7th June 2006, 12:35 PM
As the Wii launch gets closer, I'm less and less tempted to buy old SNES games. If I want Demon Crest (and I DO), I think I'll wait for the Wii to come out and see if Capcom stuffed a ROM in there. If I can play whatever games I want on ONE system, and the controller does everything I want it to (and ABF and myself have already discussed the few areas of improvement they could work on with the "SNES" controller), I may not need to worry about buying used games. I'll have a big screen and pretty much all the "original experience" I could want (it's not like I'd have the instruction manual most of the time anyway, though in all honesty they should do the same thing the Sonic collection did and include a high resolution scan of the instruction manual in each game you can digitally page through, and it would be nice if you could use the Wii remote to actually switch between the game and draw maps in a seperate saved image for games like Kid Icarus or Metroid).
In a perfect world, I could shove all my existing carts in a ROM reader made by Nintendo for the Wii and save the game, saved data and all, straight into the Wii's memory unit, and that memory unit would be massive.
The idea is that if I'm using some flash rom to store all the games, then the dying batteries we have dealt with are no longer an issue. Oh, and of course Nintendo and a lot of other companies no longer need to deal with requests like "could you release such and such ancient game I can't find for the Gameboy something or the Playstation thisorthat?" because it'll all be there for download. Even Sony's getting in on the action by putting a lot of old PS1 games online to download. I have a big problem with that though. They have to be altered for the screen, the controls, and you'll need like, a bajillion memory cards to have any decent number of PS1 games.
In a perfect world, I could shove all my existing carts in a ROM reader made by Nintendo for the Wii and save the game, saved data and all, straight into the Wii's memory unit, and that memory unit would be massive.
The idea is that if I'm using some flash rom to store all the games, then the dying batteries we have dealt with are no longer an issue. Oh, and of course Nintendo and a lot of other companies no longer need to deal with requests like "could you release such and such ancient game I can't find for the Gameboy something or the Playstation thisorthat?" because it'll all be there for download. Even Sony's getting in on the action by putting a lot of old PS1 games online to download. I have a big problem with that though. They have to be altered for the screen, the controls, and you'll need like, a bajillion memory cards to have any decent number of PS1 games.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)