Nintendo Dives into ROM Hacks With NES Remix

Sweet

Price point's a bit higher than I would have liked, but I've dabbled with it a bit. It's pretty bitchin'.

They should have just bought the rights to the cat mario series and put it out.

aww man, WiiU eshop only.

How much is it?

$15.

Seems pretty cool, Nintendo starting to win me over on the Wii U. Shame I'm broke :D

So it's challenge levels for NES games? Seems pretty cool.

We totally need a quick look of this. Looks pretty fun.

Does Nintendo even *need* to buy any rights to Cat Mario?

But seriously, I hope NES Remix just becomes Cat Mario at some point.

Nintendo's reaallly making me want a Wii U today.

So is this like an NES-themed WarioWare with more long form minigames?

Cause that does sound pretty cool! Just wish it was on the 3DS too...

Oh man a quick look of this would be sweet.

Really smart move by Nintendo. Depending on the scope of what they do this could be the biggest system seller.

I can get down with this, for sure!

What a neat idea.

Oh god, Ice Climber. That game made me rage at times.

I'm tempted to play some old NES games now.

A full-on 8-bit WarioWare game without Wario in it. Huh.

Looks fun... oh damn, Wii U only.

You get specific challenges per game and then every 10 stars you get a Remix challenge. So for example in Excitebike you'll be asked to do a wheelie for 3 seconds, then get to the finish without crashing while doing wheelies, then the same again but on a trickier course. You get graded between 1-3 stars (if you do well the stars get a rainbow highlight around them) and "bits" which accumulate and unlock stamps. The remix challenges play around with the mechanics in the classic games. For example, turning a short Mario stage into an endless-runner thing where you must time precision jumps to dodge Cheep Cheeps, or a stage in Donkey Kong where you only have a limited radius of visibility around Mario.

It's pretty fucking cool.

This looks fantastic. If it plays anything like WarioWare, where you're knocking out those challenges in rapid succession, I want it. Too bad it's a Wii U thing, this seems like the perfect fit for the 3DS.

Also, people are complaining about $15? That seems like a completely acceptable price point for this.

This is a game consisting entirely of the best part of any given Warioware title. Sold.

There needs to be a Gary Whitta challenge where you have to shoot that guy.

Wow. Very cool.

I bought this right away. I can't wait to check it out later today!

Haggar is number one you idiot.

This feels like someone somewhere inside Nintendo won the argument finally. I can't imagine this is a new idea internally but I'm glad they're finally getting into this kind of stuff more. Before the only avenue for this stuff was 9Volt's levels in WarioWare, which were always some of the best in those games.

Stoked.

This is actually a really cool and original way to capitalize on nostalgia while still doing something different. If I had a Wii U, I'd be all over this.

This is a cool idea.

@tireyo: $15 is pretty steep. Any idea how long it is?

Any reason why this is only on Wii U and not the 3DS?

Don't forget Somari!

YES !

Dope, something good on the ol' eShop.

I'll get this when I get a WiiU.

If I wasn't dead set on buying SM3DW next week, I'd already own this. Holy shit.

Ask @jjor64, as I seen that he has the game on Miiverse.

The best answer I can give you is that knowing classic games are, I would say that the time varies because of how much those games can hold your attention.

Give the person who thought of this a raise!

Oh man, keep this up and I will buy a Wii U.

Another hot eShop game. If only there was a podcast to inform people of such games.

Quick Look!

This is pretty cool looking. I don't know if I'd invest much time in it, but I'm sure there are people who will eat this up.

If anyone has listened to the latest bombacast, doesn't this sound kinda like a nintendo version of the "atari-oware" game Vinny was talking about? this looks great, and now makes me want this and the game Vinny wanted

I WANT ALL OF THE THINGS.

This seems like the perfect portable game. Why did they go WiiU instead of 3DS?

9volt is the best part of Warioware so this is already better than those games. And those games are amazing already.

Why is this for Wii U and not also for 3DS?

YOU'RE BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND, NINTENDO. FINALLY.