Animal Crossing comes with it's own memory card.... No Shit.

[Sylentwulf]

57 Blocks to save one file? Holy shit, yer damn right that thing better come with it's own memory card. I thought it might have been a bonus, not a necessity :)

[Shompola]

This is great. And I have have heard that you can only save one town per memory card and max four people participating in the town? Is this true?

[geelw]

look on the back of the package, it says "59-61" blocks. buy one of those 251 block nintendo cards, and use that, i say...=^P

the e-reader rocks, by the way, but since there's NO GAWDDAM BACKLIGHT, I'M GOIN' BLIND PLAYING BALLOON FIGHT, PINBALL & DONKETY KONG! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, MY EYES!!!!, lol. damn nintendo (yeah, yeah, i have an afterburnered gba on the way, but still...).

[Sylentwulf]

That's the other thing that distubs me (Actually 58-61 blocks) If it takes 58-61 blocks, why include a 59 block memory card? SHOULD I be using a 251? It wouldn't make sense to NOT use the card that came with it would it?

[geelw]

it seems that nintendo, in it's "we want you to buy more accessoriies) way says a basic ac save is 58 blocks. i think the other 3 are if you load/save patterns and e-card stuff. i guess it wouldn't make sense economically to pack a 251 block card in the case (imagine that, lol)...=^P

[portnoyd]

Extra data accounts for travel data as well as what was mentioned.

Yay for the Afterburner kit. I can SEE my NES games. :D

Can someone tell me why they would make it so you have to scan *5* cards to play a NES game, each of them TWICE?!

And Animal Crossing... well this chat with the butta (hooooooooooooo) sums it up nice...

<@portnoyd> bc I dont want to start animal crossing bc I like my social life as it is
[10:14pm] <butta > haha
[10:14pm] <butta > gettin out of the house eh
<@portnoyd> and the ereader.... want to play dk jr? you have o scan 5 cards TWICE to load it
<@portnoyd> yeah, and I dont want to cheat with the time
[10:14pm] <butta > ahaah
[10:14pm] <butta > im stayin away from that game
[10:14pm] <butta > sounds cool as hell though
<@portnoyd> so I'll be out partying, and I cant be like "Fuck, I'm going to miss the midnight parade"
[10:15pm] <butta > hahaah
<@portnoyd> Mr Nook and the Squirrel bros were going to meet me and we'd eat cake
[10:15pm] <butta > hahahaha nice
<@portnoyd> Fuck if I want to anger my friends
<@portnoyd> I would *want* to eat cake with my animal friends anyway
<@portnoyd> We'd have a good time, then go fishing
[10:16pm] <butta > sounds like fun
[10:16pm] <butta > what kinda cake
<@portnoyd> I don't know, if I miss the parade, I'll never know... Mr Nook said it was a surprise
<@portnoyd> And THAT is what my life would degrade to

The game looks AWESOME and a lot of fun, but is real time too much? Seaman + The Sims is not, I repeat, NOT A GOOD IDEA. I got the eReader and AC today. Haven't played AC yet... me am scared....

dave

[Revolt]

Why would anyone want to play that corny ass game anyhow? :lol:

[chocobokick]

The memory card you get is cute with a sticker of the cat Rover on it. And actually, I like the smaller memory cards better. It's kind of confusing, but on my main memory card I have my town Mintpony, and on a 251 Brian has his town Jing Wu. With both of the memory cards in we can go to each others towns. I don't think you can save more then one town on a memory card, no matter how big the memory card is. I'm going to buy some more cards for other towns, so it won't be confusing what is all on the card. :)

Geez I love this game!!!!

[dan2357]

The card they give you is for your town, and includes a surprise on it ( nes game I think). The extra 3 blocks it requires is for when you want to travel to a friends town the game downloads your chacter to a seperate memory card. So if you plan on visiting other peoples towns you will need 2 memory card no mater how big they are.

[Kroogah]

My memory card came with Donkey Kong and (ugh) Tennis. What'd everyone else get? I'LL TRADE TENNIS IF ANYONE WANTS IT!!!! ^_^

Also, here's the good thing about the e-Reader: It can save 1 NES game, so you don't have to make 10 scans everytime you want to play your favorite. I have Balloon Fight saved on mine right now, though I'm itching to play Excitebike...^_^

Has anyone used the e-Reader with Animal Crossing yet? I couldn't get it to work the first time, but maybe I didn't connect the damn thing in the right order or something. I wanna see what's on the sample card! AAAAH!

[Mayhem]

So the readers ARE out there then?

Cos nowhere here in the UK is importing them yet, and there's only been one (in the UK too!) on eBay...

Wouldn't mind having it round about the time my copy of "Animal Crossing" turns up...

[chocobokick]

I got DK Jr Math and Balloon Fight, which Lex immediately claimed for his house. I can buy more at Nook's I think though if anyone is wanting one :)
My character name is Heather and my town is Mintpony

[Sylentwulf]

How on earth do you get the games? Do you NEED the GBA advance hooked up with an E-card reader? Or just the GBA hooked up, Or nothing?

I really DON'T plan on getting the E-card reader. Frankly it sounds like a pain in the ass and a BIG waste of a LOT of money. If it were $10 with $2 NES games that only had ONE card you had to swipe ONCE, then I would probly get one, but since the prices are 3-4 TIMES that much, and I've heard nothing but BAD things about it....

I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole. How come Private hacks and programmers can do things 10 times better AND cheaper than Nintendo can?

[udisi]

yea, I was wondering...where are all you guys getting eReaders....I thought they weren't out yet?

[Kroogah]

@Sylentwulf: You get 2 NES games when you use the memory card that comes with the game for the first time (they come in the mail) and the others are rare items. Tom Nook's lottery, etc.

@udisi: They hit stores the same day Animal Crossing did.

My experience with the e-Reader thus far: It is somewhat tedious scanning the cards for an NES game, but you can save 1 game to the card reader's memory, and therefore not have to scan 10 times every time you play it. It's not that bad. Also, the Game & Watch is pure joy, perfectly emulated AFAIK. The Pokemon cards have 2 functions: 1, a Pokedex. Yay. 2, a minigame. The one that came with the unit (Machop/Machoke/Machamp) is actually pretty fun. AND, of course, there are going to be lots of Animal Crossing cards, which will be great for those obsessed with AC. Like me.

[Sylentwulf]

I'd be interested in seeing what the AC E-cards are. I didn't know how to open presents in "mail" but just figured it out after I posted.

Still have no plans on getting an E-card reader though, I'd rather go the full ten yards and buy a "backup device" from lik sang and get a nintendo emulator....

[portnoyd]

I say get both. Who knows what other applications for future games it may have? Yes, scanning 10 cards is ubertedious (Me thinks I will just load Balloon Fight and be done with it... easily the best game so far released on card). The flash RAM cart should be a must to everyone who had a GBA. And who knows, the eReader may eFlop and be SUPERR@RE!!!111111 some day like R.O.B. or something.

I take the plunge today. Animal Crossing hello, everything else goodbye :00000000

dave

[GENESISNES]

I wanna get that game soo bad. the only friend that i see a lot that has a gamecube dubbed the game a "kiddie game" and i said oh yeah, well your the one wanting to have a poke'mon tournament. so im basicly screwed until christmas.

[dan2357]

I got a Tape for my radio, Golf and Clu Clu land on my memory card. Anyone KNow where i can find other types of fruit other then apples that are growing in my town? Someone wants a pear.

Kelso
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