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StreetsAhead · Jun 4, 2014

Via Mr. Daan Koopaman on Twitter. This was not an announced release.

Direct-Feed Video: http://youtu.be/pMziNTrddzA
Miiverse: https://miiverse.nintendo.net/titles/14866558073298972517/14866558073298972525

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wiiu/softw...ndex.html#andj

-Available if you've updated your system to 5.0
-Free download ends June 30th
-Will update with VC functions (save etc) at a later date.

BREAKING: Brain Training is now up on the Japanese Wii U eShop for FREE in Japan.

https://twitter.com/NintenDaan/status/473993135056363520

https://twitter.com/NintenDaan/status/473993799652237312

https://twitter.com/NintenDaan/status/473994065470435328

What I know for sure: There are no other options than the software itself. #DSVirtualConsole

https://twitter.com/NintenDaan/status/473997083393794049

Give me brain damage if old.

EDIT: Whoops, should be Brain Age, I think, not Brain Training. Asking a mod to fix.

Astral/H3X · Jun 4, 2014

Does this count as a megaton? Or did we already know this was going to happen?

MouldyK · Jun 4, 2014

That's a nice test of things. Why ain't it here in the EU? I'm stupid and need this.

H3XAntiStyle said:
Does this count as a megaton? Or did we already know this was going to happen?

We knew DS games were coming, just not WHEN.

NotLiquid · Jun 4, 2014

Hm. I was under the impression that a DS Virtual Console would keep the touch screen on the pad.

Richie · Jun 4, 2014

I'd say this was a missed chance for an "available...NOW!" surprise at E3, but Brain Training is not precisely Megaton material

Phazon · Jun 4, 2014

Wooow, Nintendo is on a roll these weeks.

I didn't expect this to come out so soon. Great news. Let's hope they'll keep the pace of nice GBA and DS titles up this summer and the months after that.

udivision · Jun 4, 2014

Beyonce plz

Social · Jun 4, 2014

is nintendo going to try everything they can to save the wiiU? All signs point to "yes"

hachi · Jun 4, 2014

NotLiquid said:
Hm. I was under the impression that a DS Virtual Console would keep the touch screen on the pad.

For most games, that's what I'd expect, but this is a "book style" game that really requires you to be watching both halves side-by-side.

But it does leave me very curious as to how normal titles will look, and how they will scale.

daydream · Jun 4, 2014

Oh man, it's happening!

Edit: never mind, this is a valid point

hachi said:
For most games, that's what I'd expect, but this is a "book style" game that really requires you to be watching both halves side-by-side.

Son Of D · Jun 4, 2014

Richie said:
I'd say this was a missed chance for an "available...NOW!" surprise at E3, but Brain Training is not precisely Megaton material

That's probably how the western release will go. "Brain Training and other various DS titles will be available to download after this presentation".

Schadenfreude · Jun 4, 2014

Oh Jesus. It's all happening so fast.

BassForever · Jun 4, 2014

NotLiquid said:
Hm. I was under the impression that a DS Virtual Console would keep the touch screen on the pad.

It is, Brain Training was a game you held the DS side ways so they split the wiiu tablet in half as you see in the image, I imagine for most DS games that you held the system normally the wiiu game pad will show the touch screen and the tv will show the top screen.

friskykillface · Jun 4, 2014

probably was gonna be a E3 announcement but got Beyonced early

cool though B^)

Kyzer · Jun 4, 2014

Whoa that's actually great. I would love brain training

Phazon · Jun 4, 2014

BramVD said:
is nintendo going to try everything they can to save the wiiU? All signs point to "yes"

It's not a wasted effort, since we know the basic software development enviroment of the wii u will continue to the next systems/architectures. It makes more sense to develop GBA/DS emulation and a lot of tools for Wii U, so they can quickly and simply port it over to the next generation without a lot of effort (like it was with gc, wii, 3ds etc now)

TunaLover · Jun 4, 2014

i love free games

StreetsAhead · Jun 4, 2014

Updated the OP, Daan is saying that there's no options other than the original ones that game with the game.

Video too: http://youtu.be/pMziNTrddzA

jakomocha · Jun 4, 2014

Think this will come to the US anytime soon? Not sure why they'd release this so quietly. My guess would be that they are waiting for E3 to announce a worldwide release of it, among numerous other DS Virtual Console games.

Schadenfreude · Jun 4, 2014

Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMziNTrddzA&feature=youtu.be

Xpike · Jun 4, 2014

Maybe someone screwed up their E3 surprise?

fredrancour · Jun 4, 2014

jakomocha said:
Think this will come to the US anytime soon? Not sure why they'd release this so quietly. My guess would be that they are waiting for E3 to announce a worldwide release of it, among numerous other DS Virtual Console games.

Test run of some kind, with intentions of the full vc launch later this year?

hwy_61 · Jun 4, 2014

So, that's how DS games will work on Wii U. So for games that work normally, that is, games that don't require you to hold the DS sideways, will you have to hold the gamepad sideways?

Derphoof · Jun 4, 2014

Looks pretty neat. People liked the original Brain Training games! Hopefully we see some VC announcements at E3. Been a while since they announced DS VC for Wii U. Let's see what all is coming to NA/Europe and if they'll finally bring N64/GC support to the VC.

foxuzamaki · Jun 4, 2014

well shit

StreetsAhead · Jun 4, 2014

Dan just confirmed on Twitter that there's no save states in the game or anything a VC release would usually have.

Son Of D · Jun 4, 2014

hwy_61 said:
So, that's how DS games will work on Wii U. So for games that work normally, that is, games that don't require you to hold the D's sideways, will you have to hold the gamepad sideways?

BassForever mentioned this.

BassForever said:
It is, Brain Training was a game you held the DS side ways so they split the wiiu tablet in half as you see in the image, I imagine for most DS games that you held the system normally the wiiu game pad will show the touch screen and the tv will show the top screen.

hwy_61 · Jun 4, 2014

Son Of D said:
BassForever mentioned this.

Hmmm...I wonder if that would be disorienting at all. The DS was perfect because you had the primary screen right there. Not the case with Wii U though.

Platy · Jun 4, 2014

Holy Beyonce !

That is awesome =D

WillyFive · Jun 4, 2014

hwy_61 said:
So, that's how DS games will work on Wii U. So for games that work normally, that is, games that don't require you to hold the DS sideways, will you have to hold the gamepad sideways?

...or the logical choice, that it work exactly like a DS and use each Wii U screen for each respective DS screen.

Just because Nintendo is smart enough to use the 16:9 screens of the Wii U to display Brain Age in it's original aspect ratio doesn't mean they are going to force every other game into a literally unplayable state.

StreetsAhead · Jun 4, 2014

Miiverse community is up, too.

Tripon · Jun 4, 2014

Can you Play the games on TV or only gamepad?

foxuzamaki · Jun 4, 2014

Nintendo's momentum has been steller ever since the smash direct.

BassForever · Jun 4, 2014

Tripon said:
Can you Play the games on TV or only gamepad?

The image in the OP shows it's clearly mirrored, you can either look at the game pad or the tv screen... of course considering the game is 100% touch based I dunno why you wouldn't want to look at the game pad...

AdanVC · Jun 4, 2014

Woaaah, nice! Nintendo bringing the mini bombs before the megatons at E3. Hope they talk about this at E3!

soxinthebox · Jun 4, 2014

Maybe its from the years of VC neglect but I'm legit shocked how quick they turned around DS emulation.

N64 though ;_;

Exile20 · Jun 4, 2014

StreetsAhead said:
Dan just confirmed on Twitter that there's no save states in the game or anything a VC release would usually have.

Makes sense since people can have ridiculous scores if they save and reload.

BassForever · Jun 4, 2014

soxinthebox said:
Maybe its from the years of VC neglect but I'm legit shocked how quick they turned around DS emulation.

N64 though ;_;

I really don't know why we haven't got N64 emulation yet on the WiiU, considering the Wii had it day one and we've already got confirmation of GC VC coming it just seems odd that we've not seen or heard a peep about it yet.

Social · Jun 4, 2014

So for other games we will use the TV as our top screen and pur gamePad as our bottom screen right?

hwy_61 · Jun 4, 2014

WillyFive said:
...or the logical choice, that it work exactly like a DS and use each Wii U screen for each respective DS screen.

Just because Nintendo is smart enough to use the 16:9 screens of the Wii U to display Brain Age in it's original aspect ratio doesn't mean they are going to force every other game into a literally unplayable state.

Yeah, but would that work? The screens on the DS were perfect because they were right next to each other. On Wii U that would not be the case. Unless you hold the gamepad up so its right underneath your TV or something.

foxuzamaki · Jun 4, 2014

nintendo be pulling dat beyonce all day err day

blamite · Jun 4, 2014

Woah, nine. Looks like it'll work well on the gamepad.

Are there many other book-style DS games? Other than the Brain Age series I can't think of any off the top of my head.

Wolfgang Jr · Jun 4, 2014

This is what you guys get for taunting Iwata. He is knocking shit out of the god damn park lately! If this continues; E3's coming home to the Big N, baby!

Frolow · Jun 4, 2014

Still waiting on that N64 Virtual Console support.

Brazil · Jun 4, 2014

blamite said:
Woah, nine. Looks like it'll work well on the gamepad.

Are there many other book-style DS games? Other than the Brain Age series I can't think of any off the top of my head.

Flash Focus and Rhythm Heaven come to mind.

Murrah · Jun 4, 2014

blamite said:
Woah, nine. Looks like it'll work well on the gamepad.

Are there many other book-style DS games? Other than the Brain Age series I can't think of any off the top of my head.

Hotel Dusk

Burning Justice · Jun 4, 2014

Doesn't look like it's up-ressed. Disappointing.

Sayter · Jun 4, 2014

BroBuzz said:
Still waiting on that N64 Virtual Console support.

And I'm still waiting on the Neo Geo VC. Bring me some of that 2D goodness.

blamite · Jun 4, 2014

Brazil said:
Flash Focus and Rhythm Heaven come to mind.

:O Rhythm Heavennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn yesss. Day 1 rebuy.

Time the release/announcement with the revel of Chorus Kids for Smash 4 for maximum megaton.

Murrah said:
Hotel Dusk

Also I'd really like to play this at some point.

Rhiwion · Jun 4, 2014

Murrah said:
Hotel Dusk

I'd really like to play that one again on the big screen.

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