GameCube

Posted on 14 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, GameCube, Screenshots | 0 comments

Much to the delight of Zelda fans, Nintendo released a number of new Ocarina of Time 3D screenshots last night. And just like the last few image batches, a number of comparison photos have already been created. So, what do you think? Are you pleased with the graphical improvements?

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Hideki Konno discussing Nintendo’s interest in 3D…

“[Playing games in 3-D] is something that we’ve been continually testing and working on at Nintendo. We’ve never actually stopped looking at 3-D as a viable product. And it just so happens that the technology in the marketplace now coincides with what we wanted to do. So actually, it was just very fortuitous timing.”

Hideki Konno on the Virtual Boy…

“When we launched Virtual Boy, we thought it would work. It’s trial and error. We made mistakes. And we build on mistakes.”

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Posted on 14 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Features, GameCube | 0 comments

My story of how I got the GameCube is one of sadness. To begin, I was inside my local Toys R Us (back when they were cool) and was looking around the video game section. Anyone remember how they had you pay for the games in a separate section from the rest of the store? In any case, while I was there, I played a demo station of Soul Calibur 2. It was at that moment I wanted a GameCube.

I quickly returned home to formulate a plan to obtain the system, and, more importantly, Soul Calibur 2. I wanted the GameCube version for two reasons: 1: Most of my friends had that version. 2: Link was an exclusive character. So, sue me! It was also a good excuse to get the new Smash Bros. and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, which was like the Dreamcast game but with plenty of additional features.

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NeoGAF member Mama Robotnik has made some rather neat discoveries on John Dobbie’s Behance profile. Dobbie once worked for Silicon Knights as an Environmental Artist. The first round of art – which can be seen above – shows drawings for the unused endings in Eternal Darkness. Here’s a rundown of each piece:

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This information comes from the latest Iwata Asks…

Miyamoto: Yeah. When we tested the game on the Nintendo GameCube system, there was a dog whose hair had grown in…

Iwata: That’s right, you first experimented with it on the Nintendo GameCube console when you first wanted to make a game like Nintendogs. Why didn’t that go anywhere and how was it decided that it would be released for the Nintendo DS system?

Miyamoto: The project started when I thought it would be fun to raise a pet in the television, but I thought the Nintendo DS hardware was much better suited to it.

Iwata: With the Nintendo DS systems, you can use the stylus to pet it.

Miyamoto: But with Nintendo DS, we couldn’t show the character of the coat. We now had more hardware power, so we could go back to that super-soft and fluffy feeling. (laughs) And it’s in 3D, so you can pet around their back.

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Posted on 14 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, GameCube, GBA, News | 0 comments

3DS region-clock

– Unconfirmed
– Sounds like the 3DS will be region-locked
– DSi was region-locked, DS/Lite were not
– Primary reason Nintendo does region-locking is for piracy

3DS Game Coins

– Shown in screenshots/video
– Different theories about what it actually does

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This information comes from the latest Iwata Asks with Satoru Iwata, Shigesato Itoi, and Shigeru Miyamoto…

Iwata: To go back a little further, the Nintendo GameCube12 system actually had 3D-compatible circuitry built in.

Itoi: Huh?

Iwata: It had the potential for such functions.

Itoi: Nintendo GameCube did? And all the Nintendo GameCubes systems around the world?

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We posted this information yesterday along with Sakurai’s other response’s about Super Smash Bros. Melee yesterday, but I thought these two excerpts were important…

“On a personal level, Melee had an extremely grueling development cycle. Some of my other games did, too, but Melee sticks out far ahead of the pack in my mind. I worked on that game for 13 months straight, after all, without a single Sunday or holiday off that whole time. During parts of it, I was living a really destructive lifestyle — I’d work for over 40 hours in a row, then go back home to sleep for four.”

“Melee is the sharpest game in the series. It’s pretty speedy all around and asks a lot of your coordination skills. Fans of the first Smash Bros. got into it quickly, and it just felt really good to play.”

Can you imagine that work schedule? Personally, I don’t think I would have been able to put up with it! Also, I’m wondering how you guys feel about Melee – Do you agree? Do you believe Melee is the sharpest game in the series as well?

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Sakurai on the development cycle…

“On a personal level, Melee had an extremely grueling development cycle. Some of my other games did, too, but Melee sticks out far ahead of the pack in my mind. I worked on that game for 13 months straight, after all, without a single Sunday or holiday off that whole time. During parts of it, I was living a really destructive lifestyle — I’d work for over 40 hours in a row, then go back home to sleep for four.”

Sakurai on what drove him through his work…

“I seriously felt like a man on a mission. With the original [Nintendo 64] Smash Bros., there was no guarantee the game would be well-received at all — I had my hands full just trying to make it into the completely new sort of fighting game I had in mind. With Melee, though, the previous game did well enough that Nintendo and the character designers knew what I wanted in advance. And I wanted a lot. It was the biggest project I had ever led up to that point — the first game of mine on disc-based media, the first that used an orchestra for music, the first with ‘real’ polygon graphics. My staff was raring to go, and we plunged in full-tilt from the start. I pushed myself beyond any limit I could think of because I doubted I’d ever have this sheer amount of work in my hands ever again.”

Sakurai’s feelings of Melee today…

“Melee is the sharpest game in the series. It’s pretty speedy all around and asks a lot of your coordination skills. Fans of the first Smash Bros. got into it quickly, and it just felt really good to play.”

Sakurai regretting that Melee wasn’t more accessible…

“I had created Smash Bros. to be my response to how hardcore-exclusive the fighting game genre had become over the years. But why did I target it so squarely toward people well-versed in videogames, then? That’s why I tried to aim for more of a happy medium with Brawl’s play balance. There are three Smash Bros. games out now, but even if I ever had a chance at another one, I doubt we’ll ever see one that’s as geared toward hardcore gamers as Melee was. Melee fans who played deep into the game without any problems might have trouble understanding this, but Melee was just too difficult.”

Sakurai elaborating on accessibility…

“If we want new people from this generation of gamers to come in, then we need it accessible, simple, and playable by anyone. You can’t let yourself get preoccupied with nothing but gameplay and balance details. That’s where the core of the Smash Bros. concept lies, not on doggedly keeping the game the way it was before.”

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