3DS StreetPass

Josey Wales

I got a couple more hits this week. A few of them from Meath.

Mokong

Had a surprise StreetPass yesterday, was out all day, went out with family bit of road tripping and picnicing. Took the 3DS with me of course but never saw the Green Light come on. But when I got home and went to use my coins for the day I noticed the green dot on the Notification and Plaza Icons, score.

From the time it was while we were in JFK Park in New Ross, Co Wexford, having lunch I guess, I must not have noticed the green light as I kept opening and close the 3DS messing with the camera. Didn't think I'd get anything there, wasn't that many people in the park.

New guy didn't have any puzzle parts I needed, so I took a piece from a new puzzle, now I have 4 puzzle on the go, Mario & Bowser being the new one.

Anyone figure out how many puzzles there are yet?

shizz

Got my first street pass yesterday. Some guy called Robrules haha I was delighted. How do you use them for the quest though?

Mokong

shizz wrote: »

How do you use them for the quest though?

When you first go into the StreetPass Plaza and the other persons Mii enters. You'll see a red "!" icon on the puzzle/quest icon, and again next to both in that menu. When you open the Quest the red "!" will be on "Venture Forth" go there and the Mii should appear and ready for use. You can only use each Mii once, like the hired heroes. But if you manage to pass the same person again you can use their Mii again and it will have leveled up (to a max of 7)

You also have to use the Mii's for both Puzzle and Quest RIGHT AWAY.
If you open the plaza, watch the Mii enter then turn off the Plaza without playing any of the games then you won't be able to use them (unless you pass them again)

shizz

Ahh i see. Thanks. Guess I can't use him now so

ScaldyMc

Does anyone know if streetpass works if you are playing a DS game?

Josey Wales

ScaldyMc wrote: »

Does anyone know if streetpass works if you are playing a DS game?

I'm pretty sure it only works when the 3DS is closed and the wifi is enabled.

o1s1n

Josey Wales wrote: »

I'm pretty sure it only works when the 3DS is closed and the wifi is enabled.

I assume it still runs in the background when you're playing a 3ds game and have wifi turned on. Would be a bit stupid if it didn't as a lot of the time people are traveling around they'll be playing a game.

DS mode/DS games on the other hand would probably be a different matter.

Nollog

ScaldyMc wrote: »

Does anyone know if streetpass works if you are playing a DS game?

No, it doesn't.
It's in your manual, and they sent it to you via a spotpass notification too.

pdbhp

God dammit, I've been carring around my 3Ds for 2 weeks now and not one hit, I even brought it to town on the weekend and zilcho!!
Thought I may not have street pass enabled but I do.:(

o1s1n

pdbhp wrote: »

God dammit, I've been carring around my 3Ds for 2 weeks now and not one hit, I even brought it to town on the weekend and zilcho!!
Thought I may not have street pass enabled but I do.:(

Every day I walk through O Connell Street, across by Trinity and then up Grafton street for the luas. Then spend about 25 minutes on the luas out to Sandyford.

Then do the opposide trek at 4:30pm.

I've never once gotten a hit in the morning. The only time I do get hits is when I wander around HMV on the way home or lurk about Grafton street longer than normal.

Have gotten 9 since buying the console about two or three weeks ago.

Just think how many you'll get in a year or two when everyone has a 3DS. It's going to be a pretty cool feature

pdbhp

Oh yea O1s1n it'll be great once I get going and more people start getting 3DS's but until then I'll remain a streetpass loner;)

Nollog

Just mention you're going to be somewhere in some time-frame on here and you might get a hit or two.

AllYourBass

I get one every weekday walking from O'Connell St to Westmoreland St between 4:30 and 5, you might try that.

ghostchant

I'm up to 25 hits, only a couple are repeats. Vast majority from wandering around town on weekends, as I'm not in during the week

o1s1n

ghostchant wrote: »

I'm up to 25 hits, only a couple are repeats. Vast majority from wandering around town on weekends, as I'm not in during the week

I'm still only on 10 and I walk about the city centre every day. Most of mine were on the weekend too. 3 of them together in the space of just a few minutes!

Josey Wales

I got one yesterday and one today. Both of them were people I'd met before. I like the way that you can give them a personal greeting the next time you meet and a rating.

pdbhp

Gonna be in town tomorrow, I'll visit the Rage and the SSF4 tourney on Exchange Street, I want you all to be there to pop my Street Pass cherry;)

smokingman

Got the first "stranger" streetpass today in Carlows gamestop.
The guy in there must get loads - had a chuckle to myself when I saw the greeting "come to gamestop"

Motley Crue

Please feel free to add my 3DS code

4940-5506-3902

smokingman

Motley Crue wrote: »

Please feel free to add my 3DS code

4940-5506-3902

Added ya dude. Put your code in the friend code thread and you should get more.

Motley Crue

no worries, cheers

ghostchant

Just finished StreetPass Quest there, I needed 190 heroes to do it! Majority were mercenaries that I hired with coins of course, but 30 or so were people I passed on the street. Now to start all over again!

Motley Crue

ghostchant wrote: »

Just finished StreetPass Quest there, I needed 190 heroes to do it! Majority were mercenaries that I hired with coins of course, but 30 or so were people I passed on the street. Now to start all over again!

190!

I can't even think of how long it will be until I get that

I've had it a week, taken it out with me every day I remember, and just four hits so far. Most of the locations I visit would be public, lots of people, and commute through town. Nothing lol

ghostchant

Motley Crue wrote: »

190!

I can't even think of how long it will be until I get that

I've had it a week, taken it out with me every day I remember, and just four hits so far. Most of the locations I visit would be public, lots of people, and commute through town. Nothing lol

If you get the 10 coins from walking around each day you'd get 5 heroes per day, so after about a month or so you'd be at 300 coins, or 150 heroes. Spent most of my coins at the beginning on puzzle pieces, have only finished one puzzle - need one more piece to finish another and then a few more that I've only started. I'm sure you can mess with the internal calendar to get a lot more coins, but that kind of goes against the spirit of the mini-games

Motley Crue

ghostchant wrote: »

I'm sure you can mess with the internal calendar to get a lot more coins, but that kind of goes against the spirit of the mini-games

How does that work lol

Yeah, I know what you mean, I just meant it would be nice to get more StreetPass characters/hits really...not that concerned about PuzzleQuest etc

pdbhp

Well I finally popped my street pass cherry last night, thank God!
I now have one hit:D

Motley Crue

pdbhp wrote: »

Well I finally popped my street pass cherry last night, thank God!

Congratulations, you'll always remember your first!

ScaldyMc

My 3DS has been repaired and is good as new. What better way to mark the occassion than a streetpass hit, my first in three week. Hi Craig from United Kingdom.

Nollog

http://www.meetup.com/Nintendo3DS/
June 25th is Worldwide StreetPass Day.

Go make a community in your area now!

Motley Crue

Done and done. Decided to make the community based around a local game shop. I have nothing to do with the place but my feeling is that if you have a Nintendo 3DS it's most likely you know where this game shop is and also most of the staff have their own Mii's set up on their own portables - they're getting loads of hits because they just leave them on the counter in work.

ScaldyMc

HMV have an offer for 10% off any 3DS game once you collect their store mii via streetpass.

Details: http://hmv.com/hmvweb/navigate.do?pPageID=5235

Wolverine359

ScaldyMc wrote: »

HMV have an offer for 10% off any 3DS game once you collect their store mii via streetpass.

Details: http://hmv.com/hmvweb/navigate.do?pPageID=5235

That's a really cool idea! Gonna wander around tomorrow with the 3ds in my backpack, got my first 2 hits last Friday when Zelda came out. Hope it's not too rainy, does anyone know how many layers of insulation the streetpass signal can be sent through? :pac:

Gonzovision

Nothing in HMV Kilkenny. Poor form really.

Wolverine359

Got a HMV hit in Galway!

Mokong

After going over a month since my last StreetPass hit I got one yesterday while at Dublin Zoo. :yay:

Though I'm a little dissappointed that with the thousands of people I walked past (Zoo was really busy) only one had an active 3DS

His last played game was Street Fighter 4 but I didnt get a figure battle with him Only a Mii for my plaza. Was able to start a new puzzle though, Link, so thats good now I've got 5 puzzles (3 finished)

shizz

Got 4 street passes today One was from HMV either on Grafton street or Henry street.

I wonder was it anyone from here? Elizabeth from Clare, Nipper from HMV, Elzero Dublin and Mickbotong from Dublin. Anyone?

Mokong

Managed to get one StreetPass hit in Waterford City today, tousnads of people about for the Tall Ships Race, so actually a little dissappointed I only got the 1 hit, haha. But was able to start another new puzzle (NSMB Wii) from it.

No Ridge Racer or SF4 data though.

Question does anyone else have StreetPass turned on in 3DS Sound or am I the only one... not one hit that I've had has had any data for Sound

smokingman

Mokong wrote: »

tousnads of people about for the Tall Ships Race

Question does anyone else have StreetPass turned on in 3DS Sound or am I the only one... not one hit that I've had has had any data for Sound

Hi Mokong, I'll be down there meself tomorrow and I'll have the 3DS scanning away - fingers crossed we virtually bump into each other (or irl...would still recognise you from the Wii launch).

To be honest, I haven't really used the Sound app - played with it a bit at the start and then just ignored it since. I'll turn it on tonight though just to be sure.

Mokong

smokingman wrote: »

Hi Mokong, I'll be down there meself tomorrow and I'll have the 3DS scanning away - fingers crossed we virtually bump into each other (or irl...would still recognise you from the Wii launch).

To be honest, I haven't really used the Sound app - played with it a bit at the start and then just ignored it since. I'll turn it on tonight though just to be sure.

Tomorrow? As In Saturday? Nuts I won't be around then, going up to Dublin for a birthday party tomorrow won't be back till Sunday night, shame.

Hopefully you'll get a hit or a few anyway... there are others in Waterford with 3DS's the trick is finding them, haha.

Will be around the Waterford Quays this afternoon though if anyone else is around.

smokingman

Mokong wrote: »

Tomorrow? As In Saturday?

Yup, nay worries though, I'm sure I'll see ya when Wii U comes to the Toys4BigBoys thing in the RDS

Mokong

If the Wii U comes for a tour anywhere in Ireland before its launch I'll be doing my best to be there, you can count on that haha.

Also some new StreetPass activity for me at the Tall Ships in Waterford again

In fact my best ever StreetPass activity with TWO hits, WOOT, never before have I had more than one in a day

And oddly after typing this yesterday

Mokong wrote:

Question does anyone else have StreetPass turned on in 3DS Sound or am I the only one... not one hit that I've had has had any data for Sound :heh:

One of the people I passed did have StreetPass turned on in his 3DS Sound, haha.

Though not sure what I'm meant to see in it. It tells me "5 new tracks found! Keep using StreetPass and they might show up in your hit parade"

But it doesn't tell me what those tracks are? WTF? So I actually have to either pass the same person again or someone else with some or all of the same tracks in their top 5 before I see anything?

Under the "Compatibility" option and "Recent Activity" I can see the date and approx time of the StreetPass, with the face of the persons Mii (oddly not the same as either of the 2 new ones I got in the Plaza?) and 0%... what's that meant to mean? We have 0% of the same songs? Sure with only being able to make a top 5 I find it highly unlikely to pass someone with the same songs as I've picked songs that wouldn't be on the radio in hopes of getting people to listen to something new :P


Other than that I also got a hit for Ridge Racer data, but his Ghost is with a category 1 car and I've only got up to category 2 unlocked so far.

Neither had any puzzle parts from a new puzzle for me either, actually one had no pieces at all

Wolverine359

Got 6 streetpass hits today! here's a tip: visit all your local game shops with the 3ds in your pocket.

ghostchant

Just back from Tokyo! I had about 45 or so hits before going (bringing the 3DS with me every day since launch). After just under two weeks I now have like 168, have completed all the puzzles and am one hat away from fully finishing streetpass quest, and one battle away from completing the quest itself for the second time. One of the people I got a hit off has over 5400 hits, and over 3000 people in his plaza :eek:

wampyrus77

I just got a system update on my Nintendo 3DS via through streetpass the download the


3DS Nintendo Video Application.

Still confuse about system update and streetpass Read the red operations manual for nintendo 3ds.

iVe my 23 hits so far
via through streetpass

Wolverine359

^Why must you say the same thing in three different threads, in the space of the same minute, in bold and in large typeface?

wampyrus77

not every1 reads every tread on boards so making sure every1 gets my message

Wolverine359

^so why stop at 3 posts? why not make 10 posts saying the same thing, to make sure? once is enough dude, it's not that important that every1 gets your message.

nitromaster

Went into my local gameshop to enquire about the eshop cards...Noticed they got two demo units in. Presumed they'd have streetpass enabled so left and went home.

They didn't.

It's kinda stupid for them to not have it enabled :rolleyes: only offers benefits to everyone.
Sent off an email straight away suggesting they should enable it in all their stores...:pac: Failing that, by any chance does anyone know the button combination to get the demo unit to the main menu?


Still at 0 hits....

Wolverine359

nitromaster wrote: »

Presumed they'd have streetpass enabled so left and went home.

They didn't.

It's kinda stupid for them to not have it enabled :rolleyes: only offers benefits to everyone.
Sent off an email straight away suggesting they should enable it in all their stores...:pac:

I'd see 3dses in certain stores but I often notice that the wireless function is off, so I slide the little slider on the right side to activate it (the light turns yellow), resulting in a streetpass hit. You know you've got hit if you see the green power light suddenly flash on the store's unit. Sometimes it doesn't work though, which means they must have it completely disabled in the settings.