EarthBound is one of Nintendo’s most-classic SNES games, yet it still hasn’t arrived on the Virtual Console service. Legal issues are preventing the game’s release. What’s stopping it, exactly?

If new rumors can be relied upon, there are three specific reasons as to why the game hasn’t appeared on the Wii Shop Chanel. Two of these points are music-related.

EarthBound Central claims that the Sky Runner and Chuck Berry battle songs must be changed. Additionally, the enemy Dali Clock must receive a name-change.

While the Chuck Berry song could be easily interchanged and the Dali Clock would involve simple modification, the Sky Runner piece is the heart of the problem. There’s talk that new music would need to be made for the Sky Runner scenes. Sadly, there hasn’t been a push to do so.

Apparently Nintendo of America had been interested in making the appropriate changes so that legal issues could be avoided, but NCL wasn’t in favor of taking action.

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Media Create software sales (6/18 – 6/24) – Top 50

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01./00. [NDS] Pokemon Black 2 / White 2 (Pokemon Co.) {2012.06.23} (¥4.800) – 1.561.738 / NEW <80,17%>
02./02. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry’s Wonderland 3D # (Square Enix) {2012.05.31} (¥5.490) – 58.228 / 721.174 (-12%)
03./01. [PSV] Persona 4 Golden (Atlus) {2012.06.14} (¥7.329) – 29.293 / 166.369 (-79%)
04./00. [PSP] Kenka Bancho Bros: Tokyo Battle Royale (Spike) {2012.06.21} (¥5.229) – 21.797 / NEW
05./04. [PS3] Tokyo Jungle (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2012.06.07} (¥4.980) – 18.715 / 165.013 (-48%)
06./00. [PS3] K-On! After School Live!! HD Ver. (Sega) {2012.06.21} (¥5.229) – 13.581 / NEW
07./08. [WII] Mario Party 9 (Nintendo) {2012.04.26} (¥5.800) – 13.339 / 447.126 (-17%)
08./07. [3DS] Mario Tennis Open (Nintendo) {2012.05.24} (¥4.800) – 13.036 / 198.047 (-27%)
09./06. [PS3] Dragon’s Dogma (Capcom) {2012.05.24} (¥7.990) – 9.162 / 446.410 (-49%)
10./03. [PS3] Lollipop Chainsaw # (Kadokawa Games) {2012.06.14} (¥7.980) – 7.898 / 61.246 (-85%)
11./10. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land # (Nintendo) {2011.11.03} (¥4.800) – 7.609 / 1.631.358 (-18%)
12./12. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo) {2011.12.01} (¥4.800) – 5.091 / 1.746.836 (-24%)
13./05. [PSP] Akiba’s Trip Plus (Acquire) {2012.06.14} (¥3.990) – 5.034 / 34.539 (-83%)
14./00. [360] Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor # (Capcom) {2012.06.21} (¥7.990) – 4.889 / NEW
15./00. [PSP] Arcana Famiglia: Vascello Phantasma no Majutsushi # (Comfort) {2012.06.21} (¥6.090) – 4.854 / NEW
16./16. [WII] Wii Sports Resort with Wii Remote Plus # (Nintendo) {2010.11.11} (¥5.800) – 4.287 / 965.713 (+8%)
17./14. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G # (Capcom) {2011.12.10} (¥5.800) – 4.269 / 1.481.643 (-23%)
18./13. [3DS] Fire Emblem: Awakening (Nintendo) {2012.04.19} (¥4.800) – 3.972 / 417.760 (-31%)
19./11. [PSV] Mobile Suit Gundam Seed: Battle Destiny (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.06.07} (¥5.980) – 3.668 / 52.790 (-58%)
20./17. [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Nintendo) {2012.03.01} (¥4.800) – 2.965 / 186.789 (-17%)

New downloadable rewards added to Club Nintendo (7/1/12)

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A couple of new downloadable rewards have been added to Club Nintendo. But here’s the catch: they don’t expire at the end of the month.

Electroplankton Rec-Rec (3DS, 100 coins) and Mario Tennis (Wii, 150 coins) are available starting today. Electroplankton will leave the rewards site on July 15 while Mario Tennis is disappearing on July 22.

It seems as though downloadable rewards will be swapped out regularly. Rather than having to wait until the start of a new month, titles will be exchanged on more of weekly basis.

You can order the latest rewards here.

Photos of Nintendo’s booth from World Hobby Fair 2012

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Nintendo is one of many companies to have attended this year’s World Hobby Fair 2012 in Japan. You can find a few photos of the Big N’s booth in the gallery above.

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Partial Nintendo Download lineup for July 5

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3DS Download

Family Tennis 3D – $6.99

3DS Demo

Heroes of Ruin

WiiWare

Let’s Create! Pottery – 500 points

We’ll know if any additional games are on the way next week.

Rock Band Music Store update next week (7/3/12)

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Cambridge, Mass. – June 29th, 2012– Harmonix today announced that tracks from The All-American Rejects, Mudvayne, and Rise Against are headed to the Rock Band™ Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™.
Rock Band provides the deepest and best selection of artists, songs and albums through the Rock Band music platform, which features more than 1,400 artists and more than 3,500* tracks via disc and download purchase (complete list of tracks at www.rockband.com/songs). Rock Band’s gigantic music library dwarfs that of any other rhythm video game on the market. More than 100 million songs have been sold through the Rock Band Music Store since its launch on Nov. 20, 2007.
Tracks downloaded from the Rock Band Music Store are compatible with the award-winning full-band Rock Band 3 experience, as well as the upcoming controller-based Rock Band Blitz, coming summer of 2012 for Xbox LIVE® Arcade and PlayStation®Network!
Rock Band DLC Additions for Xbox 360, PlayStation®3 system and Wii™

A look at Project Zero 2: Wii Edition’s various endings

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It goes without saying that there are spoilers in these videos!

Japanese game industry sees year-over-year gains in first half of 2012

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Famitsu has posted a report on the domestic industry sales totals for the first half of 2012. The data was collected through parent company Enterbrain.

Between December 26 and June 24, total hardware/software sales hit 193.4 billion yen. That’s a 0.7% increase from last year’s 191.98 billion. Year-over-year gains have been made for the first time in two years.

Hardware sales dropped from 79.81 billion yen in 2011 to 70.73 billion in 2012, but software sales increased from 112.17 billion yen to 122.67 billion yen.

Read on below for hardware data and a listing of the best-selling games in Japan in the first half of 2012.

Hardware

Nintendo 3DS: 2,219,548 (total 6,355,287)
PlayStation 3: 695,465 (total 8,112,613)
PlayStation Portable: 500,333 (total 18,737,441)
PlayStation Vita: 353,657 (total 756,451)
Nintendo Wii: 265,578 (total 12,433,321)
Xbox 360: 33,809 (total 1,554,547)
Nintendo DS: 20,239 (total 32,855,741)

Software

Pokemon Black & White 2 (3DS, Pokemon, 06.23.2012): 1,618,621
One Piece Pirate Musou (PS3, Namco Bandai, 03.01.2012): 806,578
Dragon Quest Monsters Terry’s Wonderland 3D (3DS, Squenix, 05.31.2012): 743,967
Mario Kart 7 (3DS, Nintendo, 12.01.2011): 665,573 (total 1,747,964)
Monster Hunter 3G (3DS, Capcom, 12.10.2011): 665,394 (1,474,716)

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