Given that the Wii Virtual Console games were a bundled emulator and ROM, and you could swap the latter out, I imagine the content is indeed available.

GBATemp users have reported that the game gets localized at runtime[1], rather than a a modified ROM. Kind of ingenuous on Nintendo Redmond's part[2].

One would likely have to use Dolphin to emulate the Wii emulating the game.[3]

[1] https://gbatemp.net/threads/sin-and- punishment.183066/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Software_Technology

[3] https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Sin_%26_Punishm...

Lord, Nintendo, _why_?

That's like killing a fly with a suitcase nuke.

I can't really speak for the main reason why, but my guess is that it gave Nintendo a level of flexibility with localizing the game without having to set up a Nintendo 64 development environment.

There are private trackers that carry this sort of material[1].

[1] https://imgur.com/CO4nt7y

I'm pretty sure I know which tracker that is - I'm not sure private hoarding of these games is the solution.

Information wants to be free!

In all seriousness, that tracker is not the only tracker that has the data. There are many public trackers carrying all of the eShop games for the Wii, and these full sets have the game. All of these dumps cataloged in the No-Intro DAT collections, so you can verify that you have a set of known good dumps.

Sweet, what's your credit card number, expiration date, name on the front, and three digits on the back?

4242424242424242, 12/2021, John Q Citizen, 123.