Topic: Nintendo 64 games

I just hope N64 games are a regular thing now. I've downloaded most of the games on Wii so it will be cheap for me to upgrade them to Wii U.

@GoneFishin No, Mario Party 1 is out of the question because Nintendo would have to legally provide gamer gloves with every purchase due to the rotating stick minigames.

lol

We can speculate all we want, but I'm pretty sure this mechanic has popped up since then and they were safe although I'm inclined to agree that it won't be reappearing. Regardless, you're missing the point.

Who are you or me to proclaim something as un-releasable, especially with the poor track record of such claims (I can think of several games that made it out the previous last few years, despite such claims from many an 'expert'.)? Let's say that you're essentially correct and this mechanic isn't something they want out there again (Expensive Wii U gamepads are another thing going against it).

How can you be so sure they wouldn't modify it for Wii remote motion control? It's an option, although one most people would consider quite unlikely even though it could all be accomplished at the emulation layer without delving into source code that's nearing two decades of age.

The point is that speculation is speculation. Let's not try to portray it as something it isn't.

What.

That is not the same Goldeneye as the 64 one

But if it's not the same as the 64 one, why is it when I look up descriptions it says it's a remaster of the N64 version?

It is a modern reimagining of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, and a remake of the 1997 Nintendo 64 video game GoldenEye 007.

Literally trying to figure it out for myself now.

It is a modern reimagining, not a re-release. It has updated gameplay and graphics, it also uses the current bond actors and not the classic ones. It is a very different game.

Yoshi's Wolly World will be nothing like Yoshi's Story and will be closer to Kirby's Epic Yarn.

It should have been called Yoshi's Epic Yarn IMO.

I believe Activision owns the publishing rights to that though (as it was ported to Xbox 360 and PS3) so it's up to them if it gets a VC re-release.

Again, as folks have explained, that's a completely different videogame tie-in to the Goldeneye movie that was developed by Activision. It has more in common with Call of Duty like its regenerating health than it does the bit of inspiration it takes from the N64 classic. Anyone that every played it or even watched it in action, that played the N64 original, can tell you that this is a completely different and original effort.

Nobody is talking about the Activision game getting a Virtual Console rerelease.

The sad thing is that they were trying to cash in on the old game while also being completely different. They talked about it in previews and stuff as if it was a remake. And the sad thing is that the new game was actually pretty good on its own merits.

I don't think they ever went quite as far as to call it a remake, but they definitely weren't shy that they borrowed some ideas from that classic, nor interested in trying to correct the misconceptions some had that it really was a remake or remastering.

Can't say as I blame them, considering the place the original has in the hearts of many. I bet more than a few were sold to fans that didn't realize it was an original effort.

Heck, it wasn't even an accident. Companies aren't releasing videogame tie-ins based on twenty year old movies every day of the week. People's mistaken impressions of it was by deliberate design by the publisher and developer, starting with the name of the title itself.

Actually it was called Yarn Yoshi

What are the chances we could see Star Fox 64 at some point on the Wii U VC?

99%?

No reason to think it won't be appearing here, especially with the age of the 3DS release.

And with a new game in the series releasing this year. I hope we see Star Fox Command on VC

This has probably been answered before, but speaking of Star Fox, how come it hasn't come out on any VC yet?

I've heard it has something to do with technical aspects of the game, but (and I'm no tech expert) if people can somehow get it on an emulator to play at home, surely a multi-billion international company can put it out officially right? I would get this in a second.

Starfox 64 was on the Wii VC and everything else is too new to have been featured.
But if you meant the SNES one, it'll probably appear before or slightly after the WiiU Starfox comes out. They seem to follow that trend sometimes. I highly doubt there's anything technical issues that would prevent this game from being played on the WiiU, there's probably a different reason.

There's no sign that they've bothered to emulate the Super FX coprocessor that was aboard such cartridges. So with Yoshi's Island available by way of the GBA port, I wouldn't hold out much hope for that to be rectified.