If buying old games is a disease...

[Dark Jaguar]

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...

True. It's why I got the Sonic collection for Gamecube. It doesn't have the full 6 button layout, it is missing two buttons, but the Sonic games only used 3 buttons anyway, and even then they almost always did the exact same thing, so for them it's no biggy. BUT FOR FIGHTING GAMES LIKE STREET FIGHTER, A 6 BUTTON LAYOUT IS THE ONLY WAY TO GO, EVER! People picked Genesis over SNES for that reason a lot of the time, even though SNES versions had more colors and better sound quality. Nintendo should really add two more buttons. C'mon! You know it makes sense!

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

I know it'll never happen because of how unlikely it is for them to put any money in such specialist hardware. Even if it was just a "Nintendo Online Store exclusive". They are too busy working on the Wii Finglonger. My little dream would be cool, but it wouldn't be very long.

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.

I've been to a site that just has text copies of old instruction manuals. Eh. I'm mainly talking about oldies like Kid Icarus where the entire story of the game is held in the manual and not in-game. Or, MGS, where a key secret of the game is a joke about "checking the case" for a key code, which is lost on anyone who just bought the disks used somewhere, and the secret is actually in a picture on the box artwork on the back. That's why a fully scanned image is my preference, even if it'll take up a few megabytes.

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... :)

Sony hasn't done it yet but there's every reason to expect them to. They've been prepairing for it for some time and RIIIDGE RACER was demonstrated at E3. In fact, the reason they've been so intent on stamping out homebrew so very completely is to prevent anyone from pirating illegal copies of the game (the security key is hard to crack, that impractically hard kind that would take a computer working for many eons to finally solve, hence why homebrew hasn't bothered trying to copy the "liscensed software" tag and have had to find vulnerabilities in order to get their software to run). Again though, the issue is that with games taking up several hundred megabytes, a memory card, even a 4 gig one, isn't going to be much use for more than a few games, less if we are talking multidisk games like Final Fantasy VII or something.