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TalkBack / Re: Mature Games Only Available 'After Dark' on Euro eShop
« on: December 08, 2012, 03:54:04 PM »
What about going into Parental Controls, and setting it to "Let me do what I want". Does that work?
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TalkBack / Re: Two Brothers Announced for Wii U eShop
« on: October 27, 2012, 06:05:07 PM »
Just watched a video of it, and noticed they used sound effects from Link's Awakening for it. Is that legal?
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TalkBack / Re: Pre-orders Opening Soon for Wii U in Japan
« on: October 05, 2012, 02:10:32 AM »
Amazon.co.uk has had pre-orders, and now Amazon.co.jp will really soon....
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......so what is up with Amazon.com?
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......so what is up with Amazon.com?
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TalkBack / Re: Japan eShop Round-Up (09/26/2012)
« on: September 28, 2012, 12:53:36 PM »
Does Nintendo/Capcom not want my money? I am willing to give it to them if they bring the NES Megaman series my way!
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Petit Computer (DSiWare)
« on: September 27, 2012, 03:37:50 AM »
My first demo of MM2 PTC is available on my website - http://lazerlight.x10.mx/
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TalkBack / Re: Wii U Launches November 18 in North America
« on: September 17, 2012, 04:24:39 AM »
I highly doubt Nintendo would want to segregate the masses by having the Basic edition not be able to do something the Deluxe edition could do. Simply, the Deluxe has extra conveniences along with NintendoLand. The small amount of internal storage in both systems is meant to get a person started. It isn't meant to be the only spot to hold content, as Nintendo has said numerous times that it can be expanded via external storage devices. I don't even think the internal flash memory is as fast as people believe it to be, or there would be a major discrepancy between the two packages.
I had my chance to get the Deluxe, but ended up not pre-ordering because at the time, I wasn't even sure about getting a WiiU. That changed the next day after giving it a lot of thought, but by that time, Gamestop wasn't taking any more Deluxe pre-orders. So, I pre-ordered the Basic. If this is anything like the situation with the Wii, I wouldn't have gotten another chance until May next year (not without going onto auctions).
Speaking of auctions, the employees at Gamestop informed me that a couple people in my area alone had been going to every one of their stores to pre-order as many WiiUs as possible. Dang resellers.....
I had my chance to get the Deluxe, but ended up not pre-ordering because at the time, I wasn't even sure about getting a WiiU. That changed the next day after giving it a lot of thought, but by that time, Gamestop wasn't taking any more Deluxe pre-orders. So, I pre-ordered the Basic. If this is anything like the situation with the Wii, I wouldn't have gotten another chance until May next year (not without going onto auctions).
Speaking of auctions, the employees at Gamestop informed me that a couple people in my area alone had been going to every one of their stores to pre-order as many WiiUs as possible. Dang resellers.....
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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo of America Will Stream Their Wii U Preview Event
« on: September 12, 2012, 05:37:56 PM »
Luigi is getting competitive with Mario now. Just look at that gut.
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TalkBack / Re: Every World in Rayman Legends Will Feature a Musical Level
« on: September 12, 2012, 01:07:04 PM »
I was pretty entertained by the video, but I'm still confused about something. Is the player controlling both Rayman and Murphy at the same time? I ask because in the video, it shows Murphy being used. If a player isn't controlling both, then how will that affect playing such levels solo?
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TalkBack / Re: Bravely Default Final Demo Coming This Week to eShop in Japan
« on: September 10, 2012, 03:17:14 PM »
Wish they'd give everyone else without a Jap 3DS a chance to see what this is all about.
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TalkBack / Re: Predictions for Sept. 13 Wii U Event
« on: September 09, 2012, 01:26:50 PM »
@SonofMrPeanut
I get the feeling that Nintendo's idea of "upscaling" isn't what we think upscaling is. Reggie mentions Wii games are built around specific hardware, but DS games were in the same situation with the 3DS, yet the 3DS was able to "upscale" them. So, imo, Wii games won't be "rendered" in 1080p, but that doesn't stop them from what we consider "upscaling" to 1080p. They'll probably look better, but not nearly to the degree that rendering them at 1080p would accomplish.
I get the feeling that Nintendo's idea of "upscaling" isn't what we think upscaling is. Reggie mentions Wii games are built around specific hardware, but DS games were in the same situation with the 3DS, yet the 3DS was able to "upscale" them. So, imo, Wii games won't be "rendered" in 1080p, but that doesn't stop them from what we consider "upscaling" to 1080p. They'll probably look better, but not nearly to the degree that rendering them at 1080p would accomplish.
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TalkBack / Re: Speed X 3D Coming to eShop in North America August 30
« on: August 22, 2012, 03:23:40 PM »
This is not how I envisioned an F-Zero-like game on the 3DS.
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TalkBack / Re: Hotel Transylvania Making Its Way To DS, 3DS On September 18
« on: August 21, 2012, 01:45:23 PM »
At least it isn't Hotel Mario, am I right?
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TalkBack / Re: New Super Mario Bros. 2 Is Live in North American eShop
« on: August 19, 2012, 12:58:45 PM »
I'm still undecided about whether to go digital or physical for this game. Plus, I'm waiting for my 3DS to come back from repairs.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Petit Computer (DSiWare)
« on: August 11, 2012, 04:06:35 PM »Consider it a challenge.
Indeed. I'm having to find clever ways of getting some operations done with as little looping as possible, since that seems to be the main reason for my program slowdown.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Petit Computer (DSiWare)
« on: August 11, 2012, 03:57:56 AM »
This is not good. Not good at all. I just found out how many lines of code can be executed within a single frame's worth of time with Petit Computer.
2000 lines of code. Sounds like a lot of lines? Believe me, this is minuscule even by standards back in the 80 with the NES running with a 1.79Mhz 8-bit CPU. All I did was make a FOR-NEXT loop that did 5000 iterations with nothing inside within a GOTO loop that checked the MAINCNTL variable for how many frames had elapsed since the last call, and at 5000 iterations, it came to around 5 frames.
Yes, I know this is an interpreted language, but even using the DSi's 133Mhz 32-bit CPU and taking into account the RAM read-delay glitch, I would have expected much better results. I honestly can't see how I can continue my Megaman 2 project under this limitation.
2000 lines of code. Sounds like a lot of lines? Believe me, this is minuscule even by standards back in the 80 with the NES running with a 1.79Mhz 8-bit CPU. All I did was make a FOR-NEXT loop that did 5000 iterations with nothing inside within a GOTO loop that checked the MAINCNTL variable for how many frames had elapsed since the last call, and at 5000 iterations, it came to around 5 frames.
Yes, I know this is an interpreted language, but even using the DSi's 133Mhz 32-bit CPU and taking into account the RAM read-delay glitch, I would have expected much better results. I honestly can't see how I can continue my Megaman 2 project under this limitation.
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TalkBack / Re: Three Titles Hitting the 3DS Virtual Console in Japan This Week
« on: August 05, 2012, 11:54:36 PM »
I'm ruined if MM2 gets localized! Been making my own version of it via Petit Computer. Well, having the engine to make a custom Megaman is good enough at least.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Petit Computer (DSiWare)
« on: August 03, 2012, 01:50:30 PM »This is what I recently made with Petit Computer. A WIP obviously from the look of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiX1dlvwwPg
First, this is incredible. Dare I ask how long it took to put this together?
Second, the death animation is awesome. Totally cracked me up.
I started about 2 weeks ago (part of it during my camping vacation since this last Sunday). Everything was created manually, as I had no option to import anything. 1232 lines at 30.7K bytes (excluding tileset and sprite CHR/COL files). The DATA dedicated to the level layout is about 400 lines alone, but I can probably reduce that using simple RLE compression.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Petit Computer (DSiWare)
« on: August 03, 2012, 03:28:31 AM »
This is what I recently made with Petit Computer. A WIP obviously from the look of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiX1dlvwwPg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiX1dlvwwPg
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Petit Computer (DSiWare)
« on: July 25, 2012, 01:51:24 PM »
Now I've run into another problem. Is there any way to erase an array that was set with DIM without CLEARing all variables made? I can't use DIM to re-dim an array, and there is no REDIM command. The program I'm working on is meant to allow loading a level that can differ in sizes from other levels, and comes along with other things like CHR and PAL animations for the backgrounds, each also differing in sizes. Am I to just go ahead and make a large single/double array for each, and limit the data to those sizes?
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TalkBack / Re: Transparent 3DS XL Prototype Revealed
« on: July 25, 2012, 03:15:47 AM »
They may have been able to add that 2nd circle pad, but without that matching pair of extra shoulder buttons, wouldn't that just leave the problem as-is instead of solving it?
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Petit Computer (DSiWare)
« on: July 23, 2012, 08:51:10 PM »I am rather frustrated by the method they want us to have assets for our programs. It is nice that they give us the option to LOAD stuff like CHR, MEM, etc, but why must they include that awful sound accompanied by that command?
SYSBEEP=FALSE
Give that a shot before loading the resources.
Thanks, that did the trick.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Petit Computer (DSiWare)
« on: July 23, 2012, 06:38:14 PM »
I am rather frustrated by the method they want us to have assets for our programs. It is nice that they give us the option to LOAD stuff like CHR, MEM, etc, but why must they include that awful sound accompanied by that command? They gave us an option to disable the dialog box with it, but no such feature with the audio?
In all honesty, I don't mind that sound with SAVEing, but there will be so much more LOADing than SAVEing in a single game that it gets annoying. The only method I can think of to avoid that is......have all assets as DATA within the PRG itself.....that just doesn't sound feasible for anyone programming straight on the DSi/3DS.
There are PC tools that can make all this easier, but the current program has crashed so many time on me that I've tossed out that option until those bugs are cleared up.
In all honesty, I don't mind that sound with SAVEing, but there will be so much more LOADing than SAVEing in a single game that it gets annoying. The only method I can think of to avoid that is......have all assets as DATA within the PRG itself.....that just doesn't sound feasible for anyone programming straight on the DSi/3DS.
There are PC tools that can make all this easier, but the current program has crashed so many time on me that I've tossed out that option until those bugs are cleared up.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Petit Computer (DSiWare)
« on: July 19, 2012, 06:34:03 PM »I might have to pick this up if only to see if I can recreate Thy Dungeonman.
Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH, and DENNIS.
I'm going to purchase Petit Computer the moment I get home from work today.
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TalkBack / Re: PSA: Mighty Switch Force is Half Off in North American eShop Right Now
« on: July 15, 2012, 01:15:49 AM »
It came.
I saw.
I conquered (with a purchase).
Wish I had known when VVVVVV was on sale at the time. $8 seems like a lot.
I saw.
I conquered (with a purchase).
Wish I had known when VVVVVV was on sale at the time. $8 seems like a lot.
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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Wants to 'Show Results' to Increase Stock Price
« on: July 05, 2012, 04:20:44 PM »I don't understand what Nintendo is thinking. If they're making a big push towards digital distribution, why does the Wii U only have 8GB of on-board storage?
External Hard Drive. Having one built in would increase the price of the system, and not everyone will go digital.
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