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[bzarcher]

Between these pictures, the announcement of online Smash Brothers, and an Xbox live style free service to do matchmaking, content download, and even let you download classic NES, SNES, and N64 games, I am firmly convinced that Nintendo does, in fact, love us all.

I'm sadly disappointed in my DS, though. It seems like all the games that were originally going to be launch titles, or "around E3" titles that I bought it for out of excitement have slipped farther and farther back. Advance Wars DS being pushed to Q4 2005/Q1 2006 may have just killed my interest in it. The PSP has more content I'll actually play availble now, with a steady flow looking promising down the line. The DS currently only has 3 games that hold my interest, and one of them is a GBA cart. Unless they really turn it around, I'm afraid she's gonna be getting traded in.

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[spoonybardol.livejournal.com]

....ability to download NES, SNES and N64 games? Dude!

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Mmmhmm. And since it's GCN backwards compatible, and they mentioned downloading GCN games...

I expect you'll have to pay for some of the stuff that's newer than SNES, but...

[obliviousally.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's totally badass for us oldschool gamers. :O

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Come. Touch it.

Nintendo Revolution enjoys when you put discs into its' slot.

[buschap.livejournal.com]

Probably have to pay a non-zero amount for anything, and I'd doubt it can do GCN downloading, for size reasons namely.

But still, I'll finally get to play the couple N64 games I never did.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Mario Sunshine was specifically mentioned as a downloadable...

I could see some of the NES and SNES stuff being covered by the service fees, as long as the fee isn't too outrageous. Better from them than a Warez site, right?

But, yeah, I suspect that between, "I Never did play that" and "Man, I always wanted to get a copy and finish that..." they'll be getting a lot of interest.

[buschap.livejournal.com]

Where? That'd be interesting. Still gotta have some limits, cause the thing has 512 MB flash memory. Mario Sunshine's a small game in terms of data, so it'd fit, but a lot of others wouldn't. It'll be interesting.

I imagine I'll stay with my habit of waiting for the first price cut, but I'm still excited.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Iwata mentioned it in the E3 conference yesterday. We'll see if we get more details now that the show is "officially" open today. We'll see how they do it - there were rumors of expansion memory, awhile back. Could also be a Sega Channel style system (damn, anyone else remember that?) where the games are queued to your system and then streamed from Nintendo while you play them. Not sure how that'd handle save points, though...

We'll see how it goes. I'm definently right with you in "excited."

[buschap.livejournal.com]

Did you ever hear about the Super Nintendo thing like that? They had some games us US folk never got to see. I'd love if they could dredge up BS Zelda for Revolution.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Ooo. No, I didn't know about that. Would be nice to see "lost" games like that, though.

[degraine.livejournal.com]

Whoo boy, that's going back, isn't it?

It's kinda funny how most of the Nintendo consoles have had epansion ports that were only ever used for one add-on. Many of which never made it out of Japan.

I love the fact that they're talking about doing this, but it makes me wonder if the left hand knows what the right hand is doing, what with the recent releases of classic NES games on GBA carts for extortionate prices. Zelda 3 wasn't put on the Zelda collection disc that you could get a while back because it would've done serious harm to the GBA port of LTTP, after all.