I recently acquired a used Wii, and it was only after I acquired the Wii that I found out that it has 1600 Wii points on it! I was thinking of using the points to buy a Wiiware game or two, but I wasn’t sure on which one(/s) to get.
The most obvious choice would be Mega Man 9. The only reason why I’m hesitating at all is that I also have a lot of credit on my Xbox LIVE account. I was thinking that I might rather use the credit on my Xbox LIVE account to get Mega Man 9 for the Xbox 360, and save my Wii points for something else; such as a Wii-exclusive title.
So, does the Xbox 360 version of MM9 have a better framerate, or any other such inherent advantages? The game’s listing at the Xbox LIVE Marketplace states that the game runs at 720p, which I know higher than 480p, which is the maximum resolution that the Wii supports. However, I tried the demo for the Xbox 360, and it did not look like 720p; it looked distorted and pixelated. I’m quite certain that it was actually running at a much lower resolution; upscaled to 720p. The Wiiware version of the game has no demo, so I cannot run the two in order to compare them to each other.
I want to stress that I am NOT asking for recommendations with regard to the merits of the Xbox 360 controller versus the Wii remote. I do not plan to use either of those controllers to play Mega Man 9; I plan to rewire an NES controller in order to map its buttons to either an Xbox 360 controller PCB or a Wii Classic controller PCB.
I also am interested in recommendations for any good Wiiware titles that are Wii-exclusive, (or that were at least originally released for Wiiware preferably titles that have NOT also been released as on-disc games. If the game came out as a retail disc game, I’d rather just buy it in that form, so that I’d have a DRM-free copy of it.
Thank you!