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Brain Training (DS) Now Available on Wii U eShop In Japan For Free

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fredrancour

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Wolfgang Jr said:
This is what you guys get for taunting Iwata. He is knocking shit out of the god damn park lately! If this continues; E3's coming home to the Big N, baby!
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Eh. For the virtual console "knocking it out of the park" would have to mean 3ds/wiiu crossbuy for consoles supported by both systems, a more plentiful release schedule long-term, or both.
 
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Hero of Legend

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pMziNTrddzA
 
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Gonzo The Great

Banned
Wolfgang Jr said:
This is what you guys get for taunting Iwata. He is knocking shit out of the god damn park lately! If this continues; E3's coming home to the Big N, baby!
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Because they re-released a terrible game for free on a platform that shouldn't even be receiving DS games to begin with? Where the hell are my N64 games?
 
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NamikazeBurst

Member
When DS games come to NA and Europe, they better release one game for free. Or else this just shows even more preferential treatment towards Japan, even though they constantly say the majority of their sales are from overseas.
 
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foxuzamaki

Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Gonzo The Great said:
Because they re-released a terrible game for free on a platform that shouldn't even be receiving DS games to begin with? Where the hell are my N64 games?
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since when were the brain training games terrible? are you trying to pull some revisionist bullshit?
 
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khaaan

Member
The Wii U turning into a Nintendo machine would be amazing. Of course, they would have to step up their game and actually release stuff.
 
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Elija2

Member
StreetsAhead said:
Dan just confirmed on Twitter that there's no save states in the game or anything a VC release would usually have.
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So Nintendo are willing to release VC games without their special VC features? Then why have we still not gotten GBA games on the 3DS?
 
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StreetsAhead

Member
NamikazeBurst said:
When DS games come to NA and Europe, they better release one game for free. Or else this just shows even more preferential treatment towards Japan, even though they constantly say the majority of their sales are from overseas.
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"Japanese company prioritizes Japanese market, more news at 11."

Elija2 said:
So Nintendo are willing to release VC games without their special VC features? Then why have we still not gotten GBA games on the 3DS?
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As was pointed out, having save states in BT could break the game and this, like the 3DS Ambassador games, is free. We don't yet know how other DS games will be handled.
 
Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

Gold Member
NamikazeBurst said:
When DS games come to NA and Europe, they better release one game for free. Or else this just shows even more preferential treatment towards Japan, even though they constantly say the majority of their sales are from overseas.
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Thing that bothers me is all the retail releases they receive for games that are eshop exclusives in the West even though sales data from Super Luigi suggests that Japan is the country least likely to care.
 
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Elija2

Member
StreetsAhead said:
As was pointed out, having save states in BT could break the game and this, like the 3DS Ambassador games, is free. We don't yet know how other DS games will be handled.
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Couldn't save states hypothetically break every game? It's not like there are online leaderboards or anything.

I don't know how being free has anything to do with it. We know that the 3DS Ambassador GBA games lack VC features because they're not using emulation. Why would they gimp a VC game just because they're giving it out for free? Did the Super Mario Bros. Deluxe 3DS game that was given out for free in Europe and Japan lack save states?

I honestly believe that they couldn't get save states working for DS games, just like they couldn't get GBA emulation working on 3DS. But if they're willing to release DS games without VC features, why won't they do the same with GBA games on 3DS?
 
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Tripon

Member
fredrancour said:
It hasn't. People are interpreting the controller thing generously.

Granted, GC VC would make sense, but it'd be bewlidering if it happened before N64 on Wiiu.
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The whole way Nintendo is doing VC on Wii U is bewildering.

No arcade ports despite the Wii U being loads faster and stronger than Wii, limited NES and SNES VC games, no Genesis games. GBA games, and DS games on a console.

Might as well do Gamecube and Wii releases before N64.
 
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DVCY201

Member
Oh cool! So we may be seeing DS games sooner that I certainly imagined. I really enjoyed Brain Age, if this comes over for free then I'll definitely grab it. It's good puzzle exercises.

The best QOL game.
 
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Hero of Legend

Member
This also confirms that VC games are NOT re-rendered in HD. You wouldn't notice so with prior systems due to them being all 2D, but Brain Age is the first game with polygons IIRC, so that's one dream dead from the "DS games in HD" thread. :(

Edit: Dan also posted a direct screen on twitter:

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Zen_Arcade

Banned
If they spring DS VC games on me at E3 I'm going to play nothing but Wii U this month between DS games/MK8/Pushmo World.
 
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ZSaberLink

Media Create Maven
Wasn't Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword a game that was played in a book style? I never got around to playing that, so I wouldn't mind that being on Wii U VC like this.
 
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Kriken

Member
So that means they've already got the DS emulation working for the WiiU, a lot earlier than I expected it to be. And now the wait for the NA releases in the fall
of 2015
 
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random25

Member
Maybe this will be one of their bombs at E3 (as in announce the date it will be implemented worldwide and what games will be there at launch).
 
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JoeM86

Member
Hero of Legend said:
This also confirms that VC games are NOT re-rendered in HD. You wouldn't notice so with prior systems due to them being all 2D, but Brain Age is the first game with polygons IIRC, so that's one dream dead from the "DS games in HD" thread. :(

Edit: Dan also posted a direct screen on twitter:
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Well, there is hope. This game feels like an ambassador style title. It lacks all Virtual Console features like save states etc. so there's still hope.

LET ME DREAM :(

Edit: Looks like it's only available for free until June 30th
 
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Richie

Member
openrob said:
Also what happened while I was asleep, why does everyone keep saying Beyonce?
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An album of hers was released out of completely nowhere in iTunes, no previous promotions, absolutely nothing hinting that it was coming...Just like this release, the latest Wii U update, or their Mario Kart Direct, to name a few recent examples.
 
openrob

openrob

Member
fredrancour said:
Eh. For the virtual console "knocking it out of the park" would have to mean 3ds/wiiu crossbuy for consoles supported by both systems, a more plentiful release schedule long-term, or both.
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This guy knows what's up. I don't expect that until next home console though. :(
 
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Starwolf_UK

Member
Great maybe NOE will remember they were supposed to release Brain Training 3D on October 25th last year...
I only want to streetpass puzzle but 24 pieces will be underwhelming nowadays

That aside. I'm left handed so would I have to hold the gamepad upside down? Interesting hurdle for Nintendo to overcome, that.
 
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StreetsAhead

Member
Starwolf_UK said:
Great maybe NOE will remember they were supposed to release Brain Training 3D on October 25th last year...
I only want to streetpass puzzle but 24 pieces will be underwhelming nowadays

That aside. I'm left handed so would I have to hold the gamepad upside down? Interesting hurdle for Nintendo to overcome, that.
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Looks like it. Daan posted a vine showing you can flip the screen upside down with the right stick, presumably for us lefties.
 
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Aostia

El Capitan Todd
free release is always good. I hope this will come to the West soon.
I hope this will somehow open the gates for many more DS releases on the Wii U. I'd really like to play again some of those games
 
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pixelpolygon

Member
fredrancour said:
It hasn't. People are interpreting the controller thing generously.

Granted, GC VC would make sense, but it'd be bewlidering if it happened before N64 on Wiiu.
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This will require the world's biggest grain of salt, but I was chatting up an older Nintendo Rep at the Best Buy Smash Fest shindig in Ann Arbor, MI, and he asserted that GameCube games are absolutely coming to the Wii U VC.

Do I want to believe him? Sure I do. But who knows - it seems unlikely that a random guy running one of numerous marketing events would have that information and be that open about it. As we heard from the pair of Treehouse employees who opened the E3 livestream, some Nintendo employees work in total secrecy, keeping details about their daily projects from their spouses.

So maybe he was just full of bull. <shrug>
 
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