PC Engine And MSX Games Coming To Japanese 3DS And Wii U Virtual Console Services

It's about time... What about SEGA&SNK consoles, BTW?

Dracula X, please

@Baum897 The TurboGrafx / PC-Engine has been on the Wii Virtual Console for years now.

When will Neo Geo be coming to 3DS? I want all my arcade KOF and Metal Slug games on the go as well.

I am happy to have a new console on the 3DS VC (and on Christmas!), but I do wish we had a better game than The Kung Fu.

I was wondering when they would get this article up on the site. They've shown up on the VC update on the Japanese Nintendo page hours ago. haha

Any info on price for people who have transferred the game from their Wii? Any similar discounts to the NES and SNES games?

Edit: just checked. It does say preferential price for Wii version owners but doesn't say how much.

Not exactly thrilled about this. More consoles already supported on Wii VC, that will undoubtedly produce more titles already available on Wii VC. Except MSX, and if it wasn't available outside of Japan during the Wii era, I doubt it will this time. So, Japan will get more of the same!

I'd be excited if they were supporting the likes of Saturn or Dreamcast, but not over this. Already, we barely see actual, you know, HANDHELD 3DS VC games. This just tells me to expect more of the same from both VC services, so at the expense of sounding negative, I'm going to continue going into Thursdays with reasonably low expectations. Nice thing about that is what a wonderful surprise it is when something special pops up on either VC!

On a side note, interesting that non-Nintendo consoles have been announced before N64 on Wii U VC. Wonder if there is emulation difficulty?

"Hopefully some — if not all — of these titles will be making the jump over to the west in the not too distant future."

The Kung Fu can stay in Japan, by all means.

@FluttershyGuy You do sound really negative, but after looking at the low amount of support the VCs get in the west, its understandable.

Just look at how many games we've gotten recently. We had a really big dry spell for anything other than Famicom/NES games for like 3 months, and then all of a sudden we got a huge boost in the other platforms.

The PC Engine makes sense, since in its time it was really popular in Japan. I just consider it a bonus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_for_Nintendo_3DS_%28Japan%29

If MSX games can be released, why can't Rare's games? Do Microsoft not own the rights to MSX games?

@Nintenjoe64 No more than they own the rights to all games made for Windows.

@Nintenjoe64 The MSX isn't an MS console. It's a computer standard with various companies like MS and Sony involved. Like hiptanaka says, MS doesn't own any more rights to MSX games than to Windows games.

@Nintenjoe64 It seems that even though they were involved in the creation (this is Microsoft of Japan, not the main company it seems), they don't hold the trademark. It looks like its been moved quite a bit.

I was always a Nintendo guy since I was a kid, so I never got to play a lot of these games until the VCs. I'm a bit excited, especially since there are SO many PC Engine games.

EDIT: In Japan I mean!

Awesome ! I own a PC engine but some games I'd prefer to play on Wii U (like 4 or 5 players Bombemran)

Wow! Finally TurboGrafx-16 games come to the 3DS Virtual Console. If I recall correctly Nintendo promised TurboGrafx games were coming to the 3DS VC when they first announced 3DS was getting VC games... Hopefully they don't take this long to bring GBA & N64 games to Wii U VC...

Edit: I also hope these games leave Japan, I'd buy a few.

So this is confirmation that the lineup of consoles on the 3DS VC isn't final. I've looked around at several sites and while most of them for the longest had the PC Engine as "TBA", they also had SNES/Super Famicom, Neo Geo and Neo Geo Pocket Color, and Game Boy Advance as "TBA" as well. It gives me hope that some of these systems will make it eventually. And the PC Engine being added is going to give the Japanese VC an even bigger boost that what we had in the past weeks.

I'd love for GBA games to get on the 3DS. I know people say its not going to happen, but there's hope, and if not then there's always the next handheld

I'm not even worrying about the 3DS not getting the MSX games. It was Japanese only, and yes I live in Japan, but there were only 13 on the Wii VC.

Are they seriously going to add these consoles before the N64?! explodes

MEH! there wasn't much good stuff on Wii TG-16 VC anyway. Just keep those MD 3D classics coming on 3DS and put SEGA consoles up on WiiU VC... Atleast we know they does VC consistently

And today there's going to be a Nintendo Direct.
What a coincidence, right?

I wonder if the western titles will be announced on the Nintendo Direct coming up. Be nice if they give an update on the GBA and N64 games. I still think the GBA on the Wii U is a weird choice, seems more logical to release them on the 3DS given the games were designed with small portable screens in mind.

@ETLN [insert 'why can't we have both' GIF here]

@ETLN
Especially given how Nintendo has been gung-ho on keeping the Wii Virtual Console "home console only" while the 3DS VC has always been "handheld only" so far. Then again, the 3DS can rely on the NES... I hope that's not the justification for keeping the GBA VC WiiU-only.

As much as I love retro consoles and games a lot of people want Saturn, dreamcast and Gamecube games and understandably so they all have some real gems I don't know why SEGA and Nintendo don't make this happen on wii u.

@Damo Sorry. In Japan we're still at early evening at this time. I do know there are people who stay up late (I'm originally from the UK), but yeah, living in Japan so long sometimes I do forget, and this is my main free time after my job finishes.
And yes to ELTN I think GBA on the WiiU is a weird choice, since 3DS gamers want handheld games on their VC. I read once that there was an issue within the programming for GBA on the VC, which makes their decision to have the Ambassador program include poorly emulated GBA games as part of the deal a little strange. It seems like they're stuck with that choice. I don't think it would take that much work, but going back on the exclusivity and making a new system for having GBA VC games on the 3DS seems like something they gave up on. I'm not 100% sure so don't quote me on this, but it does seem like something that they're not wanting to deal with, rather than something they CAN do.

@FluttershyGuy PC Engine had a handheld (And it ran the exact same games same as the Sega Nomad.) Only handheld VC worth having is the GBA.

There were several TG16 shmu'ups I wanted to get on the Wii VC but I held off buying anymore beyond Gate of Thunder cos I didn't want to transfer all my Wii data to Wii U. Hope they add them soon cos they'll probably look better on the Gamepad rather than a 46 inch LED.

X68000 is what they should go for it has the bwst versions of everything on it pretty much.

MSX on VC would be enough for me, for TG16 I have my Wii.

All I can say is bring on the games.

Please bring this to other countries! And, give me some SEGA and C64 love!

I wonder if & when the CD titles come to the Wii U Virtual Console, would they still use the heavily compressed audio like the Wii or are they going to release the uncompressed audio.

If it's the latter I would find it worthwhile to update my CD titles then.

Give me Master System, Nintendo 64 and (yes) Gamecube titles for the West, and I'll be happy.

I wonder if Nintendo has plans to release Wii games digitally. I don't see why they couldn't do that given the Wii mode could run the games. Perhaps they could simulate the disc drive somehow to get them to run. I suppose the biggest issue is if the flash memory or a external HDD could keep up with the transfer speeds of the Wii disc. There's certainly some Wii games I'd still like to play.

wii u desperately needs arcade,saturn, dreamcast and gamecube titles otherwise their will be no growth between the consoles in terms of their vc service which is pretty bad.
And 3ds needs wonderswan, lynx ,gba even virtual boy titles things that will draw interest for being new and interesting weve had all this stuff before!?

"Are you happy to finally see the 3DS and Wii U Virtual Console services grow in scope?"

Well, no, because we still don't have GBA or SNES games on the 3DS; the ones that people care about the most.

Not really bothered about this to be honest, i would really like to see neo geo, saturn and dreamcast on the wii u virtual console and gba on the 3ds

It's cool they're adding PC Engine games to the 3DS virtual console. But why not start adding some actual SNES games now? We've already received some Genesis ports and now PC Engine. Let's just jump all the machines who competed with each onto the handheld. I'd prefer to play them on the 3DS versus the WiiU anyway.

So they're finally branching the Wii U VC out... In Japan. What a surprise...

PC engine games were available on the Wii in North Amercia, so I see no reason why they can't be ported to the WiiU. I wanna play Gradius 2 on the game pad!

cool, there are some nice PC engine shooters!

Nice. If they start releasing stuff that didn't appear on the Wii, I just might upgrade my Japanese Wii to a Japanese Wii U!

What's the difference between NES Gradius and TG-16 Gradius?? I'd much rather have Blazing LaZers.

I hope they do bring it to the west soon, I would enjoy playing Castlevenia: Rondo of Blood on the gamepad...

It's a good step forward. Now bring all Sega consoles, Neo Geo, and arcade and we can get to business.

HELL YEAH TURBOGRAFX! It better be coming back REALLY soon for the rest of us!

This gives me faint hope for the MSX version (not as good as the SCD port but oh well) release of SNATCHER to be on a VC.

Castlevania: Rondo of Blood!

It has been a long wait, now lets hope it is a short wait for them to come over from Japan.

Great.

More...faster...everywhere...please.

Hell yeah, bring it to NA please.

@Baum897 the PC engine has an amazing library of 16-bit games. This is amazing news. I'm really hoping Dracula x comes fast.

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This is good news ....I was hoping somebody would grab the bull by the horns though and bring out all the the PCEngine games in the 3d classics line. Sega has proven that its 3d Classics can shine like they are brand spankin new retail games I guess that might be too much to ask of Konami

@FluttershyGuy I have no Clue why VC games Trickle out. Seriously there should be 3 to 5 coming out per week. It just boggles the mind as to whynot

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@Technosphile Wow it took 10 months but Dracula X is finally available... but least it is the SNES version