Kid Icarus: Uprising patent surfaces, discusses weapon fusion via StreetPass

- patent credits Masahiro Sakurai
- patent details a feature for an unspecified shooting game
- patent involves transmission between two systems
- includes a process for fusing pairs of in-game weapons together
- each piece of data in the exchange represents a weapon
- when two systems meet, this weapon data can be fused into a new weapon
- fusion costs coins
- weapons set to transmit cannot be equipped by your character
- a gun and stick can fuse to create "a weapon capable of firing and using magic."
- weapon stats are determined randomly from a pre-specified range
- these include attack power, elemental ability, stamina, shooting range
- fusion is not limited to StreetPassed weapons
- fusion can include two weapons found in treasure chests in single-player play

This is no doubt related to Kid Icarus: Uprising. It's just funny to see a patent directly related to this fusion system!

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