc. rug is apparently exclusive to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, you need to download bonus data (probably means it's in the eShop like the Smash Spirits bonuses).
@DeathByLasagna The article says you'll be able to order both Switches from the in-game Nook Shopping in normal gameplay. Which sounds like 'catalogue event items and you can usually order them' from previous games, so at worst, people who do have it should be able to order them and trade them easily.
The exact condition for the AC Switch gift is stated to be using both of the Joy-Cons from the AC Switch, so I wonder how they're doing that, checking the controllers' colour info or something?
@Anti-Matter
With the Switch, it's common to unite regions into one single version covering multiple regions. Something like 80-90% of US/EU games are united and work on the same save, for example.
If the serial code's the same, then the data's the same and the Switch can't tell the difference.
For Portal Knights, EU/US copies are AECYA, JP copies are AECYC.
So US+JP copies would get you two icons, but US+EU copies share the same one icon.
But ACNH is ACBAA everywhere, so we can tell it's the same icon everywhere.
If you can find a non-ACBAA copy I'd be interested in it myself, but there doesn't seem to be one.
As for languages, I'd like to find out how languages work for ACNH myself. I'm hoping it'll just take the system language at the time, and not do something like Pokémon and lock you into the first language chosen.
@Anti-Matter Nice plan but it's not going to work unfortunately, as others have already said, New Horizons everywhere is the same version (ACBAA). Both game cards will just use the same icon / same save. I'd have done the same if it would allow multiple islands, but unfortunately it doesn't this time. :/
Hadn't looked at Ninjala before but yeah this sounds like it. The original JP page has an additional quote of 'Manga adaptation already set!' — since it's CoroCoro announcing that, it should be a CoroCoro manga.
Seems Ninjala is by Gungho, and Gungho is already running a manga in CoroCoro (Puzzled Dragons), too.
Which country eShop did you buy from? Was it Hungary?
Europe has five different download versions scattered around different places.
AURVA in Poland, Hungary (this has English/Polish audio) AURVB in Russia (this has English/Russian audio) AURVC in most of Europe (this has English/French audio) AURVD in Germany (this has English/German audio) AURVG in Bulgaria, Romania (this has English audio)
If the Hungarian eShop version has Hungarian subtitles, that would be the AURVA version, so the carts marked AURVA would have them too.
This is nowhere near the first time there's been an update to prepare for future events, by the way. Usually it's just meaning they added support for the next garden or whatever. The API doesn't usually change outside of x.x.0 versions either.
The siliconera translation seems to be a bit muddled.
While it's not quoted here, the twitter bit was the worst, completely misunderstood on siliconera.
"The magazine shows a boy posing, body covered in a pale light, and transforming into a giant to fight against a kaiju."
So yep, kaiju battles. We might see that pic when the site updates?
@OorWullie Must be glad for region-free Switches then
@wildbob It's not that simple, there's 12 versions sold in different countries around the world. Updates are based on the game version, rather than the country. AURVA - [EU] Polish AURVB - [EU] Russian AURVC - [EU] French AURVD - [EU] German AURVE - [US] America AURVF - [HK] Chinese AURVG - [EU] English-only AURVH - [KO] Korean (Digital) AURVJ - [JP] Japanese (Digital) AURVK - [EU] Arabic (Physical) AURVL - [JP] Japanese (Physical) AURVM - [KO] Korean (Physical)
@OorWullie
Korea demands identify verification for any Korean online site/service/etc, it's weird.
Also updates aren't locked behind what country of accounts you have.
You won't be able to update until there's an update released for your version, the issue is that there's 12 different versions of Witcher 3, and if it's not showing an update, your one doesn't have the update yet. So you'd need one of the Korean versions, or to wait, unfortunately.
@OrangeSoda Home Premium won't include a Bank subscription. They're separate subscriptions. You might still be able to pull Pokémon out of an expired/inactive Bank if they were already put in there though, not sure on that.
Looks like Game Watch, which initially said 'mid-February', have issued a correction saying 'during February' was correct. So might've just been a typo, unfortunately.
4Gamer's page does say it can access save data of any account on the Switch, which is great to hear.
And huh, didn't know the Switch ver is lacking most of Home's features like trading/GTS, that seems like a weird decision.
In case anyone was wondering, google's "Correspondence time is undecided." was actually "The support [as in, implementation/availability] date has not yet been set."
Good to hear there will be something, even if not at release. Though, it sounds like it'd be very limited.
@Northwind 3DS SD data is tied to a system, but that tie can be System Transferred to another system. If a thief steals your current 3DS, or it breaks without warning, then even if you still have the SD card (or a backup) you can't actually use the encrypted data anymore, as the decryption key was only on the one system.
@Old_Man_Nintendo It's not about 'time manipulation'. Time changing is something you usually could always do in AC, with little to no penalty if done correctly. Some of the games even included an in-game clock you could set separately to the system clock.
It's probably more trying to prevent save scumming/reverting, and maybe the item duping that allows. It's meant to be a life sim that emphasises no retrying with features like Resetti. If you can't revert to a previous save you're supposed to think more about the consequences.
There's also items which take lots of effort to get (photos, golden tools, etc) which item duping trivialises if you can just ask anyone for them.
That's not a box, that's the 'back' of an NoE download card (may not actually exist as a card, just a digital template of one).
That sounds very bad if true :/
On the GameCube you could always plug the memory card into another console. On the DS you could always plug the cart into another console. On the 3DS you could plug the cart into another console, or do a System Transfer if it was a digital version. Most of my AC saves have been played on multiple consoles at different points. (Though admittedly I haven't tried transferring a Wii save)
When I heard about the one island per console, and realised that'd be an issue because the Switch has no System Transfer option, I thought, but surely they'll have a way to transfer it, won't they?
If they have decided to not even offer that, then ugh...
Hmm, wonder what this means for the save file. If it's the same island for everyone on one console, that sounds like it's a shared save data. But Nintendo locks shared save data to the console and doesn't let you transfer it. If so, hopefully there's an in-game option to transfer it, or that's going to annoy anyone playing on multiple Switches, or even getting a new Switch.
Never considered there was anything wrong with the logo.
...Well, at least until the 2017 redesign of 'must be white with blank red space around it' that gets shoved everywhere even when it doesn't fit, like on 3DS game cases. (US/JP games even have the red blob on the spines, thankfully NoE didn't do that)
Good to hear they're adding Japanese voices. Played the JP version on 3DS, so it'll be my first time playing it in English. Ordered the LE, though it's expensive (£62.54 with postage) compared to the normal version.
@patbacknitro18
All the 3DS games mentioned in the article were on sale at Argos.
£2.49 Yo-kai Watch 1
£3.49 Yo-kai Watch 2
£5.99 WarioWare Gold
£5.99 Metroid Prime Federation Force
@DrDaisy
Yeah, haven't tried this trial (have the UK version already) but the JP eShop doesn't list English support for FE Warriors...
There is an English voices DLC though.
@OorWullie
A couple of months back they changed the website.
I had the same issue and it turned out to be the NNIDs.
The site used to unlink your NNID automatically upon changing the country, but now if you have an NNID linked, you need to unlink it yourself before it lets you change the country.
Didn't get Cross Rays yet, but if it's like Super Robot Wars V, where the Japan and Asian carts are identical, you should be able to buy DLC from either shop for it. In practice though, the Asian shop is the only one of the two that accepts foreign cards, so probably the most useful. The download codes that come in the box are still locked to Japan /or/ Asia though, and not cross-compatible.
Ah, a "NintendoSoup translation", meaning, partially made up... ._. They added 'fan boys' (what?), and even TL notes trying to make sense of the mess they had.
'The Nintendo Switch’s Home Menu is a piece of crap, you just get a couple sh***y gigantic game icons lined up in a row, and the rest of the games are tossed into a trash can called ‘All Games’… Nxntendo's never actually played the Switch, have they? What, once they've sold it they don't care...?' 'Hey guys who made the Nxntendo Switch, start off actually trying to play it sometime, k?'
It just really feels like a bad style, constantly repeating how Sakurai does this, and this, and this...
While the style may fit more when reporting a casual chat or something, having read Famitsu issues, this was probably edited down and readable fine as-is, and summarising it like this just makes it harder to read.
Having sentences like "He adds that writing every single point is a bit much" just seems facetious in a summary, too.
There's also parts where it seems like remnants of a Japanese grammar were left behind, such as the 'until'(まで?) in "Regardless of the work that you want to do until ray tracing,". 日本語力とは別に翻訳力も大事、と言うことです。
Update now the games are out: Looks like at some point Nintendo updated the wording. "This game includes an in-game purchase option for users who do not have a membership." is now: "This game includes an in-game option to purchase a Nintendo Switch Online membership for users who do not have one."
I guess Nintendo Soup has poor eyesight, by that translation. 目を離していたら is 'when you take your eyes off [object]' / 'when you look away'.
'You take your eyes off your Nintendo Switch, and your pet starts playing with it! By the time you notice, it's already soaked with drool... Pet saliva and urine can lead to faults from water damage. They can break cables by biting on them, too. If you have a pet, make sure to watch where you leave your Switch.'
Reading the eShop description, looks like it works by putting the code in the My Nintendo Store: https://mynintendostore.nintendo.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/677 After the problems with the Splatoon posters, I don't think I'd want to get something from them again. -.-
@Deltath My comment wasn't as clear as I intended, but the first two paragraphs of the review read like "Story of Seasons" was some spiritual-successor spinoff series the 'devs' started up after leaving the 'owner', it was that point I was trying to address.
Fire Emblem was the only other case I could think of where the latest game at the time was released internationally without a subtitle, leading to people mistaking it as the first game in the series when it wasn't.
Since the reviewer seems confused by the name situation still... Both Harvest Moon (to 2013) and Story of Seasons (2015 on) are the same series, called Bokujou Monogatari in Japan.
The game titled 'Story of Seasons' in the west was just another entry in the series, subtitled 'Connecting New Worlds' in Japan. It's just like how the game titled 'Fire Emblem' in the west was just another entry in the series, subtitled 'Blazing Blade' in Japan.
'fits original charging brick' Wonder if it'll actually fit the fatter UK one, or like every other case with a similar claim, they designed it for a US one.
Pokémon Center "London" but Pokémon "London City"? Who named that? lol Also is it just me, or does that sleeve art look like Regent Street, near Piccadilly Circus...
@ShinyUmbreon There's one looking out a second-floor window~
Oh, Nintendo... Expected the SNES controllers to be another several-month wait like the NES ones. But no, apparently they actually made them in time this year, and they sell out.
@jswhitfield8 Starting to wonder if the posters even exist myself. Wonder if anyone in the UK got them.
Saw a playthrough of the PC version of this, and there was a point with several puzzles incomprehensible without being able to read Chinese. :/ Don't know if that ever got fixed, but definitely wouldn't recommend.
With the update, sounds like a communication failure on both sides. :/
On the JP 3DS eShop I remember several games switching publisher, and they usually always mutually arranged a switchover date, published it in advance, then past that date, you wouldn't be able to buy the old one, and the new one would show up instead.
Nintendo seems to consider the publisher an integral part of a game app, which needs a completely new edition published to be changed for some reason, so hearing there's no way to transfer doesn't surprise me.
Edit 9/10: Apparently not a month later Stardew Valley managed a transfer without changing pages at all, so I was wrong, they do have a transfer system in place. -.-
Nice, will get this. Looking at eShop filesizes for these: FF7: 3.8GB // FF8: 2.6GB // FF9: 5.0GB
Apparently due to a difference in how the carts measure GB vs usual GB, an 8GB cart holds 7.4GB, so it seems 8+9 barely wouldn't fit on a 8GB.
Also, while there is a Asia-region eShop now, for some reason it only has FF7 and 8, no 9. So I wonder if there's some reason they're not releasing 9 in Asia.
At first it just seems like a bizarre tale of patent overreach, so I thought I'd look into it. Turns out both patents date from 1994 (!), though they weren't granted until 2002. So maybe controllers that rumble were innovative back then.
Checking out the nebulous DLC patent, it seems to be as follows: (not a patent lawyer, might have missed some odd detail)
"1) A system consisting of two discs, disc A and disc B, where disc B is a game, but expansion content in disc B is locked behind a check on whether disc A has been inserted.
2) Additionally, a system where disc B displays a prompt asking the user to insert disc A to unlock the expansion content."
The patent application text goes on about how the new technology of CD-ROMs and their large storage space means they have space to include these new innovative features, but yeah, it sounds pretty much 'like Sonic & Knuckles but for discs'.
Timing-wise, they applied for this patent back in December 1994, two months after Sonic & Knuckles released. Hmm...
Yep, it's not just this but everythng in Japan, in the eShops etc. everywhere is going up. "Japanese (...) will face increased (...) prices" Could've been an article mentioning the tax increase, noting that if you buy JP eShop content (or JP anything in general), it'll be more expensive next month. When consumption tax went up from 5% to 8% a couple years back, most eShop prices changed then too.
@DockEllisD Amazon Japan's already charging preorders at the 10% tax rate so price guarantee won't do anything, by the way. For foreign pre-orders it seems currently they're calculating 'pretax price +10% -8%' which is wrong, but I'm hoping that'll get sorted come October.
Seems like some passwords are counted as the same one whether you input them in English or Japanese (GEMAPPLES = まいつきリンゴプレゼント) and some aren't (SUPERKIRBYCLASH != スーパーカービィハンターズ), which is kinda confusing.
If it's anything like the 3DS game, there'll probably be a lot more passwords in Japanese than English as time goes on.
Did everything but the really tedious to do F2P tasks in the 3DS version, this looks like much the same but there is some more content added. The 3DS version had a 5% extra bonus on microtransactions if you buy them on Sundays, so may be best to wait until Sunday and check if the bonus is still around if you do want to spend.
Well, announcement ended up leaking yesterday lol, so TV Tokyo weren't the first to announce it.
The announcement: "Pokémon Sun & Moon" is being replaced by the new series "Pokémon". New series "Pokémon" is apparently set to cover every region from Kanto to Galar. Full details to be revealed on the 29th.
@RazumikhinPG Eh, it's just marketing-speak in the end. I've seen TV Tokyo's airings of movies labeled the 'world's first' TV airing even if the movie aired on CITV 8 months earlier... xD
@RazumikhinPG
最速 fastest is being used here as in 'quickest to release', 'fastest-available'.
In English, a 'World's fastest announcement' obviously doesn't make any sense.
This is, I assume, how Serebii ended up with 'world exclusive' - if it's the first announcement of whatever it is, it's 'exclusive' to TXN.
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Re: The First Animal Crossing: New Horizons Update Gifts Players A Nintendo Switch
The Nook Inc. rug is apparently exclusive to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, you need to download bonus data (probably means it's in the eShop like the Smash Spirits bonuses).
@DeathByLasagna
The article says you'll be able to order both Switches from the in-game Nook Shopping in normal gameplay. Which sounds like 'catalogue event items and you can usually order them' from previous games, so at worst, people who do have it should be able to order them and trade them easily.
The exact condition for the AC Switch gift is stated to be using both of the Joy-Cons from the AC Switch, so I wonder how they're doing that, checking the controllers' colour info or something?
Re: Nintendo Reiterates Plans For Animal Crossing: New Horizons Save Data Workarounds
@Anti-Matter
With the Switch, it's common to unite regions into one single version covering multiple regions. Something like 80-90% of US/EU games are united and work on the same save, for example.
If the serial code's the same, then the data's the same and the Switch can't tell the difference.
For Portal Knights, EU/US copies are AECYA, JP copies are AECYC.
So US+JP copies would get you two icons, but US+EU copies share the same one icon.
But ACNH is ACBAA everywhere, so we can tell it's the same icon everywhere.
If you can find a non-ACBAA copy I'd be interested in it myself, but there doesn't seem to be one.
As for languages, I'd like to find out how languages work for ACNH myself. I'm hoping it'll just take the system language at the time, and not do something like Pokémon and lock you into the first language chosen.
Re: Nintendo Reiterates Plans For Animal Crossing: New Horizons Save Data Workarounds
@Anti-Matter
Nice plan but it's not going to work unfortunately, as others have already said, New Horizons everywhere is the same version (ACBAA).
Both game cards will just use the same icon / same save.
I'd have done the same if it would allow multiple islands, but unfortunately it doesn't this time. :/
Re: Switch Is Getting A New "Action Epic" To Follow Fortnite And Splatoon In 2020
Hadn't looked at Ninjala before but yeah this sounds like it.
The original JP page has an additional quote of 'Manga adaptation already set!' — since it's CoroCoro announcing that, it should be a CoroCoro manga.
Seems Ninjala is by Gungho, and Gungho is already running a manga in CoroCoro (Puzzled Dragons), too.
Re: Pokémon Home Will Be Temporarily Down This Week To Fix Pokédex Glitch
The Own Tempo Rockruff was removed a couple days after launch, unless it's been back since.
Re: The Witcher 3 Polish Language Pack DLC Is Now Available On Switch
Which country eShop did you buy from? Was it Hungary?
Europe has five different download versions scattered around different places.
AURVA in Poland, Hungary (this has English/Polish audio)
AURVB in Russia (this has English/Russian audio)
AURVC in most of Europe (this has English/French audio)
AURVD in Germany (this has English/German audio)
AURVG in Bulgaria, Romania (this has English audio)
If the Hungarian eShop version has Hungarian subtitles, that would be the AURVA version, so the carts marked AURVA would have them too.
Re: Animal Crossing On Mobile Begins "Preparing For Future Events" With A New Update
This is nowhere near the first time there's been an update to prepare for future events, by the way.
Usually it's just meaning they added support for the next garden or whatever.
The API doesn't usually change outside of x.x.0 versions either.
Re: PlatinumGames Announces Project GG, A Brand New Game From Hideki Kamiya
The siliconera translation seems to be a bit muddled.
While it's not quoted here, the twitter bit was the worst, completely misunderstood on siliconera.
Gematsu properly translated the full excerpt: https://www.gematsu.com/2020/02/platinum-games-announces-hideki-kamiya-directed-hero-game-project-gg
"The magazine shows a boy posing, body covered in a pale light, and transforming into a giant to fight against a kaiju."
So yep, kaiju battles. We might see that pic when the site updates?
Re: Saber Interactive Removes All References From Social Media About Its Next Witcher 3 Update
@OorWullie
Must be glad for region-free Switches then
@wildbob
It's not that simple, there's 12 versions sold in different countries around the world.
Updates are based on the game version, rather than the country.
AURVA - [EU] Polish
AURVB - [EU] Russian
AURVC - [EU] French
AURVD - [EU] German
AURVE - [US] America
AURVF - [HK] Chinese
AURVG - [EU] English-only
AURVH - [KO] Korean (Digital)
AURVJ - [JP] Japanese (Digital)
AURVK - [EU] Arabic (Physical)
AURVL - [JP] Japanese (Physical)
AURVM - [KO] Korean (Physical)
Re: Saber Interactive Removes All References From Social Media About Its Next Witcher 3 Update
@OorWullie
Korea demands identify verification for any Korean online site/service/etc, it's weird.
Also updates aren't locked behind what country of accounts you have.
You won't be able to update until there's an update released for your version, the issue is that there's 12 different versions of Witcher 3, and if it's not showing an update, your one doesn't have the update yet. So you'd need one of the Korean versions, or to wait, unfortunately.
Re: Pokémon GO Players Contact Advertising Standards Over Hidden Safari Zone Ticket Costs
@jco83 @RupeeClock
They appear to be doing (price+fee) x 20%=VAT.
Re: Pokémon GO Players Contact Advertising Standards Over Hidden Safari Zone Ticket Costs
American company surprised that other countries don't accept America's random-tax surprise at checkout, eh it's a common issue.
They've done Safari Zones in Germany before though, so you'd expect Niantic to know how VAT works by now.
Re: Reminder: Pokémon Bank Is Free To Use For One Month
@OrangeSoda
Home Premium won't include a Bank subscription. They're separate subscriptions.
You might still be able to pull Pokémon out of an expired/inactive Bank if they were already put in there though, not sure on that.
Re: New Details And Screenshots Emerge For Pokémon Home
@Mando44646
It's 30 total.
The paid plan has space for 6000, which is 200 boxes of 30, so the free plan is probably just 1 box of 30.
Re: New Details And Screenshots Emerge For Pokémon Home
Looks like Game Watch, which initially said 'mid-February', have issued a correction saying 'during February' was correct.
So might've just been a typo, unfortunately.
4Gamer's page does say it can access save data of any account on the Switch, which is great to hear.
And huh, didn't know the Switch ver is lacking most of Home's features like trading/GTS, that seems like a weird decision.
Re: Hold Up, Nintendo Is Now "Considering" Animal Crossing: New Horizons Cloud Save Support
In case anyone was wondering, google's "Correspondence time is undecided." was actually "The support [as in, implementation/availability] date has not yet been set."
Good to hear there will be something, even if not at release. Though, it sounds like it'd be very limited.
Re: You Might Not Be Able To Transfer Animal Crossing: New Horizons Save Data To Another Switch
@Northwind
3DS SD data is tied to a system, but that tie can be System Transferred to another system.
If a thief steals your current 3DS, or it breaks without warning, then even if you still have the SD card (or a backup) you can't actually use the encrypted data anymore, as the decryption key was only on the one system.
Re: You Might Not Be Able To Transfer Animal Crossing: New Horizons Save Data To Another Switch
@Old_Man_Nintendo It's not about 'time manipulation'.
Time changing is something you usually could always do in AC, with little to no penalty if done correctly.
Some of the games even included an in-game clock you could set separately to the system clock.
It's probably more trying to prevent save scumming/reverting, and maybe the item duping that allows.
It's meant to be a life sim that emphasises no retrying with features like Resetti.
If you can't revert to a previous save you're supposed to think more about the consequences.
There's also items which take lots of effort to get (photos, golden tools, etc) which item duping trivialises if you can just ask anyone for them.
Re: You Might Not Be Able To Transfer Animal Crossing: New Horizons Save Data To Another Switch
That's not a box, that's the 'back' of an NoE download card (may not actually exist as a card, just a digital template of one).
That sounds very bad if true :/
On the GameCube you could always plug the memory card into another console.
On the DS you could always plug the cart into another console.
On the 3DS you could plug the cart into another console, or do a System Transfer if it was a digital version.
Most of my AC saves have been played on multiple consoles at different points.
(Though admittedly I haven't tried transferring a Wii save)
When I heard about the one island per console, and realised that'd be an issue because the Switch has no System Transfer option, I thought, but surely they'll have a way to transfer it, won't they?
If they have decided to not even offer that, then ugh...
Re: Nintendo Shares More Info About The Multiplayer In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Hmm, wonder what this means for the save file.
If it's the same island for everyone on one console, that sounds like it's a shared save data. But Nintendo locks shared save data to the console and doesn't let you transfer it.
If so, hopefully there's an in-game option to transfer it, or that's going to annoy anyone playing on multiple Switches, or even getting a new Switch.
Re: Reggie Encouraged Nintendo To Embrace "What The Brand Stood For" By Sticking With Its Iconic Logo
Never considered there was anything wrong with the logo.
...Well, at least until the 2017 redesign of 'must be white with blank red space around it' that gets shoved everywhere even when it doesn't fit, like on 3DS game cases. (US/JP games even have the red blob on the spines, thankfully NoE didn't do that)
Re: Rune Factory 4 Special Will Launch Physically And Digitally On Switch This February
Good to hear they're adding Japanese voices.
Played the JP version on 3DS, so it'll be my first time playing it in English.
Ordered the LE, though it's expensive (£62.54 with postage) compared to the normal version.
Re: UK Charts: WarioWare Gold Leaps From 827th To Fifth In Very Successful Week For 3DS
@patbacknitro18
All the 3DS games mentioned in the article were on sale at Argos.
£2.49 Yo-kai Watch 1
£3.49 Yo-kai Watch 2
£5.99 WarioWare Gold
£5.99 Metroid Prime Federation Force
Very good prices to fill gaps in your collection.
Re: Guide: Here's How To Play Fire Emblem Warriors For Free, Even Without A Japanese Switch
@DrDaisy
Yeah, haven't tried this trial (have the UK version already) but the JP eShop doesn't list English support for FE Warriors...
There is an English voices DLC though.
@OorWullie
A couple of months back they changed the website.
I had the same issue and it turned out to be the NNIDs.
The site used to unlink your NNID automatically upon changing the country, but now if you have an NNID linked, you need to unlink it yourself before it lets you change the country.
Re: Review: SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays - Brilliant Strategy RPG Action Bursting With Content
Didn't get Cross Rays yet, but if it's like Super Robot Wars V, where the Japan and Asian carts are identical, you should be able to buy DLC from either shop for it. In practice though, the Asian shop is the only one of the two that accepts foreign cards, so probably the most useful.
The download codes that come in the box are still locked to Japan /or/ Asia though, and not cross-compatible.
Re: Hideki Kamiya Thinks The Switch Home Menu Is A "Piece Of Crap"
Ah, a "NintendoSoup translation", meaning, partially made up... ._.
They added 'fan boys' (what?), and even TL notes trying to make sense of the mess they had.
'The Nintendo Switch’s Home Menu is a piece of crap, you just get a couple sh***y gigantic game icons lined up in a row, and the rest of the games are tossed into a trash can called ‘All Games’… Nxntendo's never actually played the Switch, have they? What, once they've sold it they don't care...?'
'Hey guys who made the Nxntendo Switch, start off actually trying to play it sometime, k?'
Re: Nintendo Forced To Offer eShop Game Refund After Russian Court Filing
@ToonStuff
https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/pokemon-sword-and-pokemon-shield-double-pack-digital-version-switch/
Nintendo's US site has a surprisingly detailed page about it, seems you get Sword automatically downloaded, and a download code for Shield to use later.
Re: Sakurai Discusses "Drawing Light, Not Objects" In Final Famitsu Column of 2019
It just really feels like a bad style, constantly repeating how Sakurai does this, and this, and this...
While the style may fit more when reporting a casual chat or something, having read Famitsu issues, this was probably edited down and readable fine as-is, and summarising it like this just makes it harder to read.
Having sentences like "He adds that writing every single point is a bit much" just seems facetious in a summary, too.
There's also parts where it seems like remnants of a Japanese grammar were left behind, such as the 'until'(まで?) in "Regardless of the work that you want to do until ray tracing,".
日本語力とは別に翻訳力も大事、と言うことです。
Re: Nintendo Applies For Five Poké Ball Plus Patents In Japan
Looks like the patents were applied for in November 2018, so I guess this is just the patent finally coming through a year later.
Re: Pokémon Sword And Shield Players Will Be Able To Buy Switch Online Memberships In-Game
Update now the games are out: Looks like at some point Nintendo updated the wording.
"This game includes an in-game purchase option for users who do not have a membership."
is now:
"This game includes an in-game option to purchase a Nintendo Switch Online membership for users who do not have one."
Re: Random: Nintendo's Customer Support Warns Switch Owners About Pets Peeing On Consoles
I guess Nintendo Soup has poor eyesight, by that translation.
目を離していたら is 'when you take your eyes off [object]' / 'when you look away'.
'You take your eyes off your Nintendo Switch, and your pet starts playing with it! By the time you notice, it's already soaked with drool...
Pet saliva and urine can lead to faults from water damage. They can break cables by biting on them, too.
If you have a pet, make sure to watch where you leave your Switch.'
Re: Early Digital Pokémon Sword And Shield Pre-Orders Also Include A Steelbook, For Some Reason
Reading the eShop description, looks like it works by putting the code in the My Nintendo Store: https://mynintendostore.nintendo.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/677
After the problems with the Splatoon posters, I don't think I'd want to get something from them again. -.-
Re: Review: Doraemon Story of Seasons - A Charmingly Slow-Paced Life Sim
@Deltath My comment wasn't as clear as I intended, but the first two paragraphs of the review read like "Story of Seasons" was some spiritual-successor spinoff series the 'devs' started up after leaving the 'owner', it was that point I was trying to address.
Fire Emblem was the only other case I could think of where the latest game at the time was released internationally without a subtitle, leading to people mistaking it as the first game in the series when it wasn't.
Re: Review: Doraemon Story of Seasons - A Charmingly Slow-Paced Life Sim
Since the reviewer seems confused by the name situation still...
Both Harvest Moon (to 2013) and Story of Seasons (2015 on) are the same series, called Bokujou Monogatari in Japan.
The game titled 'Story of Seasons' in the west was just another entry in the series, subtitled 'Connecting New Worlds' in Japan.
It's just like how the game titled 'Fire Emblem' in the west was just another entry in the series, subtitled 'Blazing Blade' in Japan.
Re: Looks Like Pokémon Sword And Shield Players Can Buy Access To Online Features Without A Subscription
It's just a direct link to buy NSO.
Confirmation: The same text is on Tetris 99's US pages: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/tetris-99-plus-12-month-nintendo-switch-online-individual-membership-switch/
https://tetris99.nintendo.com/
and there's no cheaper subscription available just to Tetris.
Re: This New Switch Case Comes With Console Straps, A Stand And Detachable Joy-Con Covers
'fits original charging brick'
Wonder if it'll actually fit the fatter UK one, or like every other case with a similar claim, they designed it for a US one.
Re: Here's Your First Look At Some Of The Exclusive Merch Coming To London's Pokémon Center
Pokémon Center "London" but Pokémon "London City"? Who named that? lol
Also is it just me, or does that sleeve art look like Regent Street, near Piccadilly Circus...
@ShinyUmbreon There's one looking out a second-floor window~
Re: Nintendo Promises More Switch SNES Controllers For UK And Europe, Apologises For Site Issues
Oh, Nintendo... Expected the SNES controllers to be another several-month wait like the NES ones. But no, apparently they actually made them in time this year, and they sell out.
@jswhitfield8 Starting to wonder if the posters even exist myself. Wonder if anyone in the UK got them.
Re: Poll: Four Dragon Quest Games Are Out Today On Switch, Which Are You Getting?
Probably get the two physicals sometime down the line, but I do wonder if 11 comes with a secret free copy of 1, like it did on 3DS.
Re: Review: Paper Dolls Original - A Horror Wannabe That Fails To Raise A Scare
Saw a playthrough of the PC version of this, and there was a point with several puzzles incomprehensible without being able to read Chinese. :/
Don't know if that ever got fixed, but definitely wouldn't recommend.
Re: Ittle Dew 2 Removed From Switch eShop Against Developer's Wishes
With the update, sounds like a communication failure on both sides. :/
On the JP 3DS eShop I remember several games switching publisher, and they usually always mutually arranged a switchover date, published it in advance, then past that date, you wouldn't be able to buy the old one, and the new one would show up instead.
Nintendo seems to consider the publisher an integral part of a game app, which needs a completely new edition published to be changed for some reason, so hearing there's no way to transfer doesn't surprise me.
Edit 9/10: Apparently not a month later Stardew Valley managed a transfer without changing pages at all, so I was wrong, they do have a transfer system in place. -.-
Re: Final Fantasy VII And VIII Remastered Are Coming To Switch In One Physical Pack
Nice, will get this.
Looking at eShop filesizes for these: FF7: 3.8GB // FF8: 2.6GB // FF9: 5.0GB
Apparently due to a difference in how the carts measure GB vs usual GB, an 8GB cart holds 7.4GB, so it seems 8+9 barely wouldn't fit on a 8GB.
Also, while there is a Asia-region eShop now, for some reason it only has FF7 and 8, no 9.
So I wonder if there's some reason they're not releasing 9 in Asia.
Re: Koei Tecmo Must Pay Capcom More Than $1.3 Million After Patent Infringement Court Battle
At first it just seems like a bizarre tale of patent overreach, so I thought I'd look into it. Turns out both patents date from 1994 (!), though they weren't granted until 2002. So maybe controllers that rumble were innovative back then.
Checking out the nebulous DLC patent, it seems to be as follows: (not a patent lawyer, might have missed some odd detail)
"1) A system consisting of two discs, disc A and disc B, where disc B is a game, but expansion content in disc B is locked behind a check on whether disc A has been inserted.
2) Additionally, a system where disc B displays a prompt asking the user to insert disc A to unlock the expansion content."
The patent application text goes on about how the new technology of CD-ROMs and their large storage space means they have space to include these new innovative features, but yeah, it sounds pretty much 'like Sonic & Knuckles but for discs'.
Timing-wise, they applied for this patent back in December 1994, two months after Sonic & Knuckles released. Hmm...
Re: Japanese Nintendo Switch Online Subscribers Will Face Increased Renewal Prices
Yep, it's not just this but everythng in Japan, in the eShops etc. everywhere is going up.
"Japanese (...) will face increased (...) prices"
Could've been an article mentioning the tax increase, noting that if you buy JP eShop content (or JP anything in general), it'll be more expensive next month.
When consumption tax went up from 5% to 8% a couple years back, most eShop prices changed then too.
@DockEllisD
Amazon Japan's already charging preorders at the 10% tax rate so price guarantee won't do anything, by the way. For foreign pre-orders it seems currently they're calculating 'pretax price +10% -8%' which is wrong, but I'm hoping that'll get sorted come October.
Re: Guide: Looking For Super Kirby Clash Passwords? Here Are A Few To Get You Started
Seems like some passwords are counted as the same one whether you input them in English or Japanese (GEMAPPLES = まいつきリンゴプレゼント) and some aren't (SUPERKIRBYCLASH != スーパーカービィハンターズ), which is kinda confusing.
If it's anything like the 3DS game, there'll probably be a lot more passwords in Japanese than English as time goes on.
Re: Super Kirby Clash Is A New Free-To-Play Game Launching On Switch Today
Did everything but the really tedious to do F2P tasks in the 3DS version, this looks like much the same but there is some more content added.
The 3DS version had a 5% extra bonus on microtransactions if you buy them on Sundays, so may be best to wait until Sunday and check if the bonus is still around if you do want to spend.
Re: World Exclusive Pokémon Announcement To Reportedly Air In Next Anime Episode
Well, announcement ended up leaking yesterday lol, so TV Tokyo weren't the first to announce it.
The announcement: "Pokémon Sun & Moon" is being replaced by the new series "Pokémon". New series "Pokémon" is apparently set to cover every region from Kanto to Galar. Full details to be revealed on the 29th.
Re: You Can No Longer Get 3DS And Wii U Discounts From My Nintendo In Japan
Looks like yesterday was just the day all the remaining discounts expired.
The final 3DS ones ended in May it seems, and the last set of WiiU ones continued on until yesterday, but now they're finished, they removed the page.
If Europe follows suit, the end for My Nintendo discounts could be next March, when the last set of WiiU ones ends here.
Re: World Exclusive Pokémon Announcement To Reportedly Air In Next Anime Episode
@RazumikhinPG
Eh, it's just marketing-speak in the end.
I've seen TV Tokyo's airings of movies labeled the 'world's first' TV airing even if the movie aired on CITV 8 months earlier... xD
Re: World Exclusive Pokémon Announcement To Reportedly Air In Next Anime Episode
@RazumikhinPG
最速 fastest is being used here as in 'quickest to release', 'fastest-available'.
In English, a 'World's fastest announcement' obviously doesn't make any sense.
This is, I assume, how Serebii ended up with 'world exclusive' - if it's the first announcement of whatever it is, it's 'exclusive' to TXN.
There was nothing in the preview — but it was mentioned in the sponsor card immediately following the preview.
"Next time: An important announcement! Don't miss it!!"
The note about the announcement I mentioned is from TV Tokyo's website summary of the episode, which actually came out before last week's episode aired.