[Wii] Virtual Console Rip-off

Originally Posted by Nukkus

And here I thought Nintendo was an honest company.

You mean they aren't honest by telling you straight out that you won't have your Virtual Console romsgames on a repaired machine?

Actually this doesn't make all that much sense. If Virtual Console games are exclusive to each Wii, how does that make for Wii trade value? That would mean "Wii + x Virtual Console games" auctions would be appearing on ebay.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by devilmaycry

I'm paying for this sandwich, but I don't own it, I simply paid for the previlege of eating it

I thought the process of buying games was pretty simple. You buy a game in th store, you legally own the case, manual, and cd. What you do with it is up to you, but you can't legally copy the information on the disc as stated in the EULA.

However when it comes to Virtual Console games, you're paying to download and use the game, not to sell it as it isn't a physical item (much like how you can't sell an xbox with x amount of games saved to a hard drive) and not claim it as your own material.

Doesn't the same shit apply to 360's marketplace?

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Originally Posted by ArrowHead

LMAO. Yeah, as if emulators on PC are perfect, let alone better than the original hardware.

SNES/Megadrive roms are usually perfect dumps of the originals.

I don't think this is a matter of free roms vs. paying for downloadable content. I think this is a matter of people like to pay for old games they can't get even if they're able to use roms. If I had a Wii, I'd purchase Virtual Console games.

Why? Because they have the classic controller, and because I already know what SNES and Megadrive games I want. Everything is entirely optional, and you don't even need to use the Virtual Console, much like you don't need to use the Xbox Live Marketplace.

If you don't like it, don't use it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by devilmaycry

How many user are registered is irrelevant, how many songs were downloaded is, iTunes sold so far 1,5 billion of songs, at average 5Mb per song it's 8Pb and took them 3 years to reach this number, meanwhile only god knows how many songs have been downloaded during these 3 years on the P2P networks. Anyway let's say they are even 'cause since P2P is decentralized no one really knows how much has been download, these 10Pb was a estimate of how much was available to download on all P2P networks in 2004 (or so they say).

Why do I feel as if comparing one downloading service to the P2P network which is accessible over various different clients, inaccurate?

Put it like this. Downloading licensed songs is illegal and is equal to stealing an item from a store. Purchasing the song is legal and is equal to buying an item from a store. Whether you like it or not, people will always prefer the guiltless option which happens to incorporate your next-generation console with all your old favorites, that are easily playable with the classic controller.

You would be surprised just how many people don't know about roms, and how to download games for free. Buying an old console and trying to hunt for an old SNES cartridge would be a chore, in comparison to downloading it on a newly released console that's easily accessible to your common joe.

Originally Posted by RABicle

Not only that but you're forbidden from using a knife and fork, instead you must use chopsticks to devour your turkey.

USB controllers are available for emulators, dude.

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Anyway, I just readed a article saying Wii outputs the VC games at 240p.

That's good news, because 2D games look like shit on 480p.

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Yeah I have one. It's terrible. The fucking dpad doesn't even work. Can you even imagine playing Snes games with a joystick? It's a sin.

Why would you play it with a joystick? I have a saturn controller for PC which works fine with all games (doujins, touhou series, SNES and Megadrive games) and I think there's even SNES controllers for PC. Not official or anything though.

I was speaking idiomatically.

This is true, there's problems with Majora's Mask in the Collector's Edition. It even says so before you begin the game that there's sound misplacement issues and that it isn't your console.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Prime Blue

Not only that - It also has serious framerate issues I don't remember existing in the N64 version (for example in front of the clock tower in South Clock Town). I seriously hope that they improved the Wii emulator.

And the movie which shows every Zelda game ever made, then the "Zelda Collector's Edition" logo, is fucking misleading. Why would they showcase all of the Zelda titles and not include them on a collectors edition?

Actually, I believe they were going to include A Link To The Past in Collector's Edition, but they were releasing a GBA version at the same time so they canned that idea.

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