Online Wii VC Multiplayer Not Planned

by Chris Faylor, Dec 14, 2007 9:05am PST

Related Topics – Sega, Virtual Console, Games: Console

Following this morning's announcement of a Wii raincheck program, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime stated the company has no plans for Wii Virtual Console titles with online multiplayer.

The Virtual Console section of the online Wii Shop Channel provides Wii owners with a selection of downloadable classic retro games from a number of long-dead systems, including the NES, Super NES, Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16, and more. New titles are uploaded to the store each week.

Though most titles released on the service are exact replicas of the originals, some include new features and new functionality. For example, this week's VC release of HAL Laboratory's Pokemon Snap (N64) added the capability for players to save their in-game photographs to the Wii Message Board and send them to other Wii owners via online messaging.

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By: jabuck x Show Full Post

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Wiiware is Nintendo's Xbox Live Arcade. There is already one confirmed online game for the service, Dr. Mario.

Dec 14, 2007 1:55pm PST

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Isn't Pokemon Snap the only titles that has had any changes from the original?

"Though most titles released on the service are exact replicas of the originals, some include new features and new functionality. "

Dec 14, 2007 10:21am PST

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Isn't Pokemon Snap the only titles that has had any changes from the original? "Though most titles rel : MoreVespeneGas
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Disappointing, but not at all unexpected. I'd say that this is XBLA's main advantage over the VC. It doesn't bother me, though. We knew going in that VC games would be essentially ROMs running on an emulator.

Dec 14, 2007 9:05am PST

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Disappointing, but not at all unexpected. I'd say that this is XBLA's main advantage over the VC. It do... : David Craddock
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  these fuckers are ruining my dreams of crushing each and every shacker in SNES mariokart >:-( : boring gegtik
  - i won a gold n64 controller for a low time in mario raceway. : Iwannaacura
- Yeah it's neat on Contra and Turtles. And... uh... Contra. And Turtles. : MoreVespeneGas

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I wonder if that includes no online play for the wii ware stuff?

Dec 14, 2007 9:29am PST

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I wonder if that includes no online play for the wii ware stuff? : balt53
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Considering the VC runs at perfect frames you'd think it would have been possible. On the PC it's not because even a fraction of a second causes issues, and thus ZSNES and most NES emulators just transfer key presses instead. Which unfortunately results in very bad results when a game goes out of sync, causing the other player to jump around like a madman because he's actually in another level without you. :D Had some freaky TMNT2 sessions like that....

Dec 14, 2007 9:17am PST

Considering the VC runs at perfect frames you'd think it would have been possible. On the PC it's not bec... : avatar_58

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