DS punch cards resurface in Mega Man Star Force 2

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DS punch cards resurface in Mega Man Star Force 2

Posted Aug 27th 2007 1:10PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Imports

The DS "punch card" is such an elegant idea for a card input. Rather than requiring a card reader or a camera to take pictures of the cards, you just stick the card on the screen and touch the screen through holes in the card. Spectrobes and Monster Rancher both take advantage of this extremely inexpensive feature, and Capcom has picked up on the idea for their sequel to Mega Man Star Force. Two such cards will be given as a preorder bonus in Japan, each of which unlocks a suit (and corresponding weird animal-head arm).

Capcom was smart enough not to include the positions of the holes on the preview images, so unscrupulous people like us can't print out the cards and do it ourselves. Not that it really matters with a free bonus item.

Tags: capcom, cards, megaman, spectrobes, starforce

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8-27-2007 @ 1:27PM

Nushio said...

My bro bought Spectrobes. He quickly found in Gamefaqs a guide to "hole-punching" without even needing to print fake cards, using ASCII-Art he guessed where the dots should be, and using the guide, in what order, to unlock all cards.

I expect the same for MMSF2, though I'm not buying either Megaman game..

8-27-2007 @ 1:53PM

hvnlysoldr said...

Ahh italics tag!

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