Proving their absolute and irrational devotion to historical accuracy, the version of Castlevania going up on the VC this month will not be the same cartridge version that's already been released in the US and Europe. Instead, Japan is getting the original version, which was released for the Famicom Disk System in 1986. The differences include a save state feature and a name entry screen with music unheard in the US version! Which, unfortunately, we can't find. The idea that there's Castlevania music out there that we haven't heard makes us kind of uncomfortable.
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7-06-2007 @ 5:24PM
Mario Panighetti said...
I must confess that I haven't actually tried this yet, but I've read that it's relatively easy to grab Virtual Console titles from other countries:
http://digg.com/gaming_news/Wii_Virtual_Console_cross_region_purchasing
Might be worth a try. I do loves me my Zelda II FDS version.
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7-06-2007 @ 5:33PM
JC Fletcher said...
Nope. We can only change to other countries within the Americas.
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7-07-2007 @ 5:45PM
Mr Khan said...
@ JC
According to the source, you only have to stay within your signal format (Japan is NTSC too)
Unless you have tried this previously and its failed, if that's so i'd like some confirmation on that
Couldn't i get me some Rondo of Blood or the much cooler, non-localized version of JJ and Jeff?
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7-07-2007 @ 10:17PM
JC Fletcher said...
I went and tried it right after I got Mario's comment, just to be sure. Go ahead and try it; grab all those Bolivian VC exclusives!
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7-09-2007 @ 5:46AM
BPM said...
American Wiis can only change regions between North, Central, and South Americas.
PAL Wiis can change between European nations, Australia, and New Zealand.
Though, I've heard firmware updates have rendered this useless, too...
It's really quite a shame, too, that they try to prevent us from downloading games from another region. What, don't they want our money?
(Yes, I know licensing is a stupidly confusing issue, and it's a deep problem)
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7-09-2007 @ 4:55PM
UnagiMan said...
I picked up a Wii while I was in Japan a few months ago (I live in the US.) I'll download this game and report back on how it plays.
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7-09-2007 @ 5:14PM
Mr Khan said...
So they must have seperate networks for the "3" regions, then
ahh, too bad
I was cautiously excited about Kato and Ken-san...
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