3DS System Update Brings New StreetPass Games

[Steven Bogos]

3DS System Update Brings New StreetPass Games

The new update also adds the ability to backup saves for digital games and Virtual Console titles.

Firmware update v6.0.0-11 hit the 3DS today, and along with the usual tug-of-war flashcart blocking measures, is a bit of exciting news for anyone who is a fan of the system's StreetPass feature. Europeans are reporting that the new update allows them to upgrade their Mii Plaza with a shop that sells four new StreetPass games. The games are:


StreetPass Squad (Like Find Mii in space, battle Gold Bone Gang)
StreetPass Garden (Move into a house, grow flowers, and decorate a garden)
StreetPass Battle (Strategy game, build a StreetPass army and conquer the world)
StreetPass Mansion (Solve a paranormal mystery in a haunted house)


Unfortunately, they cost actual cash money. On the European store, they are €5 (around $7) each, or €15 for all four of them. You can get new hats (like a Pixel Mario cap) and even outfits as rewards from the game.

Also included in the update is the ability to create backup saves for your digitally downloaded 3DS games, as well as Virtual Console titles. This feature is accessed from the main menu, although it doesn't sound like Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate are supported.

The StreetPass feature has been an amazing little addition to the system that I have thoroughly enjoyed. The fact that it is included by default with every system ensures that I get a steady stream of Miis flowing into my console. I'm sure it helps that I live in Japan, but for you American and European users, Nintendo is planning to turn Wi-Fi access points in thousands of locations across America and Europe into "StreetPass Stations." [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/124959-Nintendos-First-Free-To-Play-Title-Will-Launch-Before-March-2014]

Currently, the update only seems to be available to European users.

Source & Image: Tiny Cartridge [http://tinycartridge.com/post/53238746463/mother-of-god-new-streetpass-games-and-mii]

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[suntt123]

I saw a video of some of these games. They look kinda cool.

I wish Nintendo would use Mii hats/outfits as a kind of achievement system on their consoles. It's such a cool little thing.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Ya know what? I'm down (or rather I would be but this seems to be a European exclusive thing...for now): Squad, Garden and, Battle sound pretty good but what I'd really like to see are:

A: Raise the Maximum Coin cap from 300 to...I dunno, 500? 1,000?
B: Raise the Coin Collection cap from 10/day to 25/day or 50/day (I sometimes come home with 5,000+ steps and can't be the only one)
C: Let us spend more coins on Puzzle-Swap to get a guaranteed new piece
D: Let us spend more coins on Find Mii to level up various Miis

 

[Dryk]

I'd tell you what the prices are in Australia, but attempting to access the shop in the Plaza crashes the program on my 3DS for some reason.

B: Raise the Coin Collection cap from 10/day to 25/day or 50/day (I sometimes come home with 5,000+ steps and can't be the only one)

I manage to cap out just catching the bus to uni in the morning, I haven't checked the steps/coin but it must be really low. It's annoying because I'm stuck with odd numbers of coins for a while.

 

[Aedrial]

Ya know what? I'm down (or rather I would be but this seems to be a European exclusive thing...for now): Squad, Garden and, Battle sound pretty good but what I'd really like to see are:

A: Raise the Maximum Coin cap from 300 to...I dunno, 500? 1,000?
B: Raise the Coin Collection cap from 10/day to 25/day or 50/day (I sometimes come home with 5,000+ steps and can't be the only one)
C: Let us spend more coins on Puzzle-Swap to get a guaranteed new piece
D: Let us spend more coins on Find Mii to level up various Miis

I'm definitely in support of changing the coin caps. I reach the cap walking to the bus stop.

 

[Hjalmar Fryklund]

I manage to cap out just catching the bus to uni in the morning, I haven't checked the steps/coin but it must be really low. It's annoying because I'm stuck with odd numbers of coins for a while.

It's a hundred steps per coin, I believe. Assuming the update didn't change that, of course.

 

[TJC]

Also included in the update is the ability to create backup saves for your digitally downloaded 3DS games, as well as Virtual Console titles. This feature is accessed from the main menu, although it doesn't sound like Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate are supported.

well, then what's the blood point? These are the only games I'd like to have such a back up :/

Still, the updates sound kinda nice.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Good thing I haven't bought a 3DS just yet (I swear I will be buying one in a month or so!).

 

[search_rip]

Ya know what? I'm down (or rather I would be but this seems to be a European exclusive thing...for now): Squad, Garden and, Battle sound pretty good but what I'd really like to see are:

A: Raise the Maximum Coin cap from 300 to...I dunno, 500? 1,000?
B: Raise the Coin Collection cap from 10/day to 25/day or 50/day (I sometimes come home with 5,000+ steps and can't be the only one)
C: Let us spend more coins on Puzzle-Swap to get a guaranteed new piece
D: Let us spend more coins on Find Mii to level up various Miis

Have you reach the maximum coin cap? hooow? I make my daily 10 coins and expend them asap anyway, those are great ideas for the Mii Plaza

OT: Aaaah, come to mii new games, come to mii :3

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Ya know what? I'm down (or rather I would be but this seems to be a European exclusive thing...for now): Squad, Garden and, Battle sound pretty good but what I'd really like to see are:

A: Raise the Maximum Coin cap from 300 to...I dunno, 500? 1,000?
B: Raise the Coin Collection cap from 10/day to 25/day or 50/day (I sometimes come home with 5,000+ steps and can't be the only one)
C: Let us spend more coins on Puzzle-Swap to get a guaranteed new piece
D: Let us spend more coins on Find Mii to level up various Miis

Have you reach the maximum coin cap? hooow? I make my daily 10 coins and expend them asap anyway, those are great ideas for the Mii Plaza

OT: Aaaah, come to mii new games, come to mii :3

I...have no idea really...I painstakingly walk and, walk and, walk and after roughly a month (THIS is why Nintendo needs to raise the damn cap!) until I have 300 coins then spend roughly 15 - 20 minutes spending every last one on Puzzle-swap pieces...and swearing out loud because 3 out of 5 of them are undoubtedly going to be ones that I already have and there's no way to buy pink pieces (LET US BUY PINK PIECES NINTENDO!!)

 

[weirdee]

They sent out the update for the save backup to everybody, but the gamepack isn't out for anybody else yet.