Every single one of those games is excellent, and would be a welcome addition to the US VC list, with the exception of Alien Crush, which is already available.

...Also, what's up with this episodic approach to releasing the terrible TG16 versions of R-Type? I'd rather just pay $8 to download Super R-Type for SNES, which was just fantastic.

We got the Wii before they did, and we now get punished by having to wait for better VC releases :(

Anyone know which games are being released on the VC in Europe this week?

Maybe Ill get my ass banned or something but do people are really getting all happy about this crap? Do people have forgotten about emulators from 4 - 5 years ago?? NESticle (and the sack icon) anyone?

Before people here begin to tell they dont condone piracy n shit let me tell you that there is a law that ALLOWS emulators if the hardware to run them or the actual software is out of production. So I havent seen a NES at my local Woolworth therefor Im allowed.

Maybe for some obscure japan only title witch got translated or something but there is no god in heaven or hell that will make me pay $5 for a Nintendo game unless they AT LEAST have new graphics or something... Those are games that you will play for 15 minutes and will NEVER EVER play again.

I can understant the nostalgia factor but I dunno... Am I missing the hype somewhere? Will I be allowed to play Contra online? Will the 30 live code still be the same? Will Castlevania 2 still be buggy as hell? I bet my right kidney that Nintendo just donwloaded their own roms and they are just redistributing them again for a fee.

Exactly, what Arroz said. The Xbox 360 Live version of Contra is the right way to do VC games, not this shit.

Can destructoid implement an ignore system for the main page so we don't have to trip across summa's random nintendo rage-fuck du jour? I wouldn't mind so much if he at least had something new or, in this case, correct to bitch about... but it's just complaining for the sake of complaining.

It's not the anti-nintendo... I'm very pro-nintendo, always have been. I'm a Dreamcast fanboy if anything followed by Indie fanboy. Nintendo fanboy is like 6th. It's the overall attitude at this point in time. It's just boring.

The only Virtual Console game I will buy is Mario Kart 64 (for the multiplayer). I might pick up some others, but multiplayer is really the only reason for me to get any VC games since I can play the rest on emulator. Its easier to get people to crowd around my TV to play games than it is to get them to crowd around my computer (although I've done this with 4 Dual Shock 2's and controller converters on MK64, fun stuff).

I just choose it because it looks cool, it's soccer, and it's japanese.

I rarely see soccer on TV. If it is, it's usually like Leeds vs. [random EPF team]. I just have to wait every four years for the world cup.

Man, I <3 the Virtual Console!

Emulators, Emulators, Roms, Roms.

Arroz.

>Do people have forgotten about emulators from 4 - 5 years >ago?? NESticle (and the sack icon) anyone?

Nope, I just like playing games on my TV, not a computer, and with a controller, not a keyboard. And I like the games to work. Which is hit and miss with emulators and bad ROM dumps that occur.

>Before people here begin to tell they dont condone piracy n >shit let me tell you that there is a law that ALLOWS >emulators if the hardware to run them or the actual software >is out of production. So I havent seen a NES at my local >Woolworth therefor Im allowed.

What law is this? I've never seen or heard of such a law. In fact, there's a BIG law specifically to protect such things. The concept of fair use doesn't get to apply anymore because of the DMCA. Any effort to circumvent copy protection on a game is deemed illegal if the circumvention method is not directly provided to YOU by the copyright owner. So ROM dumping software and hardware is illegal. And so long as Nintendo or whoever holds patents on their technology, it will remain illegal to copy it.

>but there is no god in heaven or hell that will make me pay >$5 for a Nintendo game unless they AT LEAST have new >graphics or something... Those are games that you will play

Then freakin' DON'T! No one holds a gun to your head to make you do it. Do what EA has said about microtransactions, vote with your wallet. My money goes to buying a copy of SMB on the VC because it looks amazing at 480p on a 60" TV. Same with Super Castlevania and R-Type, or any other game I've bought on the VC.

>missing the hype somewhere? Will I be allowed to play Contra >online? Will the 30 live code still be the same? Will >Castlevania 2 still be buggy as hell? I bet my right kidney >that Nintendo just donwloaded their own roms and they are >just redistributing them again for a fee.

Nintendo's already said they aren't updating the games. If such and such was buggy then, it'll be buggy still. I've seen the same slowdown in 4-3 (The spinning room, one after the Mode 7 room) on Super Castlevania that I've seen in the past. I don't care. Hasn't ever made the game suck any less, just is what it is. Graphical issues aside, none of the games getting released are going to be any better than they were in the past, so if you hated a game for one reason or another, it's not going to be any better now than it was in the past, so you might as well skip it and not buy it.

And you'd be just about completely right. Other than the 480p support, nothing's different in any of the games I've played (and continued to play beyond your "15 minutes". )

I could care less about the week by week release schedule of the VC, so long as I know that quality is coming. We can bitch about Urban Champion and Baseball all we want, but we knew it was coming. We know that there's more shitty games coming as well. At least there's nothing unplayable coming. I mean, what the hell would we do if Gyromite and Stack Up got released and THAT was it for the week. What the hell do you do there? I'm probably one of a few hundred people who has an actual complete ROB ready to go, but I still have no way to work it without a functioning 2P NES pad.

I'm wondering when Duck Hunt and Hogan's Alley are coming. I might buy both of those out of morbid curiosity on how they'll get light gun games to work without the technology of the light gun, the inaccuracy of the Wii-mote and aiming, and no cursor. I mean, I KNOW they'll use all of those, but to maintain the "we aren't changing the games" bit, we'd need a light gun, and we'd need a workaround for outdated technology that made light gun games work. If it works as expected, I want Gumshoe.

Soldier Blade FTW

I demand good more VC games!

I think dvddesign is a Nintendo plant.

the music in kage is the bomb. YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA (that was not random - note exact amount of chorus ya's)

Japan always gets the love from nintendo, lucky bastards

As I recall, you go through four stages, save the princess, she gets kidnapped AGAIN, and you play through the same stages only this time it's a different season. It's a port of an 80's arcade game, hence the repetitivness. It's one of those love it or hate it titles, definitely.

And apparently it did have an ending! I'd usually die somewhere in the Winter stages though, so I never beat it myself.

"And apparently it did have an ending"

Yeah, I think I remember that. And after the "however!", it just dumped you back at the beginning again, like it wasn't really over. But unlike SMB that changed after you beat it, this was just more of the same.

You can place me squarely in the "hated it" category. :)

However, I would certainly try it again and see how it plays for me now. I have come back to several games that I disliked at first and learned to really like them, like CoD3 on the Wii.