Everyone can start digging into 32-bit fun next week!
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/36947/gba-wii-u-virtual-console-worldwide-line-ups-revealed
Starting next week, Wii U owners worldwide will be able to download Game Boy Advance Virtual Console games. Check below for the whole list of games coming to each region in April.
In Europe and North America, players can look forward to the following titles:
• Advance Wars (€6.99/£6.29/$7.99) - April 3
• Metroid Fusion (€6.99/£6.29/$7.99) - April 3
• Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (€6.99/£6.29/$7.99) - April 3
• WarioWare Inc.: Minigame Mania (€6.99/£6.29/$6.99) - April 10
• Kirby: The Amazing Mirror (€6.99/£6.29/$6.99) - April 10
• Golden Sun (€6.99/£6.29/$7.99) - April 17
• F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (€6.99/£6.29/$6.99) - April 17
• Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (€6.99/£6.29/$7.99) - April 24
Japan's line-up was announced during the February Nintendo Direct, but additional details have been revealed since. All the upcoming titles will set you back 702 yen and during a special launch period, you will able to purchase a secondary GBA VC game with a 30% discount. No similar deals have been announced for the western regions yet. Additionally, all the games will be single-player. The Japanese versions are confirmed to have the original manuals scanned in and these can be checked from inside the game. Just like all other Virtual Console titles, you will be able to create save states and map the controls as you please.
Unlike North America and Europe, the GBA games in Japan will be released in two seperate batches. One will be at the start of the month and the other at the end. As a reminder, here is Japan's line-up for the month of April:
April 2
• Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World (702 yen)
• Wario Ware Inc. (702 yen)
• Kirby and the Amazing Mirror (702 yen)
• Golden Sun (702 yen)
• F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (702 yen)
• Advance Wars 1 + 2 (702 yen)
April 30
• Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (702 yen)
• The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap (702 yen)
• Mario Tennis Advance (702 yen)
• Wario Land 4 (702 yen)
• Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land (702 yen)
• Metroid Fusion (702 yen)
Other titles, outside the ones listed here, are not mentioned or scheduled for the time being. When and if new titles for the service are announced, we will surely give you all the details.
OK, that's a good 1st month lineup. Now let's see if they drop the ball the following month like they usually do and we get a trickle of 1 game every 2-3 weeks. And by the way, Nintendo, more VC schedule releases, please. I like knowing just how pitiful the eShop's going to be ahead of time.
Good initial lineup. Still makes no sense that the 3DS doesn't have this since the ambassador program clearly demonstrates that they have a half decent GBA emulator for it. Not that I think they shouldn't be on the Wii U as well.
Personally, I think the must play library of the GBA is pretty small and I think there are only about 20 games on it I'd want to play or considering owning.If these are just going to be first-party titles then yeah, sounds about right. If there will be third-party titles released then there will be more than that.
Good initial lineup. Still makes no sense that the 3DS doesn't have this since the ambassador program clearly demonstrates that they have a half decent GBA emulator for it. Not that I think they shouldn't be on the Wii U as well.
Compared to the other emulators on the 3DS, let alone the WiiU, I would hardly call the Ambassador emulation of GBA games "half-decent". They don't even support sleep mode, for chrissakes.
I was actually expecting them to be $9 so it's good that they're $8 and $7.
I already have all of this first batch except for Golden Sun. I won't be buying anything, but I may get some if they are ever Club Nintendo rewards.Personally, I think the must play library of the GBA is pretty small and I think there are only about 20 games on it I'd want to play or considering owning.If these are just going to be first-party titles then yeah, sounds about right. If there will be third-party titles released then there will be more than that.
OK, that's a good 1st month lineup. Now let's see if they drop the ball the following month like they usually do and we get a trickle of 1 game every 2-3 weeks. And by the way, Nintendo, more VC schedule releases, please. I like knowing just how pitiful the eShop's going to be ahead of time.
OK, that's a good 1st month lineup. Now let's see if they drop the ball the following month like they usually do and we get a trickle of 1 game every 2-3 weeks. And by the way, Nintendo, more VC schedule releases, please. I like knowing just how pitiful the eShop's going to be ahead of time.
We all know there will be another VC drought.
"Please understand...."
NO!!! ROM dump the entire catalog, GBA, GB, NES, SNES, N64, and all the 3rd party systems you can get your hands on by the end of next year. VC is so far behind schedule it's ridiculous. You would think they had to remake each game to fit a custom emulator made specifically for each individual game.
Nintendo shouldn't have to make a custom emulator for each individual game. That takes too much effort. It would be much easier to do it the PC way, create a system-based emulator that can run the games properly and release all the games in one big chunk.
In Japan Advance Wars was ONLY released as part of comp with the sequel. The game was released on September 10, 2001 and you can probably all remember what happened the next day. Because of the war theme they delayed it in other regions and Japan didn't get it until the sequel was also ready.
While obviously I would like the games together if Japan gets that, in this case the singular ROM contains both games and it would be in Japanese. There is no translated version of a compilation of the two games together. We're getting the American version and they're getting the Japanese version and unfortunately for us the Japanese version groups the two games together. They could be nice and sell them at a 2-for-1 price to balance it out but I doubt Nintendo gave the VC that kind of flexibility in pricing and as annoying as it is they can rely on 99% of the potential buyers to be completely unaware that Japan gets both games for the price of one.
OK, that's a good 1st month lineup. Now let's see if they drop the ball the following month like they usually do and we get a trickle of 1 game every 2-3 weeks. And by the way, Nintendo, more VC schedule releases, please. I like knowing just how pitiful the eShop's going to be ahead of time.
We all know there will be another VC drought.
"Please understand...."
NO!!! ROM dump the entire catalog, GBA, GB, NES, SNES, N64, and all the 3rd party systems you can get your hands on by the end of next year. VC is so far behind schedule it's ridiculous. You would think they had to remake each game to fit a custom emulator made specifically for each individual game.
