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.
Okay, the original Gravis Gamepad was amazing. But while the Gravis Xterminator was pretty cool, it broke (power problems, it just stopped being recognized) after just a year or so after I got it in around 2000.
Anyway, now my Saitek p880 has had the same thing happen to it. Just in the past week or two, it failed... and now it just won't respond most of the time. :( :( It is several years old though, so it did pretty well...
This got me to want to see if the xterminator still worked at all. It doesn't even recognize. Anyway, this got me to want to try to open up my Gravis pad to see inside. Unfortunately, even with all the screws off, it won't open. Obviously sometime inside is glued togehter or something...
So the question is: Do my best to break it apart, and quite likely permanantly destroy it (when it comes apart I bet it will physically break...), or just leave it in its current non-working state, but don't take the thing apart?
They want us to send in emails asking for games to appear on the virtual console.
Of course Earthbound and Super Mario RPG are on that list, right from the start. Also, I'd include games that have full official translations but weren't released over here. Wikipedia has provided a massive resource on such games, like Mother 1 (Earthbound "Zero"), Terranigma (a sort of sequel to Illusion of Gaia, which was awesome), and some others.
Kirby Super Star as well.
Basically every game OB1 missed out on, and then the ones that the US missed out on.
Sure they only want 5, but we don't all have to vote for the same 5.
GBA game (shmup), completed in 2004 but never released by the publisher, just recently put up for download as a freeware rom. It's worth a look, anyway.
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