Virtual Console
Virtual Console is a feature present on all Nintendo consoles and handhelds from the Wii onwards. It allows the console user to purchase, download, and play games from older systems on the console in question, which includes titles from the Nintendo Entertainment System up to the Wii, and even includes titles from non-Nintendo systems, such as the Sega Genesis, and the NEO GEO.
An Internet connection is required to download titles from the Nintendo eShop, but is not required to play the game afterwards (barring verification for Nintendo Switch Online games). Virtual Console games have a save state function known as Restore Points. There are special commands that can open the game in the original resolution (and skins to emulate the original console's appearance if any). On the Nintendo 3DS system, SNES games are only available on the New Nintendo 3DS series models.
List of Virtual Console Kirby titles by system
Wii
- Kirby's Adventure - NES
- Kirby's Dream Course - SNES
- Kirby's Avalanche - SNES
- Kirby Super Star - SNES
- Kirby's Dream Land 3 - SNES
- Kirby's Super Star Stacker - SFC (Japan only)
- Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards - N64
Nintendo 3DS
- Kirby's Dream Land - GB
- Kirby's Pinball Land - GB
- Kirby's Dream Land 2 - GB
- Kirby's Block Ball - GB
- Kirby's Star Stacker - GB
- Kirby's Adventure - NES (remastered as a '3D Classic')
- Kirby's Dream Course - SNES (New Nintendo 3DS only)
- Kirby's Super Star Stacker - SFC (New Nintendo 3DS & Japan only)
- Kirby & The Amazing Mirror - GBA (not for sale & limited distribution as an Ambassador game)[1]
Wii U
- Kirby's Adventure - NES
- Kirby's Dream Course - SNES
- Kirby Super Star - SNES
- Kirby's Dream Land 3 - SNES
- Kirby's Super Star Stacker - SFC (Japan only)
- Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards - N64
- Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land - GBA
- Kirby & The Amazing Mirror - GBA
- Kirby: Canvas Curse - DS
- Kirby Squeak Squad - DS
- Kirby Mass Attack - DS
- Kirby's Epic Yarn - Wii
- Kirby's Return to Dream Land - Wii
