All first party Nintendo games FREE on Revolution!

[Coalition]

I hope Squaresoft agrees with this, and releases FF1-3 for the Revolution. My batteries in the game pack gave out so I can't finish FF2 (I was at lvl 8 in the Moon), and ditto for FF3 (got to World of Ruin, and was leveling).

[Dalton]

I hope Squaresoft agrees with this, and releases FF1-3 for the Revolution. My batteries in the game pack gave out so I can't finish FF2 (I was at lvl 8 in the Moon), and ditto for FF3 (got to World of Ruin, and was leveling).

They rereleased those for the Playstation if you're interested (of course, as FF4 and FF6 in the "Chronicles" and "Anthology" packs respectively) and FF1 and FF2 as "Dawn of Souls" for the GBA.

[felineki]

I hope Squaresoft agrees with this, and releases FF1-3 for the Revolution. My batteries in the game pack gave out so I can't finish FF2 (I was at lvl 8 in the Moon), and ditto for FF3 (got to World of Ruin, and was leveling).

If Squaresoft participates, we could also get Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG... that'd be freakin' sweet.

*starts humming Super Mario RPG Weapon Boss theme*

[Praxis]

I hope Squaresoft agrees with this, and releases FF1-3 for the Revolution. My batteries in the game pack gave out so I can't finish FF2 (I was at lvl 8 in the Moon), and ditto for FF3 (got to World of Ruin, and was leveling).

FF3 is coming for the Nintendo DS.

[NeoGoomba]

River City Ransom


But if they do end up porting Sega games, I would buy the Revolution if they simply made Guardian Heroes available

[Praxis]

Just to keep from getting anyone's hopes up:

Sorry to be so skeptical guys, but I think that source got it wrong. They are referring to George Harrison's recent interview with Gamespot (they cite it). Here is the important part, copied and pasted from the actual interview:

GS (Gamespot): Do you plan on having like a per-download pricing model along the lines of the microtransactions that will be used in the next-gen Xbox marketplace?

GH (George Harrison): Well, we can use it in a variety of ways. We've used some of the older games already as little bonuses, either as bonus gifts or hidden in levels of games. Certainly for the first-party titles we'll be making some of those available. We haven't really talked about whether we would sell them. The third parties can make their own decision whether they want to sell them, or maybe they will add it on as sort of a free benefit when you buy a current version of the game.


So he said they will use some first party games as little gifts and stuff, but he never said that all first party games will be available for free download. He just means that they will give some away...buy Smash Bros. Revolution and get the original SSB for free. Maybe they will include so for free at the system's launch. Sounds like a good idea to me. But to say that "Harrison then confirmed that past-gen, Nintendo-created titles will indeed be downloadable for free." is a hopeful, but uncertain interpretation of the interview.

Iwata, Miyamoto, and Reggie have all said that they probably will charge for the game downloads, although they will be very reasonably priced.

Here is the original full interview: Q&A: Nintendo VP George Harrison

Post from another board. He may or may not be right. For all we know, the gamespot interview could be older (I haven't checked the dates)
He did say some of the first party games will be made available and they haven't decided whether they will be selling or not. Well we'll see.

[wautd]

The question is, which SMB3 will most people go for? Both the original NES version and the Allstars one will be available.

I'd go for the original, myself. The graphics were certainly better on Allstars, but there were a few annoying things that they changed, such as the fact that you can no longer tell if a given block has a mini-goomba inside until it jumps at you.

original for myself

but what the hell, its free so i'll take both

[Spanky The Dolphin]

River City Ransom

Third party, so no dice, but IIRC, there was a revamped version released for the GBA a while ago.

[Loner]

YEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

Full List Of Revolution Backwards Titles
Japanese game magazine, Famitsu, recently had a chance to talk to Nintendo and clear a few things up regarding the full list of backwards compatible titles that will be available free of charge on their next system. The list below contains 221 titles that were published in Japan. Not just developed like they previously stated. There will be more titles announced at a later date.

NES:

1. 10-Yard Fight
2. Anticipation
3. Balloon Fight
4. Barker Bill's Trick Shooting
5. Baseball
6. Clu Clu Land
7. Dance Aerobics
8. Devil World
9. Doki Doki Panic
10. Donkey Kong
11. Donkey Kong 3
12. Donkey Kong Classics
13. Donkey Kong Jr.
14. Donkey Kong Jr. Math
15. Dr. Mario
16. Dragon Warrior
17. Duck Hunt
18. Excitebike
19. Famicom Wars
20. Final Fantasy
21. Fire Emblem Gaiden
22. Fire Emblem: Ankokuryuu to Hikari no Tsurugi
23. Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy
24. Golf
25. Gum Shoe
26. Gyromite
27. Hogan's Alley
28. Ice Climber
29. Ice Hockey
30. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Taito)
31. Kid Icarus
32. Kirby's Adventure
33. Kung Fu
34. Mach Rider
35. Mario Bros.
36. Mario Time Machine
37. Mario is Missing!
38. Mario:Fun with Letters
39. Mario:Fun with Numbers
40. Metroid
41. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
42. Mother (Earthbound)
43. NES Open Golf
44. Nintendo World Cup
45. Nuts & Milk
46. Pin-Bot
47. Pinball
48. Play Action Football
49. Popeye
50. Pro Wrestling
51. Punch-Out!!
52. R.C. Pro-Am
53. Rad Racer
54. Rad Racer 2
55. Short Order/Eggsplode
56. Slalom
57. Snake Rattle & Roll
58. Soccer
59. Stack Up
60. Star Tropics
61. Super Mario Bros.
62. Super Mario Bros. 2
63. Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels
64. Super Mario Bros. 3
65. Super Spike V'Ball/World Cup Soccer
66. Super Team Games
67. Tennis
68. Tetris
69. Tetris 2
70. The Legend of Zelda
71. To The Earth
72. Track meet
73. Urban Champion
74. Volleyball
75. Wario's Woods
76. Wild Gunman
77. World Class Track Meet
78. World Cup Soccer
79. Wrecking Crew
80. Yoshi (Mario & Yoshi)
81. Yoshi's Cookie
82. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
83. Zoda's Revenge: Star Tropics II

Super NES:

84. Derby Stallion 98 (NP)
85. Donkey Kong Country
86. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest
87. Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble
88. EarthBound
89. F-Zero
90. FX Fighter
91. Fire Emblem: Monshou no Nazo
92. Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu
93. Fire Emblem: Thracia 776
94. Hyper V-Ball
95. Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball
96. Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run
97. Killer Instinct
98. Kirby Super Star
99. Kirby's Avalanche
100. Kirby's Dream Course
101. Kirby's Dream Land 3
102. Kirby's Ghost Trap
103. Legend (some say the movie inspired Zelda but the timing is off, sorry im a history buff)
104. Mario Paint
105. Mario and Wario
106. Mario's Early Years: Preschool Fun
107. Mario's Super Picross
108. Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge
109. NCAA Basketball
110. NHL Stanley Cup
111. Panel de Pon
112. Picross NP Vol. 8
113. PilotWings
114. Shigesato Itoi's No. 1 Bass Fishing
115. Sound Fantasy
116. Star Fox
117. Stunt Race FX
118. Super Famicom Wars
119. Super Mario Kart
120. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
121. Super Mario World
122. Super Metroid
123. Super Punch-Out!!
124. Super Scope 6
125. Super Soccer
126. Super Soccer 2
127. Super Tennis
128. Tetris & Dr. Mario
129. Tetris Attack
130. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
131. Tinstar
132. Uniracers (Unirally, the game sucked bad you raced unicycles with no rider)
133. Winter Gold (FX Skiing)
134. World League Baseball
135. Yoshi's Island: Super Mario World 2
136. Yoshi's Safari

Nintendo 64:

137. 1080° Snowboarding
138. Animal Forest (Animal Crossing)
139. Banjo-Kazooie
140. Banjo-Tooie
141. Blast Corps
142. Bomberman 64
143. Bomberman Hero
144. Buggie Boogie
145. Cabbage
146. Catroots
147. Climber
148. Command & Conquer
149. Creator
150. Cruis'n USA
151. Cruis'n World
152. Cu-On-Pa
153. Custom Robo
154. Custom Robo V2
155. DD Sequencer
156. Dezaemon DD
157. Diddy Kong Racing (w00t)
158. Donkey Kong 64
159. Doubutsu Banchou
160. Dr. Mario 64
161. Echo-Delta
162. Emperor of the Jungle
163. Excitebike 64
164. F-Zero X
165. Gendai Dai-Senryaku: Ultimate War
166. GoldenEye 007
167. Hey You, Pikachu!
168. Jack and the Beanstalk
169. Ken Griffey Jr.'s Slugfest
170. Killer Instinct Gold
171. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
172. Kirby's Air Ride
173. Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside
174. Major League Baseball Featuring Ken Griffey Jr
175. Mario Golf
176. Mario Kart 64
177. Mario Party
178. Mario Party 2
179. Mario Party 3
180. Mario Tennis 64
181. Mickey's Speedway USA
182. Mini Racers
183. Mischief Makers
184. Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 2
185. NBA Courtside 2: Featuring Kobe Bryant
186. Paper Mario
187. Perfect Dark
188. Pilotwings 64
189. Pokemon Puzzle League
190. Pokemon Snap
191. Pokemon Stadium
192. Pokemon Stadium 2
193. Pokemon Stadium: Gold, Silver, Crystal Version
194. Ridge Racer 64
195. Riqa
196. Shigesato Itoi's No. 1 Bass Fishing
197. Sin and Punishment: Successor to the Earth
198. Star Fox 64
199. Star Wars Episode I: Racer
200. Star Wars: Battle for Naboo
201. Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
202. StarCraft 64
203. Super Mario 64
204. Super Smash Bros.
205. Tetrisphere
206. The Legend of Zelda DD (Ura Zelda) (Master Quest in America)
207. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
208. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
209. The New Tetris
210. Waialae Country Club: True Golf Classics
211. Wall Street DD
212. Wave Race 64
213. Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey
214. Yoshi's Story

Satteleview Games:

215. BS F-Zero 2 Grand Prix
216. BS Special Tee Shot
217. BS Zelda

64 DD Games:

218. SimCity 64
219. F-Zero X Expansion Kit
220. Kyojin no Doshin 1 (Doshin the Giant)
221. Mario Artist: Communication Kit,Paint Studio,Polygon Studio, Sound Studio, Talent Studio

[Bounty]

Assuming that this list is real...

64 DD Games:

218. SimCity 64
219. F-Zero X Expansion Kit

Yes F-Zero track editor !

Buggie Boogie

I thought this game was never released ?

Satteleview Games:

215. BS F-Zero 2 Grand Prix
216. BS Special Tee Shot
217. BS Zelda

And how are these supposed to work without linking up to the satellite ?

[Darth Raptor]

This is like the best news ever. Seriously, this makes my day.

Suck it, Microsoft. Nintendo gets my money for the second time.

[The Grim Squeaker]

Ill be able to play Starfox & Super Metroid at last.
(they came out when i was still learning to walk)

[Praxis]

YEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

Full List Of Revolution Backwards Titles
Japanese game magazine, Famitsu, recently had a chance to talk to Nintendo and clear a few things up regarding the full list of backwards compatible titles that will be available free of charge on their next system. The list below contains 221 titles that were published in Japan. Not just developed like they previously stated. There will be more titles announced at a later date.
-snip-

AWESOME. "Available free of charge"

This confirms it.

[Praxis]

Anyone notice the 64 DD games made available?

It has Polygon Studio!

http://www.gamestats.com/objects/003/003769/

Will Nintendo release a mouse for it? Perhaps that is what the USB 2.0 ports are for? Or will the controllers be gyroscopic as rumored *everywhere* and that be usable as the mouse?



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Majora's Mask and Mario RPG. Just what I wanted. Sweet.

[Mr Bean]

*Sees list
Holy hello Nintendo... Why don't you coat the controlers with crack and be done with it, you've foced me to buy yet another one of your consoles
Hmm no GC games on that list

[Beowulf]

*Sees list
Holy hello Nintendo... Why don't you coat the controlers with crack and be done with it, you've foced me to buy yet another one of your consoles
Hmm no GC games on that list

I believe the Revolution is supposed to be backwards compatible with the GC. You want to play a GC game, buy the disc. I could be wrong though...

[Loner]

*Sees list
Holy hello Nintendo... Why don't you coat the controlers with crack and be done with it, you've foced me to buy yet another one of your consoles
Hmm no GC games on that list

GC games won't be available for download, so just buy them.

[Praxis]

Yep, the slot loading drive on the Revolution accepts GameCube disks as well. And the Rev takes GameCube memory cards. So you don't need to download them.

[General Zod]

holy fuck. consider me sold for nintendo's next gen console. *splooges*

[wautd]

time to use my "shinning" to convince Nintendo they should add a standard mouse to the console.
Oh and RTS games

[Spanky The Dolphin]

Jesus Jumped-up Christ, and that's just what's been announced now. The Revolution could have hundreds of games added to it in the year following release.

I mean, God damn, there are so many classic, overlooked, and sleeper titles up there that a lot of people either heard about and never got a chance to play or miss playing. This is amazing.

Holy shit, I'll finally be able to play Tetreisphere. I've had the soundtrack for that game for years and I've always wanted to play it...

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

Damn you, Nintendo, damn you!!! The last damned console I ever owned was an Atari 2600 owned by my parents. Yes, I played the old-school Nintendo games when I was at other kids' houses, but I was perfectly happy to be a pure PC gamer until the day I died, but nooo, you just had to go and do this to me.

I am so buying a Revolution. Now excuse me while I weep at the impending loss of my console-gaming virginity.

[Master of Ossus]

I'll say it again: the games alone are worth the price of the system. You're looking at hundreds, probably thousands of dollars worth of games, and with the convenience of playing them all on a single system--it's tough to beat that.

[DPDarkPrimus]

There is simply no way Sony or Microsoft can compete with this. You could go for years without actually purchasing a single game.

Oh, I wonder if memory cards will be able to hold games on them?

[Utsanomiko]

Well, that covers all the N64 games I sold but wanted to buy back (Mario 64, Pilotwings 64, Mario Kart 64), games I sold but had inklings of playing again (Just Blastcorps for now. That game really needed a 'time-attack clear-all' mode along with the regular time-attack you gained after clearing stage), and games I thought about getting but never did (waverace, 1080, Ep 1 racer, Yoshi's Story, Perfect Dark, Banjo-Kazooie).

But what the hell is Buggie Boogie, now that I'm looking at the list? Wasn't that game cancelled in the alpha stages because the design team couldn't figure out what to do with the cartoonish offroad vehicles they designed?

I assume they are in fact savable into memory cards. A bunch of NES/SNES could fit onto a regular card, while I'd estimate most N64 games will need one for themselves. Perhaps Revolution's cards will be larger and easily fit a large N64 game on them, or several smaller ones.

Then there's at least half a dozen SNES games I don't own that I absuloutely must get, and probably 20 NES games.

Holy shit, if you could connect to Revolutions remotely and play them online, I'd wet my pants. I didn't actually expect to see Rare games like Donkey Kong Country or Goldeneye there too...