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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 6 Comments

When the NES Classic Edition launched last year, third-parties made all sorts of accessories for the system, including unique controllers. We’re seeing the same thing with the Super NES Classic Edition as well.

My Arcade has announced the Super Gamepad, which works with the SNES Classic. It features wireless functionality, TURBO capabilities, and a convenient HOME button to directly access the game selection menu. It also works with the NES Classic Edition and Wii U / Wii Virtual Console with supported games.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 13 Comments

Pre-orders for the Super NES Classic Edition went live at various retailers last week, including GameStop. After going up on the retailer’s site, it sold out just a few minutes later.

GameStop senior merchandising director Eric Bright told Forbes that it just took eight minutes for the Super Classic Edition to sell out. Moreover, the demand was greater for this product than the NES Classic Edition.

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In celebration of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle’s launch, My Nintendo has added a new reward in North America. You can get your hands on a wallpaper compatible with PCs, smartphones, and tablets. It costs 500 Platinum Points.

You can order the reward with your points here. It will be on My Nintendo through the end of January 2018.

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Sadly, Miiverse is coming to an end soon. Nintendo announced earlier today that the service ends on November 7 / November 8, depending on where you live.

So what about those who participated a ton in Miiverse? What will happen to everything posted on the social network? Well, the good news is that Nintendo has started up a tool that allows Miiverse users to submit a request for a file containing all posts and screenshots saved in your album. As long as you have a Nintendo Account and make the request before Miiverse ends, you should be good to go.

Full details are on the official page here.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in General Nintendo, News | 50 Comments

Earlier today, Nintendo announced that Miiverse will be ending service on November 8th. You may be wondering what this means for games that heavily use this feature, such as Smash Bros and Splatoon, or why the service is shutting down in the first place. Nintendo of America has put up an FAQ on their website that answers some of those questions. We’ve put the whole thing below:

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Gamescom 2017 outperformed last year’s show in several ways. Among these is attendance, as 350,000 visitors showed up for the big expo last week. Gamescom 2016 was attended by 345,000 people.

Here’s a breakdown of some key stats:

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Posted on 7 years ago by Joshua in General Nintendo, News | 7 Comments

With the release of the SNES Classic around the corner, Nintendo decided to make up some artwork in the format of Nintendo Power magazine covers. These three pieces of artwork cover Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and Star Fox 2.

Nintendo urged fans on Twitter to download and enjoy the covers, but those attending PAX West this week can obtain physical copies.

Images below.

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The last couple of Fire Emblem games all received a separate soundtrack release, and Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia will soon follow in their footsteps. The soundtrack album will be available for purchase in Japan on October 25th for 5,300 Yen. It comes on five discs, four music discs and one data disc (which contains a selection of songs in mp3 format as well as the game’s opening movie in HD) with over five hours of music.

Not only does this album contain the completes Shadows of Valentia soundtrack, it also comes with all the songs from the original NES game Fire Emblem Gaiden as well as the Fire Emblem Cipher main theme and instrumental and English versions of “The Heritors of Arcadia”.

The soundtrack also comes with some physical goodies, such as a five postcards, a stickerbook and an exclusive Fire Emblem Cipher Alm & Celica card. Finally, the included booklet has song lyrics as well as a look at the history of Fire Emblem Echoes’ sound team.

Check out the video below to listen to a preview of the album:

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Videos | 1 Comment

Nintendo Australia is bringing their current coverage of Kirby’s 25th anniversary to a close with a new video. There’s talk about the character’s appearance in Smash Bros. as well as favorite transformations. Check out the video below.

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Update: And she’s gone – lasted much longer than Walmart’s last round of pre-orders at least!

Walmart took pre-orders for the Super NES Classic Edition for an extremely brief period this week. Now, however, it’s available once again. You can pre-order it here.

What we will say is that Walmart seems to have more pre-orders this time. The last round lasted under a minute, so this is a somewhat good sign.

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