Four games for Virtual Console Comments by Robert Purchese

Cho Aniki: best game ever!
http://johnnythemidget.com/image/ai-cho-...

@mem - the way things currently are between Nintendo, MS and Rare, NEVER!

goldeneye would most probably come to XBLA

I was hoping for snes mario kart to coincide with the new wii version.
I guess nintendo are not interested in the slightest bit what there fans want!!!!!!
I would pay N64 money for snes mario kart, but the thing is if i was to be naughty i could download it now, and play it with my 360 pad.come on nintendo, i want to give you money!!!!!

Bahamut Lagoon.

Hurry up.

cho a-fucking-niki! brilliant. seriously you should all buy this game.
i dunno why they chose a pool game as the one other japan-only pc engine game to bring out though, unless it's the best pool game ever made ever.

oh and bahamut lagoon? not going to happen. ever. they wouldn't release an rpg that's entirely in japanese, and they also wouldn't go to the effort of translating it. (and don't say "they could license the fan translation", they won't do that either, because that'd mean officially recognising the fan translation scene exists)

@gooners2006
goldeneye would most probably come to XBLA

It probably can't, unfortunately. As it's an N64 title bringing it to XBLA would mean you had written an N64 emulation engine for the 360, Nintendo would probably sue. It's a pity, but I don't think we'll see it at all, unless they release it on Wii. It's a pity, I'd love to get Banjo Kazooie again... although I could just dig out my N64, I suppose. They did release Donkey Kong Country on the Wii so it might not be impossible, although I don't know who actually truly owned DKC, Nintendo or Rare.

I don't think there's any particular animosity between Nintendo and Rare; Rare produce DS games after all and they invented characters like Diddy Kong that have appeared in both Rare and Nintendo games since (although they might just share ownership or something, I'm no copyright lawyer :) ).

Ahhh...

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3165...

It was actively being worked on but...

"Our source close to Rare said the conversion was a mere two months from completion, but Microsoft and Nintendo couldn't agree on the financial side of things. The point of contention, as our source puts it: would Nintendo receive a one-time fee for the rights to the game, or a continuing cut of the XBLA revenues? The latter seems to make sense for everyone, but apparently it wasn't that easy."

I know they'll never bring Bahamut Lagoon over but its the only 8 bit game I can think of that I might spend 7 quid on from the VC :P

SNEETCH: "As it's an N64 title bringing it to XBLA would mean you had written an N64 emulation engine for the 360, Nintendo would probably sue."

You mean like the lawsuit Sega bought against Microsoft when Sonic was released on XBLA?

Or the SNK lawsuit when Metal Slug came out on XBLA?

Or the...i'm sure you get the point.

that'd be because SNK and Sega were the ones who actually released those games on XBLA. and i'm sure if any other company wanted to do the same with one of their Mega Drive or Neo-Geo games they'd both be more than happy to license their emulator to them (assuming the games actually -were- emulated and not ported), considering that neither company has its own console anymore or runs its own competing download service.

nintendo on the other hand is a completely different matter - they almost certainly wouldn't produced an official N64 emulator for the 360, or allow anyone else to do so.. and if someone went ahead and did it anyway, and just slapped an unmodified ROM in there to run on it, they absolutely could get sued. even if they managed to code the emulator without violating any patents, the rom would probably still be compiled using whatever libraries provided by nintendo, which they wouldn't be happy about.

but! all of that is pretty irrelevant. because if the game ever was released for XBLA, rare would probably port it (i'm guessing they still have the source code) rather than going to the trouble of emulating the N64 and everything.

Just bought Metal Slug. Still looks/plays great, and with classic controller support. Highly recommended.