Virtual Console (Euro) Hanabi Japanese Three week Festival! OMG!

http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=11051

Today's Virtual Console update is something we've all been waiting for - some games that were never released outside Japan ever before.

Mario's Super Picross is Nintendo's second Picross game, and was never released outside of Japan due to poor sales of the Game Boy original. The basics of the game is the same as the recent Picross DS - best described as a "picture crossword" - and features two main level-based modes. Mario's levels have a countdown timer, when the clocks hit zero it's game over. Also, penalties are given for making mistakes. Wario's levels are the opposite - you aren't limited on time and there's no penalty for mistakes - the difficulty is gained because the game doesn't inform you of amy mistakes you make.

Mario's Super Picross is available for 900 Wii Points and contains some Japanese text. The game does not support 50Hz.

Two remakes of Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels have been released, but the original form has remained in Japan until now. The Lost Levels was known as Super Mario Bros. 2 in Japan, and the game was deemed too difficult for the western audience (Nintendo altered Doki Doki Panic into a Mario game for the western version of Super Mario Bros. 2). The remakes were easier than the original, so it's about time for us to see how hard it really is.

Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels is available for 600 Wii Points and will only be available during September. The game does not support 50Hz.

Also on the virtual console is Neutopia II, a TurboGrafx game with gameplay heavily inspired by The Legend of Zelda. It is available for 600 Wii Points

Also :)

Turbo CD Games Hit VC in October

Another system will be joining the expanding Virtual Console lineup later this year. Hudson announced today plans to begin distributing ****c Turbo Grafx CD and Turbo Duo titles on the platform starting this October. Titles will eventually reach all major territories, including Japan, North America, Europe and Australia.

Hudson plans on releasing more than five titles from the two platforms to the Virtual Console in 2007. 2008 will see more than ten titles. Japan's Impress Watch game site reports that the action-RPG Ys Book I & II and the shooter Chou Aniki will be among the games available for the service.

The company plans on charging a bit extra for the new content. Titles for both platforms will cost 800 Wii Points.

In case you weren't around during the 16-bit era, the TurboGrafx CD and and TurboDuo were two CD-ROM platforms from NEC. The original TurboGrafx CD-ROM peripheral gave NEC's TurboGrafx cartridge platform the ability to play CD-based games. The TurboDuo was an all-in-one update to this format, with greater buffer space for caching game data.

While the platforms failed to see much success in the western world, gamers in Japan made these first CD-ROM consoles a success.

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hanabi-festival for PAL Virtual console owners.

OH MY! SON OF A MOTHER ******** CRAPPING HELL OMG OMG OMFG SIN AND MOTHER ........ SON OF A ....... PUNISHMENT IS COMING IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS!

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This is the news I have been waiting for ! ! !

The potential for Japanese games coming over here is among the best news (VC-wise) I have heard all year ! ! !

Turbo-Duo games ALSO represent some of the BEST gaming of my youth ! ! !

Y's Book 1 and 2 actually made me C-R-Y because of the superb voice-acting in the ending ! ! ! It was one of the first RPGs to come to the US on CD to feature voice-acting and a dramatic script! Yes, it was THAT good ! ! !

Time to re-invigorate the Sleeper topic and add to it Duo and Japanese Games ! ! !

Whee-Hee-heeeeeee ! ! !

There were even ex-GameSpot editors whose last names begin with "K" that I used to reminisce about this game with!

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This is the news I have been waiting for ! ! !

The potential for Japanese games coming over here is among the best news (VC-wise) I have heard all year ! ! !

Turbo-Duo games ALSO represent some of the BEST gaming of my youth ! ! !

Y's Book 1 and 2 actually made me C-R-Y because of the superb voice-acting in the ending ! ! ! It was one of the first RPGs to come to the US on CD to feature voice-acting and a dramatic script! Yes, it was THAT good ! ! !

Time to re-invigorate the Sleeper topic and add to it Duo and Japanese Games ! ! !

Whee-Hee-heeeeeee ! ! !

There were even ex-GameSpot editors whose last names begin with "K" that I used to reminisce about this game with!

Phantom_Leo

Y's had quality storytelling (I still remember the line 'We will show you how wicked we demons can be' from a character with a booming Darth Vader like voice) but what really stood out for me was the music. I'm not a rock n' roll fan, but the music really worked for the game. I found the gameplay (walk into an enemy, with damage determined automatically by the computer based on your relative strength and the side your are in contact with) underwhelming though.

My favorite TG-CD game was Spriggan (I think that was the name of the US version that was eventually released, though I had the Japanese import), the sequel to the equally ****c M.U.S.H.A. on the Genesis.

Turbo CD on the VC?!?!?! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! :)

Spriggan????? I've seen the movie. There was a game???? A ggod one????gaminggeek

There is no relationship between the game and the movie (I think). The game is a topdown forward scrolling shooter.

Lords of Thunder and Gates of Thunder please!

Sin and Punishment = The best game on the N64 that no one played:wink:

1. I can't tell you how long I thought Mario Picross was a motorcycle game. Guess I wasn't even close on that one, huh?

2. This is all extremely cool. Nintendo said we'd get a chance to try out Japanese games that never made it across the ocean, and low and behold they're making good on it. This holds a lot of great potential. Cross your fingers we getaccess toMother at some point.

VC Super Mario Bros 2: The Lost Levels! :shock: VC Turbo Duo titles. . . for 800 points! :shock:

*Faints from endorphin overload*

ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG...so...much...awesome.. But wait... what about NA?!?!? :shock: This is all for europe? Will we see turbo CD and the lost levels? waaaaahh!GodModeEnabled

Hell, I don't mind paying the extra 100 wii Points for a Japanese only game, so this is all cool for me. :)

Mario's Picross :D :D OMG must get this the noo.

other news also seems awesome gathering from the amount of excitement from people whose opinion I hold in very high regard (you know who you are), even though I didn't know what TurboCD or Turbo Duo were until today...

*runs to download Mario's Picross*

Hell, I don't mind paying the extra 100 wii Points for a Japanese only game, so this is all cool for me. :)

Skylock00

I certainly mind. I mean if they translated them OK I can swallow the extra cost but if they're just the same games the japanese are playing then it hasn't cost them anything extra and they're fleecing us. Not only that they better not keep up this limited time crap. Just put in a japanese section on the VC and make clear what video settings and language barriers there are.

Lords of Thunder and Gates of Thunder please!

Sin and Punishment = The best game on the N64 that no one played:wink:

Spirit_of_87

You took the words right outta my mouth!