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How cool would it be if you could play the downloadable 2-4 player NES, SNES, Genesis games on the Wii online against another person? That would add a whole new feature/element for downloadable games.

Also, does anyone know how the downloadable games will work? For instance...

Do you play them off of a server or do you download them?

If you download them, is their a limit to how many you can keep (i.e storage size)?

The Wii has 512MB of internal flash memory, but is supposed to support all kinds of USB mass storage deVices. So you could plug in a 500GB external hard drive if you wanted.

Of course it would be cool to play multiplayer games over the internet.
But I fear this won't happen. I guess you only can download the games as they were back then. It would need some modification to let you play multiplayer over the net and I think they won't alter their games. :/

Of course it would be cool to play multiplayer games over the internet.
But I fear this won't happen. I guess you only can download the games as they were back then. It would need some modification to let you play multiplayer over the net and I think they won't alter their games. :/

A massive number of console emulators allow online play with no modification of the NES ROM, I don't see why Nintendo wouldn't be able to do the same thing.

Are you sure the emulator itsself doesn't alter the code (like game genie or something does for cheating)?
If that's so easy they may as well offer that possibility. Good thing is, my predictions are wrong sometimes.

The Wii has 512MB of internal flash memory, but is supposed to support all kinds of USB mass storage deVices. So you could plug in a 500GB external hard drive if you wanted.

Well then would that mean that I could simply copy NES ROMs from computer harddrive onto my flashdrive (or any USB mass storage deVice), plug it into the Wii, and play away without ever having to pay to download them?

The Wii has 512MB of internal flash memory, but is supposed to support all kinds of USB mass storage deVices. So you could plug in a 500GB external hard drive if you wanted.

Well then would that mean that I could simply copy NES ROMs from computer harddrive onto my flashdrive (or any USB mass storage deVice), plug it into the Wii, and play away without ever having to pay to download them?

I doubt it, Nintendo will likely have their emulator very encrypted, and likely develop an entirely custom file format for the NES ROMs to be in.

That will undoubtedly be cracked though.



The Game Genie doesn't alter the code in the ROM itself, it alters it as it's being passed to the console, which is likely similar to how emulators enable online multiplayer, and probably the same way Nintendo will do it with the Wii, if they decide to allow that option.

That's what I wanted to say with the sentence above.
If normal emulators can give you online multiplayer the official downloads should do so too, I guess.