Oh, Nintendo... If this is based on new EU regulations then I'd hope it's just temporary, but doubt they'd rework stuff now when the 3DS/WiiU are old news.
If it is something like the 3DS/WiiU pay workflow fundamentally doesn't support the new regs, I wonder what'll happen if you try to use a credit/debit card to add credit to a non-EU 3DS. (Using a UK credit card on a JP 3DS was (until now) an easy way of adding JP credit to the Switch.)
@BlueMage @DockEllisD
Was curious so I went looking into the DLC situation.
Seems the JP version has four costume DLCs announced:
'Sailor Outfit' for buying at Amazon.co.jp
'Shredded Clothes' for buying at Geo
'Animal Outfit' for buying at Joshin
'Lola Outfit' for buying a first-print copy
Play-Asia's pages say the Asian ver includes a day-1 bonus
'Lolawear' outfit DLC for pre-ordering,
Couldn't seem to find details on any of the others though.
So, Japan has 4 and Asia has 1?
This article says the LRG version includes "all of the DLC" — I couldn't find the source of that, but hopefully it's correct.
Edit: For LRG, Inti Creates says the LRG version doesn't have the JP retailer-exclusive costumes. (Source)
So I guess it's not all of the DLC on the LRG copy (Might just be the Lolawear?)
For "one of the last truly essential eShop games for the Nintendo 3DS" it seems it never even came to Europe, I thought it was exclusive to Japan until seeing this...
Since the third letter is apparently related to country (W=America & Australia, J=Japan, Europe, and minor regions, K=Korea) the UK stock when it arrives could well be XKJ too.
Just trying to research it all was such a pain I thought I'd post this writeup somewhere.
The Japanese version is AN4RA (advertised languages: Japanese) [Physical available]
DLC available on eShop are 15 Anberyl character songs, 9 Belles Fleurs character songs, 7 swimsuit costumes, and 7 animal costumes.
The deluxe edition includes all of those; and adds the Sadist Queen set, and the Vox Tituceus embarrassing voiced weapon.
Physical early purchase bonus is the Drooling Baby set.
The other 6 embarrassing voiced weapons were also available as store-exclusive preorder bonuses:
Vox Brysteleif for preordering at GEO
Vox Breasickle for preordering at Joshin
Vox Mastlteinn for preordering on the Nintendo eShop
Vox Munechika for preordering at Amazon Japan
Vox Bluriades for preordering at Rakuten Books
Vox Ecstallspear for preordering at the D3P Web Shop
The Hong Kong/Korean version is AN4RB (advertised languages: Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean) [Physical available]
DLC available on the eShop download code store are 15 Anberyl character songs (Korea-only) and 9 Belles Fleurs character songs (Hong Kong and Korea).
Physical early purchase bonus is the Drooling Baby set.
Physical limited edition includes the Drooling Baby set and the 7 embarrassing voiced weapons.
The Sadist Queen set, swimsuit costumes, and animal costumes appear to be unavailable.
The European/American version is AN4RC (advertised languages: Japanese, English)
DLC available on eShop are 15 Anberyl character songs, 9 Belles Fleurs character songs, 7 swimsuit costumes, 7 animal costumes, and 7 embarrassing voiced weapons.
The digital deluxe edition includes all of those except the embarrassing voiced weapons; and adds the Sadist Queen set, and the Drooling Baby set.
So basically... All the editions are a DLC mess somehow.
Oh, Japan... Though does anyone even want DLC like embarrassing voiced weapons and a Drooling Baby set? Must be a market somewhere I guess...
Game Trials... Bit of a bland name compared to the Japanese いっせいトライアル but that's a pain to translate anyway (Trial en masse? Mass simultaneous trial?)
Might give it a go after Captain Toad.
Doubt you will need a Japanese NSO specifically for Toad, just any account with NSO, but in case you do, the Japanese My Nintendo has 7-day NSO trial codes available every month for 100 platinum coins: https://my.nintendo.com/rewards/6550cdefd7b95527
Edit: Did need an account with NSO set to Japan to play Toad.
Interesting concept.
Wonder how it works, seems like the trial option downloads the full game, you probably just don't get a 'permanent right' to play it or something.
Had the DLC from the recent sale and that merged into the same icon, so being the same icon, I'd expect it to carry over the save files and be compatible with the DLC if you buy that too, but will have to wait and see.
Looks like the Japanese times convert to 4:00am 5th August - 10:00am 11th August in UK time.
@Bunkerneath In case you're interested, the game's name is based on the name of an American sci-fi short story, "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World", which seems to have been popular in Japan.
So until now, if you entered invalid codes 10 times, and saved, the game would just lock you out of Mystery Gift forever? Whoops.
Edit: Looking at the changelog:
Fixed a bug where if disconnected during a trade (either local or internet) with the play time at 999:59, trading would become impossible.
Fixed a bug where if invalid serial codes / passwords were entered in Mystery Gift 10 times, entering codes would be impossible even after the lockout period has passed.
Hadn't heard of this interview before, or controversy surrounding it, but since there's a lot of interesting details in there, I thought I'd do a personal translation of the whole thing: https://pastebin.com/raw/2BN7YC9Z
Seeing the full thing in context answers more questions, so it seemed worth translating. As for whether they really are remaking the models from scratch... I guess we'll really find out when dataminers get into the games.
@sikthvash Unfortunately it's the publisher causing the shortage it seems, all of the late 3DS JRPGs since Deep Silver started publishing them have had low print runs, and ended up with high prices on physical copies.
Looks like the editor said it's going to be announced formally on 1st July, so more details then. If the editor already has a finished copy in hand, it might be releasing not long after that.
It feels like it might be an edit of all the 'Iwata Asks' and similar segments, this time edited down to focus on Iwata. Looking at the Hobonichi blog, it seems that even had some collaboration Iwata Asks segments too.
So I'd expect that a lot of the content is likely already available in English here and there, though not all of it.
I don't know if there's much of a market for translated biographic books, but I expect someone'll translate/summarise of anything new or interesting at least.
An actual localisation of Seiken Densetsu 3 was a big surprise, as for a company to commission a localisation of a SNES game these days doesn't happen very often. Very glad they did though, and will be double-dipping for an English physical version.
Was wondering if they could get the same people to do the NES/SNES Final Fantasy games and make a Collection of FF1-6 even... But if this was only to celebrate the remake, ah well.
It's likely a physical cart. The page calls out the 12 month subscription as being a code, and that the subscription code will be written on a piece of paper... so if everything was codes they'd probably say that.
'Boxed edition' is just a confusing machine translation for パッケージ版, ordinary term used for a physical version.
And yep, the "Complete Pack" Season Pass it comes with is the Japanese name for the Big Block DLC.
As for Mario Maker... Didn't Nintendo already delete unpopular levels after some time on the WiiU version? The Switch version could be the same way.
@Morgan19 @HADAA They announced 24 winners, being 1 grand, 1 second, 1 third, and 21 'Special Selection'. The 'another finalist' was one of the 21 labeled Special Selection, below third place.
Also, I went looking for the "another finalist" the Uniqlo announcement mentions... turns out the other disqualified entrant was a Brit, AJ Hateley, with a Shadow Mewtwo design.
Hmm... Since I've had to wonder 'what counts as unpublished?' for a competition previously, I tried to look into just what the original rule said.
The rules page seems to be removed now, and even Internet Archive doesn't have it, but Google's cache still finds it searching for 'utgp regulation'.
Seems the original rule was JP: ご応募いただく作品は、応募者ご本人の著作による未発表のオリジナル作品に限ります。 [Only unpublished original designs created by the entrant themselves are allowed.] CH: 应征作品仅限报名者本人未曾发表的原创作品。 [Google: Applicants submitted works himself unpublished original works only.] EN: Plagiarized submissions, designs that have been developed for other purposes or designs that have been used in the past by other organizations or companies, will be not be accepted.
So it seems the English rules at least did definitely explicitly prohibit reusing art, unfortunately for the winner.
"It was recently announced that the Wii U edition would no longer be supported with new updates"
By the way, the New3DS version had its final update earlier this year too, so the only Nintendo version still receiving updates now is the 2nd Switch version.
@TheDragonDAFan The Japanese equivalent's been known of for ages, 戸井風イヌゾウ Inuzou Toipuu (Inuzou Toy Poo), and seems to be fairly common knowledge on Japanese sites ever since 2013, when the game first came out.
Kinda surprised to hear the US equivalent was so rarely heard of until now.
Had a look into it, seems the 25/4/2019 issue of Famitsu (cover date: 16/5/2019, this is the latest issue as of today) included a "VIP Interviews Reprinted Book", containing a selection of the most important interviews of the Heisei Era [1989-2019]. One being an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto about 'the legend of The Legend of Zelda', from the cover date 24/1/1992 issue.
@jrpacman “You will be healed with game effects and background music while you're undressing.” Looks like it was a terrible Google translation from Japanese...
If you're interested, the original third line was: ナンプレで頭を使いつつ、エフェクトやBGMで癒やされます…。 'Be healed with effects and BGM while using your mind to solve Sudoku.'
The publisher doesn't really seem to care about the English eShop descriptions, one of their other ones says... "Enjoy the sence of achivment deffrent from Randam ModeA" [sic]
Yep, I ran into something similar last year, it capped at 60 games pending and wouldn't add any more.
There wasn't any error message back then, so I guess now they've added one to be clearer.
There's probably some piece of memory set up to remember pending downloads, where each 'pending download' would occupy 1/64th of the space. Using powers of 2 (like 64) makes it easier to split up and manage memory, so it could be more technical reason than easter egg.
There's something like 150 Switch demos already and demos count towards the same limit, so it doesn't take that much to trigger it.
No WiiU discounts is kinda suspicious. Last month's WiiU discounts are also set to stick around for 12 months, all the way to 1st March 2020, which is a suprisingly long time compared to other discounts usually only being around 3 months... Putting the two together, I wonder if that was NoE's way of saying 'these are the last set'.
Yep, the Famicom app's actually supported the mic at least since the controllers came out, just until now it was hard to find info unless you actually had the controllers to try it (and even knew where mic input worked in the first place).
It's one reason I avoided the NES controllers, knowing Japan had a version with an extra feature.
Looking at the JP source, it seems the shutdown was announced on 31st October 2018, so it's not quite as sudden an announcement as it seems.
I honestly thought it was an online-required game that would stop working completely when they decided to shut it down, nice to see that's not the case. It seems the loss of BaNaPassport support would mean no more saving/loading though.
The notice mentioned can be seen here: https://www.m-create.com/ranking/
"To whom it may concern:
After March, the content of the Weekly Ranking will change. We will only be publishing a Top 10 ranking.
We will be continuing to tally data. Please contact us if you are interested in market data.
(We apologise, but please only enquire on behalf of a business.)
Contact details: Media Create Co.,Ltd [email protected] 03-3294-7031"
So there's already contact details if you're interested in applying.
Seems the open ranking's being reduced from a Top 50 to a Top 10.
Square Enix is just crazy for phone games in Japan.
They've made (and discontinued) dozens of phone games.
Would be nice if it does come to Switch, they already ported the F2P Dragon Quest Rivals to Switch, but it may very likely be phone-exclusive, and shut down within 2-3 years.
Also, here's a translation of the three storyline descriptions and each of their great evils/champions, since Gematsu seemed to have missed those.
-- --
If you seek Fortune, your journey will begin in the deep forests of the Woodlands.
In your way stands the Witch of Greed, Herminia.
This miserly millionaire witch has set an evil dye upon the town of Valore.
If you seek Power, your journey will begin in the snow piles of the Frostlands.
In your way stands the Hero, Titus.
Leader of the Red Wings, a criminal rehabilitation group, he rules Emberglow by force.
If you seek Fame, your journey will begin in the lush plains of the Flatlands.
In your way stands the Playwright, August.
In the city of art, Theatopolis, his plays mesmerise everyone and lead them astray.
There does need to be some more discoverability for games. Once a game drops out of view from the main pages, it gets buried by everything else. Unless you happen to know its name already (which means you've already heard of it), you have to trawl through the entire list of games to try and find it. And all you have to recognise it among everything else is the tiny little banner, compared to the 3DS where the banner took up a whole screen. It'd be nice if you could search using the 'large banner, small text beneath' style the other tabs use.
Looking through the entire list again and again for things gets tiring, so I mainly stick to just looking through one or two genres, or the sales list. With one game I was looking for, but couldn't remember the name of, I thought I'd imagined a Switch port until I found it weeks later looking through the Strategy genre... So I'd like to see a 'multiselect' genre search like the Wii U had, personally.
@Anti-Matter Yep, that's from the eShop, seems it's a lot smaller than on PS4. I was expecting it'd need a 32GB cart, but 12.6 is even smaller than X/X-2 (12.6 vs 12.9 vs 14.0, if the eShop sizes do represent a FFX/X-2 split).
Though even at 12.6GB, seems it's still in the top 2% of Switch game sizes. (Using the data from the eShop sizes thread here, and removing bundles, top 1%=13.9GB, 2%=12.0GB, 5%=6.9GB, 10%=3.9GB, 50%=505MB)
With 50GB Blu-ray discs to use, PS4 games can be enormous, and there's even games filling 2 discs now (RDR2). I wonder what was changed to get that big a saving. Hopefully it won't have audio complaints like Dark Souls.
So let's see these sizes... FFX and X-2 are 26.9GB in total, and the EU eShop has a 14.0GB initial size listed (probably for just X). FFXII is 12.6GB, and FFVII is 3.7GB
The Japanese eShop's sizes and language selections match the EU ones(all three games include Japanese and English), except X and X-2 is 26.9GB from the start in a single download.
So it seems X, X-2, and XII are each individually under 16GB, which is a bit of a surprise since they've been a lot larger on other platforms. VII I was expecting a 4.3GB size since that's the PS4 size, so that's smaller than elsewhere too. Also, the Japanese X and X-2 supports English, and it's possible it's on a single 32GB cart?
Splatoon 2 has three separate versions, Japan(AAB6A), US/Australia(AAB6B), and Europe(AAB6C)
The CoroCoro codes will be DLC for AAB6A, the Japanese version, so you'll need a Japanese game to actually use it.
Saw the text after Menentoes was obviously Japanese and tried to decode it to see if that was anything useful. (Was wondering if it was mementoes too)
'b0uÁ0§0Ã0¯0' becomes bytes ?? 62 30 75 C1 30 A7 30 C3 30 AF 30 which is ?田チェック (The first byte was reduced to a dot by the hex viewer, so is unknown)
It probably said 'Jack_Menentoes_成田チェック' in full ('Narita Check', 10 62 30 75...), which sounds like a test name, maybe put in by a programmer in Narita.
Personally I stopped collecting after the e-Card codes went away, but even prior to that, the only physical shop I saw stocking cards for ages was Argos.
I feel like the TCG's never had a great event base in London, I remember even game events tended to skip London completely at times in the GB-GBA era, so I wonder how many regular TCG events there were back in the day.
The last real format revamp they did seems to be adding a constant barrage of secret rare full art cards, following trends in Japan of adding ultra rare cards targeting collector mentalities.
One sticking point for TCG Online might be that it's developed by the US side, surprisingly for a Pokémon game. There's actually no Japanese equivalent, and it seems the JP side isn't interested in it (or at least can ignore it more easily).
It would be great to see the TCG return to consoles, but nowadays there's probably more money in doing a microtransaction phone game like Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links...
A little note, if anyone is interested: you can choose the partner Pokemon used in the demo by holding the stick up during the Game Freak logo screen to get Pikachu, or down to get Eevee, according to the Japanese announcement of the demo.
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Re: World Exclusive Pokémon Announcement To Reportedly Air In Next Anime Episode
@nhSnork @KoekiieWoekiie
Probably just Serebii being Serebii, he seems to often have typos and weird wording.
The line from the JP summary:
"世界最速！重大発表も！！"
"Also, an important announcement revealed for the first time worldwide!!"
Re: Nintendo Removing Credit Card Support From 3DS And Wii U eShop In Europe
Oh, Nintendo...
If this is based on new EU regulations then I'd hope it's just temporary, but doubt they'd rework stuff now when the 3DS/WiiU are old news.
If it is something like the 3DS/WiiU pay workflow fundamentally doesn't support the new regs, I wonder what'll happen if you try to use a credit/debit card to add credit to a non-EU 3DS.
(Using a UK credit card on a JP 3DS was (until now) an easy way of adding JP credit to the Switch.)
Re: Limited Run Pre-Orders For Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX Open Tomorrow
Also, pictures of each costume, if it helps:
Lolawear, Sailor, Shredded, Animal
It seems the Japanese and Asian releases both have the same serial code, AUKJA, so should both have the same features/languages.
Re: Limited Run Pre-Orders For Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX Open Tomorrow
@BlueMage @DockEllisD
Was curious so I went looking into the DLC situation.
Seems the JP version has four costume DLCs announced:
'Sailor Outfit' for buying at Amazon.co.jp
'Shredded Clothes' for buying at Geo
'Animal Outfit' for buying at Joshin
'Lola Outfit' for buying a first-print copy
Play-Asia's pages say the Asian ver includes a day-1 bonus
'Lolawear' outfit DLC for pre-ordering,
Couldn't seem to find details on any of the others though.
So, Japan has 4 and Asia has 1?
This article says the LRG version includes "all of the DLC" —
I couldn't find the source of that, but hopefully it's correct.Edit: For LRG, Inti Creates says the LRG version doesn't have the JP retailer-exclusive costumes. (Source)
So I guess it's not all of the DLC on the LRG copy (Might just be the Lolawear?)
Re: Yuzo Koshiro Confirms That Switch Gotta Protectors Sequel Is Coming To The West
For "one of the last truly essential eShop games for the Nintendo 3DS" it seems it never even came to Europe, I thought it was exclusive to Japan until seeing this...
If it was good, then that's a pity.
Re: Guide: How To Find The Improved Nintendo Switch With Better Battery Life And Screen
'The older models will have a serial number beginning 'XAW', 'XAJ' or 'XAK'. The new model has a serial number that begins with the letters 'XKW'.'
Turns out there's XKJ new model Switches too (Hong Kong ones which come with a UK charger): https://qnam.smzdm.com/201908/05/5d470373b91971517.jpg_e680.jpg
Since the third letter is apparently related to country (W=America & Australia, J=Japan, Europe, and minor regions, K=Korea) the UK stock when it arrives could well be XKJ too.
Re: Splatoon 2 High-Quality Poster Set Back In Stock On My Nintendo (Europe)
@TrixieSparkle @Liam_Doolan
It's there in Japan too.
https://my.nintendo.com/rewards/f2675127ef3e1437
https://my.nintendo.com/rewards/4960fb2e8ac2e5e8
Nothing for Europe though.
Re: Splatoon 2 High-Quality Poster Set Back In Stock On My Nintendo (Europe)
Got one this time around.
Looks like they're probably about to sell out in the next few minutes.
Edit: Last ones sold out between 6:30-6:50pm.
Re: Nintendo Download: 1st August (Europe)
@.@ That's... a lot of DLC, Omega Labyrinth...
Just trying to research it all was such a pain I thought I'd post this writeup somewhere.
The Japanese version is AN4RA (advertised languages: Japanese) [Physical available]
DLC available on eShop are 15 Anberyl character songs, 9 Belles Fleurs character songs, 7 swimsuit costumes, and 7 animal costumes.
The deluxe edition includes all of those; and adds the Sadist Queen set, and the Vox Tituceus embarrassing voiced weapon.
Physical early purchase bonus is the Drooling Baby set.
The other 6 embarrassing voiced weapons were also available as store-exclusive preorder bonuses:
The Hong Kong/Korean version is AN4RB (advertised languages: Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean) [Physical available]
DLC available on the eShop download code store are 15 Anberyl character songs (Korea-only) and 9 Belles Fleurs character songs (Hong Kong and Korea).
Physical early purchase bonus is the Drooling Baby set.
Physical limited edition includes the Drooling Baby set and the 7 embarrassing voiced weapons.
The Sadist Queen set, swimsuit costumes, and animal costumes appear to be unavailable.
The European/American version is AN4RC (advertised languages: Japanese, English)
DLC available on eShop are 15 Anberyl character songs, 9 Belles Fleurs character songs, 7 swimsuit costumes, 7 animal costumes, and 7 embarrassing voiced weapons.
The digital deluxe edition includes all of those except the embarrassing voiced weapons; and adds the Sadist Queen set, and the Drooling Baby set.
So basically... All the editions are a DLC mess somehow.
Oh, Japan... Though does anyone even want DLC like embarrassing voiced weapons and a Drooling Baby set? Must be a market somewhere I guess...
Re: New Nintendo Switch Game Trials Programme Will Let You Play Mario Tennis Aces For Free
Game Trials... Bit of a bland name compared to the Japanese いっせいトライアル but that's a pain to translate anyway (Trial en masse? Mass simultaneous trial?)
Might give it a go after Captain Toad.
Doubt you will need a Japanese NSO specifically for Toad, just any account with NSO, but in case you do, the Japanese My Nintendo has 7-day NSO trial codes available every month for 100 platinum coins: https://my.nintendo.com/rewards/6550cdefd7b95527Edit: Did need an account with NSO set to Japan to play Toad.
Re: Captain Toad On Switch Receives Labo VR Update, While Switch Online Users Get To Play The Full Game For Free
Interesting concept.
Wonder how it works, seems like the trial option downloads the full game, you probably just don't get a 'permanent right' to play it or something.
Had the DLC from the recent sale and that merged into the same icon, so being the same icon, I'd expect it to carry over the save files and be compatible with the DLC if you buy that too, but will have to wait and see.
Looks like the Japanese times convert to 4:00am 5th August - 10:00am 11th August in UK time.
Re: Spike Chunsoft's Mature Visual Novel YU-NO Is Coming To Switch In Europe And Australia
@Bunkerneath
In case you're interested, the game's name is based on the name of an American sci-fi short story, "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World", which seems to have been popular in Japan.
Re: Upcoming Patch For Pokémon: Let's Go Fixes Some Weird Bugs
So until now, if you entered invalid codes 10 times, and saved, the game would just lock you out of Mystery Gift forever? Whoops.
Edit: Looking at the changelog:
I guess some lockout system was broken somehow.
Re: Reminder: Splatoon 2 Splatfest T-Shirts Now Available On The UK My Nintendo Store
I was looking forward to those posters...
Looking at the source code of the page...
Apparently it started at 3:23pm yesterday...
...and there were 2553 of them for the whole Europe. Sigh.
Re: We've Re-Translated That Pokémon Sword and Shield Interview Quote
Hadn't heard of this interview before, or controversy surrounding it, but since there's a lot of interesting details in there, I thought I'd do a personal translation of the whole thing: https://pastebin.com/raw/2BN7YC9Z
Seeing the full thing in context answers more questions, so it seemed worth translating. As for whether they really are remaking the models from scratch... I guess we'll really find out when dataminers get into the games.
Re: Nintendo Hosts Huge Summer Sale, Up To 70% Off Over 180 Games On Switch And 3DS (Europe)
@sikthvash Unfortunately it's the publisher causing the shortage it seems, all of the late 3DS JRPGs since Deep Silver started publishing them have had low print runs, and ended up with high prices on physical copies.
Re: Nintendo Hosts Huge Summer Sale, Up To 70% Off Over 180 Games On Switch And 3DS (Europe)
@Moroboshi876 While it doesn't do comparisons, this site does seem to list DLC prices: https://www.dekudeals.com/items/splatoon-2-octo-expansion
It's apparently 227 rands at the moment, working out to about £13, so the UK £12.59 is surprisingly cheaper.
Re: A Book Celebrating The Life Of Satoru Iwata Announced For Release In Japan
Looks like the editor said it's going to be announced formally on 1st July, so more details then.
If the editor already has a finished copy in hand, it might be releasing not long after that.
It feels like it might be an edit of all the 'Iwata Asks' and similar segments, this time edited down to focus on Iwata.
Looking at the Hobonichi blog, it seems that even had some collaboration Iwata Asks segments too.
So I'd expect that a lot of the content is likely already available in English here and there, though not all of it.
I don't know if there's much of a market for translated biographic books, but I expect someone'll translate/summarise of anything new or interesting at least.
Re: Feature: Behind The Scenes On Collection Of Mana And Trials Of Mana
An actual localisation of Seiken Densetsu 3 was a big surprise, as for a company to commission a localisation of a SNES game these days doesn't happen very often. Very glad they did though, and will be double-dipping for an English physical version.
Was wondering if they could get the same people to do the NES/SNES Final Fantasy games and make a Collection of FF1-6 even... But if this was only to celebrate the remake, ah well.
@DarthFoxMcCloud The EU version had the inside boxart shown in an email, if it's any help: https://xmail.square-enix.com/fe/view/2141/en/images/07a_en.jpg
Re: Looks Like Tetris 99 Is Getting A $30 Physical Edition In Japan
It's likely a physical cart. The page calls out the 12 month subscription as being a code, and that the subscription code will be written on a piece of paper... so if everything was codes they'd probably say that.
'Boxed edition' is just a confusing machine translation for パッケージ版, ordinary term used for a physical version.
And yep, the "Complete Pack" Season Pass it comes with is the Japanese name for the Big Block DLC.
As for Mario Maker... Didn't Nintendo already delete unpopular levels after some time on the WiiU version? The Switch version could be the same way.
Re: Rumour: Switch References In Call Of Duty Site Code Start Chins A-Waggin'
Veeeeery easy to debunk.
Note how the references are to a file named "base.js".
I looked at the site and saw where the base.js file was loaded from.
The answer: https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player_ias_remote_ux-vflNZHfVl/en_US/base.js
Yep, it's not even code written by Activision, but part of Youtube's embedded player!
Re: Random: $10,000 Pokémon Competition Winner Reportedly Found To Have Violated The Rules
@Morgan19 @HADAA
They announced 24 winners, being 1 grand, 1 second, 1 third, and 21 'Special Selection'.
The 'another finalist' was one of the 21 labeled Special Selection, below third place.
Re: Random: $10,000 Pokémon Competition Winner Reportedly Found To Have Violated The Rules
Also, I went looking for the "another finalist" the Uniqlo announcement mentions... turns out the other disqualified entrant was a Brit, AJ Hateley, with a Shadow Mewtwo design.
Uniqlo image:
https://www.uniqlo.com/utgp/2019/common/images/item/UTGP2019_422040.jpg
She used to sell a t-shirt with the same art on her website from 2014-2017:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140320205221/http://www.gametee.co.uk/product/shadow-series-psychic-t-shirt
Re: Random: $10,000 Pokémon Competition Winner Reportedly Found To Have Violated The Rules
Hmm...
Since I've had to wonder 'what counts as unpublished?' for a competition previously, I tried to look into just what the original rule said.
The rules page seems to be removed now, and even Internet Archive doesn't have it, but Google's cache still finds it searching for 'utgp regulation'.
Seems the original rule was
JP: ご応募いただく作品は、応募者ご本人の著作による未発表のオリジナル作品に限ります。 [Only unpublished original designs created by the entrant themselves are allowed.]
CH: 应征作品仅限报名者本人未曾发表的原创作品。 [Google: Applicants submitted works himself unpublished original works only.]
EN: Plagiarized submissions, designs that have been developed for other purposes or designs that have been used in the past by other organizations or companies, will be not be accepted.
So it seems the English rules at least did definitely explicitly prohibit reusing art, unfortunately for the winner.
Re: Anniversary: Minecraft Turns 10 Years Old Today
"It was recently announced that the Wii U edition would no longer be supported with new updates"
By the way, the New3DS version had its final update earlier this year too, so the only Nintendo version still receiving updates now is the 2nd Switch version.
Re: Reminder: You Can Unlock A Game Boy Theme In Tetris 99 Now
From the article: "The higher you place each match, the more points you earn (1st: 100, 2nd: 50, 3rd: 30, 4-10: 20, 11-30: 10, 31-50: 5, 51-80: 2)."
Looks like the points were changed a bit, checking in-game it lists them as 31-50: 7, 51-90: 4, 91-99: 1.
Re: Video: Meet Pappy Van Poodle, The Nintendo Character Nobody Knew Existed
@TheDragonDAFan
The Japanese equivalent's been known of for ages, 戸井風イヌゾウ Inuzou Toipuu (Inuzou Toy Poo), and seems to be fairly common knowledge on Japanese sites ever since 2013, when the game first came out.
Kinda surprised to hear the US equivalent was so rarely heard of until now.
Re: Random: Death Squared Dev Promotes Its New Switch Game OTTTD With 25-Minute ASMR Video
Tried spotting all the ones I could and finally the 17th one I tried worked.
Thanks for the fun promo and the free code @SMGstudio !
Re: Forgotten Interview With Miyamoto Sheds Light On A Classic Zelda Production
Nice to see there was a better translation, though, unfortunately, Glitterberri.
Still a few bits with issues, like 'players won't know what their own intentions were' for 'you don't know what the player's intentions were'. xD
Would still be nice to try and find the full Japanese text.
Re: Forgotten Interview With Miyamoto Sheds Light On A Classic Zelda Production
@gingerbeardman Here's the page (Japanese):
https://www.famitsu.com/news/201904/22175148.html
Re: Forgotten Interview With Miyamoto Sheds Light On A Classic Zelda Production
@gingerbeardman
Had a look into it, seems the 25/4/2019 issue of Famitsu (cover date: 16/5/2019, this is the latest issue as of today) included a "VIP Interviews Reprinted Book", containing a selection of the most important interviews of the Heisei Era [1989-2019].
One being an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto about 'the legend of The Legend of Zelda', from the cover date 24/1/1992 issue.
https://www.famitsu.com/images/000/175/148/5cb9b704c2a24.jpg
The thumbnail from their site shows quotes "Try to beat Zelda in 5 hours!!" and "The next game: A Super Famicom Link's Adventure!?" so it seems like the right thing.
Can translate it if scans pop up.
Re: My Nintendo Europe Offering Alternative Reversible Cover For Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster
Huh, there was supposed to be a reversible cover... Did that not happen then?
Pictures:
https://xmail.square-enix.com/fe/view/2061/en/images/04a_en.jpg
https://img.game.co.uk/images/content/SpecialEditions/FFX_X2_BeautyShot.jpg
Re: Nintendo Download: 18th April (North America)
@jrpacman
“You will be healed with game effects and background music while you're undressing.”
Looks like it was a terrible Google translation from Japanese...
If you're interested, the original third line was:
ナンプレで頭を使いつつ、エフェクトやBGMで癒やされます…。
'Be healed with effects and BGM while using your mind to solve Sudoku.'
The publisher doesn't really seem to care about the English eShop descriptions, one of their other ones says...
"Enjoy the sence of achivment deffrent from Randam ModeA" [sic]
Re: Random: The Switch Won't Let You Download More Than 64 Games In One Go, Apparently
Yep, I ran into something similar last year, it capped at 60 games pending and wouldn't add any more.
There wasn't any error message back then, so I guess now they've added one to be clearer.
There's probably some piece of memory set up to remember pending downloads, where each 'pending download' would occupy 1/64th of the space. Using powers of 2 (like 64) makes it easier to split up and manage memory, so it could be more technical reason than easter egg.
There's something like 150 Switch demos already and demos count towards the same limit, so it doesn't take that much to trigger it.
Re: Get Discounts On Zelda, Paper Mario And More With My Nintendo Rewards (Europe)
No WiiU discounts is kinda suspicious.
Last month's WiiU discounts are also set to stick around for 12 months, all the way to 1st March 2020, which is a suprisingly long time compared to other discounts usually only being around 3 months...
Putting the two together, I wonder if that was NoE's way of saying 'these are the last set'.
Re: The Switch Famicom Controller's Microphone Actually Works, Just Like The Original
Yep, the Famicom app's actually supported the mic at least since the controllers came out, just until now it was hard to find info unless you actually had the controllers to try it (and even knew where mic input worked in the first place).
It's one reason I avoided the NES controllers, knowing Japan had a version with an extra feature.
Re: The Arcade Version Of Pokkén Tournament Is Terminating Its Online Services
Looking at the JP source, it seems the shutdown was announced on 31st October 2018, so it's not quite as sudden an announcement as it seems.
I honestly thought it was an online-required game that would stop working completely when they decided to shut it down, nice to see that's not the case. It seems the loss of BaNaPassport support would mean no more saving/loading though.
Re: Media Create Will No Longer Share Japanese Sales Data Publicly
The notice mentioned can be seen here: https://www.m-create.com/ranking/
"To whom it may concern:
After March, the content of the Weekly Ranking will change. We will only be publishing a Top 10 ranking.
We will be continuing to tally data. Please contact us if you are interested in market data.
(We apologise, but please only enquire on behalf of a business.)
Contact details: Media Create Co.,Ltd [email protected] 03-3294-7031"
So there's already contact details if you're interested in applying.
Seems the open ranking's being reduced from a Top 50 to a Top 10.
Edit: Oh, whoops, seems there was already an English notice: https://www.m-create.com/english/latest_research/e_ranking.html
Which explicitly states the Top 10 will be just 'top 10 software ranking without sales number'
Re: Get Discounts On Xenoblade, Metroid And More With The Latest European My Nintendo Rewards
https://my.nintendo.com/rewards/039f0d769cbae0bf
The US discount ended earlier this month, so unfortunately you're a bit late.
Don't have the exact size, but Xenoblade's the largest 3DS game. Over in the EU it's just over 30k blocks, though I think the US size is smaller.
Re: Octopath Traveler Makes The Leap To Mobile, New Console Game Will Take "A Little While Longer"
Square Enix is just crazy for phone games in Japan.
They've made (and discontinued) dozens of phone games.
Would be nice if it does come to Switch, they already ported the F2P Dragon Quest Rivals to Switch, but it may very likely be phone-exclusive, and shut down within 2-3 years.
Also, here's a translation of the three storyline descriptions and each of their great evils/champions, since Gematsu seemed to have missed those.
-- --
If you seek Fortune, your journey will begin in the deep forests of the Woodlands.
In your way stands the Witch of Greed, Herminia.
This miserly millionaire witch has set an evil dye upon the town of Valore.
If you seek Power, your journey will begin in the snow piles of the Frostlands.
In your way stands the Hero, Titus.
Leader of the Red Wings, a criminal rehabilitation group, he rules Emberglow by force.
If you seek Fame, your journey will begin in the lush plains of the Flatlands.
In your way stands the Playwright, August.
In the city of art, Theatopolis, his plays mesmerise everyone and lead them astray.
Re: Feature: What Developers Really Think Of The Nintendo Switch eShop
There does need to be some more discoverability for games.
Once a game drops out of view from the main pages, it gets buried by everything else. Unless you happen to know its name already (which means you've already heard of it), you have to trawl through the entire list of games to try and find it.
And all you have to recognise it among everything else is the tiny little banner, compared to the 3DS where the banner took up a whole screen.
It'd be nice if you could search using the 'large banner, small text beneath' style the other tabs use.
Looking through the entire list again and again for things gets tiring, so I mainly stick to just looking through one or two genres, or the sales list.
With one game I was looking for, but couldn't remember the name of, I thought I'd imagined a Switch port until I found it weeks later looking through the Strategy genre...
So I'd like to see a 'multiselect' genre search like the Wii U had, personally.
Re: Video: Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster And XII: The Zodiac Age Get New Switch Trailers
@Anti-Matter Yep, that's from the eShop, seems it's a lot smaller than on PS4.
I was expecting it'd need a 32GB cart, but 12.6 is even smaller than X/X-2 (12.6 vs 12.9 vs 14.0, if the eShop sizes do represent a FFX/X-2 split).
Though even at 12.6GB, seems it's still in the top 2% of Switch game sizes. (Using the data from the eShop sizes thread here, and removing bundles, top 1%=13.9GB, 2%=12.0GB, 5%=6.9GB, 10%=3.9GB, 50%=505MB)
With 50GB Blu-ray discs to use, PS4 games can be enormous, and there's even games filling 2 discs now (RDR2). I wonder what was changed to get that big a saving. Hopefully it won't have audio complaints like Dark Souls.
Re: Video: Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster And XII: The Zodiac Age Get New Switch Trailers
So let's see these sizes... FFX and X-2 are 26.9GB in total, and the EU eShop has a 14.0GB initial size listed (probably for just X).
FFXII is 12.6GB, and FFVII is 3.7GB
The Japanese eShop's sizes and language selections match the EU ones(all three games include Japanese and English), except X and X-2 is 26.9GB from the start in a single download.
So it seems X, X-2, and XII are each individually under 16GB, which is a bit of a surprise since they've been a lot larger on other platforms.
VII I was expecting a 4.3GB size since that's the PS4 size, so that's smaller than elsewhere too.
Also, the Japanese X and X-2 supports English, and it's possible it's on a single 32GB cart?
Re: Splatoon 2's #GearForAll Social Media Movement Fights Exclusive Japanese Content
Splatoon 2 has three separate versions, Japan(AAB6A), US/Australia(AAB6B), and Europe(AAB6C)
The CoroCoro codes will be DLC for AAB6A, the Japanese version, so you'll need a Japanese game to actually use it.
Re: Splatoon 2's #GearForAll Social Media Movement Fights Exclusive Japanese Content
The business suits shown were another CoroCoro promotion, the 'Spy Gear'.
But yeah region-exclusive DLC is a mess, there's even Japanese games where the west has more DLC than Japan like NIS's Coven of Dusk.
Re: Rumour: Joker's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Stage Seemingly Datamined
Saw the text after Menentoes was obviously Japanese and tried to decode it to see if that was anything useful. (Was wondering if it was mementoes too)
'b0uÁ0§0Ã0¯0' becomes bytes ?? 62 30 75 C1 30 A7 30 C3 30 AF 30 which is ?田チェック (The first byte was reduced to a dot by the hex viewer, so is unknown)
It probably said 'Jack_Menentoes_成田チェック' in full ('Narita Check', 10 62 30 75...), which sounds like a test name, maybe put in by a programmer in Narita.
Re: New Fan-Made Splatoon 2 Gear Coming In Japanese Mag CoroCoro
A note: April 25th seems to be a typo, as the orignal Japanese article says April 15th. (Plus, Monthly CoroCoro always comes out around the 15th)
Re: Talking Point: The Pokémon Trading Card Game Is In Desperate Need of An Evolution
Personally I stopped collecting after the e-Card codes went away, but even prior to that, the only physical shop I saw stocking cards for ages was Argos.
I feel like the TCG's never had a great event base in London, I remember even game events tended to skip London completely at times in the GB-GBA era, so I wonder how many regular TCG events there were back in the day.
The last real format revamp they did seems to be adding a constant barrage of secret rare full art cards, following trends in Japan of adding ultra rare cards targeting collector mentalities.
One sticking point for TCG Online might be that it's developed by the US side, surprisingly for a Pokémon game. There's actually no Japanese equivalent, and it seems the JP side isn't interested in it (or at least can ignore it more easily).
It would be great to see the TCG return to consoles, but nowadays there's probably more money in doing a microtransaction phone game like Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links...
Re: Pokémon: Let’s Go Demo Now Available From The Switch eShop
A little note, if anyone is interested: you can choose the partner Pokemon used in the demo by holding the stick up during the Game Freak logo screen to get Pikachu, or down to get Eevee, according to the Japanese announcement of the demo.
Re: Aussie Physical Release For Naruto Switch Trilogy Includes Three Download Codes
Also seems EU's getting it too:
https://www.amazon.de/Naruto-Ultimate-Ninja-Storm-Trilogy/dp/B07ND6YXNP/