Captain Toad’s Treasure Tracker gets amiibo support in late March

3 Mar 2015

Steve Wright

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker will receive an update with amiibo support on 20 March, Nintendo today announced.

The update brings a special hide-and-seek mode featuring an 8-bit Toad when the Toad amiibo is tapped to the Wii U NFC reader.

Other amiibos will offer 1-UP Mushrooms when tapped to the Wii U NFC reader.

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is available now on Wii U.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.