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GBA VC on Wii U starting April 3rd
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StreetsAhead
Member
So glad to see smoothening is a feature.
Deactivision
Member
One of those comments mentioned you can toggle the smoothing on the fly with the right stick. That's pretty rad.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
Dot-by-dot is pretty good to see. Scanlines would have been awesome. Oh well.
GrotesqueBeauty
Banned
Has anyone confirmed button mapping yet? The lack of a B/A > Y/B toggle killed the 3DS Ambassador games for me. Seems minor I know, but the way I roll my thumb when I play makes a huge difference, especially with platformers where you hold a button to run.
Looks like M2 are responsible for the GBA games on Wii U VC.
http://www.mtwo.co.jp/2014/04/03/wii-uのバーチャルコンソールにゲームボーイアドバ/
http://www.mtwo.co.jp/2014/04/03/wii-uのバーチャルコンソールにゲームボーイアドバ/
astrogamer
Member
Button mapping is confirmed like the rest of Wii U Virtual Console
GrotesqueBeauty
Banned
Sweeeeeeeet. While I feel like a chump spending $8 for yet another copy of Fusion (and MZM when it releases) I know I will be unable to resist. I'll probably consider nabbing Wario Land 4 as well.
FUCK YES if true, best guys for the job. Really hoping GBA isn't their only work on the Virtual Console.
Based M2. Hope they work on the rest of the Virtual Console as well.
This, doesn't make any goddamn sense.
Jaded Alyx
Member
Round and round we go.
They are the best at making professional emulators.
Emulation wise all Sega's Virtual Console stuff and their 3DS Classics 3Dmakes. Also NeoGeo Station on PSN, Capcom Arcade Cabinet on PSN/XBLA, the later Sega Ages 2500 on PS2, the Konami shooter collections on PSP and a bunch of other stuff.
Awesome, lovingly made, ports of old games.
For instance, they've done the incredible Sega 3D Classics on 3DS. If you read their blog posts about what they go through to make these 3D Classics ports, you can see how much effort and attentional to detail they put into them.
M2 and Bluepoint are the remake/port masters.
Huh, they must have rushed them out so that people wouldn't feel cheated with the 3DS price drop.
But on another note, how are the link cable features going to be handled for the Wii U?
astrogamer
Member
sörine;106758143 said:
So that might explain why we haven't seen Genesis on the Wii U yet
MemoryHumanity
Member
£6.29. LOL, fuck off.
Lynd7
Member
Eh.. they aren't too expensive to me. The games content are worth more than the couple of dollars people think they should cost...
Wait, something gaming related is actually cheaper in in Germany for once? Yess.
Also, I don't see a problem with a price of 6,99 . If I want to play Final Fantasy on my Galaxy SII I pay more than double that for even older games. Great deal for someone who never played any of these [GBA] games.
Those original manuals have me more excited than I have a right to be. I'd of course love to see them implemented in NES/SNES games -- but it's probably a matter of them not properly saving their old computer documents until GBA times.
But what I've always wanted more than manuals were original HQ scans of the box arts. Front/back/spine. Like, a fully viewable 3D model. Those manuals are an insanely cool little touch but let's be honest, no one ever really read those anyway. And since the manual artwork is apparently okay, I doubt it would be some obscure rights issue.
Now the only question is do I want Advance Wars or Mario & Luigi? I'll eventually get Metroid Fusion but I recently played through that on my 3DS.
But what I've always wanted more than manuals were original HQ scans of the box arts. Front/back/spine. Like, a fully viewable 3D model. Those manuals are an insanely cool little touch but let's be honest, no one ever really read those anyway. And since the manual artwork is apparently okay, I doubt it would be some obscure rights issue.
Now the only question is do I want Advance Wars or Mario & Luigi? I'll eventually get Metroid Fusion but I recently played through that on my 3DS.
Black Republican
Member
Is there a save state for gba games on wiiu or just save normally?
Speak for yourself. Reading manuals on the drive back home from the shopping center was the best thing ever as a kid.
Aaron Strife
Banned
All VC games have save states so I'd assume GBA would too.
There are save states.
I've noticed it once, in the same place it happened on the original GBA.
Killer Yakuza B
Member
Why would they add scanlines to games that were designed for an LCD screen in the first place? In any case, you could always hook up your Wii U to a CRT TV if you really want scanlines.
Opinionatedfish
Member
I'm happy that M2 is behind this. I just wish Nintendo would flat out buy them and just put them on awesome Virtual Console 3D Classics duty.
I would love a "3D Classics Super Mario World" so very much....
But yeah, these are such temptation.
I would love a "3D Classics Super Mario World" so very much....
But yeah, these are such temptation.
Agreed. Nintendo needs to get the Virtual Console pushed out a lot and M2 would really aid in that. The Virtual Console, if done right, could be a huge marketing tool for Nintendo and the Wii U.
Remember the E3 applause when Iwata said the Revolution had full backwards compatibility. It's something people want, they just need to push it out. It'd also stop some idiots. Saw someone yesterday actually say Nintendo should put Virtual Console on all platforms, especially the Vita...if they were to push the boat out and make it a core part of the Wii U, we won't see things like that again.
If Nintendo let M2 run wild with their ports like Sega do I wouldn't have been surprised if a Game Boy Player mode with scanlines had been included.
Entryhazard
Banned
I don't believe that different hardware architecture is to blame for the lack of a feature that is entirely software.
Most likely they would have to rewrite most of the OS in order to achieve true account unification, but it's not like the 3DS chipset stands in the way
I'm willing to give Nintendo the benefit of the doubt that they're emulating the hardware to the point where they will actually MAKE things "chug" if they did so in the original release. People, even journalists, may not always realize this.
As an anecdote, I remember visiting the Mega Man X Miiverse and someone was claiming the game's slowdown was because the Wii U wasn't powerful enough to emulate it properly. I just had to shake my head since surely it was a comment written by a kid who never played it on the original hardware.
I admire Nintendo's devotion to demand a version of a game that plays as close to the original as possible. But I doubt many people actually appreciate it. And I certainly wouldn't mind toggable options to eliminate original hardware limitations like that, nor them going all out and offering modern convieniences such as leaderboards, trophies, and online play.
I accept it as true that a Virtual Console game coded for Wii U may not run efficiently (or at all) on the 3DS, or vice versa. But Nintendo's proven that they can recognize previously downloaded software with the Wii to Wii U discounts. Those Wii U versions of games are re-coded. They also now allow shared wallets. They can see what people already own. Surely they could have a free or $1 "upgrade" (transferrable) version of a particular game that is on both shops, even though it's not technically the same software. Just two versions of the same game coded to run on the device of the user's choice. Wanna play your 3DS Ninja Gaiden NES VC title on Wii U? Boom, allow that version to download, even if the saves for some reason aren't transferrable. Better than nothing right?
mullet2000
Member
dat smoothing
(Personally I'm not a fan, but nice to see an effort on that front)
Enhhh. I mean it's nice for those who want it I guess but I really hate how that looks.
Ein Bear
Member
It'd be cool if they included multiplayer features. You could set it up so that 'GBA1' is the TV + Classic Controller, whilst 'GBA2' is the GamePad.
The eShop normally updates at around 2pm-ish.
The eShop normally updates at around 2pm-ish.
AntiFacebook
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foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
You fell for the oldest neogaf meme in the book
dat smoothing
(Personally I'm not a fan, but nice to see an effort on that front)
Eesh, Mario Advance 2 looks like a bad iOS port in that pic. Kirby looks ok. I'd have to see it when I'm actually playing to know which option I'd choose though.
Can you support your facts with a link or something? At list some report of VC sales on 3ds.