If buying old games is a disease...

[A Black Falcon]

(and ABF and myself have already discussed the few areas of improvement they could work on with the "SNES" controller),

Yeah, one reason I got that Genesis recently was for that exact reason... the Genesis controller is fantastic. I really, really love the 6-button Genesis controller (which I have), and that Wii Classic Controller doesn't even come close... I don't want to be playing Genesis games on that thing really... I could, but it wouldn't be as good...

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.

This would, of course, be unbelievably awesome, but for monetary reasons (ie Nintendo wants you to pay them. Again.) it'll never happen. :(

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).

Yeah, manuals would be awesome... used games usually don't come with them, and while manuals for console games are usually not necessary, they are definitely nice to have... and if I'm paying for a download one, I would like to get the manual in some form, even if it's just a text file.

Even Sony's getting in on the action by putting a lot of old PS1 games online to download.

Well, they said they will, but they haven't done it yet. I assume that their tendencies to like to DRM things have slowed them down... :)