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Nintendo and Nvidia are teaming up to sell 1080p HD remasters of past GameCube and Wii hits like New Super Mario Bros. Wii, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Super Mario Galaxy, and Punch-Out!! For the Android-powered set-top box. So why should this give you hope for GameCube and Wii games on a hypothetical Switch Virtual Console? Well Nintendo has a history of slightly altering its existing plans for the touchy Chinese market with outside partners.

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Many of the games on Wii’s Virtual Console are from third-party publishers, so Nintendo just can’t unilaterally decide to make them available on other platforms like the Wii U and 3DS eShops or the new Switch, which doesn’t even have a proper Virtual Console yet and isn’t likely to for some time. Virtual Console Games. Experience some of the top titles from the NES™, Super NES™ and Game Boy™ Advance eras through the Virtual Console service.

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3DS Virtual Console (North America) [ ] [ ] Virtual Console showing Super Mario Land Official logo. The Virtual Console is a service for the similar to the on the, found on the Nintendo eShop. With it, players can download and games such as and onto their Nintendo 3DS. Other games will come from other portable systems like Sega's. Pricing will be in dollars (plus applicable tax) rather than points, where retailers will have $20 Nintendo 3DS cards available for those that want to purchase games and redeem on their eShop account. The service is scheduled to add new games every Thursday at noon ET/9am PT.

There are also special features available while playing Virtual Console games, such as viewing classic Game Boy titles with the traditional green screen or viewing them in an emulated border. A separate but related set of games are, which are remakes of classic titles that make use of the Nintendo 3DS's stereoscopic 3D capabilities. When asked if games were going to be available for download on the Virtual Console for the, Nintendo of America President told Kotaku that he couldn't answer, as he was unfamiliar with the platform. 'As a consumer, I have experience with every Nintendo platform and, I think every accessory, including the Superscope, with the exception of the Virtual Boy. So it's difficult for me to articulate a point of view back to our parent company [in Japan] why we absolutely have to have a Virtual Boy store'.

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Breath of Fire I and II are also available on the Wii Virtual Console, but both titles can also be purchased on the Wii U and 3DS eShops. Shining Force I and II are also seminal, classic, and beloved Strategy RPGs series available on the service, but both games are readily available on Steam. Super Mario RPG and Paper Mario are great Nintendo RPGs, but both are available on the Wii U eShop with enhanced features such as save state capability.

You can no longer buy content from the store, and any unspent Wii Points are now useless. That means some of Nintendo’s classic games are now, and this comes as the company intensifies its crackdown on ROM sites. After more than 12 years, it’s understandable that would want to sunset the Wii Shop Channel. After all, the Wii is now two generations out of date. The company also gave everyone warning last year that it planned to kill the feature, giving gamers time to spend their points. For the time being, you can still download the classic titles purchased in the virtual console. However, those titles will no longer work at some unannounced future date, and there’s no way to back them up.

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-Controllers used for TurboGrafX Virtual Console games I believe are largely similar to NES Virtual Console games, although that may depend on the game in question.

Along with the familiar gameplay, you’ll find new features like social media sharing and online leaderboards. It’s a bit like Xbox Game Room but more Japanese The series began in 2014 on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. But at launch back in March the Nintendo Switch got some legacy love with Nam-1975, The King of Fighters ‘98, Waku Waku 7, Metal Slug 3, World Heroes Perfect, and Shock Troopers. Shooters and fighting games mostly. In case you were wondering, our fightsticks didn’t seem to be compatible.

When asked if games were going to be available for download on the Virtual Console for the, Nintendo of America President told Kotaku that he couldn't answer, as he was unfamiliar with the platform. 'As a consumer, I have experience with every Nintendo platform and, I think every accessory, including the Superscope, with the exception of the Virtual Boy. So it's difficult for me to articulate a point of view back to our parent company [in Japan] why we absolutely have to have a Virtual Boy store'. Main articles:,,,, and System Europe Australia 70 50 49 49 13 4 20 31 29 29 7 3 (Nintendo 3DS Ambassadors only) 10 10 10 10 - - 22 16 16 16 - - 111 64 63 62 15 - ( only) 49 30 31 31 - - (Japan only) 4 - - - - - 24 22 22 22 - - Total 310 223 220 219 35 7 Storage [ ] Virtual Console games are saved on an SD card and are accessible through the Nintendo 3DS home menu. Game saves and save data [ ] The save feature for the Nintendo 3DS Virtual console service is similar to the Wii's. However, unlike the Wii's, the games can save a single 'restore point' that can be used as much as the player wants to but is replaced and overwritten if the player makes another one.

'There are currently no plans to bring classic games together under the Virtual Console banner as has been done on other Nintendo systems,' a Nintendo rep confirmed to CNET. 3:15 That doesn't mean the retro-portable dream is dead, though. (Do you really expect Nintendo to give up a veritable?) Instead, Nintendo is suggesting you get your retro fix through one of the company's other initiatives. They include: •, which includes 20 classic NES games with new online play modes and voice chat • The Nintendo eShop, where Nintendo and third parties can offer individual games online • Boxed collections of classic games, like Sega, Capcom and many others have been releasing for years now. The subscription service costs $4 per month, $8 for three months or $20 for a year. There's another option that Nintendo didn't mention, one that's both exciting and potentially frustrating for Switch owners. The company may continue to pump out mini game consoles full of classic games such as the and NES Classic.

The full list of confirmed NES games includes: • Balloon Fight • Donkey Kong • Dr. Mario • Ice Climber • The Legend of Zelda • Mario Bros. • Soccer • Super Mario Bros. • Super Mario Bros.

Within this press release, Nintendo stated that more than 4.7 million Virtual Console games had been downloaded, at a rate of more than 1,000 titles an hour. Support was added on September 18, 2007 for the Japanese Virtual Console, becoming the first addition to the list of consoles since the TurboGrafx-16 was added two days after the U.S.

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You can still access a virtual console on the newer Wii U, but there’s an unfortunate trend here. While the Wii virtual console features nearly 400 titles, the Wii U has 140 fewer. So, there are a lot of games for older systems that you can’t purchase at all right now. The Wii U won’t last forever, either. When it’s gone, the selection of classic games is even thinner. The Switch only supports about 30 classic games, all of which are locked behind the subscription Switch Online service. Nintendo has promised to add more, but it’s clearly not a priority.

Consequently, all progress is saved properly (since it was saved to the cartridge itself) but one of the features in Mario Kart 64 (saving ghosts for racing at a later date) will not work since that particular feature utilized the Controller Pak, and the option to copy data to the Controller Pak won't function in those games. Suspending play [ ] Like other emulation software, the Wii Virtual Console enables the user to suspend play of a game at any time. To do this, users simply return to the Wii main menu from the game. Two exceptions to this are the N64 and Neo Geo AES, titles which do not support this feature. The N64 will allow play to be halted by returning to the Wii Menu but will require the person to start from the title screen to continue playing. Note that suspending play enables the player to pause the game indefinitely but does not function as a 'save state' in that, once the game is resumed, the user will be able to pause play again (overwriting the suspend point) but will not be able to return to the previously suspended state.

Because of this, many games are difficult to play. All Neo Geo AES fighting games have very awkward control schemes and glitches when changed to GameCube controllers. Nintendo has acknowledged this issue but has not put any efforts towards fixing it on the Wii. Currently, all Wii U Virtual Console games support customizable button mappings. With the release of, it was revealed that TurboGrafx-16 games can support full five player games. Since a single Wii can only have four Wii Remotes and four GameCube controllers connected at the same time, a combination of the two are needed for five player games. The same issue is found in 5-8 player Commodore 64 games as well.

While are also available for download from the Wii U eShop, these are not designated as Virtual Console releases and lack Virtual Console features. The list is sorted by system and in the order in which they were added in for Wii U. To sort by other columns, click the corresponding icon in the header row. Contents • • • • • • • • • • Available titles [ ] The following is a list of the 311 games available on the for the in North America, sorted by system and in the order they were added in. To sort by other columns, click the corresponding icon in the header row. Nintendo Entertainment System [ ] These titles were originally released for use on the, which was launched in 1985. There are 94 games available to purchase.