Amiibo

[kryss]

There aren't many that are truly rare now.
Nintendo seem to have restocked.

Still f-all over here. I'm considering ordering a bunch from Japan and getting the GF to smuggle them in.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-08-18-unauthorised-amiibo-device-tricks-wii-u-with-data-for-any-figurine

Launching soon for ?50 is Amiiqo. An unofficial device which lets owners back up save their figure data. Owners can also download and store 200 figure dats from the net meaning they can unlock Amiibo features without having to buy Amiibos anymore

[VR46]

Clever idea but Nintendo won't put up with it for long.

[Dogg Thang]

What could they do about it?

[VR46]

Similar thing happened with Skylanders and as the comments on EG say, it's a conflict of a patent I believe rather than copyright issue.

Big thread on the Amiibo device here and actually seems to work perfectly on a 3DS.

There's a Wii U firmware patch today that *may* have already blocked it

https://gbatemp.net/threads/announcing-the-amiiqo-switch-amiibos-with-ease.393396/

[Neon Ignition]

https://mobile.twitter.com/NintendoEurope/status/635784889674145792

Collectors prepare thyselves! Nintendo has announce the Mega Yoshi Yarn Amiibo

[Dogg Thang]

Its feet are HUGE! The little sitting ones look prettier, I reckon.

[importaku]

Looks crap, wondering whats really the need of a stupidly big one as well.

['Press Start']

My 3 year old daughter would love it.....

[gordon]

...and my 14-year old son already says he wants it.

[VR46]

And now an Indie game has the Amiibo treatment, and content locked without it

The figure will also unlock a co-op mode, exclusively in the Wii U version.

As someone says on the EG comments, Amiibo's success could be their biggest downfall with crap like that.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-08-28-shovel-knight-is-the-first-indie-game-to-get-an-amiibo

[Neon Ignition]

The more Amiibo goes on the more on board I get, they're really getting settled into figures I don't want so few tempt me

[Guts]

And now an Indie game has the Amiibo treatment, and content locked without it]

First of all, why the **** does Egoraptor have that ******* atrocious blonde dye in his hair? **** that's ugly!

Second, there's no content "locked" from the game that you buy, there was NEVER a co-op mode to begin with! And the game was released A YEAR AGO. I mean Jesus, are you kidding me?

[Edited by QualityChimp for bypassing the swear filter]

[importaku]

Shall be picking up one of these once they sort out a PC method of uploading to the device as i don't own a nfc enabled android phone or tablet. Perfect for consolidating a collection onto one device will be handy to carry my animal forest card collection on one device while out & about than taking a full binder with me. Lol the resellers market isn't going to be as hot once people can get the data to just use the games they want. Can't see how Nintendo can block this one either as it just emulates been a NFC chip

[Asura]

Can't see how Nintendo can block this one either as it just emulates been a NFC chip

Next version will likely require online authentication.