Fans now can now preload Pokémon Sun & Moon to their Nintendo 3DS through the eShop if they have bought the games in North America, Japan or Australia; meaning that they are available to download in full ahead of their November 18th launch.
UPDATE: Now available to preload for Europeans as well, with their release being on the 23rd. Bonus of 12 Quick Balls for downloading.
If you have a slow internet connection, but wanted to buy the games digitally, this gives you ample time to prepare so that you can enjoy the games as soon as they’re released.
Hopefully this will not be hacked in any way; I’d rather not be seeing spoilers weeks ahead of the games’ actual launch.
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Silly PJ. Someone posting more spoilers and ruining the whole game before it launches is inevitable
Yeah but not this far in advance, at least :p
You should know by now that they won’t hesitate to ruin it for everyone else.
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where have you been?!? we all missed your insanity!
… What i miss?
we haven’t seen you here in forever! there was the demo datamine, starter final evolutions… goodness I cant remember the last time you were here!
Oh i saw it, it was Cool 🙂
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Well, i don’t understand. This means we can expect that we have the games earlier than the 23rd? (EU)
It’s not impossible for people to break street dates
But no, predownloads just allow people who may not have time on the day of release to download it all there and then, and we still have no info on a European predownload.
oh bummerrr
I hope everything leaks 5 days before release so u non Europeans can feel the pain
Then that’d be double pain for Europeans :p
Yeah but everyone would suffer instead of us only!
The world shall know..PAIN
Europeans getting it later is punishment for stores in Europe breaking release of X/Y days ahead of the official release.
Not my fault if a store in fucking Italy sold it early. Hopefully they’ll do the same this year
Sorry, don’t you want Pokemon games to come to Europe at all? The Pokemon company are very passionate about releasing the games on the same date worldwide, so everyone experiences it at the same time (+-24 hours). A store breaking release date is a great big slap in the face to them, when they try so hard to make it fair for everyone. No it’s not your fault that they broke release, but you need to understand why The Pokemon Company sees it as such a big deal and why there are punishments because of it.
LOL It’s not like Nintendo would stop selling games if stores continued to sell games before release , they want money
+ before XY we didn’t even have WW releases
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So does this take the funds out of your account now or will it do it on the 18th?
Now. You’ll be downloading the game in full right then, you’ll just need the encryption key which will release as an update at midnight on the 18th that makes it playable (or, midnight in the nearest time zone people care about which, for example, means 1:30 AM for me as they always use EST and I’m 1.5 hours ahead of EST).
I’m expecting my physical copy of Sun from Shop To (who are known to dispatch up to 5 days early) so hopefully I’ll be booting up my Alola Adventure before the 23rd 🙂
MORE DATAMINEEE YEEEEEEESSSSSSS
Nope, dataminers have explained that they can’t do any mining with this one http://pastebin.com/28CW3zxq
I’ve started my Moon download. I’m curious as to how long it will take. I’ll probably have to leave for school before it’s “finished”.
My head….sugar headache…
Pre-downloading means that dataminer can get everything right?
Naw, he explained why on twitter
Well that’s one data miner out of many. Is it a reason that prevents anyone from doing it?
Yes. Just read his post, I don’t know specifics. http://pastebin.com/28CW3zxq
Well to quote the dataminer in question: “Three Layers of protection”. Nintendo pretty much has the game under lock and key for at least a week or two from what i read.
Not by any means. It’s locked behind two 128 bit codes, so good luck getting anywhere.
Good. Couldn’t remember if they did this or not for 3DS games. Going to start downloading this very very soon!
I ordered my copies from Amazon I hope to have them on 11/18 if not a tiny bit sooner since they sometimes ships stuff a day or so in advance. I hope the preloaded edition of the games don’t get datamined, but I am guessing they will.
I ordered one on Amazon Prime and it says it’ll be delivered Nov. 18, but I also pre-ordered a sun and a moon version with GameStop. I have to decide if I want three games though.
That is cool you could always gift one to one of your friends or you could cancel the spare game if you want to.
The dataminers have confirmed they can’t mine the preloaded game, so you can worry less about that.. http://pastebin.com/28CW3zxq
That’s good to know. I am looking forward to the games. I think this is the most excited I have been for a Pokemon game since Diamond and Pearl.
Dude, be careful with Amazon preorders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVQ1CsErpRk
you had me shook, but I checked my steelbook dual game and you can no longer preorder it so I think the issue that this youtuber had before was fixed and now the first volume has been filled.
I’ve never had a problem preordering with Amazon. I always receive it on release day.
Sooooo playing Pokemon Moon at midnight confirmed? 😀
No, if you pre-download the game you have to wait an extra week. :/
Where did you hear that? The pre-loads will be unlocking in 17 days, 18-11-2016, in all non-european countries. This is the same day as Sun and Moons retail release.
Nah don’t think so 😉 – I am european tho… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9fcd29fbfad540e6ca905622ed2ee7b62686b482eb1b08203a2c8a2f9f90697c.png
But your game will be set in day then
Hopefully we don’t get another Paper Mario: Color Splash situation lol.
Hi guys, been avoiding the comments section since the demo was datamined…
so its good to know its going to be a little bit easier to avoid spoilers… good to know….
can you guys help me?
I have a 3dsxl brought in atlanta (miss you usa!!!) and it came with a 4gb sd card 😐
Now im going to buy 16gb one 🙂
Thats where it comes your help…
Is it safe to buy a micro sd with adapter?
I managed to buy the nintendo 100 dolars shop card and im striving to pre download it sun(want the physical copy of moon) and maybe dragon quest 7or 8 or mario kart/party…..i dont quite know yet…
any advices?
Hi richie,
Yeah, it is safe: I myself am using a 32GB microSD with adaptor in my 3dsxl, and the only concern you should have is that the SD technology the old 3ds supports is SDHC. Nevertheless, basically all memory cards being sold today up to 32GB are SDHC, so buying a 16GB one shouldn’t give you any troubles =)
Hope I could help.
Yeah I got one with the Adapter just yesterday, worked fine! Same here, by the way. Pre-ordered Physical Moon and I’m gonna’ pre-load Digital Pokemon Sun
a pre-load bonus? that’s a new one lol
do we have to pay for it, after we pre load it? just wondering
Yes. You pay for it before it starts downloading.