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Offline BlkPaladin

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VC games up early.
« on: December 24, 2006, 07:26:57 PM »
I thought this might be the case with the holiday and people at Akamai and Nintendo probally almost all off today they released the games early. I just download most of them. Enjoy.
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« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2006, 10:41:42 PM »
"This week's" games were up on Friday in Europe.
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« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2006, 02:34:31 AM »
So Super Mario Bros. Toe-Jam and Earl, Street Fighter II, Super Casltevania IV, and R-Type all availible already.

Wish I knew about that..
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« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2006, 02:40:21 AM »
Yup, I just noticed that too, I got SMB and SC4, and I'm already playing SMB lol.
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« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2006, 08:22:33 AM »
I did a mass purchase and got SMB, Toejam and Earl, Street Fighter II, and Castlevania IV.  

Oh man, I missed Toejam and Earl.  Such an awesome game.
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« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2006, 08:55:21 AM »
I bought Super Castlevania IV....on Ebay!
I like having the physical cart, the manual and the box (even though the box is in an average state...)
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RE:VC games up early.
« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2006, 10:14:37 AM »
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I bought Super Castlevania IV....on Ebay!
I like having the physical cart, the manual and the box (even though the box is in an average state...)

Haha, funny that you would wait until it is released on the Virtual Console to purchase the original cartridge, seeing as it has been availible for all these years.
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RE: VC games up early.
« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2006, 12:17:14 PM »
When will PAL regions get SMB? It's not like we have some special holiday they could be waiting for... how odd.
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« Reply #8 on: December 25, 2006, 12:20:08 PM »
I got Bomberman today. It's "old" (for the VC) but I love Bomberman and felt it would be a good first purchase. Leaves me with 1400 points (aka 2 more games). I'm not sure if I want to get Super Castlevania, Toejam and Earl or what!
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« Reply #9 on: December 25, 2006, 12:20:23 PM »
I couldn't possibly imagine buying yet ANOTHER version of SMB, considering I can play it on AC:GC (which still runs on the Wii) any time I want.

CV4, however, is tempting, seeing as how good the DS versions have been.

Street Fighter, however, can burn in hell.
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« Reply #10 on: December 25, 2006, 02:24:00 PM »
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I couldn't possibly imagine buying yet ANOTHER version of SMB, considering I can play it on AC:GC (which still runs on the Wii) any time I want.

CV4, however, is tempting, seeing as how good the DS versions have been.

Street Fighter, however, can burn in hell.


Yeah, but the thing is that the main appeal of the VC is that you can have ALL of these games on ONE console. You can easily access these games, you don't need extra software to run them, you don't need to jump through hoops and you are legally supporting your favorite games.

I agree that the prices of the NES games are too much (SNES and N64 games, however, I think are just fine), but you should give the VC a bit more credit.

Hell, my sister has been looking EVERYWHERE to get the GBA version of SMB to no success. The VC allows for people to experience games they loved but now can't find everywhere (and are either too lazy to download an emulator or don't want to play it on a computer).
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« Reply #11 on: December 25, 2006, 02:53:45 PM »
I'll be honest, if I really want to play SMB and I'm at university (my NES stays home) I'll get the rom. I figured I own the NES version and the Animal Crossing version so I can live with downloading a rom.
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« Reply #12 on: December 25, 2006, 03:04:30 PM »
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I'll be honest, if I really want to play SMB and I'm at university (my NES stays home) I'll get the rom. I figured I own the NES version and the Animal Crossing version so I can live with downloading a rom.


I really hope someone is able to make it so that you can dump all of your ROMs onto the Wii, kinda like how they do it for the GBA with the ROM cart (although it would totally defeat the purpose of the VC).
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« Reply #13 on: December 25, 2006, 04:09:32 PM »
If the Virtual Console games have copy protection, I believe the fabulous Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes circumventing that illegal. The area of legal game back-ups is very small since most game cartridges/discs have protection against it.

This is a little off-topic, though.  
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« Reply #14 on: December 25, 2006, 04:09:35 PM »
Stop the ROM talk now plz.  It's flirting with an 'against the rules' area.
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« Reply #15 on: December 25, 2006, 04:58:49 PM »
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Stop the ROM talk now plz.  It's flirting with an 'against the rules' area.


Which rules? The rules of the forums or the rules of ROMs?
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« Reply #16 on: December 25, 2006, 07:39:56 PM »
Forum rules. Not supposed to be endorsing that kind of thing.

But a dumper will NEVER exist because the whole point of the VC is selling tiny bits of bandwidth at ankle-grabbin' prices.

I sell bandwidth for a living and I can tell you that Nintendo could sell SMB for 50¢ and still be making over 100% profit on the sale, and if you doubt me on that, remember that Apple sells songs for 99¢ which often range from 3-5MBs and yet they somehow still turn a profit and that includes making it worthwhile for the musician, the label AND Apple.

Since Nintendo already owns the rights to these games, it's pure profit for them.
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« Reply #17 on: December 26, 2006, 04:34:50 AM »
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Haha, funny that you would wait until it is released on the Virtual Console to purchase the original cartridge, seeing as it has been availible for all these years.

Actually, I bought it earlier this month and got it last week in the mail.
I've been wanting to buy it for a looong time and finally won it at a fair price (around $16.00).
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« Reply #18 on: December 27, 2006, 03:13:30 AM »
back when SF2 came out for SNES, my mom bought it for me for my birthday.  It was sooo popular that she had to buy it from some evil game store that jacked up the price to $120 cdn for it!  She paid so much for it back then I think I should be able to get the VC version for free
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