Free points for those worthless stars is always a good thing. Mario Kart Wii is going to be the big N anouncement in E3. Metroid Games have always been close to the american releace. There, all bases covered. Nice find Rol.

Edit: Hallo freund. Wie geht es? 

Es is gut. Ich bin nitch so gut mit Deutch. Aber, Ich kann es sprechen.

 But, it's good to hve an actually confermation. There was that rumor floating around. Guess Mario Kart does exist.

What is the deal with the online play?? can you do co-op, or just download new missions or can you compete with others?

 ich auch can nicht so gut shreiben, ich verstehe aber besser. Rumor has it that you won't play co-op or rival missions , but you will download new levels and missions. It was just a rumor though, along with that red Vision rpg that was proven false.

I have always had my wii linked with my NoA account. This wasn't possible for Europe? What are these stars you are referring to?

These stars were giving to gamers in Europe who bought games. You bought a GC or GBA game, inside was a unique code and you got stars. They could be traded for Nintendo-ringtones, backgrounds, etc. but also - if you had a lot of them - for the collector's edition of Zelda. They're pretty useless these days so I'm glad the star-catalog is being updated.

Edit: Erm... someone already answered that one... 

You had the option when you bought an official nintendo product, to enter a pin number that came with the product on NOE website and you got an amount of "star" points that you could exchange for ringtones, wallpapers and other sort of useless crap. Then NOE anounced that we could trafer our stars to Wii points( far more rewarding) and we are waiting to this day. A nintendo fan that did use the star system had an average of 10.000 point. so if they go for a 2:1 exchange thats a free 5000 wii point card to spend.

Edit:Crap! Third strike, i'm out!

I think Europeans cry to much about STARS. We don't get anything like that in the states. The closest we get in you can put a pin number for Nintendo games, and you'll get a Legend of Zelda game(a compliation). From then one you get free subsriptions to Nintendo Power. Sure, sounds good, but who reallky needs that much NP.

Only game i ever saw on stars was Age of Empire for the ds. And it was always sold out. So a Zelda SE sounds good to me.

Ich kann auch ein bischen Duetsch sprechen