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    Finally! Free Wii Points for loyal Nintendo buyers

    Remember when you bought a Nintendo game, and got a code for "VIP 24/7 Stars Points"? And how they're entirely useless, allowing you to buy, at best, some clip-art? Yeah? Well...

    https://wiipointscard.nintendo-europe.com/

    Exchange stars for Wii Points, for use on the Virtual Console!

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    Re: Finally! Free Wii Points for loyal Nintendo buyers

    Woohoo, no more having to wait till I gather 5000 points for the short supplies of free ds games!




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    Last edited by Workaholic; 07-12-2007 at 03:59 PM.
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    Re: Finally! Free Wii Points for loyal Nintendo buyers

    yeah, it's a bit overloaded

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    Re: Finally! Free Wii Points for loyal Nintendo buyers

    Nice, I thought they would just conveniently forget about this while doing the site redesign.
    Anyone manage to see what the stars to wii points ratio is?

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    Re: Finally! Free Wii Points for loyal Nintendo buyers

    Cool.... A 4:1 exchange rate isn't too generous mind. Has anyone else checked the stars catalogue? There are some new bits in there I think - leather DS cases, etc

    Wii Points Cards come in several denominations. Please choose your card from the available ones listed below and click on 'Purchase' to go to the confirmation screen and receive your Wii Points Card Code.

    Edit 1:

    Quote Originally Posted by nintendo
    Wii Points Card 100
    This Wii Points Card costs 400 Stars.
    >500 Wii Points Card(s) of this type are still available.

    Wii Points Card 300
    This Wii Points Card costs 1200 Stars.
    >500 Wii Points Card(s) of this type are still available.

    Wii Points Card 500
    This Wii Points Card costs 2000 Stars.
    >500 Wii Points Card(s) of this type are still available.

    Wii Points Card 1000
    This Wii Points Card costs 4000 Stars.
    >1000 Wii Points Card(s) of this type are still available.
    Edit 2:

    Quote Originally Posted by nintendo
    The Wii Points Card Shop is momentarily closed due to maintenance work. Please come back later. We apologise for the inconvenience.
    Edit 3:

    It's been up briefly - have managed to 'buy' 1400 points but only got the codes for 2 of them...
    Last edited by malfunction; 07-12-2007 at 05:10 PM.

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    Re: Finally! Free Wii Points for loyal Nintendo buyers

    Awesome find - loving your work!

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    Re: Finally! Free Wii Points for loyal Nintendo buyers

    Thanks, I think Ive got a few of those cards tucked away somewhere...

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    At last.. I got past the log in page
    There doesn't seem to be the options to add more star points from cards that I was too lazy to scratch though :/

    edit: nvm its on the main site *goes to find cards to scratch*
    Last edited by merple; 07-12-2007 at 11:31 PM. Reason: found it

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    Re: Finally! Free Wii Points for loyal Nintendo buyers

    weeeeeeee, i got got 1300 points

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    Re: Finally! Free Wii Points for loyal Nintendo buyers

    awesome, i've been checking the nintendovip site every week for months waiting for this to happen - glad they have finally done it I have 4 900 point i think, should be enough for a fair few wii points

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    Re: Finally! Free Wii Points for loyal Nintendo buyers

    Quote Originally Posted by Elspuddy View Post
    weeeeeeee, i got got 1300 points
    odd.. I got two 500 point cards and when I tried to get another card it said i'd reached my limit for today

    haven't punched in the codes to my wii yet as my batteries have died >.<
    any recommendations for must have games in the VC catalogue?

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    Re: Finally! Free Wii Points for loyal Nintendo buyers

    Oooooh looks good, now to dig out my old scratched cards and hope that the codes now work!
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    Quote Originally Posted by merple View Post
    odd.. I got two 500 point cards and when I tried to get another card it said i'd reached my limit for today
    That's what it did to me too - bought a 1000 point, a 300 point and a 100 point but it wouldn't give me the code for the final one until tomorrow.

    Quote Originally Posted by merple View Post
    any recommendations for must have games in the VC catalogue?
    Must haves? Zelda (Ocarina) and Mario 64 on the N64... Though be prepared for basic graphics and non too great frame rates (especially in Zelda). Maybe Yoshi's Sotory and Paper Mario too.

    Other recommended titles:

    If you never had a Turbografx / PC Engine then you might be suprised how good the shooter games are on there - Blazing Lasers (AKA Gunhed), Dead Moon, Gate of Thunder, Soldier Blade and Super Star Soldier. The conversions of R-Type and Ninja Spirit are very close to the arcade version but if you have them elsewhere they probably aren't worth a separate purchase.

    Yet more good shooters are the two Treasure games - Gunstar Heroes (Megadrive) and Sin and Punishment (N64) and though I've never played it I've heard Dynamite Headdy is supposed to be good too (more of a platformer that one I believe).

    Act Raiser is a good SNES game though beware - the only SNES game I've purchased (Super Mario World) will not work on my TV... The SNES emulator appears to switch the Wii into a weird video mode. I'm told it will probably work if I switch back to composite instead of component but I can't be doing with that (maybe if I had an RGB cable to try). Other good SNES games are Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2, Super Mario World, Super Probotector, Super Catlevania IV, Super Metroid, Zelda (A Link to the Past)

    I never had a NES so I'm not a big fan but having said that Super Mario Bros. 3 is meant to be very good and the old Zelda games may be worth digging up.

    Bomberman 93 (Turbografx again) is great if you play the battle mode with friends.

    Ghouls 'n Ghosts (Megadrive) isa good arcade conversion.

    Neutopia and Neutopia II (Turbografx) are pretty decent old school RPGs (quite like early Ys games)

    Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Megadrive) and Kirby's Ghost Trap (SNES) are both versions of Puyo Puyo - a respectable Tetris / Dr. Mario style game.

    On the racing game front F-Zero, F-Zero X and Mario Kart 64 are all good...

    What else... The "Shining" RPGs on the Megadrive are meant to be good (never played them first time around myself).

    Military Madness (Turbografx) is very simplistic but is basically where Advance Wars (GBA / DS) began. It's also rock hard (you have been warned)...

    I could go on... All in all Nintendo have chosen pretty good games all round (though there is still some crap on there IMO)

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    Re: Finally! Free Wii Points for loyal Nintendo buyers

    You have 1170 Stars...bugger

    Well I have mario galaxy at least to get a points code from still


    well 1670 now, found my mario galaxy & mario strikers ones
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    Re: Finally! Free Wii Points for loyal Nintendo buyers

    YES! it's about time, I have 11,885 stars to spend, it's a pity all the Wii bags have gone in the stars catalogue, I could have done with one of those.
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    Re: Finally! Free Wii Points for loyal Nintendo buyers

    Personally, after spending over &#163;500 on various nintendo merchandise (&#163;700 if they'd let me register my second bloody wii's star point), I can only get 800 points... that smarts me a little.

    That and at this moment, only 100 points cards are left and you can only buy 2 cards a day... How stupid. Time to wait for nintendo to wake up and get it right.

    Once again nintendo makes my wii a less and less attractive prospect.
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