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- neoian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+43The prices are probably just like that on all unreleased games.
- Guard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39... You use the D-Pad and 1 and 2 buttons.
Like any other NES game. - stuartcow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29I thought when this was posted before we decided that the $0.00 for the price was a placeholder...
http://digg.com/gaming_news/Nintendo_Suprising_us_with_a_VC_game_on_Christmas - sandpaperback, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Ahhh... rumor and conjecture! What would Digg be without it?
I'll take it though. Dugg. - Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24yeah, stop shaking the virtual gifts!
- NV0U, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Exactly. All games are 0 points until they are ready to show up in the store.
- mywhitenoise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Plenty of other, more reputable sites, have already debunked this rumor. Don't get your hopes up. The ammount of money they could get for Super Mario Bros. alone, is worth more than the positive PR.
- MCHampster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12And how does one hold a verb exactly?
- Slungsolow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I'm conflicted on digging this.
I think you're right, I think that the prices are just placeholders or are meant to make it easier for beta testers.
At the same time, I can wish, hope and dream that I'll be able to get them for free on christmas morning.
A diggers nightmare I guess. - kd7onc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7RTFA :
(Use Firefox and change your user agent to "Opera/9.00 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1038-58; Wii Shop Channel/1.0; en)" or you'll be redirected to wii.com) - ThrasherC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I am soooo ready for Toejam and Earl. Hell, I'd pay the N64 price in Wii Points just to get my hands on that game.
- n8r0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I wish there was some way for those like me who own original carts to be able to download the VC games for free, providing we can prove that we own them.
- JohnH, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6False! They gave away Dragon Warrior once as an incentive to subscribe to Nintendo Power.
- Laxaloot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hi. correct me if I'm wrong.. but they aren't innovative? Aren't they the ones who first had the Rumble Pak? Aren't they also the ones to first have a "successful" thumb stick? And the cart. thing? That just shows how they aren't some other company. CD: costs them 3 cents to make, sell for 50. Cart: cost like 30 bucks to make, sell for 50. CD:good sound, horrible load times, needs external memory. Cart: sound that was good enuf for its time, almost instant loads, and saves on itself.
- gweedo767, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@wounded625: You wouldn't have gotten the history of the original Playstation more wrong. Sony and Nintendo were going to build a disc add-on for the SNES (called the Super Disc) but then they decided they wanted to build a system that had a CD drive as well as a SNES cart port, the problem for Nintendo was that Sony would be the sole licenser of this new tech and wouldn't give Nintendo a penny. Nintendo then formed a deal with Philips (which never produced anything except for three crappy Zelda games for the CD-i) to piss on Sony. Sony then decided to ditch the SNES parts and just build the Playstation as we know it now.
Source: http://psx.ign.com/articles/060/060188p1.html - Staticreator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah. Because Animal Crossing didn't cost anything.
I bought this compliation of Megaman games once, came with like 10 free Megaman games. - taraba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yup! It's just unreleased
Urban Champion
http://oss.shop.wii.com/oss/common/vc/B_05.jsp?order=new&language=en&country=US&titleId=0001000146414E45
Baseball
http://oss.shop.wii.com/oss/common/vc/B_05.jsp?order=new&language=en&country=US&titleId=0001000146414C45
(You'll need to modify firefox to actually follow the link) - energizerrabbit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It has been said many times that the Wii Virtual Console games that are unreleased, are all marked as "free" untill they are released. The "free" is just a price place-holder. Don't get your hopes up, it wont happen.
- emrikol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For the curious...
http://emrikol.googlepages.com/home
I tried to download them last night, and it won't allow you to. Perhaps there needs to be a price for a virtual console game for it to be purchased? - MagicBobert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"nor do they care about innovating the industry"
Yeah I agree, the Wiimote wasn't innovative or anything... EVERYONE'S done that one before... - MaxPowers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Brings up an interesting question... Who would pay for an outdated version of baseball? Gamestop wont even sell used sports games.... They're free
- yodandy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4i digg, but i'd rather have been surprised, thanks for spoiling it...
- shelle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm almost certain this won't be true. Wouldn't it be great if they gave us Christmas Nights for a surprise? Hell, I'd even pay for that.
- shifty2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i could go for some old school Side-scrolling R-type action
- bookishboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You're right, they did make a lot of ass decisions, which cost them quite a bit of market share from the mid-nineties onwards. I'd suggest that the GameCube was one of the last big products of the Yamauchi era, and the company does seem to have taken a big turn back in the right direction.
I give them a lot of credit for taking the "path less travelled" with their new system. Two of the biggest mis-steps that I think they'll have to correct, though are:
1. Virtual Console games are too expensive. They are in competition with free ROMs of the same exact games, and need to be priced so low that people wouldn't hesitate to buy them. They're also games that aren't making any money except on the secondary market (so, no money at all for their creators/owners), so *any* legitimate income made from them is gravy, relatively speaking.
2. Friend codes. They've got to go. Nintendo's system of online gameplay will reduce it to a distant third, behind Microsoft (who's thriving online) and even Sony, who's just getting going. It's just too much of a PITA to enter 16-digit codes without even a keyboard to help. If they're worried about protecting their "family-friendly" image and avoiding lawsuits resulting from the activities of online predators, they need to do something else. I'm thinking about a registration card which goes along with every system. Either the system doesn't get sold to children at all, or the registration card gets kept at the store until an adult comes to pick it up. The registration card walks the adult through the online registration, and allows the adult to set a variety of friend options....
-The user of this system may add any friends they like.
-All friends-list additions are subject to my approval (and password)
-The user of this system may not add people to their friends list.
It would even be possible to have different user-accounts on the system, like "admin" "power user" "guest" on a computer. - lordkosc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It would be nice if I could actually find a Wii at Retail Price in stock..... :(
- esaks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This kind of sucks for me because I will be visiting my folks for Christmas and won't be able to download these games on the 25th.
- Qliphah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2But being released for a single day (to a limited audience) would be great PR. But then I don't care... 4 weeks of hunting still hasn't gotten me any closer to owning one unless I want to gamble on ebay.
- doshindude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4inaccurate.
all unreleased VC games are shown as free if you view their pages in a web browser. - MeekoTheRaccoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I tend to agree, that "free" is a place holder.
However, If "Super Mario Brothers" is free, I would not be a bit surprised.
1.Power-grab move by Nintendo. Perfect move to quell post-purchase dissonance on the Wii.
2.What other game for NES would they give away free, and still 'beat' Nintendo in our head?
But,
I doubt NES will give an inch, when they are making huge gains already. - ToolShedd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"that is the one and only time Nintendo has ever given away games."
When I subscribed to Nintendo Power in February 2004 I received a Gamecube disk with fully playable emulated versions of Legend of Zelda, Zelda II, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask free... - trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Isn't there some kind of way to get the Wii to go to these web pages? Like a packet sniffer that let's your Wii think its going to for example, Zelda, but you hack it so it returns another address. I know the DNS trick doesn't work anymore but would this be possible with ARP?
Last night I was able to get my Wii's connection to the store to go through my laptop first and then go to the router with Cain and Able. I haven't been able to figure out though how to filter the HTTP packets so it actually sends another GET message to the server. - plague, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No one will go on a tirade, we'll just bury your useless comment.
- bookishboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Don't digg this guy down. This is in response to a previous Digg, where someone figured out how to view the VC catalog from a regular computer.
ALL UNRELEASED GAMES SHOWED UP AS "0 POINTS - FREE".
This doesn't mean that they're actually free, it just means that the prices haven't been set yet. Like when someone stumbles upon a $0.01 new laptop listed on Staples.com. - dantidote, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2hell yes
- hihyooka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1On one of the earlier articles when they first found out about viewing VC games in your browser, didn't someone note that even games that are already released show up as free?
- mbthompson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That would be so sweeeet if they gave them out for free. Will they? Not sure, but that would be sweeeeet.
- Staticreator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I also got a Ocarina of Time: Master Quest disc for free when I preordered Wind Wak-
Okay, now I just feel bad for prax. - prax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Animal Crossing included a bunch of free NES games, but that is the one and only time Nintendo has ever given away games.
- totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2definitely looking forward to ToeJam and Earl.
- orb_nsc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Earl is a weener
- gelicia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2yeah i came here to say the same thing... i love that game :D
- szembek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1***** that, he could of just put up some screenshots.
- mustbepatient, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It wouldn't be just PR, it would be getting almost all their users into the VC experience, driving future sales.
- BigJon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1http://www.gaminglagoon.com/?ref=13791
- cube5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The person who discovered this clearly explained in his post that the FREE button is just a place-holder until the game goes live on the network. But it would be awesome to have some free wii VC games!
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think Nintendo's decision to stay with cartridges a bit longer had more to do with manufacturing control and copy protection then anything.
- finbec, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1JohnH is absolutely correct. I remember the day I got my Dragon Warrior. That is still one of my favorite games to this day!
The only reason I'm mentioning this was because for some reason he was getting Dugg down. Dugg up for the fond memories. - craziestmule, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1im about to go whip out my genesis!
- Lazybones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You say that now, but many of those classic games are not as good as you remember when you plan them now.
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