If you launch the game and then press the home button, do you get an option for a manual at the bottom of the touch screen?
If you just got a 3ds register a nintendo id and you get a free game next month.
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2013...Super-Mario-Bros-Deluxe-for-free--843960.html
On the Wii U you press select to see current equipment, to change you go to the box next to the bed or the armoursmith guy.
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