[Wii] Virtual Console & WiiWare Games - Doing wonders for illegal emulation since 2007

Originally Posted by SuperSonic

Sorry this is late! I forgot today was Monday!

This week on Virtual Console US (7/30/07):

Drop Off (TG16)
Dynamite Headdy (Genesis)
Star Soldier (NES)

Um...meh.

Wow, meh doesn't even begin to describe the mediocrity of this week's releases...

What are you talking about? Dynamite Headdy is awesome!

I guess we should just only download SNES titles to give them a little bit of a hint.

Also call daily to say that you want a universal friend code (sup console's friend code) and Neo-Geo games.

Neo-Geo games would be awesome, but I think the Wii has too much of a memory problem to be able to handle those for the moment.

This week on Virtual Console US (8/6/07)

Adventures of Lolo (NES)
Galaga '90 (TG16)
Wave Race 64 (N64)

Wave Race? Damn. Never did own it, but had fun playing it.

Oh? Is Nintendo back to 1-N64-game-a-month now?

Other than that, I'm broke and not really interested in this week.

Yes, because N64 games are just that special. Fuckers.

I remember having a lot of fun with Waverace 64 back in the day, but that may have only been because it was one of the few N64 games we had for awhile. It's tempting, but I'm short on points and it doesn't seem worth the effort to get more just for Waverace.

I'm waiting for Duke Nukem 64 and Duke Nukem: Zero Hour. Although I don't see those games coming to the VIrtual Console anytime soon.

I find it much more exciting to not look at the new games for a month at a time. That way I can actually be excited and find one good title.

*plays Shining Force*

Wave Race sounds tempting.

I have almost all the N64 games available minus Super Mario 64... Wave race is just a little too short on action though... You could only do so much with it.

Adventure of Lolo !!!!!

What a great game. Well, the third is the best, but it's better than nothing.

Too bad the Wii Shop is under maintenance right now.

I guess I'll post this here since Acer killed the official Wii thread. It looks like there's a new update for the Wii. It was down for over 8 hours today (for me at least).

No idea what it's about, though.

Edit:

From what I've seen the new update adds a digital clock to the main menu, and the Virtual Console is now set out differently. You can now search by "most popular" and by genre.

Quote:

Channels:
-Digital Clock added to the Wii Menu right under the channel bar
-Forecast Channel now displays the current condition (cloudy, raining, etc.) directly in the Wii Menu in the Forecast Channel box
-News Channel can now show 2 scrolling headlines at a time in the Wii Menu, 3 when you click on the button
-Message Board now has the “Today’s Accomplishments” message as a white message which allows it to stand out from other messages
-Address Book entries can now be shifted around using A+B but only to empty spaces. Not too convenient.
-Calendar in Message Board no longer shows “Today’s Accomplishment” only days as having messages
-Scrolling messages in the Message Board now uses a different sound

Wii Shop Channel Overhauled (Visual aesthetic is the same, changes made to organization and browsing methods mostly)
-New Welcome screen detailing 4 Recommended Titles and the points they cost (gone is the title screen bar that had linkable games). The title bar can be clicked on to bring up a list of 20 recommended games.
-Titles You’ve Downloaded was moved to the main shop menu
-New ways to browse
-Popular Titles (2 pages of 10 and includes launch games so not only based on recent info)
-Newest Additions remains the same
-Search for a title which can use partial names
-Search by Category
-System shows the different systems and how many titles have been released under each
-Publisher showing different publishers and amount of titles released
-Genre (different genres listed and amount of titles under each)

Settings
-Warning added pre-system update detailing that technically modified consoles may cease to function upon being updated. Also the only way to not accept an update is to power down the console by holding the button for 4 seconds (the user can’t back out of hitting I Accept w/o powering down)

Modders beware! (the last line)

Finally, we have a date for Super Metroid! According to the Wii Shop news for "A Month of Metroid" we're getting Metroid for the NES on the 13th and Super Metroid on the 20th.

Great. I was looking forward to that I just used my last 500 points on Super Mario 2. What the hell was I thinking? (I'm in major debt so I can't buy anything ._.)

I wonder if they would consider releasing Gameboy games? Metriod II was pretty good, along with a ton of other titles of course.

I wouldn't mind a remake of Metroid II for the DS or something. There a few GB titles that would be pretty awesome on the Virtual Console. There's always room for them I suppose but I'd want Nintendo to quit with the 3 titles a week, 2 of which usually don't interest me at all routine that they keep dishing out before getting GB games on VC.