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Re: Nintendo indeed selling us ROMs for the Wii Virtual Console
« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2008, 03:19:53 PM »
Speaking of piracy, it sure didn't kill the GBA; damn near every loose cartridge sold on eBay was a pirate, flash carts and emulators were available for its entire lifespan, and it still sold well and lasted a good number of years. I feel it was phased out a little too soon but that certainly wasn't due to piracy. The average player doesn't even know of these things.
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Re: Nintendo indeed selling us ROMs for the Wii Virtual Console
« Reply #16 on: August 15, 2008, 03:30:23 PM »
It was phased out because the DS took off in a way Nintendo could only have dreamed of. It was originally designed to be in a different market segment than the GBA(Hence the 60 dollar difference. The GBA at the time cost 70-80 bucks). However, everyone but Internet reading gamers saw it as  the next GB, and it became Nintendo's first license to print money since the NES(when referring to a system only, of course).
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Re: Nintendo indeed selling us ROMs for the Wii Virtual Console
« Reply #17 on: August 15, 2008, 03:47:37 PM »
I'm aware of that, it's just as soon as the DS took off they stopped producing good games for it (FF5 and FF6 Advance were the only GBA games I was interested in at all the last year or so of its life), I would've loved to see at least one more Metroid title or something.
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Re: Nintendo indeed selling us ROMs for the Wii Virtual Console
« Reply #18 on: August 15, 2008, 04:28:34 PM »
You know what I'd like to see on the Nintendo DS(It will never happen, I'm sure)? a 2d game with the production values of Castlevania:SOTN. Nobody's willing to put that kind of money and time into it, plus the DS 2d wise isn't as good as a PS1 anyway...
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Re: Nintendo indeed selling us ROMs for the Wii Virtual Console
« Reply #19 on: August 15, 2008, 04:30:31 PM »
Quote from: I.S.T. on August 15, 2008, 04:28:34 PM
You know what I'd like to see on the Nintendo DS(It will never happen, I'm sure)? a 2d game with the production values of Castlevania:SOTN.

I'd say the Castlevania games on the DS are pretty close though.

Quote from: I.S.T. on August 15, 2008, 04:28:34 PM
Nobody's willing to put that kind of money and time into it, plus the DS 2d wise isn't as good as a PS1 anyway...

Really? I've always heard the PSX was terrible at doing 2D.
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Re: Nintendo indeed selling us ROMs for the Wii Virtual Console
« Reply #20 on: August 15, 2008, 04:46:05 PM »
It was a 3d GPU with some commands(So to speak. I'm braindead and I can't think of a better way to refer to it) that help with doing 2D stuff. The saturn beats it, yes, but the GBA/DS(The DS' 2d capabilities are nearly the same as the GBA. Hell, the DS is basically an enhanced GBA) doesn't.
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