Platform: Wii
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Phantasy Star
Sam & Max: Save the World
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Mega Man X2
Samurai Warriors 3
Battle City
Mario Party 8
Assault
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers
Fatal Fury Special
Mega Man 4
SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge
Disaster: Day of Crisis
Bahamut Lagoon
Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
Milon's Secret Castle
New Trivia!
Skylanders: SuperChargers Racing
Elebits
The Simpsons Game
Skylanders: Swap Force
Nicktoons MLB
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
Vegas Stakes
Rayman 4
Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole
Tennis
ClayFighter
Sonic 3D Blast
Art of Fighting 2
uDraw Studio: Instant Artist
New Play Control! Pikmin
Chrono Trigger
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Binary Land
Beyond Oasis
Bonk: Brink of Extinction
Metal Slader Glory
Scarface: The World Is Yours
Mario's Super Picross
Star Fox 64
Metroid Prime: Trilogy
Mario Kart 64
1942
The Mysterious Murasame Castle
Lead the Meerkats
The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night
iCarly 2: iJoin the Click
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The cat on the Photo Channel and the cat on the News Channel are considered to be siblings by two developers from Nintendo's Software Design & Development Department. The Photo Channel cat is the younger sister, named Rassie, while the News Channel cat is the older brother, named Runda.
subdirectory_arrow_right Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (Game), Punch-Out!! (Game), Quest for Camelot (Game), Super Mario Bros. 2 (Game), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Game), J.J. & Jeff (Game), Yume Koujou: Doki-doki Panic (Game), Kato-chan & Ken-chan (Game), Transformers: Mystery of Comvoy (Game), GoldenEye 007 (Game), Nintendo Switch (Platform)
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As of 2023, only 4 licensed IP adapted games have been released on Nintendo's retro game digital download services: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for NES on Wii (which was later delisted on January 26, 2012), Transformers: Mystery of Convoy for NES on Wii, Quest for Camelot for Game Boy Color and GoldenEye 007 for N64, the latter two being on Switch.
Additionally, J.J. & Jeff, Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream, and Super Mario Bros. 2, all reskins of licensed titles, have been available in their license-less formats.
Additionally, J.J. & Jeff, Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream, and Super Mario Bros. 2, all reskins of licensed titles, have been available in their license-less formats.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles source:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/02/teenage_mutant_ninja_turtles_nes_pulled_from_virtual_console
Transformers: Mystery of Convoy source:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/vc/vc_tf/index.html
Quest for Camelot source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDB_vr-0KJs
J.J. and Jeff source:
https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/jj-and-jeff-review/1900-6172194/
Supplementary Wikipedia general lists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_for_Wii_(North_America)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_for_Wii_(Japan)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Switch_Online_games
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/02/teenage_mutant_ninja_turtles_nes_pulled_from_virtual_console
Transformers: Mystery of Convoy source:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/vc/vc_tf/index.html
Quest for Camelot source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDB_vr-0KJs
J.J. and Jeff source:
https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/jj-and-jeff-review/1900-6172194/
Supplementary Wikipedia general lists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_for_Wii_(North_America)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_for_Wii_(Japan)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Switch_Online_games
subdirectory_arrow_right Super Mario All-Stars (Game)
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Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition has the smallest filesize of any Wii disc released to retail.
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The different musical themes of the Wii and its applications, such as the Mii Channel and Wii Shop Channel, were written by Nintendo's in-house Music Producer Kazumi Totaka, who is responsible for numerous game themes and scores to some of Nintendo's most celebrated IPs and who is also responsible for the reccurring "Totaka's Song" Easter Eggs hidden in the numerous games he's worked on.
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In 2017, iLife originally won a court case against Nintendo stating that they infringed on their patents and Nintendo was ordered to pay iLife $10 million. However, in 2020 after Nintendo appealed the verdict, a federal court in Dallas overturned the verdict stating that iLife patent was invalid. Thus iLife's $10 million award from Nintendo was declared null and void.
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Retro Studios, according to one of it's developers Bryan Walker, were at first extremely concerned about wanting to develop for Nintendo's upcoming Wii system due to the console's mediocre specs compared to the competition. However, being among the first westerners to see a prototype of the unique controller for the console, they were immediately won over by the gaming machine's groundbreaking motion-control gimmick.
“...And we were a little concerned to be blunt, and then, ta-da: they rolled out the Wii Remote. Kind of in unison, the whole team went, ‘Ohhhhh. Ahhhh. Okay.’ Everybody was watching at E3 where the Wii was rolled out and the stampede when they opened the door of people running right past the Sony PS3 display to get in line with the Nintendo display to play the Wii. We were like, ‘Ah okay. We understand now. We’ll be quiet.”
“...And we were a little concerned to be blunt, and then, ta-da: they rolled out the Wii Remote. Kind of in unison, the whole team went, ‘Ohhhhh. Ahhhh. Okay.’ Everybody was watching at E3 where the Wii was rolled out and the stampede when they opened the door of people running right past the Sony PS3 display to get in line with the Nintendo display to play the Wii. We were like, ‘Ah okay. We understand now. We’ll be quiet.”
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In December 2016, Red Fly Studios showcased several Wii prototypes of various games the developer had conceptualized for the console. These games include: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Devil May Cry, a reimagining of Namco's Dig Dug, and Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter.
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Two prototypes surfaced online in 2018 that may have allowed the Wii Remote and Nunchuk to function as a controller for the GameCube.
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In 2017, Nintendo lost a patent lawsuit with Texas-based tech company iLife Technologies Inc. who claimed that the Wii, Wii Remote, and Wii U infringed on their patents. The suit filed by iLife back in 2013 claimed that Nintendo had infringed on their patents which include devices that "contain systems or methods for body movement detection, body movement evaluation, body movement analysis, receiving body movement signals, analyzing body movement signals, responding to body movement signals, and remotely monitoring body movement signals."
The court decided that Nintendo had breached one of their patents and was ordered to pay iLife $10.1 million, less than what they originally wanted which was $150 million. Nintendo is currently seeking to appeal the decision.
The court decided that Nintendo had breached one of their patents and was ordered to pay iLife $10.1 million, less than what they originally wanted which was $150 million. Nintendo is currently seeking to appeal the decision.
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There are unused icons in the system's BIOS that suggest the Wii remote had the capability to act like a TV remote. This feature would later be implemented in the Japanese-only TV Friend Channel, and later on the Wii U's GamePad.
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It's possible to use candles as a sensor bar. The light from the candles acts as the sensor bar's infrared lights, which are received by the controller.
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Mii characters were originally planned to appear on the Famicom Disk System. However, other staff at ##Nintendo## didn't like the idea, so it was pushed to their list of possible future ideas. The idea was experimented with on the Nintendo 64 Disc System. It was initially believed that there was no way to use the Mii characters within games, and also that users who are not artistically proficient wouldn't be interested in the feature.
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In September 2001, Nintendo quietly bought a minority stake in Tom Quinn's company 'Gyration'. They did this because he had a worldwide patent on gyrometer-based motion control technology, and had researched the field for a number of years. As part of the acquisition, Nintendo was granted licenses to use Quinn's motion control tech, as well as take advantage of his technological know-how.
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The idea of having a speaker built into the Wii Remote came from game developer Yoot Saito (credited for the games Odama and Seaman) when he mentioned that the controller could ring like a phone or make noise along those lines. Many of the development teams thought they could make good use of it, and it was deemed worth the cost of including it in the Wii Remote.
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The blinking blue light that indicates a system message has been received is actually synced to the bird call of the Japanese bush warbler.
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The Wii Nunchuk has a similar structure to the middle part of a Nintendo 64 controller.
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