Be Excellent To Each Other

When you buy Nintendo stuff there's normally a little paper slip with a scratch panel. You register the product on their site and you get 'star' points for your trouble.

It's a fantastic system.

I'd have thought Wii Fit would have stars with it. Is No More Heroes an official Nintendo title, I forget? Plus you should have stars with your Wii too.

Yeah, you can buy all sorts of exciting wallpapers for your desktop

In Japan you can actually get some great stuff, we in Europe are rewarded with peanuts.

At one point you could swap your star points for Wii points, but they gave out about 50 sets of Wii points and then decided that they had 'sold out', they were impossible to get hold of (of course, being a virtual product, they couldn't have sols out, but as everyone had all their useless star points for years with absolutely nothing to spend them on NoE suddenly realised the implications of teh amount of WII points they'd be giving away.

Star points are pretty useless in my opinion.

Just noticed that bit of text on the Points shop page saying that a certain amount are available each day so I guess it's just a case of getting on early enough.

I think the Stars system isn't bad - am I right in saying that it's only Europe that it applies to? Or do other regions have different incentives?

My stars bought me Puzzle League/Dr Mario for the GBA and bought me quite a few Wii Points so can't complain.

The last couple of months there has been alot more stuff available than there has for the last year and a half Ive been on. But the whole stars expiring thing is shocking, they start putting decent rubbish stuff you can actually hold in your hand but anyone thats been a loyal follower of nintendo suddenly has no stars anymore to buy them.

Worse than useless, a PR adventure which has totally blown up in their faces. It's certainly managed to guarantee that they're getting no further money from me.

I watched my friend playing some levels near the end, and they looked fairly complicated. Gravity switched regularly, there were those gravity changing spotlights, there were enemies hurling stuff at you, and all in all it looked pretty nifty.

All I've had to do is basically trial and error my way around some utterly non-threatening levels, apart from one level that had some moving floors with holes in - I liked that bit... but largely it just seems a little dull for the first few hours.

I've never even scratched the silver panel off any of the star slips that came in my gamecube and wii games...

At least you lot get Star Points. Over here we're stuck with stupid codes that you enter into the Nintendo site (if you can be bothered registering) and it says "Well done, you have registered [Game X] - here it is in a list beside all the other games you've registered. Okay. Go away now, cheers".
Oh, I suppose I got a free three month trial of Nintendo Power, but that was more of a punishment than a benefit, really.

Some folk actually sell them on Ebay. I bought a batch of them very cheaply and nearly all of them were for games I didn't have (you can't register a title twice) so it worked out as a nice way of getting a load of stars and subsequently Wii Points.

That I can only understand to a point - what if I buy a game, use it and lose it, then buy it again? I've paid twice, the stars are in there, why can't I use them, if I've paid for them? The thing that realy galled me though was the two DSes I bought - I had a reguler (which I'd not have bought if I knew they would release a different one within eighteen months but that's another story) then I bought a lite, so's I could play 42 all time classics with my wife. I could have bought apack of cards but Nintendo Fanboy that I am I gave them £120 to do the same thing instead.

And I couldn't register my 500 DSLite points because I already have a DS fat.

THEY ARE DIFFERENT CONSOLES, FFS.

Especially petty when you consider what 400 points gets you - 100 wii points, or about 60p.

You should give the points to your wife, on her birthday.

THEY ARE CHARGING FOR THE FUCKING BROWSER NOW?!?!!!?!??!?!!?!

Yeah, it was only free to the folk who tried it out early on.

As far as I know you can't hand over the points but you could always buy someone a game with them using the gift option.

I'm putting this down to annoyed exaggeration because if you are actually boycotting Nintendo over their rubbish loyalty scheme then you are a mentalist.

I doubt many would boycott Nintendo over this alone, but for some it may be the straw which breaks the camel's back...

Yeah that makes sense i can understand others thing turning you off them.

But for how annoying the stars to points shit is it has actually got me 2000 Wii Points which is much, much better than anything I was offered over the time of the cube.

I don't play it because i simply don't have time. Stupid work, what it is good for??

Weekends are no good, i prefer the beach after being 45 hours on a desk during the week.

If only. In the literal sense. At least peanuts have nutritional value.

I used to use my star points, but since early last year, haven't. For my earlier games DS and Wii games that had star point vouchers, but were used, I've tracked down unused vouchers to make my game packages "complete" again. (Please don't call me mad.)

I play my Wii nearly every day. It is my favourite TV-based games console since the Super NES. My girlfriend likes it, I've got a range of suitable games to play with younger relatives and other children... It's great.

It's not the only thing that's caused this, and you probably misunderstand what I mean. It essentially means that anything I do buy will be second hand, and so nintendo won't see any more of my money.

and if you have star points left, you can give them the code when buying them online, natch

Boy, Super Mario Galaxy is a lot of work.

Still not really all that fun yet.

Maybe it's because I really like some of the music and really hate the rest. And really like the Observatory and really hate Rosalina.

she's quite goodish in mario kart (and wears a nice tracksuit, yum)

Have you been a bee? Or rolled the ball around? Joyful.

Lovefilm are sending me The Umbrella Chronicles today, so I may actually play my Wii again this weekend. Woo!

its ok. bit boring after a bit.

Yeah, that's why I'm renting it.

The bee is slow and cumbersome. The ball has very not good music. I seem to be good at it though. (I did the R.Gizmo galaxy first time.)

Well, I would be playing this if my cat hadn't chewed through the sensor bar cable.

When was the last time you turned your 360 on? You have friends requests!

It's been on for a total of about half an hour in the last couple of weeks, weirdly. I'll take a look later.

I’ve nicked this off Reddit but it made me smile so much and so widely that I wanted to share it.

Here goes: the Wii Shop is closing so let’s remember the best thing about the Wii. The music!

Remember this?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8avMLHvLwRQ

Now onto the MEGAMIXES!

First up, Drake - Hotline Bling.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gYOEyzBFYa4

Now Busta Rhymes goes to the Wii Shop.

https://m.soundcloud.com/datmanovader/b ... op-channel

And finally Macklemore.

https://m.soundcloud.com/ronsrogue/mack ... remastered

Enjoy!

I can’t get enough of Wii Shop Bling. I’d dance to that in da club in a totally unironic way.

Enjoyed those

But yikes - the bass on that first video was WAY too high for the headphones I was using. Ouch.