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I've bought mario 64 and ocarina of time 3 times each. (N64, ds systems, and on the wii.) My wii disc drive broke 6 months ago. I tried to repair it, and I fa
by billsix 14y ago
I've bought mario 64 and ocarina of time 3 times each. (N64, ds systems, and on the wii.) My wii disc drive broke 6 months ago. I tried to repair it, and I failed, as i broke the connection of the data ribbon to the disc drive. This faulty repair to the disc drive then made virtual console games unplayable, even though they make no use of the disc drive.
Nintendo won't transfer my purchases to new hardware, whereas my physical copies of the game all still work the same as the day I bought them. I could pay Nintendo 80 dollars to repair my drive to recover ~150 dollars worth of downloaded games.
I'm not buying these games for a fourth time, and I do not recommend buying any downloadable products from Nintendo.
- ashray 14y agoWell, considering that you legally own the titles you could look into emulating them. Homebrew on the Wii is pretty advanced right now and you could use that to retrieve ROMs for all your titles and still play them. Obviously, that doesn't say anything good about Nintendo but I'm just trying to solve a pain point for you. Also, 3DS games on the eShop in Europe have ridiculous prices. A game in the US costs $39.99 (in the eShop) whereas the UK price is GBP 39.99 ~ $64! UK 3DS users can use the Ireland eShop (same language games but Euro prices) to get their games for around $57. Still VERY abusive of Nintendo! :(
- anonymous 14y agoPersonally, I quite like nintendo's hardware and own both a Wii and a DS. But I bought them only after they became fully freedom-compliant and I plan to do the same with the current generation - the WiiU and 3DS. They're just games. No sense giving up my liberties for a console.