Super Street Fighter II coming to Virtual Console with online multiplayer

@bloodlinejake

Thats a good question. I know some WiiWare games have DLC but i'm pretty sure this will mean that it's the online Virtual Console game with online play, especially since the VC pretty much covers every console with no online component.

@bloodlinejake No, there are one or two others in Japan. I know there's an online version of Puyo Puyo.

@RickGhastly

If i ever ran up a $200 phone bill when Xband was around. You could very much be sure I wouldn't be here to tell about it.

@Stevetrop Man of Mystery
Yeah, luckily it coincided with a fairly serious surgery and long hospital stay. If anyone tried to smother me with a pillow, someone would've known.

I think it was worth it, though. I mean, what other network gives you message notifications with rad clipart and sounds from EMF's "Unbelievable"? The PSN & XBL need to get on the damned ball.

@Ninbrendo

Uh, err. The XBAND modem had nothing to do with the cable company. It was a dial-up modem you bought yourself. It allowed you to play games multiplayer with other people. It had no rotating games. You used your own games. Are you thinking of the Sega Channel? That was run thru the cable company, and required renting the adaptor.

@Drakkenfyre

Damn. Color me middle-aged.

You are correct, sir. I had both and confused the two. You may now revoke my geek card.

@Drakkenfyre
umm... January 21, 2008 is when the SNES version came out to the Wii.

With online play? Nope.

The version that gets the online play is the inferior Genesis version.

Whenever a game comes out that is multisystem, they habitually release the Genesis version for the simple fact that every person who has a Wii has the Wii remote, whereas the SNES version would require a different controller. Like I said, it's been 6 years and now two revisions of the Classic Controller. Stop giving us the crappy versions just because you are scared one person out of ten would have to buy a controller.

@Drakkenfyre
This is true. Why the Virtual console version doesn't have online whilst the poor Genesis version will is a mystery to me.

Anyone who values the Genesis version over the SNES needs their head looking at.

@Drakkenfyre

Or maybe because this game already has netcode in place?

@Drakkenfyre I'd prefer getting the SNES versions as well, but you're overanalyzing. There simply aren't that many games being released like that.

Earthworm Jim gets a pass, it was originally developed for and released on the Genesis. Earthworm Jim 2 being the Genesis version makes sense that you'd put it on the same VC platform as the predecessor. Boogerman too was a Genesis game first, ported to SNES.

The only other two games I can think of are ClayFighter (SNES first - though hey, it's another interplay title!) and the Pitfall reboot which was on both platforms.

Five games. Five. The good ones - Earthworm Jim and EJ2 - have valid excuses, others ... who cares about Boogerman and ClayFighter to be honest? And Pitfall was only decent at best, it's not worth crying over. Your rant was rather inane.

@Acosta02

It's a Genesis game. Console games with built-in netcode wouldn't come for another 5 years.

@Oddgirl

My rant is because Nintendo has shit on the VC it's entire life, and while Japan and sometimes Europe get release after release, we get maybe one damn title no one's ever heard of once every 6 months, if you don't count the crappy third-party cell-phone style WiiWare games, hell we don't even get the same Nintendo releases as Europe and Japan sometimes, games which were originally released in all territories, and not a single Nintendo 64 game for months at a time.

And then when they release some old classic games, we get the CRAPPY Genesis version instead of the SNES version. (I happened to like Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure, thank you very much.)

And Earthworm Jim originated on the SNES. Shiny Entertainment even joked about it to Genesis owners saying they could tell their SNES friends they got a "better" version for waiting, because they got an extra level.

@Drakkenfyre Right so you want the online version, made specifically for competitive play to "look pretty". That is just plain stupid. The SNES version was broken. It had serious slow down issues that hampered VS. play. And who cares about graphics on a 20 year old system? Your argument makes no sense what so ever. The Genesis had a powerful processor that ran the game at the same mechanical quality as the arcade, and makes way more sense for online play.

@JBOPatrick

Did you ever actually play a Genesis game? You are right I want the "pretty" version. I don't want the version that's limited to 56 colors, and with voices that sound like they were made with a voice sythesizer years before the game was made, and music that sounds like it's being played out of the worse radio ever made. Ports between the two systems ALWAYS sucked for the Genesis.

The VC does not have a slowdown problem with games. In fact, they actually had to SLOW down Star Fox 64 in some places because it ran at normal speed, and those places were too hard (and slowed down in the original.)

Any slowdown in a VC game is done on purpose to replicate the original game. So your "CPU is too slow" is a useless point because the CPU in the Wii is thousands and thousands of times faster. You are arguing the CPU in the Genesis was better, with an emulated game. If they see the game is too slow, they can simply remove the limitation.

@Drakkenfyre I expect it did not. Super Street Fighter II came out for SNES in 1994. 1994 was still pretty early on in Catapult's lifespan, I don't think Capcom would have paid any attention to them at that point.

On another note, XBAND was started by Andy Rubin, who later started WebTV, Danger and Android.

@(Unverified)
maybe they can bring out Megaman Wily wars wasnt that sega channel exclusive in the US?