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TalkBack / RE:GameSaves for GameCube

« on: December 30, 2003, 06:09:24 PM »

For the dexdrive, if you used a gameshark pro, you could connect it to your PC and download gamesaves from a cart, like from Zelda, and then you could save it to a memory card, or send it over the 'net, or whatver you wanted.

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Nintendo Gaming / Anyone tried a console skins? They look soo cool

« on: July 10, 2003, 09:33:15 PM »

I read about that in last month's GamePro. I found it interesting, but i'm not giving up my cube for any amount of time to get it painted or whatnot.

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I thought you were talking about a place where you send your 'cube in to get it repolished. I didn't know you meant something you put on it. Silly me!

[Grey Ninja]

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Nintendo Gaming / Animal Crossing 2?

« on: July 10, 2003, 09:29:39 PM »

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Originally posted by: Grey Ninja

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Originally posted by: JB
Nintendo's Japanese website already has screenshots of Animal Crossing e+. It looks almost identical to Animal Crossing.

EDIT:  Here's a link to the page with the screenshots.

Isn't that because Animal Crossing e+ is simply the American Version brought to Japan with the e-reader features?

Actually, they're getting minor updates that even us U.S.'ers didn't get. I forget what though, besides new conversations.

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Nintendo Gaming / What are your favourite games and which future games do you desire?

« on: July 10, 2003, 09:25:45 PM »

Fav current:

GCN- Metroid Prime, Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil/0, Wind Waker
N64-Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye/Perfect Dark

Future:
F-Zero GX, Mario 128, Too Human, Metroid Prime 2, any future Eternal Darkness games that might happen to show up, the next Zelda, and MGS:TS

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Nintendo Gaming / Official Game Boy Player Discussion

« on: July 10, 2003, 09:20:41 PM »

Yep, it's possible. They can also do online GBA games or use the GBP as a substitue for a GCN-GBA link cable for linkage. It's not likely, but Nintendo has said that stuff like that is possible.

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Nintendo Gaming / VGA Adapter

« on: July 10, 2003, 09:18:36 PM »

Yes, and I read a review of one on some site.

He said some of them don't give the best picture quality, but the one he had did, but I don't rember the name, sorry. But they DO exist. Also, get one that can do progressive scan, since your monitor is progressive scan, you might as well...

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo Commercials Thread

« on: July 10, 2003, 09:15:18 PM »

I think what they need to do is add humor in the commercials. I really liked the Tekken 4 commercial. The one with the kid and he wakes up and goes to the fridge and gets out an egg and says "I hope you slept well, because now...you die!" That was the best.

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Nintendo Gaming / Hooking a gamecube up to a laptop screen?

« on: July 10, 2003, 09:13:04 PM »

Sure, it's possible, but I doubt it's worth the money/time.

You'd have to get a DV capture card put in, which I don't know if it's possible on a laptop and they cost in upwards of $100. Also, to play it full screen, you'll need a hellacious processor. You're better off bringing a 13" $75 TV with you to tell you the truth.

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Nintendo Gaming / Animal Crossing 2 news

« on: July 10, 2003, 09:09:53 PM »

I would really like AC2 to be online. And of course it would have to be compatable with the freakin' keyboard!

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Nintendo Gaming / Being online isn't worth it. . .

« on: July 10, 2003, 09:06:35 PM »

All about the image...

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Nintendo Gaming / Skies of Arcadia...

« on: July 10, 2003, 09:04:15 PM »

Sega recently made a statement saying that some game that I can't think of the name of could be one of the last GC exclusive games.

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General Chat / What is your favorite song?

« on: July 09, 2003, 08:53:29 PM »

I like a lot of punk, so I listen to The Offspring, Bad Religion, Green Day, and Blink 182 even though the last two aren't really a lot of punk. For punk metal I like Sum 41.

But, my favorite song? Hmm... it changes rapidly but currently I'd have to say Anthem Part II by Blink 182.

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General Chat / Anyone here play an instrument?

« on: July 09, 2003, 08:48:52 PM »

I play mad drums if I do say so myself. If you've seen some of the stuff Travis Barker does, then that's what I do. Or at least try, Mr. Barker is pretty damn good. He's Blink 182/Transplants/Boxcar Racer's drummer. I can play quite a bit of Blink 182 songs.

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Nintendo Gaming / Least Polished GCN Game

« on: July 09, 2003, 08:25:25 PM »

As for slow loading times, I'd say 90% of the PS2 ports. But they generally lack polish anyway.

[DRJ]

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Nintendo Gaming / New nintendo periferal idea: 3d glasses?

« on: July 09, 2003, 09:25:29 AM »

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Originally posted by: DRJ

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And really, that's probably reason no one works on these kinds of things--they are percieved as novelties.

Exactly. If you make a periferal let say a 3d goggles and there is only one game for it, the game costs $50 and the periferal costs $50-$100. Should I spend all this money on a periferal that has only one game? Now if the made the 3d goggles, and had a few games (2-4) for it, these games could be played with or without the periferal, then it might do good. Mandatory periferals are going to drive people away.

A light gun would be cool, but how well do those games sell when compared to a regular first or third person shooter?

I thought they meant like the cardboard glasses where one eye is red and the other is blue.

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Nintendo Gaming / Most Polished GCN Game

« on: July 09, 2003, 09:16:42 AM »

I think Metroid Prime. I mean, they took the time to add in freaking dew on your visor when you run into water or steam. Heat ripples when monsters shoot fire at you. Reflections when you walk up to something shiny. Water ripples when  you jump into water.

Not just the graphics are polished either. The music is awesome, the gameplay is a perfect tribute to past Metroid games.

To me Eternal Darkness's controls were a bit clunky at first (I got the hang of it after a while), but Metroid, you could easily pick it up and play it, or at least I did, some people had problems with aiming I guess, but for me it was easy.

Don't get me wrong I love ED, but the graphics just aren't as good (great lighting effects, but look at Alex's character model...) I loved the music, but it got a bit repetitive.

I think Metroid takes ED. Zelda was great too.

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Nintendo Gaming / What Nintendo should do when launching GC2

« on: July 08, 2003, 12:20:37 PM »

Q: Why do they want to be in the console business?

A: To make money.

If anyone should go third party, it's Microsoft. Sure, they might be ahead of Nintendo (in the U.S.) in sales, but nowhere near in profit. Don't even get me started, this has already been discussed in not one, but TWO other threads, and probably more before I came here. Nintendo has stated that they WILL NOT go third party, so quit suggesting that because they won't listen, therefore that is not an option for "What Nintendo should do when launching GC2", therefore you are off-topic. Let's get back on topic and say something that Nintendo might actually do when they launch the GC2.

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Nintendo Gaming / Consumerism as experience eg: GCN2 anticipation

« on: July 08, 2003, 10:22:05 AM »

Well, the reason is that people want the games to be that much better, which is understandable, but when it goes to the next platform the same thing will happen and people will want it on the next platform.

Too Human as one example, I want it released on the GameCube. Not the GameCube 2. Especially if the GC2 is backward compatible. So, in other words I agree with lastexit and Rhoq.

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Nintendo Gaming / Official F-Zero Thread

« on: July 08, 2003, 06:32:41 AM »

I don't know which racing game I want more, Mario Kart or F-Zero. Tough decision, but I'll probaly end up getting both. Ah, who am I kidding? I will end up getting both! It will also give me a reason to buy the broadband adapter, which may lead to me getting PSO.

I hope Nintendo is supporting LAN play as much as they say they will. And I also hope they release that neat little LCD screen. Imagine if you're friend came over with his 'cube and F-Zero and his LCD screen, and hooked his 'cube up to yours. That is a great reason to release the LCD screen, not to mention playing games in the car on road trips.

[ThePerm]

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Nintendo Gaming / Cube specs?

« on: July 08, 2003, 06:25:03 AM »

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Originally posted by: ThePermi remember reading one devloper talk about the gcn like it had no ram at all. Then you go and read an interview with Julian Eggebracht and he'll rave about the system. Funny thing is guess who has the better looking game.

That's quite simple, of course the XBox has 64 MB of RAM and the GameCube has somthing like 32 MB of total RAM, but the GameCubes texture compressors make up for that. If you're a developer and you develop a game on the XBox, you don't need to worry about texture compression as much, and you can use the full 64 MB. Let's say they decide to port the game to the GameCube. If they leave the game the way it is, it's impossible. But if they program a good algorithm to work with the GameCubes texture compressors, then they could get it down to 32MB. Note that if they are using a full 64 MB for the textures, then they are probably using some hi-res textures and the game would run slowly, so most likely they won't use the full 64MB for textures. Maybe music, but that's a completely different topic. Anyway my point is that you won't likely see people using the full 64 MB, so compressing it down to 32 MB shouldn't be as big of a problem as some developers make it out to be.

And besides, they don't complain about the PS2 having "no RAM at all", but the PS2 has even less RAM than the 'cube, and subpar texture decompressors!

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Nintendo Gaming / Rareware

« on: July 07, 2003, 03:55:23 PM »

I think the Stamper bros. are still in the R&D department.

[Gup]

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Nintendo Gaming / Why no Pokemon RPG???

« on: July 07, 2003, 03:51:29 PM »

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Originally posted by: Gup
Yup, Nintendo is pretty dumb at times.

Huh?

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Nintendo Gaming / Rareware

« on: July 07, 2003, 03:21:51 AM »

Now that I think about it, that was the reason Nintendo stated that they sold them. But poor games was no doubt a factor. They could keep having games like SFA, DK64 etc. or $180 million. Granted, they might have had a good game or two in there but remember, the GE team is gone.

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General Gaming / Official *Phantom Console* News

« on: July 06, 2003, 09:00:44 PM »

Assuming that this was a real console, it would flop. On their site recently they were looking for beta testers. One of the requirements was that you had a 1.5 Mbps connection. Do you know how many people have that kind of speed? Not very damn many. Many cable users don't even get 1 Mbps.

So... if they were to release games with graphics/sound/length comparable to current consoles, then their games would be running around 1 gigabyte. To download a gigabyte on a 1 Mb connection would roughly take 120 minutes. If you thought the Playstation's loading times were bad, now you'll have to wait two hours for your game to download. Not my idea of fun.

Of course. if they don't release comparable software, then it'll flop anyway.

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General Gaming / Micrsoft is now doomed?

« on: July 06, 2003, 08:47:49 PM »

Obviously the more popular a game is, it will sell better. Yes, that means there are more pirates for that game, but they are also selling more. And I dare to say most gamers don't pirate (including me, excluding NES/SNES emulators ; - ), so that leaves most gamers with two options- buy the game, or don't. With the former, it's the most popular choice, with the latter, they don't lose money anyway, so it doesn't matter.

Yes piracy is a problem. No Piracy isn't as big of a problem as the companies lead you to believe.