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Nintendo Badge Arcade (Collectible Badge Center) coming to Europe on November 13
- Thread starter JoeM86
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FriedConsole
Banned
Nintendo discovered Valve hats.
Stuff like this and Amiibos and Nintendo will be just like Valve and make tons of money not making games.
Stuff like this and Amiibos and Nintendo will be just like Valve and make tons of money not making games.
Kontergurke
Member
From the press release in the OP:
NoE said:
Which means, if you're lucky & skilled, you may earn a try at the game for free.
tonyh24613
Member
Sometimes they'll give you free tries, and there's a trick that you "shake" the stage and get some badges without spending your tries.
Toadthemushroom
Member
The game gives you free plays once a day (iirc), but as you can imagine they won't be enough to get you all the badges you might want while the current rotation is out.
So it's geared towards the "whales"/highest engaged players, does make you wonder what proportion of players won't want to complete sets and get all of them though...
El Pescado
Member
Oh my God! I never thought this day would come! C'mon NOA
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Got to love that mobile philosophy of hooking in suckers with gambling.
Don't get me wrong, it's cool, but if you make me choose between this and homebrew...Sometime, they also offer free tries with some events iirc, the get free badges by shaking was fixed though.
They know where's the money at
Sarcasm/joke post or doesn't understand when the game originally came out?
OrbitalBeard
Member
Well, I mean, this thing has been out for over a year in Japan. I doubt it's taking too much away from current game development.
Neither. It's an idiotic post like every single one he does in every Nintendo-related thread.
Mostly in for the default 3DS app replacement icons, like these ones.
Can you 'replace' the existing original ones or do you just have to hide the originals somewhere? I couldn't figure out how to do it on my JP 3DS, so I hid them in a folder.
Robin64
Member
Yeah, you have to hide the originals. Not entirely elegant, but it'll do.
BumblebeeCody
Member
Oh I thought these were real badges.
Eh... custom homebrew themes are better.
Eh... custom homebrew themes are better.
MrSaturn99
Member
Noa
Plz
Plz
Garou
Member
Before anyone misses this: You don't have to pay a single cent for anything. There is a "Training-machine" which you can use once daily and for every 10 badges you collect there you can use the real machine once. Plus some training-badges come with 1 or 3 bonus-tries.
The good thing about paying is that sometimes they have exclusive 3DS-themes that you get as a present for free if you pay twice during the week.
The good thing about paying is that sometimes they have exclusive 3DS-themes that you get as a present for free if you pay twice during the week.
tonyh24613
Member
wow I didn't know that.
I did not know this. Will have to try when I get home...
Really do hope this comes to the North America region too, it really is one of my favourite things about my Japanese system.
Yes, several.
Well that's that, then.
Aveyn Knight
Member
Whoooooooooa, this is big news.
It's released on my birthday too.
Are Nintendo trying to tell me something? >___<
It's released on my birthday too.
Are Nintendo trying to tell me something? >___<
Nose Master
Member
Aww. I thought this was a real life arcade that had Atari esque patches you could win. :\
Welcome to the dark side my friend.
There were some weird sprite-based Fire Emblem Fates ones a couple of weeks back in the Japanese version.
There's lots of Splatoon badges released in Japan. They'll come. I think one of the PR screenshots shows one of the sets
Colonel Mustard
Banned
That's sorta lame. Haggling to get the price down was a game itself, I suppose they could change it to game unlocks after paying the price, but I think that would take part of the fun away. The whole digital salesperson thing Nintendo does is just so cute and unique and definitely adds to the enjoyment of the experience.
Most of the minigames are pretty great too though. Sorta like WarioWare/Rhythm Heaven with a baseball motif.
Edit: For anyone with a JPN 3DS, am I able to change the folder icons on the home screen with this? I've always wanted to change the folders with my VC games to look like the console that they were originally on. (Like a little Gameboy instead of a folder.)
Yep, there's an option where you can assign a badge to a folder. It doesn't replace the folder itself, but the badge is put on top of a folder instead of the letter/number
Colonel Mustard
Banned
But isn't that what this is for the 3DS? I'd like to decorate my mobile home screen with well made nintendo stickers and themes.
FrostuTheNinja
Member
I guess this is what that preordering at bestbuy promo was a couple of months back. If you preordered 2 select Nintendo games you received 5 badges upon release. When the release was scheduled, was never stated.
Edit: nevermind. It was buttons.
Edit: nevermind. It was buttons.
Right, but the 3DS is a nintendo device with a Nintendo OS that can only access nintendo apps.
For phones, I doubt any phone OS would let you do this - or you'd see this stuff already for other IP/junk. Plus, you can already customize phones for free anyway, or even moreso if you root it.
I'm pretty sure you can do it with Android without rooting. You can customize your phone yourself yeah, but it's never going to be as polished.
Chû Totoro
Member
Badges ! Finally.
GustyGardens
Banned
I've been wanting this in the US since it was released, and we still haven't got a confirmation of anything. It's a great idea for customizations, and I hope it continues in with the NX platforms.
It's weird, but they confirmed it's a free download in EU as well. My guess is they moved it out of the way in order to show the badges.Wait a second
How did I miss this, I constantly was checking the original thread on news about this getting localized. Hoping Thursday's Direct mentions this & maybe comes out the same day. Can't wait to get the custom icons for stuff like Mii Plaza & get the NES stuff to go with my Famicom theme.
I don't believe it has had them. It has just been first party titles.
From memory:
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario 3D World
Super Mario Maker
Mario Kart 8
Mario Party 10
Mario & Donkey Kong
Animal Crossing New Leaf
Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer
Splatoon
WarioWare Inc.
Fire Emblem Fates
The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes
Kirby Triple Deluxe
Kirby's Adventure
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
Metroid
Yoshi's Woolly World
Pikmin 3
Rhythm Heaven
Tomodachi Life
Daigasso! Band Brothers P
BoxBoy
Pushmo
NES Remix
Pokémon
Nikki (Swapnote)
There have also been special ones based on some of the games like Christmas Super Mario Bros., random 8-bit collections of insects, instruments etc., sprite collections of Consoles, game cartridges etc. Each of them has multiple panels. There have been almost 30 Pokémon ones for example, about a dozen Splatoon and so forth and each panel has at least 4 badges in.
Let me know if I missed any
ChaosZeroX
Banned
BAdges would be the perfect achievement system.
