By all rights, our resident teddy bear Aaron Linde should be the one posting this story, as this tip came in last night and he quickly claimed it. Always the skeptic, I told him to hold off because we were uncertain of whether it was true, and as it turns out, it is.
Starting in April, Japanese members of Club Nintendo wil be able to trade their club points for for a new Wii controller that looks to be an exact replica of a Super Famicom controller. Now anyone who wasn't a fan of the Wii Classic Controller can keep it real with their Virtual Console games while the rest of us scour the internet in search of one for ourselves.
No plans have been announced to bring this to the rest of the world, (of course,) but that never stopped me or Niero from getting our hands on the best in gaming, and it shouldn't stop you, either. Although when these start hitting eBay, you will have to fight us for them.
[Via Gamebrink, thanks Jeremy!]
Contest:
4:00 PM on 11.16.2007
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Dammit why do the .jp kids get all the cool stuff?
I'd really like to have one of these for my Super NES VC games, but since Nintendo of America never feels generous I guess I'll just Ebay it. Hopefully a deluge of the Super Famicom Controllers will keep the price reasonable!
If not consider me unimpressed. I still have my GCN Hori controller that is basically the exact same thing, the only bitch I can lobby against it is that it only works through the GCN controller ports and most VC games are not "optimized" for the GCN controller, leading to some terrible button layouts...
I guess we got that Zelda stylus... That was kinda cool. Sorta.
http://www.ares04.com/
Just hope that if it comes to the US you don't get those ugly purple buttons. Blergh.
I FUCKING WANT THIS SO BAD.
HOLY SHIT THE WANT. IT HURTS MEEEEEEEEEE~
Seriously though, SNES controllers are like the next best thing!
"...the only bitch I can lobby against it is that it only works through the GCN controller ports and most VC games are not "optimized" for the GCN controller, leading to some terrible button layouts..."
That is one of the most ridiculous things about the VC. Why couldn't Nintendo have implemented a 'Control Customizer' for each game? Playing some games with the GC controller is way too difficult due to Nintendo's horrible preset layouts. I know that they are trying to push people to the Classic Controller, but the methods that they have employed thus far have been embarrassing!
Check out this adapter.
why would you want to play N64 games when obviously, the super nintendo was the greatest ever.
Well, I have Club Nintendo in the UK, but all you get is crap like ringtones and wallpapers. They promised us free Wii Points (but AS ALWAYS Japan gets it) and we haven't seen a single point for grabs.
Game and Watch collection for DS goes for loads of money on ebay, approximately GBP£40.25, but if they had sold it (online or something?) they could have made big $$. I don't think Nintendo thinks outside the box - that box being Japan.