StreetPass Mii Plaza

[nocturnal YL]

Time to give this little built-in sofware its own thread.

There's a new version of StreetPass Mii Plaza for Japanese and European 3DS. Changes include:

New games

There are new games (purchasable with real-life money), including: (names are European)

StreetPass Squad (Good-Feel) - 2D scrolling shooter where Miis are used for upgrading your machine
StreetPass Garden (GREZZO) - Breed (fictitious) flowers with people you tagged with
StreetPass Battle (Spike Chunsoft) - Conquer 20 countries by combining forces from Miis you met
StreetPass Mansion (PROPE) - Build your own mansion and chase after ghosts

New puzzles

I've got pieces for Xenoblade (JP 3DS; still didn't get anything for my NA 3DS). And why do I never get pink pieces as the initial piece?

According to this site, Nintendo has made FOUR new puzzles available in StreetPass Mii Plaza's Puzzle Swap.

Those four new puzzles are:
Heroines
New Super Mario Bros. U + New Super Luigi U
Xenoblade Chronicles
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

So they're having puzzles for past games now. Seems that not all games get their respective puzzles right when the games are out.

And you still can't buy pink pieces. This part of the game gets slower in overall due to loading time.

Given the decline in number of people who bring their 3DS systems outside in where I live, it's getting hopeless. I guess I must travel to some other country again someday, just to collect those. Did I mention I travelled to Okinawa earlier this month and got a whopping 38 StreetPass tags in 4 days? If rural Japan got that many 3DS users, imagine what would it be like in big cites.

Other changes

The game now gives in-game coupons for hats if you accomplish certain criteria, such as walking 10000 steps in a day.

The number of tags per Mii is no longer capped at 99. People owning multiple 3DS like me can keep self-StreetPassing and exced that cap easily.

The game has also found new ways to crash.

[Johans Nidorino]

lol... That Heroines set looks like Nintendo's answer to Disney Princesses.

I'm getting pieces once a month in cons, but that seems not to be enough to fill so many panels.

[8bitretroshit]

Threw down 10 bucks for SP Battle and SP Mansion, both seemed pretty fun.
SP Battle is a bit disappointing. I expected you to be able to pick a nation to conquer and slowly expand in different directions, but you just automatically conquer nations in a predetermined order. And the fights are done with simple rock/paper/scissors battles where you select how many soldiers will be divided in each platoon. While paper has an advantage over rock etc, it mostly comes down to which platoon has the most soldiers. Fight a nation with superior numbers and you're stuck until you've gathered a shitton of street pass soldiers, which takes forever down here.
SP Mansion is pretty fun though, it's basically Streetpass Quest/FindMii but with actual exp/leveling and throwing down puzzle blocks to create new rooms in order to find special items and make your way to the next level. ..Probably makes more sense if you watch a video.

[nocturnal YL]

Japan just got Mario & Luigi 4. Maybe other regions will follow suit in hours.

And I haven't completed even a single one of those 4 puzzles from the update.

[nocturnal YL]

Completed animation of the new puzzles (no M&L4 found so far):

Heroines

Xenoblade

MSNBU + NSLU

Skyward Sword

[Leon]

I for one am impressed at how much the animations have improved. They're so much more alive compared to the original 7 puzzles.

[Fryguy64]

I've still got so many pink pieces to get...

[Johans Nidorino]

How can one cheat to obtain ALL the pieces? I've seen some local passers-by own them all several times. I know it could ruin the fun, but it'd be interesting to do that so I get the will to play the newer Plaza games xD

[nocturnal YL]

Those are possibly the people who go to gaming gatherings or regular cosplay parties, or something of the sort. I think those in gaming journalism may get better chance too, since they work in places with multiple 3DS systems possibly in the same room.

If you ever get the chance to go to places with high 3DS ownership rate (most of the crowded places in Japan, even the remote ones like Okinawa or Kyushu; or northern Taiwan, or... I dunno), be sure to take your system there. I completed Luigi's Mansion 2 and Dillion's Rolling Western 2 thanks to travelling to Okinawa, which gave me a whopping 35 StreetPass tags (all FE13 teams I got weren't challenge-worthy, unfortunately).

I don't think it's possible to get all pieces at once with any kind of secret input. If it's possible, YouTube would be filled with completed puzzle videos on the day they come out.

[Fryguy64]

I actually got more choice pieces on a day trip to Brighton than I did in my last few trips around London combined. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it.

[Leon]

I know that some people with two units will hard reset one of them to get pink pieces, but of course that is very tedious.

[Leon]

Japan just got a puzzle for the new Chibi Robo, a good sign for localization because every game with a puzzle has had an international release.

[nocturnal YL]

Ah, that makes another of my 2013 predictions (30 puzzles) comes true.

And yeah, like FE Awakening and Concentration Training, I'll take this as the first sign of comfirmation for localization.

[nocturnal YL]

All puzzles:

Go to 7'55 for M&L4 and Chibi-Robo.

[Leon]

That free to play sports game now has a puzzle as well.