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[Jofamo]

So I bit the bullet and ordered the SNES Classic Controller for 7000 Stars. I couldn't hold out hope for better items much longer, and with F-Zero and Super Metroid landing soon on the WiiU VC, I'm looking forward to giving it a go.

Seems it's also fetches a nice penny online if I decided to sell it.

Figured I'll just buy some Japanese Club Nintendo 3DS cases off eBay or something, rather than wait.

 

[TunaLover]

Hi, someone is interested in exchange PAL codes for american ones?
I have: Disaster DoC, and Another Code: R

 

[Samurai_Heart]

Hi, someone is interested in exchange PAL codes for american ones?
I have: Disaster DoC, and Another Code: R

Try here dude:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=115958

 

[Aostia]

I've finally (FINALLYYYYYY) receive my RPG Coins for Xeno, TLS, Pandora...I like the box and the coins!
And I've also ordered the Galaxy Collector's OST.

 

[Jofamo]

Wow, that arrived really fucking fast. Just over a week. That's the fastest I've ever had anything come from Club Nintendo, impressed.

Now, do I open it and play some F-Zero and Super Metroid, or sell it and buy Monster Hunter Ultimate on WiiU and 3DS?

 

[Ath]

Got my SNES classic controller today as well! Agreed that this is the fastest I've ever received anything from Club Nintendo. Been playing F-Zero with it on my Wii U, the controller just feels right.

 

[Jofamo]

Dude that's a little freaky. I literally just took almost the same photo;

I played FZero for a couple of hours straight today using it, most I've done so far. You're right, it feels awesome. Can't wait for Super Metroid.

 

[Ath]

Oh snap! Your setup is better than mine though with all those games there!

 

[Chance Hale]

Someone mentioned Club Nintendo europe in the monster hunter thread which made me remember that I have copies of Pandora's Tower and Fatal Frame that were gifted to me last year which have European club nintendo slips I cannot use. If anyone here would like them just quote this post.

Edit: Fatal Frame/aka Project Zero II

Edit 2: Scrolled up and saw that giveaway thread, so ignore this post Wish we had that classic snes controller gift!

 

[also]

Someone mentioned Club Nintendo europe in the monster hunter thread which made me remember that I have copies of Pandora's Tower and Fatal Frame that were gifted to me last year which have European club nintendo slips I cannot use. If anyone here would like them just quote this post.

Edit: Fatal Frame/aka Project Zero II

I would like them. Thanks!

 

[Chance Hale]

I would like them. Thanks!

Well, nevermind it seems. Someone responded already. Will PM you in a minute, NoE is fancy and puts those metallic bands over the codes.

Edit: Sent! Good redeeming and such.

 

[BriBri]

Mega long Animal Crossing survey

And the catalogue has been updated with three notebooks not even worth me copying and pasting the image tags.

 

[Shiggy]

I have a code for Last Window, would anyone mind to exchange it for another one?

 

[TunaLover]

Try here dude:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=115958

Thanks =), I did, hope to be lucky

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

Just saw this was updated. Got about 1500 points expiring at the end of March, and there's still absolutely nothing of interest on there. Super Mario shoelaces? An absolute joke.

 

[CrunchinJelly]

I just logged in my account and I have stars for Monster Hunter on 3DS? I don't even own the game?!

Edit: I wonder if I forgot to remove my Club Nintendo details on my old OG 3DS when I sold it. I notice it's the eShop version so someone must have bought it while it was still linked to my account.

Oh well. Not gonna change my password and hope the buy more. LOL

 

[frankie_baby]

oh well just got the boo notebook with half an hour to spare before a boatload of stars run out

 

[CrunchinJelly]

oh well just got the boo notebook with half an hour to spare before a boatload of stars run out

Yeah I have 1500 expiring in April. I currently have over 16000. I wish they would put up some huge statue or eShop cards or something.

 

[ShellyDeKiller]

16,675 stars since registration. Never even held 8,000. This expiration thing is a joke.

They don't even send emails warning that my stars are expiring anymore. I won't be surprised if I find out I lost some in march.

Buncha crooks.

 

[Starwolf_UK]

They don't even send emails warning that my stars are expiring anymore. I won't be surprised if I find out I lost some in march.

The monthly newsletter has that info in it. That usually turns up in the middle of the month. I guess they though it was redundant saying twice.

But the expiration was their solution to star hoarding that happened over the years of giving people stars for free while having nothing to buy.

I personally think a cap of say 10,000 would work better as that would set a firm limit on the kind of gift you can expect to get, it solves the problem. Which before the Zelda Statue and Pokemon platinum DS (this one was a whopping 30,000 stars) was pretty much the cap. You had Gamecubes and even the limited edition Minish Cap GBA SP (its not the same as the retail hardware bundle; this one was limited to 300 units with a certificate, I forget other details). No wait, I forgot another absurdly priced thing of Club Nintendo old. The Nintendogs Kennel. A plastic Dog Kennel with the Nintendogs logo on it! I think that might have been over 10,000 stars...

Then again a lot of the lower gifts might be getting bought only because there are points on the table about to expire rather than any actual interest so it would end up with the same problem of lack of interesting items due to no budget and/or them selling out and not getting restocked.

 

[Jackano]

16,675 stars since registration. Never even held 8,000. This expiration thing is a joke.

They don't even send emails warning that my stars are expiring anymore. I won't be surprised if I find out I lost some in march.

Buncha crooks.

I've experienced something worse. In January it said I had 900 stars expiring in february, so I ordered a 4500 stars DS G&W Collection and... one week later the 1st february I got the 900 stars off my balance... It's a new site bug because before that, expiring stars was spent first (like every system based on expiring points). Emailed Nintendo but no reply and no correction :/ It's a mess, and people ask why they cann't do account systems ^^"

 

[frankie_baby]

Yeah I have 1500 expiring in April. I currently have over 16000. I wish they would put up some huge statue or eShop cards or something.

my bloody order might not of gone through and cant get the stupid website to work now, great, cant remember how many exactly but think its over 1000 down the drain

 

[ShellyDeKiller]

The monthly newsletter has that info in it. That usually turns up in the middle of the month. I guess they though it was redundant saying twice.

Come to think of it.... I don't receive the nintendo newsletter anymore. O_O

 

[bitoriginal]

Had 1200 stars expiring this month so I've had to go with the SNES controller. They really need to get some new stuff on there.

 

[ShellyDeKiller]

16,675 stars since registration. Never even held 8,000. This expiration thing is a joke.

They don't even send emails warning that my stars are expiring anymore. I won't be surprised if I find out I lost some in march.

Buncha crooks.

Yup, lost another 250 stars...

 

[Starwolf_UK]

Yeah I have 1500 expiring in April. I currently have over 16000. I wish they would put up some huge statue or eShop cards or something.

If only you were Russian, then you could get the ugly Zelda statue.

 

[PAULINK]

Do stars expire? I bought some old DS games, I am willing to give them away.

 

[ShellyDeKiller]

Do stars expire? I bought some old DS games, I am willing to give them away.

I'd welcome them. I mean, the codes.

 

[Shiggy]

Do stars expire? I bought some old DS games, I am willing to give them away.

I would like them

 

[PAULINK]

Huh, I checked and it seems like Tingle's rupeeland is the only one that expired.

Shiggy and Shedekiller, please tell me which code you want so I don't give you a duplicate

Last Window
Jam With The Band
Pokemon Typing adventure

I will give the last one to the next person who asks for one.

Edit: Last Window is the last one I have! If you haven't bought this game yet, shame on you

 

[ShellyDeKiller]

Huh, I checked and it seems like Tingle's rupeeland is the only one that expired.

Shiggy and Shedekiller, please tell me which code you want so I don't give you a duplicate

Last Window
Jam With The Band
Pokemon Typing adventure

I will give the last one to the next person who asks for one.

Jam with the band. If not, Pokemon typing.

 

[Shiggy]

Huh, I checked and it seems like Tingle's rupeeland is the only one that expired.

Shiggy and Shedekiller, please tell me which code you want so I don't give you a duplicate

Last Window
Jam With The Band
Pokemon Typing adventure

I will give the last one to the next person who asks for one.

Thanks! I don't have Pokemon yet.

 

[CengizMan]

Huh, I checked and it seems like Tingle's rupeeland is the only one that expired.

Shiggy and Shedekiller, please tell me which code you want so I don't give you a duplicate

Last Window
Jam With The Band
Pokemon Typing adventure

I will give the last one to the next person who asks for one.

I would like Last Window, if you're giving them away anyway.

 

[Zafir]

16,675 stars since registration. Never even held 8,000. This expiration thing is a joke.

They don't even send emails warning that my stars are expiring anymore. I won't be surprised if I find out I lost some in march.

Buncha crooks.

Yeah, when they first changed the system I lost 5000 stars.

Since then I just stockpiled them till I had a load and did them all at once. Got 10400. Hope they put something up soon thats good, because I think they'll start running out in late summer. >.<

 

[ShellyDeKiller]

Yeah, when they first changed the system I lost 5000 stars.

Since then I just stockpiled them till I had a load and did them all at once. Got 10400. Hope they put something up soon thats good, because I think they'll start running out in late summer. >.<

I started stockpiling them a few months ago.
I'll probably have 0 stars in the account by the time something good shows up.

 

[dlee83]

I'm personally getting really annoyed with the state of the stars catalogue. I've collected stars over the years, and whilst the choice of items you can spend your stars on has always been pretty appalling I've always appreciated the scheme as anything you get effectively for nothing has to be worthwhile. As I say I have collected them for years and thus got some nice stuff from the catalogue at times. But instead of improving it just seems to go from bad to worse. It's not so much the lack of choice (although this is clearly a problem) but, for instance, on the website support pages it says 'we are currently setting up the survey process for software that is downloaded from the Nintendo eShop. Once we have completed this set-up process, you will be given the option to fill out the survey and collect your 50 stars for all Nintendo eShop software you have already purchased' - the 3DS eshop has been about for practically 2 years now, and I know that message has been on the website for at least a year. However long does it take?!? Why can you exchange your stars for redundant nintendo points, but not for eshop credit, or at the very least for certain download codes like you can in the US one? It's not like I'm asking for a major overhaul of the scheme, but the fact that these changes (already available in other regions) would literally take a matter of minutes to implement just seems ludicrous. Whatever are Nintendo playing at right now? It seems the whole company must be taking a years sabbatical or something. At the back end of last year and around the Wii U launch the stars catalogue & web page was down for around a month from what I remember, I thought that when it returned it would, at the very least, have the updates/changes that I've already spoken about but no, it seems they spent that month redesigning the site and layout but not actually changing any of the content whatsoever. I've been an avid Nintendo fan and collector over the years (over 95,000 stars earnt in total) but have, unfortunately, really begun to lose faith and interest over the last couple of years

 

[dlee83]

And to add to my frustration I have just answered a Luigis Mansion survey 3 times, only to get a 404:I am error message at the end on each occasion, what a waste of time!

 

[also]

You can now redeem stars for non-retail 3DS eShop games. Sadly, you still can't do it for DSi ware or VC games.
PICROSSe and Gunman Clive both gave me 50 stars so it looks like the price of the game doesn't matter.

 

[Tempy]

You can now redeem stars for non-retail 3DS eShop games. Sadly, you still can't do it for DSi ware or VC games.
PICROSSe and Gunman Clive both gave me 50 stars so it looks like the price of the game doesn't matter.

Finally!

 

[Linkstrikesback]

They appear to have added the option to claim stars for Wii U eShop games too. At least, some of them have appeared on my list. It doesn't appear to let me claim stars for any Wii U or 3DS virtual console games though.

 

[Tempy]

Filling in simple surveys like these is mind-numbing.

How I wish they'd re-release something like Turtle Bridge or Octopus Game & Watch instead of Ball.

 

[Colin.]

I really hope the catalogue gets some new additions soon. There's so little choice and none of it is appealing to me. Just hope I can use my 5000+ before they expire.

 

[meppi]

Never had any points expire at all. Guess I spend them in time. Not sure how long it takes before they start to expire, but it used to be 12 months.

Just checking my account I seem to have collected 51280 points in total since the start. lol
Have 7100 right now and I'm thinking if I should go for a third Super Nintendo controller or select the Ball Game & Watch when I buy Fire Emblem next week.

 

[Colin.]

Just checking my account I seem to have collected 51280 points in total since the start. lol
Have 7100 right now and I'm thinking if I should go for a third Super Nintendo controller or select the Ball Game & Watch when I buy Fire Emblem next week.

I would personally go for the controller. You will get more use out of it, and it would be great for virtual console. Game & Watch would just be a collectable dust gather imo.

 

[Tenki]

Now I have a thousand surveys, and I can't finish them because the last page doesn't load

 

[CrunchinJelly]

I just got about 600 points from all my digital surveys. Even free stuff like Zen Pinball, Tank Tank Tank and Eurosport are included.

Ordered the shoelaces with my expiring points.

 

[meppi]

I would personally go for the controller. You will get more use out of it, and it would be great for virtual console. Game & Watch would just be a collectable dust gather imo.

I'm thinking the same thing, although I do have 12 original Game & Watches still in brand new condition, so I'm tempted to add this reproduction to the collection.

 

[Deadpandas]

So.. apparently you can't register 2 3DS on the same account, even if they're different colours, which is extremely stupid.

So I have a code for a white 3DS (original model) for trade. I'll accept anything that I don't already have

edit: gone

 

[Starwolf_UK]

So I take it the WiiWare surveys are not cokming back...I had a whole load of those to do...I'm upset from the principle rather than the stars (I've got enough slips to hit Ball or SNES CC when they start to expire soon-ish*). I suppose I should give the brick wall that is the customer services a go as I don't recall them saying that they would be gone for good with the site redesign...

Also looks like the whole "only logs downloads after link is made, redownloads don't count" is back so thats stars from free apps I'm not getting (as previous owner did download them...as well as a mystery item I can't figure out but time frame suggests it could be NSMB2 DLC). Lesson learned; system format? (unless the mystery item is the NSMB2 DLC...if I ever get the game).

*-Both are dust collectors for me. The Game and Watch would be the 4th alarm clock my life desperately needs though making it a tough choice.

So.. apparently you can't register 2 3DS on the same account, even if they're different colours, which is extremely stupid.

On the other hand you can link your Club Nintendo account to both...

But yeah its a little odd as back in the days of old they allowed systems of different bundles to work.

And to add to my frustration I have just answered a Luigis Mansion survey 3 times, only to get a 404:I am error message at the end on each occasion, what a waste of time!

Oh yeah. This happened to me with skyward sword so I saved the URL and nope, survey ended up expiring on me...its Nintendos loss that they never got to hear my rant about Fi

 

[BriBri]

Since when did the double stars for eShop retail titles end? I only got 250 for Fire Emblem

Edit: 500 stars have since appeared.