Wii: Virtual Console. Some answers.

~J~ · 4 Nov 2006 at 21:55

Found this earlier:

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=148658

Some of the things you can and can't do are a surprise.

For example, you CAN NOT download a VC game onto SD and take it to your friends.

You CAN NOT use the "Wii Classic Controller" to play GC games. You MUST have a GC Controller!

Each games DOES come with a digital instruction manual.

Hmmm.

BloodWolf · 4 Nov 2006 at 21:59

hmm intresting.

XPE · 4 Nov 2006 at 22:27

Nothing there that really surprised me

JUMPURS · 4 Nov 2006 at 22:39

you can't use the classic controller :confused:

strange that

badgermonkey · 5 Nov 2006 at 10:57

Good job I got a Gamecube controller

Werewolf · 5 Nov 2006 at 11:29

JUMPURS said:
you can't use the classic controller strange that

Presumably because it doesn't have the controls needed for the GC games?
It doesn't say anything about not using it for VC games.

~J~ · 6 Nov 2006 at 22:54

That should help.

Source: http://gonintendo.com/?p=7992

Zefan · 6 Nov 2006 at 23:12

So it seems the GC controller wins :\

Kreeeee · 6 Nov 2006 at 23:27

~J~ · 6 Nov 2006 at 23:35

Can you still buy wavebirds?

XPE · 6 Nov 2006 at 23:39

seems abit odd that the classic controller doesnt work with gamecube games.

Weebull · 6 Nov 2006 at 23:41

I got a Wavebird second hand from Gamestation the other week, huzzah. Been meaning to get at least one more, to allow for some multiplayer fun (housemate sold all of my pads along with his GC last year without realising it).

What's wrong with the classic pad for Gamecube games then, other than it's ugly unshapefulness? Missing the oh-so-important Z trigger?

Bobbler · 7 Nov 2006 at 00:01

I am waiting on hearing if the Freeloader disk will work with the GC element of the Wii. Hope so as I quite a few NTSC games now, but who knows.

~J~ · 7 Nov 2006 at 01:21

Bobbler said:
I am waiting on hearing if the Freeloader disk will work with the GC element of the Wii. Hope so as I quite a few NTSC games now, but who knows.

Can't remember where I read it, but this was raised a few months ago and the answer was a no.

St0rmer66 · 7 Nov 2006 at 02:07

Been reading the first look at Zelda article on IGN and it makes me want a Wii!

. Maybe if I freeze myself...

Bobbler · 7 Nov 2006 at 09:25

~J~ said:
Can't remember where I read it, but this was raised a few months ago and the answer was a no.

Bugger. Still, at least I ended up buying another Cube from MM as I was just buying up some games I missed but unfortunately some are so difficult to get for a reasonable price on PAL format - Good and Evil, Tales of Symphonia (I trawled all of Bath and Bristols 2nd hand GC games only to spot 10 copies in Trowbridge Gamestation - Bah!)

~J~ · 18 Nov 2006 at 10:18

~J~ said:

Remember that?

Well forget it, at the moment Big N have changed it Genesis and TurboGrafx16 to "Underdetermined"?

http://wii.nintendo.com/virtualconsole.jsp

Looks like that Classic Controller may come in handy afterall!

ShiWarrior · 18 Nov 2006 at 10:23

~J~ said:
Remember that?

Well forget it, at the moment Big N have changed it Genesis and TurboGrafx16 to "Underdetermined"?

http://wii.nintendo.com/virtualconsole.jsp

Looks like that Classic Controller may come in handy afterall!

reading up about the old games, makes me want a wii!

oweneades · 18 Nov 2006 at 10:26

XPE said:
seems abit odd that the classic controller doesnt work with gamecube games.

Not really it doesn't look like it has enough buttons compared to the GC controller.

Not a bad thing though as GC accessories are quite cheap now anyway and the GC controller was always nice.