Cave Story on WiiWare 'this holiday season' with new 'content and features'

by Christopher Grant on Oct 2nd 2008 2:58PM

Tucked inside a press release straight from Nintendo of America comes the downplayed news that Cave Story – the Japanese freeware cult-classic – is coming to "Wii this holiday season" via the console's often dubious WiiWare service.

But it's not just a straight port, oh no. The indie Metroidvania title will have "new, exclusive content and features created only for the WiiWare version." No word on what those are, what Cave Story will cost or, really, when "this holiday season" it'll be available to play. But, hey, if you've got a "computer" at home, you can play it today. Without waiting. Or paying "money."

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Tags: BreakingNews, Cave-Story, Doukutsu-Monogatari, Pixel, Wii, WiiWare

Reader Comments (48)

Yes, but Cave Story is WORTH paying money, even if it's free.

Amen.

Super mega agreed

THIS GAME EARNS MY MONEY. Will buy, yes.

+10 Awesome news.

I won't buy this, but it looks intriguing enough for a free download...

Eh, it brings up the same issues as paying for Portal: Still Alive, but i have faith they can bring it up to task to convince people to pay for it.

Aside from the fact that many people just don't play PC games, even when the option is available. I'm one such person, always preferred a console.

The problem with Still Alive is that if you paid for the Orange Box on the console, you basically got screwed. If you got Portal on the PC, you could've already gotten the new content free.

However, this doesn't screw everyone who got the game since it was already free, so you don't lose anything, and it's new content that has not been already released for free.

I'll pay for it. Gems like Cave Story are rare, and the promise of new content has me chomping at the bit. It may not be the longest game ever, but it's comparable to a Mega Man (both in length, and difficulty) so I'd say it's fine on that front as well.

I'm very excited to be able to throw some monetary support in the direction of the developer.

Native OS X version (Universal)
http://www.nakiwo.com/software.htm

English Patch for OS X
http://www.wctc.net/~luvmimac/cavestory/

Playing games? On a mac? Are you mad?

You should try making them, Python (pygame) and Ruby (gosu) are your best and only friends with Apple's lackluster support!

I can only imagine the pain it would be to make an OS X compatible game. To be fair, though, I've heard many great things about python.

@Heh

Uh, ever heard of OpenGL? PS2, PS3, GameCube, Wii, and OS X all support OpenGL! It's what almost every non-Microsoft system uses instead of DirectX.

just played this on PSP again. won't be getting this. but fuck yea still! GG Nintendo.

Oh my... awesome.

HUZZAH!!!

Now I've got the egg stage music stuck in my head.

Yep, I just ejaculated. ^.^

Huzzah!!

Similar to the N+ situation.

However I didn't like it when I heard the Cave Story guy was apparently requesting websites pull versions of Cave Story so people would be forced to buy it. Guess those stories were true after all.

Won't be buying on principle that the guy has turned into a greedy asshole.

You can download the game, for free, on Pixel's website, as has always been the case.

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022293/binaries/index.html

How is that being a greedy asshole?

I'm pretty sure he realized that trying to 'remove' things from the net is impossible. But just the fact that he wanted to do this, irks me greatly.

actually, pixel's probably not even involved with the port.

you did know that pixel was the author, right?

and that he's incredibly humble?

and that he's japanese?

you know, nothing like the N+ situation, which isn't even a situation to begin with.

i wonder who is handling the port, and to what degree pixel is actually involved.

Misinformed internet poster is misinformed.

Even if that were the case (and it's not), the game has been free for, what? 3-4 years now?
You have no reason to complain, seeing as you had the last 1,500 days to get it for free.

You got it wrong.

For starters, he lent the source code to any serious programmer that offered to make a port of the game. He didn't have to, but he did. That's how there's a playable version for the PSP, and that's how there used to be a demo version for the DS.

Once he started getting into talks about a proper, paying release, he asked those serious programmers to stop their work. For the PSP version, that was no problem. But it did spell doom for the DS version, sadly.

But I totally understand this. The same thing happens in theatre. If you want to license a play for professional production, but the author is already in talks about a movie version, you are NOT getting that license. The movie producers (or Nintendo) don't want the brand of the play (or game) to be diluted by extraneous performances (or ports).

I could never get the English version to run on my computer, so this is good news for dummies like me.

Hell yes! I loved Cave Story, seriously one of the best shmups I have played in a long time, easily worth my money. But I don't know if I could justify anything more than maybe $15 for such a short game.

Get back to fucking game school! Shmup? My fat hairy ass! This is no R-Type! This is Cave Story!

Isn't it like technically considered a shmup though, or am I totally off?

Because there is a lot of shooting-em-up in the game, ya dig? Anyway, I just wanted to say that I fucking loved the game!!!!

It's not a shmup. Halo is also not a shmup.

Shmups are games like Ikaruga or Space Mega Force or Cho-Aniki where you fly around and shoot tons and tons of enemies. I've heard some people claim games like Gunstar Heroes are shmups, too, but that's subject for debate.
But simply having a game where you shoot things doesn't mean it's a shmup.

Cave Story is more commonly referred to as a metroidvania game.

I don't think Cave Story can be considered a shmup by any extension of the word. You shoot things but the game is a platformer through and through.

Weeeellll it seems it isn't a shmup in the least. Sorry all!

I will stand by what I said previously though, I love this game! Very linear as Shadow Hog said. I did play it through for the different endings though. Anyway, consider me schooled today in the shmup world.

Also, I had not even heard the term Metroidvania before, but I can understand what that means to a degree and I think I might just enjoy it if more games were made in a similar style.

@samfish: gunstar heroes is a run n gun... shoot em ups usually mean over head or sideways view of a space ship where youre on a linear path that you dont direct constantly shooting things.

run n gun is when small elements of platforming are involved.. and those games are always character based... no ships there unless you include vehicles like in metal slug.

so yeah.. shmups: raiden, galaga, ikaruga, dodonpachi etc..

run n gun: metal slug, commando, contra, gunstar heroes, etch..

I was hoping someone would port this to the Wii as homebrew.. but this is even better. Count me in. This game ruled.

Game is well worth paying for.

I totally would like to see the new content, though.

fuck now i have to buy a fucking wii fuck

fuck

I'd just like to mention that brand loyalty is a very good thing for companies and a very bad thing for people's wallets.

That said, day one purchase.

I would gladly pay $10 for Cave Story. Pixel deserves it.

Cave story is awesome. Too bad I already
played it to death on the PSP

AWESOME! Even though I've played it on the PC, I'm definitely buying it.

This is turning out to be the best week in a long time game announcements!

Ugh, this is so stupid. Honestly, how long do you think it'll take to mod all the new content into the original game?

You want to support Cave Story? DON'T BUY THIS VERSION, SEND THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY DIRECTLY TO THE ORIGINAL GAME'S AUTHOR WITH PAYPAL. All the money goes to the author and we keep art as art. Cave Story is one of those few rare games that is a GAME and not a product.

Pixel, believe it or not, is involved with this port and he's getting money from it.

So don't be a douchebag about it.

This, this is...amazing. So, so, so... amazing.

I've been waiting for this my whole life.
XD

But seriously, it's about time Pixel got some monetary value from his game. He deserves it.

Next thing you know, Quote, Balrog, and Curly will be in the next Super Smash Brothers game 8D

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