Digital Distribution Thread (Collection, Updates, and Sales!)

[Mirby]

DLC Content Thread?

[The Drunken Dishwasher]

I shall be the first to start, so Flash won't be as shy as he was before.

VC

NES
-Super Mario Bros.3
-Kid Icarus
-Castlevania
-Ninja Gaiden
-Ninja Gaiden 2

SNES
-Donkey Kong Country
-Donkey Kong Country 2
-Donkey Kong Country 3
-Super Metroid

N64
-Sin and Punishment
-Super Mario 64
-Paper Mario

Wiiware
-Megaman 9 w/ DLC
-Megaman 10 w/ DLC
-NyxQuest
-Bust-A-Move Plus
-Bubble Bobble Plus
-Contra Rebirth
-Castlevania Rebirth
-Gradius Rebirth
-Cave Story

Xbox Live Arcade
-Shadow Complex

PS1Classics
-Final Fantasy 7 (go, spank me.)
-Castlevania Chronicles

[Bueno Excelente]

DLC Content Thread?

DLC is regularly considered just add-ons and expansions instead of actual games, but sure.

Anyway, I guess I'll make my list as well.


XBLA:
- Aegis Wing
- Hexic HD
- TMNT 1989 Arcade
- Carcassone
- Streets of Rage 2
- Prince of Persia HD
- Castlevania: SOTN
- Undertow
- Braid
- Bionic Commando Rearmed
- The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
- N+
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3
- Sonic & Knuckles
- Ikaruga
- Shadow Complex
- Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix
- Rocket Knight
- Omega Five
- Triggerheart Exelica
- Dash of Destruction
- Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

PSN:
- Megaman 9
- Flower
- Scott Pilgrim vs The World
- Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
- Rayman

Wiiware/VC:
- Tales of Monkey Island
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
- Super Mario Bros 3
- Muscle March
- Gunstar Heroes
- Super Probotector
- Sin & Punishment
- Kirby's Adventure
(Not dividing it up into separate consoles because it'd look stupid because I got about one or two games per console)

[Mirby]

Then the Console Downloadables thread!

[RMZX Harmony]

800 Wii Points, give me suggestions for a VC game.

[Bueno Excelente]

800 Wii Points, give me suggestions for a VC game.

CONTRA REBIRTH

MAKES CHEST HAIR GROW UNCONDITIONALLY

Lost Winds is also pretty cool, brah.

[RMZX Harmony]

CONTRA REBIRTH

MAKES CHEST HAIR GROW UNCONDITIONALLY

Lost Winds is also pretty cool, brah.

Lost Winds is 1000 i thought.

I thought Contra Rebirth was too.

Oh well, i'll check when i get home.

[VixyNyan]

My list and this list says 1000.

[Bueno Excelente]

Got it confused with the XBLA points, where 800 means ten bucks.

Anyway, get Gunstar Heroes.

[Acid]

Got it confused with the XBLA points, where 800 means ten bucks.

Only America would come up with something like [8=10]

Why can't you accept our superior metric system?

[Bueno Excelente]

Only America would come up with something like [8=10]

Why can't you accept our superior metric system?

Americans and their fingers and foot measures.

[RMZX Harmony]

Got it confused with the XBLA points, where 800 means ten bucks.

Anyway, get Gunstar Heroes.

I have that one on Genesis Plus GX. so I already have it on the Wii.

[Hypershell]

On principle I avoid homebrew-emulating Virtual Console games unless I already own them in some other legitimate format.  Gunstar Heroes has been on there for a long, long time.

...hell, there really isn't much of anything in the NES/SNES/Genesis catalogue that the VC does better than the GX stuff.  VC is faithful enough, but the laziness with peripheral emulation (light-guns, and although Wii64 is still buggy as hell, rumble) is hard to excuse.  And I still don't get why Genesis games refuse to recognize the GCN control stick.

Only America would come up with something like [8=10]

Why can't you accept our superior metric system?

You honestly think the metric system would have stopped Microsoft?  If they're that obsessed with some Ounce-to-Cup-times-ten formula, then I don't think they'd give it up that easily.

[Bueno Excelente]

On principle I avoid homebrew-emulating Virtual Console games unless I already own them in some other legitimate format.  Gunstar Heroes has been on there for a long, long time.

...hell, there really isn't much of anything in the NES/SNES/Genesis catalogue that the VC does better than the GX stuff.  VC is faithful enough, but the laziness with peripheral emulation (light-guns, and although Wii64 is still buggy as hell, rumble) is hard to excuse.  And I still don't get why Genesis games refuse to recognize the GCN control stick.
You honestly think the metric system would have stopped Microsoft?  If they're that obsessed with some Ounce-to-Cup-times-ten formula, then I don't think they'd give it up that easily.

Except that VC titles don't allow for save states or button mapping. That alone is a gigantic sin.

I bought Contra 3 on VC, and it was one of my biggest mistakes ever. Having to use the Y and B button on a Gamecube controller is a nightmare.

XBLA and PSN classic console titles, for example, all have save states. It's something people like to use when playing old games.

[CephiYumi]

Having to use the Y and B button on a Gamecube controller is a nightmare.

You could always use this

[RMZX Harmony]

You could always use this

Those were only released in japan.

[Bueno Excelente]

I haven't bought a classic controller because I deemed it unnecessary. All the games I'd want to play with it can be played with the Gamecube controller as well, and having been a Sega fan as a kid, I have no special need for the SNES button placement for games.

[Hypershell]

I bought Contra 3 on VC, and it was one of my biggest mistakes ever. Having to use the Y and B button on a Gamecube controller is a nightmare.

Oh, I had the exact same experience.  GCN controller is generally crap for any reasonably fast-paced SNES game, this is true.  Anything that requires shifting between Y and B any faster than ActRaiser is off the table.  That's pretty much the only reason I own a Classic, and even that was a gift and not something I was really willing to sink my own 20 bucks into.

VC "sort of" has save states for the older games, they're just not permanent.  The above-mentioned ActRaiser would certainly benefit from a second save slot, though...

You could always use this

Why can't the U.S. Club Nintendo get anything half as awesome?  Tracking that thing down on the internet will likely run you 60 bucks, last time I checked.

[CephiYumi]

I think mine was $50 or less at the time I bought it nya

[Bueno Excelente]

Oh, I had the exact same experience.  GCN controller is generally crap for any reasonably fast-paced SNES game, this is true.  Anything that requires shifting between Y and B any faster than ActRaiser is off the table.  That's pretty much the only reason I own a Classic, and even that was a gift and not something I was really willing to sink my own 20 bucks into.

VC "sort of" has save states for the older games, they're just not permanent.  The above-mentioned ActRaiser would certainly benefit from a second save slot, though...
Why can't the U.S. Club Nintendo get anything half as awesome?  Tracking that thing down on the internet will likely run you 60 bucks, last time I checked.

They're temporary save states, in which you basically have to leave the game like that, and come back to it later while leaving it untouched. My gypsy-bought liquid crystal screened Brick Game had that fifteen years ago.

Save states are meant to save your progress so you can go back to it if you lose. For harder games, they're a must, if you're not willing to go through the whole game with a few lives.

[RMZX Harmony]

They're temporary save states, in which you basically have to leave the game like that, and come back to it later while leaving it untouched. My gypsy-bought liquid crystal screened Tetris game had that fifteen years ago.

Save states are meant to save your progress so you can go back to it if you lose. For harder games, they're a must, if you're not willing to go through the whole game with a few lives.

Yeah, especially if you get no continues.

I love save states.

[Hypershell]

No argument here.  But it is a true test of manliness to try and make it through the NES Lost Levels with no permanent states.  Sometimes, though, you just want to get through the damn game.

[Bueno Excelente]

No argument here.  But it is a true test of manliness to try and make it through the NES Lost Levels with no permanent states.  Sometimes, though, you just want to get through the damn game.

Yeah, but I'd like to be given the choice to go through the game with save states or not. =P And mappable buttons for any kind of game.

Makes me kinda sad that Nintendo had such an oportunity and kinda threw it away. Each game is just as it was. Specially with every PAL game being in old 50Hz format, stupidly in this day and age...

[CephiYumi]

You kids and your stave sates

[RMZX Harmony]

You kids and your stave sates

hey, some games you just need them.