Not really. It was purely from a lack of interest. If there is no interest by the homebrew or pirate scene, then it just flat out would not happen. It's the same reason we don't have n64DD emulation or public dump tools (both are simple to do). There is just no interest in it (even lac felt it was a waste of his time & zilmar just does not care to waste time to look into it) Wii ultimately I think will have a much larger request for a homebrew scene due to the controller. So it eventualy will finaly be hacked. - fun fact - Know what the difference between a NR iso & a comercial iso? a few padded bits to ofset the image.
It's also a pitty we wont see stuff like f-zero X+xpansion kit released the way F-zero X SHOULD be released to people after so many years.. and sim city 64
according to this: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/12/wii-console-manual-reveals-its-secrets/ i dont like this at all
Call nintendo. It's already been stated by nintendo that you buy the rights to the game pernamently. If your console breaks, you can call them and they will transfer the rights to download the games to your new Wii. If you delete the game off your wii you can redownload it as many time you want.
Dunno, thats was something a PR guy said, while these other terms in the manual sound more of the legal rights kind, therefore if you go to the court the case will be closed immediately.
Shadowlayer is correct. With internet services comes a great deal of litigation over minor details. Nintendo is known to have "safe-play" lawyers.
Every game you buy nowadays (and for the past few years) has a clause "ownership" in the manual. They all say "the software is licensed, not sold to you". Practically though they can hardly revoke that license and stop you from playing. Although with stuff like virtual console, xbox live arcade and STEAM they can. Which is also why im against these systems for the purpose of buying/selling games.
I dont like the Virtual Console at all, because Emulation sucks Still, i'm european and wtf? If i'd use the VC i wouldn't want crappy PAL Version games..
It's really just a marketing thing really. Plus would it make sense for the average consumer to download a game thats entirely in japanese when they do not even understand that language? Still it's probably done this way to make thing easyer and let every branch keep track of their releases. Still I find it odd that US is getting the short end of the stick compared to japan for virtual console release up until dec. I guess the japanese market is being awarded for having to wait longer and having less units avalibe then the US market.
..the japanase market has also more games to offer , so they wont run out of "good" titles any time soon, unlike europe and USA
what i said was also stated by nintendo. If your Wii breaks. they will transfer the download rights from your old wii to the new wii. If you delete the games off your wii, you can redownload them free of charge at any time.
The reason you can't play multi-region old software on the Wii is the same as backwards compatibility on the other sytems - licensing. Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony sold licenses for each region when publishers originally released the software and they are forced by contract of the license to respect the region coding in emulation. This is applicable for all licensed software but is mostly to safeguard publishers that shared the release of a game over different regions.
not quite. Contracts have an ending date, and subsequently, so do licences. It is not therefore a breach of contract to allow old games from different regions to run on a current console necesseraly. It really depends who was the holder of the copyrighted material at the time, and even in that case, offering an "import corner", clearly labelled as an import corner, would be treated by courts as something like an "extra" and not an obligation. To gloss this off, an end user-agreement/waiver would be sufficient to free nintendo from any liability.
I doubt N64 lincences have expired yet. Also I doubt Nintendo would have short contract dates, they are notoriously hard licensors.
Can't say that I really care. I usually buy retrogames to put in my shelf and use my xbox for emulation. But it is still insanely stupid. Nintendo are really doing everything wrong with this launch
