With Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer being one of the major 3DS retail releases of the year, Nintendo has been keen to get the franchise back onto the agenda. In the UK the company has been heavily promoting free 3DS app Photos with Animal Crossing, distributing it at Hyper Japan in London, on its national shopping centre tour and most recently to some lucky gamers on its Nintendo mailing list.
If you're in the UK/Ireland and don't yet have one, though, we're here to make those storm clouds go away. Nintendo UK's given us plenty of codes to give away, and the details you need are below.
About 'Photos with Animal Crossing':
Photos with Animal Crossing is a free limited-release download, just like Photos with Mario before it.
An AR app for the 3DS, it allows you to snap pics with some of your favourite animals. It's the same basic concept as the AR cards you receive free with your system, most directly familiar with the previous limited-distribution Photos With Mario app. In this case, however, you need to print out the image below to scan the relevant cards.
How to get a code
All you need to do is register your email address below and we will randomly select 100 lucky readers every hour; your registration will enter you in every draw. If you are selected you will be notified via email or you can simply check the status of your ballot by re-entering your email address at any time.
We will be giving away 100 download codes every hour, on the hour, between 9am and 11pm for the next 3 days - that's a total of 5,000 download codes available for our UK/Ireland readers. The first ballot will take place at 7pm tonight, Wednesday 2nd Sept, 2015.
Rules: You must be in the UK/Ireland and enter a valid email address to ensure correct entry to the ballot, you must only register one email address; don't worry, you'll be included in each ballot until you receive one or all codes are gone. If we detect unusual duplicate entries we reserve the right to remove them from the ballots. We ask that you simply consider other gamers and play fair. You may enter your email address again to check the status of your registration. Download codes must be redeemed before midnight 30th September, 2015.
We would like to thank Nintendo UK for supplying the codes and hope everyone enjoys this very special download version of Photos with Animal Crossing. Also remember that Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer will be released on the 2nd October here in the UK.
Good luck!
Comments 47
Interesting. I'll have a go.
But where is Photos with Mario for Europe?
Neat, well I already have this after a random gift email, good luck to the entrants!
Well I've already got a code as well, I think the lucky mail list might have been very generous! Still good luck to anyone who wants one!
Sweet! Free stuff!
@DoctorOverbuild wow! I remember that game! (your username)
@ninty4thewin
The same problem happens to me as well.
@Calllack Haha it was one of my favorite games when it was out so I like to keep it going even if only by name of one of it's main characters, keeps people thinking of the game!
I can't enter either
Why limit this to the UK, when the code is usable in the entire EU? Is this in accordance to EU law?
I've entered! Fingers crossed Good luck everyone
Entered! Not over hyped for this game, but hey, would be nice XD!
I already have those thanks to an event in my country where they distributed them
Well, it's always nice to get a freebie occasionally. Now, time to unearth that 2DS that I haven't used in 6 months!
@manu0 NintendoLife sadly always does this.
Didn't I download this off the eshop last week?
Got one in the first batch!
Doubt it will be very interesting, but I've entered anyway! No point turning down free stuff!
@Wouwter they said they got the codes from Nintendo UK not Nintendo of Europe. They have certain rules to go by on these giveaways given to them from NUK. One of which is that it's UK only
I already got this game since I got an email with the code from Nintendo. Hopefully codes will he available to everyone who wants one. Good luck to all of you.
Got one! It's more than likely you'll get one - if you got one with the Pokemon ORAS demo (which was more popular), you'll definitely get one now (this is the less popular promotion, after all)!
Also, this takes up around 78 blocks on your 3DS.
Yay, I got one Thanks NL!
@Le_Dook They need to have a talk with Nintendo then, make it clear there are a lot of non-UK people here.
@ninty4thewin I'm also apparently not in the UK. I know Scotland wanted to leave, but we didn't, so come on.
Got one! Not sure if it'll be any good, but hey!
Yay, I got a code! Thanks, Nintendo Life! I'll download that one tomorrow morning!
Hello When i wrote a mail adress [email protected], it was not correct ? Help me please !!
Are there any codes for Photos with Mario for Europe. I know America got the game, just wondering if Europe would ever get it.
I just told told my friend to add her email in so she can get one. Now all of friends are wanting to join.
I was lucky enough to be selected on Nintendo's mailing list
Great, America never gets this. Yay. What fun.
I was lucky enough to be sent a code from Nintendo, so best of luck to everyone entering
Kinda confused though as the photos in that top image in the article show characters I didn't get from scanning those three cards, namely Lloyd and Gulliver? Ah well.
have to wander why Nintendo dosent just make it a free download for everyone
seems to be no reason no to.
i got a code, which is cool, but i don't understand why they don't just let anyone have something like this.
also, I never heard of "Photos with Mario", and searching the eShop turns up nothing. Is this app lost forever? Seems like a huge waste.
Why the biscuits is this not coming to the States?!
Thanks! I hope that it's reasonably fun...
Good luck guys.
Got a code. That was easy.
I want
Ooh, got a code. Thanks. guys!
>UK only.
Thanks guys i got one. you are the best!
I don't have a printer to print the AR cards, so I put my laptop screen down and used that. Now I've got lots of awkward pictures of the back of the animals' heads.
Thanks guys, got mine this morning.
Just received my download code.
Thanks Guys!
UK only... b, b, b, b, but, I may not be from the UK, but I have a UK eshop account.
register my email address yesterday and got the code at the same day at night!? that's fast! Thank nintendo life!
Can someone give me a code? ill do anything ;(
[email protected]
Does anyone have the QR code for the Japanese version?
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