Tendo City

So we're d/l VC titles and wishing they were updated for things like wifi multiplayer, Lan, integration with Mii's or the Wii hardware in general (specifically the controller), graphics updates and hey, just like what the Xboys get when they d/l some blast from the past, right? Nintendo decided on a different approach. The VC has the original game in its original state, save for some issue here and there with passwords, coded gamecheats and whatnotings.

Enter WiiWare. In about a month you'll be able to d/l Bomberman WiiMare from Hudson that allows you to use your Mii's, has Wiimote integration, crisp grafix and of course up to 8 player wifi. Also from Hudson is Alien Crush WiiWare, its Alien Crush updated, you might remember it as that weird organic pinball game with aliens.... crushing.... things. I never played it.

So that's the combo, get VC for the original game and if the game sells well enough on VC or there's demand for it, it gets updated with all the goodness and put on WiiWare. This could mean a big change, this could mean that people will more or less stop using the VC channel and switch to the WW channel exclusively just becuase you're getting the better package. Of course, I expect the amount of updated older games to be sparse and no where near the average of 3 a week like VC. Not to mention getting some of those rare or 1P-only games that probably wont make the update list.

News like this makes me think Goldeneye/PD Wifi Updated Holy Shiny Shitmyselfhard Edition EO+ will make a crater soon but you know MS wants it just as bad. PD with the wiimote has the potential to blow ass or kick ass, but ot6her controllers will be optional like always.

Ok, ABF criticism of a feature he hasn't seen yet...GO!!

Criticism... hmm.

-Nintendo badly needs more storage space for the Wii (HDD, etc)

-Hudson hasn't committed to releasing the Star Soldier game outside of Japan yet

-1-3 games a week in the VC is a very slow rate (and this will probably slow it down even more, as Lazy says)

That's about it. WiiWare is a pretty good idea. I'm honestly somewhat amazed at it, really... Nintendo, supporting small developers? Really? That's not something I'd ever have said is something Nintendo would do...

Well they kinda have, in the form of giving their local group out of Digipen a start and Rare they more or less hired out and there's Silicon Knights.

Still, aside from that Digipen group we're talking about already professional companies that are just not well known, not people working out of a friend's den, coding the "REAL WAY" (I open my hand one time, having calculated the exact diffraction and position of the flap to distort the air and thus the light from the sun in just the right way to burn a disk with my program on it, this can also be done in emacs, with command "C-x M-c M-butterfly").

Ya know, one can still be critical of something they don't have direct experience of if they have collected sufficient information to be suspicious. I mean do I really need to have cut off my own arm to have a good idea based on what I know of what an arm does and what I've seen of those without arms living their life to know why I may or may not want that condition?

I'm totally in favor of the continuous uploading of ROM after ROM to their servers, just not at the speed it's happening. I'm not sure what the hold up is. There's also some emulation issues due to them not really wanting to update those emulators to support additional features properly. Part of this is their desire to make it user friendly, but those who would sacrifice capability to gain user friendliness gain neither. When a user is struggling to find out how to do this or that and find they outright can't, that's the opposite of userfriendliness, and on top of that, my twist of a classic phrase is clever (in my own mind).

Well anyway, aside from some issues like with Mario Kart 64, all in all I love being able to buy old games I missed out on long ago. Further, Earthbound and Super Mario RPG on VC mean the actual carts should go way down.

Wii Ware does have some enhanced games, but what I'm more interested in is the original games. That's really where it's at. I'm looking forward to a number of interesting games there.

I still think the online service needs some revising though.