The situation is not quite so pie-in-the-sky as how this article is making it sound. In the developer forums, the company heads offered a poll on whether the PrecursorGames.com PayPal pledging should be "turned off" — that is, only set to a goal of $150,000 and thereby considered complete — or remain in place while both the goal and the timeframe are deleted, so it that it exists purely as an indefinite "chip in if you feel like it" structure. The KickStarter is considered the official route now either way, and it is the topmost link on their home page; the $150,000 baseline from the Paypal, plus the $1.35M goal on KS, is still the original goal of $1.5M.

@AcesHigh Road Redemption's is failing, too — only reached half of its $160K budget, and it only has 11 days left.

Man, Rayman looks nice on my TV. Might have to get the full game after all.

Focus groups killed Nanashi no Game/The Nameless Game on DS, too.

I have to admit, it'd be kinda hilarious if everybody refused to download it out of spite of being shunned for so long, thus reinforcing Nintendo's thoughts that the game just doesn't sell at all in the US.

I would have liked to see the Spectre, but I'm sure he would be overpowered as all hell.

I'd like to see Gaiares, personally, and Shining Force CD would be a highly welcome sight. Maybe Dark Wizard, too, for those people who are still sore about a lack of Fire Emblem support.

Why even bother with Super Metroid when it'll be 30 cents in a month? O_o

Niiiice, I LOVE Nam-1975.

Grab the Super Star Wars trilogy and Indiana Jones game off of the Virtual Console before they go away, guys.

Terranigma Virtual Console release or remake?... Nah, that would be too awesome.

And then Miyamoto turned around and made Rare shoehorn the StarFox name into a game that didn't need it... Poor Dinosaur Planet.

Man, May is so far away...

Hehe, they should release Woody Pop on the VC, just so people can laugh at the name.

But I'll probably get Crystal Warriors.

Disney, please stop being ashamed of Gargoyles and put it in one of these multi-franchise products (this, Kingdom Hearts).

keeps waving a 'BRING OUT TERRANIGMA ON V.C.' sign at Square Enix's office

I'm just tired of Gargoyles getting pushed under the rug of so many potential Disney projects.

Remember Flashback Legends, the proposed sequel on Game Boy Advance? Man, that tech demo was... so-not-Flashback. X3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uMkcXjw9dU

Wow, I genuinely was not expecting this. Sweet.

Yeah, I dunno what EA was thinking only having the third one be published on the Wii U... This is a series which prides itself on continuity, and if you can't maintain that accurately, then there's no point.

@cornishlee Project: Altered Beast for PS2 never came to the states, and Golden Axe: Beast Rider was a PS3/360 release starring Tyris Flare.

Eternal Champions 3 was also considered, but that was up to a choice between that or the then-fledgling Virtua Fighter franchise, and we all know how that proceeded.

A new Gargoyle's Quest/Demon's Crest for me, now that Firebrand got more exposure in Ultimate MvsC3.

@SirQuincealot Haha, I do that with all my surveys. "How satisfied are you with the Virtual Console service?" <Somewhat satisfied.> "How would you improve it?" <Put Terranigma up for sale.>

They'd have to sort out that music sampling deal first, and NOA looks to be in no rush to do that.

Um... What about the Game Boy Mega Mans that they haven't finished releasing? All we have is Dr. Wily's Revenge.

Okay, that was precious.

From what I understand, the 3DS version is a straight port of the earlier DS release. The Nintendo.com page for it tries to sell it as a port of RealMYST (the actual rendered-in-polygons version), but that's a lie.

They should finish the Game Boy series first!

Missingno?... And a smiley in the game's dialog box? I can see this game doesn't take itself seriously at all.

@DarkCoolEdge Nintendo patented the sanity meter, and the game is mentioned in Brawl's little "history of Nintendo" section; aside from that, I don't know how much of ED's intellectual property they owned.

It's a shame that Shadowgate Rising got canceled.

Gradius? Why not Nemesis, the actual Game Boy version of Gradius?

They should release a remake compilation of Resident Evil: Survivor, Survivor 2 - Code: Veronica, and Dead Aim with GamePad aiming. </trollface>

@devilwaffle Just get the Wii versions. Seriously, Pikmin handles so much better with pointer controls.

Here's hoping for Eternal Darkness and F-Zero GX, at least!

God, now I wish Sega would put Typing of the Dead up for the Wii U's or maybe the PS3's downloadable game services and just let you use a USB keyboard.

"Saving coins for the end of the year award"? That's not how it works. You're welcome to spend all you want as long as you've made enough coins to get the Gold/Platinum limits.

One of the few import cartridges I had, courtesy of my dad who often took business trips to Japan. Really addictive from what I remember, but at the time I had no idea how powerups worked, heh.

You know what would have been a really interesting DS game to see localized? Nanashi no Game, a/k/a The Nameless Game. I heard it was being planned, but focus groups made them decide not to.

@ueI This isn't I Wanna Be the Guy-type difficulty. It obviously rewards skill-based gameplay and keeps you on your toes with its obstacles, plus it harkens back to an age when games like The Goonies II or Castlevania II gave you cryptic hints and just threw you out into the game world to solve them more or less on your own; but save points aren't utterly uncommon in the ruins, you have an automap at your disposal, and replenishing your life with Soul orbs doesn't take very long. In other words, it's high difficulty that's tempered with it not being utterly insurmountable.

@Brando67854321 Get the PC version from Playism Games, then, it includes the Hell Temple area and is $15.

He's as happy as a purple Pikmin all over again.

@madgear The only thing not backward compatible is GameCube discs, and they eventually removed that from the current Wii anyway, plus they're supposed to join the Virtual Console at some future date.

Stupid Miyamoto opening his big mouth and seeing how similar DP looked to his own franchise. They should have allowed Rare to pursue their own vision. ;

They would probably have to change the various platforming and weapon physics around to put in an alt-graphics mode. In keeping with the MSX homage, the older version is "jerky", which could be at odds with how the game plays now. Only way they could do it is to actually include both versions of the game in the download, which is probably not Nigoro's desire.

@DarkEdi : La-Mulana is a Romanization of the creator's name's syllables reversed — it would be read like "Ra-Murana" in Japanese, and if you flip that around — Na ra mu ra, for Takumi Naramura.

The game actually does this two more times for the player character and an NPC. Lemeza, Japanese name Ruemiza, is an inversion of Samieru, one of the developers; Xelpud is the other developer, duplex, just spelled backwards.

C'mon, Squenix, add "The Landing" from FF8 to Theatrhythm.

THANK. GOD.

If any game needed a New Play Control port, it was this one. Aiming FLUDD with the pointer would have been SO much less of a headache.