{"id":29119,"date":"2011-12-07T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=29119"},"modified":"2011-12-07T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T11:28:18","slug":"3ds-firmware-update-is-live-adds-accomplishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/29119-3ds-firmware-update-is-live-adds-accomplishments","title":{"rendered":"3DS firmware update is live, adds Accomplishments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting, like, now, you can update your <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11857-Nintendo\">Nintendo<\/a> <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19926-Nintendo-3DS-%283DS%29\">3DS<\/a>\u2019s firmware and enjoy a new bunch of dandy features for your 3D hand-held.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite a big update (in portable terms, anyway) and includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ability to record video in 3D;<\/li>\n<li>More camera options, including a stop-motion ability;<\/li>\n<li>Accomplishments;<\/li>\n<li>Data transfer between 3DS devices (up to 5 times);<\/li>\n<li>Mii Plaza updates, including StreetPass Quest sequel;<\/li>\n<li>Nintendo Zone (Promotions app) and eShop;<\/li>\n<li>Puzzle Swap update.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The biggest little titbit to come out of the update is the Accomplishments addition, which basically came out of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>The Accomplishments are similar to <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19882-Xbox-360\">Xbox<\/a> Achievements and <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19888-Playstation-3-%28PS3%29\">PlayStation<\/a>\u2019s Trophies, but for now, it\u2019s only active in the 3DS\u2019s Mii Plaza (but it\u2019s not a stretch to think Nintendo would implement it elsewhere).<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll also now be able to transfer data between two 3DS devices, which will be handy for anyone who\u2019s looking to get hold of one of the new colourized versions (or that sexy Special Edition Zelda 3DS) this Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Nintendo are limiting the number of times you can transfer anything to 5 \u2013 and there will be a time-gap in between transfers \u2013 likely in a bid to thwart would-be game-sharers.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo staff need a bonus this Christmas, too, you know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"MyGaming Article\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/25677-nintendo-celebrates-25-years-with-zelda-3ds.html\">Nintendo celebrates 25 years with Zelda 3DS<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"MyGaming Article\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/15122-nintendo-reports-huge-loss-in-2011-blames-3ds-price-drop.html\">Nintendo reports \u201chuge loss\u201d in 2011, blames 3DS price drop<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"MyGaming Article\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/15034-new-3ds-colours-incoming.html\">New 3DS colours incoming<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also video recording and data transfers between systems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":29121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[153,1473,73,435],"class_list":["post-29119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-3ds","tag-accomplishments","tag-nintendo","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29123,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29119\/revisions\/29123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}