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What blows in particular is that some of those games only found their way stateside via the Wii store. Sin & Punishment comes to mind. You can find ROMs of the
by AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
What blows in particular is that some of those games only found their way stateside via the Wii store. Sin & Punishment comes to mind. You can find ROMs of the original Japanese N64 version online, but I doubt anyone has ROMs of the US/PAL versions for the Wii that had localized menus (the dialogue was already in English).
- rincebrain 8y agoGiven that the Wii Virtual Console games were a bundled emulator and ROM, and you could swap the latter out, I imagine the content is indeed available.
- danbolt 8y agoGBATemp users have reported that the game gets localized at runtime[1], rather than a a modified ROM. Kind of ingenuous on Nintendo Redmond's part[2]. One would likely have to use Dolphin to emulate the Wii emulating the game.[3] [1] https://gbatemp.net/threads/sin-and- https://gbatemp.net/threads/sin-and- punishment.183066/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Software_Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Software_Technology [3] https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Sin_%26_Punishment https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Sin_%26_Punishm...
- rincebrain 8y agoLord, Nintendo, _why_? That's like killing a fly with a suitcase nuke.
- danbolt 8y agoI can't really speak for the main reason why, but my guess is that it gave Nintendo a level of flexibility with localizing the game without having to set up a Nintendo 64 development environment.
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- ohithereyou 8y agoThere are private trackers that carry this sort of material[1]. [1] https://imgur.com/CO4nt7y https://imgur.com/CO4nt7y
- voltagex_ 8y agoI'm pretty sure I know which tracker that is - I'm not sure private hoarding of these games is the solution. Information wants to be free!
- ohithereyou 8y agoSweet, what's your credit card number, expiration date, name on the front, and three digits on the back?
- voltagex_ 8y ago4242424242424242, 12/2021, John Q Citizen, 123.
- ohithereyou 8y agoIn all seriousness, that tracker is not the only tracker that has the data. There are many public trackers carrying all of the eShop games for the Wii, and these full sets have the game. All of these dumps cataloged in the No-Intro DAT collections, so you can verify that you have a set of known good dumps.