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The Wii Virtual Console Hands-On

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the business-is-believing dept.

Gamespot has a hands-on with the virtual console for the Wii. From the article: "Nintendo's Wii Virtual Console demo station featured five signature games from system's past: Super Mario Bros. from the NES, Super Mario World from the SNES, Super Mario 64 from the Nintendo 64, Sonic the Hedgehog from the Sega Genesis, and Bonk's Adventure from the TurboGrafix 16. The navigation menu only allowed us to scroll through the five title selection pages, so we didn't get a chance to select and download games to run."

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  1. games not published by Nintendo or Sega? by taxman_10m · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Will games be available that were not published by Nintendo or Sega? Like Vectorman?

  2. Fan favorite? by lpangelrob · · Score: 3, Interesting
    From the Wii website:

    Virtual Console: Wii will have downloadable access to 20 years of fan-favorite titles originally released for Nintendo 64, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and even the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The Virtual Console also will feature a "best of" selection from Sega Genesis titles and games from the TurboGrafx console (a system jointly developed by NEC and Hudson). It also will be home to new games conceived by indie developers whose creativity is larger than their budgets.

    (italics mine)

    I can't help but think that this means Superman 64 is all out...

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    -Rob

    Biblical fiscal responsibility

  3. Re:...or Hudson? by KDR_11k · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hudson says they're working on getting third party Tg16 titles on the system. Not sure if any third parties that don't have their own consoles already said they are supporting the VC.

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