Yeah. Kinda pointless for a topic like this to appear, but I felt it's worth noting that in case you're really crazy with the idea of playing the game Day 1 at midnight.
Basically, the way pre-load works is that you buy the game full-price before the game launches and have it immediately download straight to your 3DS's SD Card, so Nintendo can effectively manage to avoid crashing their online servers when Day 1 masses tries to download the same game at the same specific time.
Once it finished downloading, the game will act like any software, except that you can't play that one yet obviously. You'll have to wait until midnight ET to be able download a small patch data that enables you to boot the software, provided you're anywhere near to your wireless Internet connection.
Right now, Happy Home Designer is up for pre-load on North American eShop. Download it before a certain time and you'll get a free theme that comes with it.
Source: http://nintendoeverything.com/anima...d-live-in-north-america-get-a-free-3ds-theme/
Basically, the way pre-load works is that you buy the game full-price before the game launches and have it immediately download straight to your 3DS's SD Card, so Nintendo can effectively manage to avoid crashing their online servers when Day 1 masses tries to download the same game at the same specific time.
Once it finished downloading, the game will act like any software, except that you can't play that one yet obviously. You'll have to wait until midnight ET to be able download a small patch data that enables you to boot the software, provided you're anywhere near to your wireless Internet connection.
Right now, Happy Home Designer is up for pre-load on North American eShop. Download it before a certain time and you'll get a free theme that comes with it.
Source: http://nintendoeverything.com/anima...d-live-in-north-america-get-a-free-3ds-theme/
