Will SNES games ever come to the 3DS eShop?

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Suke on 20 March 2014

Does anyone have or know any soruces if its possible, I'm kind of shock, there isn't any on the 3ds eShop yet. I'm pretty sure the 3DS is powerful enough to run them.

....GBA?

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 20 March 2014

No cause Iwata's logic is out of this world... Seriously

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Lonely_Dolphin on 20 March 2014

lol of course they could run on the 3DS! Nintendo just needs to put them there is all.

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Suke on 20 March 2014

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garretslarrity on 20 March 2014

I don't know, the SNES was a pretty powerful system.

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Suke said:

3DS and Wii U will have that feature in a distant feature as well (already confirmed by Mr. Iwata, if you didn't know), so SNES should appear on 3DS as well n_n

But antoher good question is: will GameCube games ever come to Wii U's eShop? I hope so.

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AstroGamer on 20 March 2014

To get them to run natively would be complex since as getting it to run across both cores would need to reprogram the game itself. The other option is emulating the SNES architecture which the 3DS CPU clock speed isn't fast enough to on a single core.
The reason GBA is on the 3DS is that there is DS hardware in it which contains GBA hardware. This means there are no 3DS functions working in this mode so no pedometer, streetpass, suspend, miiverse, etc. as well as virtual console features like save states. It also opens ways to piracy since it opens up hardware weaknesses. Using this is a poor option for virtual console

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Justagamer on 20 March 2014

No. The super nes was ahead of its time. 3ds cant handle mode 7.

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Suke on 20 March 2014

shikamaru317 said:
I'd love to know why the DS main series Pokemon games aren't on the 3DS e-shop. It would be a simple matter considering the fact that cartridge based versions of the games are forwards compatible with the 3DS.

.....Why isn't DS games on the eShop?

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