I originally discovered The Nintendo Basement through another local Nintendo website known as Aussie-Nintendo. From what I remember, PrattP was plugging TNB on the A-N forums and, not being able to help myself at the time, I came across to the site and sussed things out. Eventually I worked out Matt was in touch with a few Hyper Magazine writers, and had had an article published in Hyper himself. I found this highly impressive and thought TNB had a lot of potential if this was the man running the show. So before you know it, I had emailed him and the next thing I knew I was a regular news poster on the site. During my time as a writer here, I became more and more attached to TNB’s charming little community, and I decided to stay on and support the site to the best of my ability. As a result, The Nintendo Basement has been a huge part of my life for the past 3 or so years. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed writing for, and being a part of, the wonderful community here.

I’d like to thank all of the fantastic TNB members for supporting the site over the past four years and most of all I’d like to thank PrattP for making it all happen and giving me the opportunity to be a part of this brilliant Nintendo site.

For anyone who would like to keep in contact, you can find me on Twitter (@kksl1der) and generally just hanging out on various Australian video game fan sites. Outside of TNB, the main website I regularly use is Aussie-Nintendo. Lately I’ve also been engaging in a few Pokémon-related discussions over at the brilliant website, PokemonAus. Oh, and don’t forget Pixel Hunt either, they’re always a good read. Otherwise, feel free to contact me over TNB forums. They’ll remain open for a quite a while I believe.

As for where I’m headed next, I’m not entirely sure. I’ll definitely continue to hang out on A-N etc as I just mentioned, but in terms of the next site I’ll be writing for/if I’ll be writing for another site, well, it’s all still up in the air. I’ve had a few offers so far so I’ll see where they go. I’ve promised myself that I will return though in some form beyond TNB and Twitter, and when I do, I’ll let you all know.

So yeah, this is it. Me signing off from TNB, I never could predict how it’d happen… Anyway, before I start getting emotional about it, I’d like to once again thank everyone at TNB for being so awesome and sign off from my duties with a brief line from my favourite Australian author, Matthew Reilly. He’s a writer who’s inspired me to keep pushing myself on and on over the years.

Never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

kksl1der out

I first found The Nintendo Basement via Mr_M, who had a blog on here. He was a regular reader of my old gaming blog, Signal Sin, so I thought I’d return the favour and read his. While I was here I thought I’d take a look around. What I found was something I had been looking for, for a long time – a gaming community that was intelligent, enthusiastic and most importantly very welcoming. Needless to say, I decided to stick around.

So firstly I have to say a big thank you to every single member of the TNB community, for being the best gaming community out there. I won’t single anyone out, you’re all awesome.

Finally a massive thanks to PrattP, both for taking me on as an Admin and most importantly for putting this whole thing together.

Anyway, I think I might stop there before I get a little too sentimental. Thanks again everyone, it’s been a great ride.

Nintendo Australia plan to offer an exclusive Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Program to consumers who have purchased the 3DS at the original launch price. The program will enable those particular 3DS owners to download 10 NES games and 10 Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games for free from the Nintendo eShop.

These free games are available to anyone who owns a 3DS system and uses a wireless broadband Internet signal to connect to the Nintendo eShop at least once before the price drop on 12 August. These users will automatically be registered in the Nintendo 3DS Ambassador program.

The program contains two elements:

1. Starting 1 September, Nintendo 3DS Ambassadors will be able to download 10 NES Virtual Console games at no charge and before they are available in the Nintendo eShop to the general public. These games, including Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Jr., Balloon Fight, Ice Climber and The Legend of Zelda, are slated to become paid downloadable games, but Ambassadors get them early for free. Once the paid versions of the games are posted to the Nintendo eShop later in the year, the updated versions will be available to Ambassadors for download at no cost.

2. By the end of 2011, Nintendo will provide Ambassadors with 10 Game Boy Advance Virtual Console games. These include games like Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Metroid Fusion, WarioWare Inc.: Minigame Mania and Mario vs. Donkey Kong. These games will be available exclusively to Ambassadors, and Nintendo currently has no plans to make these 10 games available to the general public on the Nintendo 3DS in the future.

The 3DS will cost $343.99 in New Zealand from 12 August onwards.

Star Fox 64 3D, as you can probably assume, is the 3DS remake of arguably the best Star Fox game ever, Star Fox 64, originally released in Australia as Lylat Wars on the Nintendo 64. The 3DS version will be receiving a graphical improvement, similar to the recently released 3DS remake of Ocarina of Time.

This Mario-themed Picross title released on the Game Boy in 1995 featured Mario as an archaeologist.

The title was a collection of nonogram logic puzzles and involved players chiselling away marked squares on a grid to create a pattern or picture.

Australian 3DS owners can now download this classic Game Boy title for just $6.00.

Apart from Mario’s Picross, Nintendo has also uploaded the Zelda 25^th Anniversary E3 2011 Orchestral performance and a collection of Kirby videos.

There is a 1 minute video of the Kirby TV Channel now available on the Nintendo Wii along with the E3 2011 trailers of Kirby Mass Attack (DS) and Kirby Wii.

The Game & Watch library for DSiWare has now also been tagged on the main menu of the Nintendo eshop.

Currently there are 9 Game & Watch titles available on the eShop for $3.00 each.

They are, Mario’s Cement Factory, Vermin, Ball, Chef, Donkey Kong Jr, Flagman, Helmet, Judge and Manhole.

This week’s third party offering is the DSiWare game Airport Mania: NSF for $3.00.

Before you can access this new service, you’ll need to head over to the Nintendo eShop and download the application from the main menu.

When you’ve completed this, you can return to the 3DS system menu, open Nintendo Video, perform a basic setup procedure involving the activation of SpotPass and message notifications and then perform a connectivity check.

The connectivity check allows users of the application to download and view the latest 3D video content.

Once the connectivity check is complete Nintendo Video users will have access to a range of videos.

European, Australian and New Zealand 3DS owners are currently able to view Magic Trick 01 and an animated short Oscar’s Oasis.

Both videos expire on July 20.

Check out Nintendo Video in the photos below:

]]> http://www.thenintendobasement.com/2011/07/3ds-news/nintendo-video-service-now-available/feed/ 0 http://www.thenintendobasement.com/2011/07/3ds-news/nintendo-video-service-launching-in-europe/ http://www.thenintendobasement.com/2011/07/3ds-news/nintendo-video-service-launching-in-europe/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:19:25 +0000 kksl1der http://www.thenintendobasement.com/?p=5324 Nintendo has recently sent out a press release revealing its video service for the 3DS will be launched in Europe on July 13.

The Nintendo Video service is a 3DS application which allows users to view video content in 3D.

The content available within the application has already been confirmed as region specific.

Japanese 3DS owners have been enjoying the Nintendo Video service for several weeks now, viewing programs such as Idoling Sumo 3DS and Magic Class 3D.

It is expected the German version of the channel will feature short documentaries about nature, travel and more.

The rest of Europe can expect to see exclusive shorts of Shaun the Sheep and eventually content from Sky and Eurosport.

As Nintendo Europe is in charge of the Aussie eShop it is likely the channel will also be released in Australia and New Zealand on the same date.

Australians can possibly expect to see Oscar’s Oasis, which is currently broadcast on Disney Channel Australia.

Update -  14 July 2011: The Nintendo Video service is now available. For more information click here.

The announcement comes via a one page article in Shonen Jump magazine and as such, details are a little thin on the ground. So far it has been revealed that the game will have a similar structure to the main Final Fantasy titles, with field scenes taking place in villages and dungeons, and battle scenes resembling the RPG games. Of course, this being a rhythm game, these battles are fought by tapping the screen in time with the music. As you probably expect, the game will feature music and characters from various Final Fantasy titles. Currently there is no word on a release date.

If you head over to the Nintendo eShop, you’ll be able to download Mario, Kid Icarus and more in full 3D for free.

If this is the first time your 3DS has been online, you’ll need to perform a system update before the Nintendo eShop and 3D game trailers can be accessed.

The E3 3DS game trailers on offer are:

• Mario Kart
• Resident Evil Revelations
• Star Fox 64 3D
• Super Mario
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
• Animal Crossing
• Kid Icarus: Uprising
• Luigi’s Mansion 2
• Metal Gear Solid 3D: Snake Eater
• Paper Mario

These trailers will be available for a limited time only, so check them out while you can.

If you don’t own a 3DS then you can view the trailers in standard form by clicking on the links in the above list.

As usual, you’ll have to log in, type in the code provided with your game and fill out a survey asking you questions about why you purchased the game and if it was the only reason you bought a 3DS so early (hell yes). 

After this you’ll then have to fill in some extra postage details so Nintendo knows where to send your free Ocarina of Time 3D Soundtrack CD and you’ll be done.

When the registration process is complete you’ll receive 200 Star Points and the following email:

Your free Zelda Soundtrack CD

Hello member,

Thank you for registering your Nintendo 3DS system!
Your free Nintendo 3DS T-shirt will be shipped to the following address:

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Please allow up to 8 weeks for delivery.
If after 8 weeks you still haven’t received your free gift,
please send an email to NintendoServiceCentre@codestorm.co.uk,
mentioning your username, the email address you used for
registration on the Nintendo website and the date of your
hardware registration.

We hope you enjoy your free gift!

Your Nintendo team

Alarming, hey?

Nintendo will probably fix this minor email error later today, changing it to something along the lines of, “Thank you for registering The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D! Your free The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D Soundtrack CD will be shipped soon”. TNB will keep you posted on the situation.

Update: Nintendo has now fixed the email error. When you’ve completed the registration process you should now receive a message saying, “Thank you for registering The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D for Nintendo 3DS! Your free The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D Original Soundtrack CD will be shipped to the following address”.

Aussies have until 31 July 2011 to claim the free Ocarina of Time 3D Soundtrack CD.