Any particular reason Nintendo is being slow with N64 and SNES Virtual Console games?

You can get 2GB SD cards for like 20 bucks if you keep your eyes open. What's the big deal? Just compress the audio well. For PCE CD games ofcourse.

 

the VC games run only if copied to the internal memory of the Wii. SD is just for backup purposes. so what you re suggesting , at the moment, is not possible.

 

WHAT?
That's insane

 

Are you sure? Still if that is the case there's no problem. Just put stuff you want to play back on to the Wii. I'm sure there will be a hack or something to allow you to run stuff from the card since you can already read pictures and MP3 from it.

Yakumo

 

might not be news to you guys but I just went to the shop and discoverd that they just had added (well I can't recall seeing them yesterday)
NES
Urban Champion
Solomon's Key
Pinball

Mega Drive
Ristar
Gunstar Heroes
Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
Colums

Turbografx
Alien Crush

edit:
ah just found a list
8 december 2006
• Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64)
• F-Zero (Super Nintendo)
• Donkey Kong Country (Super Nintendo)
• Mario Bros. (NES)
• The Legend of Zelda (NES)
• Donkey Kong (NES)
• Wario's Woods (NES)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (SEGA MEGA DRIVE)
• Altered Beast (SEGA MEGA DRIVE)
• Golden Axe (SEGA MEGA DRIVE)
• Ecco the Dolphin (SEGA MEGA DRIVE)
• Bonk’s Adventure (Turbografx (PC Engine))
• Super Star Soldier (Turbografx (PC Engine))
• Victory Run (Turbografx (PC Engine))
• Bomberman ’93 (Turbografx (PC Engine))
• Dungeon Explorer (Turbografx (PC Engine))

15 december 2006
• Urban Champion (NES)
• Solomon's Key (NES)
• Pinball (NES)
• Columns (SEGA MEGA DRIVE)
• Gunstar Heroes (SEGA MEGA DRIVE)
• Ristar (SEGA MEGA DRIVE)
• Dr. Robotonik’s Mean Bean Machine (SEGA MEGA DRIVE)
• Alien Crush (Turbografx (PC Engine))

22 december 2006
• Donkey Kong Jr. (NES)
• Soccer (NES)
• Tennis (NES)
• Space Harrier II (SEGA MEGA DRIVE)
• Toe Jam & Earl (SEGA MEGA DRIVE)
• Military Madness (Turbografx (PC Engine))

29 december 2006
• SimCity (Super Nintendo)
• Super Probotector (Super Nintendo)
• Super Castlevania IV (Super Nintendo)
• Baseball (NES)
• Ice Hockey (NES)
• R-TYPE (Turbografx (PC Engine))

 

Hack, Maybe but atm I question if nintendo will ever let you run stuff off an SD card untill it becomes an issue of space over other Wii channels (like if other channels come out like web, weather, news).

They have to see it as too much of a security issue ATM. (Barcode is correct, Channels will only load from flash, not SD).

 

hmmmm I am seeing a great future for WII homebrew, just by reading this and WII hardware hacks

 

Yeah, for sure. You can already use all the Gamecube homebrew on the Wii (which includes Gamecube emulators for the NES, SNES, Genesis and TurboGrafx, by the way) without any sort of hardware mod, but those only have access to the Gamecube part of the Wii hardware. Once proper Wii exploits are found that can support wifi and the Wii controller and stuff, it'll open up some pretty exiciting possibilities.

By the way, in addition to staggering the Virtual Console releases to keep interest up, I expect that Nintendo are also thinking about the fact that simply unleashing a flood of classic games at once--especially the bigger name titles and double-especially the N64 titles--would end up hurting sales for Wii games. Third parties would probably be even more concerned about that and Nintendo has to keep them happy.

Personally, I think the emulation is great and not too expensive at all for most of the games, but what would really make me excited would be some original content like Xbox Live has (whether online multuplayer or not really). I haven't heard any suggestion of that sort of thing on the Wii, though, unfortunately.


...word is bondage...

 

Now, add Konami's Axelay and toss in the full Quintet line-up and I'm pretty certain the Wii is soon gonna be my nr.1 for retro classics.

 

Yay Mario's picross is on the vc today. Been playing it most of the morning it's just as fun as i remember.

I if you havent updated your wii today i recommend you do it as the weather channel is now online (^_^)

 

Booooo

NA will never recieve Mario's Picross even tho it was awsome.
OH:

 

yupp. just updated my wii and got it too
pretty cool with the zoom in and rotating on the globe

 

Super Contra goes up tomorrow (20th) on the shopping Channel (Japan) Another grate classic to grab!

Yakumo