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Hanabi Festival returns to Virtual Console News

Wii News by Tom Bramwell

10 March, 2010

Nintendo has announced that the Hanabi Festival returns to Virtual Console starting this week, and that Castlevania: Rondo of Blood is among the games due out during its latest run.

The Hanabi Festival is Nintendo's way of flogging retro games previously only released in Japan through WiiWare, and is named after a Japanese fireworks festival.

The latest Hanabi kicks off on Friday 12th March, and will include Rondo of Blood (originally only released on the PC Engine in Japan), Milon's Secret Castle (NES), Ironclad (NeoGeo) and Lode Runner (NES). Exact dates for those games are TBC.

Rondo of Blood was last seen on PSP in 2008's Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles. It came out in Japan on Virtual Console in April 2008 as well.

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Der_tolle_Emil
10/03/10 @ 09:51
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Rondo of Blood sounds interesting, I have never played it. I bought Castlevania Rebirth last weekend and it's really good fun (and thank god challenging as well) so I should probably get this too.
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10/03/10 @ 09:55
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I got Castlevania Rebirth as well. It's great that it's old school, but I really really would've loved to be able to continue from the level I left off at.
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10/03/10 @ 09:57
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ironclad is a real neo geo rarity. don't know if its any good however.
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10/03/10 @ 10:06
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Rondo of Blood! I still haven't picked up the PSP re-release, but if the VC version's due out this soon then I might not bother. I'm guessing it'll be a straight port of the Japanese version though, with none of the English voice-overs from the PSP version.
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10/03/10 @ 11:16
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Parasol Stars was available in the Uk. But maybe that was only on the Amega 500+(oh how I miss thee). More to the point where is an udated version of Cannon Fodder on Wiiware with leaderboards. That would be sublime.
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JahB
10/03/10 @ 11:31
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Lode Runner? Rondo of Blood? i want a wii now
Diogo_Ribeiro
10/03/10 @ 11:52
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Rondo can stand proudly next to Symphony of the Night as one of the last, great CVs. Awesome news for fans or those who want to see the other evolutionary road the series could have taken.
gamingdave
10/03/10 @ 12:08
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Nice that they do these, but I wish they would do Tetris Battle Gaiden. Such a gem of a game, that sadly not enough people have heard of.
MattDamon
10/03/10 @ 14:35
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Super Mario Kart or Pilotwings 64 on Virtual Console yet?
Der_tolle_Emil
10/03/10 @ 14:39
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Super Mario Kart has been available for quite some time now.
MattDamon
10/03/10 @ 14:46
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Cool. Not had access to my Wii for most of this year now, something to do when I get it back. Warm up for Galaxy 2.

EDIT: Or not. Take it you are in the States or Japan Der Tolle? Wiki suggests there's been no pal release yet.
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Der_tolle_Emil
10/03/10 @ 17:00
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Thought it was available here as well since it already has a US release. I remember some guys in the forum talking about it. Even though I played it a lot when I was a kid I really don't feel like going back to it so I didn't buy it (not that I could anyway)
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While the gameplay remains unchanged for all of the classic titles offered for the Virtual Console, Nintendo has stated that some games may be improved with sharper graphics or better frame rates. Certainly, many PAL SNES games run with significantly reduced borders compared to the original cartridge releases. As with disc-based games, the Virtual Console service is region-locked — that is, different versions of games are provided to different regions, and game availability may vary from region to region.Nintendo had stated that the Wii Shop Channel would not be used exclusively for retro games, and WiiWare games have appeared in North America as of May 12, 2008. These original games are made available through the WiiWare part of the Wii Shop Channel, as opposed to through the Virtual Console.
Satoru Iwata stated in a speech on March 23, 2006, that Nintendo, Sega, and Hudson Soft were working in collaboration to bring a "best of" series of games to the Wii. At the following E3, Hudson also declared it would bring upwards of 100 titles to the Wii's Virtual Console. Additionally, Hudson mentioned that its lawyers were working on acquiring the licenses to games from now defunct companies. Nintendo announced MSX compatibility on September 19, 2006, announcing on February 23, 2007 that the MSX titles Eggy and Aleste would be released in Japan. In February 2007, a heading for Neo Geo games was added to the Japanese Virtual Console page, and in September of that same year, games for that system appeared on the list of future releases, priced at 900 points each. Also in September Hudson announced that games made for the TurboGrafx-CD format would also join the Virtual Console beginning in October 2007, with five titles to be released for the remainder of 2007 and ten titles for 2008. They will be priced at 800 points. Nintendo of America issued a press release to announce the upcoming release of its 100th Virtual Console title, which was Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. Within this press release, Nintendo stated that more than 4.7 million Virtual Console games had been downloaded, at a rate of more than 1,000 titles an hour.
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