[quote name='kitsunisan']Could someone who's done this before clarify something for me? You get a wristband when you go in saying you get the game, not whoever gets to the register with $40 first? So if you get there early, you could spend a half hour browsing around before checking out and you'd be good?[/QUOTE]
That is correct.
I was the first person in line, they put a wrist band on me about an hour or so before they opened. When the doors opened, I casually went in w/ everyone, and when I finally got to the counter and paid, they took my wrist band and gave me the game.
(Just as a general tip; if you don't get your stuff quick, you're going to be waiting in the checkout line a LOOONNGGGG time. I had to wait in the checkout line for an hour and a half that night. Take a 3DS or something!)