Pokémon Snap gets Wii functionality on Virtual Console

this is easily the best news i've heard all week.

The one concern I have... Wii integration being taken advantage of in annoying ways. Like my SMG copy sends me mail about how Luigi is missing. EVERY DAY! So I don't get to play during the weekdays but the Wii glows like some portent of new shit. Nope, just toad sending me a picture of Luigi again. Fuckign annoying. If VC games include Wii integration, let's put that concept to bed immediately.

The extra love and effort for VC title-porting is what makes buying it again worth it.

Heh, Pokemans...I hated this game. I worked my whole summer to get it! Then I beat it in less than a couple of hours! Almost as bad as Pokemon Stadium!

Y'argh!

I can get into a lot of Nintendo's games, Pokemon has never been one of them...

Damn you, Joystiq! I was excitedly thinking of how great this game would be with Wii aimaing, and then I read further to see that it's just Wii message board functionality. I thought I was actually going to buy a VC game. Oh well.

What I want to see is this being done as a standard for at least all Shooting and FPS games like Turok and Duck Hunt, and even the SNES games that used the Super Scope, or games like Mario Paint that used the mouse, so that they all use the Wiimote's pointer in place of that. I'd also kinda like to see Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64 done up with the wiimote racing style.

I loved this game. Is was SO MUCH FUN. Here's hoping it comes to the UK eventually.

I think they should make Pokemon Hunter where you shoot all the little fuckers!

That would BE HUGE!

Oh god please, no one tell my husband about this or he will never ever play anything else.

oh god i fukkin love pokemon snap.

MAKE IT SO NINTENDO!

*Sniff* so many good memories with that game. I used to play it for hours to get Mew juuust right...

Actually, I'm surprised that more people here besides me have played Tetris Attack. It was really what brought me into gaming, along with Super Mario World and Starfox.

In fact I sometimes still slip it into my SNES and have a 10+ minute match with my younger brother. Even my dad would occasionally join in. Best multiplayer I've ever had.

What I'd give for an online version on the VC...

Pokemon Snap! 2 for Wii confirmed.

This isn't new functionality. When Pokemon Snap came out for N64, Nintendo distributed sticker-print kiosks to Japanese convenience stores and American Blockbusters. You plugged your game cartridge into the kiosk, and it would print out your stickers--for a moderate fee.

The odds are that they haven't changed the game's code at all. The game just supports image output, and I guess Nintendo figured it was worth the (probably very minor) effort to make that pre-existing feature interface with the Wii.

It's still a cool precident--if there's a feature already in a game that can interface with the Wii, it looks like Nintendo's going to do it. But this isn't some portent of them adding in new content or features.

This is not an entirely new feature. Does anyone remember the Pokémon Snap Stations at Blockbuster Video rental stores? You would bring your game cartridge (not your memory card) and get prints of your photographed Pokémon. This is probably a way to partially restore that functionality. I think that players could earn rewards somehow, but I don't recall any specifics. If I recall, you could also play a demonstration of the game on a Pokémon Snap Station, because there were two controllers and I remember seeing the standard title screen for the game on the screen. I'm not sure if a special version of the software was running, but I do know that there was a cartridge slot right below the CRT screen.

The station in the following picture/URL is different from the one I saw in person and the ones I saw pictured in Nintendo Power magazine:
http://www.creativemag.com/images99/SPnintendosnap.jpg

Here is the page where I found that picture:
http://www.creativemag.com/sp1199.html

WTF-- Sin and Punishment should have been given Wii functionality! Although, I'd probably buy it again if they added it...

This game was the shi-. Definite download.