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New Connectivity Details

by Jonathan Metts - May 21, 2002, 3:00 pm EDT
Source: Nintendo Media Briefing

Remember the face-mapping feature from Perfect Dark? It's back.

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Connectivity was a major focus of today's Nintendo Pre-E3 Media Briefing. Along with a video demonstrating the feature as implemented in Animal Crossing, Nintendo presented a list and new details of other, unannounced, features of the GameCube-GBA Link Cable. In addition to adding motion sensor control to GameCube titles (as with the new Kirby game shown at Spaceworld) and using the GBA as a controller, Nintendo revealed that a new GBA version of Donkey Kong can upload a level editor to the GameCube. It turns out that programs can be temporarily stored on the Game Boy AND vice-versa on GameCube. Satoru Iwata also briefly mentioned Nintendo's Game Eye...the first we've ever heard of it. It is a device that, using the NGC-GBA connectivity, can take a picture of your face and put it into a GameCube title. This feature was once shown with the Game Boy Camera, N64 Transfer Pak, and Rare's Perfect Dark, but it was canceled before the game's release in the wake of the Columbine massacre.

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