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Tips and footage for Dillon’s Rolling Western, which released on the 3DS eShop this morning for $9.99 — more expensive than usual, but apparently this is a big release.

I’m pretty disappointed with the voiceover here; why couldn’t they get Cowboy Jed again? Anyway, here’s a shorter launch video for you to watch, too.

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Nintendo Direct returns tomorrow

Nintendo will stream a new round of pre-recorded presentations for fans tomorrow morning, likely talking more about its upcoming DS, 3DS, and eShop software — I expect the company will talk much about Kid Icarus: Uprising, Fire Emblem: Awakening, and Pokémon + Nobunaga’s Ambition. Hopefully we’ll hear about new third-party and downloadable titles too.

The Japanese version of the Nintendo Direct show, which I expect to have more info than the Western editions, will begin streaming here at 6AM ET (3AM PT). Nintendo of America will air its presentation at 9AM ET (6AM PT).

Interestingly, the company announced the presentations via Swapnote, sending messages from CEO Satoru Iwata in Japan and NOA president Reggie Fils-Aime in North America. You can see the latter’s memo here.

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3D Classics: Kid Icarus trailer. I’m pretty much burned out on video games right now because of work, but despite that (maybe because of that) I could definitely stand to sit down and replay Kid Icarus with some updated graphics.

This is currently a preorder offer with that other Kid Icarus game in the US. Nintendo hasn’t said whether it will be released later separately. It was released on its own in Japan after being a freebie, so odds are good.

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Quarth hits Japanese eShop February 22 →

Party on, Quarth! The Game Boy version of Konami’s super rad shooter-puzzle thing will be released this Thursday in Japan (alongside the visual novel True Remembrance), for 400 yen ($5ish). Soooooort of reminiscent of Art Style: Pictobits, Quarth is a game about shooting blocks into falling structures to make rectangles, which then clear from the screen.

Best of all, the Game Boy version actually came out in North America in 1990, so there’s really nothing keeping Konami from releasing the Virtual Console version here.

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Super Mario Bros. (VC) ambassador update

Nintendo has put out some weird updates for eShop titles lately, and many have had trouble identifying what they add to their respective games. That’s not the case with the Super Mario Bros. update for those who downloaded the NES game as part of the 3DS Ambassador program.

The obvious change, as you can see in the image above, is the new menu icon, which replaces the generic box with an NES, a TV, and a shot of the screen. It also adds save states (tap screen) and a digital manual for the game.

Nintendo hasn’t announced this week’s downloadable games yet, but early reports indicate that they will be iSpot Japan on DSiWare (200 Points), Strider on Wii Virtual Console (Genesis, 800 Points), and the Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D demo on eShop (Free).

It’s also likely that Super Mario Bros. will be made available to non-Ambassadors now, making it the first NES game offered for sale on the 3DS Virtual Console in the States. There are reports, too, that Dillon’s Rolling Western releases next week in Europe — maybe we’ll get it in North America at the same time!

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Metal Gear Solid 3D demo this Thursday

It’s rare that we know about an eShop release date before it happens, but Konami announced today that the Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D demo will hit the North American eShop this Thursday. This is where I admit that I’m thinking about buying a Circle Pad Pro in advance of this demo…

If it doesn’t work out, at least you can play this rad Metal Gear Pushmo puzzle!

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“The eShop, I feel, has really turned things around for Nintendo on the digital side because the storefront is heavily feature-driven. Any publisher can still produce whatever it wants, similar to iOS in both regards. However, given the feature-oriented nature, the eShop is quasi-curated without being some lame PR line like, ‘consciously developing a curated portfolio.’ That’s a steaming pile of PR right there, but that’s another story altogether.”

Nicalis’s Tyrone Rodriguez praising the eShop in a Destructoid interview. No matter how you feel about the 3DS’s online store, there’s no denying it’s at least better than DSiWare.

Rodriguez goes on to explain that the eShop’s ability to feature some stuff over others helps the good software be noticed, unlike the DSi and Wii where everything is buried in an egalitarian manner.

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Farming for Precision Points in Sakura Samurai. I’d like to say I used this simple trick to get 99 Precision Points in my own game, then sold them for hella cash, but… I accidentally got hit and lost after like 25, and then I never had the patience to try that again.

On a related note, there were a few people who were having issues with Sakura Samurai freezing before they could even get into the game, but Nintendo has released an update that apparently fixes that, from what I hear. Is this the fastest the company has ever issued a patch?

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Tiny review: Sakura Samurai

Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword is an eShop game about timing, about knowing the right moment to dodge and riposte, like Punch-Out!! but set in feudal Japan, yes, but it’s also about patience and gambling, sometimes literally with the coins you’ve pocketed from making short work out of enemies that have no business holding a katana, and other times with your life as you push your luck to see how long your sense of timing will keep you alive.

It’s in those gambles when patience comes into play — you can sidestep and attack the moment your foe pulls his sword up, or you can stand steady and wait a breath, wager a heart or two, then slip around your enemy’s swing at the last second for a counterattack and a Precision Point. You can dispatch your enemies efficiently, never wasting a movement, mimicking the proficiency of Samurai Seven’s Kyuzo or Zatoichi’s Gennosuke. Or you can toy with the clumsy conscripts that circle around you, skipping away from their strikes repeatedly, racking up Precision Points that you can later cash in at the village shop.

As you master Sakura Samurai’s timing and learn to practice patience in every encounter, those gambles begin to tip more and more in your favor, your pockets start to bulge with gold, and the corpses behind you multiply.

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“At first, we thought of a character who would drift in all of a sudden like a balloon. Later there was something like a combination of a bird and a ghost. That was actually a final candidate!

It was actually cute, but it looked pretty freaky. It could write a note for you, so it had something like hands, too. Maybe that was something else middle-aged! (laughs).”

Motomasa Kondo, Swapnote lead designer, reveals an early version of the Swapnote mascot in a new Iwata Asks interview. I doubt we’d have the same volume of fanart of the drawing bird-ghost!

The piece is full of embarrassing notes about how “middle-aged” the program was turning out until Nintendo and developer Denyu-sha brought some younger people, women in particular, to work on it.

It’s also interesting that Swapnote was originally planned as a DSiWare diary app with no networking! So just Note, then.

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A full six-minute date with Nene in New Love Plus. I’m really surprised the framerate hasn’t gotten any better — there’s literally nothing to render but one 3D model, and it’s still choppy.

In other NLP news, February 13 marks the Japanese release of Love Plus Tools, which refers to the 200-yen character transfer app, not the people who use it.

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[Via Andriasang]

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Game Gear games rated for 3DS →

The first two 3DS Virtual Console games from a non-Nintendo platform will likely be Shinobi and Sonic Triple Trouble. These two Game Gear games have been rated for 3DS release by the ESRB. As someone who just loves the Virtual Console in general, I’m excited to see this GDC 2011 announcement come true. Ah, I love this period in a Nintendo system’s lifespan, full of hope for new services that has yet to be dashed by the minimal fulfillment of those services.

Turbografx-16 games were supposed to come along, but it’s not clear whether that will happen because there’s no Hudson anymore. I hope it happens anyway. I’ll buy Devil’s Crush on any platform. Let my redundant game purchases be the fuel for the company’s renewal!

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