Nintendo Badge Arcade

Nintendo Badge Arcade

バッジとれ〜るセンター
Bajji Torēru Sentā

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Developer(s):	Nintendo
Publisher(s):	Nintendo
Platform:	Nintendo 3DS
Category:	N/A
Players:	1
Predecessor:	N/A
Successor:	N/A

Release dates

N. America:	November 10, 2015
Japan:	December 17, 2014
Europe:	November 13, 2015
Australia:	November 13, 2015

Ratings

ESRB:	E
CERO:	A
PEGI:	3
USK:	0
ACB:	G

Nintendo Badge Arcade is a free-to-play downloadable Nintendo 3DS title that allows players to collect badges to customize their HOME Menus with. The game was originally released in late 2014 in Japan before being released worldwide in late 2015.

Due to Nintendo 3DS storage issues, Nintendo Badge Arcade received its final content update on May 26, 2017.^[1] The game will discontinue in April 2024.

Blurb

Nintendo website

You can create the ultimate HOME Menu theme!
Grab all the Nintendo-themed badges you can in this fun-filled crane-machine game. Then arrange them into a custom HOME Menu theme for your Nintendo 3DS™ system! Unleash your creativity with dozens of digital badges to collect, and match them to themed backgrounds. Start your collection today with this free-to-start download on Nintendo eShop!
Purchase credits and drop them into any machine of your choosing. The number of credits you use gives you a limited number of tries, so use them wisely! There are many different machines that contain badges from popular Nintendo series such as Super Mario Bros.™, Mario Kart™, Animal Crossing™, and more. The machines can be tricky, so use your skill along with gravity, slippery surfaces, and chain reactions to your advantage to nab as many badges as possible! Don't forget that practice makes perfect—use five free daily tries on the Practice Machine to gain experience, and trade in dummy badges for real credits.

Nintendo eShop

Grab all the Nintendo-themed badges you can in this fun-filled crane-machine game. Then arrange them into a custom HOME Menu theme for your Nintendo 3DS™ system! Unleash your creativity with dozens of digital badges to collect, and match them to themed backgrounds. Start your collection today with this free-to-start download on Nintendo eShop!
Purchase credits and drop them into any machine of your choosing. The number of credits you use gives you a limited number of tries, so use them wisely! There are many different machines that contain badges from popular Nintendo series such as Super Mario Bros.™, Mario Kart™, Animal Crossing™, and more. The machines can be tricky, so use your skill along with gravity, slippery surfaces, and chain reactions to your advantage to nab as many badges as possible! Don't forget that practice makes perfect—use five free daily tries on the Practice Machine to gain experience, and trade in dummy badges for real credits.

Gameplay

The main game is similar to a crane game, allowing players to earn badges from a variety of catchers, the badges themselves themed after various Nintendo games and franchises, with new catchers replacing the present ones on a regular basis. Players use the claw by holding down the A button to move it into position, and releasing it to have the claw drop and grab anything beneath it and drop it into the hole below. After all their tries are used, players can keep any badges that dropped down. In order to play, players can purchase five "plays" for $1.00. Once per day, players can have five free plays on a practice machine collecting non-keepable badges, though players can earn bonus plays on the actual machine by collecting a bonus badge or catching at least 10 practice badges across all plays. The game may also give players a free play to mark an occasion. Players can use their plays on any available machine; they are not restricted to using them all on one.

From the main menu players can press Y to suspend the game and use their badges to decorate the HOME Menu. Players are also able to view their full badge collection by pressing X. Players may also view a Miiverse gallery of screenshots of player's HOME Menus, have questions answered, and be shown any current promotional HOME Menu themes obtainable by purchasing additional plays.

Technical details

Technical details

Media:	Digital download (Nintendo 3DS)
Download size:	582 blocks
Supported features:	Nintendo Network (in-game purchases, Miiverse), SpotPass
Input / compatible controllers:	Nintendo 3DS

Updates

Note that the international release of the game is the 1.3.0 version of the game.

Version no.	Release date(s)	Description
1.1.0	February 27, 2015^[2]	Adds a hammer-based machine, allows players to apply badges to the Home Screen directly from the game, gameplay improvements.^[3]
1.2.0	April 24, 2015^[2]	Adds Badge Cases, allows players to obtain free plays from the practice machine.^[4]
1.3.0	October 30, 2015^[2]	Adds an option to access the badge collection from the main screen, updates can now be downloaded by waiting on the title screen, gameplay adjustments.^[5]
1.3.1	JP: February 11, 2016 EU: March 11, 2016 NA: April 7, 2016	Fixes issues.