noooooooooooooo FINIAL fansty IV omg come on Nintendo O f america SPoils US wit SOme Japaneese LOve... first

I would like to try Pac-mania but Ms. Pacman needs to be released as well. That is like an essential title for the VC.

I wonder why Final Fantasy VI wasn't part of the intial Final Fantasy's coming to the VC?

YAY for Pepen ga Pengo next week...! However, it'll only be three updates in August with the second week (the 11th) off due to the Obon festival, so I'll expect two more Namco games to come during the month. That the VC releases are pretty healthy in Japan, compared to the NA and PAL regions, make me feel really good. LONG LIVE the Japanese Virtual Console...!!!

It almost looks like the VC only exists in Japan. DANG JAPANESE!!! [Looks at Homebrew Channel.] But, oh well.

Japanese are lucky to get FFIV on VC. They don't need another VC game in August as this game is sufficient to keep them occupied for a whole month.

Hmmm, it probably seems I'll have to wait for more Neo Geo games longer than I expected.

@Drake: Bandai Namco will release only 30 arcade titles during 2009 as announced earlier this year. Maybe the company will return to Japanese VC in 2010 with 30 more arcade titles. Hopefully PC Engine will be back in October with one new title per week instead - but who knows...?! Only time will tell.

@7, Don

Not all people who use the Japanese VC like FFIV though.

Dear Nintendo of Japan,
Please share some of your VC games.

Thank You
North America and Europe

Yeah, other than Final Fantasy IV, there's not a whole lot here to get excited about. Virtual Console is definately on the decline it seems, even in Japan. Still Final Fantasy IV is one of those games people thought would never come to the service originally, so this is still an excellent month... for Japan. ^^'

Much better value getting one of the Pac Man collections for GBA or DS than paying for just Pac Mania even though its good. Hurry up and give us Donkey Kong arcade please Nintendo

@Betagame7
It seems for most games people are waiting for it may be best to find a collection or older cartridge. I don't think many people want to wait years for some of these classics to hit the VC again. It's unfortunate, but its the way it seems to be for now.

Now Japanese players can once again see what happened before The After Years.

I'd rather play the DS remake. The SNES and GBA versions look quited dated.

Everything on the VC is dated. Isn't that the point?

now that ff 1-4 is in japan hopefully square will bring 1,4 to the states like they said earlier in the year i need more rpgs i wont finish, but i do feel that square droped the ball with releasing the after years before 4

Please give us FF on VC. Thanks.

Holy jizz in my pants! They're getting a 4 game week! Pengo is supposed to come out August 4th too.

Four months of Final Fantasies? Japan sure are getting spoiled.

I don't give a sh*t what Japan gets. Seriously, everyone keeps saying that poor Japan are only getting 6 games. Shoot in America we are lucky if we even get 4 a month, and it's been that way for 8 months now.

@ Ratengo: Maybe after Namco releases all their remaining arcade titles on the JP VC, maybe they'll start releasing some on the NA/EU/AU VCs!

I'm happy with this list, I think the VC will be OK!
but still no Pilot Wings...

I call this unfair! Japanese gets 8 games this month while we'll be lucky to see even 4 this month!

Yay Pengo! Nice to see the second Cosmo Gang game. I don't really like Pac-Mania that much on NMR, personally. Good update all around!

Won't they have to re-translate FF 4? Short of using the tosh translation from US 2, slapping it onto the japanese 4 rom, and using that as the game, it seems like it would take a lot of extra energy...unless we somehow got the GBA version or something weird? I doubt they'd give us US FF2...that'd just be mean.

We should get a VC list....then again it would prob turn out to b false like the DL ware list eh

They get Pengo!? Curses!!

I hope Namco picks up the pace with NA VCA soon. They have practically their entire Arcade history on the Japanese VC already, and we don't even have their best games! Just Druaga, Mappy, and Gaplus. Bleccch!

I wonder why Final Fantasy VI wasn't part of the intial Final Fantasy's coming to the VC?

You skipped over V? I'm insulted!

I think 5 and 6 will show up eventually. Hopefully. Square did say there are currently no plans to DS Remake those two and this could be why.

Yeah! What's up with Pilotwings?

why did they put on ff IV? wouldnt they want to drive people to buy the ds version

@Rapadash6: "Yeah, other than Final Fantasy IV, there's not a whole lot here to get excited about. "

Oh hush you, Nekketsu Hockey is awesome.

Those lucky B******s! Why don't we get Pengo?!

Final Fantasy IV?! Agh! Why does Japan get all the good stuff?

@Bass X0.....why, I bought FF3 DS and I HATE the goofy cartoony gfx "update", was gonna get FF4 DS till I found the PSX version.....much cleaner and nicer looking methinks

meeh, i got the fourth fantasy all-ready.

iv got all FF's on all systems(exept for MSX), so il pass
hell i even have the FF XIII demo

They all look pretty dang crappy.

@WarioFan63

But FF5 was Japan-only. Why would we get it?
And what do you mean no plans to remake FF5?!O_o

And I agree with Mach-X, I prefer the "dated" graphics over newer art, which make my eyeballs feel like they're melting everytime I have to look at them.

I'm sure FF V was translated by the fans and was the first to do so. If they offered the guys who did that some money then it'd be released over her but I doubt that.

FF IV is pretty dated compared to the GBA version though. They still go for £35 I believe...I sold mine for £20 . Still, lucky Japan I guess...

Nintendo of America sucks, We need Mr Iwata's help towards bringing new life to VC here in north America

bring over the hard type version of Final Fantasy IV

still will be nice to get this on the wii eventually