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    Quote Originally Posted by Anthony1 View Post
    Hey, I'm just curious and maybe you guys know the reason behind this and can elighten me about it. I have no interest in purchasing any VC games (unless they were like $1.99 or something), but I did go to the VC area to check out the games and how they have it setup, and I also went there to play some free demo's of the games, but there was only 1 problem....


    NO FREE DEMOS!!!!


    What's up with that? Both Sony and Microsoft offer free demos of their various games, and I thought that it would be standard practice to offer free demos? Sure I would expect them to be very brief, like 1 level, or maybe a timed game or something, but I figured they would have some kind of basic demo for you to be able to sample the game briefly before purchase. I'm also kinda suprised that there aren't any demos of actual Wii games either. It probably has to do with the built in storage in the Wii. Not enough space for demo's of real Wii games. But I'm thinking that if they offered demo's of real Wii games, more people would go out and acquire SD cards, and that would in turn inspire many more people to purchase VC games.


    playing games off SD card would be painfully slow.... it might be alright for some of the VC games, but a real honest to goodness wii game would run like shit. way to slow. you really need some kind of fast access rates to play these games, like from optical or hard drives. personally im glad nintendo finally realized theres an internet. free demos a few console generations away for nintendo to catch up to lol.

    for the record: i own a wii and 360

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    Quote Originally Posted by Poofta! View Post
    playing games off SD card would be painfully slow.... it might be alright for some of the VC games, but a real honest to goodness wii game would run like shit. way to slow. you really need some kind of fast access rates to play these games, like from optical or hard drives. personally im glad nintendo finally realized theres an internet. free demos a few console generations away for nintendo to catch up to lol.

    for the record: i own a wii and 360

    Ahh, I didn't know that. So that explains the lack of actual Wii game demo's, but there should still be some VC demo's for the games. Just 1 level of the game or a timed demo that lasts 5 minutes would be sufficient. I also hope that Nintendo comes out with a little external hard drive for it, so maybe they can offer full fledged demo's of actual Wii games. I'm so used to trying demo's out on the 360 and PS3 that it just seems strange to not have them at all.

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    New titles today?
    Been looking around and didn't see any.
    Nintendo's website doesn't show the title up to date.
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    1 new game today, but it's a mother.

    Zelda: Link to the Past.

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    Great game - but I still can't help but feel we got shafted again.

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    There are more games. According to Sega's site, three new Genesis games are being released today. Gain Ground, Comix Zone, and Bonanza Bros.

    Nintendo hasn't updated their page, only listing Zelda 3. But we've known about Sega for a couple weeks now, and unless someone reports differently from actual Wii surfing, I'll assume that it's four games this week.

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    Added Link to the Past to my list on the first page. I'll add the Sega titles whenever I get official confirmation that they're available for download.

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    Damn, I need money. All sorts of good stuff in coming out on every god damn system I own.

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    Only Zelda:Link to the past was posted today. I just checked the Wii store and that is the only new VC game available as of right now. So if Sega was planning to release any...then I suspect they released them to Nintendo and it is up to Nintendo to decide when they go up on the VC store.

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    Zelda's cool, not dogging a great Zelda title, but I was hoping for some more TG16 titles.
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    You know, in light of all the TG16 resurrection, the question is begged: Will they bother finding some way of porting TGCD's and SuperCD's to the Wii Console? I know the red book audio causes some problems for that in general, it could be done. If XBoxLive is getting Symphony of the Night, I'm sure somebody could get Rondo of Blood or Ys Book I and II ported over somehow. Or How about Snatcher--the Sega CD version is ported to English with some of the best voice acting ever in a game at that time. Wouldn't it be great to play this stuff on a wii? I hope they find it profitable to go through with some of these ideas. I think there'd be a good response.

    How about SMS games, also? Will we wever see Phantasy Star, Zillion, or Spellcaster on the Wii?

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    I don't think we'll see Snatcher on the Wii anytime soon, that's for sure. How would the ESRB deal with it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Mitchell View Post
    You know, in light of all the TG16 resurrection, the question is begged: Will they bother finding some way of porting TGCD's and SuperCD's to the Wii Console? I know the red book audio causes some problems for that in general, it could be done. If XBoxLive is getting Symphony of the Night, I'm sure somebody could get Rondo of Blood or Ys Book I and II ported over somehow. Or How about Snatcher--the Sega CD version is ported to English with some of the best voice acting ever in a game at that time. Wouldn't it be great to play this stuff on a wii? I hope they find it profitable to go through with some of these ideas. I think there'd be a good response.

    How about SMS games, also? Will we wever see Phantasy Star, Zillion, or Spellcaster on the Wii?

    Good question. At some point, more consoles will have to be added to VC, and there's no reason, really, why all the classic consoles (pre-Playstation) can't be easily made available. The emulators are all stable and working fine. The biggest question would likely be the issue of rights, and how to handle content from companies that are gone.

    I'd want to see SMS added, if only for Phantasy Star and Golvellius. I'd also demand 2600, 7800, Atari 800 computer (for 4-player MULE, of course!), Sega CD, Turbo CD, and maybe even Saturn.

    I wonder what's happened to Sega's VC titles this week. Has there been any news regarding them? It's weird.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WiseSalesman View Post
    I don't think we'll see Snatcher on the Wii anytime soon, that's for sure. How would the ESRB deal with it?
    What do you mean? Is there some rule that the VC can't have mature games? Snatcher in itself is relatively tame compared to GTA SA, anyway.

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    Is anyone disappointed by the lack of online multiplayer with the Wii? I can honestly say I won't be DLing any VC games until there's online multiplayer support.
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    I'd buy Golvellius and Wonder Boy III the second they came out. Same goes for quite a few TCD/SCD games. Is it for SURE that we'll never get CD games for size reasons?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Mitchell View Post
    What do you mean? Is there some rule that the VC can't have mature games? Snatcher in itself is relatively tame compared to GTA SA, anyway.

    When I made that comment, I had forgotten that there are parental settings in-console for the Wii store. I was thinking "How will Nintendo, who is so concerned about our children's impressionable minds that they thought up that infuriating friend code system, reconcile the fact that little Billy can buy Snatcher from the comfort of his living room, and there won't be a conscientious gamestop employee there to SAVE him from it?"

    I realize that there have been M games on Nintendo systems before, but there hasn't been anything that couldn't be rated at least K-A on the virtual console yet.

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    Still no word on the missing Genesis games, but GameSpot reports that Mario Kart 64 will be released for the VC next week. Nice to see my favorite Mario Kart on VC, let alone another N64 game.

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    (1/29/07)

    Today's additions:

    Mario Kart 64
    Contra 3
    Comix Zone
    Bonanza Bros.

    Still no Gain Ground.

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    Awesome! I've never owned mariokart 64 and I usually find when I see it at flea markets, its outrageously priced.

    I'll buy MK64 for sure.

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