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

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batbeg

Member
Ranger X said:
Oh well, ZAMN isn't as good as I remembered it. :lol

I regret buying it now. :/

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This is exactly what I realized last time I played the game, a couple years ago now. Sad stuff.
 
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iamaustrian

Member
I demand an e-book download service for the DSi.
I would buy a book for up to 200 points.

I also bought that "200 classic books" - DS game and absolutly love it.
 
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ShineALight

Member
DSiWare is really starting to come into its own. I remember a few months ago few if any titles to look forward to, now there's more than I can keep track of.
 
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El Pescado

Member
Just got my Doc Louis' Punch Out ticket in the mail. I can't wait to get off work and download it. I love WiiWare. I just wish I had it all on disk or felt more secure in my digital purchases with Nintendo...
 
Z

zigg

Member
ShineALight said:
DSiWare is really starting to come into its own. I remember a few months ago few if any titles to look forward to, now there's more than I can keep track of.
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I've been playing the crap out of Pinball Pulse. I hope there's more of these on the way.
 
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Brazil

Living in the shadow of Amaz
El Pescado said:
Just got my Doc Louis' Punch Out ticket in the mail. I can't wait to get off work and download it. I love WiiWare. I just wish I had it all on disk or felt more secure in my digital purchases with Nintendo...
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In the mail or in the email?
 
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Inferno313

Banned
So.. I have 600 Wii Points.. What are some of the best 500 or 600 games I could get? VC or WiiWare are fine.. List more than one, because I have a lot of the good ones.
 
B

beelzebozo

Jealous Bastard
Inferno313 said:
So.. I have 600 Wii Points.. What are some of the best 500 or 600 games I could get? VC or WiiWare are fine.. List more than one, because I have a lot of the good ones.
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castlevania 1 & 3
legend of zelda & adventure of link
metroid
solomon's key
adventures of lolo 1 & 2
mega man 1, 2, & 3
punch-out!!
river city ransom
wonder boy in monster land
bomberman 93

i love all these
 
D

danielijohnson

Banned
NimbusD said:
I played ZAMN for the first time last year. It sucks. It's atari gameplay with snes graphics. Horrible stuff.
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Agent Unknown

Member
El Pescado said:
Just got my Doc Louis' Punch Out ticket in the mail. I can't wait to get off work and download it. I love WiiWare. I just wish I had it all on disk or felt more secure in my digital purchases with Nintendo...
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Huh? I thought that after this summer the Doc Louis game would be gone for good and members would have to wait until July 2010 for the next prize, how are you getting it now?
 
B

Brazil

Living in the shadow of Amaz
Agent Unknown said:
Huh? I thought that after this summer the Doc Louis game would be gone for good and members would have to wait until July 2010 for the next prize, how are you getting it now?
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They're only giving away the download codes for those who attained platinum level on Club Nintendo this year now.
 
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Agent Unknown

Member
Just watched the Excitebike World Rally trailer on Nintendo Week (I wanted to smack that blonde frag doll with copies of Mario 64 DS and Metroid Prime Hunters when she said C.O.P. The Recruit is "the first ever DS game to feature an open 3D environment") and it looks great. I would have preferred they'd stuck with sprites though.

Brazil said:
They're only giving away the download codes for those who attained platinum level on Club Nintendo this year now.
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Oh, so the Doc Louis game wasn't available yet this summer, there was a wait. Didn't realize.

Anyways, since I started my Club Nintendo account in late July and registered a ton of game codes and surveys in my backlog, I now have 850 coins and am locked in for Platinum Elite status in 2010. :D Hopefully the next prize is as cool as the Doc Louis download.
 
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Somnid

Member
Since nobody's done it in a while I decided to wade through the Nintendo Channel and dig up the latest VC sales figures. It's the same process of dividing the total play time by the play time per player (where available) so it's not the total amount, just an under-estimate based on how many people use the channel. Here I have them sorted by number of units, with the third column being the amount I got last time I did this on 9/12/2009:

Title - 10/27/2009 - 9/12/2008
Super Mario Bros 3 - 441,911 / 212,995
Super Mario Bros - 380,379 / 209,441
Super Mario World - 252,331 / 151,881
Mario Kart 64 - 223,316 / 146,219
Super Mario 64 - 215,834 / 131,024
Legend of Zelda - 169,326 / 100,509
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 164,262 / 97,498
Super Mario Bros 2 - 140,438 / 79,868
Punch-Out!! - 138,304 / 78,235
Paper Mario - 130,285 / 85,756
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - 122,300 / 80,520
Kirby's Adventure - 121,472 / 82,935
Donkey Kong Country - 118,792 / 70,989
Starfox 64 - 112,508 / 77,917
Donkey Kong - 93,091 / 51,612
Super Metroid - 89,197 / 62,479
Pac-Man - 83,184 / 40,745
Sonic the Hedgehog - 80,279 / 55,361
Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels - 78,286 / 52,558
Pokemon Snap - 70,183 / 49,139
Super Mario RPG - 66,505 / N/A
Kirby 64 - 61,304 / 37,029
Kid Icarus -59,886 / 44,119
Mario Bros - 59,052 / N/A
Excitebike - 56,404 / N/A
Metroid - 56,243 / 36,909
Yoshi's Story - 52,417 / 33,107
Donkey Kong Country 2 - 50,205 / 31,569
Galaga - 49,413 / 26,684
Zelda 2: Adventure of Link - 48,295 / 29,913
Sonic the Hedgehog - 2 48,159 / 30,749
Bomberman '93 - 46,146 / 34,916
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 45,895 / N/A
Tecmo Bowl - 44,693 / 24,587
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - 43,217 / 26,402
Super Castlevania 4 - 41,572 / 30,502
Bubble Bobble - 39,536 / 23,366
Sin and Punishment - 39,023 / 29,042
Contra 3 - 38,769 / 26,072
Ninja Gaiden - 37,052 / 26,040
Gunstar Heroes - 36,931 / 36,894
Castlevania - 36,644 / N/A
Street Fighter II: World Warrior - 35,761 / 26,625
Street Fighter II: Turbo - 31,293 / 21,136
Toe Jam and Earl - 30,788 / 21,586
Sim City - 28,192 / 19,368
Donkey Kong Country 3 - 27,684 / 15,318
F-Zero X - 24,795 / 17,603
Super Street Fighter II - 24,512 / N/A
Super C - 24,371 / N/A
Wave Race 64 - 24,189 / N/A
Golden Axe - 22,191 / N/A
Harvest Moon - 21,409 / 14,124
Streets of Rage 2 - 20,750 14,597
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest - 19,550 / N/A
Streets of Rage - 18,401 / N/A
Breath of Fire 2 - 17,688 / 11,940
Wario's Woods - 16,983 / N/A
Actraiser - 16,963 / 12,651
Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts - 15,300 / N/A
Shining Force - 15,100 / 10,664
StarTropics - 14,844 / N/A
Streets of Rage III - 12,662 / N/A
Pokemon Puzzle League - 9,492 / N/A
Military Madness - 8,744 / N/A
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine - 6,594 / N/A
 
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jarosh

Member
thinking about getting one of the super star wars games tonight. i have never played them. which one should i get? just the first one? supposedly return of the jedi is the best one/more polished than the first two...?
 
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Cosmonaut X

Member
jarosh said:
thinking about getting one of the super star wars games tonight. i have never played them. which one should i get? just the first one? supposedly return of the jedi is the best one/more polished than the first two...?
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Super RotJ is definitely the best of the three, and the most forgiving, but I have a soft spot for Super ESB. All three are worth picking up though.
 
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Nuclear Muffin

Banned
Somnid said:
Since nobody's done it in a while I decided to wade through the Nintendo Channel and dig up the latest VC sales figures. It's the same process of dividing the total play time by the play time per player (where available) so it's not the total amount, just an under-estimate based on how many people use the channel. Here I have them sorted by number of units, with the third column being the amount I got last time I did this on 9/12/2009:

Title - 10/27/2009 - 9/12/2008
Super Mario Bros 3 - 441,911 / 212,995
Super Mario Bros - 380,379 / 209,441
Super Mario World - 252,331 / 151,881
Mario Kart 64 - 223,316 / 146,219
Super Mario 64 - 215,834 / 131,024
Legend of Zelda - 169,326 / 100,509
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 164,262 / 97,498
Super Mario Bros 2 - 140,438 / 79,868
Punch-Out!! - 138,304 / 78,235
Paper Mario - 130,285 / 85,756
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - 122,300 / 80,520
Kirby's Adventure - 121,472 / 82,935
Donkey Kong Country - 118,792 / 70,989
Starfox 64 - 112,508 / 77,917
Donkey Kong - 93,091 / 51,612
Super Metroid - 89,197 / 62,479
Pac-Man - 83,184 / 40,745
Sonic the Hedgehog - 80,279 / 55,361
Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels - 78,286 / 52,558
Pokemon Snap - 70,183 / 49,139
Super Mario RPG - 66,505 / N/A
Kirby 64 - 61,304 / 37,029
Kid Icarus -59,886 / 44,119
Mario Bros - 59,052 / N/A
Excitebike - 56,404 / N/A
Metroid - 56,243 / 36,909
Yoshi's Story - 52,417 / 33,107
Donkey Kong Country 2 - 50,205 / 31,569
Galaga - 49,413 / 26,684
Zelda 2: Adventure of Link - 48,295 / 29,913
Sonic the Hedgehog - 2 48,159 / 30,749
Bomberman '93 - 46,146 / 34,916
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 45,895 / N/A
Tecmo Bowl - 44,693 / 24,587
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - 43,217 / 26,402
Super Castlevania 4 - 41,572 / 30,502
Bubble Bobble - 39,536 / 23,366
Sin and Punishment - 39,023 / 29,042
Contra 3 - 38,769 / 26,072
Ninja Gaiden - 37,052 / 26,040
Gunstar Heroes - 36,931 / 36,894
Castlevania - 36,644 / N/A
Street Fighter II: World Warrior - 35,761 / 26,625
Street Fighter II: Turbo - 31,293 / 21,136
Toe Jam and Earl - 30,788 / 21,586
Sim City - 28,192 / 19,368
Donkey Kong Country 3 - 27,684 / 15,318
F-Zero X - 24,795 / 17,603
Super Street Fighter II - 24,512 / N/A
Super C - 24,371 / N/A
Wave Race 64 - 24,189 / N/A
Golden Axe - 22,191 / N/A
Harvest Moon - 21,409 / 14,124
Streets of Rage 2 - 20,750 14,597
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest - 19,550 / N/A
Streets of Rage - 18,401 / N/A
Breath of Fire 2 - 17,688 / 11,940
Wario's Woods - 16,983 / N/A
Actraiser - 16,963 / 12,651
Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts - 15,300 / N/A
Shining Force - 15,100 / 10,664
StarTropics - 14,844 / N/A
Streets of Rage III - 12,662 / N/A
Pokemon Puzzle League - 9,492 / N/A
Military Madness - 8,744 / N/A
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine - 6,594 / N/A
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This is for the US region isn't it? (Each country is counted seperately IIRC. So the UK is seperate from Germany for example) and of course this doesn't include those who either do not have the Internet channel installed or have not agreed to share their data, so it isn't even the whole of the US sales! (Also, this doesn't count Canada either does it?)

The most important thing that we can see from this really is that sales seemed to have increased by around 80-100% on average. Really does go to show how these games just keep selling over time!
 
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jarosh

Member
Cosmonaut X said:
Super RotJ is definitely the best of the three, and the most forgiving, but I have a soft spot for Super ESB. All three are worth picking up though.
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are the controls improved in rotj? or is the difficulty just overall more balanced?
 
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Cosmonaut X

Member
jarosh said:
are the controls improved in rotj? or is the difficulty just overall more balanced?
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It's more that the difficulty is better balanced - IIRC, in previous games your weapon upgrades persisted from level to level and you had a shit of a time upgrading if you died after the first couple of levels. In RotJ you start fresh each level but power-ups were more readily available and the difficulty was toned down a little to accommodate this. It also includes the password feature for level select (which Super SW doesn't have).
 
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jarosh

Member
Cosmonaut X said:
It's more that the difficulty is better balanced - IIRC, in previous games your weapon upgrades persisted from level to level and you had a shit of a time upgrading if you died after the first couple of levels. In RotJ you start fresh each level but power-ups were more readily available and the difficulty was toned down a little to accommodate this. It also includes the password feature for level select (which Super SW doesn't have).
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cool. i guess i'll just start with the first one and then see if i like it.
 
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Somnid

Member
Nuclear Muffin said:
This is for the US region isn't it? (Each country is counted seperately IIRC. So the UK is seperate from Germany for example) and of course this doesn't include those who either do not have the Internet channel installed or have not agreed to share their data, so it isn't even the whole of the US sales! (Also, this doesn't count Canada either does it?)

The most important thing that we can see from this really is that sales seemed to have increased by around 80-100% on average. Really does go to show how these games just keep selling over time!
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I think it's for North america as a whole. When I checked about 1.8 million people had used the Nintendo Channel out of some 21 million wii owners. So the represented amount is 10% of US Wii owners. It is however more likely to more heavily represent the number of online Wii owners though, so of all people who have bought VC games, it's probably much greater than 10%.
 
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nincompoop

Banned
Nuclear Muffin said:
The most important thing that we can see from this really is that sales seemed to have increased by around 80-100% on average. Really does go to show how these games just keep selling over time!
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Except Gunstar Heroes :(

Actually that number seems fishy, considering that every other game listed improved by 30-100% there's no way Gunstar would have only improved by 0.1%

Yep, just checked and Gunstar's current NC sales in the US are at ~46668
 
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Nuclear Muffin

Banned
Somnid said:
I think it's for North america as a whole. When I checked about 1.8 million people had used the Nintendo Channel out of some 21 million wii owners. So the represented amount is 10% of US Wii owners. It is however more likely to more heavily represent the number of online Wii owners though, so of all people who have bought VC games, it's probably much greater than 10%.
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Well if 40% of Wii owners have connected their Wii's online (That was the official figure given back in 2008 and Iwata said that the percentage rate has more or less stayed the same since then) then these figures could be representing less than a quarter of the total sales of these games! (Though I doubt that its that small a percentage personally)

Either way, those numbers are pretty good :D
 
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Somnid

Member
nincompoop said:
Except Gunstar Heroes :(

Actually that number seems fishy, considering that every other game listed improved by 30-100% there's no way Gunstar would have only improved by 0.1%

Yep, just checked and Gunstar's current NC sales in the US are at ~46668
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I did it all by hand so I wouldn't be surprised if there was a mistake.
 
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nincompoop

Banned
Also this is a small nitpick but your numbers would be (slightly) more accurate if you used number of times played rather than amount of time played, since the latter requires more rounding.
 
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Capndrake

Member
EU update:

Virtual Console:
-Zombies (LucasArts, SNES)

WiiWare:
-Ghost Mansion Party (1000 points, Gameloft)
-LIT (800 points, WayForward)

DSiWare:
-A Little Bit of... All Time Classics: Card Classics (500 points, Nintendo)
-Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ (800 points, Gammick Entertainment)
 
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Cosmonaut X

Member
Wowza... fantastic Halloween update - ZAMN (or Zombies) and LIT! Will update the OP soon - and thanks again for all your time Capndrake.
 
J

Jazzem

Member
About time we got a Wayforward game over here! Mighty Flip Champs next please :}

Annoyingly I have 700 points, so I'll just have to continue with my recently downloaded Castlevania II for now.
 
Coolio McAwesome

Coolio McAwesome

Member
Somnid said:
I think it's for North america as a whole. When I checked about 1.8 million people had used the Nintendo Channel out of some 21 million wii owners. So the represented amount is 10% of US Wii owners. It is however more likely to more heavily represent the number of online Wii owners though, so of all people who have bought VC games, it's probably much greater than 10%.
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The numbers in Canada are different, so I'm guessing your numbers are only for the US only. These numbers are incredibly impressive, especially when you consider that they only take into account those who have the Nintendo Channel. It's a pretty safe bet that SMB3 on the VC has already moved well over a million in the US alone.
 
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Apenheul

Member
Just got Zombies Ate My Neighbours and I was happy to find out that I still enjoy the game as much as I did when I rented it for the SNES. Note that this game only really shines in multiplayer mode. It's probably my favorite multiplayer SNES game available on the VC at this moment, maybe until Turtles in Time... or Goof Troop.. hmm never mind :/
 
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Jazzem

Member
Phew, just finished Castlevania II! Despite so many annoyances (and having to rigidly follow a guide while playing it), there was something strangely compelling about the whole game. Shame I didn't get the best ending though, bah!
 
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