I think if you ask a mod like Insanolord or the all-powerful wizard of NWR, MegaByte, you can get your username changed and still have the same account. Hypotheliciously used to be KashogiStogi but had his username changed completely by a mod. Of course, Nintendo would never allow you this option. They randomly determine a user number for you which you can't create or change and then they force you to have to trade it with other players on another medium like the internet. Even when you do collect other user codes, you've then got to re-enter them in for every other game you want to play with those other users and sometimes there are even new codes created for that game forcing you to have to swap more numbers. Why can't Nintendo streamline their online experience like Microsoft or NWR?! They've got to be different just because they are senile, arrogant old fogeys out of touch with technology unlike me because I'm hip, young and sophisticated and know what other tech companies are doing. Nintendo is making themselves irrelevant and it started when they didn't have online gaming with the Gamecube but focused on expensive GBA connectivity multiplayer games. So stupid! I hope they learn their lesson and give third parties complete control of their hardware development from now on just like NWR users give complete control of their username and custom titles to the mods. Do it right!!