Club Nintendo ends in PAL regions on 30th September, and Nintendo of Europe has been adding various goodies to its catalogue in the EU and Australia in the run up to its closure. It's now added what appears to be the final hurrah for the service, and it's rather attractive.
It's a double CD of "credit rolls and ending themes", spanning Nintendo's history and accompanied by a hardback book. It looks handsome and is being pitched as the last product on the catalogue; it costs 3000 stars in Europe but, unfortunately, hasn't been added to the Australian line-up at the time of writing. Below is the blurb and some images.
Help give Club Nintendo a fitting send-off with this 30-track, double-disc collection of credit rolls and ending themes. Spanning NES to Wii U, the accompanying hard-back book contains extensive liner notes in English, with Japanese artwork and screenshots. With several tracks taken from games that never left Japan, including some with Japanese lyrics, this is the ideal music collection to listen to at the close of Club Nintendo around the world.
This seems like a really nice way to wrap up the service, assuming anyone has enough stars left in their balance. Do you hope to pick this up?
[source stars.nintendo-europe.com]
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This wasn't on the list of forthcoming gifts, right? I'm annoyed.
Ordered the moment the Tweet came up!
If this is the last item then I'm glad they went with something usable rather than the Coin that was mentioned. If that still arrives then that's cool but I hope this is the last OST to be released. With the Mario Galaxy, Mario 3D, Kirby, Mario Kart, Zelda and now this one; I'd say Club Nintendo has rewarded me pretty well.
Also gotta thank Ninty for those 750 stars I got last week for linking my Club & Networks accounts; otherwise I would have been just 100 stars off and would have been really annoyed.
Meanwhile, in NA...nothing.
I'm missing 950 star :/
@lividd3ad It wasn't.
Only CD mentioned was the Mario Kart 8 OST.
Not amused, but oh well. Maybe it'll come up on the Nintendo UK Store.
@EllenJMiller most likely will. Gotta shift that unredeemed stock somehow....
@EllenJMiller Wouldn't help anyone outside the UK. Also, when has that ever happened?
@manu0 Animal Crossing: Your Favourite Songs CD. Was Club Nintendo, I picked mine up at Christmas from the store for about £2 or so.
So is this going to be the last item?
@EllenJMiller Never heard of that CD, that must have been ages ago.
@EllenJMiller I'm not optimistic about that. This one seems a lot more tied to CN than the Animal Crossing one did.
eBay it is!
@EllenJMiller Imagine it would along with the MK8 & SM3DW OSTs that are both still listed. There can't be too many unspent stars left out there.
I wish they'd say outright if this is the last item.
I'm 1350 stars short, time to raid the collection for any unexpired codes I may have missed, I guess.
I have 16900 stars and have been holding out incase something amazing comes up right before the end making me afraid to use any. I was hoping for something really limited for around 15k like the gold link and epona statue, but this really has me tempted to spend some.
Any ideas on the tracklist?
I don't think this is necessarily the final item, there's still the promised "Club Nintendo Goodbye Coin", the description just says that this is a fitting send-off.
Don't you just love NoA sometimes?
to anyone in europe: I'll buy this from you - name your price!
@vonseux I'm sure this is already on eBay for a ridiculous price
@vonseux yeah its there for $180 don't know if I can post links
@KMX85 I see this, but's from an old Japanese print. I'm interested on the EU release
@vonseux 1000000 EUR!
Dammit! Why didn't they mention it before? I've only got 2200 stars. Don't suppose one kind soul would like to get this for me? .... tumbleweed
... for all nobody who cares, I did it. I somehow managed to gather enough stars worth of surveys from a few latter-day Wii games and a few unregistered digital games. I think that's it for Club Nintendo for myself, and I look forward to receiving this, the MK8 soundtrack and the Kirby blanket hopefully soonish. Until then, it's been a good ride, here's hoping the new reward scheme is just as good as this one has been to me.
Still waiting for that Goodbye Coin. That takes priority but thanks to the free stars I got for linking Club Nintendo with my NNID, I do have enough for this.
So unless the Goodbye Coin comes for less for 500 Stars (or doesn't come at all, any news on that?), I may have to give this a miss. Shame, since I'd gladly pick this up later.
no goodbye coin! really!
edit: (oops! forgot that CN finish on the end of September in europe) i will wait until they announced the goodbye coin
I wonder why Nintendo hates North America.
Bloody typical. I just linked my NNID and Club Nintendo account. They gave me 750 stars which puts me at 2950
@ninty4thewin I registered these codes just fine. In fact, I had a stack of like twenty I registered to afford the Kirby blanket, and managed to do the surveys and receive stars for them. Whether Nintendo of Europe are just absurdly generous and have kept code registration open until the death of the service, or I live within a time vortex localised entirely around my computer; my stars are apparently just fine.
@Mr_Rawky Check your registered titles list. There may be some eShop shovelware you've missed that gives you the fifty stars and tips you over the limit.
@tudsworth I have. I've used them all up. *le sigh
I would get it, IF ONLY IT WOULD COME TO AMERICA! Or if I don't need to sell a kidney to import it.
looks like I have a choice of spending my remaining stars on this or the Mario Kart 8 soundtrack. Too hard to choose!
Dear Nintendo
Please put stuff like this in those Nintendo loot crates you're thinking of, as it would really sweeten the deal.
You can really tell how little NOA seemed to care about North America Club Nintendo. Instead of providing figurines, CDs, and other desirable physical merchandise for Club Nintendo's last days, they took the easy way out with low-cost options such as t-shirts, puzzles, school supplies, and pre-existing downloads. Enjoy it, Europe and Japan!
Screw it, I am going to pirate these CDs Since NoA is a bunch of tards.
@copeland4
That last two years of it was basically Paper and digital games the majority of people already owned.
What in the world. Europe is getting some cool stuff down the stretch. NoA really phoned it in on this one. Couldn't even be bothered to put my puzzle in a proper box.
@Squiggle55
I know what you mean, my case was like wrapped in an unlabelled grocery bag wrapped in elastics with paper tapped to it with my address and the club Nintendo logo in the corner. It didn't even have my name on it, just the address. lol
AHA! I just found a code for ZombiU which I must've forgotten to register. I have enough points now!!!
@Whopper744 Do I? I don't even know anymore.
Been hoarding my last 6000 stars, waiting for the right thing to come along. Can get this and the Super Mario 3d World soundtrack as well. As long as the SNES Classic controller doesn't reappear at the last minute, I'm happy,
I still have all my stars...realllllly tempted to get this but it looks like they're adding better and better stuff as we reach the end. Ugh.
Had 3200 stars so i have gone for this.
A shame now i have 200 stars that can only be used for wallpaper or ringtones.
moves to Europe
Wow. Wildly jealous of all the CD soundtracks that were offered, but this one in particular seems appealing.
Oh well, NoA offered some good stuff too. Certainly not better stuff, at least not for me, but good and free is still hard to complain about.
at this rate, nintendo club will never end in the EU.
ordering mine now, just waiting on the goodbye coin
Bravo NoE, bravo... Much better physical rewards. Seriously, the only physical reward I got was the Smash Bros soundtrack. Everything else hardly interest me.
@Babybahamut Well, there's the back of the case... And you can kind of make out the first 6. There's Famicom Tantei Club Part 2, Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru, Super Mario World, F-Zero, Super Metroid, and Fire Emblem: Genaology of the Holy War.
when is the goodbye coin going to appear on the club Nintendo wesite
So no goodbye coin?! Are you sure this is pitched as the last reward?!
It doesn't say anything of the sort in the Italian Nintendo Club.
1050 starr and no hope of getting more.. the horror!
Having soundtrack CDs is fantastic, but I don't care for this since the ending themes are normally my least favourite songs in a game. Hopefully once Club Nintendo is fully gone, they'll make a better way to get soundtracks, such as putting them in an online store.
Waiting for the true final reward, the goodbye Club Nintendo coin!
I love the soundtrack CDs, and this is no exception. I'm particularly looking forward to the Japanese-language songs as they often make the best music in gaming IMO.
While it obviously won't be included in this collection, being a SEGA release and all, one of, if not my all time favourite ending song is the one included in Project Rub (Feel The Magic: XX/XY), which was simply heavenly and I would love to be able to buy that on CD.
Oh poopie-doop. It's not available in Australia.
Dammit NOA, where was this collection when CN went down in NA?! Any of you lucky EU SOBs with Stars leftover had better get this.
Meh. And I spent my stars in the boring Mario Kart 8 soundtrack... Because I didn't expect new things turning up, while expecting the MK8 soundtrack may also be sold out if I'd wait too long.
Whats the tracklist?
I feel so happy that I wasted stars on Wii pointless points. T.T
I may be American, but I'm British in the inside...
If this doesn't turn up on the UK store I will be mighty miffed
Aw, I'd love this! Was actually at my niece house this morning, she had an unused code for a 3DS game which I then redeemed... But I've only 1600 :-/
I have 3250 stars. Do I wait on the goodbye coin? Then i risk that possibly being too expensive and this soundtrack being sold out. Dilemma!
Oh man, I only have 2700 stars after buying the MK8 soundtrack. Either I buy a load of games or just wait for it to come onto eBay...
Nah. I went with the pikmin movies:)
Silly dilemma time - just logged in to my stars account and got offered the link your accounts thingy (which I thought was already linked, but anyway). So those 750 points have taken me to 5000 (no more points available - everything I have is already registered)... So now, do I just spend the lot on a MK8 trophy (a thing to just sit on a shelf) or do I get several smaller things that will most likely have some degree of interaction... Hmmm, decisions, decisions...
yep....I had a ton of coins and spent them all on digital games I would've much rather purchased with cash...but all we got in NA was a simple cop-out of digital games instead of cool stuff like this. Why does Nintendo hate us?
Why didn't we get this in NA? I swear man Nintendo loves EU more than NA. Or maybe NoA isn't doing enough to get us these nice perks NoE has been getting. I've been on Reggie's case for a while now and I don't want to blame everything on him. However, he has the biggest voice here (US) and nothing is coming our way. Not stuff like this.
@Dogorilla It's already there! Bargain price of £49.99 plus shipping too, 3 available!
Easy to see how Club Nintendo is being abused and not at all surprised it's being changed. That system is far too easily exploitable and isn't rewarding fans as it should. Fair enough that Ebay provides products to more people than would normally have the chance to acquire them, but profit is clearly the main incentive and that's not at all how Club Nintendo intended to operate.
I'm soooo sad...
Why did I order those stupid Mario Party cards and 10€ of Wii Shop points for both 4000 stars back then? And those countless, useless game guides? I have the internet for that. And ebay sells the CD for way too much.
Grief is a horrible feel.
already spent my coins on the mario kart cd, but i like it!
Like general Ackbar would say "It's a trap!" Anyone who's still got stars be sure to wait because Nintendo said they're going to have a goodbye coin so I'm hoping this isn't going to replace it! Wait for the coin it'll mean a lot more to you as a fan!
Managed to score a copy by trading a 3DS game case with a buddy who had stars available to get the CD. Happy days!
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