Can’t remember if it’s on my list, I tend to avoid JRPGs even if they have tigers, but I think I posted the pictures in roughly the same order as they appear on the site, so this would be one of the earlier releases further down the page.
if you’re going spelunking in j-only wiiware, let me know your itinerary so i can split off and hit different points of interest. are you planning on dolphin or hardware (or am i assuming too much)
Found it:
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/wiiware/wsbj/index.html
Uh, I have modded my Wii! (And a Laptop that runs XP and can barely cope with youtube.) Original hardware all the way!
This is my “to try” list:
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ahh, it’s sorcery blade, which i do have on my list. it’s one of the only jrpgs for wiiware, so i should have expected that’s what it was!
okiraku tennis wii
okiraku putter golf
these ASW family games seem pretty garbage
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yes they do but i have a soft spot for the family sports series and sports games in general
and i have bad taste, btw
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i love the family games
I think you may have unintentionally listed every single genuinely interesting and fun wii game
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Now that I posted my terrible WiiWare to-play list, here’s some more retail games that I find interesting, but haven’t spotted in that big OP. To my knowledge, all of these are made by Japanese developers and exclusive to the Wii (besides the arcade ports.)
- Babysitting Mama (purely because of the baby puppet peripheral it comes with:
) - Calling (smartphone horror)
- Domino Rally / Minon: Everyday Hero / Go! Go! Minon
- Donkey Kong Barrel Blast (GC bongos reject)
- Family Trainer games revival (probably all terrible)
- Fast Food Panic (waggle burger flipping?)
- Fishing Master (fishing adventure RPG thing?)
- Fishing Resort (fishing adventure RPG thing? by Prope)
- G1 Jockey (featured on consolevania:
)- G1 Jockey 2008 (Balance Board support makes you feel like a real jockey:
) - Help Wanted: 50 Wacky Jobs / Job Island / Hataraku Hito (W.T.F. on Wii?)
- Ju-On: The Grudge (haunted house simulator)
- Let’s Tap (Prope)
- Major Minor’s Majestic March (PaRappa devs)
- Munchables (Wii Katamari?)
- Rodea (Prope, released bundled with inferior Wii U version in 2015!)
- Safar’Wii (cuter looking version of PS3 Afrika?)
- Samurai Warriors Katana (lightgun Musou)
- Sky Crawlers (Ace Combat devs)
- We Love Golf (Mario Golf Wii reject by Camelot)
- We Ski / Snowboard (has free-roam mode? and Balance Board support)
- Wing Island (Sky Odyssey devs)
- Yu-Gi-Oh Wheelie Breakers (card battle racing?)
)anime stuff:
- Detective Conan / Case Closed
- Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo
- Inazuma Eleven Strikers (Level-5)
- One Piece: Unlimited Adventure / Cruise
Japanese-only stuff:
- Crazy Climber Wii (arcade remake)
- Dragon Quest Monsters: Battle Road Victory (arcade port)
- Gundam 0079 (FPS)
- Gundam Scad Hammers (Smash’em up)
- Jawa: Mammoth to Himitsu no Ishi (???)
- Octomania (arcade port)
- Takt of Magic (got a partial? fan-translation)
- Twinkle Queen (2D fighting game)
- Zenkoku Dekotora Matsuri (art truck racing by GBA F-Zero devs)
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The Let’s Tap OST is good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvoyfIindfo
Dokapon Kingdom is a fun RPG board game where you can shame other players by making them wear turd hats. I’m not sure I ever completed a session but it has turd hats. I can’t find a single screenshot of them on google. What in the world.
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I got an adapter to plug in a Genesis controller to my wii mote. Now I am enjoying Ristar and Alien Solider a little bit more. I really want a decent CRT TV, that way I could use the Wii’s RGB output for a lot of VC games.
After trying out all the stuff on my WiiWare list (and enjoying precious little of it) Bakutan and Moki Moki (western version of Antaga Mawashite Sukuu Puzzle: Mochimochi Q) are the only games I haven’t uninstalled yet. Both are puzzlers. Bakutan is about thoughtfully placing bombs in small 3D Lode Runner block worlds to blow up all the blocks, whereas Moki Moki is a bit like Lemmings, except the Lemmings behave like LocoRocos, and you gotta tilt the screen to save and/or slaughter them. Weirdly enough, tilting is done with buttons instead of the Wiimote’s tilt function. I mean, why. Still fun though.
I also wanna honorable mention some other stuff, like Muscle March, which was amazing, but demanded less reaction time than old me could muster. That blue ass! Maybe I’ll play again on Dolphin and see if I can map the motion waggle to keyboard press. And add a slowdown button. Let’s Catch’s “story mode” about getting to know people is pretty cute and I guess it has “hangoutitude”, but that darn UFO that always pops up after a while is driving me insane, 'cause I don’t know how to throw low balls. Pole no Daibouken gave me a decent Super Mario Bros. parody platformer experience that I would’ve gotten more out of, if I would’ve understood the Japanese voice-overs. Shooting endangered animals was kinda rough though (which I guess is the point).
And oh yeah, I do wanna try out one more WiiWare before I “consider it done”. I know La Mulana is on GOG and Steam, but they’re ports of the Wii version, which is itself a remake of the original, I know, but still, I wanna play the “original remake” (or whatever).
I guess this concludes my WiiWare report. Final verdict: I had more fun wading through the XBLIG library.
As far as Virtual Console stuff goes, I gotta give a shout-out to the two flat-shaded Namco lightgun shooters. (I’m talking about Solvalou and Starblade, in case you were dying to know.) I also got around to playing the first mission of Ogre Battle 64, and that made me real happy, looking forward to more happiness. I’m not a big fan of the Tactics Ogre, but this I like (a lot).
Btw: I also booted up lots of physical Wii releases (in digital form (on my SD card)). There’s currently nine games left in my “wbfs” folder. Gonna tell you about some of them later, maybe in the form of a “top 9 Wii games”. Btw 2nd: there’s more than nine GameCube games in my “games” folder. (Not gonna talk about GameCube games. One of them is Twilight Princess though. Oh yeah.)
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Did you mod an Xbox too, or buy the games?
XBLIGs all come with Trials and the full versions are dirt cheap and I bought too many and I regret nothing.
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Rodea the Sky Soldier is Yuji Naka asking: what if 3D Sonic’s homing attack wasn’t auto-targeting enemies? And, what if it was the sole method of moving around? I partook in this experiment, and I gotta say, pointing and flinging my way through some of the most beautiful video game worlds (on the Wii) elicited an exorbitant joy of motion in me, the likes of which I haven’t experienced in a platformer since Mario 64. But that joy was also disrupted by some of the most aggravating camera battles since Mario 64. Actually, screw that, Rodea is way worse. While the Wiimote’s IR pointer works like a charm when selecting targets, moving the viewpoint by aiming at the edge of the screen is a chore. I can’t count the times I zipped by a ledge, only to curse at the agonizingly slow turning speed. Countless lives lost, countless fits of anger, and yet, somehow, I enjoyed this mess. I dare call it a delicious mess, rather free from the shackles of modern game design, like patronizing tutorials, or thorough playtesting, for that matter. This game didn’t hold my hand. It slapped my hand. I eventually gave up at the last boss, which, like most of the Shadow of the Colossus inspired bosses, is a true a-hole. But still, I call this the best 3D Sonic game. A game that is simple to grasp, yet hard to master. A game in which moving around is fun in itself. A game with real problems. A proverbial diamond in the rough. Oh yeah, it also has some pumping music and a childish, yet heartfelt story, in case I forgot to mention. Thanks for this late, unrefined gem, Yuji Naka. This is the Wii’s swan song, and it couldn’t be more fitting. What a dizzying concoction of realized and unrealized potential.
Again, the Wii U and 3DS versions are vastly different, and, if the internet is to be believed, vastly inferior, as they have been “improved” by another developer before release. I haven’t played them.
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I now have a Wii!
Only played Tatsunoko Vs Capcom so far because it’s great! Really glad I’ve held on to my GBPlayer contorllers.
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Anyone got any anecdotes RE peripherals?
I’d like to get a gun or two for Ghost Squad. Nyko ones seem highly talked about, but are a bit pricey! Also I don’t think a remote with the motionplus thing attached fits in there. I ordered another 'mote with the motionplus built-in, but it’d be nice to play with a buddy. Anything affordable has mixed reviews and I can’t tell who’re the wrongest.
And a Wiimote charging station. Also really hard to find credible info.
I don’t think there’s any lightgun game that supports motion plus, so you could just unplug it. There sure is some wild stuff out there concerning peripherals though, Wii is pretty much useless plastic doodad heaven, and that shit must be filling up landfills by now. You can get crates off ebay for next to nothing.
Why not get a Wii Zapper? I always wanted a zapper. It’s official and supported, officially supported! By Sin & Punishment 2 even.
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Thanks! I assumed motionplus just enhanced wiimote detection for all games, but reading about it now I guess it doesn’t.
Yeah, there are so many identical shitty plastic doo-dads to wade through on EBay if I sort stuff b price it’s not much fun looking for silly game things : (
Not really into the weird two handed grip on the zapper, but I guess it kinda makes sense for Gunblade…
Well I mean, Ghost Squad arcade cab has some big ass assault rifle thingies, so you might as well go with something bigger than a handgun.
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