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“When it comes to the appeal of the Nintendo 3DS, the 3D images have been focused on. I believe, however, the actual users understand that its expanded communication methods like “StreetPass” and “SpotPass” that have a lot of potential.”

Satoru Iwata espousing the “other” features of the 3DS, in an investor briefing. It’s basically Nintendo’s own fault the 3D has taken precedence — marketing and communication with press has heavily favored “glasses-free 3D” as the marquee feature, and the damn thing is called the “3DS” — but as one of those “actual users,” I feel way more impressed by these features.

Few things about the hardware are more exciting than receiving a new inappropriate Swapnote and seeing that blue light come on, or capturing a horde of Miis.

Nintendo is (maybe?) acknowledging the importance of networking, finally, with things like demos, decent eShop games, and the upcoming Nintendo Network, and though it’s not one-for-one with other systems in that department, interesting things happen when Nintendo does care about connectivity stuff.

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RE: Revelations' StreetPass detailed →

Doing its part to make sure you carry your 3DS around everywhere, Capcom has thrown in a StreetPass feature in Resident Evil: Revelations that will net you new enemies and missions for the game’s co-op Raid Mode, as well as parts for customizing weapons, when you pass other RE: Revelations players in real life.

The custom parts look like the usual stuff, upgrades for increasing your firepower, ammo capacity, etc. The StreetPass missions offer rewards that you can use in the campaign (e.g. herbs, money, extra clips for extra shit).

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PassID profiles make 3DS message box a little more useful →

The group behind the regional StreetPass Network has designed a new 3DS profile builder thing. PassID lets you create a profile with a bio, avatar, and other data, and attach it to a short URL for use as a message on your 3DS.

It’s sort of like 3DSTxt, used to sort of fake an Xbox Live profile. Could be useful, if you live the kind of charmed life in which you find yourself actually getting StreetPass tags!

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June 25 is 'StreetPass Day', meet up with other 3DS owners →

For those of you whose StreetPass logs are depressingly empty, and who have never had the chance to try Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition’s Figurine Mode, Nintendo is trying to facilitate your meeting-up and exchange of data (and maybe friendship or whatever, I guess).

The company started a page for StreetPass-focused Meetups, all planned to take place on June 25. There are currently 429 Meetups planned that day, all around the world — oh, hey, including one in Austin! With… 2 people planning to attend. It’s still early, I guess.

Anyway! It’s unfortunate that there isn’t enough 3DS saturation for StreetPass to happen naturally more often, but if you have a 3DS, you should totally go to one of these and enjoy the thrill of the blinky green light.

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Tons of Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition figurine codes →

My favorite Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition feature that I’ll never use? Totally the figurine mode. I anticipate pouring Play Coins into the game and hunting down every code I can get to amass a giant army of figurines… which I’ll never trade or bring out for StreetPass battles due to hermitude.

NeoGAFfer wackojackosnose has compiled a list of passwords that can be redeemed for unusual, leveled-up figures including gold and silver versions of the characters. Some of them apparently come from Japanese retail promotions — and the gold Chun-Li comes from the video stream of Capcom’s Nintendo World 2011 presentation.

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Viewing 3D figures in StreetPass Puzzle. We’ve talked a bit about the 3DS’s built-in StreetPass Quest game, but this is the first detailed preview I’ve seen for StreetPass Puzzle.

This seems less like a game and more a gimmick to get 3DS owners to carry their systems everywhere, which I’m fine with, as I’d like to see the StreetPass feature become as popular in the States as it is in Japan.

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Report: StreetPass Quest, Puzzle detailed

Face Raiders and AR Games aren’t the only fun titles pre-installed on the 3DS — Nintendo also has two small games meant to make StreetPass a little more exciting.

For those kids just tuning in, StreetPass is a feature in that automatically exchanges user and game data between two systems that cross each other’s paths even when they’re sleeping (e.g. Dragon Quest IX’s tag mode).

It’s a gimmick designed to get you carrying your 3DS everywhere, and it has two games, StreetPass Quest and StreetPass Puzzle, integrated to the experience.

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Iwata Laughs: Nintendogs + Cats, StreetPass

Nintendo posted a new Iwata Asks/Itoi Shills discussion about the 3DS, and along with talks about the system possibly recording 3D video one day, the roundtable has a curious exchange about Nintendogs + Cats.

I know few “core” gamers are interested in the game, but I’m pleased it has significant new features beyond just cats, like the pets recognizing your face, an in-game camera for taking snapshots, and an augmented reality trick that superimposes your animals on real-world locations.

The Iwata Asks conversation also outlines this neat Nintendogs + Cats item that uses “StreetPass”, the new feature that automatically exchanges data between two nearby 3DS systems, even when they’re in sleep mode and have different games inserted:

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3DS StreetPass microgame made in WarioWare DIY. Microcartridge’s Duncan Robson put together this quick microgame inspired by the StreetPass portion of this Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition features video.

When the 3DS hits and games like SSFIV 3D allow me to challenge random people, my life is going to be just like this, except without the eye contact, or the being outside.

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