StreetPass Games Done

That certainly took a while.  Having a HomePass setup definitely made it quicker.  Some people call HomePass cheating, but I don't.  It doesn't reduce the challenge of accomplishing everything, nor does it reduce the amount of work you have to do.  It simply lowers the barrier to entry.

So, everything ever:

• Puzzle Swap: 1637/1637 pieces (for North America)
• When I originally posted this, there were 1177 puzzle pieces.
• When I got my New 3DS and system transferred to it, there were 1502 puzzle pieces.
• Find Mii and Find Mii 2: All accomplishments (including "Clear Find Mii in 30 Miis or less") and hats/outfits.
• Mii Force: All plaza tickets (this implies all lost treasures collected, all target scores beaten, and all stages beaten without losing a pod).
• Flower Town: All plaza tickets, gold on all jobs, 80/80 breeds, 305/305 colors, gold watering can.
• Warrior's Way: All plaza tickets, Castle rank 20, 9,999,999 troops (set up so that an army of 50k+ infantry, 50k+ cavalry, and a small group of archers can defeat it by spying twice, field conditions allowing).
• Monster Manor: All plaza tickets, beat floor 50 and the true final boss for the hat.
• Ultimate Angler: All plaza tickets (this implies 160/160 species caught)
• Battleground Z: All plaza tickets, all rare zombies defeated
• StreetPass Birthdays: All plaza tickets (this implies 366/366 birthdays)
• Exchange Booth: All hats/outfits and speech balloons claimed, Exchange Booth closed once again

I'll have more work to do with each Puzzle Swap panel that Nintendo releases, and of course if they add any more games.  With each new panel I'll try and remember to keep the piece count updated, as well.  But until the next new panel or game, feels good man.

Side note: if Puzzle Swap and the Find Mii games can detect when there's nothing left for the player to do and decide to not show their exclamation points with each group of StreetPasses, why can't the DLC StreetPass games do the same?

Edit (2015-09-25): Added Ultimate Angler, Battleground Z, and StreetPass Birthdays, just to mark them off as complete.  Because I now have two 3DSes, this post is only representative of my original efforts, which I system transferred from my Old 3DS to my New 3DS.  Any new puzzles will be marked here until I finish everything on my Old 3DS once again, and then this post will be retired and a new one encompassing both systems will be created.

The Promised Find Mii 2 Files

Here are the Photoshop files I concocted using The Mystical One's image guides on GameFAQs.  I created them in Photoshop CS2 because that's what I have, so, you know, be aware about compatibility or something.

Within the zip file, you'll find a folder containing the two Photoshop files.  Unzip the whole thing somewhere, load them up in Photoshop, and it should be fairly simple to see where to go from there.  However, because I'm nice, I'll still explain things here.

Using them is fairly straightforward.  All the checkboxes have layers whose visibility can be toggled.  The first checkbox in each group is actually toggled just by enabling the group itself, but for the rest you'll have to expand the group.

There's even toggleable lines to cross out the entries under Traps, Solutions, and Keys once you've dealt with it or gotten the key.  Also, note that for Find Mii 2's secret quest, getting the gold key only requires that you use 25 Miis or less on the Dark Emperor fight, not 25 Miis on the entire playthrough.  I got it on my first playthrough, with a level 15 team and some random other guys to use Vials of Valor, and I kept using the aforementioned Vials of Valor to bring back my level 15 team.  I used a total of 104 Miis on that playthrough.

The route progress box instructions should hopefully be clear, but in case they aren't, use the marquee tool on the sequence of numbers that indicate each route, right under where it says Routes and has checkboxes and stuff.

The whole goal of these files was so that whenever I loaded them up, I could easily see where I was and what I'd done.  You can also save off a copy as a PNG to share on whatever social network is all the rage these days, and brag to your friends.

Enjoy!

Back to HomePassing

Yeah, that didn't take too long.  I've got the basics up and running.  Nothing fancy, because for that I need to use SQL LEFT JOINs, and they currently hate me and refuse to return the data I want.  I need to sit down and logic out all the stuff, I guess.

Anyway, I've got a simple stats page showing my progress in four different ways: breeds grown , breed-colors grown, and breaking down breed-colors by color and family.

Overall I'm a lot closer to being done than I thought I was.  I have a mere 63 breed-colors left to grow.  I just started in on the big one: I had 16 breeds left that needed to be grown in White.  Next time I get a brown Mii, which happens occasionally thanks to some random Japanese guy, I can plant all four of the breeds that I need in Brown.  The rest of it goes similarly: get a mii with a shirt color that I need, plant a bunch of stuff, grow it all, repeat.

This mess of PHP and MySQL is just to keep track of it all so I can stay headed in the right direction.  For one thing, the statistics I can pull out of the database give me a much better idea of what I have remaining than flipping through the journal does.  My original strategy of buying seeds from Poppy's Seeds, growing them, and then recursing through all the seeds that resulted in new colors got me a fair amount of progress before it suddenly stopped producing seeds that gave new colors.  Growing strictly by color is my new strategy that I'm taking to the end.

In Find Mii 2 news, I got the last hat, so now I have all the hats.  I also beat it for the tenth time, so I'm completely done with it.  In Find Mii 1 news, I'm following a guide I found on GameFAQs for getting the "Clear Find Mii in under 30 Miis" accomplishment.  It's going exactly to plan thus far, so we'll see how things go when all I have to do is hire random level 7s and spam attacks.  Because, you know, the whole "chance to miss" thing.

So now the number of games I need to play with each group of HomePasses is down to just one: Flower Town.  You can add a new Puzzle Swap panel anytime, Nintendo.  Or how about more StreetPass games, plaza tickets, and hats, so I can re-open the Exchange Booth?  It'd be neat to see a StreetPass racing game.  Just saying.