meh, fuck the VC.
I thought it was really cool at first, but its not implemented well.
Thing is, I'm really not going to play older games on my TV. BUT I do like to play them on portable systems. Nintendo should have included a way to play the old games (at least the 8 and 16 bit ones) on the DS. it would be easy. simply release a DS cart with the same emulator software thats on the Wii, and lots of free space. allow the Wii to send your downloaded games to your DS via wifi. And drop the prices signifigantly.
SOny, on the other hand came out with a playstation 1 emulator and a way to buy games on your PS3 and play them on your PSP (an official PS1 emulator is included in PSP firmware 3.02). they released 5 not so great PS1 games for this, at $5.99 (nintendo charging $5 for 20 year old NES games in simply unnacceptable in light of this). sounds Ok, nothing great because none of the great PS1 games were released as of yet.
but then a couple short weeks later, the PSP homebrew community, specificically a guy with the online name Dark_Alex came out with a hacked version of the firmware, called 3.02OE-B that allows you to convert disk images of YOUR OWN PS1 GAMES (or ones downloaded online for the unscrupulous pirates among us ) The majority of games work perfectly or nearly perfectly, since this is an official Sony emulattor that has been hacked, not a homebrew emulator.
On top of that, with these new hacked firmwares, you can do mostly everything you can do on the 1.5 firmware, which means homebrew support, which means emulators, which means you can play NES, SNES, Genesis etc games FOR FREE. now of course, homebrew emulators dont always work 100% and can be a bit buggy, but for the most part these work well on the PSP. also, with the new firmwares you can play ISOs of new PSP games (more piracy )
so basically, with a hacked PSP, you can play NES through PS1 games as well as PSP games FOR FREE.
however, the DS continues to rape the PSP in sales, and rightfully so. Because if you use the PSP as Sony wants you to (as the majority of PSP owners most likely do) it sucks and has like 5 or less good games. Where as the DS has alot of good and innovative games.
Basically nintendo stands to bring a better working alternative to 8 and 16 bit emulation on the PSP to its already huge DS audience, I dont know why this hasnt been done.
