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Pricing The pricing of Virtual Console games can be was ludicrous. If you dondidn't want to pay for VC ROMs on your Wii, you can just install them as .wad files through WAD Manager. You can even install .wads from other regions, though you need to watch the PAL/NTSC divide.
==Compatibility List (Wii)== ===Nintendo Entertainment System===<nowiki>*</nowiki> A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia Adventure Island Adventures of Lolo Adventures of Lolo 2 Balloon Fight Baseball Bases Loaded Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (import) Blades of Steel Blaster Master Bubble Bobble BurgerTime Castlevania Castlevania II: Simon's Quest Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse City Connection Clu Clu Land Crash 'N' The Boys: Street Challenge Dig Dug (import) Donkey Kong Donkey Kong 3 Donkey Kong Jr. Donkey Kong Jr. Math Double Dragon Double Dragon II: The Revenge Double Dribble Elevator Action Excitebike Faxanadu Final Fantasy Galaga Ghosts 'n Goblins Gradius Ice Climber Ice Hockey Kid Icarus King's Knight Kirby's Adventure Life Force Lode Runner Lunar Pool Mach Rider Mario Bros. Mega Man Mega Man 2 Mega Man 3 Mega Man 4 Mega Man 5 Metroid Mighty Bomb Jack Milon's Secret Castle NES Open Tournament Golf NES Play Action Football Ninja Gaiden Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom Ninja JaJaMaru-kun (import) Operation Wolf Pac-Man Pinball Princess Tomato in "New" 3DS is necessary if you want to play SNES games through the Salad Kingdom Punch-Out!! Renegade River City Ransom S3DS Virtual Console.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team Shadow of the Ninja Sky Kid Soccer Solomon's Key Spelunker Star Soldier StarTropics Super C Super Dodge Ball Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros. 2 Super Mario Bros. 3 Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (import) Tecmo Bowl Tennis The Legend of Kage The Legend of Zelda Ufouria: The Saga (import) Urban Champion Volleyball Wario's Woods Wrecking Crew Xevious Yoshi Zanac Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II ===Super Nintendo Entertainment System=== ActRaiser Aero the Acro-Bat Aero the Acro-Bat 2 Axelay Brawl Brothers Breath of Fire II Chrono Trigger Contra III: The Alien Wars Cybernator Darius Twin Donkey Kong Country Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! DoReMi Fantasy: Milon's DokiDoki Adventure (import) F-Zero Final Fantasy II Final Fantasy III Final Fantasy Mystic Quest Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf Ghoul Patrol Gradius III Harvest Moon Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures Kirby Super Star Kirby's Avalanche Kirby's Dream Course Kirby's Dream Land 3 Mega Man X Mega Man X2 Metal Marines Natsume Championship Wrestling Nobunaga's Ambition Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen Pac-Attack Pilotwings Prince of Persia Rival Turf! Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire Secret of Mana Space Invaders: The Original Game Super Adventure Island Super Adventure Island II Super Bonk Super Castlevania IV Super E.D.F.: Earth Defense Force Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts Super Mario Kart Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Super Mario World Super Metroid Super Punch-Out!! Super Star Wars Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Super Turrican The Combatribes The Ignition Factor The Legend of the Mystical Ninja The Legend of Zelda: A Link Technically, some have managed to get it to the Past Uncharted Waters: New Horizons Vegas Stakes Wild Guns Zombies Ate My Neighbors ===Nintendo 64===1080° Snowboarding Bomberman Hero Cruis'n USA F-Zero X Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards Mario Golf Mario Kart 64 Mario Party 2 Mario Tennis Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber Paper Mario Pokémon Puzzle League Pokémon Snap Sin and Punishment (import) Star Fox 64 Super Mario 64 Super Smash Bros. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Wave Race 64 Yoshi's Story ===Sega Master System===Alex Kidd boot in Miracle World Alex Kidd in Shinobi World Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars Enduro Racer Fantasy Zone Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa Phantasy Star Secret Command (import) Sonic Chaos Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Space Harrier Wonder Boy Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap Wonder Boy in Monster Land ===Sega Genesis=== Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle Alien Soldier (import) Alien Storm Altered Beast Beyond Oasis Bio-Hazard Battle Bonanza Bros. Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure ClayFighter Columns Columns III: Revenge of Columns Comix Zone Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine Dynamite Headdy Earthworm Jim Earthworm Jim 2 Ecco Jr. Ecco the Dolphin Ecco: The Tides of Time Eternal Champions Forgotten Worlds Gain Ground Galaxy Force II Ghouls 'n Ghosts Gley Lancer (import) Golden Axe Golden Axe II Golden Axe III Gunstar Heroes Kid Chameleon Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole Light Crusader M.U.S.H.A. Mega Turrican Mercs Monster World IV (import) Phantasy Star II Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium Powerball Pulseman (import) Puyo Puyo 2 (import) Ristar Rolling Thunder 2 Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi Shining Force Shining Force II: Ancient Sealing Shining in the Darkness Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master Sonic & Knuckles Sonic 3D Blast Sonic Spinball Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Space Harrier II Splatterhouse 2 Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition Streets of Rage Streets of Rage 2 Streets of Rage 3 Strider Super Fantasy Zone (import) Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers Super Thunder Blade Sword of Vermilion The Revenge of Shinobi ToeJam & Earl ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron Vectorman Virtua Fighter 2 Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair (import) Wonder Boy in Monster World ===TurboGrafx-16/TurboGrafx-CD=== Air Zonk Alien Crush Battle Lode Runner Blazing Lazers Bomberman '93 Bomberman '94 (import) Bonk's Adventure Bonk's Revenge Bonk 3: Bonk's Big Adventure Bravoman Break In (import) Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (import) Chase H.Q. Chew Man Fu China Warrior Cho Aniki Cratermaze Dead Moon Detana!! TwinBee (import) Devil's Crush Digital Champ: Battle Boxing (import) Double Dungeons Dragon Spirit Dragon's Curse Dungeon Explorer The Dynastic Hero Fighting Street Final Soldier (import) Galaga '90 Gate of Thunder Gradius II: Gofer no Yabou (import) J.Jnormal 3DS mode, but its emulation suffers from huge slowdowns. & Jeff Legend of Hero Tonma Lords of Thunder Military Madness Monster Lair Moto Roader
Neutopia<nowiki>**</nowiki> Ten GBA games were released exclusively to 3DS "ambassadors", who bought the system before its price was dropped. They are unavailable to those who did not purchase the system before its price drop.
Neutopia II<nowiki>***</nowiki> 3DS is fully backward compatible with DS and DSi games and cartridges
New Adventure Island==Game Injection==VC releases consist of the emulator and the included ROM image, but it's possible to replace that ROM image with another one and load it using various homebrew tools out there. Of course, compatibility isn't that high, especially for games with custom hardware, but it's a start.
Ninja Spirit===Wii===* FriishProduce: Allows injections of every official system featured, but Commodore 64. It also supports the injection of Flash games.* ShowMiiWads
Ordyne===Wii U===* UWUVCI AIO: Allows injections of every official system featured, but Famicom Disk System. It also supports the injection of Wii discs, WiiWare (as long as installed on the vWii NAND), Wii homebrew, and GameCube discs ([[Nintendont]] setup required).* DS VC: The roms are stored in regular DS ROM format (.nds), in a zip archive. There's also a config file with a brightness setting, and an option to change internal 3D resolution that Nintendo didn't use for some reason. Just change the line '''"RenderScale": 1''' to have the value 2 instead.
Power Golf===3DS===* [https://gbatemp.net/threads/discussion-new-super-ultimate-injector-nsui.500376/ New Super Ultimate Injector] (there are also other alternative tools, but this can do injections for multiple systems)
Psychosis R-Type Riot Zone Samurai Ghost Shockman SimEarth: The Living Planet Soldier Blade Splatterhouse Street Fighter II: Champion Edition (import) Super Air Zonk: Rockabilly-Paradise Super Star Soldier Victory Run Vigilante World Class Baseball World Sports Competition Ys Book I & II ===Neo GeoCompatibility List=== Art of Fighting Art of Fighting 2 Art of Fighting 3: The Path of the Warrior Baseball Stars 2 Blue's Journey Burning Fight Fatal Fury 2 Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory Fatal Fury Special Fatal Fury: King of Fighters Fighter's History Dynamite Ironclad {{Main|Virtual Console/Compatibility List|Compatibility List (importVirtual Console) King of the Monsters Magical Drop II Magical Drop III Magician Lord Metal Slug Metal Slug 2 Metal Slug 3 Metal Slug 4 Metal Slug X NAM-1975 Neo Turf Masters Ninja Combat Ninja Commando Ninja Master's Real Bout Fatal Fury Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers Real Bout Fatal Fury Special Samurai Shodown Samurai Shodown II Samurai Shodown III Samurai Shodown IV: Amakusa's Revenge Sengoku Sengoku 2 Sengoku 3 Shock Troopers Shock Troopers 2nd Squad Spinmaster Street Slam Super Baseball 2020 The King of Fighters '94 The King of Fighters '95 The King of Fighters '96 The King of Fighters '97 The King of Fighters '98 The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle The Last Blade The Last Blade 2 Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy World Heroes World Heroes 2 World Heroes 2 Jet World Heroes Perfect ===Arcade=== 1942 Altered Beast Black Tiger Commando Exed Exes Gaplus Ghosts 'n Goblins Golden Axe Mappy Ninja Gaiden Rygar Shinobi Solomon's Key SonSon Space Harrier Star Force Super Hang-On Tecmo Bowl The Tower of Druaga Wonder Boy in Monster Land Zaxxon}}
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{{Infoboxemulator|first title = n/aVirtual Console|logowidth = 120|second active = YesNo|third platform = [[Emulators on Wii|Wii]]<br/>[[emulators on Wii, 3DS, U|Wii U]]<br/>[[Emulators on 3DS|3DS]]|target = [[#Supported Systems|Multiple]]|fourth developer = Nintendo|image logo = 3ds_vc_logo.png|fifth website = [http://www.nintendo.com/games/gameGuide?term=virtual%20console&source=search eShop]|sixth source = [http://www.nintendo.co.jp/support/oss/ Nintendo OSS] <small>(Partial)</small>}}'''Virtual Console''' is a service created by Nintendo that allows users to purchase and emulate games.
'''Virtual Console''' (Not to be confused with the emulator used for the service's successor, [[Nintendo Switch Online]], and the NES/SNES classic microconsoles, Canoe) was a service created by Nintendo that allows users to purchase and emulate games.
==Overview==
Games played through Virtual Console are usually free of accuracy issues.
In terms of functionality, the Virtual Console emulator is very bare-bones compared to unofficial emulators, but the 3DS version has restore points (save states) and screenshot saving. The Wii U version has both plus controller customization (Game Gear and PC Engine on 3DS also has support it), Off -TV Play, Pixel smoothing , and scaling changingchanges. Despite this, usually , only the bare functionality is emulated: there is no way to save ghost data in ''Mario Kart 64'' due to a lack of a Memory Pak emulated.
The different regions of Virtual Console (Japan, North America, Europe/Australia, and South Korea) have different games and update them to on different schedules. At times, North America gets games that were exclusive to Japan while Europe/Australia gets games that were exclusive to the previous two regions. These imported games are were priced a little higher than normal and tend to be straight ports with no translation. (Exceptions exceptions include ''Monster World IV'' and ''Sin & Punishment''.) . Other games that can could be priced higher than normal are games based on externally-licensed properties, one example being the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' and ''Hokuto no Ken'' games.
Virtual Console games can be retired from the shop, though purchased games can be redownloaded.
Some GameBoy Game Boy Advance games from the 3DS Virtual Console were available to Ambassadors only, that is, buyers of the Nintendo 3DS before Nintendo announced a price drop.
==Supported Systems==
{| class="wikitable"
! scope="col"|Console
! scope="col"|Wii(WiiWare)! scope="col"|Wii U(eShop)! scope="col"|3DS(eShop)! scope="col"|Notes
|-
|[[Nintendo Entertainment System emulators|Nintendo Entertainment System]] (Famicom)
|✓
|✓
|Supports the Famicom Disk System and the first-party Nintendo mappers.
|-
|[[Super Nintendo emulators|Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] (Super Famicom)
|✓
|✓
|✓*|Supports normal cartridges up to 4MB, DSP-1, Cx4, and SA-1. New 3DS and Wii U iterations also support SDD-1. Super-FX support is exclusive to the SNES Classic.
|-
|[[Nintendo 64 emulators|Nintendo 64]]
|✓
|
|Recommended. Wii U has a noticeable input delay but later revisions are more compatible (Harvest Moon 64).
|-
|[[Master System emulators|Sega Master System]]
|
|
|Includes FM Sound Unit emulation. Also on 3DS through game compilations.
|-
|[[Sega Genesis emulators|Sega Mega Drive / Genesis]]
|✓
|
|✗|Regular Genesis/MD emulation. No Sega CD or 32X. Also on 3DS through 3D Classics or game compilations.
|-
|[[PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) emulators|PC Engine]]
|✓
|✓|✓|HuCard cartridge emulation, and PCE-CD emulation with separate Audio CD tracks.
|-
|[[Neo Geo emulators|Neo Geo]]
|✓
|
|✗|Arcade mode. Also on the Switch through ''ACA NEOGEO''.
|-
|[[Commodore 64 emulators|Commodore 64]]
|✓
|
|✗
|
|-
|[[MSX emulators|MSX]]
|✓
|✓|✗|Japan-only. Emulates a Japanese MSX2.
|-
|[[Game Boy/Game Boy Coloremulators|Game Boy]]
|✗
|
|✓
|No SGB borders or GBC palettes. Link emulation was added with Pokemon VC releases. Only used on Wii in Kirby Collection.
|-
|[[Game Boy/Game Boy Coloremulators|Game Boy Color]]
|✗
|
|✓
|In addition to the above, no IR or GBA mode emulation.
|-
|[[Game Boy Advance emulators|Game Boy Advance]]
|✗
|✓
|✓**|Hardware emulation on 3DS. No link features. Some e-Reader or rumble features restored as game-specific hacks.
|-
|[[Nintendo DS emulators|Nintendo DS]]
|✗
|✓
|***|No link, online, or DSi support.
|-
|[[Game Gear Master System emulators|Game Gear]]|✗|✗
|✓
||Supports Gear-to-Gear emulation through Local Play.
|-
|[[Arcade emulators|Arcade]]
|✓
|
|
|Various Namco, Capcom, Sega and Tecmo boards.
|}
==Input Key==
Wii games in the Virtual Console support the Classic Controllers (which were made with the purpose of the Virtual Console) and GameCube controllers. Some games also support the lone Wii Remote. PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 games that support 5-player mode require that the users connect a combination of GameCube controllers and Wii Remotes (with or without Classic Controllers attached to the Wii Remotes).
==External Links==*[[Wikipedia:List_of_Virtual_Console_games_for_Nintendo_3DS_(Japan)|List of Wii Virtual Console button mappingsgames for Nintendo 3DS (Japan)]] *[[Wikipedia:List_of_Virtual_Console_games_for_Nintendo_3DS_(North_America)|List of Wii U Virtual Console button mappingsgames for Nintendo 3DS (North America)]] *[[Wikipedia:List_of_Virtual_Console_games_for_Nintendo_3DS_(PAL_region)|List of 3DS Virtual Console button mappingsgames for Nintendo 3DS (PAL region)]]
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[[Category:Multi-emulators]]
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