Could this be the Piktura Miyamoto patented before?

There is some good ideas in here. This definately sounds like something they would do too. I bet this pops up at E3.

I think it's a good idea as some puzzles in phantom hourglass were ridiculously hard. My 9 years old cousin would never have guessed that you needed to close your DS in order to copy something on a map.

They're patenting the system. It was filed six months ago. It's not necessarily indicative of how far along in development of the game they are, nor is it necessarily connected to a game (though it seems pretty likely at this point).

It's basically a Nintendo-fied version of having multiple difficulty levels. Kind of like how WiiSpeak is their Nintendo-fied voice chat. ;>

I just thaught of something stupid, maybe this could be for the DS or even DS to Wii connectivity for hints much like the Tingle Tuner.

Hey! This patent was filed in June... Doesn't that means it's pretty old by now really?

Also, I find this somewhat interesting, but cannot totally figure out that it means.

[0171]Furthermore, the flash memory 17 or the like stores an operation history of a game play of each player, and each player may be allowed to create his/her own "approach movie" based on the operation history. The "approach movie" created by each player may be uploaded to the server. When the hint button 102 is pressed, the server may be accessed so as to view the "approach movies" created by various players. Thus, when, for example, a plurality of methods may be considered as a method for approaching a scene in the game, a plurality of approach methods including an approach method for which a skilled operation is required, a method in which an approach is made in a relatively easy operation, and the like may be viewed. It is possible to provide each player with information about an approach method which meets, for example, a skill of the each player for game play. As a result, a player may be prevented from becoming stuck with the game for increased certainty. Further, when it is possible to create and upload his/her own "approach movie", a player can enjoy introducing his/her skill in the game approach to another player, and the game becomes more enjoyable.

This here: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=Nintendo.AS.&OS=AN/Nintendo&RS=AN/Nintendo is a decent read, but it's pretty long (I haven't read the whole thing myself, skip a bit down).

at 18 I couldent figure that out.

Theres been rumors that the zelda wii game was in develepont during the time TP was being ported to the wii.  Also this might be an implentation in the game that they put in a few months back and are just patented it now.  Take into mind that mayamoto likes making his game extremely hard, but usually tone it down.  He wanted to make mario galazy even harder but was only able to lower mario hp to 3 heart.  They might've made zelda wii game so hard that they had no choice to implement this hint system lol.

How do you know this? Where did u read this? SMG, hard? what?

This.