Topic: The virtual console EULA

[KDR_11k]

How many of you are going to obey that thing? I'm talking about the contract that says that you have to wipe your Wii's data and force it to lose all downloaded games before passing it on to somebody else. Would you actually do that or would you just sell the thing and ignore that?

[GoldenPhoenix]

Interesting question, personally I would probably wipe it clean not only because it is asked of me, but I want the opportunity to be open to get them back at a later date if I rebuy the Wii. Anyway this is more of an unrealistic scenario for me because I have NEVER sold a Nintendo console (besides handhelds when I was upgrading).

[KDR_11k]

but I want the opportunity to be open to get them back at a later date if I rebuy the Wii.

Um, you can still buy them again with your new Wii, if you wiped the old one or not.

[NeoThunder]

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
but I want the opportunity to be open to get them back at a later date if I rebuy the Wii.

Um, you can still buy them again with your new Wii, if you wiped the old one or not.

I don't think thats what she ment....I think she means redownload them without buying them again

....but I'm not sure if you could do this cause only thing i'm aware of is transferring your info to another console assuming you have the old one.  

[KDR_11k]

I don't think that's possible, for one it deletes all records of what games you downloaded and for another even if Nintendo kept track of it how would they know who can reclaim that account?

[couchmonkey]

I think you'd have a lot of headaches getting your games back if you sold a Wii and bought a new one.  As far as I've heard only Nintendo could download the games for you and even then I think they'd want both Wiis before they'd do it.

I might delete my old data, because I have  this weird quirk about other people taking advantage of my success.  I always deleted my save files on rental games before returning them.  Like I said, weird.  I'd definitely delete the game saves, but maybe not the virtual console games.

[Taija-Herbal]

If I'm gonna sell mine.. I'll leave it on to push up the value i sell it for.. sort off buy the wii and get...........

[18 Days]

The thing is, we don't own the VC games, we're given the privlidge of licencing them for our use. Nintendo could, on a whim, disable all our VC games via a system update if they wanted.

[KDR_11k]

That's what Nintendo says but would you give a damn considering they can't spot that you've resold your Wii without wiping it?

[segagamer12]

well you can link our VC games to your nintendo insider account and they register all your games on thier website and doing so allows you to reclaim anygames you lost. also since your paying witha  credit card they have that information as well. so you could very easily retrieve any lost data if you sold yoru Wii and got a neweer one, like Imma do when black comes out.  

[KDR_11k]

I doubt they'll retrieve your data for you, though.

[Shecky]

So what exactly is the point of linking a console to a MyNintendo account if it's not to make it easier to redownload to a new unit.

[KDR_11k]

Dunno what the US system for that is but here in Europe it's supposed to allow your Wii to interact with your star points somehow. Perhaps NoA saw that NoE and NCL were linking website accounts to Wiis (or just that the Wii had that feature) so they did the same.