Flying_Phoenix
Banned
Cheesemeister said:
So this one game a week deal is due to few game left that Nintendo can release?
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Nintendo Digital Downloads - April 2009 (VC/WiiWare/DSiWare)
- Thread starter Cosmonaut X
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So this one game a week deal is due to few game left that Nintendo can release?
Nintendo stealth-released Ugoku Memo Chou version 2 today (!).VOOK said:
There's a video introduction to the new features available here:
http://touch-ds.jp/dsi_shop/dsiw002/intro2.html
Cosmonaut X
Member
Lee N said:
Thanks - I've added it to the OP as a new DSiWare release. Let me know if I've made any mistakes.
Cheesemeister said:
I want Super Scope 6 games. Battle Clash and Metal Combat, please.
Cosmonaut X said:
For the new monthly thread, would the poster just wholesale copy the part of the OP outside of the VC/WiiWare/DSiWare sections? If so, is there any criteria for how long to keep stuff in those sections? For VC/WiiWare/DSiWare, they'd just bring over the last week's of data, right?
Thanks.
tetrisgrammaton
Member
Don't forget those Nintendo arcade games that they SHOULD be planning on releasing.
Cosmonaut X
Member
donny2112 said:For the new monthly thread, would the poster just wholesale copy the part of the OP outside of the VC/WiiWare/DSiWare sections? If so, is there any criteria for how long to keep stuff in those sections? For VC/WiiWare/DSiWare, they'd just bring over the last week's of data, right?
Thanks.
I think what I'd suggest is something like this for the new May thread:
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This is a new combined monthly thread for all digital downloads on Wii and DSi. The OP will list the new releases each week over the month in all three main territories, but will also include notes on updated ratings, new game announcements and other news pertaining to the services. This is a work-in-progress, and any contributions or corrections for the OP would be most welcome.
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VIRTUAL CONSOLE
- Nobunaga's Ambition (SNES | 800pts) (27 April 2009)
- Cocoto Platform Jumper (Neko Entertainment | 700pts) (27 April 2009)
- Clubhouse Games Express: Card Classics (Nintendo | 500pts) (27 April 2009)
- Paper Airplane Chase (Nintendo | 200pts) (27 April 2009)
VIRTUAL CONSOLE
- New PAL VC game
- Adventure Island: The Beginning (Hudson | 1000pts) (24 April 2009)
- Real Football 2009 (GameLoft | 800pts) (24 April 2009)
VIRTUAL CONSOLE
- Kirby's Dream Land 3 (SNES | 800pts) (28 April 2009)
- Numan Athletics (Arcade | 800pts) (28 April 2009)
- Youkai Douchuuki (Arcade | 800pts) (28 April 2009)
- Asobu Made in Ore (Nintendo | 800pts) (29 April 2009) (Link)
- BIT.TRIP.BEAT (Ark System Works | 500pts) (28 April 2009) (Link)
- Educational TV For Children (Home Media | 700pts + DLC) (28 April 2009 (Link)
- Harvest Moon: Ranch Store (Marvelous | 1500pts + DLC) (28 April 2009) (Link)
- Ugoku Memo-chou Version 2 (Nintendo | Free) (27 April 2009)
PRESS RELEASES
VIRTUAL CONSOLE ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Insert any new announcements in May here...
- Insert any new announcements in May here...
- Insert any new announcements in May here...
Nintendo will occasionally make new Channels available through the Wii Shop, or update the system firmware of the Wii and DSi with new features. Any new Channels or updates will be listed here.
CHANNELS
- Insert any new Channels here...
- Insert any new system updates here...
The various national ratings organisations will occasionally provide advance notice of new releases and individual companies may announce forthcoming releases. These updates are listed HERE. As games are released in the corresponding regions, they will be removed from the lists.
(Thanks to donny2112, Cheesemeister, Shard, Somnid, JodyAnthony, Capndrake, inthegray, mrklaw, sfog, jesusraz and CaptainN)
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The month should start like that with just the last set of releases in each region, then as new announcements are made or games unveiled (perhaps more unlikely in the case of Virtual Console - big announcements like the Virtual Console Arcade games list come along very rarely) the sections fill out.
I'd add a link to the previous months at the end as well, but would something like that be appropriate? It keeps the post lean and concentrates only on new announcements and releases.
Cosmonaut X
Member
Added a new WiiWare title - Escape Virus.
Agent Unknown
Member
Whoever owns the rights to the Wonder Boy series needs a slap in the face for giving the green light to put up two competing versions of the same game, one being slightly inferior and more expensive to boot. How on earth does that even make sense from a business standpoint?
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
Cheesemeister said:
I really doubt that Nintendo would not release the remaining SNES games that had carts with special chips (We did get SMRPG and Kirby's Dreamland 3 after all!) and Mother 1 already has a full English localisation that just wasn't released. Plus you've got Clu Clu Land D at the very least bringing up the import lineup.
Besides, this still doesn't excuse NOA for their crappy 1 VC game weeks!
the thoroughbred
Member
On the UK dsiware site, a lot of the games are developed by Nintendo. Is this true?
Or are they just saying that, when its actually some 2nd party developer, or some game they now own in some way.
Are they EAD developed. If so I am downloading them now.
Or are they just saying that, when its actually some 2nd party developer, or some game they now own in some way.
Are they EAD developed. If so I am downloading them now.
Cosmonaut X
Member
donny2112 said:So the announcement section gets cleared out at the end of the month, too. That seems fine to me.
Yeah, I think it's the best way to do it. There's perhaps an argument for having some kind of archive of WiiWare/DSiWare announcements that is slowly cleared as games are released, but I don't think it needs to be in the OP - that should be for announcements made that month.
Grampa Simpson
Banned
Pilotwings had a custom DSP.Man God said:
Flying_Phoenix said:
Well that's for Nintendo, most other VC publishers like Sega and Hudson are probably looking about the same though nobody's sorted through those lists. There's also a higher interest in newer services like DSiWare so resources have gone there.
There is most definately less in the pipe as Japan is now averaging 1.5 games a week. But it's also silly to see users get upset at NOA over games that Japan doesn't even have. Most of the wish lists cover games that have no announcement of release in any region.
That template looks fine, but you should probably add NCL's DSiWare page to the list. (http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/dsiware/index.html)
Flakster99
Member
tetrisgrammaton said:
Completely agreed. Though, I wish KOEI would have given us the sequel instead, Nobunaga's Ambition: Lord of Darkness, a much more refined, enjoyable experience. Heck, maybe they will further down the line after giving everyone a taste.
Oh well *goes and downloads Nobunaga's Ambition with glee*
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
Somnid said:
Considering the fact that the rate of Wii Ware releases has also slowed to a crawl, there's no reason why NOA can't play a bit of catch up and release some of the (many) games that are currently on the Japanese VC and not on ours!
Cosmonaut X
Member
sfog said:
Done, thanks.
I've also added a link to footage of Pop+ for DSiWare in the OP.
the thoroughbred
Member
Also add the NoE DSiWare page links
I don't know which one you want to use. The main page, or the page within all games.
Have a look, and decide, it's only that the main page doesn't have anything on it.
Nintendo Games / DSiWare
DSiWare Homepage
I don't know which one you want to use. The main page, or the page within all games.
Have a look, and decide, it's only that the main page doesn't have anything on it.
Nintendo Games / DSiWare
DSiWare Homepage
Here's a bunch of WiiWare games rated by the USK that still need to come out in Europe:
-Cocoto Platform Jumper
-ColorZ
-Dragon Master Spell Caster
-Family Pirate Party
-Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
-Fish'em All
-Heracles: Chariot Racing
-Icarian: Kindred Spirits
-Karate Phants
-PictureBook Games: A Pop-Up Adventure (Likely the English name for this)
-Spaceball: Revolution
-Swords & Soldiers
-Water Warfare
-Cocoto Platform Jumper
-ColorZ
-Dragon Master Spell Caster
-Family Pirate Party
-Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
-Fish'em All
-Heracles: Chariot Racing
-Icarian: Kindred Spirits
-Karate Phants
-PictureBook Games: A Pop-Up Adventure (Likely the English name for this)
-Spaceball: Revolution
-Swords & Soldiers
-Water Warfare
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
dyls said:
well it is a wiiware port of a euro-only ps2 platformer made by the guys who made crazy frog racer so you tell me how good it is
Cheesemeister
Member
Man God said:
Really, if we were going to get lightgun support, wouldn't it be here by now? I'm sure Duck Hunt was considered, then dropped when Wii Play had a similar mode. The same goes for Dr. Mario on the NES and Super NES, as it's on WiiWare.
Yes, but now they've found that they can sell parts of GBA and DS games for use on DSi instead of simply reselling entire games. There is still the potential for entire GB, GBC, and GBA games on the DSi. *Insert image: It prints money*Cheesemeister said:
Also, you left out combos like SMAS, imports like the original Doki Doki Panic, and updates like Ocarina of Time / Master Quest.
I also remember an interview from before the Wii released that mentioned updates to classic games. I assumed they would eventually make Wii controlled classics.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
I shouldn't even bring this up because it'd be like asking for a dozen chocolate filled golden ferraris but having some gun games via the Virtual Console Arcade would be sweeeeeet.
Get some Point Blank, Lucky & Wild(oh look here's a game that would be perfect for Wiimote + Nunchuck), Space Gun and so on.
But it'll never happen.
Get some Point Blank, Lucky & Wild(oh look here's a game that would be perfect for Wiimote + Nunchuck), Space Gun and so on.
But it'll never happen.
As long as they're selling minigames from WarioWare, I'd love to see my own two favorites, Skating Board and - most of all - Fly Swatter. Just remove the cursor and let us poke the bugs to death. Yeah yeah, I know... I'm part of the problem.Luigison said:
Pokémon Snap?Luigison said:
Cheesemeister
Member
Luigison said:
All of which are unlikely. SMAS has had its component games released, Doki-Doki Panic has been released as SMB2 and is JP-only, and as for Master Quest, OOT has already been released.
Cheesemeister said:
See, I don't know, I think it would be an easy late gen revitalization.
Also considering they already did SMRPG, one of the harder SNES games to emulate, you should probably add stuff like Star Fox, Super Mario Kart, Pilotwings and their ilk to the list.
In fact the only game I could ever see Nintendo disqualifying for technical reasons on the SNES would be SFA2.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
I look forward to seeing all of 8-4's work on this by 2017.Lee N said:
I think this interview about the game unintentionally makes an even better case against it. :lolStumpokapow said:well it is a wiiware port of a euro-only ps2 platformer made by the guys who made crazy frog racer so you tell me how good it is
Three hours ahead of release, as before.oatmeal said:
Cosmonaut X
Member
oatmeal said:
The OP is updated as new announcements are made and new games released in each region. The newest games are listed first, and the release dates can be found in parentheses after each title, together with system (for VC), publisher (for WiiWare/DSiWare) and cost.
I've been trying to keep the OP as up to date as possible, and I'm usually able to get new titles listed there within an hour or so of them going live in the Wii/DSi shops (although Japan is a little trickier, but they tend to have their schedule set at least a week in advance).
Coolio McAwesome
Member
bmf said:
I wouldn't imagine that the DSP-1 chip would be much of a hurdle. It's not like there aren't any current VC games that use special chips. For example, there didn't seem to be any issues with emulation the SA-1 chip for Super Mario RPG. There are dozens of NES games currently available on the VC that use MMC chips.
I disagree with Cheese in that Nintendo doesn't want to release games that have hardware peripherals and chips but rather they extremely low in priority. Since they would take much more work to put out they will go for those last. Super FX games will absolutely come to VC but they will be towards the end of the SNES library. We can see this from the progression of VC releases from early launch to more sophisticated, then special chip games like Castlevania 3 and SMRPG and finally Expansion Pak games like Majora's Mask. It's only when they don't have anything left that they'll start expanding.
Like what? I've pointed out that the vast majority aren't translated. Just because Japan has more doesn't mean they didn't have more games to begin with and a whole lot more Japanese publisher support. Activision just 2 weeks ago released it's first game, Commodore 64 games at least in the US started showing up a few months ago. Aside from that Interplay and Factor 5 are the only western publishers supporting it. Japan does have about 50% more games that the US but of those games something like 90% were never translated. Going back to even try and make them appealing enough to sell in the West will be very hard, especially when it's japanese language stuff that probably wasn't good enough to translate in the first place.
Nuclear Muffin said:
Like what? I've pointed out that the vast majority aren't translated. Just because Japan has more doesn't mean they didn't have more games to begin with and a whole lot more Japanese publisher support. Activision just 2 weeks ago released it's first game, Commodore 64 games at least in the US started showing up a few months ago. Aside from that Interplay and Factor 5 are the only western publishers supporting it. Japan does have about 50% more games that the US but of those games something like 90% were never translated. Going back to even try and make them appealing enough to sell in the West will be very hard, especially when it's japanese language stuff that probably wasn't good enough to translate in the first place.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
man, POKEMON SNAP looks amazingly clean on my tv. i expected when it was blown up to 50" that it would be ugmo city, but it's quite the opposite really.
my one complaint is the camera movement in the levels. i didn't remember it having that "move to the edge of the screen to turn your vision" thing. it makes capturing good pictures quickly a little annoying. also, the classic controller L button doesn't seem to want to hold my aim when i compress it, though i may just be pussy-footing on it, and may need to really jam it down and hold it.
anyway, still, awesome game. "how's the size? . . . it's so-so. you were close."
my one complaint is the camera movement in the levels. i didn't remember it having that "move to the edge of the screen to turn your vision" thing. it makes capturing good pictures quickly a little annoying. also, the classic controller L button doesn't seem to want to hold my aim when i compress it, though i may just be pussy-footing on it, and may need to really jam it down and hold it.
anyway, still, awesome game. "how's the size? . . . it's so-so. you were close."
the thoroughbred
Member
So I was playing the plane game last night. Its quite simple, but very fun. Its like that helicopter game on flash game sites. I only managed 61 seconds. Nevertheless still satisfying.
Somnid said:
I think the key phrase is "not translated". Somnid is right, the reason why Japan is getting a lot more is they basically have gotten a lot more games over the years than the other regions, period.
One of the things I really had hoped for was that Nintendo (or whomever the publisher is for such game or games) would take the time and money to translate them. But apparently the games put on the VC is only wanted done easily. I would have no issues paying the extra money to have them localized.
It just means we never will see games like Seiken Denetsu III, Bahamut Lagoon, Final Fantasy II, III and V or numerous other classics that never made it to NA (or other regions). Which really is disappointing.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
the thoroughbred said:
i don't own a dsi or the downloadable version of PAPER PLANE yet, but if it's more feature-rich than the WARIO WARE:MM unlockable, i must utter a reflexive "holy shit." PAPER PLANE is the perfect game for those few minutes before the movie starts in a theater when there's nothing else important going on, to flip on while you're waiting for everyone else to be ready to leave to go eat, to mess around with while you've got a few idle minutes. . . it's a game that requires skill, but not too much, has a nice simple but cool cartoon art style, and can be played and finished very quickly.