PALGN's Periodical Rumour Harvest #13

PALGN Rumour | Free games on the Revolution? Not yet.

Rumours have been circulating recently that suggest Nintendo will be making all their published games available FREE for the Nintendo Revolution.

How did this rumour start? Famitsu Japan published a list of all the Nintendo published games released and then combined this with Nintendo's comments about downloadable games. Combining the two of them creates some huge gaming news, however some of the information has been lost in translation. Famitsu only published a list of titles Nintendo could publish for free. In fact this is very strictly a rumour at the moment that many big name sites have fallen for.

You heard it on PALGN first, this news is false. The full list of "free" games are:

NES
1. 10-Yard Fight
2. Anticipation
3. Balloon Fight
4. Barker Bill's Trick Shooting
5. Baseball
6. Clu Clu Land
7. Dance Aerobics
8. Devil World
9. Doki Doki Panic
10. Donkey Kong
11. Donkey Kong 3
12. Donkey Kong Classics
13. Donkey Kong Jr.
14. Donkey Kong Jr. Math
15. Dr. Mario
16. Dragon Warrior
17. Duck Hunt
18. Excitebike
19. Famicom Wars
20. Final Fantasy
21. Fire Emblem Gaiden
22. Fire Emblem: Ankokuryuu to Hikari no Tsurugi
23. Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy
24. Golf
25. Gum Shoe
26. Gyromite
27. Hogan's Alley
28. Ice Climber
29. Ice Hockey
30. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Taito)
31. Kid Icarus
32. Kirby's Adventure
33. Kung Fu
34. Mach Rider
35. Mario Bros.
36. Mario Time Machine
37. Mario is Missing!
38. Mario:Fun with Letters
39. Mario:Fun with Numbers
40. Metroid
41. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
42. Mother (Earthbound)
43. NES Open Golf
44. Nintendo World Cup
45. Nuts & Milk
46. Pin-Bot
47. Pinball
48. Play Action Football
49. Popeye
50. Pro Wrestling
51. Punch-Out!!
52. R.C. Pro-Am
53. Rad Racer
54. Rad Racer 2
55. Short Order/Eggsplode
56. Slalom
57. Snake Rattle & Roll
58. Soccer
59. Stack Up
60. Star Tropics
61. Super Mario Bros.
62. Super Mario Bros. 2
63. Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels
64. Super Mario Bros. 3
65. Super Spike V'Ball/World Cup Soccer
66. Super Team Games
67. Tennis
68. Tetris
69. Tetris 2
70. The Legend of Zelda
71. To The Earth
72. Track meet
73. Urban Champion
74. Volleyball
75. Wario's Woods
76. Wild Gunman
77. World Class Track Meet
78. World Cup Soccer
79. Wrecking Crew
80. Yoshi (Mario & Yoshi)
81. Yoshi's Cookie
82. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
83. Zoda's Revenge: Star Tropics II

Super NES
84. Derby Stallion 98 (NP)
85. Donkey Kong Country
86. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest
87. Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble
88. EarthBound
89. F-Zero
90. FX Fighter
91. Fire Emblem: Monshou no Nazo
92. Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu
93. Fire Emblem: Thracia 776
94. Hyper V-Ball
95. Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball
96. Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run
97. Killer Instinct
98. Kirby Super Star
99. Kirby's Avalanche
100. Kirby's Dream Course
101. Kirby's Dream Land 3
102. Kirby's Ghost Trap
103. Legend
104. Mario Paint
105. Mario and Wario
106. Mario's Early Years: Preschool Fun
107. Mario's Super Picross
108. Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge
109. NCAA Basketball
110. NHL Stanley Cup
111. Panel de Pon
112. Picross NP Vol. 8
113. PilotWings
114. Shigesato Itoi's No. 1 Bass Fishing
115. Sound Fantasy
116. Star Fox
117. Stunt Race FX
118. Super Famicom Wars
119. Super Mario Kart
120. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
121. Super Mario World
122. Super Metroid
123. Super Punch-Out!!
124. Super Scope 6
125. Super Soccer
126. Super Soccer 2
127. Super Tennis
128. Tetris & Dr. Mario
129. Tetris Attack
130. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
131. Tinstar
132. Uniracers
133. Winter Gold (FX Skiing)
134. World League Baseball
135. Yoshi's Island: Super Mario World 2
136. Yoshi's Safari

Nintendo 64
137. 1080° Snowboarding
138. Animal Crossing
139. Banjo-Kazooie
140. Banjo-Tooie
141. Blast Corps
142. Bomberman 64
143. Bomberman Hero
144. Buggie Boogie
145. Cabbage
146. Catroots
147. Climber
148. Command & Conquer
149. Creator
150. Cruis'n USA
151. Cruis'n World
152. Cu-On-Pa
153. Custom Robo
154. Custom Robo V2
155. DD Sequencer
156. Dezaemon DD
157. Diddy Kong Racing
158. Donkey Kong 64
159. Doubutsu Banchou
160. Dr. Mario 64
161. Echo-Delta
162. Emperor of the Jungle
163. Excitebike 64
164. F-Zero X
165. Gendai Dai-Senryaku: Ultimate War
166. GoldenEye 007
167. Hey You, Pikachu!
168. Jack and the Beanstalk
169. Ken Griffey Jr.'s Slugfest
170. Killer Instinct Gold
171. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
172. Kirby's Air Ride
173. Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside
174. Major League Baseball Featuring Ken Griffey Jr
175. Mario Golf
176. Mario Kart 64
177. Mario Party
178. Mario Party 2
179. Mario Party 3
180. Mario Tennis 64
181. Mickey's Speedway USA
182. Mini Racers
183. Mischief Makers
184. Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 2
185. NBA Courtside 2: Featuring Kobe Bryant
186. Paper Mario
187. Perfect Dark
188. Pilotwings 64
189. Pokemon Puzzle League
190. Pokemon Snap
191. Pokemon Stadium
192. Pokemon Stadium 2
193. Pokemon Stadium: Gold, Silver, Crystal Version
194. Ridge Racer 64
195. Riqa
196. Shigesato Itoi's No. 1 Bass Fishing
197. Sin and Punishment: Successor to the Earth
198. Star Fox 64
199. Star Wars Episode I: Racer
200. Star Wars: Battle for Naboo
201. Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
202. StarCraft 64
203. Super Mario 64
204. Super Smash Bros.
205. Tetrisphere
206. The Legend of Zelda DD (Ura Zelda) (Master Quest in America)
207. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
208. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
209. The New Tetris
210. Waialae Country Club: True Golf Classics
211. Wall Street DD
212. Wave Race 64
213. Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey
214. Yoshi's Story

Satteleview Games
215. BS F-Zero 2 Grand Prix
216. BS Special Tee Shot
217. BS Zelda

64 DD games
218. SimCity 64
219. F-Zero X Expansion Kit
220. Kyojin no Doshin 1 (Doshin the Giant)
221. Mario Artist: Communication Kit,Paint Studio,Polygon Studio, Sound Studio, Talent Studio

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16 Comments

ObsoletE

4 years ago

well, well, there's a turn up for the books...

it did seem kind of odd to me that they would release the games free, but i was hoping... as i'm sure many others were...

it's also kind of interesting that Nintendo never denied the rumour if it is false though... you think they'd want this nipped in the bud asap since it could cause all sorts of issues later...

(BTW: shouldn't this be non-periodical, since, and correct me if i'm wrong, the rumour harvest don't occur with any regularity... at least, they don't seem to...)

Andronicus

4 years ago

Interesting...

There is, at this present moment, no case to say either possibility is true or not.
No official Nintendo comment has been made.

As usual, we'll have to wait until the big N wants us to know.

Matt

4 years ago

Will be interesting to see if those Japan-only releases (such as Sin and Punishment) will be available to PAL and US gamers.

Qbert

4 years ago

Well they make so much money from their old games, that it seems silly to just 'give' them away for free. However, they might think that this will be a huge selling point for the Rev and they will make money just from selling heaps of Rev consoles. Or maybe they won't make much money from the consoles, but if everyone has one (like PS2), you'll get more 3rd party titles etc. and this will be bettter in the long run.

Personally I'd be happy if they released one SNES/NES game a month for free and if you really want it, then you can pay to get it early.

Mark

4 years ago

stonedwal wrote

Will be interesting to see if those Japan-only releases (such as Sin and Punishment) will be available to PAL and US gamers.

I would say they would. Since you'd be downloading them from Nintendo dedicated servers from online services and not actually purchasing the disc or cart., or so I would assume so - since I would doubt Nintendo, and other companies, would be willing to ship out products.

So yeah, I would suspect that we'll finally get to play a lot of those Japanese and U.S exclusive titles.

Matt

4 years ago

Licensing issues might prevent the following from being available:

Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Taito)
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball
Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run
NCAA Basketball
NHL Stanley Cup
Shigesato Itoi's No. 1 Bass Fishing
GoldenEye 007
Ken Griffey Jr.'s Slugfest
Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside
Major League Baseball Featuring Ken Griffey Jr
NBA Courtside 2: Featuring Kobe Bryant
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey

Didn't think of this before when I was all excited after reading the list. It's a list of games that could possibly be available. The availability of the above list of games would depend on the type of deals Nintendo negotiated in the first place.

Hyperworm

4 years ago

This article isn't quite correct....
Famitsu never published a list of titles; they merely said something to the tune of "all Nintendo's first-party games will be available for download on Revolution" (not mentioning free). I think they may have said something about "221 titles will be available", too, I don't have a scan of the magazine.
Anyway, all the lists that have been coming out are from forum members from various places that are essentially trying to figure out exactly what these games (either first-party or second-party) are.

One thing you can be sure of, though, is that the games on Revolution are not (yet) confirmed to be free.
We also don't have a definitive official list of titles... some, like the Super Scope, are indeed Nintendo first-party, but it's unlikely we'll be seeing them on Revolution (unless the controller is so cool it can morph into a light gun on demand...).

IGN's story is correct. Please take note of the wording which it uses.

armageddon12

4 years ago

I hope these games are available for free. It would be awesome to play games like Sin & Punishment (so dissapointed it never saw release here) and some of the DD games might be interesting.

I may be wrong but Shigesato Itoi's No. 1 Bass Fishing, the Shigesato Itoi in the title works for Nintendo, isn't he the creator of the Mother franchise? Thus they put his name in the title to get it to sell better (Mother is huge in Japan).

If the games aren't free, they should sell them for like a fiver each or something. That'd be really cool. I'd be less inclined to go get an emulator, or just buy it off ebay or wherever.

Hyperworm

4 years ago

Sorry; confirmation in another recent IGN story, it's not free. Hopefully everyone was as sceptical as I was about this

I'd like to see an internal online multiplayer system of some kind built into the software that emulates these old games. PC emulators can do it (badly), why can't Nintendo official ones? A smooth, well-supported online service for games dating back to SNES and NES would be a massive hit against emulation, especially if the games were cheap!

Cerebral

4 years ago

Woah woah woah woah...

IGN article wrote

Nintendo's use of flash memory rather than a hard disk was very much intentional. The company believes that kids as young as five years old will use the Revolution and could damage a built-in hard disk. Additionally, Iwata points to longevity, reliability and cost as being part of the decision to go with flash.

The internal flash memory is being used for a few areas besides the download of game classics. You'll be able to save games to the flash area, update the Revolution's firmware (adding new features along the way, presumably) and download game demos! That's right, Revolution game demos, downloaded right to your Revolution hardware.

Sorry, but this is absolute horse ****. the reason we're stuck with 512 megs of storage space is because kids might damage an internal HDD? Get the hell out! I don't know what kids have in store for the revolution, but they'd bloody smash the console to pieces before damaging a hard drive - which is ridiculous to expect. It isn't as if the things are fragile - they're built to withstand a shock force akin to droppoing it off a building, or hitting it with a sledgehammer.

And now we have all this wonderful content to download and save onto all 512 megabytes of space? That would hold about 2 game demos. Poor form.

Brendan

4 years ago

Not really - remember that most N64 carts were around the 32mb mark. NES/SNES games will be a few MB each. Of course, it will be useless for GCN games.

Still, that is quite possibly the worst excuse for anything I've ever heard.

ObsoletE

4 years ago

CerebralAssassin wrote

Sorry, but this is absolute horse s--t. the reason we're stuck with 512 megs of storage space is because kids might damage an internal HDD? Get the hell out! I don't know what kids have in store for the revolution, but they'd bloody smash the console to pieces before damaging a hard drive - which is ridiculous to expect. It isn't as if the things are fragile - they're built to withstand a shock force akin to droppoing it off a building, or hitting it with a sledgehammer.

kinda true, while you could recover data from a dropped HDD eventually, it's actually quite easy to damage the device enough that it needs repairs in order to allow the HDD to spin properly... certainly damage them enough to stop the normal person (ie: someone who doesn't know what to do, and is afraid to simply poke it) from getting them working again...

so while the physical disc is ok, the housing (for lack of a better word) could be damaged enough that it'd take a decent some to get it working again...

i've dropped 3 removeable HDD so far in my time and 2 were rooted without pulling them apart and rebuilding the housing, this was only dropped from maybe 1.5m onto carpet (knocked off a desk)... while they can withstand jolts (being driven about, or in the case of MP3 Jukeboxes, jogging) they can't always survive being dropped...

although by saying that they are expecting 5yo's to damage the rev doesn't bode well for trying to shake the kiddy image Nintendo already have... (not saying they should completely shake it, but if the safety of data is dependent on 5yos, it's a bit crap imo)

Hyperworm

4 years ago

Don't forget that the Revolution is a lot smaller than the PS3 or Xbox 360. It's capable of being carried around the house by these young people, and also since it's smaller all the internal parts will not only be more tightly packed, but also closer to the edges of the device and more susceptible to shock.
Nintendo's aiming for another drop-proof product, I think

Yeah, bit of a mistake mentioning that one of the core design features was to accommodate 5-year-olds... doesn't exactly do much for Nintendo...

Storage space won't be anything like a problem for NES, SNES, probably even N64 games (depending on pricing), but I wonder how large Revolution game demos are going to be. When the final game is around 9GB, I wonder how they're going to go about compressing part of it down to 64MB or less (what I'd consider a suitable size for a 512MB Flash card)?
Ah well.

(You're not "stuck" with that amount of storage space, BTW... you can buy standard Flash cards to act as expansions, though it's not an ideal solution seeing that it costs money

Still, Revolution'll be cheaper than Xbox360 or PS3 anyway, so I guess you could say it just evens out.

)

Cerebral

4 years ago

Brendan wrote

Not really - remember that most N64 carts were around the 32mb mark. NES/SNES games will be a few MB each. Of course, it will be useless for GCN games.

Yeah, I was talking about Revolution Demos.

Thing is, they shouldn't make the console child-proof at the expense of storage space. I imagine if an internal removable HDD was used the rest of the console would absorb most of any shock, and even then we're talking about a very rhobust piece of hardware. If anyone provides enough shock force to break an internal harddrive inside a console, they pretty much deserve to have it break on them, as they can't possibly be trying to do anything else.

Gtpod

4 years ago

One FF game?

Dammit, I wanted 1-6 >_<

Hyperworm

4 years ago

GTPod wrote

One FF game?

Dammit, I wanted 1-6 >_<

Not ruled out... the games on that list are just the Nintendo-published ones, but as far as I'm aware Nintendo are trying to get third-parties to distribute their old games on the service too.

(Can't see why they wouldn't do it... easy profit for them I'd have thought

)

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