Wii recommendations

[Black Tiger]

NEO-GEO

MAX 8" x 6" x 2" x 4lbs SIZE

PRO-GEAR SPEC

SNK

[nodtveidt]

HEY!!!
Neo roms are not THAT big:P

Yeah they are...the smallest game rom I have is Crossed Swords, which is 2.59MB compressed (almost 6MB uncompressed...I think it was listed as 47mbits in stores). Compare that to the largest normal games on the PCE, which was 1MB (8mbit, with less memory required for program code than the Neo Geo) without special banked hardware built-in to the cart (ie: SFIICE).

[Michael Helgeson]

Well,the thing is you can store them on either the 512 megs onboard flashram,or on memory cards as I understood it that was how the Virtual Console stuff worked,so its not impossible for them to be on there at all. In this day and age 1 gig SD cards are pretty cheap. With stuff like that you cant really whine about the size of a Neo rom or say its too big. If your going to do that then you might as well whine about N64 roms too,because typically they are 20-40MB,and have topped 100 MB with Resident Evil 2.

Thing is,I have no desire to pay for roms. That will be the one aspect Ill prob never use,except maybe for some Nintendo 64 stuff,depending on the games available.

[Keranu]

Thing is,I have no desire to pay for roms. That will be the one aspect Ill prob never use,except maybe for some Nintendo 64 stuff,depending on the games available.

Completely agreed. N64 ROMs are the only ROMs I would pay for on the Virtual Console because of two reasons:

1. ) N64 emulation on PC sucks. (not just the emulation itself, but the fact that you need a decent controller to play them with)

2. ) N64 games seem too expensive for my tastes.

Unfortunately, N64 games cost $10 on the VC and because of that, I feel I'm better off buying the real carts. If they were $5 or less on the other hand, then I think I would be interested in buying some N64 ROMs for the VC.

[Black Tiger]

Thing is,I have no desire to pay for roms. That will be the one aspect Ill prob never use,except maybe for some Nintendo 64 stuff,depending on the games available.

Completely agreed. N64 ROMs are the only ROMs I would pay for on the Virtual Console because of two reasons:

1. ) N64 emulation on PC sucks. (not just the emulation itself, but the fact that you need a decent controller to play them with)

2. ) N64 games seem too expensive for my tastes.

Unfortunately, N64 games cost $10 on the VC and because of that, I feel I'm better off buying the real carts. If they were $5 or less on the other hand, then I think I would be interested in buying some N64 ROMs for the VC.

The only N64 games I'd buy on VC is Mario 64 and Shadowman.

Although I don't like this trend at charging more than $1 for roms of old moldy consoles, I'll probably buy every TG-16 VC game, if only to support the revival of PCE/Turbo, but only possibly one or two from other formats.

If they actually translate MSX games like Snatcher, I'll gladly pay $10 for them. But so far it looks like they aren't going to bother allowing us to make the decision of whether or not we want to buy MSX games at all.

[Joe Redifer]

I might buy Mario 64 for the VC, but I'd definitely buy Waverace 64 as that is probably my favorite N64 game.  And if they can make that look ever-so-slightly better like they did with Mario 64, then I'm sold.  In my opinion the N64 really only has about 5-6 or so good games.

[Michael Helgeson]

Got a Wii and Zelda,still waiting for Metal Slug Antholigy to be released.

[Keranu]

Good stuff.

By the way Mike, I read on the Nintendo site that Metal Slug Anthology was rated T for Teens because it had blood in it. Though coming from the ESRB, who knows if it's going to really be blood or just sweat that is similar to blood.