Tellyn Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 What is the Virtual Console? The Virtual Console is a download service for the Wii that allows you to download new games and retro games from a back-catalogue of Nintendo consoles and formerly competing consoles. The games, once downloaded for a fee, will be playable via an SD card in the Wii or saved onto the Wii's internal 512MB flash memory, playable through the Wii Channels. If the memory ever fills up, a player can delete a game and re-download it at a later date for no added fee. Virtual Console games saved to SD cards cannot be played on another Wii other than the one it was downloaded to. If a console breaks, Nintendo will offer support on recovering the games. Atlus, Namco Bandai, Banpresto, Capcom, Chunsoft, D4 Enterprise, Enterbrain, HAL Laboratory, Irem, Jaleco, KEMCO, Koei, Konami, NCS Masaya, Netfarm, Paon, Rocket Company, Square Enix, Sunsoft, Taito, Takara TOMY and Tecmo have pledged their support to the Virtual Console, joining Hudson Soft (who are planning to bring 100 titles to the Virtual Console) and Sega. Midway are also planning to bring retro Mortal Kombat games to the Virtual Console. Games will be bought by the purchase of Wii Points cards from retailers, which are then redeemed for games in the Wii Shop Channel. Games downloaded will be region specific, Japanese and American games cannot be downloaded onto a PAL (UK) console. Satoru Iwata has stated that new titles could be developed and sold for £2-£5 (Â¥500-Â¥1000, $4-$9), and free downloads may be offered with the purchase of certain Wii titles. Games that are downloaded will come with a free digital instruction manual. It has been stated by Nintendo that new games will be released every Monday after the Wii launch in America, and every Friday for Europe. A new feature in the Virtual Console games is that when you exit the game by clicking the Home button on the Wii Remote, a suspend point is created which allows you to play from exactly the same place where you left the game. UK and European Virtual Console Releases Nintendo Entertainment System (500 Wii Points - £3.50 - €5) The Legend of Zelda - Out Now Mario Bros. - Out Now Donkey Kong - Out Now Wario's Woods - Out Now Pinball - Out Now Urban Champion - Out Now Solomon's Key - Out Now Donkey Kong Jr. - Out Now Super Mario Bros. - Out Now Soccer - Out Now Tennis - Out Now Baseball - Out Now Ice Hockey - Out Now Xevious - Out Now Gradius - Out Now Kid Icarus - Out Now Zelda II: The Adventure of Link - Out Now Kirby's Adventure - Out Now Excitebike - Out Now Punch-Out!! - Out Now Galaga - Out Now Ice Climber - Out Now Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Out Now Castlevania - Out Now Elevator Action - April 2007 Duck Hunt - 2007 Hogan's Alley - 2007 Pro Wrestling - 2007 Wild Gunman - 2007 Dr. Mario - 2007 Mighty Bomb Jack - 2007 Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels - 2007 Super Mario Bros. 3 - 2007 Wild Gunman - 2007 Metroid - TBA Samurai Shodown Series- TBA Ninja Gaiden - TBA Rygar - TBA Tecmo Super Bowl - TBA NES Open Tournament Golf - TBA Spy vs. Spy - TBA Mach Rider - TBA The Adventures of Lolo - TBA Mario and Yoshi - TBA Shadow Warriors - TBA Pac-Man - TBA Super Mario Bros. 2 - TBA Donkey Kong Jr. Math - TBA Super Nintendo Entertainment System (800 Wii Points - £5.60 - €8) F-Zero - Out Now Donkey Kong Country - Out Now Super Castlevania IV - Out Now SimCity - Out Now Street Fighter II: The World Warrior - Out Now Super Probotector: Alien Rebels - Out Now Super Mario World - Out Now R-Type III: The Third Lightning - Out Now The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Out Now Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts - Out Now Legend of the Mystical Ninja - Out Now Pilotwings - 2007 Super Metroid - 2007 Kirby's Dream Land 3 - 2007 Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 2007 Kirby's Fun Pak - 2007 Gradius III - 2007 Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire - 2007 Zombies Ate My Neighbours - 2007 Super Metroid - TBA Super Mario Kart - TBA Super R-Type - TBA ActRaiser - TBA Final Fight - TBA Nintendo 64 (1,000 Wii Points - £7 - €10) Super Mario 64 - Out Now Mario Kart 64 - Out Now The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Out Now Lylat Wars - 2007 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - TBA Wave Race 64 - TBA ShadowMan 64 - TBA Aerofighters Assault - TBA Beetle Adventure Racing - TBA Shadowman - TBA Sega Mega Drive / Genesis (800 Wii Points - £5.60 - €8) Ecco the Dolphin - Out Now Altered Beast - Out Now Golden Axe - Out Now Sonic the Hedgehog - Out Now Columns - Out Now Ristar - Out Now Gunstar Heroes - Out Now Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine - Out Now ToeJam & Earl - Out Now Space Harrier II - Out Now Gain Ground - Out Now Bonanza Bros. - Out Now Comix Zone - Out Now Streets of Rage - Out Now Bio-Hazard Battle - Out Now Sword of Vermilion - Out Now Sonic Spinball - Out Now Vectorman - Out Now The Story of Thor - Out Now Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle - 2007 Alien Storm - 2007 Shining Force - 2007 Wonder Boy in Monster World - 2007 OutRun - TBA Turbografx (600 Wii Points unless otherwise stated - £4.20 - €6) Bonk's Adventure - Out Now Super Star Soldier - Out Now Victory Run - Out Now Bomberman '93 - Out Now Dungeon Explorer - Out Now Alien Crush - Out Now Military Madness - Out Now R-Type - Out Now - (800 Wii Points) Motoroader - Out Now Soldier Blade - Out Now Vigilante - Out Now New Adventure Island - Out Now Double Dungeons - Out Now Dragon's Curse - Out Now Chew Man Fu - Out Now Splatterhouse - Out Now Bonk's Revenge - 13 April 2007 Battle Lode Runner - April 2007 Bonk III: Bonk's Big Adventure - TBA Neutopia - TBA MSX (800 Wii Points - £5.60 - €8) Eggy - TBA Aleste - TBA Neo-Geo (800 Wii Points - £5.60 - €8) TBA Commodore 64 (TBA Wii Points - £TBA - €TBA) Impossible Mission - April 2007 The Last Ninja - 2007 Impossible Mission II - TBA Winter Games - TBA California Games (including Summer Games I and II) - TBA Pitstop - TBA Jumpman Jr. - TBA Other games/consoles and indie developed games IGN Game - TBA - (500 Wii Points - £3.50 - €5) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 I have heard that Wiis Virtual Console worldlist goes like this: Europe: Nintendo Entertainment System Super NES Mega Drive Commodore 64 N64 US: TurboGrafx-16 Nintendo Entertainment System Super NES Genesis N64 Japan: Famicom Super Famicom MSX N64 Mega Drive PC Engine Also the other games list are all nes games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellyn Posted October 7, 2006 Author Share Posted October 7, 2006 Thanks Dante. Although I reckon we'll see the MSX games over here, as if they release Metal Gear, it will sell well due to its popularity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcj metroid Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 what commodre 64 is on vc?Wow how would that work?Great news lol i didnt know that.anyone play creature.Very fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teppo Holmqvist Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 what commodre 64 is on vc?Wow how would that work?Great news lol i didnt know that.anyone play creature.Very fun Epyx is bringing C64 games for European VC, and first games should appear in december. One good thing with emulating C64 games is that you don't need to worry about loading times anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcj metroid Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Epyx is bringing C64 games for European VC, and first games should appear in december. One good thing with emulating C64 games is that you don't need to worry about loading times anymore. lol ah i remember those.So much memories,my first console(even though i never owned it my brother did) one thing c64 trashed nes in was music!.Classics on c64,brilliant sound quality for it's time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellyn Posted October 7, 2006 Author Share Posted October 7, 2006 what commodre 64 is on vc?Wow how would that work?Great news lol i didnt know that.anyone play creature.Very fun Apparently so, it was announced the other week. I'm expecting GB/GBC games aswell next year to download onto the DS, then upload the saves back to the Wii. Dreamcast games could be possible... Maybe Sega will just decide to release them on bigger SD cards? Sega Saturn will probably get put onto the VC at some point. The Amiga is expected. I'm currently updating the first post with pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 About Dreamcast games, Sega used GD-ROM that is similar to the standard CD-ROM except that the pits on the disc are packed more closely together, resulting in a higher storage capacity: around 1.2 gigabytes. The proprietary GD-ROM format was the only means of piracy protection and was quickly defeated. Using a combination of reverse-engineering and insecure firmware, one piracy method was made possible by the existence of regular-CD booting code in the Dreamcast BIOS to enable multimedia functions (called Mil-CD) for music CD releases on the Japanese market. Mil-CD support was removed from the final Dreamcast revisions, but piracy is often cited as one of the major reasons for the failure of the Dreamcast. Despite this discovery, making perfect copies was not possible. While several games never came close to using the full capacity of a 1.1 GB GD-ROM, other games did and sometimes required more than one disc to contain the entire game. Games that did take advantage of the GD-ROM's extra capacity required some tinkering from hackers; the most common method was to downsample the video and audio portions of the disc to a lower bitrate, so they would take up less space. Although this method was usually successful, a few games, most noticeably Shenmue II and Sonic Adventure, were missing sound and sometimes video on pirated versions through the process of "ripping", used in this context to mean completely removing some parts of a game's audio and video, because they were simply too large to downgrade with any success. Which means no Dreamcast games on VC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellyn Posted October 7, 2006 Author Share Posted October 7, 2006 That's a shame about the Dreamcast games. Though I didn't understand it, do you think they could release them on Wii discs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conzer16 Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Some good information there tellyn888. Would you stick the € prices in too? €5 €8 and €10 I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshMat Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Speccy to VC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 That's a shame about the Dreamcast games. Though I didn't understand it, do you think they could release them on Wii discs? Maybe if Sega gives out hardware code and games code but I dont understand it as well really Tellyn888. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellyn Posted October 7, 2006 Author Share Posted October 7, 2006 Some good information there tellyn888. Would you stick the € prices in too? €5 €8 and €10 I believe. Yep, I'm sorry about that, I was going to update that earlier. I'll put the US$ AU$, Yen and Euros up. EDIT: Prices fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshMat Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 This thread should be stickied btw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rapture1984 Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Anyone know if we'll be gettin Rare games on VC? I.e. Goldeneye & Banjo Kazooie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellyn Posted October 7, 2006 Author Share Posted October 7, 2006 This thread should be stickied btw Thanks. I'll update again tomorrow. Rare games will not be on the VC unless Nintendo pay license issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conzer16 Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Cheers Tellyn. Great thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowV7 Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Great thread,very imformative.Keep it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rapture1984 Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Rare games will not be on the VC unless Nintendo pay license issues. That sucks, guess I'll just have to stick to playing them on my PC. Goldeneye is probably THE game most people associate with the N64, it'll be a shame if Ninty can't sort something out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparko Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Nice work Tellyn, great post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blender Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 MARIO RPG was not on PAL. So does that mean we wont see it. Stunner of a game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcj metroid Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 i will be downloading more commodore games than anything else.I want gamjes from the more unknown consoles like the msx and pc engine.i own most good nintendo games and megadrive. good thread.surprised someone didnt think of it before.Should be stickied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshMat Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 I still wont be using the VC though, I ahve a commodore + loads of games at dads, Speccy here, 2 speccys at dad's, megadrive at dad's. SNES, N64 here, eventually will get a NES.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedrocasilva Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 great thread. This virtual console thing is shapping up pretty well, now Nintendo just needs to spill the beans about this. Virtual console needs games like earthbound NES, Final Fantasy 6 (3 in US), Chrono Trigger, Tales of Phantasia, Fire emblem's and Super Mario RPG, otherwise it's of little value. (for me) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiter Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Good thread, I voted five stars for it. I already ordered 2000 VC points for my Wii launch bundle, but I don't know what I'll spend it on. I read somewhere you can buy additional Wii Channels for VC points as well. I might be interested in Mario games I don't have (like SMB3 and SM64, I wish I hadn't sold SM64!), but I'm really interested to see what SNES games there are. There were so many strong classics on that console, especially when it came to RPGs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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