Lucky! Earthworm Jim is a good game. The US will get it soon and yet another good edition to the VC library.

AWESOME!

Except, why the Megadrive version of EJ? I've never played either, but is there a reason for why one would want that and not the SNES version?

first comment? and earthworm jim

EDIT: NOOOOOOOOO! Darn you Tony!

Yes! I've been waiting for Earthworm Jim for ages, I'll be downloading ASAP

first post yay! these two are good games. still waiting for others though!!!

Shining Force 2!!!

@Cally: because its the best, IMO. I'm pretty sure we'll see this coming Monday or next. We might get the two TG16 games first.

Excellent week! Shining Force 2 is a real gem.

Shining Force 2 is a great game. I recommand this game to people that enjoy playing Rrpg/strategy games.

nice releases. i really hope we will see earthworm jim next week, iv'e been waiting for that one for a while now. how challenging is it anyway?

These games look alright. Not what I wanted, but decent games none-the-less.

Shining Force II rocks. I've been waiting for this game for a long time now. Hope it comes to America soon.

EARTHWORM JIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cool, congrats to the gamers in Eurpoe/Australia. Hopefully we will get these two classics before the year ends.

2 games over the course of 2 weeks is lame for you guys, but at least both games are really quite good. I really loved Earthworm Jim, so hopefully it'll come here soon as well.

PLEASE let the US get Shining Force II on Monday. I'm actually going to hold off on buying Super Turrican 2 in hopes of SF2 coming out here.

Europe getting the DSi first and now Earthworm Jim AND Shining Force II?? I hate Europeans. =P

In all seriousness, it's a great update. Two great Mega Drive/Genesis games hitting the VC. Here's to hoping Shining Force II comes out this Monday for NA.

awesome!!! I have never played Shining Force II, but I have loved the first one for years. I hope the US gets it soon.

Can't wait to try out Earthworm Jim. Unfortunately I never got to play it years ago.

Un-flippin-believeable!!! What a fantastic update! Two very very quality titles from my childhood back for me to enjoy all over again, DL ASAP!!!! Or as the man would say himself: "Groovy!"

A four star game and a five star game. Yay! I hope US gets these soon.

Earthworm Jim and SFII?! Awesome week guys! I hope we get these on monday, SFII was one of my favorite games way back when!

I read EARTH and I was like…”bound???” but as usual, it wasn’t
At least finally Someone gets Earthworm Jim.

Cool releases. I personally hated Earthworm Jim, but most people enjoyed it. I've heard Shining Force II was better than the original, and considering the original was really good this one must be amazing! Have fun!

I'd prefer the SNES Jim over Genesis version, with its trademark tinny sound, but eh. Guess we'll see if we get it here on Monday.

lol @ Serpent.

I'm glad you Europeans got Earthworm Jim. I've never played EJ, but it looks relativity fun.

I'm not crazy about either of these games. But since they come in high demand, it is a good sign for future releases. I know Earthworm Jim is supposed to come to America before year's end, so we'll probably get it soon. Glad for people who wanted it though.

I will be buying a points card, just for Earthworm Jim when the U.S. gets it.

Shining Force 2!!!

Earthworm Jim?

Shining Force 2?!?

I dub thee "One Hell of a VC Week™". This has given me something to look forward to when I come home from work, indeed!

@Cally: Because it was originally made for the Mega Drive. The SNES is more of a port (a not as good on besides the graphics have been updated, the music quality isn't as good, it lost a level and IMO is easier).

It's a sign the US will get it soon, I hope.

I've been waiting for Shining Force 2 a long time.

Yay an great week for europe ^^

Oh my god, this came out of nowhere. Incredible week 2 brilliant releases, I could not be happier! Now to mow some space in the tiny Wii internal memory...

Still the equivalent of one VC game a week though.

Meh, should have gone with the SNES version, it's better... But I guess you can't get everything, I'll probably get both games down the line.

2 good quality games this week. But it's only 2 games though. Spread that out between 2 weeks and it's the equivalent of 1 game a week.

But with WiiWare games, its still five games in the space of two weeks which is about normal.

Nobody has noticed this and I only just figured it out. First Friday of the Month...

Does this mean SEGA week is back?

Spread that out between 2 weeks and it's the equivalent of 1 game a week.
They're still good games though (Shining Force 2 should take a week at least to beat) in a way 2 bad games and 1 good game is better since that is 2 less bad games...

I am happy with the quality of this weeks releases anyway regardless. I guess the fact we got 3 WiiWare releases for the past month kinda makes up for although i am more of a VC fan.

Quality over quantaty. These good games will be downloaded at least 5 times the amount of a bad game so these releases are actually equivalent of 10 bad games.

Shining Force II! I´ve been waiting for it, great release!

Excellent releases for you guys! Hope US gets Earthworm Jim soon too (though I'd also prefer to get the SNES version).

@beastman 93
I'll try to use my powers of posting first for good and not evil

Wohooooooo!

Shining Force II !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

does the story from shining force 1 carry onto shining force 2 cos i didnt download number 1 therefor dont wnna download it and not have a clue whats going on?

@41. Starwolf_UK

I should have noticed that.. hopefully you're right!

What an awesome couple of releases for Europe. Kinda stinks that after getting nothing last week yall get only two this week, though. At least both releases are awesome.

I'd probably have bought Jim if it'd been the Snes version. Yes I realise that the Mega Drive is slightly superior...except that this is made redundant by Segas refusal to do anything about the cruddy PAL conversions. As such the MD boycott continues for me.

They blatantly can't make FX chip games work properly...

Nice update but why only 2 games I wonder?

I'd probably have bought Jim if it'd been the Snes version. Yes I realise that the Mega Drive is slightly superior...except that this is made redundant by Segas refusal to do anything about the cruddy PAL conversions. As such the MD boycott continues for me.
A SNES verison would lack borders but still still be crudvile for speed so its not much better Have you contacted SEGA about the PAL conversions...it could be fruitless but interesting nonetheless (I contacted them about the lack of Japanese voice acting in Puyo Pop fever inspite it being menitoned in the manual, turns out it was cut at the last minute after manuals were printed )

EWJ????? Epic jealousy..........

These are two of the best Genesis (and, imho... not only) games ever!! great week!!

EWJ????? Epic jealousy..........

You should get it on Monday.

this is a great week for us europeans

Oh man! I want Earthworm Jim too. Maybe monday

@Rootbeer, comment #50: You call Mega Man 9 "nothing"?
There were three Wiiware games, and I'm sure a fair chunk of us VC playing personnel were still all over last week's selection. I don't see this as a draught at all - from what we've seen from this week and the previous Wiiware week, we're in for a good gaming Autumn

@Drake: NOO!

I have had Earthworm Jim 2 on the SNES since I was a little kid and it's one of my favorite shooter/platformers. The animation is awesome. It's been forever since I played the first one, but I always the Sega versions looking and sounding better so I think thats cool that they're putting the Megadrive version up. Can't wait for it hit to hit US.

Woohoo! With the European release of Shining Force II, I certainly hope that means it's hitting U.S. VC shores soon! Definitely my favorite game of the series and one I've been greatly anticipating seeing on the Virtual Console for a long time now. As for Gradius II hitting our VC on Monday, I cannot wait to get my hands on it.

WOW!!! It´s been a long year since the release of the first one. I´m going to kill everybody in the game, again and again.

Dang! I wish I lived in Europe. These games would've made for a kickass birthday update (yep, today is officially my B-day.)! Both are a hell of a lot better than ST2. XI

I'd also like to say that I'm glad Nintendo is finally pushing these rated games out the door. They've been announced and rated for far too long.

Happy B-Day mista Cheeze!! . and yeah i really want to watch some Earthworm jim cartoons right now.

@ Mr. Cheez: Even though I said once already, i'll say it again, Happy Birthday!
@ Rexy: I agree with you. End of August and September have been great weeks to be a VC and Wii Ware gamer. Now since October is starting off good, we might be set for great gaming for the rest of the year.

@ Drake: How do you already know what US gamers are getting on Friday? I never figured out how you guys get that information so quickly.

Europe gets Earthworm Jim and North America will probably get shovelware. NoA is just that bad.

@ Drake: Thanks. So the website is run by Husdon? That's interesting.

Hudson has been wrong before. Probably not this time though.

"Dang! I wish I lived in Europe"

Okay I'll swap you we'll take full screen full speed 60hz games and you can have the 17% slower bordered garbage SEGA throws at the VC over here. Not really worth getting it slightly earlier when you consider the difference is it?

It's only a PAL conversion. Most of us Europeans have grown used to it anyways, and I seriously doubt the speed would do much wrong regarding how we play it.

Besides, if there's anything I want to swap from the Americans, it would be the weather

The only game that really suffers imo is Sonic 1 on the Megadrive. The other games I don't really notice the change in speed. Even Sonic 2 isnt bad.
Does anyone know if it's possible Sega will release Sonic CD on the VC? Sorry to go off topic...

I WANT EARTHWORM JIM!!! That and vectorman are 2 of my favorites.

@Betagam7. Yeesh! Calm your beef man. I wasn't actually serious. I was just saying that I would've liked to have gotten these 2 games on my birthday week much more than ST2. I can wait; With those problems you mentioned plus your erratic release scedules, I'd much prefer a Wii from my own continent.

@Cocoaman. Thanks!

@Classicmike. Thanks (again)!
And guess what? You're Brawl code finally registered in my roster! It only took 3 weeks!

@Outrunner, comment #77: Assuming that the size limit for a Sega CD game is 500MB (almost as big as the Wii itself), these types of games on the VC seem to be unlikely as of now. It might be a consideration for the next Nintendo console though.

Gradius 2 should be very good tide over until Ej comes to the US

The slow releases and slow PAL games has made me resort to emulation, I couldnt wait any longer

@ Mr. Cheez: Wow! Nintendo is sure fast a registering friends on Brawl! Much better than Xbox Live!
(If u didn't figure it out, I was being sarcastic.)

^I know. You made it pretty blatant.

Yeah, I guess i kind of went overboard. But I just thought it was ridiculous how it took 3 weeks for you to be registered as a friend on Brawl.
Also, do you know that blatant means to state the obvious in a vulgar manner?
(I looked up the word so I could find out what it means.)

@Outrunner, comment #77: Assuming that the size limit for a Sega CD game is 500MB (almost as big as the Wii itself), these types of games on the VC seem to be unlikely as of now. It might be a consideration for the next Nintendo console though.
TurboGrafx CD games have similar issues and they manage is all I can say about the size argument. But maybe the audio compression works far better and there isn't as much game data...

That aside SEGA cannot emulate the Mega CD. Presumebly they tried for Sonic Mega collection (Sonic CD was meant to be on there, the manual is all that remains) but it didn't work out and when it came to Sonic Gems collection they ported the PC version*.

Thing is outside of ports of Megadrive games there are about 10 (I'm just saying the number I have not thought of any individual games) Mega CD games I would like to actually see.

*-Sonic R is also a PC port...hence the 4 palyer...

Speaking of Mega CD games Here's a few I recommend or would like to see re-released somehow.

Recommend:-

Shining Force CD
Snatcher
Sonic CD
Night Trap
Dune
Final Fight CD
Mickey Mania
Mortal Kombat
Keio Flying Squadron
Puggsy
Prince of Persia
Earthworm Jim: Special Edition

Would like to see:-

Adventures of Willy Beamish
Secret of Monkey Island
Flashback
Fatal Fury Special
Rise of the Dragon
Dracula Unleashed
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@ GamerWho: Don't forget to tell the people at Webster's Dictionary that a few now means more than 10+ items instead of 3-9 items.
Good list though.

Fatal Fury Special

we're likely to get the NeoGeo version so we don't really need the Mega CD version.

Above average update for you guys! Have to say, as the picky person I am, I probably won't be picking up any of the titles listed for this update or Monday's. Seriously picky. I only have 4 VC.

I feel indifferent about these titles, so congrats to Europe.

Congrats on getting Earthworm Jim.
Me, I really don't care too much for it...

@Clayfrd

Today.

How far away is NA VC releases?

Bah... 2 hours :/

Edit: Nope I was off by 20 minutes. Doh! Should have stayed up!

@ gamerwho
Once Street Fighter SCE comes out, I think it would be time for old-school Mortal Kombat for the VC

Nice, that means we're one step closer to getting Earthworm Jim 2. Bring it on, Ninty.

"It's only a PAL conversion. Most of us Europeans have grown used to it anyways"

Sadly, its defeatism like this that ensures Nobody will ever bother to fix the problem.

"The slow releases and slow PAL games has made me resort to emulation"

If more people took that attitude perhaps the companies would stand up and pay attention

"The only game that really suffers imo is Sonic 1 on the Megadrive"

Wrong! Play PAL Waverace 64 and you'll soon notice a pretty big difference. Even more disgraceful that despite finding time to change the graphics of this game to promote the Wii and DS Nintendo chose to do NOTHING about fixing a game ruining problem!

Have you contacted SEGA about the PAL conversions...it could be fruitless but interesting nonetheless
I actually gave this a shot. They siad they knew nothing about the virtual console and to contact Nintendo...I think Nintendo have blacklisted me these days since codestorm (he UK Nintendo customer services) never, ever reply to anything I send and Nintendo Germany tell me to contact Codestorm

My current attempt is basically 'why is it the back of the box tells me if it supports 50/60Hz etc yet the VC doesn't?'. I'll probably get nowhere even if I do get replies since customer services don't talk to other departments and hence have no influence.

I got close with Germany once but then they started blurting out in English about contacting codestorm and siad they passed the message on (I later asked codestorm if they ever recieved it and nope they had not )

Well I suppose there is still France, Spain and Italy to try

Sadly, its defeatism like this that ensures Nobody will ever bother to fix the problem.
I remember this very site used to list the converisons issues but they took it down because it alienated the PAL gamers or somethnig stupid like that...

i.. have... been waiting for this day... SHINING FORCE 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!