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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Virtual Console Development Kit - Bump if interested!

« on: June 12, 2006, 09:18:43 PM »

Thanks. I just touched base with my friend in the industry and the dev kits apparently are rather inexpensive, however acquiring one as an unestablished developer is impossible. He suggested developing for X360 marketplace first. Oh yeah, no real info yet on development for the Virtual Console.

-F

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Virtual Console Development Kit - Bump if interested!

« on: June 10, 2006, 09:21:52 PM »

I took a look at that site... pretty awesome looking.

www.garagegames.com

seems like a perfect place to start... if not publish through!

Anyone actually make a game using this?

BTW - How legal would it be to make a game based off of a nintendo property but not actually using it? Ie alluding to it... for example, a game starring the brother of kid icarus or something like that.

-Felix

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Virtual Console Development Kit - Bump if interested!

« on: June 08, 2006, 02:17:54 PM »

Great comments so far...

I like the idea of just starting a game and I'll probably just start fleshing out stories and ideas in some sort of design doc(also suggested).

I'm wondering if it makes sense to get a few folks together to program basic games in Java, on-line, etc... so as to build up a portfolio.

Maybe we should create a list of emulators for the different systems... does anyone know of emulators that indie developers prefer?

PC-Engine/Turbografx-16 :: MagicEngine
NES :: Nesticle
SNES :: SNES9X
N64 :: ??
SMS ::
Genesis :: Gencyst

Saturn :: is this supported by vc?
Dreamcast ::  is this supported by vc?

Will we be able to put Turbografx-CDs into the Wii and run them through the VC?

-Felix

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Nintendo Gaming / Virtual Console Development Kit

« on: June 07, 2006, 10:14:39 PM »

Hi Folks,

Does anyone know how to legitimately develop for the Wii Virtual Console? I think there is a huge potential for nintendo to cater to gamers that want to develop... the only game programming experience I have is x86 assembly language programming... but I can code in Pascal, C, C++, Java, Javascript, VBA & PHP.

Here are the questions I've got...

1. Is there going to be a dev kit?
2. Can we write something for an emulator and somehow port it over?
3. How can we get it onto the Wii (wireless... but what protocol)?
4. Do we need to be selected by nintendo? Do we need some sort of reputation with gaming?

Please discuss!

I hope to get a FAQ going on development if this doesn't already exist somewhere...


-Felix