More Virtual Console updates

By Tom Bramwell Published 2 January, 2007

Castlevania, Street Fighter, more.

While we've been off stuffing our plants with special mix, Nintendo has been shovelling bytes into its roaring Virtual Console - adding a handful of new games on each of the last two Fridays.

As predicted, highlights include the Super Nintendo's Super Castlevania IV and SimCity, and the TurboGrafx-16 version of R-Type.

Those three were out on 29th December, along with Baseball and Ice Hockey for the NES. Super Probotector (SNES) was meant to join them too, but a quick glance around the store suggests it didn't make it. Unless we're being impressively blind, which isn't out of the question.

Prior to that, Toe Jam & Earl and Space Harrier II flew the Megadrive flag on the 22nd, with Donkey Kong Jr., Soccer and Tennis (NES), and Military Madness (TurboGrafx-16) making up the rest of the list.

Meanwhile, those of you who chose to import Wii from the States will have seen the 25th December release of Super Castlevania IV, Toe Jam & Earl, R-Type and Baseball, along with Urban Champion (NES) and Street Fighter II (SNES - what, no Turbo?) above and beyond our goodies.

Virtual Console titles cost between 500 and 1000 Wii points (NES = 500, TurboGrafx-16 = 600-800, Megadrive/SNES = 800, Nintendo 64 = 1000), while the points themselves can be bought through the store or in card form on the high street.

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Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (25) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • smoison #1 5 years ago

    R Type looks nice.

    But not 8 Euros nice.....

  • Eraser #2 5 years ago

    Played R-Type on the Gameboy so I downloaded it. Nice to see it's pretty much an exact replica of the Gameboy version (or I should say that the Gameboy version is a replica of the Turbografx version). It's bloody hard though.

  • RE*AC*TOR #3 5 years ago

    Now all they have to do is fix the problem with the virtual console and component cables.

    But they probably won't, and I'm too lazy to switching back and forth between component and composite, so I'll probably not buy anymore VC games/

  • Der_tolle_Emil #4 5 years ago

    I bought SimCity the other day. Had so much fun with it when I was younger and it still is a lot of fun today. Then again I am a SimCity nut - although SimCity 4 was the weakest yet (imho). Personally I enjoy SimCity 3000 the most but no sequel beats the nostalgia of the SNES one.

    By the way, what problem are we talking about with the component cables? Mine should arrive in the coming days (they really are impossible to find. Finding a Wii is easier). I could imagine problems relating to 50/60hz?

  • trevd72 #5 5 years ago

    chip a xbox for gods sake....enough of this VC rubbish. Or for cheapness use your PC and a 360 pad and play them on your monitor unless your tv has a vga connector.

    that way you get the games full screen full speed when you want.
    Edited by 1 at 02/01/07 @ 10:12

  • Tiel #6 5 years ago

    What is the problem with component cabnles and vc?

    I have a problem with sound distortion on main menu? IS this a different prob?

  • RE*AC*TOR #7 5 years ago

    There are a few threads in the forums about the component problem.

    I don't know if it affects all tvs etc - but essentially the problem is that with certain games the screen goes blank. On my Dell LCD TV, it tells me the signal is out of range.

    For example on Gunstar Heroes, the game initially works fine, but once a the home key is pressed (and a save state created) - I cannot return to the game (no picture). If I delete the savegame - all is dandy again.

    Castlevania doesn't work at all for me with the component cables.

    Bonks Adventure and R-Type work perfectly.

    Changing the screen to 480i / 576i makes no difference.

    *edit*

    if you google "virtual console component" there are a few threads including one on the Eurogamer forums.
    Edited by 1 at 02/01/07 @ 10:39

  • Tiel #8 5 years ago

    Thanks Reactor

  • Eraser #9 5 years ago

    "chip a xbox for gods sake....enough of this VC rubbish. Or for cheapness use your PC and a 360 pad and play them on your monitor unless your tv has a vga connector.

    that way you get the games full screen full speed when you want."

    Yeah but that's still pretty much illegal and the ease of getting VC games is a plus as well. I dunno, while these VC games are a tad expensive, it's fun playing them and somehow getting them the legal way actually makes me feel good about myself ;)

  • Der_tolle_Emil #10 5 years ago

    Sounds like a 50/60hz problem. I guess I'll have that too then. My 360 runs on 1080i and while I don't remember if my TV accepts 50 or 60hz I know only one of the two works. We'll see.

  • magicpocket #11 5 years ago

    "So, Street Fighter 2, not the Turbo edition, and 17.5% slower thanks to the inevitable shit PAL version. That's going to be a barrel of laughs."

    It was a barrel of laughs the first time FYI

  • erp #12 5 years ago

    any chance EG can use their Ultra Investigative Powers to find out what has actually happened to Super Probotector?

  • secombe #13 5 years ago

    "Megadrive/SNES/TurboGrafx = 800"

    TurboGrafx games are 600 points, it's only R-Type that has broken into the 800 point bracket.

  • smelly #14 5 years ago

    >chip a xbox for gods sake....

    But that'd mean buying an xbox?

    And playing illegal games on some freeware emulator, which may or may not play all the way through.

    At least with VC you know each game has been properly tested by nintendo before becoming available (and will play thru to end)

  • trevd72 #15 5 years ago

    @smelly. of course they play all they way through. they are roms not isos. i said chip a xbox for those with one or the PC option for those without and for cheapness.

    the VC is an example of the MAN taking th piss again. they have the opportunity to let us have the games as they were intended but they do not give use the option. they are selling old rope.

    as i have said so many times before - no middleman, no transport, no marketing, no packaging, no media etc so why the relatively high price? stick back to the MAN until he gets the message.

  • SomaticSense #16 5 years ago

    "Virtual Console titles cost between 500 and 1000 Wii points (NES = 500, Megadrive/SNES/TurboGrafx = 800, Nintendo 64 = 1000), "

    Ok. That means absolutely fuck all to me. How much exactly does this equate to in actual money?

    EDIT: I'm sorry, I just hate how MS and Nintendo feel the urge to create their own kind of currency for these things. What the hell is wrong with just using the normal currency for each relative country? It'd make it a damn sight easier for everybody instead of resorting to all this smoke and mirrors fake currency bullshit.
    Edited by 1 at 02/01/07 @ 19:41

  • titaniumapple #17 5 years ago

    Where are Street Fighter 2/Mario Kart 64??!!

    I WANT THEM

    When are they releasing an update on the upcoming virutal console titles? Anyone?

  • Daikon #18 5 years ago

    Surely one of the newly released arcade perfect Street Fighter collections would be an infinitely better purchase that an ancient SNES conversion?

  • Bumbuliuz #19 5 years ago

    Any word when We will get Super Mario 1 that the U.S got on the 25th of Dec? I want to play Mario :(

  • Tonka #20 5 years ago

    @smelly: Nintendo have NOT, I repeat NOT, tested the VC thoroughly enough. The fact that it crashes if you use component cables is proof of that.

  • ruckus #21 5 years ago

    Mario Kart and Smash Tennis please Nintendo :)
    though I've still got to get the ethernet kit or a dongle thingy :(

  • MadMirko #22 5 years ago

    The virtual console / component "problem" was due to crappy TVs, no? The games running at 60Hz (Turbo Grafx and N64) were displayed without problems, only the other couldn't be displayed by screens not accepting 50Hz on their component input.

    My Sony Bravia 40" LCD has no problems whatsoever with VC and component or composite cables, and my Wii is a bog standard PAL box.

  • MadMirko #23 5 years ago

    Oh, and I want Thunderforce III on VC!

  • Tonka #24 5 years ago

    @MadMirko
    Are you sure about that? I can play GoldenAxe and Gunstar

  • floppylobster #25 5 years ago

    Hello Nintendo? Bring down the price and sell at least three times what you're selling now. Many of these games I'd download but not for the price they're selling them at. Have they forgotten I'm only downloading the game? There's no manual, no box, no retail store to pay rent for, no way for me to sell it on. Where's the cost coming from?