New reports are suggesting that the SNES cult-classic Earthbound may never be released on the Virtual Console, in the US at least.
The reason for this? Licensing issues. Nintendo of America feels that some of the music used in-game is too similar to real-life songs which are copyrighted, potentially leading to legal problems. Unfortunately, NCL (Nintendo's Japanese arm) isn't willing to approve changes, leaving things in deadlock.
Earthbound came first in ONM's readers request poll for the VC, so this is likely to dismay a few people.
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