Dufniall

My favourite memory is of A Link To The Past. Me and my brother got it in 1992/93 I guess. I was about seven years old, so I didn't know what to do except for chopping up bushes for rupees and sprinkling magic dust on whatever I encountered. My brother couldn't finish it so he traded it for Super Soccer, blasphemy! It was only years later on the Game Boy Advance that I finally finished the game and filled the void that has plagued me for years. Other noteworthy tidbits: I love the Hyrule Field theme from Ocarina Of Time. It took me ages to find out that I had to blow up a wall in one of the temples in Link's Awakening. Apparently I have played Zelda CD-I as my cousin had it, but I have absolutely no memory of it. And to this day I still love the Linkin Park video In The End, as it has a Wind Fish flying around in it.

Dammit! More coffee is needed. Ah well, saves people some time clicking on previous page.

The contents of tomorrow's Direct have leaked, according to n1ntendo.nl. Their "sources" say (spoiler tags for people who don't want to know, even though this is not confirmed):

Haha allright, then I did get it. I thought it was some sort of long-running gag which I totally missed.

Elaborate, I am missing the joke of the Epona painting picture.

Lapras used Surf... NOOOOOOO! Did you catch it? I remember catching a shiny Gligar back on Pokémon Gold and I thought, well that is nice. Only years later I realised just how f-in rare these guys are. And then I caught a shiny Ponyta on HeartGold! My only two shinies (except Lake Of Rage Gyarados) ever.

I'm not completely aware of EV training, but I believe it does require you battling certain enemies for different effects. For example, battling a Diglett would give you Speed EV, so if you want a fast Riolu/Lucario you would only want to battle foes who give you that specific EV. And in the main game you will get a lot of random encounters so you cannot EV train properly. But as I said, I'm not into EV training (who's got the time for that?!) so maybe someone else can give a better answer. And oh yeah, got Celebi through the wi-fi Mystery Gift! Still I think it is a shame that all these give away legends are l100, since it takes away the fun of training them any further in the game.

If you really want some 'mon, you can get a lot through the GTS. I traded a lot of evolving Pokémon like Machoke and Haunter, and even got a Giratina for my Sylveon. But I'm up for reviving Pokémon X/Y trading since I also started playing a couple of weeks ago! I'm now ready for the Elite 4 and afterwards would like to complete my dex as much as possible.

I did that as well way back, when I played Blue on the Game Boy. And yeah, if you put in the 2 hours of time it takes (starting over 5 times!) you well deserve it! Man, you gotta love these sprites. Plant with eyes, that snake, the substitute figure. Surfing jelly water Pokémon is also classic! I'm still in doubt if I am going to play it again on VC. I played it back in the days, and played LeafGreen (using the exact same team of Blastoise, Charizard, Vileplume, Butterfree, Pigeot and Raichu). So nostalgia says yes, but time management says no. Also, no local friends to trade with so no 100% completion.

Can you post a link to this leaked list, I can't find it quickly.

Pokémon Stadium VC could work, if they edit it to link up with your 3DS VC version of Red/Blue/Yellow. Although they will probably price it at 25 quid for the effort... My guess is Pokémon GO, Pokkén, Volcanion Event details, Pokémon Z? And of course more Pokémon 20 hype!

I think it is just the one website, and it automatically transfers you to your own country/language. But yeah, incredibly easy to set up, I didn't expect that! Used my NNID, and all my personal data was filled in correctly. Looks promising Nintendo!

Done! Interesting to see that the platinum points are valid for six months, that feels rather short. So either you need to spend a lot of time playing to get enough points before they expire, or you don't need too many to get some nice rewards.

Yeah, same here. Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites! (sounds familiar? ) Plus, you can win with virtually any teamuntil you go online or post-game. Pokémon X is the first title which really still holds some surprises for me since I haven't really followed this generation (and haven't looked up the fairy type effectivenesses). So I am now playing it (six badges and counting) using the nice Pokémon I am encountering and it is nice to be surprised. It surprises me for example that I am really digging Doublade, designwise I really disliked it when it came out but its move- and typeset are awesome. But I have to suppress my craving to try to form an ultimate team using the GTS. Only exception is the Dratini I got through the GTS, but hey, that is because nothing is cooler than the original dragon Dragonite.

Oh wow, those US Red/Blue cover plates are insane! It would be kind of Nintendo to at least release the Blastoise one here in the EU. About the movies: I don't care much for Bluray, with a bit of luck the HD versions show up on Netflix too. And apparently the Blu-Ray does not include the Pikachu shorts, which is a shame.

But what if it's not! I think it will be something like this, with streaming options to a TV/screen: Don't give me credits though, since I stole this image from Google.

Pikmin badges in the EU today, along with some free plays after your bunny goes Super Saiyan. Racked up an additional 2 free plays with the practice catcher, and I managed to waste all my 4 free plays getting an Olimar. Oh, the sweet tragedy...

I ended up buying Mighty Switch Force! 2, Bit.Trip Saga and Fractured Soul. Good deals! I haven't started them though, as I am still completing AeternoBlade and Pokémon X.

I'm getting Mighty Switch Force! 2 when it goes on sale. I really enjoyed part 1 (which I also bought on sale). Nice platformer with some innovative mechanics. I never heard of Steel Empire, I will check it out to see what it is. Oh yeah, I did buy Aeternoblade last week for €5,-. It's nice to have a mindless hacking and slashing Metroidvania kind of game to play as a break between all the RPGs and text heavy games.

I've got the same idea as you @nekunando. Turned it on every day, and I think I have about 95 badges now without spending REAL money. But the novelty wears of, the loading times are long and I don't feel like changing my homescreen so often. Right now I have a pretty basic one with some Mario Christmas badges on my folders. Goes well with the free give-away Christmas theme they are running now in the Netherlands (which has an awesome Christmas style Mario theme song going on!).

I've had this same problem, where sometimes badges would disappear, leaving me for example with half a Mario. https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYQHAAABAACNUKFLa8KEyQ But it does not happen all the time though, I haven't had the problem for some time.

Got a full Splatoon set with the 3 free tries, plus an extra 4 tries out of the practice machine (got another retro Mario set), so today was a good day. Compensates for yesterday, which was my first day without grabbing any free plays. And nice job on posting your homescreen here @Mike, I love to see how everyone is using their badges!

Got two free tries today and grabbed the Splatoon system icon set! So all in all you can get quite some things for free (sorry guys...). Just hope my need to complete does not kick in! What disturbs me more though is that some badges just disappear after turning the system on again. My Mario got displayed a number of time, missing the bottom part on my homescreen. Anyone else got this problem? Verstuurd vanaf mijn HUAWEI P7-L10 met Tapatalk

I should really start grinding up to G rank, because that is where the fun begins. Currently doing 6* online quests so I am getting close. Offline I have to go after frenzied Jho, but decided to first finish all unfinished business since for example I missed the Dahren Mohran and Kirin urgent quests. Once I'm G rank I wouldn't mind teaming up with some guys here to do some of those DLC quests!

Does anyone know if you can stock up your tries which you win in practice play? After getting bonus plays through the practice machine you immediately get send over to the real deal. But can you leave there and for example stock up 10 plays or so? That way you could stockpile a bunch of free tries to use when a set comes around which you really want.