Neko Porting Two More Playstation 2 Titles To WiiWare

The screenshots look cool.

Definitely worth keeping an eye on. I don't mind a port, as long as it's a good one.

looks like more shovelware to me. although racing games on the wii ware are a novelty. especially good ones.

Cool, A racer and a platformer, two genres that Wiiware seriously needs more of. Let's just hope at least one of them is better than Fishing Master. Heracles in particular looks pretty nice.

Whoever thought that ugly little thing was marketable needs to be taken out back and beaten.

And Neko hasn't made a good game yet so I'm not sure why anyone would expect anything here.

yes another racer!
we need more racing games on wiiware and yet hopefully it doesnt turn out like SPOGS

Look decent. I'm glad their porting to WiiWare instead of making us pay full retail for an old game.

Oh COME ON.
Why would anyone in their right minds be excited about this?

LOOK at Neko's track record!
http://www.gamespot.com/search.html?tag=search%3Bbutton&qs=neko+entertainment

One of their games scored a 1.9!
None of their games have scored better than a 5.5 on Gamespot!
They make Bratz games!

That Cocoto Platformer has a user rating of 5.7 out of 2 votes!
http://www.gamespot.com/gamecube/action/cocotoplatformjumper/index.html?tag=result;title;5

Puh leeze!
One more person says this stuff looks good and I might just lose it.

I hope they are good, and I agree we need more racers. We also need more racers on the Virtual Console as well. But once again I will wait for reviews of these games

vomits on keyboard
No. These are totally shovelware. This is the reason we don't see Cocoto games in the US.

No. These are totally shovelware. This is the reason we don't see Cocoto games in the US.

BINGO!
Glad to know someone else doesn't jump all over just any new game announcement.
I know WiiWare is in a mild drought right now, but how anyone could be excited about shovelware being ported from the PS2 to WiiWare is beyond me.

@Alexsays. Oh my god. I didn't see a single good game in that entire page! lol.
Now my dreams of seeing a decent platformer and racer on Wiiware have been officially crushed.
Maybe they can redeem themselves with these 2 games, but given that their prdigree seems to have more crap than an outhouse, I kinda doubt it.

Edit: I think that my overwhelming desire for a decent platformer and racer on Wiiware has clouded my judgement. Sorry.

Boo. I shun any port. They waste development time that can be used to make other, newer, better games.

In other news, that "Play on the Wii" series looks incredible!

Do I care about any of these games? Not really.

Maybe they will be okay "Serously doubt it."

people are excited since there are barely any racing or platformer games on wiiware. If they were making puzzle games, nobody would care.

seriously i just want Gradius Rebirth and Cave Story not no ports from the PS2.

I secound that @shadows262.

Well now I'm bummed out. I didn't realize these games were so terrible. Maybe that's why I'm not familiar with them.

The platformer looks OK. I mean, sure, Neko has a bad track record but the video didn't look like it was horrible or anything. It might be too easy or the controls are bad but the graphics and idea seem decent.

Chariot racing on the other hand, I have no idea what to expect.

So two bad games are coming to WiiWare? I'm not surprised.

@clayfrd
I agree
but wiiware does have some pretty good games coming out like animales, gradius rebirth, cave story, and hot rod show

Whoa, what? TWO TRAIN WRECKS ON WiiWare!? I know we get our fair share of the unplesant game but THIS... this is an insult! No, this is downright wrong. I understand they have to make a living too, I'm usually overly optimistic or pessimistic about things but really, WHY!? They can flood the shelves, I don't care, I don't get out much. But the Wii Shop Channel is where I get a majority of my games. Nintendo has TWO WiiWare openings weekly! And to think, better games being pushed back for this crap, and the enraging part, people go out and BUY this stuff because it's either cheap or so-called cute. People really need to stop falling for this crap, it's getting annoying. I thought WiiWare was a place new developers show their talents with what they can do, not another mouth to shove their s*** down. Neko Entertainment, if you are reading this i have this message for you: You cannot make a good game, your scores are averaged to sub-par at best, and if you of all people have the audacity, arrogance, and sheer stupidity to release any more of your poorly developed, underpowered, space taking, time consuming, rehashed TURDS on WiiWare, I will make sure one way or another you NEVER show your face to ANY download service again. Get bent and burn in hell you jack***es. I apologise for going off like that again.

I actually thought CFM was a pretty fun game. Nothing great, but definitely worth $7.

I'll admit I'm intrigued by the Heracles game. With Wii remote controls this gives them a chance to maybe improve on whatever may have been wrong with gameplay on the PS2. If nothing else it will provide a cheap detour from my regular Mario Kart sessions. Plus, the realism that comes from driving a chariot with a steering wheel sells the game all by itself.

I think I've seen the Neko label on Barnyard Blast (kinda like an old-school Castlevania) for the DS. Obviously only the publisher. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnyard_Blast:_Swine_of_the_Night

Wikipedia also lists them as the developer of Super Army War (AKA Glory Days). Dunno if they had anything to do with Glory Days 2 though (they're not listed on the box but they list it on their site). If they could get GD2 or possibly even GD3 on WiiWare with online play that would be awesome. An obscure multiplayer game on the DS with no single-cart or WiFi support is kinda hard to play as it was intended.
http://www.glorydays2.com/

Here's a more complete list of what they've been involved in since they're mostly operating in Europe (which Gamespot doesn't seem to cover much): http://www.e-neko.com/gamesh.php?lang=EN&showYear=all&showMachine=all

But yeah, still mostly crap but at least there are a few things of interest.

Neko is not the developper of Glory Days 2. (they only published it)
The game has been developed by an independant developper named Olivier Denis. He did GD on GBA and GD2 on DS.
This is one of my friend and I must admit this is an impressive work for a lonely guy (the only thing he did not do is the music).
I'll forward your comment, maybe that will motivate him to go on Wiiware.

Nothing too exciting here. The next racing game I will probably buy (if they ever make it) would be F-Zero Wii.

Neko is going to clog the Virtual Wii Ware drain and block good releases from coming out.

Pieces of garbage here. Nothing I'd ever play.

These games look like shovelware, I don't see why anyone would want such a rubbish game, the PS2 reviews were pretty bad to!

Look on the bright side - at least they'll be cheaper than their PS2 counterparts.

This isn't shovelware, it's spatulaware since the crap's so dried already you need a spatula to loosen it.

Really now, that fishing game was decent enough, and remember these are straight last-gen games being sold for what, 8$?

Very adamant of you not to go with the "it's shovelware" crew, Adamant. Heh - see what I did there?

@Wiiloveit-You'll get your wordsmith medal later.

@Gabbo - Do I detect sarcasm?

Chariot Racing ... meh, but a platform jumper, that I'm interested in, I'll hope for the best on that one, even if neko is a shovelware maker that doesn't mean ALL of it's games have to be complete crap,

I'd rather have a Mario World remake or a Sonic Rush title on WiiWare instead of this stuff. Heck, Sunflower Entertainment (taken over by Ubisoft) even had this nice little "Holiday Island" tropical island resort building sim, which was fun. If only that kind of games would come out on WiiWare...

Maybe they will be okay "Serously doubt it."

HAHAHAHAH!!!!
Go try "Let's Catch!!!!