Sonic Advance Comes To Japanese Wii U eShop Next Week

10 February, 2015 18 March, 2021

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Virtual Console Sonic games are finally heading to the next generation of Nintendo.

Sonic Advance will be available for purchase on the Wii U eShop in Japan on February 18th. The game is 200 MB in size and will cost ¥702, the equivalent of $5.90 or £3.90.

There was no news on a western release of the game or whether Sonic Advance‘s sequels would be coming to the eShop as well.

This post was originally written by the author for TSSZ News.

18 Comments

But why WiiU instead of 3DS?

Metal Snake XIII says:

10 February, 2015 at 2:34 PM

Cuz GBA games are only on the Wii U e-shop,that applies to all GBA games not just Sonic

It’s a start, still hoping for both Rush games landing on there as well as the rest of the GBA games,

Raw says:

10 February, 2015 at 1:16 PM

Agreed! All those Dimps games were great and I would also add Sonic Battle and Sonic Chronicles to the collection.
1. Kabam! says:
  
  10 February, 2015 at 4:17 PM
  
  Agreed indeed.

…What about on the 3DS? I’ve been waiting for it to show up on the 3DS eShop…

Spent all this time getting the Advance series and a Retron 5 to play them on the tv…then this happens.

Kabam! says:

10 February, 2015 at 4:19 PM

Oh my…

What did they do to the game? The rom-file’s size is <3MB, but the VC-release is 200MB in size? Dafuq?

Raw says:

10 February, 2015 at 4:46 PM

Holy shit! Hopefully is an HD version!
1. Jeffery Mass says:
  
  10 February, 2015 at 4:49 PM
  
  lolno. Wii U’s Virtual Console does that for some reason. Probably the size of the packed in emulation software n’ whatnot.
  1. Raw says:
    
    10 February, 2015 at 6:45 PM
    
    Aww, a real shame then, in that aspect I would love if Sega put more effort on the titles they relaunch, like the remastered Sonic Genesis titles for mobiles and unlike the Adventure titles for Steam and virtual console stores.
SpongicX says:

10 February, 2015 at 6:27 PM

They added features to the rom, in order for it to work on the Wii U. They had to script it to work on the Wii U gamepad, with synchronized sound and visuals, from the tv to the gamepad, the game lets you customize the Wii U gamepad’s controls, in order to play the game to the player’s preference, players can make a reset save point, and the game will have a filter option to smooth the pixel edges of the game’s graphics. It’s increased size isn’t much of a shocker at all.