North American My Nintendo rewards update – August 1, 2020
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My Nintendo has updated in North America, and the latest rewards are now available. You can spend your points on the latest discounts and themes as well as a wallpaper.
Here’s the full lineup:
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Nintendo Minute – “These Animal Crossing: New Horizons Items Cost How Much??”
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This week’s episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. In today’s video, Kit and Krysta play a game of trying to guess the prices of different items in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Check out the full episode below.
LEGO NES has a special Easter egg hidden inside
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The LEGO NES was only just announced a couple of weeks ago, but the product has already arrived. Its official release date is tomorrow.
What you may not know is that there’s a special Easter egg hidden inside. We’ll be going into more detail beyond this point, so keep that in mind if you don’t want to be spoiled in any way.
LEGO Super Mario dev on early designs, says Nintendo dropped prototypes 6,000 times in quality checks, more
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Nintendo Life has published a new interview with Jonathan Bennink, the lead designer on LEGO Super Mario. Bennink spoke about the earliest designs, how Nintendo dropped the product 6,000 times each time a new build was sent to them, approval for sound effects and getting new voice lines from Charles Martinet, and being able to have meetings with Koji Kondo – which usually doesn’t happen.
Here’s the full roundup of these topics:
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Nintendo leaks: Human NPCs in Animal Crossing, winged Mario in Super Mario World, more
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It’s been nearly a week now since the big Nintendo leak involving game prototypes, source code, and more. But discoveries pertaining to some of the companies older games continue to emerge, and if you’re a fan of history or some of the Big N’s classics, you might be interested in some of the latest findings.
Among the leaks is the discovery of human NPCs in the original Animal Crossing while it was being developed for the N64, and we even have a few images of these characters. Another major finding is are in-development sprites of Mario with wings from Super Mario World.
Here’s the full roundup:
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Pac-Man Monopoly revealed
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Hasbro has teamed up with Bandai Namco on a new Pac-Man version of Monopoly. It’s the same board game that’s been around for ages, but with a unique twist. When players pass “Go”, they’ll play a mini game of Pac-Man.
Here’s some additional information:
Nintendo leaks: Animal Crossing N64 unused characters, cut Mario Kart 64 track, more
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The Nintendo leaks that have sprung up since late last week are continuing as fans are still combing through the many files and assets. We have another batch of interesting findings relating to a number of N64 games. With Animal Crossing for instance (which only made it to Japan on the N64), a few unused characters have been found from early development. Fans have also shared footage of a beta dungeon in Zelda: Ocarina of Time, images of another scrapped Super Mario 64 enemy, and even a look at a cut Mario Kart 64 track.
Here’s the full roundup:
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Nintendo leak: Super Mario 64 beta models for Yoshi and Whomp
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Continuing on the recent Nintendo leaks, fans have been able to uncover and construct a couple of beta models from Super Mario 64. Along with an early look at Yoshi, we also have an interesting design for the Whomp enemies.
Here’s a look at both:
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Nintendo leaks: Super Mario 64 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time beta enemies, unreleased Mario Kart 64 items, more
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Since our last report on the new Nintendo leaks, a bunch of additional findings have been publicized online. Much of what has been found over the past day or so pertains to N64 titles, including beta/unused enemies for Super Mario 64 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time. We also have a look at scrapped items for Mario Kart 64 and more.
Here’s the roundup of notable discoveries:
Video: Luigi development model finally restored in Super Mario 64 after 24 years
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24 years after the launch of Super Mario 64 on the N64, Luigi’s model has finally been restored in the game.
Luigi was originally planned for the 3D platformer through splitscreen multiplayer. However, Nintendo abandoned the idea after the team was unable to implement the idea.
