one can only imagine the financial havoc a child could wreck after borrowing, or 'borrowing,' his parents' credit cards to play this. I've already lost four bucks to the Badge Arcade over the last couple of days. you'll walk in thinking you're too smart to fall for its manipulation, then walk out with a puzzled look on your face and two less dollars in your bank account. Badge Arcade uses carnival psychology to play you like a fiddle. Free training sessions fill the player with misplaced confidence, and badges are tantalizingly placed, giving the impression that they can be earned with the one or two free plays offered each day. As mentioned earlier, the Badge Arcade takes real money for virtual prizes, and you can see the potential for abuse a mile away. I could also give Nintendo Badge Arcade a thorough evaluation, and decide once and for all if it deserved the hatred I piled on it in a previous blog entry.Īnd the answer is. I could still get online with my 3DS and play games from nearly a dozen other systems. It was fun while it lasted.įortunately, since I had the foresight to update IronHax beforehand, I didn't lose anything important. I could scarcely imagine the 3DS experience without Nintendo's art-centric social network, so I swallowed hard and downloaded the latest firmware. That meant that I'd not only miss out on the Nintendo Badge Arcade, but the eShop, updates to previously purchased games, and Miiverse as well.

I was prepared to keep an older version of the 3DS firmware on my system, until I discovered that I couldn't access any of Nintendo's online services until I installed the update. When forced to make a choice between keeping homebrew emulators on my New 3DS XL or losing them all so I could play some cheesy crane game, well.

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