Japanese Virtual Console list - June

Here's a taster of what the Japanese Virtual Console will be getting in June straight from Nintendo of Japan themselves. There are no real surprises here. Most of these games are ESRB rated already or even out in North America or Europe at present. Still it is nice to see Paper Mario and F-Zero X due for release so soon.

by Darren Calvert Mon 28th May 2007

Famicom (NES)
Adventures of Lolo (Nintendo, 500 points)
Front Line (Taito, 500)
Famicom Mukashi Banashi: Onigashima -- first/second parts (Nintendo, 600)
Field Combat (Jaleco, 500)
Pooyan (Hudson, 500)

Super Famicom (SNES)
Magical Drop (G-Mode, 800 points)
Breath of Fire 2 (Capcom, 800)

Nintendo 64
F-Zero X (Nintendo, 1000)
Mario Story (aka Paper Mario, Nintendo, 1000)

Sega Megadrive (Genesis)
Hybrid Front (5/29, Sega, 700 points)
Golden Axe II (Sega, 600)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega, 600)
Ecco the Dolphin 2 (Sega, 600)
Shining & the Darkness (Sega, 700)

PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16)
Battle Lode Runner (5/29, Hudson, 600 points)
The Kung Fu / (aka China Warrior, Hudson, 600)
Neutopia 2 (Hudson, 600)
Devil Crush (Hudson, 600)
Silent Debuggers (G-Mode, 600)
PC Genjin 3 (aka Bonk 3, Hudson, 600)

MSX (Japanese home computer system)
Eggy (Spring, D4 Enterprise, 800)
Aleste (Spring, D4 Enterprise, 800)

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JODIsBack
Mon 28th May 2007

Out of that we should get Paper Mario, Bonk 3, Neutopia 2 sometime (we're still waiting on the first Neutopia), Breath of Fire 2 sometime, F Zero X, Golden Axe 2, Shining in the Darkness, Sonic the hedgehog 2 and Ecco the Dolphin 2.

2
SMBSS
Mon 28th May 2007

Wow, Japan gets BoF2. Dang the only good RPGs that US gets are Beyond Oasis, Zelda:LttP, and Zelda: OoT

3
eltomo
Mon 28th May 2007

Why can't EU get a list of games for June =)

Seriously thou, waiting for the games I want, is getting harder to handle...

4
__patrick8
Mon 28th May 2007

I only got 500 wii ppoints left for now, So I'm waiting for an awesome NES game. I got kirby's adventure and it was good fun but I had some problems. Any suggestions?

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Dazza
Mon 28th May 2007

Patrick - this isn't entirely on topic. Please take this question to our forum:

http://www.vc-forums.com

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Bass_X0
Mon 28th May 2007

Still no NeoGeo titles announced? I expected Japan to have some soon. I hope they are not too far away. There's only F-Zero X I want from that list, a few others I may try but I don't know if I will.

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__Ghetto_ninja
Mon 28th May 2007

Hey wheres Bloody Wolf at? It supposed to come out next month in NA.

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Mendez
Mon 28th May 2007

I hope we get Ecco the Dolphin 2 pretty soon, it's even better than the first one

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Drake
Mon 28th May 2007

JP already got Bloody Wolf.

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Shiro_Makoto
Tue 29th May 2007

F-Zero X AND Paper Mario in the same month?! Brilliant. Now, where's my Majora's Mask?

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sseb22
Tue 29th May 2007

Thank you very much !
I know you don't want / can't review the japanese games but having this kind of news is good.

12
Kelvin
Tue 29th May 2007

Magic Drop? Ooh. It's good to see some proper puzzle games turning up.

13
TheNintendoBoy
Tue 29th May 2007

Ah, Hybrid Front.. I wish they'd translate that one.
Magical Drop doesn't even need a translation, just release it!

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JNoodles
Tue 29th May 2007

OH YES!
Devil's. Crush. Hudson... YOU MUST RELEASE THIS IN JULY! (Late June if they pull a World Sports Championship on us)

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__Bustacap
Tue 29th May 2007

f-zero x has been released today on the japanese vc.

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__C3dke
Tue 29th May 2007

I hope so much that they will release Mario Story in the EU this month...

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JNoodles
Wed 30th May 2007

Paper Mario is quite good fun as well.

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__stehicky
Wed 30th May 2007

F-ZERO X!!! come to daddy.

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Bass_X0
Thu 31st May 2007

N64 games have been released almost simutaneously around the world in the past (its certainly true for the existing four released in Europe and the U.S.) so I say F-Zero X should be released very soon.

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Bass_X0
Thu 31st May 2007

And can I also say a big "EWW!" about the number of points MSX games cost to download? 800 points!!! I can't see anybody downloading these games for that price. Except maybe the original Metal Gear but thats only because of the name.