Hudson declares 100 games for nintendo's virtual console

[moycon]

I wonder if Nintendo has been hitting the emulation sites hard and heavy. Seems to me many classic game collector probably already have the 1000's of ROMs for the NES, SNES and N64 emulators that they got for nothing years ago. But when launching a new system that heavy relies on these same ROMs...might be hard to convince people to pay any amount for them when they could get em for free (albeit illegally) plus many many more ROMs than Nintendo will ever be able to offer. I have noticed the pirate NES systems people would sell at the mall kiosks have all but disappeared.

[NovaXpress]

They might be thinking that way, but it would be a waste of time.

 

Anyone who might be into emulation and has the equipment to do so is already doing it. I know many gamers who own a PC, yet few even want to try emulators. They like the games, but they won't go to any trouble in order to play them. By offering them for sub/download on modern game systems, that takes all the work out of it. Most of those who'll be playing Sonic and Scramble would never think of trying an emulator.

 

Remember, we are not normal people around here.

[SHAGOHOD X99]

DAMN, Hudson Soft didn't say WHICH

100 games are going to the Wii though. Also

I'm wondering if Nintendo is going to bother

with properly translating a lot of the better

games that came out on the PC-Engine Duo?

 

Are we going to be able to play say...

 

Galaxy Police Woman SAPPHIRE

Dracula X: Rondo of Blood

Macross 2036

 

and stuff like that, that had lots of either

text or original recorded voices? Should

at least be subtitled in English at best for

the cinema-cut scenes. Being a 28 yr old

father now, I had to sell off the bulk of my

game collections (the PC-Engine being among

it), and it be great to be able to play all the latest

Nintendo has to offer, all the GC lineup AND all

this old school stuff. Thus I hope when Nintendo

says that the Wii will have TG-16 that also extends

to the PC-Engine, otherwise none of this is anything

to get pumped up about.

 

I want to finally play the RPGs like Record of Lodoss War

that never made the jump stateside, even though TTi at the

time was supposedly going to bring that game, along with

Macross (called Robotech 2036) and a whole slew of others

about the time Turbo Duo came out. Shit I'd stay up all night

to play Soldier Blade again, then power up some Last Alert

to hear the Guy Kazama horrible dubbing and stop the Force

Project!

[AtariJr]

maybe the wii is your answer instead of the GPX which you couldnt make work easily.

[SHAGOHOD X99]

maybe the wii is your answer instead of the GPX which you couldnt make work easily.

It's looking more and more like it.

I just hope Nintendo isn't going to

be half assed about this whole

emulation/ROM thing.

 

I mean all of the good stuff for

TG-16 (on that note) was released

in Japan for the most part. Also I

haven't heard anything yet about

arcade games being downloadable

and playable on Wii. If somehow

MAME or something like it would run

all the classics, I'd gladly download

like a mofo. Hell I'd rather pay to have

the stuff rather than being all Cloak &

Dagger about the whole thing.

 

I'm a man with a one track mind, I want

to play LSA Squad again. I haven't played

it since 1988 @ a flea market, spent the last

five years trying to find the upright of it to

no avail. Then lost out on someone's modded

XBOX with MAME and 200 ROMS already on it,

(one of them being LSA Squad) by like a day.

[Tan]

it's nice that hudson is thinking big on this but realistically 100 TG16 games? i love my turbo and the games i have for it but really it's not exactly a mainstream system, even when it was sold in stores, and the turbo library versus the pc engine one is less than 100 games is it not? take away badly aged sports games and games with multiple system versions, and what do you have left? most collectors can't even name a great top 25 or 50 tg16 games

 

more than likely it'll be 30 tg16 games and 70 japanese pc-engine games, still a good number but not all defining like they make it sound, if the tg16 could pull off all what 90 some tg16 games that were made?, then genny snes nes should have no less than 200 a piece and maybe 100 for the n64, which would prob make a subscription much much cheaper than buying each one, and hopefully not too expensive because of the extra crap games bloating the list.

[JB]

it's nice that hudson is thinking big on this but realistically 100 TG16 games? i love my turbo and the games i have for it but really it's not exactly a mainstream system, even when it was sold in stores, and the turbo library versus the pc engine one is less than 100 games is it not? take away badly aged sports games and games with multiple system versions, and what do you have left? most collectors can't even name a great top 25 or 50 tg16 games

 

more than likely it'll be 30 tg16 games and 70 japanese pc-engine games, still a good number but not all defining like they make it sound, if the tg16 could pull off all what 90 some tg16 games that were made?, then genny snes nes should have no less than 200 a piece and maybe 100 for the n64, which would prob make a subscription much much cheaper than buying each one, and hopefully not too expensive because of the extra crap games bloating the list.

They haven't said it's 100 PCEngine games, TG16 games, Studio 2 games, or anything.

Just 100 games.

 

It's a given some of their NES titles will be there.

And since they're running around grabbing every game they can find, there's no telling what they'll drag out.

[AtariJr]

does anyone here know if nintendo and sega are doing the same thing as hudson, as far as spending lots of time and money buying games that were on their system made by now dead 3rd party companies? or are nintendo and sega going for just 1st party games and games that are on companies that support them that arent dead yet (like square or konami).

[JB]

does anyone here know if nintendo and sega are doing the same thing as hudson, as far as spending lots of time and money buying games that were on their system made by now dead 3rd party companies? or are nintendo and sega going for just 1st party games and games that are on companies that support them that arent dead yet (like square or konami).

I'm betting that except for Hudson, everyone's supplying just their own software.

 

It makes more sense from a business perspective, as it's cheaper.

If Konami wants Contra: Hard Corps on the Wii, they can sign a contract themselves. Even though it was a Genesis game, it's not Sega's problem.