Worldwide Virtual Console Center
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InfinityDragon
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Well, true, it's nice to get four games in a week, but you have to consider the fact that we only got five VC games this month, while Europe got more than twice as many (and they still have one week left), and I think we got approximately the same number of Wiiware game. So, quantity-wise, it should have been better for our VC.OddCrazyMe said:
InfinityDragon
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UPDATE: Four games released in Japan:
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Well, I just had to say last week that I thought that the MSX would be postponed, so that Nintendo would release it this month. By the way, I honestly don't think that we'll be seeing Bionic Commando next month.
So, finally, after a year since it was announced, the MSX is added to Japan's VC. The first game they're getting is Aleste, a shooter developed by Compile (who also developed Zanac). Eggy, which was the other MSX announced for the month did get postponed, with no new release date set as of today.
Although Japan is getting a new system, the highlight of the week is for the Super Famicom: Ganbare Goemon 2. I still don't know why it wasn't released here, as it looks as fun as the first one was. Fire Pro Wrestling: 2nd Bout is part of a long-running wrestling series, but most of its games haven't been released outside of Japan. And last, Ninja Combat is an early beat'em up for the Neo Geo (released before Burning Fight).
- Ganbare Goemon 2: Kiteretsu Shougun Magginesu (Super Famicom)
- Fire Pro Wrestling: 2nd Bout (PC Engine)
- Ninja Combat (Neo Geo)
- Aleste (MSX)
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Well, I just had to say last week that I thought that the MSX would be postponed, so that Nintendo would release it this month. By the way, I honestly don't think that we'll be seeing Bionic Commando next month.
So, finally, after a year since it was announced, the MSX is added to Japan's VC. The first game they're getting is Aleste, a shooter developed by Compile (who also developed Zanac). Eggy, which was the other MSX announced for the month did get postponed, with no new release date set as of today.
Although Japan is getting a new system, the highlight of the week is for the Super Famicom: Ganbare Goemon 2. I still don't know why it wasn't released here, as it looks as fun as the first one was. Fire Pro Wrestling: 2nd Bout is part of a long-running wrestling series, but most of its games haven't been released outside of Japan. And last, Ninja Combat is an early beat'em up for the Neo Geo (released before Burning Fight).
InfinityDragon
Senior Member
UPDATE: Three games released in Europe and Australia:
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The last set of releases for the month is here and NOE has avoided a third-party sweep by releasing Pokemon Puzzle League for the Nintendo 64. What we haven't gotten though are the two Neo Geo games also released today in Europe and Australia. The first one is Burning Fight, a beat'em up which Japan got earlier this month, and the second one is none other than Samurai Shodown, a game that Japan got more than six months ago (in the first set of Neo Geo releases) and that for some reason had been avoiding a release on this side of the world.
A great week to close an amazing VC month for Europe and Australia.
- Pokemon Puzzle League (Nintendo 64)
- Burning Fight (Neo Geo)
- Samurai Shodown (Neo Geo)
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The last set of releases for the month is here and NOE has avoided a third-party sweep by releasing Pokemon Puzzle League for the Nintendo 64. What we haven't gotten though are the two Neo Geo games also released today in Europe and Australia. The first one is Burning Fight, a beat'em up which Japan got earlier this month, and the second one is none other than Samurai Shodown, a game that Japan got more than six months ago (in the first set of Neo Geo releases) and that for some reason had been avoiding a release on this side of the world.
A great week to close an amazing VC month for Europe and Australia.
InfinityDragon
Senior Member
UPDATE: Japan's VC schedule has been released:
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14 games have been announced for next month in Japan, but I'm pretty sure that most people don't care about this; most people are only paying attention to the sole Super Famicom game that was announced. That's right, after all the speculation, after all the theories, Nintendo has finally announced that Super Mario RPG is coming to the VC.
Japan will also be getting more RPG love with the release of the last Phantasy Star game in the series (wow, it only took them six months to release all the Mega Drive games); now, they just need to get the first one on the VC so that we can have the whole series on the VC.
The number of PC Engine games that Hudson continues to put on Japan's VC makes me wonder why we haven't gotten a single game since February. Europe just got six games in May, as part of the Hanabi Festival, so I'm fully expecting to get a bunch of TG games in the next couple of months. Hudson didn't update their website though, but given the way that they handled the Hanabi Festival, this is not an indication that we won't see any TG games next month.
As a side note, Eggy, the MSX that was supposed to come out along with Aleste in May, has been postponed with no release date defined.
- Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom)
- Transformer: Convoy no Nazo (Famicom)
- Nekketsu Koukou Dodgeball-bu [Super Dodge Ball] (Famicom)
- Yoshi no Cookie [Yoshi's Cookie] (Famicom)
- Super Mario RPG (Super Famicom)
- Ashura (Sega Master System)
- Phantasy Star: Sennenki no Owari ni [Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium] (Sega Mega Drive)
- Power Tennis (PC Engine)
- Paranoia [Psychosis] (PC Engine)
- Blazing Lazers (PC Engine)
- Wings of Thunder [Lords of Thunder] (PC Engine CD)
- Kings of the Monsters (Neo Geo)
- Ninja Commando (Neo Geo)
- Ryuuko no Ken 2 [Art of Fighting 2] (Neo Geo)
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14 games have been announced for next month in Japan, but I'm pretty sure that most people don't care about this; most people are only paying attention to the sole Super Famicom game that was announced. That's right, after all the speculation, after all the theories, Nintendo has finally announced that Super Mario RPG is coming to the VC.
Japan will also be getting more RPG love with the release of the last Phantasy Star game in the series (wow, it only took them six months to release all the Mega Drive games); now, they just need to get the first one on the VC so that we can have the whole series on the VC.
The number of PC Engine games that Hudson continues to put on Japan's VC makes me wonder why we haven't gotten a single game since February. Europe just got six games in May, as part of the Hanabi Festival, so I'm fully expecting to get a bunch of TG games in the next couple of months. Hudson didn't update their website though, but given the way that they handled the Hanabi Festival, this is not an indication that we won't see any TG games next month.
As a side note, Eggy, the MSX that was supposed to come out along with Aleste in May, has been postponed with no release date defined.
InfinityDragon
Senior Member
UPDATE: Four games announced for next week in Japan:
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Japan is getting four games to start its VC month. The first game is Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa, a weird Konami game that was expected to be released here, but Howard Lincoln decided not to because the game wasn't good enough for us (according to him). Given the fact that the game was recently rated by the ESRB, we will finally see its release here after all this years.
The second game is Ashura, for the Master System. The game looks really similar to Ikari Warriors. The third game for next week is Power Tennis, part of the Hudson's Power sports series. And the last game is Kings of the Monsters, a fighting game were you control monsters that could have come out of tokusatsu movies (think Godzilla).
- Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom)
- Ashura (Sega Master System)
- Power Tennis (PC Engine)
- Kings of the Monsters (Neo Geo)
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Japan is getting four games to start its VC month. The first game is Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa, a weird Konami game that was expected to be released here, but Howard Lincoln decided not to because the game wasn't good enough for us (according to him). Given the fact that the game was recently rated by the ESRB, we will finally see its release here after all this years.
The second game is Ashura, for the Master System. The game looks really similar to Ikari Warriors. The third game for next week is Power Tennis, part of the Hudson's Power sports series. And the last game is Kings of the Monsters, a fighting game were you control monsters that could have come out of tokusatsu movies (think Godzilla).
InfinityDragon
Senior Member
UPDATE: One VC game released today:
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Well, NOA was lazy this week and didn't bother to put a press release today on their website, so we had to go to VC Reviews to see what we were going to get. Unfortunately, the trend of getting one VC game a week continues with the sole release of Ninja Combat, a beat'em up for the Neo Geo, which was just released in Japan about a week ago. Why did NOA skip Samurai Shodown (again) and Burning Fight? I have no idea. I hope this doesn't mean that they're going to skip them altogether.
- Ninja Combat (Neo Geo)
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Well, NOA was lazy this week and didn't bother to put a press release today on their website, so we had to go to VC Reviews to see what we were going to get. Unfortunately, the trend of getting one VC game a week continues with the sole release of Ninja Combat, a beat'em up for the Neo Geo, which was just released in Japan about a week ago. Why did NOA skip Samurai Shodown (again) and Burning Fight? I have no idea. I hope this doesn't mean that they're going to skip them altogether.
InfinityDragon
Senior Member
UPDATE: Four games released in Japan:
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Japan got the four games announced last Friday. They got a little bit of everything today: a platformer (Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa), a shooter (Ashura), a tennis game (Power Tennis) and a fighter (King of the Monsters).
Something I hadn't noticed before is that Ashura was actually released over here as Rambo First Blood: Part II. The game is pretty much the same, with a different title screen and a different sprite for the main character.
- Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom)
- Ashura (Sega Master System)
- Power Tennis (PC Engine)
- King of the Monsters (Neo Geo)
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Japan got the four games announced last Friday. They got a little bit of everything today: a platformer (Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa), a shooter (Ashura), a tennis game (Power Tennis) and a fighter (King of the Monsters).
Something I hadn't noticed before is that Ashura was actually released over here as Rambo First Blood: Part II. The game is pretty much the same, with a different title screen and a different sprite for the main character.
InfinityDragon
Senior Member
Well, there hasn't been any NA confirmation for either EB or SMRPG, but there is a good chance they will make it here.Kyle said:
InfinityDragon
Senior Member
UPDATE: Three games announced for next week in Japan, two games released in South Korea, and zero games released in Europe and Australia:
Japan:
South Korea:
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Catch up time for Japan next week, getting two out of three games that we've already gotten. The two games we already enjoy are Yoshi's Cookie, which was released in April here, and Wings of Thunder (known here as Lords of Thunder), one of the last TurboGrafx games released here back in February. The third game for Japan is one I don't really want to see released here: Transformers: Convoy no Nazo. It simply looks awful.
South Korea got two classics today: Bubble Bobble and Zelda: A Link to the Past. I'm guessing they will be getting another set of games later in the month given how early they got these this month.
And last for today, Nintendo screwed up Europe and Australia by not giving them any VC games this week, for no reason at all. They got only one Wiiware game: Actionloop Twist.
Japan:
- Transformer: Convoy no Nazo (Famicom)
- Yoshi no Cookie [Yoshi's Cookie] (Famicom)
- Wings of Thunder [Lords of Thunder] (PC Engine CD)
South Korea:
- Bubble Bobble (Famicom)
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Super Famicom)
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Catch up time for Japan next week, getting two out of three games that we've already gotten. The two games we already enjoy are Yoshi's Cookie, which was released in April here, and Wings of Thunder (known here as Lords of Thunder), one of the last TurboGrafx games released here back in February. The third game for Japan is one I don't really want to see released here: Transformers: Convoy no Nazo. It simply looks awful.
South Korea got two classics today: Bubble Bobble and Zelda: A Link to the Past. I'm guessing they will be getting another set of games later in the month given how early they got these this month.
And last for today, Nintendo screwed up Europe and Australia by not giving them any VC games this week, for no reason at all. They got only one Wiiware game: Actionloop Twist.
Snoopdogga
Senior Member
It got ESRB rated.Bulerias said:
Dude, I know. But it's not getting released.Snoopdogga said:It got ESRB rated.Bulerias said:
Yep, you heard it here first. Earthbound is not hitting the Virtual Console unless a miracle happens. I can't reveal how I know this, but... just trust me on this one.
Why can't you?Bulerias said:Dude, I know. But it's not getting released.Snoopdogga said:It got ESRB rated.Bulerias said:
Yep, you heard it here first. Earthbound is not hitting the Virtual Console unless a miracle happens. I can't reveal how I know this, but... just trust me on this one.
Theres been fan support recently for VC launch, but you already know Im geussing. -coughstarmen.netcough-
Because I'd pretty much be breaking NDA, that's why. It's not coming anytime soon, if ever. There are certain legal hoops involved.Kyle said:Why can't you?Bulerias said:Dude, I know. But it's not getting released.Snoopdogga said:It got ESRB rated.Bulerias said:
Yep, you heard it here first. Earthbound is not hitting the Virtual Console unless a miracle happens. I can't reveal how I know this, but... just trust me on this one.
Theres been fan support recently for VC launch, but you already know Im geussing. -coughstarmen.netcough-
InfinityDragon
Senior Member
Bulerias said:Because I'd pretty much be breaking NDA, that's why. It's not coming anytime soon, if ever. There are certain legal hoops involved.Kyle said:Why can't you?Bulerias said:Dude, I know. But it's not getting released.Snoopdogga said:It got ESRB rated.Bulerias said:
Yep, you heard it here first. Earthbound is not hitting the Virtual Console unless a miracle happens. I can't reveal how I know this, but... just trust me on this one.
Theres been fan support recently for VC launch, but you already know Im geussing. -coughstarmen.netcough-
So you got confirmation from your rep, Bul? Well that sucks for the people that were hoping the game would be released soon. Heck, I feel sorry for all of us that now have to endure all of the whining (Note to Kyle: I'm not talking about you, Kyle, just in case, but of fans on other forums that are really annoying when talking about this topic).
I think giving the game to the ESRB to get a rating and not planning to release the game in the near future is a low blow by NOA. It almost feels like they're making fun of their fans.
It wasn't my rep, no... but it was from someone who works with the Virtual Console and knows the process for putting games up. Basically, he said there were some legal troubles involved with EB, and the only reason it was rated was to 'get that over with' in case they clear up the legal stuff.
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