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Make a Techo case out of card stock and a rubber band This awesome idea/GIF comes from Zachary Reese, who didn’t feel like spending beaucoup bucks on a case for his Hobonichi Techo. I have to say, though, that having a case is still pretty useful for its built-in bookmark, pen holder, and pockets for accessories. Okay, so the winners of our #tiny_techo contest!: Bella C. Rita D. Many apologies for the delay on announcing our winners (we had to pass on a winner since we never heard back from him). And we wish we could have picked more winners — we received hundreds of entries from people sharing what they’d fill their diary with, many of them offering great ideas, but we only had two Techos to give away. :o( If you’re still dying to get a Techo, it’s definitely worth buying one even in March, as I previously explained in our review. Plenty of our readers have reported buying one, and I haven’t seen any of them not praise the planner. BUY Mother 3/Earthbound, Hobonichi Techo 2013

Make a Techo case out of card stock and a rubber band

This awesome idea/GIF comes from Zachary Reese, who didn’t feel like spending beaucoup bucks on a case for his Hobonichi Techo. I have to say, though, that having a case is still pretty useful for its built-in bookmark, pen holder, and pockets for accessories.

Okay, so the winners of our #tiny_techo contest!:

Many apologies for the delay on announcing our winners (we had to pass on a winner since we never heard back from him). And we wish we could have picked more winners — we received hundreds of entries from people sharing what they’d fill their diary with, many of them offering great ideas, but we only had two Techos to give away. :o(

If you’re still dying to get a Techo, it’s definitely worth buying one even in March, as I previously explained in our review. Plenty of our readers have reported buying one, and I haven’t seen any of them not praise the planner.

BUY Mother 3/Earthbound, Hobonichi Techo 2013
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Reminder: Hobonichi Techo giveaway!

You can still enter to win a free Hobonichi Techo 2013 planner! All you need to do is tell us what you’d fill your Techo with by reblogging, commenting, or tweeting (@tinycartridge, #tiny_techo).

If you’re looking for creative ideas, check out some of the photos collected on Statigram with the Hobonichi Techo tag — that’s where I pulled the above photos from Mylittleoctopus and Yellow_elephant. And of course, there’s the Hobonichi Love Tumblr.

BUY Mother 3/Earthbound, Hobonichi Techo 2013

Paper Mario: Sticker Star contest winners, including the beautiful picnic scene by Gigi D.G. we posted a few days ago. The other entries are by Daniel P. (the raft scene), David M. (the amazing tower with Goomba boss fight), Dominik K. (the windmill), and Miranda E. (Mario straight up stomping a Koopa). They’re all wonderful!

I really want a Paper Mario diorama in my house now. I need some crafting time, and to become one of these people.

Buy: Paper Mario: Sticker Star
See also: More Paper Mario: Sticker Star news and media
Want a free download code for the new eShop edition for Cave Story? We have a couple to give away to two North American Nintendo 3DS owners! All you need to do is answer one of these two trivia questions in our comments. Make sure to use your real email address, so we can contact you! What was the secret theme of our posts yesterday? How does that theme relate to Cave Story? They’re pretty easy to answer if you follow our site, or are familiar with the silliness of Cave Story! Big ups to Nicalis for providing us with the codes — don’t forget about NightSky releasing to eShop on October 25. [Update: Well, that ended quick… Thanks to everyone who kept a close eye on the contest, and to @Nicalis!] Buy: Cave Story 3DSee also: More Cave Story posts[Image via Sakaki]

Want a free download code for the new eShop edition for Cave Story? We have a couple to give away to two North American Nintendo 3DS owners!

All you need to do is answer one of these two trivia questions in our comments. Make sure to use your real email address, so we can contact you!

  1. What was the secret theme of our posts yesterday?
  2. How does that theme relate to Cave Story?

They’re pretty easy to answer if you follow our site, or are familiar with the silliness of Cave Story! Big ups to Nicalis for providing us with the codes — don’t forget about NightSky releasing to eShop on October 25.

[Update: Well, that ended quick… Thanks to everyone who kept a close eye on the contest, and to @Nicalis!]

Buy: Cave Story 3D
See also: More Cave Story posts
[Image via Sakaki]

Cave Story + contest winners!

We recently asked our readers to “describe Balrog” for a chance to win a Mac App Store copy of Cave Story +. We got tons of fun responses, because you’re all brilliant, but in the end we did the terrible duty of reducing the list down to five winners, to whom we’ve handed out the codes. Huzzah, etc. Here’s who we picked:

  • Axel described Balrog as “an Altoids tin who only comes in one flavor: bumbling.”
  • wuuds said “Balrog is the craziest enemy I’ve ever fought. I mean the guy wears suspenders over his eyes… WITHOUT PANTS! I still have nightmares…”
  • Blue gave us the paradox of Balrog: A bar of soap that’ll make your hands dirty.  A lunchbox that’ll leave you hungry.  A briefcase that’ll get you fired.  A suitcase that’ll leave you shivering in the cold.  A hollow brick that’ll cause your house to tumble.  A broken drive that you decided to for some unfathomable reason to pop into your OS.  What did it say? Well, what did you expect?”
  • Zachaeus Medneslon said, enigmatically, “A commentary on modern man.”
  • How does Chris Kraft know? “Balrog pees sitting down and poops standing up.”

Congrats to the five of you, thanks to Nicalis for the generous offer of prizes, and “stay tuned” or whatever you do to a website for more opportunities to win this game!

Preorder: Cave Story 3D

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more 

See also: More Cave Story posts

[Image by Karukan]

Win a copy of Cave Story+ for Mac

Nicalis has offered us five codes for Cave Story+, its updated Mac release of Cave Story based on the WiiWare version. Would you like to welcome fall with a nostalgic trip through Pixel’s masterpiece? Doesn’t that sound comforting, like a cool breeze coming in on a warm day? (Not that I’d know, we haven’t really had “cool” anything here in Austin in months…)

We’re giving away five copies of Cave Story+ this week, from now until Friday at 11:59PM EDT. All you have to do to win, is go into the comments section of this post, and … describe Balrog. We’ll pick our favorites and dispense codes. Good luck, and thanks to Nicalis for the generosity!

Preorder: Cave Story 3D

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more 

See also: More Cave Story posts

Tiny Cartridge birthday mini-contest winners

So, a few weeks ago we basically bribed a bunch of our readers to say nice things about Tiny Cartridge, offering everyone free games and merch in exchange for lies about how much they love this site. What can I say, it was our third birthday, and we needed some reassurance.

Anyway, here are the best liars winners we picked!

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Bit.Trip Saga / Complete fanart contest!

Are you convinced that you need to own a copy of Bit.Trip Complete (Wii) after seeing yesterday’s poignant trailer? Or maybe the promise of portability in the 3DS release has you committed to Bit.Trip Saga? Both versions have their advantages — if only there was a way to acquire both without spending too much cash.

Well, as usual, we have the answer to all your problems*. We have partnered with our sponsor Aksys to hold a fanart competition, and will be giving two winners copies of both Bit.Trip Saga and Complete. Details after the break!

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Custom Heroes of Ruin 3DS featuring an elephant gray shell and branding from n-Space’s Torchlight-esque action RPG (with four-player online co-op!). To mark the launch of the game’s official site, n-Space announced a contest to give away this one-off system to a random person who registers at the community page and fills in an entry form before July 31st. When we last talked about this promising title, connectivity features with the online hub were mentioned: “[The] community website will reward players further with daily challenges and quests available to complete in-game. With social media functionality, the site will also give players a platform to meet other gamers, swap ideas and items and team-up in-game.” So, if you plan on picking this up, you’ll probably want to register at the Heroes of Ruin site anyway! Preorder: Heroes of Ruin Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more See also: More Heroes of Ruin posts [Thanks, Ray!]

Custom Heroes of Ruin 3DS featuring an elephant gray shell and branding from n-Space’s Torchlight-esque action RPG (with four-player online co-op!).

To mark the launch of the game’s official site, n-Space announced a contest to give away this one-off system to a random person who registers at the community page and fills in an entry form before July 31st.

When we last talked about this promising title, connectivity features with the online hub were mentioned:

“[The] community website will reward players further with daily challenges and quests available to complete in-game. With social media functionality, the site will also give players a platform to meet other gamers, swap ideas and items and team-up in-game.”

So, if you plan on picking this up, you’ll probably want to register at the Heroes of Ruin site anyway!

Preorder: Heroes of Ruin

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more

See also: More Heroes of Ruin posts

[Thanks, Ray!]

Draw Grasshopper women, win rare stuff»

No, I don’t mean women who are part grasshopper. Please don’t draw that, and if you do, don’t show me.

Our awesome pal Matt “Fort90” Hawkins has teamed up with Grasshopper Manufacture and Jap-Sai to give away lots of rad Grasshopper swag to the person who sends him the best fanart of any female character from a GHM game.

He explains, “Not gonna lie: I’m mostly interested in NMH babes, though I’d like to believe that game provides the greatest variety of potential subjects, so no one feels too constricted.” Check the site for image size and format requirements.

So what do you stand to get for your efforts? Only way too much fucking stuff, including the NMH2 “Erotica Comic,” two portrait postcard books, the Japanese guidebook for No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise, a copy of the rare Hand in Killer7 book, Bizarre Jerry 5, “Hellride,” Flower, Sun, & Rain t-shirts, and Cory Schmitz’s Killer 7 t-shirt (not having any of these shirts makes me wonder where my life went wrong).

You have until May 1 to prepare your entries. Fair warning: you’ll have to compete with me, and my artwork might just be sad enough to win out of pity.

Buy:  No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

See also: More No More Heroes 2 stuff

How to apply the Keys Factory Screen Guard Plus for 3DS. Thanks to the clever D-pad guide thing and the adhesive tab on the right side, this looks way easier to apply than the arcane Hori Screen Protective Filter — though I’m happy in both cases for this trend of video guides.

It’s also way easy to get one of these Screen Guard Plus covers for yourself — by retweeting, reblogging, or liking our DS Dates contest post! Only once, please, we don’t want to be responsible for a spam outbreak.

You have until midnight PST tonight! Go! We want to put plastic sheets on your screeeeeens!

Buy: Screen Guard Plus (in case you don’t win!) 

See also: More accessories

Protect Ya Screen giveaway extended»

Our DS Dates giveaway for a couple free Nintendo 3DS screen protectors was supposed to end last night, but we realize that we didn’t promote it enough this week, and that the release of Raekwon’s new album yesterday probably distracted people from the contest.

So, out of respect to the Chef and you, we’ve extended the giveaway by two days — you have until tomorrow night to enter to win these clever Keys Factory screen guards!

Buy: Raekwon’s Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang

See also: Wu-Tang’s lost Super Game Boy commercial