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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Phoenix Wright, Zaxxon, Photo Fighter X

December 15th, 2009 at 05:15pm Under Wii / Nintendo

The release list for the Japanese Wii and DSi Shops are a bit more restrained than the last couple of weeks, offering a much more manageable (read: smaller) selection of downloadable titles. On Virtual Console, for example, Sega’s isometric arcade shmup Zaxxon is the only offering. Similarly, there’s just one WiiWare game, but it’s Phoenix Wright!

DSiWare gets the cool Photo FIghter X, which lets you build fighting game characters from DSi camera snaps. More Paint By DS joins it, this time all about dogs; and in the requisite “puzzle game” positions are a new G.G. series entry and a Jupiter-developed game about rotating blocks to match colors.

Zaxxon (Arcade, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (WiiWare, 1 player, 900 Wii Points)
Shashin de Kakutou! Photo Fighter X! (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 200 DSi Points)
G.G. Series Vertex (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Kanji Practice First Grade (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Artist ni Narou! Minna no Nurikai Inu-hen (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Atelier Deco La Doll (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Castle of Magic (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Panewa! (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Kappa Michi, Final Fight 3, more

December 8th, 2009 at 04:45pm Under Wii / Nintendo

Another ridiculous overload of content today on the Japanese Wii and DSi Shops. Not so much in WiiWare, whose only release this week is The Incredible (and incredibly avoidable) Maze, but Virtual Console and DSiWare are absolutely stuffed with games!

Weirdly, there are two map-based puzzle games on DSiWare. One, Map Map! is a series of puzzle, and the other, Sekai Tanken Kokki World Map, is a quiz game. Also available: a cute puzzle game from the G.G. Series, in which you drop blocks to build a path for a character, a mini version of Paint by DS, more Jake Hunter, and a really cute game from Mother 3 developer Brownie Brown about leading a kappa along paths of coins.

Chokkan! Balance Labyrinth (WiiWare, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Final Fight Tough (Super Famicom, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Yie Ar Kung Fu 2 (MSX, 800 Wii Points)
Namco Quester (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Valkyrie no Densetsu (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Metal Gear (MSX, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
G.G. Series: Black x Block (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Sekai Tanken Kokki World Map (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Map Map! By Gotouchi Kentei DS (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Artist ni Narou! Minna no Nurikai (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
UNO (DSiWare, 1-4 players, 500 DSi Points)
Kappa Michi (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Tantei Saburo Jinguuji: Chained Curse & Mystery Case (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: King of Fighters ‘95, Kamenin Merchant

December 1st, 2009 at 02:15pm Under Wii / Nintendo

Today, for those Japanese gamers who like King of Fighters games but didn’t purchase the Orochi Collection disc — or the Neo Geo Online Collection Complete Box sets, King of Fighters ‘95 is available on the Virtual Console. SNK Playmore’s business model is so strange — these Virtual Console releases seem to actively compete with the company’s retail collections.

Also available: two cute Namco arcade games, including Rompers, an obscure game about pushing walls over on enemies. DSiWare features a Tales of Graces spinoff, a calendar that lets you mark upcoming events, and a Picross variant with surprisingly nice sprite work.

The King of Fighters ‘95 (Neo Geo, 1-2 players, 900 Wii Points)
Ordyne (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Rompers (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Ponjan Wii (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
Ato Nannichi? Kazoeru Nintendo DSi Calendar (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Kamenin Merchant (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Kaiten Illust Puzzle Guruguru Logic (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: MSX games, Eco Shooter, and 16 more

November 24th, 2009 at 02:01pm Under DS

There’s an incredibly diverse selection of games on the Japanese Wii and DSi Shops today — 12 different games on Wii, and 6 on DSi. Think of this as Nintendo’s online version of the holiday rush.

Most interesting among the multifarious offerings: a few forgotten Konami MSX games on VC, and 530 Eco Shooter on WiiWare. That’s … an Intelligent Systems-developed shooting game about shooting cans. The cans are alive and move around. It’s weird. Also weird: Nintendo’s Neratte Spot! for DSiWare, which is about throwing bombs into the mouths of fish.

The whole list is after the break, because it’s crazy long.

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Trial edition

November 17th, 2009 at 04:30pm Under DS

The WiiWare demo program arrives in Japan today, offering many of the same demos found in North America. Bit.Trip Beat and NyxQuest are out, and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is in. Oddly, the Japanese site for the demo program mentions a January 31 end date, which the North American page doesn’t. We don’t know if that’s the end of the whole demo thing or just the expiration date for this set of demos.

Also on the Wii today in Japan: two Namco arcade games which are personal favorites: free-scrolling shooter Bosconian (with fantastic “ALART” voice samples), and Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani’s weird Libble Rabble. Genterprise continues its budget series on DSiWare, with a top-down racer and a VR-looking action game:

Bosconian (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Libble Rabble (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
G.G. Series Tetsubou (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
G.G. Series Drift Circuit (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Art Academy (First and Second Semester) (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points each)

Demos: Pokemon Rumble, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord & World of Goo

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Street Fighter II’, Panel Connection

November 10th, 2009 at 12:45pm Under DS

There’s no WiiWare this week in Japan, but there is the best 8-bit adaptation of Street Fighter II ever. Not that the PC Engine version has much competition outside of pirate Famicom cartridges and the terrible Game Boy port. But the PC Engine’s SF2 holds up respectably against even the Genesis and SNES versions. It’s joined on Virtual Console by a pair of tank games from Namco.

DSiWare offers a Chinese vocabulary learning tool and a new puzzle game by Intelligent Systems. Panel Connection involves setting panels into a grid to create an uninterrupe\ted exhaust path for a rocket.

Street Fighter II’: Champion Edition (PC Engine, 1-2 players, 600 Wii Points)
Grobda (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points
Tank Force (Arcade, 1-4 players, 800 Wii Points)
ACT Series: Chinese-Japanese Vocabulary (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Panel Connection: 3 Minute Rocket (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Neo Geo, Art Style return

November 3rd, 2009 at 12:15pm Under Wii / Nintendo

This week marks two major events (sort of) for the Japanese Wii and DSi download services. First, both Wii and DSi downloads now go up on the same date. In this case, it’s November 4, which is today in Japan. Second, the Neo Geo is back! The last Neo game came out in Japan in July 2008.

On DSiWare, there’s more mahjong, more calendar apps, and more Art Style. Digidrive is a remake of one of the original Bit Generations games. It’s been released as Intersect in Europe.

Fire Emblem Gaiden (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Fatal Fury Special (Neo Geo, 1-2 players, 900 Wii Points)
“Aha! I Got It” Escape Game (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
Kyoto Students Taishi Higashida Thought Puzzle Inspiration Signed Painting (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Handy Mahjong (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Daily Growing Journal Calendar (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Art Style: DIGIDRIVE (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: WiiWare ReBirth

October 27th, 2009 at 01:44pm Under Wii / Nintendo

WiiWare is officially back in Japan, with one of the most content-rich updates we’d ever seen. Just Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth would be enough to make this week remarkable, but Game Arts’ Shadow Walker and Bit.Trip VOID are available as well, along with an oddity from D3!

Not enough? How about four Virtual Console games, including a Sonic & Knuckles with the lock-on feature intact? Or a budget DSiWare game about blowing up asteroids to save the Earth?

@SIMPLE Series Vol. 5: THE Judo (WiiWare, 1-2 players, 700 Wii Points)
Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
Bit.Trip: VOID (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
Shadow Walker (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
Championship Lode Runner (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Sonic & Knuckles (Mega Drive, 1 player, 600 Wii Points)
Face Off (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Rolling Thunder 2 (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Earth Saver (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Puzzle Selection Monthly Crossword House vol. 6 (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Hills and Rivers Remain (DSiWare, 1-4 players, 800 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Bravo for Bunnies

October 6th, 2009 at 02:15pm Under DS

Okay, so the two WiiWare games this week were actually released last week. Once again, no WiiWare games are out this week, allowing us the luxury of highlighting the content that didn’t make it to the site previously. And how could we let a NEVES sequel or a game based on Toei Animation and Sanrio’s Sugarbunnies go by without mentioning them? The Sugarbunnies game manages to out-cute Cooking Mama by setting its cooking minigames in a cartoon bunny world.

As for Virtual Console, we’re really beginning to tire of the standard 800 point price for arcade games. Bravoman is cool, but New Rally-X? Really? You shouldn’t even pay eight bucks for a New Rally-X arcade machine.

Sugarbunnies Wii: Welcome to Bunnies’ Field (WiiWare, 1-2 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
Hamekomi Lucky Puzzle Wii Return (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
Fighting Street (PC Engine CD-ROM, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
New Rally-X (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Chouzetsu Rinjin Bravoman (Arcade, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
atShogi Challenge Spirits (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Ichimoudaijin! Neko King (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Sleep Timer: Mezamashi Clock (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
6 in 1 Dictionary with Camera Function (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Itsudemo Bomberman (DSiWare, 1-8 players, 500 DSi Points)
Mario vs. Donkey Kong (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo Downloads: Galaxian heads to the Tecmo Bowl

September 29th, 2009 at 04:45pm Under Wii / Nintendo

Following last week’s drought due to the public holiday, Nintendo has turned the download faucet back on in Japan. It’s another week free of WiiWare, but there’s certainly enough Virtual Console material to make up for it. Outside of a trio of VC Arcade titles, we’ve got a Super Famicom tactical RPG classic: