Last week we reported that six Super Famicom (SNES to me and you) titles were hitting the New 3DS Virtual Console in Japan, along with a special retro 3DS home theme which was free to download if you purchased any of the half-dozen titles.
At the time Nintendo confirmed that six more Super Famicom titles would be forthcoming, and we now know exactly what they are.
Each costing 823 Yen, this week's releases are Live A Live, Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, Mario's Super Picross, Kirby's Star Stacker, Super Famicom Wars and Pop'n TwinBee.
If you've got access to a Japanese New 3DS, then you can download these lovely retro gems this week. Let us know if you plan on doing so.
[source gonintendo.com]
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Would love to have Popn Twin Bee on my three dee s
I could only dream of a Super Famicon Fire Emblem in the West.
I'd love Fire Emblem and Super Famicom Wars to be translated and released! I don't mind paying more for quality!
I'm gonna download the Super Famicom Version of Kirby's Star Stacker on my japanese 3DS. The Game Boy Version was one of the most addicting Puzzle Games i've ever played, so i'm looking forward to this
Oh how I wish the SNES Fire Emblem games would be translated to English and released on the Wii U VC. And probably loads of other games I don't even know about too.
Live A Live?! That game will never come to the West...
God, Squenix is so cruel to keep their VC support locked in Japan...
Oh wow.... Live a Live, huh?
Also, Thracia 776 is such a tease.
Why, just why??
picking up Live A Live, Thracia 776 and Pop'n Twinbee
Dear Nintendo, give us some of these (like you guys did EarthBound: Beginning) or at least a remake of some of them.
No Super Mario RPG? That sucks
Too bad Thracia 776 is never releasing overseas.
I know it's not the best or most popular game out there, but I do have a soft spot for Live A Live. It really is too bad that it will never make it over here.
At this point I believe localisation to just be too expensive to even contemplate westernised releases for some of these titles. It's usually the RPG games with massive amounts of text that people in other territories want to play. There can't be any justification for bringing them to the west. Look at Mother 3 which, earlier in the year, was rumoured to be coming. It must just be too expensive for Nintendo to contemplate
what ie 828 yen in us dollers?
@rushiosan
Don't expect titles like Super Mario RPG, Kirby Super Star or Kirby's Dreamland 3 on the N3DS Virtual Console.
Sadly, due to being SA-1 chip games, their processing requirement for emulation exceeds what the N3DS is capable of.
The SA-1 chip was basically a power boost for the SNES games that included them, as the SNES was not powerful enough on its own for what these games facilitated.
Watch Mario's Super Picross be a Japanese and EU release on ANOTHER platform.
@DiamondHero A yen can be roughly averaged to a penny. (exchange rate maybe +/- 25%, but that's the average)
Time for Super Mario Picross.
Seriously, can't get enough of Picross in general.
No problem...Perhaps hackers will convert the Thracia 776 english patch to work with the 3DS copy...Anyhoo, I played Thracia in English on my netbook years ago but on my N3DS, now that would be amazing but I don't want to hack my system now. You can friggin' play it on your cell phone (in English) now with SNES/Super Famicom emulation and it works.
Don't see what the big deal is, they're all Japan-only games, and Nintendo hasn't given us any new "import" VC games sense "EarthBound Beginnings," and "VS Excitebike." So I doubt we'll get any of 'em. Shame...
@Nagi_Nagisa I have the Zelda Majora's Mas New 3DSXL, but don't know how to ad funds, since I don't have a Japanese credit card and the eShop cards are only valid n the US. Is there any other way?
They brought out Recca, so they could bring out Pop'n Twinbee, too.
@maceng You can buy japanese eShop Card Codes from play-asia.com
I always get my Codes from them
@Nagi_Nagisa Arigatou!
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