Well? Hey, will Nintendo ever put a Mature rated game on the Virtual Console? Or can't they do that since there's no way of age restricting it? Or is there a way of age restricting it? Is "T" as high as they're willing to go? Don't tell me Nintendo is going to drop the ball on us again with this one.

I'm sure they can expand restrictions with a firmware update. What does parental controls do right now? Just limit the access to anything that uses online?

The whole way the parental controls work is that the game has its rating programmed into it, and the console reads that rating.

Gamecube games didn't have the rating programmed in, so the Wii can't read it from the game (although, if Nintendo wanted to, they could just write a fancy program for the Wii to recognize certain codes in every single GCN game, enabling it to know what the game is, then have the program know whether that game is M-rated or not. But that'd be a complicated program to put together, and really a waste of time).

Either way, VC games are obtained via the Internet, which makes 'em much easier to write in the same parental-control code that Wii games use.

It wouldn't even require a firmware update. The only reason M-rated games haven't released on VC yet is because really, the only M-rated games that would be worth putting on it are on N64, and they're few and far between.

What VC game are you looking for anyway?

Neo Geo games are coming to VC this summer (dunno when), is Samurai Showdown rated M? It might be...

Not sure how many classics that would appear on the Virtual Console are rated M anyway.

What I do know is that original Wii Ware content will not be vetted by Nintendo...so you'll undoubtedly be seeing some rated M material along the line...

Have any M Rated games ever been on Live? It just seems like asking for trouble placing M rated games on something that a kid can get so easily.

I think it's more than enough that there are parental controls on the game systems.  Even if it is asking for trouble, sombody somebody needs to tell stupid parents like that to start being more responsible for what their kids are exposed too.  It's easier than ever with all the parental controls and v-chip stuff and all the other crap parents have at their disposal. 

And anyway, I'd think that the web browser would be a bigger issue than games.

Oh, and I'd like to see MK3 for the SNES.   I have a lot of fond memorise playing that game 11 years ago with my then girlfriend. 

 Putting the responsibility on the parents and letting them take the blame is the ways things should be, but we've seen how well that works.  Truth is parents don't use the parental controls, kids can go buy Wii Point cards, and download M rated games without the parents being any wiser and Nintendo would be the one answering for it in the eyes of the media.

Well, as long as Nintendo doesn't get sued (I don't think what twesterm suggested is solid enough grounds for it), I don't think we should care whether parents enforce parental controls or not.

What is "Splatterhouse" rated? Or was it just toned down for console release?