3DS Virtual Console (North America)



The Virtual Console is a service for the Nintendo 3DS similar to the Virtual Console on the Wii, found on the Nintendo eShop. With it, players can download Game Boy and Game Boy Color games such as Super Mario Land and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX onto their Nintendo 3DS. Other games will come from other portable systems like Sega's Game Gear and TurboGrafx-16. Pricing will be in dollars (plus applicable tax) rather than points, where retailers will have $20 Nintendo 3DS cards available for those that want to purchase games and redeem on their eShop account. The service is scheduled to add new games every Thursday at noon ET/9am PT. Though all the games are played on a high-scale resolution, players can change to the original console resolution. To do it, at boot up, hold START and SELECT, and it will change to the original resolution, additionally adding an original Game Boy border to the screen.

Game Boy
There are currently 40 games for the Nintendo Game Boy, set at $2.99 unless otherwise noted.

Game Boy Color
There are currently 9 games for the Nintendo Game Boy Color, set at $3.99 unless otherwise noted.

3DS Classics
There are currently 6 games from the 3DS Classics, set at $5.99 unless otherwise noted. Note: Kid Icarus was released on March 23, 2012 via a special code at GameStop retailers.

NES
There are currently 25 games released for the Nintendo Entertainment System, set at $4.99 unless otherwise noted. Note: There were 10 games that have been released on September 1, 2011 that were free to 3DS Ambassadors. Release dates and prices of these games and other NES games are announced at a later date.

Game Boy Advance
The following games that have been released on December 16, 2011 are free to 3DS Ambassadors. There are no plans for a release dates of these games to the general public anytime soon.

Sega Game Gear
There are currently 3 games for the Sega Game Gear console.

Future releases
NOTE: Donkey Kong: Orginal Edition is only avalible to those who buy any of the select retail games from the Nintendo eShop before 1/6/2013.

NOTE: Games that were originally released to those who were part of the Ambassador program as one of the 10 free NES games back in August 2011, lets you re-download the games free of charge and automatically adds new features such as "Restore points".


 * List of Virtual Console games in North America.
 * List of DSiWare games in North America.