Topic: Why is Nintendo not releasing a lot of their first party games on VC?

Haha, Yay, a block! That's....great.

You are correct sir! Mostly because it's a maze game and I looooooove maze games, though it does some quirky things. For 500 points it's got enough novelty value that I have no regrets.

I'll stick with Ms. Pac-Man for my mazey needs. Wish she'd mosey on over to the VC already.

Hi, I'm NOBODY.<_<

There are a great deal of people who want 3rd-party VC games. That's why they're releasing them.

As for why they aren't releasing more first-party games, well, they need to save them up. If they release all of them at once, what are they gonna do later?

I know this isn't related to this thread and I'm sorry, but why is the Virtual Console so licensing-sensitive? It seems that any game with licensing issues will never get released because of this. I don't see this present in PSN or Xbox Live Arcade.

You also don't see any Nintendo games on them either (well, with the exception of Xbox Live and Rare). Licensing my friend. They also both have much smaller back catalogs to release compared to Nintendo, since they've been around the longest, so the problem's just not as noticeable.

Well, we all know Nintendo's legal team is paranoid. I think StarTropics 2 is a superb example of this. In the original game, it DOES say you got a "block" at first, because you don't know what they are yet. But shortly thereafter, you're told what they are and it says "you got a Tetrad!" On VC, it was edited to "block" again, which just looks really, REALLY stupid. And *spoiler, sorta:*at the end of the game, the blocks are put together very much in Tetris fashion. That was not removed on VC.

@Mickeymac: I THINK he was referring more to the less popular games, and not necessarily to stuff like ZAMN or Final Fantasy. But with Aquateen, it's hard to be sure.

Nintendo have barely released any VC games at all this year.

Taken from a post I accidently placed in the wrong thread:

Apologies for the confusion I caused in the other thread.

there were some similar doubts about whether the VC could handle emulating the n64 expansion pak, but majora's mask proved that it could do it effortlessly. i'm sure the FX chip will also be no problem.

Wasn't the N64 Expansion Pak just a RAM upgrade?
That doesn't sound like it'd be hard to support, especially compared to an extra CPU.

I still have hope, but who knows, maybe they could appear on VC!

If hackers can do it on DS, Nintendo can do it on Wii. I don't see the big deal with the FX chips.

The big deal with the FX chip has NEVER been stated by Nintendo. It was made up by know-nothing Nintendo FANS. At least, I'm pretty sure that's what it was. Feel free to post a link and prove me wrong.