Nintendo Europe under construction [Archive]

fatnickc

30-11-2005, 05:54 AM

It's official - the European Nintendo sites are being 'technically modified'.
[Hello Nintendo Fans]
No need to panic, we'll be back soon!
Our website won't be available for a couple of hours, as we're currently arranging some technical modifications.
We would like to ask you for your understanding at this time; we're looking forward to welcoming you back to the site shortly, when we'll be able to provide you with all the latest news about the world of Nintendo.
See you soon!

http://www.nintendo-europe.com

Shorty

30-11-2005, 05:55 AM

Um... it could just be ironing out bugs, or updating hardware? Might not be a rehaul or anything....

Mike

30-11-2005, 07:13 AM

I'm not getting that message anymore - now I'm getting an 'Internal Server Error'. I wonder what's going on..

JonathanEx

30-11-2005, 07:21 AM

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.

Nintenchris

30-11-2005, 08:11 AM

This just means the site will reapear later with nothing new to look at.. why cant they just sort out nintendowifi.co.uk !?!?!

trisha

30-11-2005, 08:24 AM

what the hell do i do with the stupid points i have got.
i dont want stupid wallpaper for my pc

Shorty

30-11-2005, 08:27 AM

what the hell do i do with the stupid points i have got.
i dont want stupid wallpaper for my pc
You can use the points for free games from time to time - I could've bought a couple of games over the last year or so but got all clingy and didn't want to waste my points. They're mostly titles like Pokemon, Mario and Donkey Konga that become available.

Mike

30-11-2005, 09:13 AM

what the hell do i do with the stupid points i have got.
i dont want stupid wallpaper for my pc

Every so often you might be lucky enough to get something more interesting than a game, too. I got a Mario GameCube controller through the post last week, which I'd bought from the stars catalogue. I probably won't use it until I get my next GC game (at Christmas), but it looks nice next to my GameCube anyway. ;)

trisha

30-11-2005, 02:10 PM

that would have been good.

Stocka

30-11-2005, 03:17 PM

I hope they're:

Sorting out Nintendowifi.co.uk
Updating the stars catalogue

They are probably doing f*** all though.

fatnickc

30-11-2005, 03:41 PM

Remember when Nintendo redid the stars catalogue and had a big fancy countdown? I do.
The countdown finally got down to 0, and.... they just had the under construction page for weeks, just without the countdown...

harribo

30-11-2005, 04:00 PM

Im pretty sure its been down for more than a couple of hours now.

Stefkov

30-11-2005, 04:30 PM

they could possibly changing the look of the site like nintendo.com did, maybe theyre just getting the old look of nintendo.com and using it.
or hopefully, but not there doing something with both the wifi site and this so somehow theyre conected together.
*thought*
maybe theyre trying to get them to link together, so in the future when we want to buy a retro game say from NES, we go on wifi site choose it it links to the old site and maybe it takes stars away from your account. meh now that i think of it crap idea.

JonSt

30-11-2005, 04:58 PM

They are probably just ugprading stuff behind the scenes, possibly a server upgrade.

E3wannabe

30-11-2005, 06:15 PM

The site isn't even available anymore and it's 'currently not available' i think something big is happening :).

Hero-of-Time

30-11-2005, 07:10 PM

I just got access to it before and nothing has changed. Im on loading it again just to make sure its up and running. Its taking a while though.

EDIT: Nope I cant get back on it.

DS MaNiAc

30-11-2005, 08:05 PM

nah the sites workign fine now like. Nay difference or nowt though.

demonmike04

30-11-2005, 08:10 PM

They did this a few months ago, what possible technical problems are they having? Its always working for me, its always full of crap. GET RID OF THE CRAP, DONT FIX SOMETHING THAT WORKS FINE.

Raining_again

30-11-2005, 08:11 PM

They did this a few months ago, what possible technical problems are they having? Its always working for me, its always full of crap. GET RID OF THE CRAP, DONT FIX SOMETHING THAT WORKS FINE.

Not neccesarily problems, as JonSt said, upgrades and maintenance, its a massive site. If they don't keep it maintained it will be broken

demonmike04

30-11-2005, 08:18 PM

Not neccesarily problems, as JonSt said, upgrades and maintenance, its a massive site. If they don't keep it maintained it will be broken
Its broken any way, well atleast the workers, come on nintendo, dont let websites inform us about you, atleast let some news come from yourself out of events!

Any ways, their work should be focussed on the WiFi site, i swear america had it more than 2 weeks in advance to their mario kart release. The FAQ is vital to newcomers, but then again nearly every ones having problems with hotspots so their most probably waiting for them to fix before they know what problems can occur.

JonathanEx

30-11-2005, 08:19 PM

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?

harribo

30-11-2005, 09:20 PM

I think its actually running much faster now and hopefully when they update the stars catalogue more than 2 people will be able to get on at once.

Shorty

01-12-2005, 06:00 AM

I told you all this wouldn't be worth the fuss :p

fatnickc

03-12-2005, 06:48 PM

And it's down again!
After a few hours of saying that the allotted traffic had been reached, and something about a Dynamo server, Nintendo have put up the 'Under Construction' page.
Perhaps now that they've arranged the modifications they could do something..

Enguy

04-12-2005, 04:51 PM

Because of all the troubles I wasn't able to connect twice in the week !
10 stars gone...

Too bad but there's nothing decent to buy on the French star catalog anyway...

Do you like charts? I like charts a lot, and I always try to find as many charts as possible.

A good place where you can find them is NiSuTe, because it is the first site to offer monthly charts from Japan (http://www.nisute.com).

But I'd like to find charts/figures from Spain, Germany, Italy... could you help me?