Post by: Jonnyboy117 on February 15, 2007, 09:01:34 AM
Chris Kohler of Wired's Game|Life blog has extracted this juicy quote from George Harrison, senior vice-president at Nintendo of America:
We are aware that there are some very successful Japanese franchises that have a small following in the US, and that they could never be reached by putting these products out at retail. We're open to games released in Japan if we can get them translated properly.
Aside from cult classics like Mother (predecessor to Earthbound) and the original Fire Emblem games, many English-speaking Nintendo fans have long pined for Treasure's N64 shooter Sin & Punishment, which is already planned for release on the Japanese Virtual Console service. With the storyline already dubbed in English, could this be the first import-only game to get an official VC distribution in the West?
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Post by: Ian Sane on February 15, 2007, 09:23:39 AM
Post by: JonLeung on February 15, 2007, 10:06:00 AM
Then again, this really can't be bad news.
Post by: Nick DiMola on February 15, 2007, 10:11:44 AM
Post by: Strell on February 15, 2007, 10:18:28 AM
Until then stfu Nintendo, I can't take these mind games.
Post by: RollWithIt on February 15, 2007, 11:01:40 AM
Post by: King of Twitch on February 15, 2007, 11:45:10 AM
Post by: Dunnymeister on February 15, 2007, 01:11:32 PM
Post by: Djunknown on February 15, 2007, 01:20:26 PM
But the keyword is may. Until then, I'll just assume its just pie in the sky...
Mother 3=never happening
Post by: Bill Aurion on February 15, 2007, 01:48:40 PM
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Mother 3=never happening
I swear, Mother 3 is brought up just to make me cry! ;_;
Post by: Viewtiful mario on February 15, 2007, 03:21:34 PM
I want the old Fire Emblem games, you know the one that actually has Marth in it (Roy was in a GBA game so I'm not getting my hopes up).
I find this suprising considering it's the same nintendo that releases VC games without anything added (I don't mind that nothing's changed but lots of people seem to bitch about it) Could this mean they'll actually put effort into there VC games?!
I'm sorry but he name "Sin & Punishment" Just sounds so F*cken awsome.
Post by: Louieturkey on February 15, 2007, 03:51:46 PM
Post by: Jonnyboy117 on February 15, 2007, 04:24:26 PM
Post by: KDR_11k on February 15, 2007, 05:40:52 PM
Post by: WPack911 on February 15, 2007, 05:46:54 PM
-WPack911
Post by: Svevan on February 15, 2007, 07:07:30 PM
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on February 15, 2007, 08:00:22 PM
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I have my doubts that it'll ever happen considering that Nintendo's attitude about VC so far has been purism, to the point of no rumble or memory card features (can't mess with that code, it's too fragile). Translations of holy grail Jap-only titles? So far Nintendo has done zero advertising for new VC titles outside of weekly press releases - even I don't think they can maximize return on multiple translation efforts for fan-service giveaways. But I'm not going to stop hoping.
Taking out the power codes in Kid Icarus says different from this purism you are speaking of
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Post by: Svevan on February 15, 2007, 08:49:14 PM
Post by: q33 on February 15, 2007, 10:44:58 PM
Why is everybody so intent on the ghosts in Mario Kart? If you played the game back in the N64 days, you'd know that saving that data sucked royally. Not only did the data use up 121 of the possible 123 pages of the N64 memory card, but if the race took too long (or if you hit too many obstacles, or if you simply paused the game) you couldn't save the data anyway. Nintendo is saving you grief, people. Let the ghosts go.
Post by: Maximilian on February 16, 2007, 12:56:59 AM
I’m a Sin & Punishment freak. I think it’s easily one of the greatest N64 games and a masterpiece of gaming IMO. It’s really tragic it was never released here. Back in the PGC days, NOA was hinting it could be released (both on the record and off) and there was even mentions in Nintendo Power and a U.S. Sin & Punishment website that never went live. Then there’s also the fact it showed up on that survey for VC games that was circulating some time back. It’s only a matter of time, though part of me still thinks it’s too good to be true.
For those who have never played, it’s amazing, albeit short. Still, with all the difficulty levels (with significant changes in things like enemies & boss battles) and high speed modes, it’s still something I come back to play a lot. Every level is completely different and nuttier than the last and the storyline is very much like much anime where you don’t understand the parts until you get the whole picture.
For a good overview of S&P check out this thread on Neogaf
Post by: Ian Sane on February 16, 2007, 04:03:14 AM
Why the hell did they do that? I would think removing something from the game for no reason would take more work and thus cost Nintendo more money.
Post by: Pale on February 16, 2007, 04:39:09 AM
One hypothesis is that in order to get the passwords to work, something needed to be changed. Say ever single password in the game needed to be altered a little bit because of some weird issue. Then maybe they just didn't 'fix' the cheat one.
Could it be possible that this ROM happened to be sourced from something that wasn't quite what was put on the final game cart. Cheat codes like that usually get added to aid testers, so it probably was one of the last things to go in.
I dunno, I'm just throwing some incredibly vague ideas out there because the removal makes no sense to me either.
Post by: Bill Aurion on February 16, 2007, 05:41:02 AM
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Illusion of Gaia is better than Terranigma. But then, it's better than most games, so that's no knock to Terranigma. I'm just saying, the U.S. already has the best of that series.
Pfffff, Illusion of Gaia is tripe in comparison...Gotta love having to kill every enemy in an area to progress!
Post by: vherub on February 16, 2007, 07:25:49 AM
$10 for Tales of Phantasia is no problem. Even Terranigma, ye of little translations, I would pay for.
I'm off to shoot Nin a mesage about this (via Everybody votes)
Post by: Caliban on February 16, 2007, 10:22:57 AM
Post by: KDR_11k on February 16, 2007, 11:36:23 PM
Hell, I paid 20€ for that on the GBA!
