Virtual Console Lineup Revealed

thatmariolover · 10-31-2006, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Jason1

If you dont allready have OOT for the gamecube, you must have been living in a hole the last couple years. You got it for pre-ordering Wind Waker, and you also got it for subscribing to Nintendo Power. There was probably another way to get it actually.

I do, but OoT for GC was terrible. I have some hope that the emulator for Wii will be more impressive. There's really no excuse for not having the emulator bump the framerate up to a solid 60 frames per second. Horsepower certainly isn't the issue.

KillerGremlin · 11-01-2006, 01:20 AM

that and the controlls on the cube were way too sensitive, aiming the bow was the hardness...vintage gaming on my PC reigns supreme!!! actually, i have a NES in my room at the moment, with mario bros 3., and it's amazing.

Jonbo298 · 11-01-2006, 08:31 AM

The list is depressing for the US. I'm not going to waste my time buying Mario 64 again unless they made it worth the money. Probably only get maybe 1 or 2 VC games at launch if that..its just too little compared to Japan.

As for OoT on the Gamecube, it was a straight port. They didn't really touch it up since they didn't want to spend the resources for something that was "free".

They probably will now that it has to come out on VC at some point.

Why is Japan getting Street Fighter II before the US? I thought it was more popular here

Dyne · 11-01-2006, 12:04 PM

Microsoft probably got a SF2 exclusivity deal or something.

As for OoT, it wasn't touched except for the resolution bump.

DeathsHand · 11-01-2006, 03:08 PM

The virtual console has the potential to be so amazing (if not somewhat overpriced in some situations... 5 bucks for a soulless version of Baseball?)...

But from the looks of it, they've got quite a ways to go...

Squaresoft needs to jump onboard, and Konami needs to release the turbografx-16 version of Dracula X (although chances are they'd prefer to release that one as perhaps a $20 disc-based, or $30 DS game)... Among other obvious things...

I ponder, has Nintendo mentioned anything about possible online play for emulated games? *strokes chin*

thatmariolover · 11-01-2006, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Jonbo298

As for OoT on the Gamecube, it was a straight port. They didn't really touch it up since they didn't want to spend the resources for something that was "free".

It wasn't a port though. It was just an emulated ROM (as proven with people ripping the ROMS right off the GC disk). They changed the resolution it was rendered at, but they didn't change the framerate cap (which I assume was due to time constraints).

Regardless of why it was so poorly done, it was still poorly done, and I still plan on taking a gander at the Virtual Console release whenever it comes.

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Originally Posted by DeathsHand

I ponder, has Nintendo mentioned anything about possible online play for emulated games? *strokes chin*

Take it with a grain of salt, but Matt at IGN said it wasn't going to happen at launch but that it's perfectly possible with Nintendo's current system.

DeathsHand · 11-01-2006, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by thatmariolover

Take it with a grain of salt, but Matt at IGN said it wasn't going to happen at launch but that it's perfectly possible with Nintendo's current system.

Grain of salt or not, it seems like it'd be fairly easy to do, and would be quite the extra incentive to purchase certain games which might be released for the VC...
*nod*
Live Arcade can do it, PC emulators can do it...

So I say "YES"... To online play...