Question on the Virtual Console

Apologies for what should be a stupid question.

Let's say I download a few VC games, then my Wii breaks. What happens to said VC games - are they lost forever on the destroyed system and I need to rebuy them, or am I allowed to redownload them for free? Thanks in advance for your time :)

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Register your Wii, that will make sure that all your games are tied to you personally from Nintendo themselves.

As for the games if your Wii breaks (or you get another) you just have to contact Nintendo and have the console fixed or games moved to the new console. People have been worried about this but remember that the games are tied to you personally not just that console. You agree to Nintendo's TOS when you download the games saying you own them youself but you will only keep them on one console and you're only allowed to have them as long as you OWN a console.

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Register your Wii, that will make sure that all your games are tied to you personally from Nintendo themselves.

As for the games if your Wii breaks (or you get another) you just have to contact Nintendo and have the console fixed or games moved to the new console. People have been worried about this but remember that the games are tied to you personally not just that console. You agree to Nintendo's TOS when you download the games saying you own them youself but you will only keep them on one console and you're only allowed to have them as long as you OWN a console.

Jaysonguy

glad to see u didnt leave gamespot either, jason!:D

Thanks very much for the advice! I haven't gotten any VC game yet, nor has my Wii busted. I was just curious because I know some other people who own Wiis who have had this same worry, so I wanted to dispel their worries along with my own. Plus I work in retail for now, so it's nice to know this info regardless.

Thanks again for your help!

I want Nintendo to release once & for all a series of games in volumes.

vol. 1 all Mario games

vol. 2 a bunch of Nintendo games

vol. 3 a bunch of super Nintendo games

Because if Nintendo keeps releasing all the games in virtual console Eventuallywe wont have enough hard drive space..

anyone with me???????????????

No, I don't like that idea at all

Nintendo offers every user unlimited online storage for their Virtual Console games on the console, as is, can hold a dozen or more at any time.

If you're talking about disks that hold all those games I don't like that idea even more

I do agree with you about Nintendo online storage but we are talking about 700 + games for Nintendo alone.

500 + super Nintendo games & then we have Nintendo 64 games & SEGA & so on.

If we download all those games therewe be no space .

If we download all those games therewe be no space.

I as a gamer will definitely download all those games if they available

& i want to keep those games & not have to erase a game to make room for to download another.

OK, well that's terrific and I'm happy you want to download 2000 games but you have unlimited space to hold them all online.

You're not playing all of them at once so there's really no point in having them all at the ready. Since it serves no purpose for most users I can't see Nintendo busting their behinds to satisfy the less then 1% of people that HAVE to keep all the games on the system.

The great majority of users are happy with their dozen or more titles on the Wii and then taking the minute to download more when they want to play.

It just doesn't make sense for Nintendo to concentrate on something that doesn't actually make anything better. What would you rather the manpower goes to? Games and further Wii development or ability to hold all the games?

I don't think many people are going to pick storage.

I agree but let me say that i think that you are talking about kids that don't know anything because they did not grow up with the atari 2600.

I think you are talking about kids that started playing with sony playstation & they don't know how hard games were back then.

they have it so easy now in days.

games doesn't mean much to them as to hardcore gamers like much of us

Ok, but let's look what we have right now

1. The Wii itself holds at least a dozen games (more then that but I'm giving safe numbers)

2. The SD card holds 2gig worth of games, the only thing there is that you need to copy the game over.

Now we know that the Wii already takes SD cards up to 4gig but the problem there is that it's not universal, so far we've only seen certain brands with certain production runs working. But the option is there if Nintendo wants to explore it. Using an SD card would be faster then a hard drive and be 100% sure never to break unlike a hard drive.

I think when the time comes we'll see Nintendo open up the features of the SD card and let people run information directly from the SD card. Right now it's not in Nintendo's best interest because the games saves are very small, there's only one game that has a custome soundtrack, and there's unlimited space for the Virtual Console games online. There's no pressing need there.

I wouldn't mind more space but I'd rather their efforts go elsewhere right now since nothing on the Wii NEEDS storage right now.