Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: ShyGuy on February 08, 2006, 10:30:11 AM
Title: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: ShyGuy on February 08, 2006, 10:30:11 AM
I found this on infendo but it looks like it originated on the Gaming Age forums. Their forums seem to be overloaded right now, but the pictures on infendo are interesting.
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: Pale on February 08, 2006, 10:49:55 AM
I was checking them out on GAF before it crashed as well... It's a very cool book and I wish I had one.
One of the more interesting pics is what appears to be a bunch of empty rev cases, you can actually see the back of some!! Not that it really shows anything new, but cool none the less. (I see Infendo points that out as well)
It seems as if someone found most of them by address bar hacking some geocities site... I wish I knew their actual origin.
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: Ian Sane on February 08, 2006, 10:52:24 AM
Wow! If this is legit it's a pretty cool find.
The evolution of the remote is really neat because it actually has one of my suggestions for the remote in an earlier design. I suggested they surround the A button with four other buttons like the design on my TV remote and there it is exactly in the second design. Though that design doesn't have the d-pad so Nintendo probably intends on it to replace those buttons.
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: ruby_onix on February 08, 2006, 11:02:16 AM
Quote One of the more interesting pics is what appears to be a bunch of empty rev cases, you can actually see the back of some!! Not that it really shows anything new, but cool none the less. (I see Infendo points that out as well)
Yep. And it can now be confirmed that everyone with a GameCube Component Cable will be fine, but everyone else will be screwed by the Revolution.
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: BigJim on February 08, 2006, 11:20:10 AM
The Cube component cable doesn't carry audio. Is there a good shot of the Rev back? I can't tell if there is a separate audio jack on the one photo I saw.
It looks like power/AV/vent/USBs to me. Nothing specifically for audio, for those with Cube-components.
I guess one of those USB jacks may be used for the positioning bars too...?
Title: RE:Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: kirby_killer_dedede on February 08, 2006, 11:31:21 AM
That's awesome...but what the hell is up with that green and red picture!? So many Revs...is it really ready for mass production?
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: ruby_onix on February 08, 2006, 11:38:43 AM
The Rev won't need audio. It'll have a tinny GB Micro-style speaker in the Revmote.
And the positioning bars are supposed to be wireless, otherwise you'd be limited in figuring out where to put them.
Just keep increasing the number at the end to see more pics. Some will give you errors.
Title: RE:Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: thejeek on February 08, 2006, 12:01:19 PM
Wow - after all the obvious fake info about the Revolution this stuff looks much more plausible. I doubt anyone could photoshop that stuff. Still, interesting as it is, it doesn't shed much light on the stuff we still know nothing about - CPU, GPU etc :-(
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: stevey on February 08, 2006, 12:01:33 PM
Title: RE:Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: JonLeung on February 08, 2006, 12:19:23 PM
Nice try, but that's not "Brain Control", unless that's the name of a Brain Training / Brain Flex / Brain whatever game.
I think they use that device to see how well it actually stimulates the various parts of the brain while playing that game of intellectuabilitationism.
Title: RE:Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: nemo_83 on February 08, 2006, 12:25:32 PM
This was cool.
Title: RE:Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: thejeek on February 08, 2006, 12:50:06 PM
I dunno what that book that the photos are taken from is for (can anyone read any of the Japanese text?) but it has some mad stuff in it - check out the wacky zen garden:
--Please don't leech other people's bandwidth-- EDIT: Copied inline image to my site and relinked - is this acceptable?
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: Pale on February 08, 2006, 01:21:36 PM
Hey guys, don't forget about the max width rule when you post images...
They can't be more than 640 pixels wide. I hyperlinked the images that broke it.
Also, thejeek, welcome to the forums. Next time you want to point out a picture, upload it to imageshack or photobucket first like the other guys in the thread did. Also, be careful of the 640 pixels wide rule.
We need to protect everyone's H-Scroll.
Title: RE:Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: thejeek on February 08, 2006, 01:30:17 PM
OK. Will be careful not to do that again.
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Post by: Nephilim on February 08, 2006, 01:52:44 PM
Looks real to me some awsome digital art in that, if only they used them to do game covers
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: ShyGuy on February 08, 2006, 02:47:52 PM
I like the picture that shows a bunch of Mario characters lined up for size comparisons. Wario is really a huge tub of lard!
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: BlkPaladin on February 08, 2006, 02:54:29 PM
As for the different color Nintendo usually shows their later consoles in a number of color some find there way into the market place (Japan, ie Spice Gamecube) some never see the light of day.) The red and green were color that were first introduced in the prototype they showed at E3, so maybe this would be a good sign that none of the colors have been droped.
On a side note it really doesn't cost that much more to change the colors of the outside shell, since they could do multiple colors of the system on one assembly line. (Doing every one which is common in some setups, and having the machines differenciate by serial or do it by handle at the end of the line.)
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: Bill Aurion on February 08, 2006, 03:19:02 PM
Time for they hype train to start again!
I'm glad they decided against the 4 buttons around the A button, because that would have been a complete mind****...
Title: RE:Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: ruby_onix on February 08, 2006, 03:31:18 PM
Quote Originally posted by: Pale Hey guys, don't forget about the max width rule when you post images...
They can't be more than 640 pixels wide. I hyperlinked the images that broke it.
D'oh! That was my fault. I thought 800x600 was okay, not 640x480. And I'm even the one who pestered Bloodworth to allow 640x480.
...
Hey Bloodworth, can we have 800x600?
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: Truthliesn1seyes on February 08, 2006, 03:48:31 PM
That picture of the zen garden looks like a small model of Japan in the center surrounded by a revolution (the swirls). Also, there is the picture of the Animal Crossing characters and in it, all the characters are wearing the same shirt with the same swirl/revolution.
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: Bill Aurion on February 08, 2006, 04:45:03 PM
The zen garden obviously is symbolic of Ninty's effect on the market with Japan as the epicenter...(To explain more clearly, picture a water drop landing in a bowl of water...Notice how the ripples grow outward?)
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: KnowsNothing on February 08, 2006, 04:50:18 PM
The Doppler effect, exactly. As the water droplet moves towards you, its sound waves are compressed, creating ripples that will shake the industry.....or something!
edit: bill edits like ninja =o
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: Bill Aurion on February 08, 2006, 04:56:15 PM
It took you three minutes to make your post? =O (I didn't think many people here would even know what the Doppler effect even IS, so I edited it out)
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: Hostile Creation on February 08, 2006, 05:00:28 PM
Holy holy holy holy dammit. I want this book so badly. Spectacular design/artwork, I love it.
Title: RE:Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: IceCold on February 08, 2006, 06:54:56 PM
Hey, we're all smart here
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Post by: ThePerm on February 08, 2006, 07:22:16 PM
their shirts are just placeholder pictures
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: thejeek on February 09, 2006, 01:24:38 AM
My brain hurts now - I thought it was just a pretty picture :-)
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: couchmonkey on February 10, 2006, 11:35:15 AM
This thread made my day yesterday. I couldn't think of anything worthwhile to post at the time, but it those pictures are so cool. The Mario lineup and those beautiful red and green Revs are the best things I've seen in a long time.
Title: RE:Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: JonLeung on February 10, 2006, 11:45:17 AM
Any chance that these books will ever be made available to the public? eBay maybe?
Nintendo should put out a book for public consumption, of official artwork and designs, which could be very similar to this one. Nintendo fans would totally buy that. I bought Street Fighter: Eternal Challenge for my brother last Christmas. It's an artbook of all things Street Fighter. A Nintendo one would be so awesome.
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: ruby_onix on February 11, 2006, 02:19:50 AM
Nintendo puts out catalogs like these all the time. In English even. There's like four different ones every year (one for each season). They talk about all the latest games and products that Nintendo wants to push and have screenshots and release dates. They're pretty awesome, and back in the pre-internet days of Nintendo Power and GamePro, they'd have been considered to be 100% pure liquid megaton.
They're free, and available to the public. If you can find them. Usually around larger events. Like most promo material, it's collectable in certain circles, so it probably gets on eBay every now and then, but they tend to evaporate quickly, and anything more than a month or two old is half-impossible to find.
Title: RE:Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: IceCold on February 11, 2006, 08:28:05 AM
I don't know if this is the same thing that you're talking about, but I found a Nintendo booklet that did have everything you're talking about. It was quite long too; could have been 100 pages. All I know is that it was awesome - I spent so long just looking at it and reading all it had to say. I haven't seen another one like it lately, but the one I have was brilliant.
Title: RE:Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: Ceric on February 11, 2006, 03:54:19 PM
I like to point out that the sound is rumored to be wireless as well as the standard video. So it would make sense for it to only have the digital cord's port.
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: Pale on February 11, 2006, 04:38:29 PM
Wireless sound and video? Huh? >.>
Title: RE:Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 11, 2006, 05:30:20 PM
It's possible. It would require batteries or AC adapters for the wireless components though...probably isn't gonna happen. I would kill for wireless HD quality signals for all the components in my living room, behind my TV and audio/video towers is the biggest mess of cables you can imagine. BTW these books you speak of are usually available at EB games, even though they hate Nintendo.
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: Pale on February 12, 2006, 06:44:05 AM
Man, wireless bandwidth is not there yet... Of course its possible in theory, but you'd have to have expensive receiving units with cluttered wires anyway. It's a silly idea and a waste of money.
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: Caliban on February 13, 2006, 02:58:07 PM
Pale, I can't seem to remember where I read (The Toronto Star) or watched (CNBC) info about some company that found a cheap way to have at home a wireless HD signal, from what I also remember is that the signals could not pass through walls so I'm guessing there would be no interference from outside or towards outside the room, also I think they mentioned it using a 9 GHz signal. I haven't found anything on google but I haven't given much time to research it 'cause it was only today that I fixed some problem with my computer.
Title: RE:Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: BigJim on February 14, 2006, 08:58:27 AM
I know not of its legitimacy, but I thought it was interesting anyway:
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: Ceric on February 14, 2006, 09:41:07 AM
You know, if those drawings are real, it looks to have an optical jack in the back. That would be an interesting revelation considering Nintendo's always just used Prologic to do that sort of thing.
Title: RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
Post by: BigJim on February 14, 2006, 09:49:05 AM
Yeah, that's a pretty curious jack on the back. At first I thought it was firewire, but it's not quite the exact shape.