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InspectorCarbonara posted:Didn't the Donkey Kong Country games get taken down from the Wii VC a while ago? Maybe they took them down because they were planning/anticipating this promotion and wanted to make them feel like fresh releases, instead of "hey, now you can buy these games that are already available on your Wii U via the Wii VC on the Wii U VC too" which is a bit of a harder sell.
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I don't think this sale was 2 years in the making.
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Oct 13, 2014 10:28
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Come to think of it, if they're still down on the Wii VC, will the Wii U upgrade discount still apply? It should, but it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't anticipate this particular scenario and it breaks something.
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Oct 13, 2014 10:32
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I think on the technical end, their listings have just been removed. They still have entries in the backend, allowing them to be redownloaded by purchasers. That should be enough to confirm "yes this user owns this game" for the discount.
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Oct 13, 2014 10:36
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So I may have gotten the very last of the Animal Crossing posters off the Club Nintendo rewards...I ordered one last night and now its in the unavailable list. Sorry if anyone was eyeing those!
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I thought the Donkey Kong land games were good. It was the DKC ports that were really bad.
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greatn posted:I thought the Donkey Kong land games were good. It was the DKC ports that were really bad. Are you referring to the GBA ports or that bad GBC port of the first game?
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RMZXAnarchy posted:Are you referring to the GBA ports or that bad GBC port of the first game? The GBC one. Don't know how the GBA ones are but I imagine they suffer at least a little from the smaller resolution, especially on any stage where you move vertically.
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I know people might think the DKC poo poo got taken off due to licensing or whatever but that's what we thought about Earthbound's soundtrack and apparently that wasn't even the case? What I'm saying is nothing makes sense but I'm very glad we can finally play these again.
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MinibarMatchman posted:I know people might think the DKC poo poo got taken off due to licensing or whatever but that's what we thought about Earthbound's soundtrack and apparently that wasn't even the case? What I'm saying is nothing makes sense but I'm very glad we can finally play these again. There must have been a reason for them being taken down, but nintendo didn't offer any sort of explanation. Then, like with earthbound, someone offered a plausible explanation and it was taken as God.
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InspectorCarbonara posted:Didn't the Donkey Kong Country games get taken down from the Wii VC a while ago?
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I think Nintendo took down the Donkey Kong Country games because Shigeru Miyamoto saw Rise of the Planet of the Apes and it frightened him. It changed him.
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The Earthbound licensing issues things was great, because it was a better explanation than the real reason it wasn't released, which was, 'no one at Nintendo cared'.
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Well, I can't say I was expecting the DKC trilogy to show up on the Wii U's Virtual Console any time soon (or at all after they got taken down from the Wii's). I still have the first two on the Wii, I think, but I'll probably end up rebuying all of them anyway. I'll definitely be rebuying the second one regardless since it's my all-time favorite game.
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I'm going to destroy Europe.
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NA is getting Harmony of Dissonace/Aria of Sorrow this week so you still win.
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This might be worth a look: https://eshop.nintendo.net/redeem Someone was digging around Nintendo's URLs and found this URL: a work-in-progress version of their web eShop portal, and people are reporting that it's already operational in certain countries - if you drop a download code for a Wii U game into the form it'll automatically download on your console.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:This might be worth a look:  Soon I can buy games at work and have them ready for me when I get home instead of watching progress bars like a CHUMP.
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Oct 13, 2014 15:43
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Now if I can buy a game that hasn't been released yet, it either downloads automatically at midnight or downloads now and unlocks for play at midnight on release, that would be perfect.
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No new NA Club Nintendo rewards yet? Also, I'm 15 pts from platinum. Sooooo closeeeee.
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They really should put all the Lolo games out on VC. Even the confusing labyrinth games they held onto in Japan. I'm still waiting for Lolo 3.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:This might be worth a look: You have to be logged into the NNID linked to your Wii U for this to work, but I can confirm this works. I grabbed Kirby's Dream Course from Club Nintendo and dropped the eshop code on here. That was a little while ago, and I just turned on my Wii U and it was installed just fine.
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New Club Nintendo rewards Wrecking Crew and Kirby Dream Course on Wii U Zoda's Revenge and Maboshi's Arcade for Wii Kersploosh, 3D Classics Kid Icarus, Donkey Kong '94 and Brain Age Express Math for 3DS jivjov fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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jivjov posted:New Club Nintendo rewards Some people are reporting the 'Donkey Kong' on there is actually the far superior Donkey Kong 94.
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I just checked the Club Nintendo site, and yeah, they put the wrong picture of Donkey Kong up. It is the Game Boy '94 game, not the NES port of the arcade game. If you don't have it, get at it folks!
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13/f/cali posted:You have to be logged into the NNID linked to your Wii U for this to work, but I can confirm this works. I grabbed Kirby's Dream Course from Club Nintendo and dropped the eshop code on here. That was a little while ago, and I just turned on my Wii U and it was installed just fine. This website is currently unavailable in your region. Nintendo 
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codenameFANGIO posted:The Earthbound licensing issues things was great, because it was a better explanation than the real reason it wasn't released, which was, 'no one at Nintendo cared'. Woah woah woah! Are you serious? After all those years, the fans constant push and commitment to the creation of a massive petition including sending CD's of fan music, artwork and letters to the original creators plus Nintendo not to mention Reggie actually saying he is aware of the request for digital releases and Mother 3 being fan-translated they just couldn't be bothered? Can we just go back to pretending it was a music licencing issue?
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Oct 13, 2014 23:02
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Haha, you think NoA actually has the ability to decide anything that happens.
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The circumstances that led to the release are so bizarre too. The earthbound guy mentioned that he had a meeting with iwata on Twitter. Someone replied and asked him to ask about EB on the VC, and he said he'd bring it up. Shortly after the game gets announced for NA. After all the conspiracy theory bullshit, from the music to people thinking NOA just wants to spite the game's fans, it was kind of funny to see how it all played out in the end.
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Ronnie posted:Can we just go back to pretending it was a music licencing issue? No, because they didn't change any music for the digital release of Earthbound  So hey, as a guy who likes Kirby games and Mario Golf games is Kirby's Dream Course worth my sweet Club Nintendo coins?
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Kirby's Dream Course owns
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codenameFANGIO posted:No, because they didn't change any music for the digital release of Earthbound I'm not in any way saying that's what happened, but that's not valid reasoning -- music licensing problems can be resolved in two ways - sure, you can remove the offending music but you can also work with the rights holders and set up a deal.
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Ok, then. You can lie to yourself with a slight basis in reality, Ronnie.
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Someone at Nintendo (Trinen?) was asked about the music rights thing after the VC release and they were all "uhh, no, I don't think so?" and I tend to think they were being sincere. Anyway, Maboshi's Arcade is a weird, simple game(s) and I like that there's an option to download a version onto your 3/DS for no particular reason.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:This might be worth a look: Also works for the 3DS too.
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Silver95280 posted:Also works for the 3DS too. 
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I'd like to remind people that #lolo is officially the new #yolo https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/467099616165777408
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:This might be worth a look: Sneaky. Maybe they'll have a proper account system backing your purchases, too, sometime.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Someone at Nintendo (Trinen?) was asked about the music rights thing after the VC release and they were all "uhh, no, I don't think so?" and I tend to think they were being sincere. How does the download to 3DS work? I just got it but I don't see a menu option for it.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:I'd like to remind people that #lolo is officially the new #yolo https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/467099616165777408 Chronojam posted:Sneaky. Maybe they'll have a proper account system backing your purchases, too, sometime.
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