Something rather freaky happened a little over an hour ago. First, for those who don't know how StreetPass works, your Mii is shared on your 3DS and sent to others over StreetPass Mii Plaza. Both systems normally must be physically within a few feet of each other for this exchange to occur. However, I have done something that seems physically possible.

A week ago, I had a 3DS that I've had for several years with the Cat Mii. Last month, I picked up a used 2DS so I could have a secondary system and gave it its own Zoroark Mii. A couple days ago, my 3DS was starting to have issues with the buttons so I performed a system transfer, migrating all the content from the 3DS to the 2DS. All previous data (including the Zoroark Mii) was erased on the 2DS, and after the transfer the data was erased from the 3DS. Thus, I was left with a freshly formatted 3DS and a 2DS containing the data that was previously on my 3DS. I put a new Mii on the 3DS, carefully copying the features from the previous Mii (I had sent it to the Cat system for safekeeping) and giving it the same name of Zoroark.

However, I took a look at the StreetPass Mii Plaza earlier today and noticed a doppelgänger:

Nintendo upgraded their Nintendo Zone system a while back. Anyone passing by a Nintendo Zone with their 3DS will deposit their Mii into the system and pick up five Miis that that Nintendo Zone happens to be distributing, which I assume is random and changes every hour or so. I stop at a certain McDonald's (which hosts a Nintendo Zone) every now and then, so I somehow managed to, out of the thousands of Miis that must have passed that spot since then, receive my previous data.



Freaky.

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