User:DJParticle

Hello, Fresh Kids, I'm DJ Particle, RIAAcidal Lesbian Parodist. I've been video gaming since 1978, the days of the pong consoles (first household console Magnavox Odyssey 4000 [released Aug 1977]). Nintendo fanatic since 1987 and a charter subscriber to Nintendo Power in 1988. I currently own the PS2, Wii (Mark 1 - doubles as a Game Cube), Wii U, New 3DS, and Switch (all NA region consoles).

My history with is a bit checkered. I got the first game in August 2015, and struggled with the motion and double-stick controls. Intimidated, I put the game on the back burner for almost a year (June 2016). When my partner got her own Wii U and Splatoon, I vowed to conquer my own hubris so I could play with her, and ended up getting thoroughly hooked.

Unfortunately, this meant I missed every Splatfest from the first game save for the final one, and even then, since it was taking place on a weekend I wouldn't be home, I couldn't actually splat in it, so I at least picked up the Splatfest Tee for Team Callie.

To make up for my lack of Splatfest participation in the first game, I bought all three regions of the second game, and have participated in every Splatfest across those regions since release.

I'm more hooked than ever now, and have logged about 1000 hours to date between the three regions of the game. I also have never seen a more welcoming or fun video gaming community than the Splatoon community, and I'm glad to be a part of it. Splat well, squids!

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Multiregion FAQ

 * What's the easiest way to do this?
 * Import the physical carts from sites like Play-Asia or Offgamers. At that point, it's just plug-and-play, and each version will use its own save file.  Easy peasy.


 * I can't wait that long for the mail! There's a Splatfest coming soon!  Can I get it online from the eShop?
 * Yes, but not with your regular Nintendo account. You will need regional accounts.  This is also the only way to import foreign versions of the Octo Expansion
 * a) To make a regional account, it MUST be attached to a different email address than the one you use with your main account. Luckily, there are many common free email services (Google, Yahoo, AOL, etc) you can use.  Be sure to label the home region either 'United States', 'Japan', or a Euro-currency EU member country (NOT the UK!!  I used Ireland, for example) depending on which version that account will be purchassing.  You need one new account for each different region you plan to purchase.
 * b) Change your Switch's home region to the region whose eShop you are about to use. Agree to the EULA and Restart.  This change will be temporary just to buy the game.
 * c) Unless your PayPal or credit cards are clear to use internationally (most are not), you will need to purchase game time cards in each region. These are usually readily available (and instantly via email) at sites like Play-Asia.  Be sure your game cards match the region you specify in the placeholder account, and when you get the code, add it to that account's funds.
 * d) Browse the eShop, find Splatoon 2, and buy it with your account funds. Let it download and install.
 * e) After installation, put your Switch back to your actual home region, agree to the EULA again, and restart.
 * f) The upside now is, if you want to import other games via eShop, you already have the account defined!


 * How about after I buy it? Can I at least use my regular Nintendo Account to play the imports?  I don't want to remake my friends list.
 * Once a version of the game is on your Switch, you can play it with your regular Nintendo account, at least for now.


 * "For now"? What do you mean by that?
 * It means we do not yet know how, or even if, the paid service will affect people's ability to play import games online once it goes live in September 2018. Since the game's servers are region-agnostic, and there are many players who have invested significant amounts to import games due to Nintendo's region-free promise, the likely answer is that there will be no ill effect (the game, regardless of region, would just detect your account as a paid account and let you on), but Nintendo can't guarantee anything at this time.  Worst comes to worst, you just pay for online for your regional accounts as well, and restart at Level 1 using those accounts to play.  Annoying, but at least you'd still be able to play them.


 * That's a lot of money though. Do I really need to do this?  Can't I just boot my existing game with the Switch set to another region and access its Splatfests?
 * You MUST have a particular region's copy of the game to play its Splatfests, as the code for those Splatfests will (unless its a multiregion Splatfest) only be available on its region's copy.


 * Can the foreign versions read my existing save file at all? I don't want to start back at Level 1.
 * Each region's copy has its own save file, so you will have to start back at Level 1 for each new region you buy. There is no way to make it read another region's save file.


 * Can I use SplatNet 2 for all regions?
 * Yes, but SplatNet 2 will always connect to and reflect the stats for the region you most recently logged into. If you want to purchase an item for a particular region's toon, be sure to log into that region of the game before opening Splatnet 2.


 * This sounds really cool! Will I be splatting with international squids/octolings?
 * The matching servers are region-agnostic, so you will still be paired with whoever's available that has the best peer-to-peer connections to you. In most cases, this will still be players from your home region.


 * Damn! How can I play foreign Splatfests, then?
 * The servers will still try to find players with the best peer-to-peer connection to you, who are also playing that Splatfest. Since many players multiregion the game, you still may connect to people in your home region, but the pool is far smaller, and it will have to also try to connect you overseas as well.  This may make it difficult (but not impossible) to find matches.  As a Midwest American, I tended to have long waits for random matches in Japanese Splatfests, but European Splatfests tend to connect rather quickly.  Finding a Splatfest premade team is recommended, as teams tend to match faster.  Version 3.0.0 seems to have mitigated a lot of the distance issue with overseas Splatfests, and ever since that version, I've been solo-connecting to Japanese Splatfests rather easily now.  Though East Coast Americans still report some difficulty, it's still far better than it was pre-3.0.


 * What about language support? What versions support which languages?
 * The North American version supports English, Spanish, and French. The Eurpoean version supports all the languages the North American version does, plus many more, too many to list here.  The Japanese version supports only Japanese.


 * If you have any other questions, ask me on my talk page. :)