The whole MS/Rare thing has nothing to do with DK64 not being on the VC. Yeah Rare made the game but they also made the DKC games for the SNES and those are all available to download because Nintendo owns the rights to DK. Diddy Kong racing was an issue mainly because of Banjo and Conker who got swapped out for Dixie and Tiny for the DS rerelease.
What I heard about DK64 was it had to do with the storage size of that game and the limits of the Wii's memory space. Remember DK64 had that "banana booster" thing you stuck in the console to hold all the content.
Also, I played DK64 at my cousin's and honestly I didn't think too much of it. It had a bad case of "Sonic Adventure Syndrome" of too many damn playable characters that you were forced into playing to finish areas. Each character in each level had their own bananas and stuff to collect, their own stuff to do, and the collecting just was waaaaaay too tedious. Going back to Banjo Tooie it had even started to go overboard on the amount of stuff you had to collect and the insane amount of backtracking. Like you couldn't just collect honeycomb pieces for another health bar like in the first game, you had to collect so many, then go back to the hub, back to the beehive to exchange them. DK64 takes it even further and it doesn't take long for tedium to set in.
There were a lot of Nintendo titles that never made it to the VC for unknown reasons. Earthbound at least had to do with liscencing issues but where was Yoshi's Island? the original Starfox? Not to mention a slew of Japanese only releases that could be ported over. But if the WiiU has more space, DK64 may show it's face yet.
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