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[[File:Virtual Console.png|thumb|300px|The Virtual Console logo.]]The '''Virtual Console''' ({{ja|バーチャルコンソール|Bācharukonsōru}}, ''Virtual Console''), sometimes abbreviated as '''VC''', is a feature of the [[Wii]], [[Nintendo 3DS]], and [[Wii U]] that allows players to officially emulate games from older video game consoles. Supported by the  {{h2|Wikipedia:Wii Menu|Wii Shop Channel}} on the Wii and the [[Nintendo eShop]] on the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, the different consoles offered differing coverage as to what games they featured. The Virtual Console has since been retired, with the currently available [[Nintendo Switch]] offering classic games with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. The currently supported consoles on this service are NES, SNES and Game Boy/Game Boy Color with the base package, with N64, GBA, and Sega Genesis costing extra as part of the Expansion Pack. After the shutdown of the Wii Virtual Console on January 30, 2019, and the shutdown of the 3DS and Wii U Virtual Console on March 27, 2023, it is no longer possible to purchase software provided by any Virtual Console service.

==List of consoles on Virtual Console==
{| class="wikitable"
! Platform !! [[Wii]]<ref name="Wii Mode">Wii U can play them in Wii Mode</ref> !! [[Wii U]] !! [[Nintendo 3DS]]
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| Arcade ||{{y}}||{{n}}||{{n}}
|-
| NES / Famicom ||{{y}}||{{y}}||{{y}}
|-
| SNES / Super Famicom||{{y}}||{{y}}||{{y}}<ref name="New 3DS">Only available on New Nintendo 3DS</ref>
|-
| Nintendo 64||{{y}}||{{y}}||{{n}}
|-
|Sega Master System||{{y}}||{{n}}||{{n}}
|-
| Sega Genesis ||{{y}}||{{n}}||{{n}}
|-
| Turbografx-16||{{y}}||{{y}}||{{y}}<ref name="Japan only">Only available on Japanese 3DS systems</ref>
|-
| Neo Geo||{{y}}||{{n}}||{{n}}
|-
| Game Boy ||{{n}}||{{n}}||{{y}}
|-
| Game Boy Color||{{n}}||{{n}}||{{y}}
|-
| Game Boy Advance||{{n}}||{{y}}||{{n}}<ref name="Ambassador">10 Game Boy Advance games were released for members of the [http://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/746/~/nintendo-3ds-ambassador-eligibility Nintendo 3DS Ambassador] program. They were not released otherwise.</ref>
|-
| Nintendo DS ||{{n}}||{{y}}||{{n}}
|-
| Sega Game Gear ||{{n}}||{{n}}||{{y}}
|-
| MSX<ref name="MSX">Only available in Japan.</ref>||{{y}}||{{y}}||{{n}}
|-
| Commodore 64<ref name="C64">Only available in North America and PAL regions. All games were removed from the Wii Shop Channel in August 2013.</ref>||{{y}}||{{n}}||{{n}}
|}
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==In the ''{{B|Super Smash Bros.|series}}'' series==
===[[Masterpieces]]===
A majority of the [[Masterpieces]] featured in ''Brawl'' and {{forwiiu}} work via the Virtual Console engine. In addition, all Masterpieces are timed.

Unusually, ''Smash 4'' features Masterpieces of Game Boy titles, which were not supported by the Wii U's Virtual Console. As a result, players are told about how they could download the two Game Boy titles, ''Kirby's Dream Land'' and ''Dr. Mario'', on the Nintendo 3DS's Virtual Console. When the timer runs out, the player is told about how the full version could be purchased for the Virtual Console. The prompt to take players directly to the Wii U eShop for NES and SNES titles is still functional, but the eShop pages do not have a “purchase” option.
===Re-release of ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]''===
''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' was released onto the Wii Virtual Console for Japan on January 20, 2009, as to celebrate the ten years since the game's first release in Japan on January 21, 1999. It was later released to Europe and Australia on June 12, 2009, and to North America on December 21, 2009. While not officially available for the Wii U's Virtual Console, the Virtual Console re-release of ''Smash 64'' could still be purchased and played when the Wii U was running in Wii Mode. However, the discontinuation of the Wii Shop Channel on January 30, 2019 made the game no longer purchasable.

While the Virtual Console version of ''Smash 64'' is tournament legal, most players prefer other options like original [[Nintendo 64]] hardware or [[Project 64k]]. This is due to the limited support of controllers for the Virtual Console compared to either of the two previous options; furthermore, the Virtual Console emulator can suffer from performance issues like frame-skipping, which can potentially disrupt players' inputs.

==External links==
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*[http://wii.nintendo.com/virtualconsole.jsp Virtual Console] - Official Virtual Console site
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