Nintendo discuss how Z-targeting came to be
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This information comes from the latest Iwata Asks..
Koizumi: Yeah. (laughs) Thanks to him, we were able to show Link the whole time, but it got really hard in ways that would have been extremely easy in first-person, like how to handle the camera and battles.
Iwata: You tied your own noose. Koizumi: Yeah. In order to solve those problems, we had to create a bunch of new devices, one of which was Z-targeting.
Iwata: How did Z-targeting come about? Osawa: In Super Mario 64, for example, when you tried to read a sign, sometimes you would just go around it in circles.
Iwata: The axes wouldn’t match up.
Osawa: Right. We wondered what we could do about that, and when Koizumi-san joined the team, I said, “Since we’re going to include chanbara-style action, let’s go to Toei Kyoto Studio Park!”
Iwata: Huh? Going to Toei Kyoto Studio Park…because you were including chanbara-style action?
Nintendo elaborates on first-person perspective idea for Zelda: Ocarina of Time
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A few years ago, Nintendo revealed that they considered making The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time with a first-person perspective. The latest issue of Iwata Asks, featuring members of the original development team, have elaborated on the idea. Satoru Iwata, Yoshiaki Koizumi, and director Toru Osawa took part in the interview:
Koizumi: First, I talked with Miyamoto-san about how we should make The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo 64 system, and he asked, “How about making it so that Link will not show up?”
Iwata: Huh?! Miyamoto-san said that?!
Koizumi: Yeah. He wanted to make it a first-person game. Iwata: Oh, he wanted to make an FPS (first-person shooter).
Koizumi: Right. In the beginning, he had the image that you are at first walking around in first-person, and when an enemy appeared, the screen would switch, Link would appear, and the battle would unfold from a side perspective.
Leftover Super Mario 64 ideas were used in Zelda: Ocarina of Time
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This information comes from the latest Iwata Asks…
Iwata: We just talked about how Koizumi-san made lots of irrational demands all the way from Super Mario 64 to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, but to go back to the beginning, Super Mario Bros. came out in September of 1985 and The Legend of Zelda came out immediately afterward in February 1986. I feel like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda are often made as a pair.
The challenge with the Nintendo 64 system was to turn those two titles into 3D. Koizumi-san, I think you were the person closest to Miyamoto-san during development then. What was on your mind?
Aonuma joined the Ocarina of Time team late in development
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This information comes from the latest Iwata Asks…
Iwata: Today, your name is always mentioned in the same breath as The Legend of Zelda, but before then, you did a variety of work.
Aonuma: Yes.
Iwata: About the time you had just joined the company, we worked together.
Aonuma: That’s right! (laughs) Unfortunately, though, the game we made together never made it out into the world. I spent a lot of time developing games with external companies. But I really wanted to develop inside Nintendo. I pestered Miyamoto-san about it and he said, “We don’t have enough people for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, so come on in for a spell.” Of those of us here today, I joined the project last.
Screenshots of this week’s Nintendo Downloads (6/16)
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Nintendo Download Highlights New Digital Content for Nintendo Systems
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This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured games:
Nintendo eShop
• Donkey Kong™ – The Game Boy™ version of the classic arcade game returns. Donkey Kong has once again kidnapped Pauline. Challenged by many perils, Mario™ must reach his archrival in order to save our damsel in distress. (For Nintendo 3DS™)Virtual Console™
• Mega Man 5 – Guide Mega Man through 13 action-packed stages and defeat all eight of Protoman’s robots. Then get ready for a fight that pits brother against brother in the battle of the century. (For Wii™)WiiWare™
• BIT.TRIP FLUX (demo version) – Get ready for classic paddle-based game play as the acclaimed BIT.TRIP series comes full-circle with BIT.TRIP FLUX, CommanderVideo’s final adventure. (For Wii)
Note: Some demo versions do not support all game features, and players cannot save their in-game progress in demo versions.
Photos from the Williams’ Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D commercial
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Itadaki Street Wii screenshots
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Iwata comments on Wii U’s online setup
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This information comes from Satoru Iwata…
To start, I’ll have to say that I don’t have any materials with me today that can illustrate precisely what our online environment will be like, but I can speak generally about the direction that we are moving in.
I think, in general, the online environment is changing quite rapidly.
So, what I have come to feel lately is that the idea of saying, “we are going to create this style of online structure and that we would like you, the developers, to fit into the online structure that we are creating” is perhaps already out-of-date.
