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Bartman3010

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It looks like Halo 1 and 2 is backward compatible as well, but you can only play them using physical copies unless they're on the store as well? They probably want to push the Master Chief Collection instead, but you have this in case you have your original discs and want to do system link.

Though I worry the system link stuff will get messy. Original Xbox games had patches and I'm not sure if these Xbox One versions have those patches or even downloadable content installed. Patch discrepancy might make it so you can't even link with original Xbox or 360 game consoles. Your only method of patching original Xbox systems is to soft mod your console (Which is a very easy process by this point.) 360 systems for OG Xbox titles? Maybe not so easy, then again Xbox games on an Xbox 360 were dicey for the most part it may not be worth the trouble.

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To me this looks like an attempt at Nintendo trying to put in a trojan horse and drive people to buy a Wii U which is a device that lets you buy other NES games. Given that the controllers are compatible with the Wii, and the NES Mini is compatible with classic controllers, that's an incentive to get people on board with their service, or at least drive themselves to buy this small device that is cheaper than buying these games on VC individually.

Also those controllers are $10. So even if you don't care for the console itself, the accessory is already valuable on its own. Its the NES controller we wanted on the Wii for over a decade.

I'm getting one since that'll make it easier for people like me to get these games without dealing with DRM and is likely to put other similar devices to shame. Too bad the games are likely going to look slightly blurry and darker, like NES games currently do on Virtual Console...