JonathanEx

I've been working with my good friend Rogultgot (you might know him from fireball20xl) to bring out a fun little Christmas parody song, with the world of gaming and all mentioned. Topics range from sold out, importing, MKDS and World of Warcraft. It's crazy and all that. There's the download, little album art and lyrics at http://www.britishgaming.co.uk/?p=251 - please enjoy!

My subscription copy doesn't seem to have arrived, must have ended an issue early. Oh well, off to the shops to buy this one.

Interestingly though, the original note said “we’re currently arranging some technical modifications. †- and with the laziness of them, I wouldn’t put it past them to just be ARRANGING them, and not actually doing any. Pity that it seems it must have just been cleaning up and general maintinance, and not the hoped for and promised by the guy from NOE features of VIP24:7 accounts being intergrated with Wi-Fi codes, which is currently done on the US one. Hey, isn’t that Wi-Fi EU site a LITTLE overdue?

You have to go through the root domain, not to seperate sites. I'm not expecting anything big (they said before the site was upgrading when it became the one we have today), but maybe adding Wi-Fi stuff to accounts.

I'd say, Videogaiden, but longer, not a 6 episode run, and in English. Blinkin' scots.

My friend Rog made this comic, sums it up perfectly: Oh, here's the review the comic was based off: http://www.britishgaming.co.uk/?p=164

It gives it a sort of a branding though.

Hands down, the best part of the mag.

1080 arrived a while ago. Does anyone elses copy of it have a little silver sticker on the disc? Mine did - I took it off, and underneath, there was a rental sticker on the disc!!!

Really? I've seen alot better stuff on the Belgium site. Well, one of the 2 Belgium sites. Confusing that is. You once had these cool DS bags, lots of Metroid demos, there was as you said Nintendogs before launch, tshirts.... If you're not too happy yourself, write to whoever distributes Nintendo stars items there. Maybe start you own campaign? And so, I've written up my article at the site I work at, if you could spread this around, and get writing we can get campaigning! http://www.britishgaming.co.uk/?p=102

GUESS WHAT? I GOT A REPLY! It's very short, and they said that the UK Stars Catalouge is very young compared to other countries. ANSWER: What the hell? Europe launched the Stars Catalouge at the same time, didn't they? Why would some countries, especially one of the biggest ones for sales, not have it last? Though I do agree, the decent updates are young. The stock that is placed on the catalogue is always of a good quality, and we are always looking to place on items we feel people will want to exchange for their stars. ANSWER: Uh. huh. Stock clearance, and unshipped rental copies of games. Unfortunately, some items of stock do tend to dissapear very quickly. ANSWER: Gonna agree with you here, as the UK is like the cookie monster, but only with merchandice. "MERCHYMERCHYMERCHYMERCHY!" I did not get answers to why: 1) They shipped out rental copies of 1080 Avalanche 2) Where Nintendo UK's allocation of Nintendogs promo materials went 3) WHY we don't get good stuff.

Germany even has DS cases to buy! Those german suckups with Nintendo being there in Germany. :P Belgium had Nintendogs up before it came out, so it can't be a Germany-has-nintendo-europe-in-it thing.

Alright, I've sent my long email off. I should get a responce tomorrow, then I'm gonna be starting a snail mail campaign. Worked for Dreamcast games, and I think if we send mail to Nintendo UK and Codestorm (handles stars cat) we can do something. Snail mail = real life mail.

It's Germany. Please send complaint letters, but make them nice and proffessional. I've sent one.

Monthly. There's often DS stuff, and GBA stuff. By the way, go through THESE 4 PAGES AND TELL ME WHY NINTENDO UK HAS TO SUCK SO MUCH C**K. http://www.nintendo-europe.com/NOE/de/DE/stars/stars_list.jsp That is the LAST. STRAW.

Argh! I've got all of those registered, unless Nintendogs isn't lab version (they MIGHT be version specific - might not be). No more controllers, I have the Memory card case and I need 1000! THIS SUCKS! There's only about 20 VIP games I haven't registered.

That was 150,000 combined - and read what I said again, that was 2 days of dogs sales. Not a whole week...

You know, the one currently shown was where Nintendogs was out for only TWO games. And to be that high, is damn impressive! I mean, that's 2 days of Nintendogs vs 7 days for the rest.

Gift: Should of been a lightweight, small 40/50 page book with a double page on each game, with a few extra pages with a timeline/history. Cover: Totally messed up. Revolution should of taken it up, with a sleek stylish cover. With just the revolution. None of the clutter. Main feature: Come on, Mario Football surely could have been a second main feature/review, the Revolution information was terrible. They didn't even go in depth in their playtest! SURELY that's a "WOW DOUBLE PAGE" thing. Pokedex: Waaaaaaste. I do like the idea of a monthly middle feature like this/comic book info, but just find something decent. Next Month's Gift: A 1 cart DS game holder. Abloodymazing. Oh, and a hint book. How about a Mario 20 CD made in a style to fit in with the booklet. Or maybe a Mario Kart wriststrap! Stylus (yeahlikethey'ddothat)! Maybe even some fusking decals! Ok, the 1 cart holder thing is decent, but it's like, ONE cart. Bleh. DS Motherload: This month we had the GREATEST DS LINE UP ANNOUNCED AT THE WIFI CONFERENCE and probably, about 3 of them will be featured in half page world of nintendo segments - NEXT month. Blehgnstuff.

4colorrebellion have a bunch of Revolution papercrafts: http://www.4colorrebellion.com/archives/2005/09/18/revolution-controller-papercraft/ Kinda cool. 3 is unfinished though.

A-Z Zelda? Is it decent? I'm actually interested in that... >.>

Finally, Nintendo updates the stars catalouge properly. Scrapping their old shedual, they seem to be getting rid of old junk left in the Nintendo warehouse. 10 Pokemon Colosseum GameCube Bundles 100 Donkey Konga 2 Paks 100 Donkey Konga 2 Games 100 Wario World games 100 more copies of 1080 Avalanche game.

10000 stars - Console (often with game) 4500 stars - Gamecube game 4000 stars - DS game (or Donkey Konga with no bongos) 1500 stars - Posters, Wallets, Hats, Stylus

3 copies offf 1080 left! I predict they'll send out stuff Saturday (Friday if lucky), 2nd class post, 'twill arrive like, Tuesday. ...and they're sold out.

I believe the Pokemon stuff has been sent out completely - the Pokemon games were the only oustanding things, which delayed the August update until... now. There's not much left, and the sooner it's all gone the sooner it's all sent out.