New on Wii from GDC: Games stored on SD now playable; Virtual Console Arcade is a go!
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Yet some more Nintendo news from GDC: Wii received a system update today during the keynote. New things of interest: the long-awaited “storage solution” for those who have filled up that internal memory and are tired of playing musical chairs wih their memory blocks (read: nearly everybody who owns a Wii). There is a new menu called the “SD Card Menu” and it lets you launch the games directly from the card. Finally! Oh, and as an added treat, Wii’s software is now capable of recognizing SDHC cards, which gives you a potential memory boost up to 32GB!
And then something unexpected: “Virtual Console Arcade” was announced and launched today with 4 titles in yet another expansion of the Wii’s digital offerings. The service will offer classic arcade games that are not found on other consoles.
- Gaplus | 600 Wii points
- Mappy | 500 Wii points
- The Tower Of Druaga | 500 Wii points
- Starforce | 500 Wii points
Two more titles, Solvalou and Space Harrier, were mentioned but as of writing have not released and a date has not been announced.
Looks like Nintendo may have finally awoken from their slumber.
Tags: Arcade, gdc, keynote, Nintendo, virtual console
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Huzzah! It took Nintendo two years to accomplish what should have been done when the system launched! But hey, at least it's finally here and people can stop re-organizing the fridge or whatever that analogy they used was.
As for the Virtual Console Arcade. Meh… I mean, it's cool that they're expanding what can be purchased and played, but it's not a huge deal to me.
Cool, I'd like to play the original Mappy again!
That is an amazing news!
Yes freaking yes to Mappy. I own it a dozen times (including the original coin-op) and I will buy it again.
And it is ABOUT TIME we got real arcade games, and not the crappy NES ports.
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How DARE you defame the NES?!!1
Joe Fourhman is anti-NES, get 'em!
You forgot to mention that SDHC also provides FASTER read/write times than its brethren thereby enabling faster load times, whee!
You forgot to mention that SDHC also provides FASTER read/write times than its brethren thereby enabling faster load times, whee!