After testing Japanese amiibo cards with various North American games such as Mario Kart and Captain Toad, the Japanese cards work just fine with NA games. Unless Nintendo has added something to their NFC chips to change this with future software (awaiting comment from Nintendo), players looking to avoid Japan's card shortage being magnified abroad should feel safer when deciding whether or not to import the cards.
A new list goes over eight of the the most useless amiibo, ranging from the Shadow Mewtwo card to the Qbby figure.
Joker, Banjo and Kazooie, and Terry amiibo restock for Super Smash Bros. on the way with pre-orders now open.
Call yourself a Zelda fan? Then here's a challenge for you? Can you name all 26 Zelda themed amiibo ever released?