Gamecube games on WiiWare?

SmashFinale · July 21, 2011, 06:47:57 AM

I found this a few minutes ago and i had to make this topic. Take a look:
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/20/nintendo-marketing-exec-says-gamecube-games-coming-to-wiiware/
Discuss whatever u want about this.

jkid101094 · July 21, 2011, 06:50:03 AM

Quote from: SmashFinale on July 21, 2011, 06:47:57 AM
I found this a few minutes ago and i had to make this topic. Take a look:
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/20/nintendo-marketing-exec-says-gamecube-games-coming-to-wiiware/
Discuss whatever u want about this.

No Gamecube discs...? FFFFFU-

Oh well, maybe I can finally get Pikmin and Super Mario Sunshine back via legit back ups. I hope the WiiU has Homebrew.

Tanassy · July 21, 2011, 06:55:26 AM

I bet they're gonna put Luigi's mansion up there, for 3DS's sake.

SmashFinale · July 21, 2011, 07:10:28 AM

Quote from: Tana~ on July 21, 2011, 06:55:26 AM
I bet they're gonna put Luigi's mansion up there, for 3DS's sake.

Nice copy pasta

Tanassy · July 21, 2011, 07:23:22 AM

Quote from: SmashFinale on July 21, 2011, 07:10:28 AM
Nice copy pasta

Nice off-topic post

Hakudamashi · July 22, 2011, 04:17:01 PM

I take it the WiiU can't play gamecube discs

epicwinning · July 22, 2011, 05:30:08 PM

they had better put some good classics on there it would make me buy the wii u

Tanassy · July 23, 2011, 10:07:27 AM

Nope, the Wii U cannot play GC discs. Thus, is the whole point.

SmashFinale · July 23, 2011, 02:26:38 PM

it sucks but not surprising. i dont think there is any game console that can support two older versions

jkid101094 · July 23, 2011, 02:42:55 PM

Quote from: SmashFinale on July 23, 2011, 02:26:38 PM
it sucks but not surprising. i dont think there is any game console that can support two older versions

The upgraded PS3.

SmashFinale · July 24, 2011, 03:52:13 AM

Quote from: jkid101094 on July 23, 2011, 02:42:55 PM
The upgraded PS3.

i thought only the older PS3 models were the only ones that could do that

Tanassy · July 24, 2011, 06:20:51 AM

Backwards compatibility is a tricky thing, you see. Did you know the SNES was far too "advanced" to be backwards compatible with the NES? It was even originally planned.

SuperWind · July 24, 2011, 07:12:59 AM

Cool that is epic.

Hakudamashi · July 24, 2011, 02:27:55 PM

Quote from: Tana~ on July 24, 2011, 06:20:51 AM
Backwards compatibility is a tricky thing, you see. Did you know the SNES was far too "advanced" to be backwards compatible with the NES? It was even originally planned.

I'm not following

Tanassy · July 24, 2011, 02:57:06 PM

Quote from: windlessusher on July 24, 2011, 02:27:55 PM
I'm not following

Considering the massive amount of time between the release of the two systems you can understand it was a massive leap forward in technology. I actually own a few books on Retro videogame hardware and and in one of them it says that it was "too costly" to have backwards compatibility given that huge jump from 8 to 16 bit. (Not to mention the SNES's little "mode 7" trick)

What I'm trying to say though is that the difference in two completely different pieces of hardware is a factor you have to think about. The Wii and the GC were similar systems and so it must have been fairly easy to include backwards compatibility, but the Wii U is clearly using some different tech, which means it'd take some more costly work getting the GC code running on it without any modifications. You could say "But Wii games work fine", well yes, but they are clearly engineered differently.

Think of how your old windows 95 game/app won't run on Vista/7. It runs on XP though, and well, XP is pretty much compatible with Vista and 7. It's just that gap in technology.

So that just means in order to get GC games running on Wii U they need to be re-compiled for the system. Nintendo saves money and space by not having to do any more hardware tinkering, and they get more money by reselling GC games. A win for them, and not too much of a loss for us really.