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JoeM86 · Nov 10, 2015

Just been announced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2KEDGzJurY

Over a year after it came in Japan, the Collectible Badge Center game has come to Europe. This game is a crane game that lets you win badges from many Nintendo franchises (Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, Pokémon etc.) that can be used to decorate your 3DS home screen. It adds new ones each week and changes with older ones every couple of days to make sure you get them if you miss them.

In Japan, there are currently over 3,000 badges that have been added over the last year with more coming every week so plenty of backlog to go through.

Press Release

Owners of Nintendo 3DS family systems can already customise their system’s HOME Menu with a range of colourful themes, and they’ll soon be able to take that personalisation to a whole new level with Nintendo Badge Arcade, coming to Nintendo eShop as a free download* from 13th November.

In this lively arcade run by a chatty rabbit, players can take a shot at crane games and similar classic amusements, collecting badges based on Nintendo games and series like Mario Kart, Splatoon and Animal Crossing. Badges can be used to decorate the HOME Menu, with some even usable instead of the standard system icons that access, among others, Nintendo eShop and StreetPass Mii Plaza – perfect for total HOME Menu makeovers.

Every day, visitors to the arcade get five free plays on a practice machine: it only offers dummy badges, but with skill and a little bit of luck, players can win free plays for the machines packed with real badges. Plays can also be bought at a price of £0.90 / €1.00 for five plays**.

Players can show off their unique HOME Menu designs via Miiverse, and check out other creators’ designs for inspiration. There’ll be plenty to discover in the weeks and months following launch too, as the badges and machines on offer will change regularly, opening up even more customisation possibilities.

So whether you’re creating a Mario Kart-style starting grid or adding a splat of colour with the Splatoon badges, there’ll be plenty of new ways to liven up your Nintendo 3DS family system’s HOME Menu when Nintendo Badge Arcade launches in Nintendo eShop on 13th November.

Hot Coldman · Nov 10, 2015

NOOOOOOOO

RIP my money.

bobawesome · Nov 10, 2015

Wow, never actually expected it to leave Japan.
Hopefully NA follows suit soon.

kuroneko0509 · Nov 10, 2015

rip money

YianGaruga · Nov 10, 2015

yessssss

OrbitalBeard · Nov 10, 2015

Awesome. Hopefully an announcement for NA is coming soon.

GasProblem · Nov 10, 2015

Good news! You get a free try once a day right?

And this really should've been in a Direct. Come onnnnnn Nintendo.

KingBroly · Nov 10, 2015

Come on, NOA...

...

aw, who am I kidding? ;_;

Brazil · Nov 10, 2015

Fucking finally.

My JP 3DS is so much cooler than my US one because of this.

KooopaKid · Nov 10, 2015

Finally some Nintendo news!

TheSlySoul · Nov 10, 2015

This game is awesome. Been missing my flair on my English systems.

GasProblem said:
Good news! You get a free try once a day right?

And this really should've been in a Direct. Come onnnnnn Nintendo.

You get a chance to win a free turn each day yes.

Putosaure · Nov 10, 2015

Oh shit.

Homebrew ?

Badges ?

I guess I'll have to choose.

Or wait a bit for a workaround

JordanKZ · Nov 10, 2015

Oh god. As someone who buys a fair amount of themes, this isn't going to help my bank balance.

Yukinari · Nov 10, 2015

NoA as usual is the last one to the party with this stuff. I thought it would never leave Japan but i guess they realize how much easy money it would make.

ash_ag · Nov 10, 2015

Sweet!

Yoshi · Nov 10, 2015

So, Nintendo's luck-based money-drain? Who asked for that? And: Will the 3DS now be rated PEGI 18+? From the sound it is gambling, isn't it?

HUELEN10 · Nov 10, 2015

Come on NOA... Someone needs a Mona sticker on their N3DS BAD.

Eolz · Nov 10, 2015

Awesome news!

Now bring us Rusty too

BGBW · Nov 10, 2015

Free plays all days.

moozoom · Nov 10, 2015

I'm glad I can finally play it... but this will be my ruin.

daydream · Nov 10, 2015

rhythm tengoku badges, here i come

Boney · Nov 10, 2015

Yoshi said:
So, Nintendo's luck-based money-drain? Who asked for that? And: Will the 3DS now be rated PEGI 18+? From the sound it is gambling, isn't it?

Gatcha isn't more gambling than those toy dispensers you see in a pharmacy or something.

daydream said:
rhythm tengoku badges, here i come

Yo those Barista stickers are so kewt!

Phoenixus · Nov 10, 2015

Feckin FINALLY. I'm gonna lose so much money to this.

This trailer would've been perfect for a Direct...

Praying for Wonderful 101 stickers.

JoeM86 · Nov 10, 2015

I was playing this on and off on the Japanese one until recently, when Pokémon start coming.

I've spent ~£30 on it so far.

TheSlySoul · Nov 10, 2015

Boney said:
Gatcha isn't more gambling than those toy dispensers you see in a pharmacy or something.

Plus it is optional. Mainly a way to decorate your 3DS. Do not see any harm in it.

tiijj · Nov 10, 2015

GasProblem said:
Good news! You get a free try once a day right?

For the JP ones you get 2 free tries only when they add some badges.

Glowsquid · Nov 10, 2015

neat.

hope it comes to NA, i want the warioware badges ;-;

Litri · Nov 10, 2015

What is this??? Wait, you can tune your home menu with this shit?

Chase17 · Nov 10, 2015

For the sake of my wallet, it may be best if it doesn't come to NA. I'm hoping it does though.

georly · Nov 10, 2015

Ohgodohgodohgod finally.

Plz come to US. RIP wallet.

I'll pretty much get zelda stuff, exclusively. I can't wait.

Maybe this is the unannounced title releasing in 2015?

(I know it isn't because he was speaking to a japanese audience, no?)

It's 5 am on the west coast, so I don't expect an announcement for another 2.5-3+ hours in the US, if we get one today.

MicH · Nov 10, 2015

Oh cool. Not gonna spend money on this, but I'll definitely do the daily pull thingy

TheSlySoul · Nov 10, 2015

Litri said:
What is this??? Wait, you can tune your home menu with this shit?

You get 5 chances of the crane at about 1 dollar local currency. You can get 3+ most of the time. Badges can be used to decorate your home screen. First round was Mario and Animal Crossing.
Oh and Zelda stuff was MM, LBW, WW, and Tri-Force Heroes.

Litri · Nov 10, 2015

TheSlySoul said:
You get 5 chances of the crane at about 1 dollar local currency. You can get 3+ most of the time. Badges can be used to decorate your home screen. First round was Mario and Animal Crossing.

I'm in then.

YianGaruga · Nov 10, 2015

How much can you choose what badges you get? Can you choose the game/franchise at least? Are there rare ones?

D.Lo · Nov 10, 2015

So can you spend money and not get anything in return? Is that possible?

If so, I'm a big non-fan.

If you always 'win' at least something then I guess it's just adding some randomness to customisation?

TheSlySoul · Nov 10, 2015

YianGaruga said:
How much can you choose what badges you get? Can you choose the game/franchise at least? Are there rare ones?

No rare, badge selection rotates per week, you can choose what area you want to use crane. You are not locked into an area, so 2 can be one area, 3 in the other. Area will reset if you quit the game.

D.Lo said:
So can you spend money and not get anything in return? Is that possible?

If so, I'm a big non-fan.

If you always 'win' at least something then I guess it's just adding some randomness to customisation?

I never not won a badge playing. Some areas do have dickish designs though...

YianGaruga · Nov 10, 2015

TheSlySoul said:
No rare, badge selection rotates per week, you can choose what area you want to use crane. You are not locked into an area, so 2 can be one area, 3 in the other. Area will reset if you quit the game.

Thanks, can't wait to try it out.

pock3tmonster · Nov 10, 2015

This is good news! I have spent far too much money trying to complete sets of badges on my Japanese 3DS, but the conversion from AUD to Yen makes it that much more expensive.

JoeM86 · Nov 10, 2015

D.Lo said:
So can you spend money and not get anything in return? Is that possible?

If so, I'm a big non-fan.

If you always 'win' at least something then I guess it's just adding some randomness to customisation?

You don't always win something, but you do have to be pretty inept to not get anything in most of the panels.

Totakeke · Nov 10, 2015

This is something I actually want to come to mobile. Probably hard to do for iOS though.

Colonel Mustard · Nov 10, 2015

Eolz said:
Awesome news!

Now bring us Rusty too

Wait, Europe doesn't have Rusty yet?

Chopper · Nov 10, 2015

Oh shit. Awesome.

JoeM86 · Nov 10, 2015

Totakeke said:
This is something I actually want to come to mobile. Probably hard to do for iOS though.

It customises your 3DS menu, how can that come to mobile??

Hegarol · Nov 10, 2015

Yes!! Finally!

Never thought it would be coming to the West

georly · Nov 10, 2015

Totakeke said:
This is something I actually want to come to mobile. Probably hard to do for iOS though.

For your actual home screen? It'd just be app icons basically. Dunno how great that would be.

If nintendo has some sort of 'hub' app that links all of its nintendo account games, then it'd be cool for that. What's more likely is miitomo being the hub that you use to express yourself, so you'd decorate your miitomo's room and buy your miitomo costumes. Hopefully it's not gacha based, I'd die (and actually just probably not participate outside of free gachas).

Starwolf_UK · Nov 10, 2015

Expect the sales bunny to be an emotionless robot here and to have to buy players from a trolley ala streetpass mii plaza regional changes.

Eolz said:
Now bring us Rusty too

Rusty still has the problem of emotionally blackmailing players into spending money* and I wouldn't want NOE to remove the story element completely as I hear that was as good as the minigames were.

Colonel Mustard said:
Wait, Europe doesn't have Rusty yet?

*-More info on why that is a problem here:
http://bitparade.co.uk/article.php?id=3682

I'm sure a normal priced version of Rusty could work where you just don't unlock the games until you do the equivalent of haggle him down.

OrbitalBeard · Nov 10, 2015

Rusty's Real Deal Baseball is one of my favorite 3DS games. A shame EU doesn't have it.

Miroku129 · Nov 10, 2015

Wake up NOA!! I need my nikki badges

Jamie OD · Nov 10, 2015

I don't trust that rabbit.

georly · Nov 10, 2015

Miroku129 said:
Wake up NOA!! I need my nikki badges

Likely wouldn't get the app til thursday, and even then, we'd be lucky if it launched with anything cool. Expecting mario/animal crossing. Holding out for zelda.

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