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06 May 2008, 10:27 am

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what the heck is a virtual console ?
Ooh, no one's asked that yet. :p

The Virtual Console is the downloadable content system on the Wii. If you own a Wii, and can connect it to the Internet, you can use it to buy games that were made for Nintendo's older consoles, like NES, SNES, N64, etc


now i am wiser :)


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06 May 2008, 1:36 pm

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Cool, this game rocked. I played it when I was new. Yeah, I'm old.. :(


Me too, I played it the day it was relased. Good times.....


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06 May 2008, 2:33 pm

Paper mario that games awesome I got that for VC and I own chrono but never played golden sun I have always wanted to try it.


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06 May 2008, 6:31 pm

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Earthbound is one of the greatest games ever made, second only to chrono trigger.
High praise. I'll have to check it out.



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06 May 2008, 6:41 pm

Speaking of Earthbound, one of my friends said I look like NEW AGE RETRO HIPPIE because I have long red hair.



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07 May 2008, 12:21 pm

about time! Earthbound's one of the greatest games ever.

i thought it was kind of cruel to include Lucas from Mother 3 in Smash Bros Brawl. thanks Nintendo, include a character from a game that you're never going to release outside of Japan even though i guarantee it'd sell in huge numbers!


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07 May 2008, 9:51 pm

I second Paper Mario! It's the only VC game I have for my Wii. It's one of the best in the Mario RPG series.



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11 May 2008, 7:01 pm

My faith in NoA regarding the Mother series is almost completely gone =/

I'd like to say that I'd buy this if it comes out, just to boost chances of Mother 3 hitting the States...but at this point, I don't think it'll make much of a difference. They'd have to port it to a different console first, and I doubt they'd be willing to take those kinds of chances.

Bring on the fan translation! =D



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12 May 2008, 11:05 am

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I saw this on the front page and suppose I should chime in with the typical disclaimer that Nintendo's Virtual Console has horrible DRM that locks it to a single console. There's no way to deauthorize one system so a new one can be authorized.



okay...well what's a legit scenario where this is a big problem?


If your system breaks at any point, if you buy a second system/updated system, etc. Tons of reasons, and not one legitimate reason for Nintendo to not allow a unit to be deauthorized iTunes style.



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12 May 2008, 11:52 pm

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and not one legitimate reason for Nintendo to not allow a unit to be deauthorized iTunes style.



an attempt to make sure VC games aren't stolen and copied and pirated? i think that's a pretty legit excuse.



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13 May 2008, 8:48 am

skafather84 wrote:
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and not one legitimate reason for Nintendo to not allow a unit to be deauthorized iTunes style.



an attempt to make sure VC games aren't stolen and copied and pirated? i think that's a pretty legit excuse.


No it isn't, not even slightly, because there is no reason not to allow consumers to be able to deauthorize one system so a new one can be used. That in no way hurts their DRM system.



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13 May 2008, 11:42 am

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They'd have to port it to a different console first...
Why would they do that? It's a GBA game. We have the GBA here.

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Bring on the fan translation! =D
Yes!



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13 May 2008, 12:03 pm

I wonder why on Earth Nintendo hasn't released Mother 1 and 3 here. They release everything else, right? They brought over Advance Wars, Golden Sun, Fire Emblem, etc. I don't get it. Where Earthbound's sales really THAT bad?

I'd buy Mother 1 and/or 3 in a second if they released them (aside from if it was on the Virtual Console unless they fix the DRM). That said, I'm not the biggest fan of Earthbound. I enjoyed it, I thought it has a neat art style and setting, but it's not really THAT great of an RPG. I can think of plenty of better ones. To me though it's an honorary "Mario RPG" type game-has that kind of vibe and gameplay.



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13 May 2008, 2:22 pm

xyzyxx wrote:
Why would they do that? It's a GBA game. We have the GBA here.


They haven't released any GBA games in a long time...anything they released now would just get looked over, unless they put a lot of advertising into it...which I doubt they'd be willing to do =/

From what I gather, it wouldn't be hard for them to port it to DS, if they desired.



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13 May 2008, 3:19 pm

SabbraCadabra wrote:
xyzyxx wrote:
Why would they do that? It's a GBA game. We have the GBA here.


They haven't released any GBA games in a long time...anything they released now would just get looked over, unless they put a lot of advertising into it...which I doubt they'd be willing to do =/

From what I gather, it wouldn't be hard for them to port it to DS, if they desired.


I'm not sure what the last first party title was, but the GBA's been getting a little bit of support from third parties. In any case, porting it to the DS would be fairly trivial since it's basically just a more powerful GBA (we've seen some small developers release two versions of games, where one is almost the same-maybe a better sound track plus the slightly higher resolution, etc.)