Topic: Wii U / 3DS eShop Exclusive Titles

@skywake @Buizel Agree entirely, that's where I'm at too... I enjoyed my 3DS immensely, but now I've moved onto the Switch, so now I have a lot more games to play and enjoy now.

I've been dumping hundreds of euros in the past year to get exclusives before the shop closure, to the point Nintendo's started declining my credit card despite there being well enough coverage. It's just that every game has to be purchased separately on the UK/EU site, rather than putting them in a cart. At least I get to use funds through cards and Paypal usually cooperates with this quasi-addiction...

Anyway, I've been trying to keep track of discounts through PSPrices, and my last batch of games are those that have previously had discounts and the Super Mario Advance and Game and Watch Gallery series. Once that batch is done, that's it for getting games for those platforms and then it's the grind to beat them. I've bought a few that've gotten NSO or Switch ports afterwards, but oh well. It's either this way or the high seas if I want to play them.

I’ve been generously rewarding Nintendo over the past year. Simply because the 2DS is my favorite console, and I want to stuff it with goodies before it’s too late.

Just in case you're wondering what it would entail, The Completionist bought every single Wii U and 3DS eShop game, so there'll be at least one of each with a complete set for posterity's sake.

And yes, credit card companies, retail stores selling gift cards and Nintendo themselves will throw all manner of roadbloacks in front of people who try to do this.

Tell me about it. I've had problems this year with Nintendo AND Amazon over my credit card use in buying the games. I should've figured out the gift cards and funds a year ago.

Oh well, buying sprees will quiet down after the eShop closure, as I won't be in a hurry to buy that stuff anymore.

I suppose this fits more here than in the chit chat thread, so I’ll copy it over…

Phew. Just got all the Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball dlc, that took a bit. It’s not often that a game makes you work to give it money…

Nonetheless, thanks to the fact the dlc is still priced to match older conversion rates, it costed about 10 bucks total. Not bad.

The games themselves are quite fun as well.

I had some money left on my account, so I decided to buy a few more things. Gurumin (I keep wanting to call it Guru Guru Gurumin, no that's a different, obscure handheld game), Pocket Card Jockey and the GB Donkey Kong. I got it down to like 19 cents so...that worked out well.

I am glad that I found a good excuse to get Pocket Card Jockey, people keep swearing up and down about how good that one is.

Here’s a random piece of trivia I find amusing, although it might not be all that interesting.

I’m sure most people with a 3DS will recognize a game that spent most of its time on the eshop in the discount section: Classic Games Overload.

Well, it's a fairly standard collection of card games and puzzles: tangram, mahjong, solitaire, casino card games, etc. it has multiplayer and supports download play, which is nice. The music is fairly poor though. However that’s not the trivia.

The game is actually a compilation of several DSiWare games! It has the content of these DSiWare:

• 505 Tangram
• 24/7 Solitaire
• 3D Mahjong
• Hearts Spades Euchre
• Bridge
• 1st Class Poker & Blackjack

These are all 5 dollar DSiWare, so the whole set would cost the same as the 3DS game before discount.

And not only that, they also made individual 3DS versions of Mahjong and Solitaire. (Under the “Best of (game)” name)

Interestingly enough, although the 3DS versions have more content in total, there’s a few minor extra modes that stayed on the DSiWare versions, and a whole game in the set that didn’t get a 3DS remake: Box Pusher.

And as a final bit: the DSiWare games have better music.

@kkslider5552000 i think the title is kurukuru kururin (K, not G) and it is some game a bout a spinning stick for GBA? But maybe you mean another game.

@kkslider5552000 is gurumin any good? Since it’s cheap right now I might consider it as well

I am really starting to try to get some games at the last minute and i think it is great with a list of exclusive games.

Some of the virtual console games might not be exclusive but getting cartridge versions of them could be expensive (for example Harvest Moon on SNES).

I wonder though, why is Harvest Moon available on Switch Online in Japan but not in Europe or America? It seems kind of weird. Harvest Moon is one of the games i might get for Wii U.

I prefer new games over pre woned games too. And i guess the Zelda games for DS might be cheaper to get as e shop games than to pay for the DS cartridges. Plus, getting DS games for Wii U is the only way to play them on a big screen on a tv i think? I do not think DS or 3DS has an official way of connecting to a tv but there might be other ways? (For GBA, there is the Game Boy Player attached to a gamecube)

@Simon97 the Harvest Moon thing troubles me a bit as well. As I mentioned in your other thread, it worries me that Natsume might somehow be unable to re-release them again, since they haven’t done so already. So the Virtual Console games on 3DS and WiiU might be worth considering as last minute purchases.

No idea, I've just heard some good things from some people about it, and it was probably the cheapest game that interested me.

Finally I have completed my year-long project of stocking up my 3DS and Wii U libraries before the store shutdown.
Christ, that was a slog and an ordeal on my wallet. 273 titles and the last one leaving 66 cents remaining of this month's funds was Quarters, Please! 2. This count includes Wii and DS titles I ordered from shops around Europe, Finland and the UK.

Now what's left is the grind. RPGs, adventures, platformers, puzzles and shooters of all sorts.

Congratulations, nice going, it must have been quite a lot of games. I mean, 273 games is a lot.

@1UP_MARIO is there any limit to how big hdd:s, ssd:s and micro sd cards you could use with the Wii U?

I really need some more storage because i only have the 8 GB available with the regular standard white Wii U. It does not go very far and i own a few digital games which take up all the space. (Paper Mario Color Splash takes about 4 GB i think. Which is one game i own digitally)

I have a 2TB HDD with a Y-cable for the extra power requirement. Runs nicely enough. My older 2TB HDD started to tick, so I got a smaller form factor replacement. And yeah, the Y-cable is necessary (both of the split end go into the console) to provide enough power for the hard drive. Either that or get an externally powered one.

And I have over a half-million blocks left free on the 256GB SD card on my 3DS. Startup is SLOOOOOW when you power it up, but it functions with the card. I went overboard in preparing for the space requirements on the games, since I prefer physical over digital and in the end there weren't that many modern AAA games for either that I got digitally. We'll see when save files start piling up.

@Simon97 2tb. You can use higher but it will only recognise it as 2tb

@1UP_MARIO okay. thanks

@1UP_MARIO same limit for sd micro cards too? (if there even are sd cards at 2 TB)