Nintendo Downloads - July 2014
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Starwolf_UK
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Not Nintendo. Developed by TOSE, published by Tonkin House in Japan. Nintendo picked it up for US/Europe.
Heck if things which you would think are pretty much Nintendo like Yoshi's Cookie are extinct (not just delisted like DKC trilogy, if you delete Yoshi's Cookie that is it and system transfers warn that Yoshi's Cookie can not be redownloaded) I wouldn't hold hope of Super Tennis ever coming out.
Speaking of endangered species, how much longer will the Super Star Wars trio have?
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Maybe this week we will get one of those VC games we all want that are out in Japan already! 
Hoping Pop'n Twinbee comes out in the US. Considering we're getting Mysterious Murasame Castle next week, perhaps this means we'll see more import games again. Though I wonder if we'd get the JPN version or EU version, as it seems there was a few differences between the two.
SkeptiMism
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Toki Tori 2+ if you haven't played it yet. Absolutely fantastic game. Sort of a metroidvania style open world puzzle adventure game. There's also about 20-30 hours of content easily.
The original Toki Tori is fine too, but very different.
Agreed
Beren the Empty-Handed
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Yeah that game is very nice. Some of those puzzles really had me struggling. It's the kind of game where taking a break for a day or two and coming back fresher can really move things along. One time I was lying in bed and all of a sudden the solution to a puzzle came to me.
Good stuff.
Mega Man's Electric Sheep
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Bombing Bastards is the worst game I've ever downloaded from the e-shop. Horrible sluggish controls, the bombs take forever to blow up, the enemies in the single player have clairvoyant "perfect" AI, the music is all public domain crap....I played to world 2 and a bit of the anemic 5 map multiplayer and deleted it with great happiness.
Auch. It kind of falls in line with the reviewers' complains. There goes from my list.
No big loss if they don't imo, RBA is a pretty janky platformer. I could go for the Pop'n Twinbee shooter though, or the Parodius games if they come. And if they do come it better be the 60Hz versions.
I still want Sim City SNES to come back. Also Tetris Attack and Nintendo World Cup in the west.
Just a shame that some of the Parodius games aren't available digitally even in Japan. Sexy Parodius & the other PS1 one isn't on JP PSN, & even the Super Famicom one isn't on the JPN VC.sörine;123009898 said:
But yeah, hoping the Pop'n Twinbee shmup comes over as well.
Nope not yet, if ever. I doubt Nintendo's too interested in licensing anything from EA at this point.
Yeah it's odd that none of the FC, SFC, PCE or GB Parodius games ever came to the Japanese Virtual Consoles. Only the MSX original ever did. And nothing at all for PSN.
3 Nintendo console Parodius games did get original European releases though; Parodius (NES), Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy (SNES) and The Fantastic Journey (SNES). Maybe we'll see them this time around.
brandonh83
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I just want some damn N64 games on the Wii U. Having the likes of Ocarina or Majora or Star Fox or Mario 64 with gamepad play would be pretty cool.
You're probably thinking of Star Parodier, a shmup made by Hudson Soft that was taken down from the Wii VC in March.
I'm really skeptical at this point that we'll ever see them, especially with the focus on GBA and DS games coming to Wii U VC. And to think not that long ago I thought we might even see GCN games on VC.
They're handled by different divisions at least so hopefully it's still in the works.
SPD: NES, SNES, GB, GBC
M2: GBA, DS
NST: N64
For pre-n64 games I am more understanding because it is extremely murky to know all of the rights holders. Granted I am sure there are situations where things are sticky, but honestly this is the biggest hold up to getting old games on things like VC.
It isn't a technical issue, but who has the rights to publish it, who is paying for it, and who gets a cut of the revenues.
Midtown Crazy Race - First Look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP5BoyfZm1Y&feature=youtu.be
Apparently you can only turn the car via the gyroscope in the gamepad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP5BoyfZm1Y&feature=youtu.be
Apparently you can only turn the car via the gyroscope in the gamepad.
Team Top Hat
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This isn't an issue for anything that Nintendo published [outside of Goldeneye]. It's completely inexcusable that there aren't any N64 games on Wii U VC and it's very worrying of the fact that all my games in Wii Mode may or may not be carried over without a paper trail that I previously did buy them.
True and I agree. Except you are also forgetting anything Rare fully owned too. That is also why we really only saw N64 games from Nintendo on Wii. See rights issues can be a mess even if a 1st party own a majority of the rights.
Hopefully they can figure it out. It is very possible that the potential sales just aren't worth the effort
So why Nintendo makes an emulator for every game they release instead of making one for the entire platform? The performance issues are so big that they must do it? Lots of people play in emulators on phones and PCs and aren't so concerned with it, and I woudn't mind trade a little less performance for a greater catalog of games.
Ok, I confess, I don't own and don't want to buy a Wiimote just to access the Wii VC
terrisus
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Check out the development history of BSNES
Developing an emulator that works "accurately" for all games for a system is incredibly involved and resource-intensive.
And while "lots of people play in emulators on phones and PCs and aren't so concerned with it," those are (generally) free emulators with no real expectations.
Not justifying the approach Nintendo is taking fully, but them doing a "phone-quality emulator" definitely wouldn't go over well.
If I had to guess, the reason they do it this way is because even though a lot of emulator code can be reused from one Virtual Console title to the next, they still need manuals and still need to go through the same QA process as every other title that winds up on the shop. And Nintendo just isn't devoting the resources to it like they did with the Wii.
Team Top Hat
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You're forgetting the fact that they already did it once on the Wii. Nintendo's treatment of VC ouput is completely awful.
terrisus
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They made "an emulator for every game they releases instead of making one for the entire platform" for the Wii - and that quote was the comment that I was replying to - and they're now doing the same for the Wii U.
Zeyphersan
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While they already did it on the Wii, the Wii U VC has a lot of new stuff, like digital manuals, Miiverse, gamepad support, etc. I'm a scrub and appreciate save-states myself.
starwarsfan541
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sörine;123025909 said:
Interesting, I never knew that besides the M2 doing GBA part
NST was responsible for N64 games on Wii, but not really involved with 3DS or Wii U VC in any way, AFAIK.
Yes. Brain Age is already available.
starwarsfan541
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Not in North America, grumbles at NoA
Really hope we get Brain Age or Super Mario Kart soon
Probably talking about DS virtual console for WiiU
Zeyphersan
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They're probably trying to take the original Metroid out of it first, so you have to buy the NES version
Just kidding.
No I'm not.
Lol.
2048 was a wild success because it was a Threes clone, but free. Now they are releasing a paid version for consoles. Threes' developers should release Three for free with ads on the eShop for revenge.
1) Nintendo's VC licensing with 3rd parties didn't cover future consoles and they need to re-license them all again.
2) Nintendo already experimented with launching a digital store pre-loaded with legacy content (the 3DS eShop had 300+ DSiWare games day one). Maybe it didn't gave them the results they wanted and they only really see sales when games are "launched".
terrisus
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DSiWare on the 3DS is basically the same thing as the Wii VC on the Wii U.
Wait, did Wii VC games not have save states? (I totally thought they did.)
terrisus
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Not as the Wii U does.
When you exited a game, it started back up at the point where you exited it.
But, you couldn't choose to save and reload from an earlier point or anything.