Ever since the servers went down I’ve missed this game, so I made a small Luma3DS patch that lets you play it offline. You can get into the arcade, play the cranes and the Practice Catcher, and the badges you win get saved and show up in your HOME Menu badge box.

So far it only works on the EUR version (1.3.1) and it’s only been tested on my console.
If you give it a try, let me know how it goes, and if you have the US or JP version and want to help port it, please reach out!

Disclaimer: Made with AI help for the reverse engineering; direction and testing on real hardware was all me.

https://github.com/giunzione/badge-arcade-reclawed

I know there's a full collection out there, but that's for an older badge homebrew, and doesn't support categories, and has no category icons. Has someone already made a collection for Anemone3DS with the category icons set up?

So I wanted to swap my Sd card out for a new one and I was wondering if all my badge data will still be there when I transfer the data to the new Sd card? Thanks!

by homebrew I mean where you can still play the claw machine for badges instead of just being given them all, I really enjoyed the fun aspect of it and wish it came back, thanks in advance

The community has been doing a stellar job at keeping various aspects of the 3DS alive. With the recent creation of a new way of getting streetpass matches and the likes... It makes me wonder if we think this game will somehow get revived by the modding scene? I have no idea if there is anything in the works, but I would love to see this come back in some form.

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I copied the badge box from my sd card a couple of times so now I have a few folders with backups on my sd card (that I put into my 3ds). Do I now just have to backup the entire sd card to my computer and delete all badge box files except the badge box I want to have on the sd card?? So that I’ll be able to replace the badge box file with any of the backups from my computer??

Just making sure I understood it correctly so I don’t mess things up😭

https://youtu.be/H_--6kvpE8o?si=Odro6vW6qOt6ZDBX

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Someone figured out where the badge data is being stored on the 3DS, so you can swap out badge boxes without having to use The Badge Arcade. This doesn't require any home brew, you don't have store badge data between different SD cards, and each backup is only 15 megabytes. The main catch is that you're swapping out entire boxes, so once the badge arcade shuts down there will be no way to create new combinations if you want them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_--6kvpE8o

does anyone know how to get money in badge arcade because of the shop closing

I was wondering what people have done throughout the years, knowing that from day one, Nintendo Badge Arcade would close its doors eventually. The wiki doesn't have pictures of all the machines that were available, so was anyone out there taking pictures of them each day? The spriter's resource looks like it did a good job of preserving the badges in PNGs clustered by theme, so that's lovely. Is there a group of people with the skillset and knowledge to make a fan recreation? I know there'd be a lot of people, fans and claw machine enthusiests, who'd like to discover and play it down the road. Hypothetically, If the catchers and art are all known, the physics could be remastered and someone could make a program or something to relive a facsimile of the badge arcade.

In the approximately nine months since the Badge Arcade’s nerf, this is the first time I’ve had this happen.

Having this happen was crazy! I had just received a Super Bonus on the same system on the 22nd, so I had filmed this video expecting it to show me winning two free plays, not five.

Using red / blue bonus, practice, daily graft, strategy and a bit of luck I got the all. Can’t show each set, but there are no more for me to get.

I have all available sets completed. I just need the big guy with the arm. The most goes I can get us 4 (if I get the red bonus). But I seem to need 5. I usually go for the bulb, then the bomb, then the barrel. Usually I can get 1 go on the guy. But it seems to need 2. Any ideas? Or have you cheated it?

Doesn’t always work

In Badge Arcade, there was that board where some Miiverse screenshots of people’s home screen badge setups were displayed and the Bunny would comment on them.

Have these been archived in some way? I remember getting two of my screenshots featured and was wondering if there’s any way I can see that dialogue from the bunny again.