Collectors: Wii Virtual Console vs CIB NES games.
This has been bothering me for some time. Since all the NES games (except the ones exclusive from Japan) on the VC are only $5 which is far cheaper than most those games go CIB or loose even, did you ever think of selling say your CIB Lolo 2 for 25$ and then just buying the Lolo 2 on the VC, saving it to an SD card and keeping it forever?
also a question to those who have purchased NES game on the VC (I do not own 1) does it come with one of those manuals when you download it that tells you the controls and what not?
Pretty much this has me thinking...maybe I should sell all my CIB NES games that are on the VC and just buy them on there for the $5 not only would I not be losing the game but I would most likely make a good deal of money, and save money from the games I do not own yet (Castlevania III for example).
Personally I perfer the Wiimote sideways to the NES controller. Its just as good but does not cramp up your hand and feels better. The only thing I don't like it the tiny d-pad.
I understand why some of you hardcore collectors wouldn't want to do this. But I collect only the games I enjoy (try for best 100 per system, im stuck at 150 for the NES right now 
) so im not sure if this would be all that bad?
EDIT: 1 last question. Anybody know around how many VC games a SD card would hold (NES wise)
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but thats roms not sure how it works on the wii
and Super mario 3 is the only game my girlfriend has for the wii and its
a great game for a couple to have
but i always like to get to the last world in like 10 mins then just beat the game
For a little more help here are the games I have that are also on the VC.
Kirby's Adventure
Adventure Island
Ninja Gaiden II
Castlevania II
Adventures of Lolo
Castlevania
Super Mario Bros. 3
TMNT
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Bubble Bobble
Blades of Steel
Kid Icarus
Ice Climber
Legend of Zelda
Ice Hockey
Zelda II
Metroid
Adventures of Lolo 2
River City Ransom
Double Dragon
Super Mario Bros. 2
Mega Man 2
Mega Man 3
Star Tropics II
Gradius
Life Force
Ninja Gaiden
Super C
And then these are the games on the virtual console that I have on my list of games to get CIB for the NES, but I do not have yet.
Castlevania III
Sky Kid
Ninja Gaiden III
Zanac
Balloon Fight
Mega Man
So anyway I figure if I sold all the games that I do have that are on the VC im looking at, the very least $160. So lets say worse come to worse I get $160 for everything.
To buy all these games on the VC would be... $170?!? I was shocked but yeah thats what it comes to.
Then I would obviously have to buy an SD card a 2.0GB is 14.99 at gamestop. So were looking at
$185.00
Then say I didn't want to play my NES games with the Wii sideways or a friend hated the little dpad (one of my friends do) then I would head on over to retrozone and get 2 of there very cheap and kick ass Wii NES RetroPorts for (sale) $16.00.
thats $217. wooh. so 217 - 160 = +57.
Now if you ask me I still save money because Mega Man CIB is about that price alone. Then im also getting Balloon Fight, Castlevania III (which is about a 10$ cart) and Ninja Gaiden III which I think is the same amount...
hmmm not sure if I want to do it anymore
anyway - i prefer to play the games on original platform - not emulated in any form.
If you think this is the way games meant to be played - feel free to continue aquaire games in this form is definitly cheaper.
(i saw an article somewere - i don't remember where - in witch they said that a full set on wii should cost like 10 - 20 % of the price for a full set on old NES)
(1) people who collect CIB (rather than loose) care about having the box and manual enough to not collect loose games at all. I don't see how they derive any "collecting" benefit from VC.
(2) A portion of people who collect loose carts may buy sought-after GOOD games on VC instead, to get to play the game and save money - this portion of people will be reduced by people who just use an emulator or have a PowerPak.
The biggest games only have 256KB of information. You can approximately put 2,000 of them on the internal memory.
I think it might be a big deal for expensive games, like if Little Samson showed up on VC. For normal Marios or Castlevanias I doubt it'll make much of a difference for most people.
I can see the advantage of space savings and conveniece of everything in one spot. Handy sure. But we're collectors here. I can't imagine turning in all my games for virtual games.. gross. I don't think it would come close to playing the real thing. Part of playing these old games is nostalgia. The wii doesn't have that.
thats a really good point. this is what made me think of it in the first place. My number 1 problem with NES games is that fact that you have to play through them all at once or start all over. Its annoying, I don't have 2-3 hours of free time to run through Adventure Island 2. If I could use save states the chance of me putting in 30 minutes a day would be really high and it would be more fun.
the graphics are also supposed to be a little better like colors are brighter or something. I wish they would do what they did in "sonics genesis collecton" for the 360 they looked really nice.
and I forgot about the power pak im def going to look into that.
My thoughts would be:
(1) people who collect CIB (rather than loose) care about having the box and manual enough to not collect loose games at all. I don't see how they derive any "collecting" benefit from VC.
That's exactly it.
If I only wanted all these games to play, I wouldn't have CIB game. I collect them because I want to have everything that came with it originally. A Virtual Console version has nothing.
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