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Japanese Nintendo downloads: Mega Man 4, Nectaris, Starship Defender
This week, the long-awaited remake of Hudson's Military Madness is available on WiiWare in Japan. Do you like ... war? Do you like hexagons? This is for you! Japanese gamers with no interest in playing updated versions of classic games can play a faithfully emulated version of Mega Man 4 instead. DSi owners have a wide selection of games this week, including Q-Games's Starship Defense/Starship Patrol (now under a third name!), a new G.G. Series game, a Gameloft pet sim, and a dungeon crawler based on Sonic Powered's From the Abyss. Rockman 4 (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points) Nectaris (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points) Anonymous Notes: From the Abyss (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points) Uchimakure! Touch Pen Wars (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points) G.G. Series Assault Buster (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points) Uso Hakkenki: Kokoro no Naka o Nozo Ichao (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 500 DSi Points) Starship Defender (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points) Wanko to Issho (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)
Mega Man 4, SNES Advance Wars on Virtual Console in February
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)
