Wii Virtual Console Discussion

Nintendo owned Donkey Kong before Rare ever made any DK games, go they didn't "get" the rights, they already had them.

Perfect Dark is owned by Rare, which is now owned by Microsoft.

Goldeneye is still owned by Rare as well.

Originally posted by General Kaliero
Nintendo owned Donkey Kong before Rare ever made any DK games, go they didn't "get" the rights, they already had them.

Perfect Dark is owned by Rare, which is now owned by Microsoft.

Goldeneye is still owned by Rare as well.

Donkey Kong is one of Nintendo's mascots, but the DKC trilogy is a joint effort between the two companies, the same goes for Perfect Dark and Goldeneye.

Perfect Dark Zero flopping on the 360, does not impact the original N64 release.

Nobody's gotten Echo the Dolphin yet? shrug

If I ever get Broadband, that's what I'll be getting.

anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

I got Mario 64 and Mario Bros.
Cant wait for the original Super Mario Bros.

They need to start putting more on there, 3 every Monday is not enough! 😠

...But Opera Browser should be ready on Friday.
Prepare to wake up to the glowing blue light. 😄

Originally posted by Morridini
So, why didnt Nintendo get the rights to Perfect Dark and GoldenEye?

Goldeneye is a Bond franchise. It's long gone from Rare too, else Nintendo would have pulled the stops out to release it for DS.

Originally posted by InnerRise
Nobody's gotten Echo the Dolphin yet? shrug

If I ever get Broadband, that's what I'll be getting.

anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

Echo the Dolphin kicks serious @ss and I will be getting it in the near future.

would I need the classic controller or would a game cube one do?

You would need the classic controller.

Originally posted by Morridini
You would need the classic controller.

I remember playing Echo the dolphin back then on the demo booth, was amusing but rather disturbing, the concept of dolphins and turtles talking was just slightly unusual, but it was a fun game never the less. I remember back then they had considered calling the Gamecube Nintendo Dolphin as well 😮

Originally posted by Morridini
You would need the classic controller.

Gamcube controllers work for almost everything.

Well, Christmas saw the addition of R-TYPE (shooting), Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (fighting, duh), Super Castlevania IV (platforming), Super Mario Bros. (platforming), and Toe Jam & Earl(adventure). All exemplary games for their respective genres.

Today, perhaps disappointingly, added only two games. NES Baseball, which is pretty simplified in comparison to today's baseball titles, and Urban Champion, a fighting game where you try to get control of a city block by knocking your opponent into the street while avoiding cops and falling flowerpots.

Yeah, I was hoping for atleast one decent game yesterday. 😬

There were rumors of Contra 3, but I knew that would be too good to be true. Considering the lack of true Wii games right now and for the moderate future, they should really drop atleast one high profile game a week.

just beat the dragonball z game

love it

I know what you mean, Ast, I held off on getting anything other than SMB and Castlevania on Christmas waiting to see if any big games would be released yesterday. Extremely disappointing.

On a related note, though, why R-TYPE? It'd be just as easy to add Super R-TYPE, which is quite frankly a better game. The VC needs more SNES games anyway.

I hope Mario Kart 64 comes in January like in Japan, then I will be a little happy.

Originally posted by Skeets
Just checked.The Game cube Controller is good for most of the games except genesis and Turbograph16.

Originally posted by AstroFan
I hope Mario Kart 64 comes in January like in Japan, then I will be a little happy.

My question is this: Where is the N64 love? Common Nintendo, I want some N64 games, one single 64 game isn't enough, even if it is Mario 64.

ya...too bad most of the good ones were rare games...
more snes games...wheres the metroid and bomberman and mario RPG and kirby?!?!?!