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Genesis updates are more infrequent than I would like but I would hope the updates are more substantial. I believe they tend to add 3 to 5 games per update to compensate for the irregular support.
I’m not confident they’re going to add more Genesis games ever again.Genesis updates are more infrequent than I would like but I would hope the updates are more substantial. I believe they tend to add 3 to 5 games per update to compensate for the irregular support.
October 25, 2021 | Start |
December 16, 2021 | 51d |
March 16, 2022 | 90d |
April 21, 2022 | 35d |
June 30, 2022 | 69d |
September 15, 2022 | 75d |
December 15, 2022 | 90d |
April 18, 2023 | 123d |
June 27, 2023 | 69d |
May 18, 2024 (today) | 321d |
I feel like it's about time for another platform this year - of which TurboGrafx/PC Engine feels like it has to be next now; given that it was on all 3 previous Virtual Console services. They could also look to add more DLC to the service, with Splatoon 3 Expansion Pass seeming like something that would be inevitable.I think they should do some big news in the June Direct for NSO especially if it's a slow year for big first party games. Outside of finally adding mainline Pokémon though I'm not sure what that could be.
More like please download and play these games so we can convince Sega to update it again.The NSO app (where you go to get Icons) had a huge Genesis banner for some reason… don’t give me false hope Nintendo!!! Please tell me this is because more Sega games are coming!
For what it’s worth: more people should! There’s some all time greats on that app!!More like please download and play these games so we can convince Sega to update it again.
I know I grew up playing these games. I have been playing some this weekend just to get some playtime so they know someone is still interested in the app.For what it’s worth: more people should! There’s some all time greats on that app!!
Everyone should be playing Crusader of Centy!More like please download and play these games so we can convince Sega to update it again.
Tried but I got stuckEveryone should be playing Crusader of Centy!
Please give us the Quintet games on NSO. The act raiser remake was a dud, so maybe square will be willing to release those since there will be no remakes coming at this point.
Obviously this means Sega CD games (including the working designs games that didn’t make the Wester Genesis mini 2). Lunar and Popful Mail incoming! Plus an M only NSO app like Japan has for N64 but exclusively for Snatcher.
I don’t think they’d, for example, put FF1-6 on there because they’d rather sell the Pixel Remasters, but anything lower priority like Mystic Quest or Secret of Evermore could get released on NSO! It’s basically free profit in exchange for zero effort and budget. That’s 100% rate of return! What investor would hate that?
but... Shadow isn't in any of the Sonic Advance games... unless you mean Sonic Battle?Hopefully the Sonic Advance titles come to the service. With Shadow being in Sonic Movie 3, Sega should be trying to pander to a very specific era of Sonic fan as much as they can. Sega seems to be allergic to that time period. The Adventure games still don't have ports to modern consoles and they're adding a Shadow expansion to Sonic Generations which is cool but they should also be rereleasing the games from Shadow's era.
but... Shadow isn't in any of the Sonic Advance games... unless you mean Sonic Battle?
Fair enough, I guess, but even then, I'd say the Advance games were more a way to give Genesis kids something while the 3D games were doing their own thing on consoles. Not sure if they pander that much the "Adventure era" other than the designs.I didn't say that Shadow was in Sonic Advance, did I?
"....Sega should be trying to pander to a very specific era of Sonic fan as much as they can". Adventure 2 and Advance came out the same year so they are concurrent with each other. They're from the same era.
Super Monkey Ball Jr would be worth it just for Monkey Mini Golf. Hopefully we get Advance Guardian Heroes too, always wondered what that game was like, though I guess that's technically not a Sega release.The advance games would be great additions to NSO. Actually, SEGA has an incredible GBA catalogue that needs to be tapped into. Gunstar Heroes, Chu Chu Rocket, Monkey Ball, etc.
The Advance games are absolutely closely associated to the Adventure games to me—plus they literally connected to each other for the Chao Garden stuff! I also love the Advance games despite not caring much at all for the Genesis games and Mania (hell, I even prefer Sonic 4 over those), and they never really felt similar to the Genesis games to me beyond being 2D.Fair enough, I guess, but even then, I'd say the Advance games were more a way to give Genesis kids something while the 3D games were doing their own thing on consoles. Not sure if they pander that much the "Adventure era" other than the designs.
I didn't say that Shadow was in Sonic Advance, did I?
"....Sega should be trying to pander to a very specific era of Sonic fan as much as they can". Adventure 2 and Advance came out the same year so they are concurrent with each other. They're from the same era.
The same can apply on why the Rare GBA games weren't on Rare Replay.AFAIK THQ's GBA exclusivity agreement with sega was made right off the heels of them having financial issues, and some speculate the reason they all skipped the english Wii U VC is because THQ's rights still hold to the western versions: thus they'd never be able come west without having to get clearance from the owner of THQ's assets first
which... would be weird if sonic advance 1-3 came out yet again, but only on the JP service. I hope they get that resolved some day, Atlus in particular had some good gems like the shining force remake...
Yeah but they've already licensed thq games though. Alone in the dark is credited to them. So they should be able to work out the sega and rare gba stuff.AFAIK THQ's GBA exclusivity agreement with sega was made right off the heels of them having financial issues, and some speculate the reason they all skipped the english Wii U VC is because THQ's rights still hold to the western versions: thus they'd never be able come west without having to get clearance from the owner of THQ's assets first
which... would be weird if sonic advance 1-3 came out yet again, but only on the JP service. I hope they get that resolved some day, Atlus in particular had some good gems like the shining force remake...
and, as I mentioned before (about the Mortal Kombat games), we have plenty of situations of publishing changing hands for a rerelease on Virtual Console and NSO, even if logo and copyright mentions still remains in the ROMs.Yeah but they've already licensed thq games though. Alone in the dark is credited to them. So they should be able to work out the sega and rare gba stuff.
Tbh, with Sega, they only seem to care about doing collections of 2d games if they are Genesis games.and, as I mentioned before (about the Mortal Kombat games), we have plenty of situations of publishing changing hands for a rerelease on Virtual Console and NSO, even if logo and copyright mentions still remains in the ROMs.
Though I'm skeptical on SEGA bringing their GBA games in general, especially the Sonic titles... seems like something they're holding off for some kind of multiplat (and overpriced) collection at some point...
This is what I've been thinking, too. It's a shame; I didn't grow up with any Sega systems and have been introduced to some pretty cool titles through the app. I was looking forward to more.I’m not confident they’re going to add more Genesis games ever again.
For the record, here are all the Genesis/MD drop dates and how long it was between drops:
October 25, 2021 Start December 16, 2021 51d March 16, 2022 90d April 21, 2022 35d June 30, 2022 69d September 15, 2022 75d December 15, 2022 90d April 18, 2023 123d June 27, 2023 69d May 18, 2024 (today) 321d
It's still nonsense how the NES controller isn't supported on GBC NSO like it would be on NES NSO where you could still basically press Capture and Home with SL and SR, same deal with SNES controller for GB and GBA NSO too. It would be a lot cooler.
Sad to think but this is where we're at. It's frustrating with the Genesis app in particular as M2 has a bunch of stuff (Virtua Racing, Sega CD games) primed and ready in M2Engage that could be a great little relaunch in itself. Nintendo could even release the 6-button pad in the west timed with it.I’m not confident they’re going to add more Genesis games ever again.
For the record, here are all the Genesis/MD drop dates and how long it was between drops:
October 25, 2021 Start December 16, 2021 51d March 16, 2022 90d April 21, 2022 35d June 30, 2022 69d September 15, 2022 75d December 15, 2022 90d April 18, 2023 123d June 27, 2023 69d May 18, 2024 (today) 321d
I mean if sega doesnt want to work with em, then nothing will get done. Ninty may be fine but sega may think differently.Yeah but they've already licensed thq games though. Alone in the dark is credited to them. So they should be able to work out the sega and rare gba stuff.
Because they’re the only things that sell. It irks me that people didnt buy the more interesting Sega Ages games like Thunder Force AC, but no, it was Sonic, puyo and outrun again that stayed high on the eShop charts.Tbh, with Sega, they only seem to care about doing collections of 2d games if they are Genesis games.
Yeah. No way any of these games actually come out but I can have unreasonable hope stillUntil the CEO of Quintet can be found, you ain't getting anything else. SE was cleared to reissue Actraiser 1 and only Actraiser 1 back during the Wii VC days and that's why it is the only quintet game they've put out and even remade. They can't reissue the other games because Quintet kept the copyright and the CEO has been unreachable for years now. (Yuzo and the Wonder Boy creator both lost contact and it seems he went off the grid completely by choice)
Also Soulblazer/Gaia require extra parties to sign off (A music composer and an artist respectively), and with Ninty having tried to reissue IOG on VC via the info we know from the gigaleak it seems like if Nintendo couldn't pull that off, nothing would. Terranigma would be easier due to no external factors, but again, Quintet CEO is missing.
Same for Robotek/Actraiser 2.
So mark those in the same bin as Uniracers imo; a huge legal mess that is very, very unlikely to ever be resolved. Such is the nature of how Enix's weird copyright choices work... (Devs owned their own IP)
I really really want SCD games on NSO. if that's the cause for the delay for that Genesis app, I'd be excited to play Sonic CD, Shining Force CD and the other gems. Absolutely no shot Victor's crap will end up on NSO though, considering the ludicrous fees he tried charging Sega, and the fact they had no issue going through all the legal hell for Captain Tsubasa, but didn't even want to bother satisfying Vic's demands.
Knowing how that man is, I do not blame SEGA for rejecting his offers. I'd definitely hope for Snatcher/Panic and other third party stuff though.
Considering this is the same company that put out a bunch of games on N3DS/Wii U VCs, they all bombed (and they didn't even bother putting any of em out in the west), and any sort of reissue they've done on switch since have no doubt outsold anything they ever dropped on a VC service... I'd not be shocked if they'd even hold back low tier stuff like mystic quest, king's knight, or even hanjuku hero for some sort of fancier reissue ala the Collection of Saga. I'd be gobsmacked if SE ever dropped their retro games on NSO, in any way, shape or form. Maybe the Taito games since Taito is more independent? but idk. Don't get your hopes up basically. Mischief Makers I'd be more inclined to bet on seeing in a multiplat remaster than NSO.
I really hope SE/Taito do a lufia compilation.
THQ didn't own the Shining games, Atlus handled those but they still skipped Wii U VC in the west. I'm not sure THQ is really the roadblock people were assuming.
Conker pocket tales was my second ever GBC gameDidn't even realise GBA had a Shining Force remake and, naturally, it looks very expensive on the second-hand market. Funny that THQ also handled Rare's releases on the GBA, namely Banjo-Pilot, Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge and It's Mr. Pants. Be interesting to see if those, and Rare's self-published GBC games (Perfect Dark and Conker's Pocket Tales) make it to NSO. Sega and Rare on GBA would be good additions.
You say ports plural but there was only 1 GBC port of a Donkey Kong Land game, that of DKL3 known as Donkey Kong GB: Dinky Kong and Dixie Kong.edit - I also asked for the Japanese GBC ports of the Donkey Kong Land games to be made available internationally, because I'm a risk-taker and a dreamer.
I think Tuesdays are the new NSO update day now that retail releases have moved to ThursdaysThink we get anything tonight?
Think we get anything tonight?