Why are there hardly any N64 Virtual Console Games?

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16-bit gamer on 20 November 2008

Wii has been out for 2 years now and all they have is 15 N64 games...WTF!!!!!...Neo Geo games have only been available for 13 months and they have 18 titles

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Resident_Hazard on 20 November 2008

Early on there was some news about the N64 games being substantially more difficult to emulate for the Wii than anything else. Probably why the only games on there are titles published by Nintendo. No Castlevania or Turok or anything like that yet.

I only saw the report in one place, the location of which I've long forgotten. But, that's what I heard. The lack of N64 games, and the lack of 3rd party N64 games would seem to indicate that perhaps there was some truth to that blurb.

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Valkyria00 on 20 November 2008

Nobody here has an answer to that because no one here works at Nintendo! Why ask suck a question? j/k

Who the hell knows!?!? They are pretty good releases though. I want Pokemon Snap!!!

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Chrizum on 20 November 2008

It's because most N64 games used either the controller pack or the expansion pack, and Nintendo doesn't want to emulate those.

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NiKKoM on 20 November 2008

Cause the of the Memory Pack...

The Save functions which where on the N64 cartridge are functional.. However the save function which uses the memory pack are not.. and since most 3rd party games used the memory pack.. Most games won't save.. It's like Mario Kart 64.. Save works because it was on the cartridge.. saving ghost data doesn't work because it used a memory pack..

Hench the lack of N64 games....

Why they can't fix it is another mystery yet to be solved.. Let's go gang!

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averyblund on 20 November 2008

If the emulation thing its true they are damn lazy. There are quite a few Mac/PC emulators which are pretty perfect. Most designed by 1 or 2 people. Plus Nintendo has far more knowledge about the architecture.

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