Wii Virtual Console

[spoodie]

http://www.meanmachinesmag.co.uk/wii/

I've bought Super Star Soldier so far, not bad for an old shooter. Have you bought any?

Incidentally, Nintendo should soon allow redeeming your Nintendo Star Points towards Wii Points, not like for like I'm afraid but still a better use than wallpapers, etc.

[FatherJack]

Fucker still won't connect past my router, which is a pisser as it was a replacement for a router which worked fine, but didn't support my XBox. I have around 4000 stars, wonder how many points that will give me? The only ever worthwhile things on there were games for 5000+ stars.

[spoodie]

The only ever worthwhile things on there were games for 5000+ stars.

And if you had that many stars you'd probably already have all of Nintendo's 1st party games anyway.

[FatherJack]

Here http://wii.nintendo.com/virtualconsole_en.jsp is a list of announced titles, now I don't know that there's much there to get excited about, but it's only the first batch.

Apparently they are making the games resemble the originals as much as possible - so no multiplayer or Wii-mote upgrades, although the N64 rumble does not seem to be honoured. (The GameCube version of Ocarina of Time that came with Wind Waker did honour the rumble function)

Not sure what I would want though - apart from N64 titles like the two Zelda games, Perfect Dark and GoldenEye, there isn't a lot that hasn't been superceded. What I'd really like would be MegaCD, Saturn and Dreamcast games - but they had too much custom hardware to emulate well, and the games would be too big to download.

I'd definately go for games I was never able to play before, such as (correctly numbered) Final Fantasy, Lufia and SoulBlazer from the SNES, and Surging Aura and Warsong/Langrisser on the MegaDrive but I'd be surprised if these rarities turned up on it.