In the 48 hours that the Wii U's been available, we've certainly been impressed by how developers have taken advantage of its unique features. And while these baby steps made for an impressive launch, the possibilities behind the Wii U's Game Pad have our brains swimming with ideas -- not just for the future, but also the past. Quite a few existing games could be even better if ported to Nintendo's newest console, and we've taken the liberty of deciding which ones merit a two-screen special edition.

The beautiful sumi-e-inspired brushwork of Okami already looks great in HD, but a port to Nintendo's Wii U would finally realize the core gameplay conceit of Hideki Kamiya's classic action-adventure game. Sure, we already saw Okami as a Wii game, but the DS sequel actually made a lot more sense. With that thinking in mind, the GamePad feels custom made for what Okami was going for from the beginning: a consistent way to switch up combat between the Celestrial Brush and real-time action.

The graffiti style of Jet Set Radio -- originally named Jet Grind Radio when it debuted in the US on the Sega Dreamcast -- has always helped it stand out as a unique experiment in visual style , but the analog twisting inputs required to put the spray paint on the walls rubbed a lot of folks the wrong way. The GamePad could easily provide the best interface for the acts of spraying, creating, and sharing your own custom graffiti creations online.

Thanks to layers upon layers of menus and one complicated crafting system, Yasumi Matsuno's Vagrant Story felt unintuitive even during its 2000 release date. While just about any advance in technology would make this masterful RPG more playable, the Wii U's Game Pad would help facilitate the constant changing of weapons made necessary by the game's extremely intricate affinity system.

Cing's Hotel Dusk stands as one of the few non-brain-training DS games played with the system held sideways, and for a very good reason: Nintendo's first dual-screen handheld also pulls double duty as the notebook protagonist Kyle Hyde carries to write down clues and descriptions of shady characters. A Wii U port of this cult graphic adventure would open it up to an entirely new audience, as well as make the player feel more like part of the action without having to interrupt the game's talking heads to access its notebook function.

About a decade before the Wii U's Game Pad, Nintendo had this thing called "connectivity" -- now a verboten term -- which tethered the Game Boy Advance to the GameCube for some relatively primitive two-screen interactions. Unsurprisingly, Nintendo themselves used this technology best before putting it back into cold storage, and The Wind Waker's Tingle Tuner remains one of the coolest uses of the forbidden romance between console and handheld. Let's get an important fact out of the way: The Wind Waker is begging for an HD remake, and a Wii U version could easily transform the interactive map and mini-shop of the Game Boy Advance screen into something much more magical and Tingle-reliant. It's been a while since we've seen that guy, no?

One of the first DS action games to really nail the dual-screen thing, a game based on The World Ends With You could be even better on Wii U (The World Ends With U?). You'd get the same light-puck-tossing action, but this time a friend could join in and battle alongside you. It's a game about friendship, right? What better way to express that than by playing with a friend?

Atlus revisited the old, old, old-school days of the role-playing game with a series of DS/3DS RPGs specifically built around simulating the olden days of drawing your own maps on graph paper via touch screen. Now we have a console with a touch screen, so please, let's bump up the Etrian experience to high definition, shall we?

Daydreaming about ports to Wii U is the big thing these days, but let's get ambitious and hope for a new game. We'd love to see this so-called "Zelda-killer" series hit a Nintendo console with the glorious high-rez graphics that Level-5 does so well. The big hook in Dark Cloud 2 was using photography to capture and craft objects in the world, and we would love to see that concept explored in even greater depth through GamePad/television interaction.

In order for Advance Wars to work on the Wii U, two GamePads would have to be involved. But that's fine with us, because we'd gladly pay for an extra one in order to experience some of the most entertaining military strategy that consoles have to offer. Each player would use their touch screen to command their respective troops, providing the series' classic fog of war to both. This would leave the television open to display a dynamic view of the action in real time. Showcasing the attacks as they unfold, short vignettes back at HQ, and shots of soldiers in the trenches would provide a cinematic element to the series while still keeping the minute-to-minute action in the vein of previous AW titles.

Through the GamePad's use of touch, the Wii U might be the only console able to support the pointing and clicking of next year's gorgeous installment in the SimCity series. Tracing your finger across the screen to lay down roads, tapping to create buildings, and swiping to navigate menus all make perfect sense to us. And though the game would look stunning in HD on your television, untethering yourself would be amazing. For those lengthy sessions of metropolis-building, being able to free up the television and play solely on the controller would provide more sleepless nights than we'd like to admit.

Superbrothers' fantastic iOS experience has some of the most interesting application of touch functionality we've ever seen in a game. Interacting with Sworcery's dreamscape by actually touching it would translate well to the Wii U, and its fantastic visuals and phenomenal score by Jim Guthrie deserve to be experienced through your home theater setup. But there are a few problems with this game coming to Nintendo fans, namely stemming the GamePad's lack of multitouch. Many of the puzzles in S&S require maneuvering multiple aspects of the environment at one time, a feat which the GamePad simply cannot do. Oh well, a Scythian can always dream.