@GameCube Woah woah woah there; this is Nintendo we're talking about, remember. They can't even be bothered to put multiplayer into GB VC.

Noon for me. I have no idea what my obligations will be for that day as of this time, but I'll be sure to cancel/postpone as many of them as possible. I have a bro who plans on watching it with me; he loves Nintendo so much that these E3 conferences often make him emotional, so this should be fun.

Oh man, Nintendo is actually listening, for once! I remember there used to be a big petition on 4chan before the 3DS launch to bring the purple one seen at E3 to retail. It took them over a year, but at least they're doing it. Very tempted to trade mine in for one, if only to live up to my own word from that email I once sent NoA saying I'd buy one...

@Shugo You know, now that I think about it, I think I'll pick this up anyway simply on principle of supporting NoA's decision to bring it over. I think I actually asked them for it in a Club Nintendo survey once and promised them "all my money" if they did it, so I should probably own up to my word.

The cover could be Final Fantasy-style blank white and it would still be a better overall package than the US version. I adore the dubbed soundtrack and all the hard work NoA put into it, personally, but having a Japanese option would've quelled the one, single complaint I heard from anybody I ever talked to about this game.

Enjoy your pekepekepekedesuka, Eurobros!

@James Dear God, that's actually amazing news to me. I got so sick of accidentally hitting the shoulder buttons while I was on the menu.

Still doesn't make up for the lack of folder icon customization, though. Come on, Nintendo, couldn't you have at least given us COLORS? Or maybe allow more letters to appear as you make the icons bigger? It's kind of annoying having three side-by-side folders labeled "G" just because I separate my VC games into GB, GBC, and GBA. I was thinking about making them G, C, and A, but I already had a "C" folder for 3D Classics...because if I made that folder a "3", it would conflict with "3DS Games"! Aaaaaugh!

Man... I gave up on this last year as well and ended up buying the GCN version instead (because my original copy was stolen a number of years ago). Not sure if I'll buy this or not...

Ah DAMMIT. I didn't realize that sending a Mii from Mii Plaza to Mii Maker DELETED that Mii from the Plaza - I'd never done it before. So as soon as I received Reggie, I figured I'd COPY him over to the Maker before using him for puzzles/adventuring...and then he was gone.

And apparently he was level 5 if used in Find Mii? FFFFFFFF-

Now if only the North American Club Nintendo would pick this up (or any 3DS-fitting case, for that matter). None of the existing cases sold in stores really do it for me - I just want a thin, soft case like the ones Club Nintendo has had in the past.

Woah, I didn't realize we were so close to the release of this.

Glad we're getting a demo; I'm on the fence at the moment. Unless the 3DS version has something significantly unique, I'll probably just stay with the PS3/Vita "HD" version...especially since I'm really not a fan of the circle pad pro.

My main hope is that they fixed the resolution for the games. I have no clue why, but the NES games have all so far been upscaled to a SLIGHTLY larger resolution than 1:1, which makes everything slightly blurry. The 3D classics, like Kirby's Adventure, are in perfect 1:1, and it looks beautifully sharp as a tack.

He raises a vine...
Runs past it...
Goes down a pipe...
...and then ends up at the top of the vine!? WHAT.

I always have to wonder how people figure glitches like that out. Like 'Minus World'...who the heck thought to stand there and jump backwards into that block one day? And how did everyone else find out?

Once again Nintendo's refusal to implement a proper update system screws over a game's online play.

I appreciate that no updates forces Nintendo to make sure that games are as high-quality as possible before release, but there will always be bugs like this that slip through no matter what and in the end it hurts.online games like this one. Newcomers are hurt because they don't know about the exploit when they first start playing, everyone keeps picking the map to exploit over the newcomers, and then you yourself have to exploit too if you don't want to come in dead last every time. It's irritating.

I just hope they fixed the resolution problems. The Ambassador versions of all the NES games are slightly stretched out of their original resolutions for some unknown reason, which causes the image to be very slightly but very annoyingly blurry. After playing the perfectly sharp and crisp 3D Classics Kirby's Adventure, I can't go back to the blurry Ambassador games...

The StreetPass map is probably my favorite addition next to Find Mii II. In all the feverish convention StreetPass-ing I've been doing, I never realized that I've StreetPassed people from over half of the US states. Crazy.

(I've also StreetPassed someone from the UK! Wow!)

I dunno about anyone else, but the upgraded Mii Plaza is my favorite new addition. I completed both Puzzle Swap and Find Mii, so I immediately jumped into Find Mii II and am loving it. Those Play Coins suddenly got a LOT more valuable.

Honey Queen? Of all the characters they could've picked, she's probably the least suited for kart racing...

I really want Professor E. Gadd to be in Mario Kart. They were planning him for Mario Kart DS (given evidence in the beta files) but ultimately scrapped him. I think he'd be a great addition.

Cool, I need to get a Japanese 3DS anyway. I've always liked white consoles; I wish we had more of them in the west... (Looking at you, Sony!)

This would be better as a poster, honestly. In fact, that might be exactly what I do with them - tile them all together and frame it. That or I could get a nice display case and put each respective card next to the real consoles... Actually, that sounds like a idea.

I'm kind of disappointed, though - Japan's set has 15 cards total. Theirs features extra cards for dual-screen Game & Watch, Game Boy Play It Loud, and Game Boy Light. Considering theirs cost even fewer coins, this is kind of disappointing...

Kind of disappointing that they picked this version over the Game Boy Color Pac-Man.

But then again, the Game Boy Color Pac-Man was only really good for its unique multiplayer mode, and since Nintendo refuses to enable multiplayer for Virtual Console, it still wouldn't compare to a release of the arcade original.

As an early adopter of the 3DS, this package makes me very happy. All of those GBA games are very, very good games (even if I already own all of them...). Very unusual choices given Nintendo's past of notoriously avoiding a lot of their A+ titles for remake/port/digital distribution.

Watch one of the other five games be an English Mother 3. The community would go ballistic.

I'm very glad they put this on VC. One of the greater games of my childhood. My old cart has problems keeping save files, so now maybe I can finally keep my scores and gallery!

I'm definitely still disappointed that they haven't implemented Super Game Boy mode. This game definitely looked good with it; it has different borders for every game that mimic the original G&W hardware colors, not to mention the backgrounds became full-color.

And no doubt when they get around to Game & Watch Gallery 2 & 3, they won't enable the gallery link feature that completes the gallery when you link the newer games to the older ones. I appreciate finally having a GB VC, but a large part of the Game Boy experience was all the neat features the various hardware had to offer. Nintendo is totally dropping the ball on that...

Hell yes, another GB game I never got around to getting yet loved as I played it in less...legal forms... I still wish Nintendo would let us play them in Super Game Boy mode, though; games like Donkey Kong looked great that way. We have homebrew emulators that can do Super Game Boy mode on original DS hardware, so there's really no reason why we shouldn't get it on 3DS.

Aww yeah, when the cartridge pile sound kicked in I just had a wave of memories wash over me.

Tossing a Game Boy cartridge into a pile is such a great sound.

Aww, it's just a slot game? What a disappointment. I was about to get excited and go "A-HA! See? You CAN play NSMBW without motion controls!" and go on another rant about how NSMBW would've been just fine with a Classic Controller/GCN control option...

Oh God yes, it's been so long. Definite buy; this should've been on VC ages ago!

I noticed it has a home button with the same icon as the Wii's home button. Usable with Wii? Possible USB dongle? Might not be such a bad purchase if it doubles as a real computer keyboard as well.

The answer was obvious to me just from the names... I mean come on, when have the other two ever appeared anywhere else in the Mario spinoffs?

I just beat this game a few days ago. I thought it was incredible, especially the story. Shu Takumi at his finest; this is definitely a worthy follow-up to Ace Attorney.

3DS would be the perfect system for it since 3DS can actually do 3D that doesn't hurt your eyes (supposedly). Perfect platform for emulating some true 3D Virtual Boy. I know it only had a few decent games, but I'd really like to get to play those since I missed them!

That...I have great faith in this project now.

Fully animated cutscenes with fully voiced Phoenix?

I'LL TAKE TWENTY.

A shame that it doesn't have the MotionPlus built into it. That's the deal breaker for me.

But if I do manage to find and break out my old tubs of LEGO bricks, this thing might actually be fun. I just hope it's comfortable enough to actually use for extended periods of time.

It's a shame the white Wii template for the case art isn't red like New Super Mario Bros. was.

It's also a shame that it doesn't include Super Mario World like the console-bundle versions of SMAS did. That version of SMW actually gave Luigi his own sprites and playing as him was very fun due to his unique animations.

Thank God WiiWare can receive updates. It's just too bad that they aren't AUTOMATIC updates like every other console has, because sometimes I completely forget that you can update WiiWare games at all.

I'm extremely psyched for the DSiWare version, though. This is going to look great on my DSi XL screen.

Awesome, I had my Super Princess Peach stolen from me a while back. Is it really thirty-five bucks again, though? They couldn't have knocked that down just a tad...?

I wonder if the Motion Plus being built-in means that the Wii Remote is 'hard-enhanced' and now better for ALL games or if it still treats the new tech as an add-on and thus incompatible with older games.

Knowing Nintendo, it's probably the latter. But if it's the former I'll take four, please.

Ah, the title is just simply "Gyakuten Kenji 2" with the same style of 2 as Gyakuten Saiban 2. I wonder if Capcom US is going to take the easy route and give us "Ace Attorney Investigations 2" or once again drag the title out really long with another subtitle, like "Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth - Justice for All". Capcom US really should just start sticking to numbers; I have a hard time explaining to some people which of the original Ace Attorney tetralogy comes after which.

Also, what the hell is Shelly holding? Is that some sort of robotic ice cream?

Damn, I can see that they still didn't fix the broken brick physics in SMB and Lost Levels. That's a real shame. The package also doesn't include the slightly-more-updated SMAS version of SMW that we got in the west. I was hoping this package would have something a bit more new or maybe have a couple more games like Super Mario 64. I'll be better off just popping my original copy into my SNES.

If this hits VC in the US, though, I'll probably get it. I'm still bummed about the broken brick physics, but I still haven't picked up SMB3 on VC.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, look here: http://themushroomkingdom.net/smb_nes2smas.shtml#brickphysics

What, the DS being the best selling handheld console of all time wasn't enough for you, Nintendo?

Really? This is a "myth"? I've done this so many times; I thought everyone knew.

This is actually used as part of the level design in The Lost Levels, since Luigi can jump higher. Past most flags are warp zones, though a lot of them are a huge risk to get to; they often go BACKWARDS instead of forwards. For example, I once decided to hop the flag in world 5 and found myself in a warp zone that only lead backward to world 1. My only choice was to take it since I was on my last life.

Why didn't they do this for the US? That would've gotten ME to get up for a an early pre-order.

Wow, I didn't see Kirby Super Star coming. That's sure to please a LOT of people.

They really need to get Super Mario All-Stars out now. I still keep my SNES around almost just for that game (and well, the Super Game Boy, but...), and it's still one of the best ways to play the Super Mario series ever. I would hope they at least take the liberty of fixing the brick collision physics in SMB/Lost Levels, though. I've seen a ROM hack that fixes it and now it's hard to play those two games in the All-Star versions just because I know I could be playing it fixed.

It would also be really cool if they pick the Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World version to put up, but somehow that feels a bit TOO good for Nintendo.

@Nintendoftw
A year between Japanese and US Nintendo console releases hasn't happened since the SNES, and has never happened with their handhelds. Even the original Game Boy was released in the US just four months after the Japanese release. The DSi was released in November 2008 in Japan and April 2009 in the US, and that's just a redesign of the DS with extra features. The original DS, a totally new console, came out in the US barely ten days after it hit Japan. Given that the 3DS is being touted as a new console with more powerful graphical capabilities, I'd say the 3DS is important enough for them to attempt a close US release.

No confirmed date for Ace Attorney 3 WiiWare?

Awesome! Seeing as how it's likely Capcom will move Ace Attorney 3's US date up to March, March will be a great month for WiiWare. This year alone has seen my first three WiiWare purchases ever (Muscle March, Ace Attorney 1, Ace Attorney 2), so let's keep 'em comin', shall we?

EDIT: You know, I just realized that all the WiiWare games I own/want are all ports.