3DS owners have been clamoring for a messaging system for several months now, but Swapnote finally delivers that wish…albeit in a decidedly restrictive fashion.
The free application enables you to exchange notes, sound clips, and more with friends on your list. What could be wrong with free?
Well, a few things, it would seem. Given that this is an application launched from the main menu, you cannot message your friends while in-game, thus limiting its practicality for organizing Mario Kart 7 or Street Fighter bouts. You’ll have to be drawing everything yourself, so no typing messages on the fly. Furthermore, it’s no replacement for PictoChat, since there is a several hour cap on how often StreetPass players can exchange notes.
If you can overlook all of that, you’ll be surprised that it can still be rather useful in a situation less focused on instant gratification. Between the photos, drawing, and audio, you have plenty of tools to make a nice greetings card for granny. If you’re just looking to send a postcard to a friend or family member, this is the app for you. It would seem that Swapnote was never intended to be a full-blown messaging system to begin with, just a humble little apparatus. You might be waiting quite some time for that.
Regardless, this is probably an app worth downloading (if only because of the free price and that doesn’t take up much space on an SD card). Just don’t go in expecting online play to be revolutionized.
Currently I haven't had a chance to do much with this yet. Made a few sample slides, and thought the feature was neat, but then I never used flipnote before. My son and youngest daughter love flipnote and my son, who plans to buy a 3ds, still plans to keep his dsi as well – largely for the flipnote
Currently I haven't had a chance to do much with this yet. Made a few sample slides, and thought the feature was neat, but then I never used flipnote before. My son and youngest daughter love flipnote and my son, who plans to buy a 3ds, still plans to keep his dsi as well – largely for the flipnote
I think it's been pretty fun exchanging notes, thoughts and some horrible drawings with people (minus some from superphilip – pretty good stuff). Though I agree that it would be nice to have a real-time communication tool for organizing games or doing some kind of IM. What good is being online with your 3DS if you have to get on a computer to coordinate?
For example I saw someone online playing MK7 the other night, but they weren't online and thus the "join game" thing is useless.
I think it's been pretty fun exchanging notes, thoughts and some horrible drawings with people (minus some from superphilip – pretty good stuff). Though I agree that it would be nice to have a real-time communication tool for organizing games or doing some kind of IM. What good is being online with your 3DS if you have to get on a computer to coordinate?
For example I saw someone online playing MK7 the other night, but they weren't online and thus the "join game" thing is useless.