Following the announcement last week that Club Nintendo is scheduled to close its doors this coming September - to be replaced by a new loyalty scheme altogether - many avid Nintendo collectors assumed this also spelled the end of updates to the rewards catalogue too. However, that does not appear to be the case.
With Club Nintendo users still having time to spend the remainder of their stars or coins, Nintendo appear to still be updating the rewards, giving members even more redeemables for the collected points - with the latest addition to the European Club Nintendo being a Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Soundtrack.
The Soundtrack features a massive 89 tracks, plus 16 Milk Bar Musician pieces. The insert includes liner notes from the game's composer, Ryo Nagamatsu, and 12 score excerpts for you to perform at home, all presented in a rather attractive fashion. The Soundtrack can be grabbed for a reasonable 3000 Stars - 850 stars less than the Super Mario Galaxy Soundtrack.
Do you still have Club Nintendo points to use up? Does the Soundtrack tempt you into redeeming any of them? Let us know in the comments below.
Thanks to @zestydoesthings for the spot!
[source stars.nintendo-europe.com]
Comments (91)
Nope, I'll pass on this one. They should put a N3DSXL golden recharge stand for those MM3DSXL owners.
wow, over 100 tracks. i bet that would be cool to have.
Purchased... Thanks NLIfe for letting people know
Really can't decide, I have 4900 stars right now and I'm very tempted, but what if they offer something better in the coming months?
@gianlucazogno If they do, you'll still have this awesome ost, if they don't, you'll probably end up with golf balls.
I'm just hoping they bring back the Kirby Triple Deluxe Soundtrack. That would be tight.
@gianlucazogno I'm in the same boat. I've got 3600 stars, and wouldn't mind this, but am wondering if they'll add something else I want later. Decisions, decisions...
I got it as soon as I saw it. Finally something in the Catalogue I care about, and tremendously so.
Funny how the site crashed one minute or so after I ordered mine, due to the sheer number of people trying to get it I'm guessing. At least it did happen for the Spanish Club Nintendo, not sure about the others.
This is what I hate about the Stars system and why I'm somewhat glad it's disappearing. I lost a load of stars as they expired years ago so I stopped registering. Then I didn't realise that the codes them selves also expired so I lost approx 4000 potential stars. Now I decide to spend my stars on kind of a whim due to my love for soundtracks and the fact they may expire before anything else arrives and this appears. I'd need to buy a fair number of games to rebuild my stars and 1st party Nintendo games are never cheap.
@WalupeachyTime I got that one and now I'm regretting it as I would have preferred this one.
I would love to see the Smash Bros soundtrack... but this wouldn't be so bad. Must dig out the last of my star registrations...
I wish they'd put stuff like this to actually buy on the official store. I'd love the Mario Galaxy soundtrack but I've never had enough stars to buy it.
I just wish NOA would actually DO SOMETHING THAT'S COOL.
@gianlucazogno Ditto! I can't imagine this would go out of stock too soon though? May give ita month and see if any majora goodies appear... or maybe even wait til may when some woolly world stuff might emerge!
I think amiibo should be offered for a few thousand stars.
So how about Nintendo does this for us in NA
Very cool!
(Too bad NoA apparently doesn't like soundtracks - so far they've only offered Majora's Mask as an end of year reward and the Super Smash Bros for Wii if you bought both versions. I think soundtracks are one the coolest Club Nintendo prizes that have been offered.)
@YoshiTails ended up getting it, I'm too worried they're not going to add anything else. I still have 1900 starts and a few codes on my way though, so I might still be able to get something else if they add stuff.
The best thing they could possibly put in the Club Nintendo as far as I'm concerned would be a reproduction of the Legend of Zelda Game and Watch, but obviously that's extremely unlikely.
After a mad dash to register Club Nintendo codes I ordered one of these. The game has lovely music. I like the little triforce symbols on the CDs.
NoE clearly stated that they are going to update the catalogue till the end of the service, increasing the ways for spend the stars before they'll get useless; any of the "avid collectors", mentioned in the article, are just people who panicked before reading the whole shut-down warning ^^;
Personally anyway I have bigger problems right now, with Stars always expiring I ended to not register many games, now I have A LOT of surveys to do asap!!! @[email protected];;;
@Baker1000 they did with the KK Slider CD. It was on Club Nintendo for a while and I ended up buying it on the Nintendo Store for about £2 I believe.
Wasted my precious points on the Kirby soundtrack they sold off for 2 UKP just a couple of weeks later.
A Link Between Worlds has one of my favourite game soundtracks. But if I buy this my points are more or less all gone.
To wait or not to wait.
Anybody got 1500 stars spare?
Got it right away! Had exactly 3000 stars left.
Too bad I have 1850 stars! I spent them on the MK8 badge set!
I managed to get it(finally) after dealing with various site crashed. I hope they put something MM related soon
Hmmm, maybe this is what NA will get in the restock!
What the heck. I decided to go ahead and order it. I did really like the Link Between Worlds soundtrack and this seems like a cool package. Sure there may be something else put up in the near future that I'll wished I'd held off for, but there could just as easily be a bunch more tat instead. I've still got 760 stars left and might get some more for registering some digital downloads.
The best thing I got with my stars is still probably the SNES controller for the Wii! And the charging cradle for my 3DS XL has been pretty useful (if a ridiculous amount of stars for a piece of plastic...)
Nice! Been and got! Had approx 7250 stars, got the Mario kart badges and now this, very pleased. I wonder if they'll ever be worth anything? Not that I'm scalping of course.... Will have them till death! 😂😂😂😉
Wow amazing sadly no club nintendo in here. Fingers cross that "new club nintendo" will solve it.
@BakaKnight Yep, I was one of them. Initially they said they would restock, but I think most people assumed it was going to be digital only. The mention about the restocks of limited exclusive items in NA came a few days later....after I'd spent the majority of my coins on Smash Bros Posters Here's hoping the restocked items I want are fairly cheap.
I gotta say that, overall, Club Nintendo has been a good benefit. We (myself included) complain about the lack of rewards and unfair currency, but honestly, it's a free service add-on that was not a part of the initial purchase price. So what you get is better than nothing. Many of us (again, I include myself here) just seem to have an entitlement mentality with things relating to Ninty, as if our fanship earns us the right to anything we want. I'm sure it's not that cut and dry, but I feel like the fan-rage over Amiibo, and the Zelda MM limited items partially comes from this mentality as well. Yea, scalpers contributed to the problem, but regardless of the cause, there's no sense in the amount of anxiety and anger I've seen (and experienced lol) over some material items.
One last short story - I was walking down the street mulling over having missed another opportunity at getting a Zelda MM New 3DS preordered when I saw a homeless man heating himself over a steam vent. So I'm thinking, my main concern right now is getting a game system and this guy's main concern is not freezing to death. Really puts things into perspective and caused me to pause and thank God for what I do have.
Bought! Thank you so much, NL!
Do want!
Can we please get another Link Between Worlds Zelda game????
Lastly, can't Nintendo sell these awesome items on their website? Limiting them just hurts the fans
@FX102A Masked Dedede's theme tho.
Normally I would get this, but A Link Between Worlds had a pretty poor soundtrack, so I don't think I'll bother.
I'd get this asap if I could but I live in NA, so my options mostly consist of a few VC games I've bought a long time ago already, and maybe a few badges that I'd have no reason to get. Even the Milk Bar songs are on this! That's awesome.
Oh man, I've just reazlied that I traded in my games with all unused club nintendo codes >_< stupid me
@gianlucazogno yeah I have 17000 stars so I took the chance with the cd but if I had less I would be thinking the same thing, Is something else coming better. I also want the game and watch ball but am holding off just incase something better comes along
@alLabouTandroiD I do but you can't share them with people
Don't have the stars but realistically I won't be hugely disappointed with my choice of the MK8 t-shirt a while back unless either the Tropical Freeze or Mario Kart 8 soundtracks get added.
They should put digital versions of this on the "club" pages for download @ cheaper prices.
It looks nice but I know that in a few weeks I'll find a source to download it from so it kinda a waste of stars -_-
Got it - finally had a reason to spend my 8000 stars!
Meanwhile in America...
@hypercoyote
Good man, got priorities straight
If this comes to America, I think I'll cry. I spent 400 coins on another 3DS card case the week before Nintendo announced that Club Nintendo was closing. I now have 0 coins.
Maybe I should just move to Europe for $%^& sake!
Goddamit, I really want this but I only have 550 stars think I have at least 3 games at home unregistered though, so that will give me a bit of a boost! May have to buy the cheapest ones I can on amazon to get me the rest of the way!
Hopefully NoA's February offering is better than this...
Well, I have never spent any of my stars. Since this went up, I just spent all of them on this, the Super Mario Galaxy CD, 3DS pouch and Mario Kart badge set. Now I'm all out.
Finding all my codes, should have enough :3333333333333
Not in USA????
@Grumblevolcano oh if Mario kart 8 soundtrack was added I would buy that in a heart beat its amazing
I have 250 stars that I have tried to register for a Wii u game Ben 10 omniverse 2 and have had no luck. So if anyone can get it to work and use them I will post the code here. To Give people a chance I will post the code at 17.20 U.K time. Its only for U.K stars not U.S coins
::Added to Europe:: FUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
Club Nintendo UK Ben 10 Omniverse 2 code for 250 UK stars.
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Good Luck
I will be curious if anyone gets this to work
@NinjaWaddleDee
Ditto. NoA Club Nintendo is crap.
@TomServo_89 Wow, £2! Thing is, the SMG CD has been on there a while. I could always try eBay if I really want any soundtracks on the stars catalogue I guess.
PLEASE bring this to North America
@LinkSword After reading this I tought I was going to be late but just ordered one. Im so happy they finally have something nice that I can add to my Zelda collection.
Con ese nombre supongo que tambien eres fan de Zelda. En mi experiencia la pagina española de club nintendo siempre ha ido como el culo. A ver si hacen algo decente con el nuevo club nintendo. Despues de saber que lo cerraban he registrado unos 15 juegos de wiiU y 3ds a la espera de que algo interesante apareciera en el catalogo
Hope this come to NA. In fact, I would like it if any soundtrack came to Club Nintendo NA. Got the Majora's Mask CD a while back, and I would't mind a few more.
@elstif Yeah, it was just a temporary overload, I'm guessing there are still quite a few units to spare. Also, right, big fan of the franchise here since I was 7. Personally I'm hoping for at least one Majora-related item before it's all over. I have 4300 stars left to use so that'd be the ideal wrap as far as I'm concerned. Anything Zelda-related might be nice, though.
As for the next loyalty program after Club Nintendo I have no idea what to expect. There are some hints of what it could be in one of Iwata's past interviews but it's not much to go with. It could be shit, awesome, or just meh. Then again it's not like the Club Nintendo was wonderful at all, as you said, so the bar is pretty low.
I am also tempted by this in Australia (but not that tempted). Since Nintendo announced that they would be adding more items to Club Nintendo over the coming months, I think I will pass for now. I am also worried that if I spend the couple of thousand stars that I have, something better might appear.
I love the Zelda games - but a CD soundtrack I can live without (at least for the moment). I will hold onto my stars and pray for something AWESOME to hit the site.
I loved A Link Between World's soundtrack and this package looks nice so just ordered it!
Got it. Still have about 3800 stars left. Considered getting 2 soundtracks but there will probably be more items added in the next few months.
Cost: 3000 stars.
Errr.... yeah. Thank god the service is dying off.
With my left over 1900 stars I can buy some wallpapers/ringtones that can be obtained for free anyway, and a few points for the shop on the last generation of consoles. -.-
I noticed this through total chance today, and bought it in a heartbeat! I love the soundtrack to ALBW, so I was very happy indeed! But a 4-week delivery time?! Ah.
o wow im jealous , they need to bring this in NA
I have a HUUUUGE problem. I have exactly 3000 points and I want this soundtrack more than anything, but I live in Slovenia. Slovenia does not have Nintendo ID or clubnintendo options because it's a small country and that is why I made my clubnintendo acc as I'm from England. And I can't send the package from England to Slovenia... I don't know how to get my well earned prize... sugestions?
I have 2800 stars and I am still unable to get this.
EDIT: Checked through and found older digital downloads that needed redeeming, so managed to get this.
I only had 3150 stars left, I would need to buy like 3 more games before the deadline to get the Mario Galaxy soundtrack but that one only has 26 tracks so I bought this :3 Way better deal
@kajzer same exact problem , I want this soo bad, I set my location to UK for the eshop and club they do accept my local credit card, and everything worked perfectly but I don't know how to ship this to Palestine?
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REDEEM!
MINE!MINE!MINE!
Looks great, but I'm 850 stars short. Hopefully, I can find a few codes and unanswered surveys lying around.
@TomServo_89 I decided to check the Aussie Club Nintendo on a whim and noticed this listed for 2000 Stars. It will go nicely with my Ocarina of Time 3D OST!
Wow, I don't save up stars like that. Good to have some high star priced items here at the end so people don't feel ripped off.
How long will this be available? Because I'm going to London in April and I can pick it up then... will it be available until april?
sigh You know, I would sure love a soundtrack NoA.We barely get ANYTHING.
They should release this in North America...
is it already gone?!?
Oh, wow... I think it's gone already. Amazing.
Thank goodness I didn't hesitate on this one.
I don't believe it...
I missed it...
It's already gone
ugh why lord whyyyy have you forsaken me....
I would love to have this, but I am in the US...
This is just not fair.
Just used all my stars on a Game & Watch. Worth it
@PinkSpider code isn't working for me either unfortunately. Says I need to enter a valid code :/
Can't believe I missed it. :<
The moment when one worthwhile thing comes on Club Nintendo, and it's sold out within a few hours. FML.
Sigh, it doesn't appear to be on there anymore. I thought I would have more time to get the last few stars needed.
So, in a bid to attempt to get enough stars for this, I went and searched for any of the little booklets I had with the codes, and the first one I find already had the code scratched off. Gave it a go anyway, just in case, and it was for a copy of Luigi's Mansion 2........a game I have never owned or even played. Weird.
Also, damn the fact that this has gone already.
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