Gamecube games on WiiWare?

SmashFinale · Jul 21, 2011 06:47 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 · Jul 21, 2011 06:50 AM

Quote from: SmashFinale on Jul 21, 2011 06:47 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 · Jul 21, 2011 06:55 AM

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

SmashFinale · Jul 21, 2011 07:10 AM

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

Nice copy pasta

Tanassy · Jul 21, 2011 07:23 AM

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

Nice off-topic post

Hakudamashi · Jul 22, 2011 04:17 PM

I take it the WiiU can't play gamecube discs

epicwinning · Jul 22, 2011 05:30 PM

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

Tanassy · Jul 23, 2011 10:07 AM

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

SmashFinale · Jul 23, 2011 02:26 PM

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

jkid101094 · Jul 23, 2011 02:42 PM

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

The upgraded PS3.

SmashFinale · Jul 24, 2011 03:52 AM

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

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

Tanassy · Jul 24, 2011 06:20 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 · Jul 24, 2011 07:12 AM

Cool that is epic.

Hakudamashi · Jul 24, 2011 02:27 PM

Quote from: Tana~ on Jul 24, 2011 06:20 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 · Jul 24, 2011 02:57 PM

Quote from: windlessusher on Jul 24, 2011 02:27 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.