A group of devoted Nintendo 3DS Street Pass followers has lastly discovered the rarest puzzle in Puzzle Swap, ANAでDS, after weeks of looking out. This means StreetPass Mii Plaza: Puzzle Swap has formally been 100% accomplished for the primary time since its launch 13 years in the past.
We coated the group’s hunt final week, as for months a small group of Puzzle Swap-lovers has been searching down each puzzle ever made out there for the Street Pass app. That consists of a number of time and area restricted puzzles that through the years have turn into fairly uncommon.
As of June they’d discovered each single puzzle bar one: a uncommon airplane-themed puzzle that was solely out there at choose airports in Japan for just a few months. The group was exhausting each connection they may to search out only one one who obtained the puzzle again within the day, at which level a easy file add would enable the group to share it with the world.
Yesterday, July 3, 2024, somebody lastly got here by. Community chief Benny acquired an electronic mail from a person containing a pal code and a zipper file with the textual content, “I hope the next data is precisely what you are on the lookout for.” The group instantly started working. While the file itself appeared promising, they wanted the one that despatched it to just accept a pal request first for the switch to work. The information additionally wanted to be decrypted and put right into a usable format, a course of which a number of Discord group members helped with.
Then, at 4:45pm Pacific time, a put up:
And moments later:
The Discord erupted. The stranger who had reached out with their puzzle had come by, and finally all 63 Puzzle Swap puzzles had been discovered and archived. In the next hours, the group labored collectively to share the puzzle with everybody within the Discord who needed it, earlier than discussing plans to bundle all 63 puzzles collectively in a single file in order that anybody sooner or later who desires entry to them can get pleasure from.
Here it’s, in all its glory:
If you your self need all of the puzzles, you do need to be prepared to mod your 3DS. For assist with that, we advocate monitoring down the group behind the hunt, which has a Twitter, electronic mail, and Discord all right here and will help out. But even when accessing the puzzle is simply doable by way of modding, this stays a triumph for recreation preservation and archiving. It is, to the group’s data, the primary time all 63 Puzzle Swap puzzles have been assembled in a single place.
So what’s subsequent? It’s robust to say. The group first desires to make sure that all puzzles are available to anybody who desires to place within the modding work to acquire them. After that, there’s been some dialogue within the group about discovering methods so as to add customized puzzles to Puzzle Swap, or strive different modding feats with what the group has realized. But many are content material simply to have completed the puzzle hunt in any respect.
“I simply need to thank the group for his or her exhausting work and everybody else who shared and promoted the search!” Benny stated once I requested him for remark. “We are grateful for everybody’s help.”
IGN reached out to the sort stranger who despatched Benny the ANA file to try to be taught the story behind them selecting up the puzzle and discovering the hunt years later, however we have not heard something again but. Thanks, mysterious stranger, whoever you’re.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a narrative tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.
