The Wii U

[KingDrool]

I made that same mistake with my DSi, when I traded it in for the 3DS. Granted, it was only a few - kinda crappy - games. Nevertheless, they're gone forever!

The way it's set up now, though, is easier. Even though my Wii-to-WiiU transfer was somehow corrupted, I was still able to go in and re-download all my VC and WiiWare titles on my WiiU. It was a pain in the ass, but at least it was possible.

[SegaSaturn51195]

Someone from Nintendo is calling me back tomorrow about this issue, hopefully allowing me to redownload the games on my Wii U through the Wii menu. If I have to get a new Wii and get Nintendo to transfer my games to that console, I'll do that. Then I'll transfer them to my Wii U. Or, they can just refund me 500,000 Wii Shop points (lol) and let me download the games again. Next time I'll be smart and just get the roms and an emulator for my Galaxy S3, hook my phone to my TV through HDMI, and play the games with a Bluetooth control pad. It would be nice to be able to play them on my Wii U since I already bought them.

[Nando]

Is there a way to backup/save the Nintendo digital downloads externally?

[td741]

Is there a way to backup/save the Nintendo digital downloads externally?

You can transfer them to SD card and they are visible.  However, I think the VC/Wii Ware titles are locked to a particular console instead of an account.

[geise]

Yep, locked to the system console.

[Nando]

Yep, locked to the system console.

Ain't that some bullshit

[SegaSaturn51195]

Someone from Nintendo called me today and said they'll push it higher up to see if they can "make an exception" since I purchased so much content. I don't like their policy/user agreement. I only sold the Wii once I heard that it was backwards compatible and that you could play your Virtual Console/WiiWare games on the Wii U. I didn't stop to think that the purchases would still be locked to the console. My fault, I guess, but I can prove that I'm the one who owns the new Wii U and that I'm the one who purchased that games. They're linked to my Club Nintendo Account. They should just refund me the amount of points so I can repurchase them. I even said I would go buy a new regular Wii and send it to Nintendo so they can put my purchases on there. But since I deleted my Wii Shop account 5 months ago when I sold my Wii on Ebay, they said "too much time has passed." I told them I would wait for their response before I complain to the Better Business Bureau and possibly open a small claims case. We'll see what happens. I hate pouring so much time and money into a company that has policies that totally screw you over.

[SegaSaturn51195]

Well, Nintendo called me back already and said they researched it as much as possible but there's nothing they can do, that their user agreement states that if you delete your shop channel account from the Wii console when you sell your Wii you can't retrieve your purchases on a new Wii or Wii U system. I'm out 70+ Virtual Console/WiiWare games, they can't transfer the purchases to my Wii U, to a new Wii if I would buy one, and they can't credit me any points to my Wii Shop account. I only sold the Wii after I read that you could play your VC/WiiWare purchases on the new Wii U system. I did not know you needed to use the transfer tool to go from Wii to Wii U. I'm going to add up the amount of money i spent on those 70+ games. Like it would really hurt their bottom line to add up the games I purchased and issue me a credit. Simply terrible. That's why I play Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and not Nintendo products. :-(

[Arkhan]

To be fair, you basically assumed their system worked the same as a different system.   You should've just waited to see how it all worked before dumping/selling things, man.


Still, Hopefully they help you out. 

[SegaSaturn51195]

I'd even buy a new Wii and let Nintendo transfer my content, then I'll use the transfer tool to get it on my Wii U. But they won't even let me do that. I'll stick to Microsoft/Sony for now on when buying games online. Nintendo's policy is anti-consumer.

[SegaSaturn51195]

I actually found the buyer of my console on Ebay. He bought it in July. I wrote him and asked if I can buy the console back. If I can buy the console back, the same serial number that I made the purchases from, there should be no reason why Nintendo can't help me get my games back on that account even though I deactivated the Wii Shop account. Right?

[Arkhan]

I actually found the buyer of my console on Ebay. He bought it in July. I wrote him and asked if I can buy the console back. If I can buy the console back, the same serial number that I made the purchases from, there should be no reason why Nintendo can't help me get my games back on that account even though I deactivated the Wii Shop account. Right?

Find out before you blow money buying another Wii, lol

[Nando]

http://kotaku.com/5964432/hacker-says-hes-cracked-open-the-wii-u-cpu-is-nothing-to-write-home-about

"Hector Martin, he who put together the first open-source driver for Microsoft's Kinect two years ago, now says he's cracked open the Wii U.

He won't say what he did to get the details out of Nintendo's latest console, but he did tweet some juicy (and very, very technical) tidbits about the system"



It read to me like it's the SNES like design all over again?

[SegaSaturn51195]

The buyer has agreed to send back the original Wii unit so I can possibly recover my games from the Wii Shop, then transfer them to my Wii U, then send the guy back his Wii. This should be interesting...

[Nando]

The buyer has agreed to send back the original Wii unit so I can possibly recover my games from the Wii Shop, then transfer them to my Wii U, then send the guy back his Wii. This should be interesting...

HA. KI. SACK!

Hope it all goes smoothly.