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Wii U Virtual Console - News and Releases
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The two player mode is intact. My boyfriend and I were just playing! I'm not sure if I become acclimated to it quickly, but I was not noticing any input lag while playing SMW.
Ban Puncher
Member
Zoltar007
Neo Member
And WiiU just got a fuck load more tempting. Shit. I'm off today. I might do it. I might just go do it.
Go on, you know you want to !
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Me neither. I remember hearing people say they thought there was lag in Punch-Out, too, and I never saw it. I have SMW on an SNES cart downstairs, along w/ Punch-Out for NES. The gameplay going from my downstairs originals to my upstairs emulated was, for all intents and purposes, virtually identical.
If Nintendo's games were the only ones that were going to be part of this service, this is a fair and reasonable suggestion.
But 3rd-parties are involved, so fair and reasonable are pulled off the table fairly quickly when we remember what they think about competing with Nintendo's content, not a stretch to suggest that those feelings would extend to the back catalog. Their surprising lack of presence even in the early days of Wii VC when it was at its highest mindshare is telling.
It also requires making decisions about what value some content has over another. That rarely turns out well for anyone.
Since Miiverse is most-accessed from within the games themselves and it auto-loads the appropriate community when you load Miiverse from the game, the largest use case scenario is covered. As for every other use case? Who knows.
It's sure changed the perception of pricing, alright. Here's what Final Fantasy would look like if it was released as your typical $2 iOS title:
And if you gave Square Enix enough rope with the VC, they'd probably hang themselves with it exactly like that.
Does the transfer brick your Wii somehow?
Perhaps you should ask 3rd-parties.
It's my understanding that Japan largely views 3 as the superior title in the series from a gameplay standpoint.
Classic Controller required.
How could someone forget a lineup like THAT?! LOL
I dunno, maybe ask Nintendo why it took 6 months, cuz we're sure as shit not gonna know until SOMEONE bothers to.
Post-2008 Wii owners absolutely did when the releases dried up completely. Unless you liked NeoGeo games.
Apparently $144 brand-new, $13 used.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00002STXQ/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Boot into game for the first time, start up first level, proceed to get killed by first enemy.
You're also 20 years older than you were when you first played it and probably about 4-5 years older since the last time you fired it up on your Wii if you bought it then. Perhaps you're not as quick on the draw as you used to be?
10/10, will ROFL again.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Once you transfer titles from your Wii to your WiiU, they're deleted from your Wii. You can't play them on that console anymore - only the WiiU.
Robin64
Member
Yep!
Do they? I used $ because I was typing from a tablet and was lazy finding the euro symbol.
PAL PSN stores have most of the PS1 5€
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Smoothice65
Member
Sooo just to confirm I can buy virtual games in the Wii virtual shop and transfer them over ?
Sure you can but you need to transfer them to Wii U and then pay an extra fee to play them on GamePad with save states, Miiverse etc.
Robin64
Member
You can transfer all the Virtual Console games on Wii and transfer them to a Wii U where you will have to play them in Wii mode.
To get a native Wii U version, you need to wait for Nintendo to put one up and then pay a fee to upgrade.
Phife Dawg
Member
Got Picross, what a nice Saturday morning surprise. SMW looks great on the pad.
Finally, Europe can join, too! I wonder when exactly they were finally available.
The PAL price is 5, but to be fair in exchange you (mostly) get the shitty PAL versions everyone was complaining about on the VC. And a lot of the bigger titles (e.g. the FF games) are 10.
Japanese FF games were 1,500 yen as far as I remember.
They changed the standard price point from $5 to $6 a while ago.
The PAL price is 5, but to be fair in exchange you (mostly) get the shitty PAL versions everyone was complaining about on the VC. And a lot of the bigger titles (e.g. the FF games) are 10.
Japanese FF games were 1,500 yen as far as I remember.
Except the post I quoted was talking about GameCube games. For him not to be able to play them, the transfer would have needed to brick his Wii.
Robin64
Member
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I'm pretty sure he meant using his GC controller. You can't use a Wavebird on WiiU. You can on Wii.
At least, that's how I interpreted it.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I'd be excited about Pac-Man if it was a arcade port w/ speedup hack. But it's almost always some shitty console port that doesn't play right.
However, the Mega Man series? I'm all for that. Finding loose carts out in the wild for Mega Man is getting REALLY tough anymore.
I do. I really do.
Yeap bought it on Wii launch, shitty NES port, the same is on 3DS VC
joffocakes
Member
I'd buy Street Fighter again. I wonder if they'll release World Warrior first again, like horrible people.
KennyLinder
Member
Does it tell you it's the US version of SMW?
Yes, on the software description page below the screenshots it says it's the American version.
Also just beat the first castle and didn't see any stuttering someone mentioned earlier and no input lag. It plays fantastic, also I died at the first enemy, but that's like tradition for me, I died at the first enemy in NSMBU too.
I could understand for GameCube games, but VC content? I love the GC controller, but it's blatantly worst feature is its tiny thumb-lacerating d-pad. (I'm not exaggerating, that thing broke the skin on my thumb on frequent occasion)
Macho Madness
Member
Yeah. Besides N64 games, I don't see how anyone would want to use a Gamecube controller for VC.
At the current rate 8 is $10.14, so I don't see how you're getting "boned".
Flightmare
Member
Downloaded Super Mario World now, never played it before
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Flightmare
Member
Yeah, starting it now
Yea, two people can chip away at the same puzzle.
Thanks. That sounds chaotic.