Wii Virtual Console Genesis list

bluecrabfive wrote:
> > So the Wii Virtual Console Genesis list will ultimately be all Sega-made or
> > Sega-produced Genesis games with no hope of third party Genesis games?
>
> Hmm, well since this is emulation I don't see why not but from the
> pricing scheme being based on the "generation" of the game, ie NES
> (cheapest), SNES (more expensive than NES), N64 (most expensive) I
> don't see any reason why games from other consoles being 32-bit or less
> can't or won't be done.

This brings up another area of gripe for me. Judging from the current
console's storage space, none of them are really designed for
downloading games with original redbook audio and playing them. Sure,
the audio files could be compressed and they could write something that
would let them play while compressed, but we'd still be looking at
anywhere from 40MB all the way up to 200MB. Size issues aside, I doubt
that the companies would bother to figure out any kind of universal way
to compress the games' audio in order to make the library theoretically
available for download.

If they're too lazy to consider the incredible stupidity of allowing
infinite continues on an arcade game with respawning (rather than
restarting a segment), they they're too lazy to mess with notoriously
wasteful CD-ROM games.

> > Will this also turn out to be a similar issue for Nintendo's own
> > back-catalog of their older consoles' games (i.e., only Nintendo-made or
> > Nintendo-produced games)?
>
> I would imagine that a great deal of content will be Nintendo's own
> backcatalog of games and rightfully so. It should be a certainty that
> titles from at least the big third parties like Konami, Capcom, etc,
> won't have a fair amount of games available eventually. It will be
> interesting to see if they release any titles from lesser known and/or
> defunct publishers, say a Vic Tokai or Sunsoft for example.

Companies that are already preparing downloadable content for the 360
will make it for the Wii as well. Unless the userbase shifts heavily
to only one of the new consoles the companies won't bother to support
the unique demographics of each unless it's going to cost them money.

bluecrabfive wrote:
> > So the Wii Virtual Console Genesis list will ultimately be all Sega-made or
> > Sega-produced Genesis games with no hope of third party Genesis games?
>
> Hmm, well since this is emulation I don't see why not but from the
> pricing scheme being based on the "generation" of the game, ie NES
> (cheapest), SNES (more expensive than NES), N64 (most expensive) I
> don't see any reason why games from other consoles being 32-bit or less
> can't or won't be done.

This brings up another area of gripe for me. Judging from the current
console's storage space, none of them are really designed for
downloading games with original redbook audio and playing them. Sure,
the audio files could be compressed and they could write something that
would let them play while compressed, but we'd still be looking at
anywhere from 40MB all the way up to 200MB. Size issues aside, I doubt
that the companies would bother to figure out any kind of universal way
to compress the games' audio in order to make the library theoretically
available for download.

If they're too lazy to consider the incredible stupidity of allowing
infinite continues on an arcade game with respawning (rather than
restarting a segment), they they're too lazy to mess with notoriously
wasteful CD-ROM games.

> > Will this also turn out to be a similar issue for Nintendo's own
> > back-catalog of their older consoles' games (i.e., only Nintendo-made or
> > Nintendo-produced games)?
>
> I would imagine that a great deal of content will be Nintendo's own
> backcatalog of games and rightfully so. It should be a certainty that
> titles from at least the big third parties like Konami, Capcom, etc,
> won't have a fair amount of games available eventually. It will be
> interesting to see if they release any titles from lesser known and/or
> defunct publishers, say a Vic Tokai or Sunsoft for example.

Companies that are already preparing downloadable content for the 360
will make it for the Wii as well. Unless the userbase shifts heavily
to only one of the new consoles the companies won't bother to support
the unique demographics of each unless it's going to cost them money.