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Using Software
Using Software
Choose whether or not to show your
online status and the software you
are playing.
Notication LED blinks
Delete friend cards from the friend list.
Friends are not notied if their friend
cards are deleted.
Notications
Friend List
Notication LED
When an oine friend comes online, the notication
LED on your Nintendo 3DS system blinks orange for
ve seconds.
If you can join a game a friend is playing,
will be
displayed over the Friend List icon ( ) on the
HOME Menu.
Display order of friend cards when you are online
When you are online, friend cards are displayed in the following order:
Your own friend card Friends whose games you can join
Friends currently playing a game
Online friends Oine friends
Temporary friends
Friend-list settings
Congure your friend notication settings or delete friend cards.
Tap
in the top bar of the HOME Menu to start Notications and display a
list of your notications.
Even when using Nintendo 3DS software, you can suspend it and view notications.
Press the HOME Button to display the HOME Menu and tap the Notications icon to start the
Notications software.
Types of notications
Notication LED blinks
Notications
This software allows you to receive notications from Nintendo, from StreetPass, and from other
types of software.
SpotPass notications These contain data or information from Nintendo, Nintendo third parties, or from the
software you are using, and will vary depending on the game you are playing.
NOTE: The system cannot receive notications from Nintendo DS or Nintendo
DSi software.
StreetPass notications These contain information received via the StreetPass feature.
To receive notications
Follow these steps to allow your Nintendo 3DS system to receive notications:
• Turn the system on. (The system will also receive notications in Sleep Mode.)
• Turn wireless communication on by pushing the Wireless switch toward the top of the Nintendo 3DS.
The Wireless LED will light.
• Congure the Internet connection settings. (Within a Nintendo Zone service area, the system can
receive notications even without its Internet settings congured. Also, the system can receive
StreetPass notications without connecting to the Internet.)
NOTE: Notications sent to you by software may be sent directly without requiring an Internet connection.
When you receive a notication...
When you receive a notication, the notication LED on your Nintendo 3DS
system will blink for ve seconds. For StreetPass notications, it blinks green,
and for SpotPass, it blinks blue.
Additionally, or will be displayed on the Notications icon and any
related software icons in the HOME Menu.
NOTE: If a notication is received when the system is in Sleep Mode, the
notication LED will blink for about ve seconds and then stay lit. It will turn o
when you open the Nintendo 3DS system.
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