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Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (exclude JPN).The distribution of past games through the Virtual Console is one of Nintendo's attempts at preventing software piracy. Virtual Console titles have been downloaded over ten million times. The service for the Wii also includes games for platforms that were known only in select regions, such as the Commodore 64 (Europe and North America) and MSX (Japan), as well as Virtual Console Arcade, which allows players to download video arcade games. Virtual Console's library of past games currently consists of titles originating from the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and Wii, as well as Sega's Master System and Genesis/Mega Drive, NEC's TurboGrafx 16, and SNK's Neo Geo AES. These titles are run in their original forms through software emulation (excluding GBA titles on 3DS), and can be purchased for between 5 Wii Points (Wii), US$2.99 and US$6.99 (3DS), and US$4.99 and US$9.99 (Wii U) depending on system, rarity, and/or demand. The Virtual Console lineup consists of titles originally released on past home and handheld consoles. Virtual Console is a specialized section of the Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo eShop online services that allows players to purchase and download retro games (mostly unaltered) for Nintendo's Wii and Wii U home gaming consoles and the Nintendo 3DS portable gaming console.