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Nintendo Ressurecting Classic NES Games to the GBA
The Pi-Guy writes "It seems contradictory to Big N's massive anti-emulation stance to introduce the GBA as an emulator itself! An official N press release states that there will be "full classic NES games for download to the GBA"." Probably not so much Duck Hunt, but it sure
would be sweet to get SMB3 on my GBA. Then I could go blind!
There are many excellent NES emulators already available for the GBA - most noteably PocketNES. I wonder if Nintendo will take an aggressive stance against these kinds of developers, and NES ROM trading in general?
Copying a game does not take the game away from Nintendo.
... = death of America!) won't get your argument anywhere.
What's your point? It's still an illegal copy of their intellectual property. It's their choice, not yours, as to how they licence it. If they cannot licence it and constrict the destribution of it via their licence, then who are we to whine whenever some corperation steals GPLed code and closed-sources it? It would be blatent hipocracy.
Arguments of "well, you can copy it! capitalism doesn't apply!" are irrelevant.
Yes, it's an ethical choice to be made, but spouting corporate morality (piracy = theft = lost sales =
I suggest you reread Plato, and his arguments about supporting the law. By not supporting the ethical laws of the land, you are simply inviting anarchy.
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
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On GameFAQs, that someone compiled of the actual games you will be able to earn in Animal Crossing. Keep in mind the game is only out in Japan, and Nintendo is messing with which games to offer Americans
In:
Donkey Kong
Excitebike
Punchout!
Ice Climber
Pinball
Baseball
Unsure:
Balloon Fight
Super Mario Brothers
Tennis
The Legend of Zelda
Mario Bros.
Donkey Kong 3
Donkey Kong Jr.
Golf
Clu Clu Land
Clu Clu Land Disk Version
Low Chance of Making it:
Donkey Kong Jr Math
Wario's Woods
Out:
Gomokunarabe
Mahjong
So, while there are some good games on there, they are the REALLY 1st gen NES games, with not a lot of depth. I loved pinball and excitebike as much as the next kid, but they are "play an hour and get sick of it games" to me at least. (i think the NES got a little better with time Especially when it game to sports games).
I have my doubts about whether they would actually release Super Mario Bros. or Zelda, seems like it would be smarter to hold onto those for a future GBA release.
Too bad they couldn't get the cooperation of the 3rd parties on this. I would have loved to earn Mega Man 1-6 and maybe some RPG's. (i know, thats unreasonable.)
Mario Bros. (NON-super) should make a great (albeit simple) GBA game.
When I flew to the states a few months back, there were a selction of Gameboy colour games that passenegrs could play to relieve the boredom. The machines that these run on are actually PCs, and the words 'Copyright Nintendo' were clearly visible on a text mode screen for a fraction of a second as the emulator loaded.