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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Heisei Shin Onigashima, Ai Sengoku Spirits

JC Fletcher — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:45:00 EST

There hasn't been a WiiWare release in Japan since May 11. And today, there are only two new downloadable Nintendo games of any kind in the region. If you live in Japan and like downloading games on Nintendo platforms, now would be a good time to start feeling uneasy about the future.

The two aforementioned releases include the second part of an SNES remake of a Famicom Disk System graphical text adventure and a strategy game about Sengoku-era warlord Uesugi Kenshin. And nothing else.

Heisei Shin Onigashima: Kouhen (SNES, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Ai Sengoku Spirits Gaiden Kenshin-hen (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Magical Drop 2

JC Fletcher — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:30:00 EST

WiiWare is on a break this week in Japan, leaving only DSiWare and Virtual Console with new releases. Magical Drop 2 on Neo Geo picks up some of the slack -- Data East's color-matching puzzle game is easily the best thing available this week.

On DSiWare, there's a Gameloft soccer game, Othello and hanafuda games, and a diary app meant to help people practice their English. Don't expect to see that one in North America, on account of, you know, the pervasiveness of native-level English competency. The full list of this week's releases includes:

Heisei Shin Onigashima Zenpen (Super Famicom, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Magical Drop 2 (Neo Geo, 1-2 players, 900 Wii Points)
at-Enter: Taisen Hanafuda Koi Koi Kassen (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 200 DSi Points)
at-Enter: Taisen Reversi (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 200DSi Points)
Suku Suku Native English Journal Calendar (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Real Soccer 2010 (DSiWare, players, DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Darius Twin, Max & the Magic Marker

JC Fletcher — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:15:00 EST

With only one download per service, Japan's Wii and DSi Shops this week resemble the kind of updates we're used to in North America. At least the content is mostly good. Darius Twin, the SNES debut of Taito's horizontal shmup series, provides multiplayer shooting against a variety of giant robotic sea creatures. And Rakugaki Hero is the World Game Parade-localized Max & the Magic Marker.

As for, Let's Make a Zoo on DSiWare, it was released elsewhere as Zoo Frenzy. It's all the fun of managing a fake zoo! The full list of weekly releases follows:

Darius Twin (Super Famicom, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Rakugaki Hero (WiiWare, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Let's Make a Zoo (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Pilotwings, Bonsai Barber

JC Fletcher — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:45:00 EST

Pilotwings, the game that taught us with huge, blocky pixels just what the SNES's scaling and rotation effects could do, touches down on the Japanese Wii Shop this week, along with the world's most beloved game about giving haircuts to personified plants.

DSiWare is a bit less thrilling this week in Japan, with a kanji practice game, some kind of coloring app about color therapy and Gameloft's Legends of Exidia. The complete list of releases follows:

Pilotwings (Super Famicom, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Bonsai Barber (WiiWare, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Renjuku Kanji Shougaku 6 Nensei (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
DS Kokoro Nurie (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Legends of Exidia (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Mega Man 10, Moon Cresta

JC Fletcher — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:43:00 EST

Though there's a lot of content on DSiWare in Japan today, it's almost entirely training stuff. So, it would seem that DSiWare stepped aside to let WiiWare's single release shine this week. (That's probably not what really happened -- but it's a nice thought.)

In any case, Mega Man 10 is up on WiiWare in Japan today, and it's likely to overshadow anything else available this week, including the ancient Moon Cresta:

Mega Man 10 (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
Moon Cresta (VC Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)

G.G. Series Throw Out (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Renjuku Kanji: Shougaku 4-nensei (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Renjuku Kanji: Shougaku 5-nensei (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Brain Challenge (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Let's Golf (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Sutte Hakkun, Aqualiving, Hidden 3D Shapes

JC Fletcher — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:15:00 EST

This week's sole Virtual Console release in Japan marks the debut of a beloved DS developer. The Super Famicom puzzle game Sutte Hakkun, originally created for Nintendo's Satellaview satellite service, is the first game by Indies Zero, who would go on to develop Retro Game Challenge for Namco Bandai. The game itself is a cutesy Lode Runner-type puzzler, in which a character creates and destroys blocks to reach rainbow fragments distributed throughout a level.

On DSiWare, another interesting puzzle game is available: Rittai Kakushi E Atta Kore Da, the game that uses the camera for that eye-catching 3D effect.

Sutte Hakkun (Super Famicom, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Aqualiving (WiiWare, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Shunkan Shibu-shibu Tsubushi (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Karakuchi! Ookago Shiro (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 500 DSi Points)
Kittens' House (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Rittai Kakushi E Atta Kore Da (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Crazy Climber, Phoenix Wright

JC Fletcher — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:15:00 EST

lf you happen to have a Japanese Wii, you may have sort of been able to play the arcade classic Crazy Climber before, but only the not-great Wii remake. Now the original is available ... for 800 Wii Points! Oh, Virtual Console Arcade pricing. And, of course, there's more Phoenix Wright. People who didn't have to wait a year between Ace Attorney games don't know how good they have it.

On DSiWare, there's an interesting kanji puzzle game which is absolutely guaranteed never to leave Japan. at Kanji Game (you can see the rest of the title in the list) appears to involve pairs of Japanese characters dropping Tetris-style, with the goal of making new words.

Crazy Climber (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,200 Wii Points)
Fantasic Cube (WiiWare, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
at Kanji Game Jukugo Kanjukuken Kanshuu (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Hachi-Wan Diver DS:Naruzou-kun Hasami Shogi (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Aquarium with Clock (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
3 Minute Tenkatouitsu: Western Japan Sengoku Quiz/Eastern Japan Sengoku Quiz (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points each)
Idol Nights (DSiWare, 1-4 players, 800 DSi Points)
Pocket Rurubu: Hakone/Shinshu (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points each)
What Day is it? Encyclopedia from Mypedia (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Super Famicom Wars, Diner Dash

JC Fletcher — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST

Nintendo of Japan totally skimped on the digital releases this week. It's actually a bit disconcerting to see a list of releases without a huge DSiWare education or sudoku contingent. If you happen to want to play things on DSiWare (and if you read Japanese) there's a new Jake Hunter adventure, as well as another fascinating cheapo GG Series game, this time featuring a big drill.

On Wii, an Advance Wars predecessor is up, as well as Diner Dash, which arrives on WiiWare in Japan first.

Super Famicom Wars (Famicom, 1-4 players, 800 Wii Points)
Diner Dash (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
GG Series: Drilling Attack! (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Detective Saburo Jinguuji: Portrait of the Deceased Child (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Excitebike, Reversal Shooting

JC Fletcher — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:16:00 EST

Japanese gamers get to experience the joy of Excitebike with a different camera angle and online play today, with the release of Excitebike World Rally (as "Excitebike World Race"). It's a pretty faithful adaptation of the original, something that can't be said for Tecmo's Are? DS ga Sakasa Desu Kedo: Gyaku Shooting, a shooter with elements of its own Star Force, but played from the other side -- and with the DS upside down. Using the DS's touch screen, players control the enemies firing downward at what is usually the player ship. DS ga Sakasa Desu Kedo: Sakasa Drops takes the same approach and applies it to a falling-block puzzle game. Check out a trailer for Shooting after the break.

Quarth (MSX, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Contra (MSX, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Excitebike World Race (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
Are? DS ga Sakasa Desu Kedo: Gyaku Shooting (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Are? DS ga Sakasa Desu Kedo: Sakasa Drops (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Artist ni Narou! Minna no Nurikai Museum Hen (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 500 DSi Points)
Hobonichi Rosenzu 2010 (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Renjuku Kanji: Shougaku Sannensei (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Mega Man 4, SNES Advance Wars on Virtual Console in February

JC Fletcher — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:45:00 EST

February's Japanese Virtual Console lineup is exceptionally small -- four games in all -- but all four games are high-quality. In advance of Mega Man 10, Capcom offers Mega Man 4, which, while one of the weaker games in the series, is still a real Mega Man game and thus pretty good. A never-localized (and probably still not to be localized) SNES Advance Wars game will be available sometime in the month, and MSX versions of the familiar Contra and the delightful scrolling puzzle game Quarth.

Of course, we've seen zero of these MSX games outside of Japan. Oh, we just made ourselves sad.

Famicom:

Rockman 4

Super Famicom:

Super Famicom Wars

MSX:

Quarth (Feb. 2)
Contra (Feb. 2)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Ogre Battle 64, BlazBlue Battle x Battle

JC Fletcher — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:45:00 EST

Ogre Battle 64 is a rare release on the Japanese Wii Shop, in that it's an N64 game. Remember those? It's also a good one! It's the sole new game on the Virtual Console this week, with the lineup bolstered a bit by Phoenix Wright's sequel and a rock-paper-scissors game.

The weird (but cute) Blazblue DSiWare fighter is out this week, ready to delight all the, uh, DSi owners looking for a four-player online fighting game. They're out there somewhere! Also on DSiWare: Burning Puzzle Flame Tail, a very odd, but interesting-looking vertically scrolling puzzle game from Mindware. Essentially, you control a structure with (of course) a flaming tail, snaking through rectangular structures and burning them.

Ogre Battle 64 (Nintendo 64, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
Janken Party Paradise (WiiWare, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
ACT Series: English translator (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
ACT Series: Korean translator (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Nari-chara Hitman Begins (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Blazblue Battle x Battle (DSiWare, 1-4 players, 500 DSi Points)
Burning Puzzle Flame Tail (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Princess Tomato, Reflect Missile

JC Fletcher — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:15:00 EST

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The sole new downloadable game on Wii in Japan this week is the appealingly odd Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom, a first-person adventure game set in a world populated by personified fruits and vegetables. You play a heroic cucumber with a young persimmon sidekick. It really must be experienced.

On DSiWare this week, there are two different kanji learning games (how does that happen?), a math training game, and -- more importantly, Q-Games's cool Breakout variant Reflect Missile. Even more importantly, because it's really funny, the Naruto photo app lets you put your face into some Naruto art.

Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom (Famicom,1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Atama wo Yoku Suru Ansan Zou no Hana Fuusen (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Nandoku 500 Kanji Word Puzzle (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Renjuku Kanji: Shougaku 2-nensei (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Nari-chara: Naruto Shippuden (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Reflect Missile (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Parodius, Genius Personal dictionaries

JC Fletcher — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:00:00 EST

Though today is a fairly low-key day for downloads on the Japanese Wii and DSi Shops, there are a few things available that we'd love to see in North America but never will. The Virtual Console has MSX releases of two wonderful shooters, the Gradius/Twinbee/octopus mashup cute-em-up Parodius, and Salamander, which we know as Life Force. The MSX ports are inferior to most other versions, so maybe we can live.

The other programs we desperately want but won't have: the Genius Personal series for DSiWare, which allow you to write a word in English or Japanese (depending on which version you download) and get a translation and definition. Perfect for people who have to read and translate Japanese DSiWare titles all the time!

Parodius (MSX, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Salamander (MSX, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
atChess Battle Spirits (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
G.G. Series D-Tank (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Artist Ni Narou! MInna ni Nurikai Jukyuu-hen (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Pinball Attack! (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Genius Personal English-Japanese Easy Dictionary (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)
Genius Personal Japanese-English Easy Dictionary (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Kirby's Star Stacker, I am a Pla-Rail Driver

JC Fletcher — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:15:00 EST

The Japanese Wii and DSi Shops are taking it easy on the first week back after a holiday, with just one WiiWare, one Virtual Console, and two DSiWare games available, quite a change from the massive pileups of previous weeks. The Virtual Console game is the Super Famicom version of Kirby's Star Stacker, an original Kirby-themed puzzle game we received on the Game Boy. And on WiiWare, a painfully adorable ... train simulator?

DSiWare has another G.G. series shmup, and another miniature Paint By DS featuring cats. Pretty mellow week!

Boku wa Pla-Rail Untenshi: Shinkansen & Joukikansha Hen (1-2 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
Kirby's Star Stacker (Super Famicom, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
G.G. Series Dark Spirits (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Artist ni Narou! Minna no Nurikai Neko Hen (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: LostWinds, Phalanx

JC Fletcher — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:45:00 EST

Two WiiWare titles make the journey from the West to Japan today, both published by Square Enix. Just as it did for the first LostWinds, the publisher has brought the sequel to Japan for a holiday release. School of Darkness is actually WayForward's Lit, under a different, but equally literal, title. Also of note: the remake/port of the shooter Phalanx arrives!

DSiWare is a bit less thrilling, with the standout release being the cleverly tilt-controlled Katamuction.

Famicom Detective Club Part 2: The Girl Standing in the Back (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Gradius 2 (MSX, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Majou Densetsu (MSX, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Othello (WiiWare, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
School of Darkness ( WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias (WiiWare, 1-2 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
Phalanx (WiiWare, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Simple DS Series Volume 2: THE Misshitsu Kara no Dasshutsu Gakkou Hen (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Katamuku + Action = Katamuction (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Pocket Rurubu: Nagoya/Kobe (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points each)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Phoenix Wright, Zaxxon, Photo Fighter X

JC Fletcher — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:15:00 EST

The release list for the Japanese Wii and DSi Shops are a bit more restrained than the last couple of weeks, offering a much more manageable (read: smaller) selection of downloadable titles. On Virtual Console, for example, Sega's isometric arcade shmup Zaxxon is the only offering. Similarly, there's just one WiiWare game, but it's Phoenix Wright!

DSiWare gets the cool Photo FIghter X, which lets you build fighting game characters from DSi camera snaps. More Paint By DS joins it, this time all about dogs; and in the requisite "puzzle game" positions are a new G.G. series entry and a Jupiter-developed game about rotating blocks to match colors.

Zaxxon (Arcade, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (WiiWare, 1 player, 900 Wii Points)
Shashin de Kakutou! Photo Fighter X! (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 200 DSi Points)
G.G. Series Vertex (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Kanji Practice First Grade (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Artist ni Narou! Minna no Nurikai Inu-hen (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Atelier Deco La Doll (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Castle of Magic (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Panewa! (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

Gallery: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (WiiWare)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Kappa Michi, Final Fight 3, more

JC Fletcher — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:45:00 EST

Another ridiculous overload of content today on the Japanese Wii and DSi Shops. Not so much in WiiWare, whose only release this week is The Incredible (and incredibly avoidable) Maze, but Virtual Console and DSiWare are absolutely stuffed with games!

Weirdly, there are two map-based puzzle games on DSiWare. One, Map Map! is a series of puzzle, and the other, Sekai Tanken Kokki World Map, is a quiz game. Also available: a cute puzzle game from the G.G. Series, in which you drop blocks to build a path for a character, a mini version of Paint by DS, more Jake Hunter, and a really cute game from Mother 3 developer Brownie Brown about leading a kappa along paths of coins.

Chokkan! Balance Labyrinth (WiiWare, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Final Fight Tough (Super Famicom, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Yie Ar Kung Fu 2 (MSX, 800 Wii Points)
Namco Quester (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Valkyrie no Densetsu (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Metal Gear (MSX, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
G.G. Series: Black x Block (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Sekai Tanken Kokki World Map (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Map Map! By Gotouchi Kentei DS (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Artist ni Narou! Minna no Nurikai (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
UNO (DSiWare, 1-4 players, 500 DSi Points)
Kappa Michi (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Tantei Saburo Jinguuji: Chained Curse & Mystery Case (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: King of Fighters '95, Kamenin Merchant

JC Fletcher — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:15:00 EST

Today, for those Japanese gamers who like King of Fighters games but didn't purchase the Orochi Collection disc -- or the Neo Geo Online Collection Complete Box sets, King of Fighters '95 is available on the Virtual Console. SNK Playmore's business model is so strange -- these Virtual Console releases seem to actively compete with the company's retail collections.

Also available: two cute Namco arcade games, including Rompers, an obscure game about pushing walls over on enemies. DSiWare features a Tales of Graces spinoff, a calendar that lets you mark upcoming events, and a Picross variant with surprisingly nice sprite work.

The King of Fighters '95 (Neo Geo, 1-2 players, 900 Wii Points)
Ordyne (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Rompers (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Ponjan Wii (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
Ato Nannichi? Kazoeru Nintendo DSi Calendar (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Kamenin Merchant (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Kaiten Illust Puzzle Guruguru Logic (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: MSX games, Eco Shooter, and 16 more

JC Fletcher — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:01:00 EST

There's an incredibly diverse selection of games on the Japanese Wii and DSi Shops today -- 12 different games on Wii, and 6 on DSi. Think of this as Nintendo's online version of the holiday rush.

Most interesting among the multifarious offerings: a few forgotten Konami MSX games on VC, and 530 Eco Shooter on WiiWare. That's ... an Intelligent Systems-developed shooting game about shooting cans. The cans are alive and move around. It's weird. Also weird: Nintendo's Neratte Spot! for DSiWare, which is about throwing bombs into the mouths of fish.

The whole list is after the break, because it's crazy long.

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Trial edition

JC Fletcher — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:30:00 EST

The WiiWare demo program arrives in Japan today, offering many of the same demos found in North America. Bit.Trip Beat and NyxQuest are out, and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is in. Oddly, the Japanese site for the demo program mentions a January 31 end date, which the North American page doesn't. We don't know if that's the end of the whole demo thing or just the expiration date for this set of demos.

Also on the Wii today in Japan: two Namco arcade games which are personal favorites: free-scrolling shooter Bosconian (with fantastic "ALART" voice samples), and Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani's weird Libble Rabble. Genterprise continues its budget series on DSiWare, with a top-down racer and a VR-looking action game:

Bosconian (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Libble Rabble (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
G.G. Series Tetsubou (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
G.G. Series Drift Circuit (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Art Academy (First and Second Semester) (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points each)

Demos: Pokemon Rumble, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord & World of Goo

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Street Fighter II', Panel Connection

JC Fletcher — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:45:00 EST

There's no WiiWare this week in Japan, but there is the best 8-bit adaptation of Street Fighter II ever. Not that the PC Engine version has much competition outside of pirate Famicom cartridges and the terrible Game Boy port. But the PC Engine's SF2 holds up respectably against even the Genesis and SNES versions. It's joined on Virtual Console by a pair of tank games from Namco.

DSiWare offers a Chinese vocabulary learning tool and a new puzzle game by Intelligent Systems. Panel Connection involves setting panels into a grid to create an uninterrupe\ted exhaust path for a rocket.

Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (PC Engine, 1-2 players, 600 Wii Points)
Grobda (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points
Tank Force (Arcade, 1-4 players, 800 Wii Points)
ACT Series: Chinese-Japanese Vocabulary (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Panel Connection: 3 Minute Rocket (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Neo Geo, Art Style return

JC Fletcher — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:15:00 EST

This week marks two major events (sort of) for the Japanese Wii and DSi download services. First, both Wii and DSi downloads now go up on the same date. In this case, it's November 4, which is today in Japan. Second, the Neo Geo is back! The last Neo game came out in Japan in July 2008.

On DSiWare, there's more mahjong, more calendar apps, and more Art Style. Digidrive is a remake of one of the original Bit Generations games. It's been released as Intersect in Europe.

Fire Emblem Gaiden (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Fatal Fury Special (Neo Geo, 1-2 players, 900 Wii Points)
"Aha! I Got It" Escape Game (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
Kyoto Students Taishi Higashida Thought Puzzle Inspiration Signed Painting (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Handy Mahjong (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Daily Growing Journal Calendar (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Art Style: DIGIDRIVE (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: WiiWare ReBirth

JC Fletcher — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:44:00 EST

WiiWare is officially back in Japan, with one of the most content-rich updates we'd ever seen. Just Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth would be enough to make this week remarkable, but Game Arts' Shadow Walker and Bit.Trip VOID are available as well, along with an oddity from D3!

Not enough? How about four Virtual Console games, including a Sonic & Knuckles with the lock-on feature intact? Or a budget DSiWare game about blowing up asteroids to save the Earth?

@SIMPLE Series Vol. 5: THE Judo (WiiWare, 1-2 players, 700 Wii Points)
Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
Bit.Trip: VOID (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
Shadow Walker (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
Championship Lode Runner (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Sonic & Knuckles (Mega Drive, 1 player, 600 Wii Points)
Face Off (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Rolling Thunder 2 (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Earth Saver (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Puzzle Selection Monthly Crossword House vol. 6 (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Hills and Rivers Remain (DSiWare, 1-4 players, 800 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Bravo for Bunnies

JC Fletcher — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:15:00 EST

Okay, so the two WiiWare games this week were actually released last week. Once again, no WiiWare games are out this week, allowing us the luxury of highlighting the content that didn't make it to the site previously. And how could we let a NEVES sequel or a game based on Toei Animation and Sanrio's Sugarbunnies go by without mentioning them? The Sugarbunnies game manages to out-cute Cooking Mama by setting its cooking minigames in a cartoon bunny world.

As for Virtual Console, we're really beginning to tire of the standard 800 point price for arcade games. Bravoman is cool, but New Rally-X? Really? You shouldn't even pay eight bucks for a New Rally-X arcade machine.

Sugarbunnies Wii: Welcome to Bunnies' Field (WiiWare, 1-2 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
Hamekomi Lucky Puzzle Wii Return (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
Fighting Street (PC Engine CD-ROM, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
New Rally-X (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Chouzetsu Rinjin Bravoman (Arcade, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
atShogi Challenge Spirits (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Ichimoudaijin! Neko King (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Sleep Timer: Mezamashi Clock (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
6 in 1 Dictionary with Camera Function (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Itsudemo Bomberman (DSiWare, 1-8 players, 500 DSi Points)
Mario vs. Donkey Kong (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)

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Japanese Nintendo Downloads: Galaxian heads to the Tecmo Bowl

David Hinkle — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:45:00 EST

Following last week's drought due to the public holiday, Nintendo has turned the download faucet back on in Japan. It's another week free of WiiWare, but there's certainly enough Virtual Console material to make up for it. Outside of a trio of VC Arcade titles, we've got a Super Famicom tactical RPG classic:

Bahamut Lagoon (Super Famicom, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Galaxian (VC Arcade, 1 - 2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Tecmo Bowl (VC Arcade, 1 - 2 players, 800 Wii Points) [VC in Brief]
Märchen Maze (VC Arcade, 1 - 2 players, 800 Wii Points)

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Japanese Nintendo Downloads: Goemon is a hot-blooded man of Edo

David Hinkle — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:15:00 EST

First of all, it's a holiday in Japan this week, so there are no new games for September 22. However, since we failed to update you guys on the releases for September 15, we figured we should probably do that. Sorry for the delay!

Despite the lack of releases this week, we think most Japanese gamers are happy because they totally get to play some Ganbare Goemon. Known in The States as Legend of the Mystical Ninja, the series has had a long affair with Japanese gamers -- which now continues on the Virtual Console!

Ganbare Goemon 3 (Super Famicom, 1 -2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Dragon Saber (VC Arcade, 1 - 2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Dragon Buster (VC Arcade, 1 - 2 players, 800 Wii Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: The Soldier of Argos

JC Fletcher — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:30:00 EST

Two weeks in a row and no WiiWare in Japan. Did Nintendo of Japan hire someone on from Nintendo of America's WiiWare team? Whatever happened, the total absence of WiiWare throws attention on the two Virtual Console Arcade titles available today.

Rygar finally arrives on Virtual Console, giving gamers the opportunity to try the original, much more linear version of the classic NES game. It's joined by Dragon Spirit, the epic tale of a warrior who is transformed into a dragon, and then transformed again into a two-headed dragon, while being shot at by hundreds of flying monsters.

Argos no Senshi (Rygar) (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Dragon Spirit (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: The worm returns

JC Fletcher — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:15:00 EST

After last week's massive update in Japan, WiiWare is taking some time off. That means that the spotlight falls directly on the okay Virtual Console lineup for this week. Earthworm Jim 2 arrives as an import, which demonstrates two really wonderful things about Japan's Virtual Console -- first, that Mega Drive games only cost 600 Wii Points in Japan, and second, that imports don't cost any extra. Nor should they, as they aren't localized and they cost the same to put on a server as anything else.

Also available this week: the arcade version of Xevious, and one of those ridiculous Koei strategy games, this one about Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Taikou Risshiden (Super Famicom, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Earthworm Jim 2 (Mega Drive, 1 player, 600 Wii Points)
Xevious (Arcade, players, 800 Wii Points)

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Japanese Nintendo Downloads: Escape from Various Locations

JC Fletcher — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:45:00 EST

Marvelous's distinctively drab, enticingly bizarre adventure game Discipline launched today in Japan. We're eager to hear if the You Fluid weirdness overpowers the interesting puzzle-adventure concept. Also available on WiiWare: a couple of educational games, one of which is based on The Very Hungry Caterpillar; a haunted-house-themed minigame collection from Gameloft, and D3's room-escape adventure game.

On Virtual Console, Activision's Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure is now available, along with Finest Hour, a jetpack-enhanced run-and-gun from Namco.

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (Mega Drive, 1 player, 600 Wii Points)
Finest Hour (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
@Simple Series Vol. 4 THE Locked Room Escape (WiiWare, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Ghost Mansion Party (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
Kodomo Kyooiku Terebi Wii Aiue Oomuzu (WiiWare, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Discipline (WiiWare, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Harapeko Aomushi no ABC (WiiWare, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)

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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Nothing this week, arcade classics next week

JC Fletcher — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EST

This week, there are no updates on the Japanese Wii Shop, due to the Obon holiday. Now we know why last week's update was so massive -- it more than compensated for a week off! The Virtual Console, at least, will return next week with four new games. No announcement has been made for WiiWare yet, but we thought we'd share the VC releases.

It's going to be a good week for arcade games! Knuckle Heads, a silly-looking post-Street Fighter II fighting game from Namco, will be available, along with the arcade versions of Bomb Jack and Solomon's Key, two (unfortunately priced) total classics from Tecmo.

Ike Ike! Nekketsu Hockey-bu! Subette Koronde Dairantou (Famicom, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
Solomon's Key (Arcade, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Knuckle Heads (Arcade, 1-4 players, 800 Wii Points)
Bomb Jack (Arcade, 1-4 players, 800 Wii Points)

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VC/WiiWare Tuesday: An impossibly large update

JC Fletcher — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:20:00 EST

This week is certainly the largest single update the Japanese Wii Shop has had since the launch of the Virtual Console back in December of 2006. It's also, sadly, a feat that probably won't be repeated, given the recent decline in selection. But let's not talk about declines when we've got such an incredible increase this month! Four games on Virtual Console -- and good ones, too, like Final Fantasy IV and Pac-Mania, would be remarkable enough, but they are joined by no fewer than nine on WiiWare.

The WiiWare selection includes genuinely interesting content like Bit.Trip: CORE, the one-button Tomenasanner Wii (seen above), and the three Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games; plus genuinely forgettable content like Sandy Beach, and wild cards like dolphin-training game Sea Farm, Derby Dog, which is, yes, a game about racing different varieties of dog, and a brain training game with its most notable feature being that its title translates to "Make your Square Brain Round."

The complete release listings are posted after the break.

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VC/WiiWare Tuesday: Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy

JC Fletcher — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:00:00 EST

Today is totally Final Fantasy day in Japan. Today, of course, Square Enix announced the upcoming release of Final Fantasy IV on the Virtual Console. That announcement coincided with the release of two downloadable Final Fantasies: Final Fantasy III on Famicom and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years on WiiWare.

Rolling Thunder doesn't really follow the theme at all, but it is awesome -- if you haven't played it, it's kind of a spy-themed Shinobi thing. It's welcome on the Virtual Console even though it's not a Final Fantasy game.

Virtual Console:

Final Fantasy III (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Rolling Thunder (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)

WiiWare:

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years (1-4 players, 800 Wii Points)

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VC/WiiWare Tuesday: Burning Force, not lighting cigarettes

JC Fletcher — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:00:00 EST

The selections on Japan's Wii Shop are all over the place this week. On Virtual Console, two titles are available, including the universally loved Shinobi and Burning Force, a game with which we must admit unfamiliarity. One look at the linked YouTube video, however, cleared that right up. It's like Space Harrier on water, and it looks awesome.

WiiWare this week is loaded with stuff, including the stop-smoking app, a quiz game, a card-battling game, and Reel Fishing. The most interesting WiiWare game in Japan this week is Mobius Drive, an online racing game that looks surprisingly good for a Wii download.

Virtual Console:

Shinobi (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Burning Force (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)

WiiWare:

Raku Raku Kinen Appli Wii (1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
Mobius Drive (1-2 players offline, 2-8 players online, 800 Wii Points)
Hirameki Card Battle Mekuruka (1-2 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
Kentei! TV Wii (1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
Fish Eyes Challenge (1 player, 500 Wii Points)

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VC Tuesday: Flying, boxing, and no WiiWare

JC Fletcher — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:00:00 EST

This week, Japan finally gets Super Punch-Out!! on the Virtual Console. The Wii game, for which this SNES release has served as a promotional tool in other territories, isn't out until July 23 in Japan, so Super Punch-Out!! will have to tide over the crowd of Japanese gamers hungry for cartoon violence.

Also available on the Virtual Console: cartoon violence of a different variety and an older vintage, in the form of Namco's 1985 horizontal shooter Sky Kid. And on WiiWare this week: nothing at all.

Virtual Console:

Super Punch-Out!! (Super Famicom, 800 Wii Points)
Sky Kid (Arcade, 800 Wii Points)

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VC/WiiWare Tuesday: My Life as an Available Game

JC Fletcher — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:45:00 EST

Despite being loaded with content, this week's Japanese Virtual Console and WiiWare offerings are unlikely to excite, with one major exception. Square Enix's My Life as a King follow-up arrives in Japan this week, allowing players to run the tower fortress of their dreams! It's joined by a, uh, doll game, and ... a brain training game ... for kids.

Virtual Console this week offers one really cute Namco arcade game, and another Jinguuji Saburo detective game, which we'll never see.

Virtual Console:

Marvel Land (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Tantei Jinguuji Saburo: Toki no Sugiyuku Mama ni... (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)

WiiWare:

Right Brain Kids Okigaru Right Brain (1-4 players, 800 Wii Points)
Licca-chan Oshare House (1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord (1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)

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VC/WiiWare Tuesday: That's Galactic Dancin'

JC Fletcher — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EST

This week, Japan gets two arcade games -- both of which have titles starting with the letter G, and both of which are already available on Virtual Console as ports. Galaga '88, Namco's cute, brightly colored, fireworks-filled sequel to Galaga, is definitely something we'd consider double-dipping for. Both the arcade version and the TG16 port (Galaga '90) are great, and the port includes a bit of extra content. And is it okay to like Golden Axe? Because we like Golden Axe.

On the WiiWare front, Hudson launches its second downloadable FPS for the Wii. Unfortunately, it's the dire-looking Water Warfare.

Virtual Console:

Galaga '88 (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Golden Axe (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)

WiiWare:

Bang Bang Kids (1-2 players offline, 2-8 online, 800 Wii Points)

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VC/WiiWare Tuesday: Scramble!

JC Fletcher — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:10:00 EST

This week, Japanese gamers will be able to download the new multiplayer Pokemon brawler (which is such a great idea!), but they'll have to pay for it. We admit to gasping a bit when we saw the 1,500-point price tag on Ransen! Pokemon Scramble, but we suspect we'll be spending that many of our American-style Wii Points soon enough. Pokemon Scramble is joined on WiiWare by a tambourine-based music game, and a cute-looking puzzle game about rotating objects to allow little creatures to move into a goal.

On the Virtual Console, Square Enix delivers the second Final Fantasy game in as many months. Final Fantasy II was designed by Akitoshi Kawazu, who we just happen to have spoken to at E3! The other VC game is Wonder Momo, a cutesy side-scrolling brawler from Namco that presents itself as a stage play. We're a little embarrassed about liking it.

Virtual Console

Final Fantasy II (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Wonder Momo (Arcade, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)

WiiWare

Fantagic Tambourine (1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Anata ga Mawashite Sukuu Puzzle Mochi Mochi Q (1 player, 800 Wii Points)
Melee! Pokemon Scramble (1-4 players, 1,500 Wii Points)

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VC/WiiWare Tuesday: Super Mario Kart and ... streaming game music

JC Fletcher — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EST

We were all set to gush over Super Mario Kart and the promise of some charmingly retro party gaming (for two players at a time, of course, which we suppose is part of the retro charm), but Gust disrupted our plans by releasing something on WiiWare that is weird and ill-advised enough to demand our attention. Game Sound Station is a subscription-based music streaming service available on WiiWare -- almost exclusively for listening to Gust game soundtracks. If you'd like to pay for a week of unlimited Atelier and Ar Tonelico game music, here's your chance!

The other WiiWare game, peakvox escape virus, is sort of a Snake crossed with Geometry Wars experience. As a DNA codon, you pick up other DNA around a level to form a chain, carefully navigating your increasingly long chain around enemy viruses. The game has a variety of other modes, including one that turns it into a shooter.

Virtual Console:

Super Mario Kart (Super Famicom, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Assault (Arcade, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)

WiiWare:

Game Sound Station (1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
peakvox escape virus (1 player, 500 Wii Points)

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VC/WiiWare Tuesday: Muscle Marches On

JC Fletcher — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:10:00 EST

Under normal circumstances, by far the biggest news on the Japanese Wii Shop this week would be Final Fantasy. Square Enix actually delivered the game on time to Virtual Console, and didn't even take the opportunity to jack the price up. Even if it is ancient, 500 points for a classic RPG is a great deal!

But circumstances aren't normal this week: Muscle March, the game of posing a line of Speedo'd bodybuilders to run through walls in order to catch the thief who stole their protein powder, is out. Also on WiiWare, though less muscle-related: Arkanoid Plus!, a WiiWare release similar to the Arkanoid game for XBLA, and NEVES Plus.

Virtual Console:

Final Fantasy (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Splatterhouse (Arcade, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)

WiiWare:

Arkanoid Plus! (1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Hamekomi Lucky Puzzle Wii (1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)
３℃ (1-2 players, 700 Wii Points)
Muscle Koushinkyoku (Muscle March) (1-4 players, 800 Wii Points)

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VC Tuesday: Cyber Deer Hunt

JC Fletcher — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:50:00 EST

This week, the lone WiiWare release is a deer hunting game from Arc System Works. We would have expected such a game to come from an American publisher first, so we're a bit surprised to see ASW premiere it in Japan. Not surprised enough to pay that much attention.

Our attention is fixed, instead, firmly on the Virtual Console. Between the proto-strategy game Famicom Wars and Namco's arcade arena combat game Cyber Sled, it's a pretty awesome week to have a Wii in Japan. Even if we're pretty sure the Virtual Console Arcade version of Cyber Sled can't have multiplayer (since the arcade game used separate cabinets for each player).

Virtual Console:

Ninja-kun: Ashura no Shou (Famicom, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
Famicom Wars (Famicom, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
R-TYPE (Sega Master System, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Cyber Sled (Arcade, 800 Wii Points)

WiiWare:

Shikagari (Hunting) (1-4 players, 500 Wii Points)

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