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Nintendo Downloads - November 2009 (VC / WiiWare / DSiWare)

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iamaustrian

Member
Capndrake said:
Japanese VC for December:

FC:
-Famicom Tantei Club Part II - Ushiro ni Tatsu Shoujo Zenkouhen (Nintendo)

SFC:
-Final Fight 3 (Capcom)

Neo Geo:
-The King of Fighters '95 (D4 Enterprise, Dec 1st)

MSX:
-Yie Ar Kung Fu II (Konami)
-Metal Gear (Konami)

Virtual Console Arcade:
-Ordyne (Namco Bandai, Dec 1st)
-Rompers (Namco Bandai, Dec 1st)
-Zaxxon (Sega)
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*drools*
so much goodness there
FF3! I finished it at least 200 times
 
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Oxx

Member
On the right of the page.

I might give it a go despite the lack of impressions. I still have 2000 points tied to my DSi from launch day and a weekend of train journeys to fill.

The only things I have downloaded so far are Puzzle League, Code, and Flipnote.
 
N

Neverfade

Member
donny2112 said:
$15 Wii Point cards at Wal-Mart.com. There's Bing Cashback possible somewhere in there, too, but it's still a good deal without it. I think shipping is like $2-3 for one card, but it's < $1 more for each additional card.
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Excellent. I have an online only gift card left over from the Smash Bros Brawl debacle in Jan '08. In for a 7 Dollar Wii Points card.
 
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Oxx

Member
Reflect Missile is pretty fun. The presentation is about as exciting as the name, but it's a pretty addictive little game and exactly the sort of thing I was hoping for to play on the train.
 
J

Jazzem

Member
Mighty Flip Champs and Reflect Missile get :D

Both are great little games, though managing my DSi memory for such titles is becoming increasingly clumsy... Can't believe we're all wanting a fridge solution all over again!
 
T

twinturbo2

butthurt Heat fan
Capndrake said:
Japanese VC for December:

FC:
-Famicom Tantei Club Part II - Ushiro ni Tatsu Shoujo Zenkouhen (Nintendo)

SFC:
-Final Fight 3 (Capcom)

Neo Geo:
-The King of Fighters '95 (D4 Enterprise, Dec 1st)

MSX:
-Yie Ar Kung Fu II (Konami)
-Metal Gear (Konami)

Virtual Console Arcade:
-Ordyne (Namco Bandai, Dec 1st)
-Rompers (Namco Bandai, Dec 1st)
-Zaxxon (Sega)
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Man, we should be getting more VC Arcade games already...
 
A

AlphaTwo00

Member
BooJoh said:
Do those work on the DSi Shop?
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Yes. But WATCH OUT! Nintendo points, once redeemed on system of choice, is not movable to the other one.

I have 2500 Wii points and 500 DSi points. God knows what I'm going to do if more than Reflect Missile shows up.
 
N

Nessus

Member
Tempy said:
Indeed, Metal Gear first appeared on the MSX, and then apparently modified and ported over to the Famicom/NES.
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Hehe, I know.

I was just quoting Snake.

..and wishing Nintendo would make an exception and bring out an MSX game in North America.
 
O

Oxx

Member
Jazzem said:
Both are great little games, though managing my DSi memory for such titles is becoming increasingly clumsy... Can't believe we're all wanting a fridge solution all over again!
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I can't believe Nintendo chose to put everything on one long line. What was wrong with the channels grid on the Wii? That would have worked even better on the DS!
 
S

swerve

Member
Oxx said:
I can't believe Nintendo chose to put everything on one long line.
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Put games at one end, apps at the other, settings/download icon/pictochat etc in the middle, and use the slide bar at the bottom to go instantly between them. Love it.
 
O

Oxx

Member
swerve said:
Put games at one end, apps at the other, settings/download icon/pictochat etc in the middle, and use the slide bar at the bottom to go instantly between them. Love it.
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That is interesting. I think I would probably still prefer a 6x4 grid or whatever.

In other news... still completely addicted to Reflect Missile. 94 stages down.

I'm not sure why this isn't part of the Art Style series. Maybe there's a set of unwritten rules that a game must obey. Or perhaps Nintendo think that they flooded the DSi store with too many Art Style titles too quickly.

I just know that the name isn't doing the game and favours.

But I love that the battery-icon, clock and volume display are on screen during the levels.
 
J

joedick

Member
I'm glad everybody's so excited for Ogre Battle. I can't wait to hear everybody complaining every week when it doesn't release!
 
R

rpmurphy

Member
Updates are available for Dr. Mario Express (500 point section for those who do not remember where it is in the shop) and Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again (800+ point section) on DSiWare shop. Downloaded both, but I have no idea what has changed. Saves and records are retained so no worries.
 
V

VOOK

We don't know why he keeps buying PAL, either.
Game & Watch classified for outside Japan by ACB

gamewatchdsiwareoflc.jpg
 
Y

Yes Boss!

Member
Tempy said:
Indeed, Metal Gear first appeared on the MSX, and then apparently modified and ported over to the Famicom/NES.
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Is the game playable from a non-japanese speaker? Wouldn't mind throwing down $6-7 if it is playable.
 
N

Nuclear Muffin

Banned
Yes Boss! said:
Is the game playable from a non-japanese speaker? Wouldn't mind throwing down $6-7 if it is playable.
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Based on my experience from playing it on the MGS3 bonus disc. No, not without a guide (And that takes away half the fun anyway)
 
HUELEN10

HUELEN10

Member
HERE WE GO!
NINTENDO DOWNLOAD: NINTENDO OFFERS 10 DOWNLOADS TO HELP YOU RECOVER FROM YOUR HOLIDAY WEEKEND

Nov. 30, 2009

Whether you succumbed to a food coma, found yourself trapped at the mall or just planted yourself in front of the television, clearly you need a break from the exhausting holiday weekend. And Nintendo is here to help, with 10 downloadable games sure to provide a welcome distraction. WiiWare™ brings the latest installment in the gripping Tales of Monkey Island series, while Nintendo DSiWare™ serves up some magic along with the popular Bookworm™ and Foto Face: The Face Stealer Strikes, a game starring...you. And don't forget to take a trip down memory lane with two Virtual Console™ classics - one from Super NES™ and one from the arcades.

For you Flipnote Studio™ fans, there's something "dynamite" on the Nintendo Channel and the Flipnote Hatena Web site this week, so be sure to check it out. You can also watch and download Flipnotes created by renowned artists like Aardman Animations LTD. at the new Flipnote Central section.

WiiWare

Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 4
Publisher: Telltale Games
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E 10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) - Cartoon Violence, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol
Price: 1,000 Wii Points™
Description: Conspiracies, betrayal and shocking revelations as the Tales of Monkey Island intensity builds. Guybrush returns to Flotsam Island, but forget about a hero's welcome. Handed over to De Singe by the backstabbing Morgan LeFlay, Guybrush is seized by an angry mob and put on trial. With a silk-tongued prosecutor in his face and a hangman's noose dangling over his neck, Guybrush must figure out how to defend himself against grave accusations. Meanwhile, the determined Marquis sets his sights on a new and far more attractive test subject. How on earth will the Mighty Pirate get out of this mess? The monthly Tales of Monkey Island tension continues to mount in The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood. Brace yourself for a shocking revelation that will rock the world of Monkey Island to its core.

My Zoo™
Publisher: Hudson Entertainment
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 500 Wii Points
Description: My Zoo is a relaxing animal sim that puts you in the shoes of an animal breeder, raising up animals you'd normally only dream of. All it takes is a Wii Remote™ controller for a simple, yet fulfilling, connection with nature. There are 12 animal types in total (four sold separately as add-on content). Select your favorites and nurture them to adulthood. Feeding them, petting them and cleaning up their messes are great ways to form a lasting bond. Each animal's personality will change depending on how you take care of it. Watch them get spoiled, turn into over-eaters and more as they grow on a daily basis. Some animals will even have a baby on occasion, and once it's born, you've got another mouth to feed. Game time passes much more quickly than real time, and the different animal types are active at various hours - some during the day and some at night. Sometimes it's fun to just kick back and watch what they do. So what are you waiting for? It's time to create your own personal zoo.

Copter Crisis
Publisher: Digital Leisure Inc.
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) - Mild Violence
Price: 500 Wii Points
Description: Copter Crisis puts you in the pilot's seat. As a member of the elite Helicopter Rescue Squad, you'll be assigned to respond to any type of emergency anywhere at any time. As the newest member joining this team, you'll have to complete various missions with the latest in helicopter rescue technology. When you're ready, you'll be tasked with executing rescue missions all around the Black Rock Canyon. Your Wii Remote controller becomes the control stick as you guide your copter along the canyons while avoiding rocks, severe weather and even anti-aircraft fire. Rescue lost hikers, deliver supplies to remote areas, assist on scientific missions and even blast your way into underground cavern systems. Complete all of your objectives and rise through the ranks to take on the toughest rescues and unlock 10 bonus missions. Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection Pay & Play allows you to enhance your flight experience with 10 additional copters, which can give you access to unlimited missiles, larger fuel tanks, cargo holds and even mid-air loops.

Christmas Clix
Publisher: JV Games Inc.
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 1,000 Wii Points
Description: Christmas doesn't have to be all work for Santa, does it? Santa's having some fun and wants you to play along too. You can help Santa decorate the tree by removing the presents and ornaments that he stacks. When you consecutively connect packages without missing a beat, you get extra points. Collect as many candy canes as you can because when you collect enough, Santa will add a special star to the game that can greatly help you get through a level or just bring some additional fun.

Nintendo DSiWare

Foto Face™: The Face Stealer Strikes
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) - Mild Cartoon Violence
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Your face, your game, you're the hero. In Foto Face: The Face Stealer Strikes, YOU get to be in the game. Using the camera and microphone, you become the hero in your own game. Unlock a variety of hero costumes as you battle the baddies, search for stars and solve platforming puzzles. The Face Stealer has stolen your identity and is creating trouble - and everyone is blaming you. You have to track him down across 15 action-packed stages. Along the way, you'll come across many memorable creatures, both friend and foe. Use the camera and microphone to create faces and voices for every character in your game. Foto Face: The Face Stealer Strikes - a game starring YOU.

Bookworm
Publisher: PopCap Games, Inc.
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Feed your appetite for wordy fun in this download version of PopCap's hit word-puzzle game. Link letter tiles left, right, up and down to build words and feed Lex in Bookworm Classic mode. But watch out for burning letters - they could spell disaster for you and Lex. Use Reward Tiles and spell Bonus Words to boost your score and link your best words to enter the Hall of Fame. Play unlimited levels of word-puzzle fun and learn new words on the go. You'll relax and tune up your brain every time you play.

Master of Illusion™ Express: Mind Probe
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points™
Description: Master of Illusion Express titles are mind-boggling magic tricks that you perform with your Nintendo DSi™ system. Learn the illusions, practice up and then amaze your friends. Master of Illusion Express: Mind Probe uses your Nintendo DSi system as a means of detecting information. Ask a spectator to write down a favorite (or least-favorite) item - person, food or color, for example - and then be astonished when the Nintendo DSi system sounds an alarm to indicate when that item is spoken. Use any variation of likes or dislikes to stun the crowd.

Sudoku Challenge!
Publisher: Digital Leisure Inc.
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Now's your chance to play the brain-busting puzzle game taking the world by storm. With more than 100,000,000 sudoku puzzles, you'll never see the same puzzle twice in Sudoku Challenge! You can select the classic nine-by-nine sukodu game boards as well as Grand Sudoku, which challenges you to complete five intersecting sudoku boards simultaneously. Just a beginner? Don't worry - with three difficulty options, even the most novice player can complete a sudoku with ease. But if you're a seasoned pro, challenge yourself in "Hard" mode and test your true skills. It's time to get your thinking cap on and see how many sudoku puzzles you can conquer.

Virtual Console

The Combatribes™
Original platform: Super NES
Publisher: Aksys Games
Players: 1-2
ESRB Rating: E 10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) - Violence
Price: 800 Wii Points
Description: The evil gang known as "Guilty Zero" rules the city, and it's up to you as one of the members of the Combatribes to take them down. Choose one of three characters and fight your way through the city of New York. Progress through the game by tackling the goons and boss of each stage using your arsenal of kicks, punches, throws and other techniques to beat them into submission. Once your stamina bar is reduced to zero, you'll need to use a continue, but when you're out of continues, it's game over. Can you eliminate the threat of "Guilty Zero" and restore the peace in New York City!?

Solomon's Key™
Original platform: Arcade
Publisher: TECMO
Players: 1-2
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 600 Wii Points
Description: Solomon's Key is an action/puzzle game that lets you control the wizard Dana, delving into a labyrinth to seek out a magical tome called Solomon's Key, an item that will help in your quest to drive away evil spirits let loose in the world. The goal of the game is to use the buttons to create and destroy blocks, and use various techniques to find keys to pass through doors. The game has appeared on a variety of platforms, but the arcade version focuses strongly on the action elements of the game, making it more challenging, and allowing players of all skill levels, from beginners to masters, to enjoy it. Settings like the number of lives and difficulty level can be adjusted.

Nintendo adds new titles to the Nintendo DSi Shop and the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Mondays. Users with broadband Internet access can redeem Wii Points or Nintendo DSi Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel. Nintendo DSi Points can be purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. A Nintendo Points Card™ can be purchased at retail locations. All points from one Nintendo Points Card must be redeemed in either the Nintendo DSi Shop or the Wii Shop Channel. They are not transferable and cannot be divided between the two systems.

Remember that both Wii and Nintendo DSi feature parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visit Wii.com or NintendoDSi.com.
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Yay? Can safely say that I am not getting anything this week, though Solomon's Key kicks ass.
 
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toythatkills

Member
Isn't Solomon's Key already on VC on something else?

Anyone know anything about Foto Face? A quick Google doesn't reveal much but I'm all for platformers!
 
GeekyDad

GeekyDad

Member
I wonder if Konami pulled some strings to have Castlevania ReBirth released closer to Christmas. Would kinda make sense, since folks can then download it just before the holiday or gift it to people. Eh, who knows...still sad, though, to see another week go by without it.
 
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JoshuaJSlone

Member
Bookworm
Publisher: PopCap Games, Inc.
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points
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This also appears to be launching as a DS card game in about a week, so this must be an options-limited version. Also worth noting there's a similar homebrew DS game called Word Up if you have that ability.
 
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joedick

Member
JoshuaJSlone said:
This also appears to be launching as a DS card game in about a week, so this must be an options-limited version. Also worth noting there's a similar homebrew DS game called Word Up if you have that ability.
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Here are the differences, from ther press release:

Bookworm DSiWare and DS
Bookworm was originally released by PopCap in January of 2005 and has been ported and re-optimized for ten different platforms, boasting over 100 million downloads, and making it the world's most popular digital word game. Now, for the first time, Bookworm has been adapted for Nintendo DSiWare and Nintendo DS with an array of new features and modes that are exclusively available on DS. The DSiWare version of Bookworm includes the complete Classic mode and has been specifically tuned for dual-screen, vertical use. The DS version offers all of the content that has made Bookworm so popular as well as entirely new gameplay not available anywhere else, including the multiplayer Bookworm Battle mode, 20 all-new Collectible Books, the ability to construct a library based on your game progress, and the all-new "Lex-Ray" – a fun new way for the game's hero, "Lex," to measure and track your growing spelling and vocabulary prowess.

With both new versions of Bookworm, players whet their appetite for spelling fun in PopCap's hit word-puzzle game, an immersive title for word game aficionados of all ages and levels. Players link adjoining letter tiles to build words, complete each level and feed "Lex." They'll use Reward Tiles and spell Bonus Words to boost their score.
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http://ds.ign.com/articles/102/1026696p1.html

Also, nice to see that Aksys is continuing to bring out Technos games. Looks like they have rights to the whole library...
 
B

Balb

Member
Still waiting for Donkey Kong (arcade) to be released. Wonder what's taking them so long. It's the most obvious first party arcade choice.
 
M

Mockingbird

Member
Not interested in any of the titles this week, but I'm glad to see Nintendo getting more titles out of the way. Now it's two less games until Earthbound!
 
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GrotesqueBeauty

Banned
Christ. How can a port of an ancient freeware game like Cave Story take so long? It's frustrating that Nicalis' decision to pursue half assed DLC no one cares about is likely one of the culprits. I feel like they've squandered an incredible amount of good will and interest that the project generated when it was announced. Here's hoping pricing doesn't end up being the final rub.
 
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Ranger X

Member
GrotesqueBeauty said:
Christ. How can a port of an ancient freeware game like Cave Story take so long? It's frustrating that Nicalis' decision to pursue half assed DLC no one cares about is likely one of the culprits. I feel like they've squandered an incredible amount of good will and interest that the project generated when it was announced. Here's hoping pricing doesn't end up being the final rub.
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Cave Story just keep failing at approval. It's new dev and they must not be used to Nintendo's devellopment guidelines. At least they have true reasons not to be released already. As for Castlevania, Konami isn't telling shit.

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R

Rocksteady33

Junior Member
Anyone know if/when Moonwalker will see a VC release? I saw an announcement in a thread on GAF but would really like to see it soon.
 
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flamesofchaos

Member
Ranger X said:
Cave Story just keep failing at approval. It's new dev and they must not be used to Nintendo's devellopment guidelines. At least they have true reasons not to be released already. As for Castlevania, Konami isn't telling shit.

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As I keep telling people on here, CV:Rebirth was released 20 years after the original release in Japan. Konami is probably releasing it 20 years after it was released in North America which is sometime in December.

Though I share the frustration with Cave Story. Nicalis shouldn't of been cocky and made the outlandish claims that the game would of been released in the spring or summer :lol.
 
S

Somnid

Member
Ranger X said:
the FUCK is happening with Castlevania??

I DEMAND ANSWERS.

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You realize Q4 2009 means anytime between now and the end of the year right? Even then I'd be surprised if it didn't slip into January as the other Rebirth titles took forever as well.
 
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GrotesqueBeauty

Banned
Ranger X said:
Cave Story just keep failing at approval. It's new dev and they must not be used to Nintendo's devellopment guidelines. At least they have true reasons not to be released already.
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That would make more sense if there weren't 500 extremely crappy shovelware games on WiiWare. If Nicalis repeatedly can't meet the standard those titles required to pass through we should be worried. As I already stated though, I suspect it has to do with the DLC portions of the game, future compatibility, etc., which is frustrating because the content sounds completely superfluous.
 
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