Where I Am: In my Living Room

What I’m Doing: Waiting on Hold with Nintendo, Bottling my Anger and Disappointment so That I’llBe Satiated by Well Wishes and Two Copies of Nintendo Power

A Wii has been returned to me. Not my Wii. But a Wii nonetheless.

All my save files, Virtual Console games and Miis are gone.

It won’t be very fun playing through those grueling first two hours of Twilight Princess again and all my Miis are a shadow of their former selves, as if I’m in a Twilight Zone episode where I wake up and everything is just different enough that I might be in an alien zoo.

I did learn that the Virtual Console is linked to your account (which they did transfer) and that all your games have permanent licenses associated with them. If, say, I delete a game to make room for whatever, I can redownload that title whenever I like.

That tidbit was not enough to make things right.