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This Guy Is Gonna Feel So Stupid When the Nintendo 4DS Comes Out


Orin Sheppard of IHeartChaos.com either likes his Nintendo 3DS a great deal, or he wants to make it infinitely harder to play. Maybe both. All I know is that he got a tattoo of one of the 3DS’ Augmented Reality Cards on his arm, and the fucking thing works. From his write-up at IHC:

Sorry that [the video is]jittery… the way I was having to hold my arm and hold
the 3DS and look through the viewfinder of the camera meant that my arm
was at a slight angle and the 3DS was trying to place it on a flat
plane.

Also, a couple things to note if you want to try this. Right now, the
tattoo doesn’t always work in really bright light, like sunlight, but
it works fine in dim-ish light. I think I need to go back and get an
outline around it, because I think the 3DS is looking for the edge of
the card and can’t find it in bright light. In the manual, it says to
never obscure the white border around the card when you’re using the
3DS, something I didn’t notice til later. I thought the black border
around the “?” would be an issue, but it doesn’t seem to be at all. When
the 3DS recognizes it, you can clearly see the black outline, and I
tested with a color printout of the card, and the issue does seem to be
not seeing the edge, which is easily fixable.

This does mean that to play with the tattoo, he has to keep his left arm perfectly still and play the 3DS itself using only his right hand. But that seems a small price to pay to have a hatch in your goddamn arm open up so you can shoot targets inside it.