Am I the only Wii owner not into Wiiware and VC?

[Khuutra]

famousringo said:

sethnintendo said:

One main point against owning the physical copy of an old cartridge game would be battery life of game cartridges. If you went out and bought old system cartridges (NES, SNES, etc..) then your saves would eventually be erased due to the battery dying.  Also, the game cartridge could freeze during gameplay.  Plus, saving the game progress by hitting home and going back to the Wii Menu is far superior.

It used to be possible to get those batteries replaced. I have no idea what the cost/availability of such replacements would be nowadays, though.

My solution was to just turn off my TV and leave the NES running. :P

You can still replace them, but it's a do-it-yourself project.