Robin64
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There's no PAL format for the GBA. Europe is safe!
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GBA VC on Wii U starting April 3rd
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There's no PAL format for the GBA. Europe is safe!
Orniletter
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They´ll announce Advance Wars: Awakening in the next Nintendo direct.
Now with 100% more waifus !
Believe !
sixteen-bit
Member
I don't buy it. If a single hmebrewer can get GBA emulation to the state it is on PSP, surely Nintendo can do the same or better on 3DS.
SP was 50 hz, GBA 60 hz. Everywhere.
StreetsAhead
Member
Interesting that they're starting with Advance Wars.
Shame that the line up is one game (right? I'm not misreading?) when Japan is getting Super Mario World, WarioWare, Golden Sun, F-Zero and Advance Wars. Followed by the addition of The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap, Mario & Luigi RPG, Wario Land 4, Mario Tennis Advance, and Metroid Fusion on the 30th.
Shame that the line up is one game (right? I'm not misreading?) when Japan is getting Super Mario World, WarioWare, Golden Sun, F-Zero and Advance Wars. Followed by the addition of The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap, Mario & Luigi RPG, Wario Land 4, Mario Tennis Advance, and Metroid Fusion on the 30th.
Ivan el Trolazo
Banned
that would be too smart, and you know the rest of the sentence
For the emulation of their games, Nintendo doesn't settle for "acceptable", they demand perfection, which is why every game comes with its own emulator, which has been fine tuned for that particular release.
The way the homebrewers do things is just one emulator for all games with varying levels of success.
I mean hell, one made a rig that was over 3Ghz of processing power just to successfully emulate a SNES. This isn't something that is wasy or you can just dump a ROM into and hope for the best, especially if you're charging for it.
One game that we know of so far. There's bound to be more.
Because there would be no connectivity features and those are HUGE aspects of Pokémon. Without them, the games are useless and imperfect.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
If they put it out stateside as well, I'd go for it. Lately, I've been itching to try an Advance Wars game.
who asked for gba vc? is there still no n64 vc?
Isn't that the game where they rebuilt each SNES rom from the ground up to work with the 3DS?
They haven't said that Advance Wars will be the only game next week.
Ivan el Trolazo
Banned
hope they release wario ware twisted 
(grand father of the waggle)
(grand father of the waggle)Orniletter
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StreetsAhead
Member
Oh, that's not the full line up? Good. One game is a paltry way to start.
You're going to flip when you find out they're bringing in DS games to the VC on Wii U.
It's likely going to take 3rd parties a few months to get up and going in the west (because they're all Japanese) whereas Japan will have them fairly immediately so they'll want to stretch what they have internally.
I knew about ds vc, at least thats a novel idea.
Might make sense in the long term.
If the next hand held will be based on the same tech as the WiiU.
And if Nintendo is making it so that any device you own from them in the future
can play any of the VC games you downloaded.
Because they can get more money by releasing a remake and charging full price for it, plus they would have to waste time and money to get the game trading function to work.
Furthermore Game Freak likes the Pokémon games to have a connection with each other and allow you to move Pokémon from generation to generation something that gen 1 and 2 can not do and will never do.
Earthpainting
Member
I didn't know I wanted to play Advance Wars again, but I do. Price is reasonable and I'm there, Nintendo.
The very best GBA game (that isn't Mother 3)hope they release wario ware twisted
Should be possible since the Gamepad and Wiimotes have gyro
I suggest people read this
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/...-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/
It explains the difference between emulating games, and accurately emulating games and how it requires a lot of power. Nintendo wants things to be perfect with their Virtual Console. They want the experience to match that of how it was originally released. Just doing blind "acceptable" emulation is against Nintendo's ethos.
It stuns me that people want Nintendo to half-arse something, when if they ever do, people trash them for half-arsing it
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/...-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/
It explains the difference between emulating games, and accurately emulating games and how it requires a lot of power. Nintendo wants things to be perfect with their Virtual Console. They want the experience to match that of how it was originally released. Just doing blind "acceptable" emulation is against Nintendo's ethos.
It stuns me that people want Nintendo to half-arse something, when if they ever do, people trash them for half-arsing it
im finding this hard to believe. they have to find a way to fix one or the other.
Orniletter
Banned
Host Samurai
Member
I still don't understand why they're doing Genesis games on the 3DS
Read my previous post. It explains the difference between emulating and accurately emulating. Nintendo want this to be accurate.
It's not something that can be fixed. It's like trying to put a square peg into a circular hole.
no one cares, seriously.
frankie_baby
Member
they're remakes not emulated
So you'd rather have games with severe emulation issues? Reduced/unstable frame rates, glitchy graphics, things not loading correctly etc.
Ok, to each their own. I much prefer Nintendo's strive for perfection.
D
Deleted member 74300
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Genesis does what Nintendon't ect.
There's a place where it's good enough. At the very least this isn't a good reason but there are probably other better reasons.
They should make more power available via eshop. Find a solution. Everything is better than something being available on Wii U, don't you know that already?
spend more time on the wii vc and go on about 'perfection'
They should make more power available via eshop. Find a solution. Everything is better than something being available on Wii U, don't you know that already?
Dear lord I hope you're being facetious
Yeah, and the 3DS isn't capable of doing it to a point where it's good enough. Same with SNES games.
AkimbO_Arcana
Banned
No one asked for th...
Damn, Advance Wars... Day 1
Damn, Advance Wars... Day 1
Dear lord I hope you're being facetious
Yeah, and the 3DS isn't capable of doing it to a point where it's good enough. Same with SNES games.
It likely is, but it's not low hanging fruit. It's likely more about effort and priorities. If they're working on N64, DS and GBA for Wii U I seriously doubt they would even have the bandwidth to bother with it and it not would it provide as much benefit as what they are working on.
OFLC already rated a couple of Namco GBA titles.
The only way I see it being possible is if they completely recode and port the GBA games, rather than emulate them.
Lupin the Third
Member
GBA VC on 3DS may be pixel-perfect but it comes at a price. Others have said it's running in DS compatibility mode, but that's only half the picture: it's running in DS compatibility mode's GBA compatibility mode. It doesn't even recognize closing the screen. Not a resellable product.
anon_mastermind
Member
Nice, I will finally get to play an Advance Wars game.