Japanese Virtual Console list - February 2009

Cool stuff on this list I just wish Sega would start putting some of their racing games on the VC.

Is Formation Z any relation to Capcom's Section Z? Inquiring minds want to know

Nothing amazing for me on this list although Galaxy Force looks quite cool. Will we ever see Super Darius 2 as a Hanabi Festival title?

"Usagi no Kuni no Kangaroo Race Wallaby!!"

WTF? The rabbit country Kangaroo Race Wallaby? Gotta love Japanese titles. xD

Another good month for japanese people. Maybe we'll get one of this games in the next 6 months (or next year), as usual.

Does anybody knows how many VC games were released so far in Japan?

Only Tactics Ogre that vaquely interests me. Japan can keep the rest.

Kirby's Dreamland 3 will be yankee-only for another month!

I have Super Darius on my Japanese Wii and it's every bit as punishing as the arcade -- basically Darius with the side screens cut-off; I think Super Darius 2 is basically a port of the arcade for home as well? It seems the major improvement over the 1st one is a continue feature, so I might shell out for it when it comes to the Japanese VC, but my most anticipated title is the Megadrive port of Snow Brothers Nick & Tom -- when oh when is this coming out?

Impressive month for Japan. I' am guessing that most of these games on the list don't have very high language barriers (except for Tactics Ogre of course). I' am hoping Tactics Ogre comes to the NA VC eventually.

@ ness

I'm not Sure any many games the Japanese VC has but I think it's on Wikipedia. I hope this Helps!!!

Tactics Ogre was great, but it was only released in North America on the PS1. I don't know whether they can haul a translation off that version and release it on the SNES version for us or not. Probably not.

At least Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars shouldn't be as bad as Alex Kidd: High Tech World.

Dang, thats a whole lot of TG games we ll never see. T.T

So, looking at foreign releases of these:
*Formation-Z is Japan-only
*Double Dragon is already on the VC everywhere else.
*Tactics Ogre was released in America on the PSX
*Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars was released worldwide
*Galaxy Force II was released worldwide
*Dragon Slayer: Eiyuu Densetsu was released worldwide on Turbografx as "Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes"
*L-Dis is Japan-only
*Dai Makaimura is on the VC worldwide as the Mega Drive "Ghouls'n Ghosts", Japan included
*Winning Shot is Japan-only
*Super Darius 2 was released on Mega Drive in America and Master System in Europe as "Sagaia", as well as getting a Saturn release in Europe as "Darius 2")
*Wallaby!! Usagi no Kuni no Kangaroo Race is Japan-only

Super Darius 2, L-Dis, Formation-Z and possibly Winning Shot (never played it) are import-friendly. Dragon Slayer: Legend of Heroes is announced for a worldwide release as it's Turbografx iteration. Alex Kidd and Galaxy Force II are probably getting releases all over the world. The others probably won't come, unless Square Enix has an easy way of slapping the PSX script translation of Tactics Ogre onto the SFC game.

@7th lutz: Alex Kidd in Hi-tech World isn't a real Alex Kidd game, but the anime-license game "Anmitsu-hime" with a new slap of paint for it's release outside Japan. It won't be on the Japanese VC.

Wow, not a terribly exciting month for Japan and most of those are region exclusive too. It's nice to see another Square-Enix title, even if it's one we'll never see ourselves but it bodes well for those of us waiting for the likes of Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia.

Looks like a pretty ho-hum month for Japan for the most part.

11 games is still better than our four or five.

Amen Bass

Not very interesting for me.

I guess that means a few catch up weeks in store for NA and PAL over February then...

Super Darius 2? Gimme gimme!

I hope Tactics Ogre comes to the west, I love that game!

Hope these titles make it over.

I hope ghouls and ghosts makes it across to europe. Thats the version i'm hanging out for.

@Tony "Is Formation Z any relation to Capcom's Section Z? Inquiring minds want to know "

No. Formation Z is an awfull run ´n gun whare you transform into a fightercraft when you have to go over water. It has absolutely terrible controls and is also very repetitious. The fightercraft constantly loses fuel too, it adds to the frustration. I sincerely hope it never reaches the west, and pity the japaneese.

Nothing too great but you have to question:

Japan gets 10 VC games per month now.
USA/Europe get 4 VC games per month now.

SOMEONE AT NINTENDO CAN'T COUNT!

But January (for the US) did have 4 decent VC games so maybe 4 more decent VC games will be released.

cough Tetris Attack cough

cough Pokemon Puzzle League cough

I doubt we'll ever see most of those PC Engine titles released over here, we havn't had a TurboGrafx game since October!

I'm hoping we get to see the Ghouls 'n Ghosts game over here, I really want to play that version

Further Squenix support of any kind is good to see, though I'd REALLY like to see more Quintet stuff...

I also REALLY, REALLY want to know why the crap Japan gets so many games and we get one a week. I wouldn't mind one good game a week here if I didn't know that THEY were making off like bandits over there...

Hmmm, I'm still hoping we're getting SSB soon.

Oh em gee.

I freaking loved playing The Lost Stars when I had a Master System. Hopefully it'll come our way soon.

I dont think I ever got to play Lost Stars.
I played three of the Master System ones, but the only ones I know I had were Miracle World and Shinobi World

Drake: "It's that time of the month again!"

I hate that term, reminds me of my marriage, lol.

@ Pj (#10):

Thank you.

Wow, Japan has over 400 VC games!

lol

@That Guy from Faxanadu

Thanks for the info
If its that bad I guess Capcom would not be associated with it. Most of their NES games were good/great

Galaxy Force is great DOWNLOAD IT!

Galaxy Force and Darius are all that interest me here. Seriously, why haven't we gotten any of the Darius games yet?

Great news for Tactics Ogre, if it means we could get both Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre sometimes. The rest is of no interest to me... BTW, is it me or even Japan VC seemed lackluster for a couple of months? VC really has been going down the drain for some time now

Interesting to see a new Alex Kidd game. I may look into the Galaxy Force II as that seems quite good, Not interested in anything else, although more SE games are always good. Maybe the other SE Ogre games will get released as well.

With the releases, Nintendo need to reach out to Publishers and try appealing to them in different ways to put their games on the VC or put more of their own AAA Titles to keep sales strong. But how though?

Giving them more money on sales wouldn't work as profit increase would be tiny, so what else could be done?

Tactics Ogre!!!!!! I needs it. =(

@40, Terranigma

Perhaps tell them when their game is coming to the VC if they haven't done so already.

Seems like a Cool list and all but i want to know what USA is getting for it's 4 VC Games tho.

with NOA's VC Suprises they have made me hate Suprises now.

Where is our SSB, Tetris Attack, Nintendo World Cup, ClayFighter, Earthworm Jim 2, and EarthBound at Nintendo Mad Face not seen!!!!!!

If only rare would come on board. I never realised just how many games I loved contained some kind of rare involvement :/

@WolfLink22: You'll have to deal with another Sega game this week. Sonic Chaos, not a bad game actually

More Alex Kidd? GUHHHHH!!! I wish that I was Japanese.

@ chunky_droid

You can say that again.

@tatemon555

That's what I say whenever another Darius game gets released over there (well, replacing the words "Alex Kidd" with "Darius", of course.).

I haven't heard of all these but that just raises my curiousity, as opposed to recent VC releases here, where I just glance at them and then pretend they didn't happen.

Why release the super graffix version of ghouls n ghosts, When the VC already has the SNES and Genesis versions... That makes no sense, But the Jap line up looks good.

I prefer the Sega Genesis version of Double Dragon. The music was superior to the others, and the graphics were nigh identical to the arcade edition. And even though the frame rate was lower, there was no slowdown (or at least, a considerable amount less). Having said that, I found every rendition of Double Dragon to be extremely boring. Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team was quite fun, however (again, the Sega Genesis version was my favorite).

I got Section Z on Capcom Classics. Kind of interesting.