MODS PLEASE LOCK - The Wii VC Games - Volume 1

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I'm sure it has been asked already but....

1.) What happens when you run out of system memory on the Wii, how would you download more VC games?

2.) What happens when all of the wii channel boxes are filled up with games, any word on this yet?
 
[quote name='seanr1221']I'm sure it has been asked already but....

1.) What happens when you run out of system memory on the Wii, how would you download more VC games?

2.) What happens when all of the wii channel boxes are filled up with games, any word on this yet?[/quote]

Dallow here:

1) You'll have to save some to an SD card to free up space.

2) Don't know, probably have to do the same as I said above. Firmware might grant more channel boxes if needed in the future.
 
[quote name='shelfcompact']Dallow here:

1) You'll have to save some to an SD card to free up space.

2) Don't know, probably have to do the same as I said above. Firmware might grant more channel boxes if needed in the future.[/QUOTE]

Ohhh so you can save the games to an SD card? Are they tied to your system? I'm assuming you cant bring the games with you to a friends Wii.
 
[quote name='seanr1221']Ohhh so you can save the games to an SD card? Are they tied to your system? I'm assuming you cant bring the games with you to a friends Wii.[/QUOTE]

VC games are indeed tied to your specific unit; you can't play them on another unit even if you've copied the games to an SD card.

Also, when you run out of internal storage, you can simply delete any of your VC games; since they're tied to your unit (which is effectively an account), records are easily kept and Nintendo allows you to re-download the titles at any time at no extra cost.
 
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That sensation in my loins, when I see this title screen...
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Metal Warriors is one of, if not THE best side scrolling action game I've ever played. The mechs are fun to navigate, all eight of them with very different attributes and unique moves; destructible environments make the action satisfying; and the best part: Jumping out of a thoroughly-destroyed mech to go capture a new one. Seriously, Metal Warriors is the one game I care about most of all on the VC.

That and Bonanza Bros.

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[quote name='seanr1221']2.) What happens when all of the wii channel boxes are filled up with games, any word on this yet?[/quote]

You just delete some other games to free up some space. Plain and simple.
 
This might be a stupid question but I am knew to the whole "online" gaming stuff, so I figure I'll ask here. Got it online today and this is the first system I have ever had online

Am I understanding this correctly? To get the VC games you have to buy Wii points from a B&M store? No stores around me have any of the points in stock. Does this mean I am out of luck on the VC games until I find some points at a store? If this is true, this is the stupidest way to run an online store I have ever seen. I can't give them money for a game because stores are out of stock of little pieces of plastic with numbers on them (or whatever the hell Wii points look like)?

Thanks for the help. If there is some way to buy VC games without points from a store let me know.
 
[quote name='Purple Flames']You just delete some other games to free up some space. Plain and simple.[/quote]

If this is true it's pretty damn stupid.

I'm about to buy my first VC games... got 2000 Wii points to spend. Not sure what to buy yet though.
 
You can buy points through your Wii. It should be one of the first options when you run Wii Shopping. We prefer to buy them through the Wii because it's easy, instantaneous, and there's no tax on points in CA.
 
You can buy an amount of points from the shop. I don't know where it is but just look around. you can use a debit/credit card to buy them.

[quote name='schuerm26']This might be a stupid question but I am knew to the whole "online" gaming stuff, so I figure I'll ask here. Got it online today and this is the first system I have ever had online

Am I understanding this correctly? To get the VC games you have to buy Wii points from a B&M store? No stores around me have any of the points in stock. Does this mean I am out of luck on the VC games until I find some points at a store? If this is true, this is the stupidest way to run an online store I have ever seen. I can't give them money for a game because stores are out of stock of little pieces of plastic with numbers on them (or whatever the hell Wii points look like)?

Thanks for the help. If there is some way to buy VC games without points from a store let me know.[/quote]
 
[quote name='Lorddraco07']You can buy an amount of points from the shop. I don't know where it is but just look around. you can use a debit/credit card to buy them.[/quote]

Alright!! Thanks. I thought you had to buy it from a store. Thank you.
 
[quote name='sixersballernum3']If this is true it's pretty damn stupid.
[/quote]What else would you do? If you fill up the 360's hard drive, your computers hard drive, etc, you have to delete stuff to free up space.
 
[quote name='botticus']What else would you do? If you fill up the 360's hard drive, your computers hard drive, etc, you have to delete stuff to free up space.[/quote]

Wouldn't it make more sense to allow a peripheral to be purchased that gives more space (as in an SD card for the Wii), though?
 
[quote name='sixersballernum3']Wouldn't it make more sense to allow a peripheral to be purchased that gives more space (as in an SD card for the Wii), though?[/quote]Oh, I thought that was already mentioned. You can copy them to an SD card as well. But if you don't want to buy one, you can just delete and redownload as necessary.
 
I just copied my games over to my SD Card, there's like 4x as much space on an 1 Gig SD Card as on the system's HD it seems like, must be the OS and all that.
 
Picked up a classic controller today. This thing is really nice. if the d-pad was just a little looser, it would probably be my favorite controller ever.
 
The only VC game I've bought is Gunstar Heroes. I've never tried Castlevania or TJ&E, but I'm going to a friend's house tomorrow to try them out and see if I need to buy them or not.
 
[quote name='lordwow']I just copied my games over to my SD Card, there's like 4x as much space on an 1 Gig SD Card as on the system's HD it seems like, must be the OS and all that.[/QUOTE]

do the games still show up on your Wii channels once copied to an SD card?
 
[quote name='Blind the Thief']The only VC game I've bought is Gunstar Heroes. I've never tried Castlevania or TJ&E, but I'm going to a friend's house tomorrow to try them out and see if I need to buy them or not.[/QUOTE]


you need to buy Castlevania. The first few levels aren't a good taste. the game really picks up in the 4th level and gets more difficult but more fun as it goes.
 
[quote name='Apossum']you need to buy Castlevania. The first few levels aren't a good taste. the game really picks up in the 4th level and gets more difficult but more fun as it goes.[/quote]

Level 8 is a bitch.
 
[quote name='cochesecochese']Level 8 is a bitch.[/QUOTE]


Can't wait to get there. I've gotta beat it tonight! I have no games for 2 weeks starting tomorrow :( (going overseas, won't be bringing any consoles.)
 
[quote name='asianxcore']do the games still show up on your Wii channels once copied to an SD card?[/QUOTE]
No, and you can't play them from your sd card.
 
[quote name='billyG']No, and you can't play them from your sd card.[/QUOTE]

No, they still are on my hard drive. It's a copy and paste, not a cut and paste.

But they are not playable from the SD card.
 
[quote name='Apossum']Can't wait to get there. I've gotta beat it tonight! I have no games for 2 weeks starting tomorrow :( (going overseas, won't be bringing any consoles.)[/quote]

Damn that sucks dude. Well at least WarioWare will be waiting for you when you get back. All I will say is if you so much as brush those spikes your ass is canned. Don't get frustrated.
 
[quote name='lordwow']No, they still are on my hard drive. It's a copy and paste, not a cut and paste.

But they are not playable from the SD card.[/QUOTE]

So is the SD card used to save your VC games that you don't have room for?

Assuming sometime down the line you run out of room on your hard drive, would you have to load VC games you don't normally play (or do) on and off of the SD card to free up room?

Sorry if the question is confusing.
 
Would you guys recommend picking up a classic controller, or just getting some Wavebirds? I never had a GC, so I don't have any controllers. I was just wondering if it felt weird playing Genesis or SNES games on the GC controllers?
 
[quote name='A Happy Panda']Would you guys recommend picking up a classic controller, or just getting some Wavebirds? I never had a GC, so I don't have any controllers. I was just wondering if it felt weird playing Genesis or SNES games on the GC controllers?[/QUOTE]

I would absolutely get a classic controller. The GC controller's Dpad is tiny, and the A/B/X/Y buttons are oddly shaped and positioned, and overall the controller just doesn't feel right, to me, for old games. Do note, though, that you can NOT use the classic controller to play GameCube games, since the Wii cannot recognize the Wii remote or the classic controller attachment while a GC game is being played. You have to have a GC controller for those.
 
[quote name='A Happy Panda']Would you guys recommend picking up a classic controller, or just getting some Wavebirds? I never had a GC, so I don't have any controllers. I was just wondering if it felt weird playing Genesis or SNES games on the GC controllers?[/quote]

Taking the opinion of the above poster, eh, it's a matter of personal preference I think. Many people can't stand the tiny D pad on the Wavebird, and the button layout bugs some, others, they don't care.

I've got $20 in my wallet now, and a Wavebird at home that plays everything. That $20 stays in my wallet till I see something that tells me otherwise in picking up a Classic controller.

Obviously some games are not all unchanged ports, as Super Castlevania saw the analog stick on my Wavebird and used it like an 8 way Dpad. It was pretty nice to use inplace of the teensy D-pad on there. Button layout leaves something to be desired, but then again, I think I remember SCastlevania having button remapping, and I just didn't check it last night... So, if I can remap my whip to A and jumping to B, we got no problems jack.

The flipside of the Classic controller (past the GC thing) is that some people don't like the cable coming out the bottom or that the controller is tethered to a loose Wiimote you have to keep track of while playing.

Frankly, I'd take the gameplay either way, since I've been playing most of these games on emulators with a keyboard for years anyway, a different controller scheme isn't a deal killer here.
 
[quote name='A Happy Panda']Would you guys recommend picking up a classic controller, or just getting some Wavebirds? I never had a GC, so I don't have any controllers. I was just wondering if it felt weird playing Genesis or SNES games on the GC controllers?[/QUOTE]

I think that, for me, I like using:

NES/Sega - The Wiimote on side
SNES - Classic Controller
N64 - Wavebird
 
[quote name='asianxcore']So is the SD card used to save your VC games that you don't have room for?

Assuming sometime down the line you run out of room on your hard drive, would you have to load VC games you don't normally play (or do) on and off of the SD card to free up room?

Sorry if the question is confusing.[/QUOTE]

Ya, pretty much that's what you can do with the SD card, as you can't play on someone else's Wii or transfer in any other way. It's bascially storage for stuff you're not using at the moment on the Wii.
 
[quote name='ajservo1']
The flipside of the Classic controller (past the GC thing) is that some people don't like the cable coming out the bottom or that the controller is tethered to a loose Wiimote you have to keep track of while playing.
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I don't like this part of the design at all: both the cord and the Wiimote are annoyances. However, I enjoy playing with the classic controller. I like that it's a little bigger than the SNES controller (at least it feels that way to me), so it feels like it fits my hands a little better.

It's killing me waiting for SMW to show, because the combination of SMW's play control and the comfort of the classic controller is going to make me a very, very happy man. I imagine SMW2 will also rock with that controller.
 
[quote name='ajservo1']Taking the opinion of the above poster, eh, it's a matter of personal preference I think. Many people can't stand the tiny D pad on the Wavebird, and the button layout bugs some, others, they don't care.

I've got $20 in my wallet now, and a Wavebird at home that plays everything. That $20 stays in my wallet till I see something that tells me otherwise in picking up a Classic controller.

Obviously some games are not all unchanged ports, as Super Castlevania saw the analog stick on my Wavebird and used it like an 8 way Dpad. It was pretty nice to use inplace of the teensy D-pad on there. Button layout leaves something to be desired, but then again, I think I remember SCastlevania having button remapping, and I just didn't check it last night... So, if I can remap my whip to A and jumping to B, we got no problems jack.

The flipside of the Classic controller (past the GC thing) is that some people don't like the cable coming out the bottom or that the controller is tethered to a loose Wiimote you have to keep track of while playing.[/QUOTE]

That's the main reason I've not splurged for the CC yet - I don't think I'd like the wire hanging down, and I've already got my Wavebird to use. The only game I would really see the CC come into play would be on something like SF2, where I cannot even imagine playing it with the Wavebird. Has anyone tried playing that yet with a WB? I think it would be a disaster...

RD
 
[quote name='lordwow']Ya, pretty much that's what you can do with the SD card, as you can't play on someone else's Wii or transfer in any other way. It's bascially storage for stuff you're not using at the moment on the Wii.[/QUOTE]

Thanks.

Kind of a bummer that you can't play your VC games off the SD card.
 
[quote name='billyG']there is no way we are only getting baseball and urban champion next week, is there??[/quote]

they havent updated, but we're getting ocarina of time and mario party 5 next week.
 
[quote name='tiredfornow']they havent updated, but we're getting ocarina of time and mario party 5 next week.[/QUOTE]

Source?
 
[quote name='tiredfornow']they havent updated, but we're getting ocarina of time and mario party 5 next week.[/QUOTE]

Not a chance.
 
Yeah, Ocarina of Time next week and it's gonna be either free, or the same price as Tekken 5 on PS3, $15.

(not serious)
 
[quote name='dallow']Yeah, Ocarina of Time next week and it's gonna be either free, or the same price as Tekken 5 on PS3, $15.

(not serious)[/quote]

Naw man, It's only 1,000 Wii points! :roll:
 
[quote name='tiredfornow']Naw man, It's only 1,000 Wii points! :roll:[/quote]

My joke wasn't that funny, but I don't get yours at all.
Was it even a joke, or did you think I was serious, even after I added "not serious" to my post.
 
[quote name='yukine']I picked up Bomberman '93. It's pretty good, but the single player seems like it'd be impossible to beat.[/QUOTE]

My wife got through a few levels before she found that out. I need to go back and beat a few of them for her so that she can continue playing.
 
[quote name='yukine']I picked up Bomberman '93. It's pretty good, but the single player seems like it'd be impossible to beat.[/QUOTE]
My GF loves this game. She's never played a bomberman game before, but she took to this one like a natural. She's at the last planet, the ice one, fighting its boss.
 
Bought Castlevania IV and played through it yesterday. Gosh, it's still brilliant, slowdown and all. I'm probably gonna play through it again when I get home.
 
[quote name='doctorfaustus']My GF loves this game. She's never played a bomberman game before, but she took to this one like a natural. She's at the last planet, the ice one, fighting its boss.[/quote]
What's funny, is that my girlfriend is also very good at it. I've been having trouble on the 3rd planet, and she practically breezed through it. I still think the multiplayer is the best part of Bomberman though, I played it with a few people for a couple of hours today.

I picked up Castlevania IV today as well, I never played IV and I'm really enjoying it thus far.
 
To this day, my favorite part of Super Castlevania IV is getting to stage 4 at the part where the level rotates, then turning to my brother as we both exclaim, "MODE 7!"
 
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