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TalkBack / RE: DS Lite Details
« on: February 09, 2006, 01:12:49 PM »
Looking at the pics, I really don't like how the top half of the unit is raised around the edges, making it concave, presumably to seal it around the edges when it's closed. That sort of thing makes it bothersome to easily open and close the unit. The rounded edges of the GBA SP are much nicer.

They took one of the problems of the DS's design (being flat around the edges), and made it even worse. While quite obviously looking at a GBA SP's design, which had the solution.

Nintendo probably thought they needed to do this because they didn't recess the D-pad and buttons (which is a great thing, IMO), but if you just made two recessed circles where the buttons meet the top half, then you're fine. As-is, all they did is just recess the entire top half of the unit, which left them unable to round the corners.

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TalkBack / RE:DS Lite Details
« on: February 09, 2006, 12:25:27 PM »
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Originally posted by: PGC NewsBot
  • PictoChat appears to be exactly the same as in the original DS model, shooting down rumors of a new online version of the program...though such a product could still be released separately.

    • Well, that's one less excuse for Nintendo to charge extra money for the DS Lite.

    No wonder Reggie says it's Japan-exclusive for now. Nintendo of America isn't in a position where they can overcharge people with the DS right now.

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    TalkBack / RE: PGC is Hiring!
    « on: February 09, 2006, 12:12:34 PM »
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    What, no official announcement? No ticker tape parade?

    That's being held over in /b/... or, I mean... that's being held in Ty's Clubhouse.

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    Nintendo Gaming / RE: Why is it called DS Lite?
    « on: February 08, 2006, 08:04:20 PM »
    The DS Lite is the weight of 1.5 GBA SP's, instead of 2 GBA SP's. That's much nicer, especially considering that weight was a problem with the original DS.

    But the reason Nintendo is calling it a DS "Lite" is because the screens are supposedly brighter and have more settings. That's the part Nintendo wants you to look at. Those are the reason Nintendo's going to be charging more for it. You can charge more for better screens. And maybe for upgraded firmware enabling online Pictochat. You can't charge more because they saved $0.05 on the outer casing.

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    Nintendo Gaming / RE:Revolution booklet tidbits
    « on: February 08, 2006, 03:31:18 PM »
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    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?

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    Nintendo Gaming / RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
    « 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.

    Rev parts

    Revmote shapes

    Unrelated but very cool DVD

    The original source for the pics seems to be here.
    http://www.geocities.jp/srqjx458/nintendo/P1000665.JPG

    Just keep increasing the number at the end to see more pics. Some will give you errors.  

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    Nintendo Gaming / RE: Revolution booklet tidbits
    « on: February 08, 2006, 11:02:16 AM »
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    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.
     

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    NWR Feedback / RE: Some of the "True" ads verge on porn...
    « on: February 07, 2006, 02:30:19 PM »
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    The lower left one is so close to showing labia it's ridiculous...

    I think you're inventing "almost seen" things.

    Seriously, these ads aren't so extreme that they're making PGC unsafe for work. You're just worried that your boss will come around the corner and find you drooling. You just need more mental dicipline. Or maybe more porn. Or less porn. You're not getting exactly the right amount of porn that you need.

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    TalkBack / RE: Ubisoft To Publish LostMagic
    « on: February 05, 2006, 08:41:58 PM »
    There's a dating sim called "Girlfriend of Steel" which seems quite popular. Supposed to have a lot of unusual situations.

    And there was an actual "Evangelion meets Gunbuster" strip mahjong game that apparently wasn't afraid to include the male characters.

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    TalkBack / RE: Ubisoft To Publish LostMagic
    « on: February 05, 2006, 08:39:16 AM »
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    Perhaps they demonstrated to Miyazaki that Lost Magic isn't just mindless shooing and killing?

    True. But then again, the same was apparently true of Jade Cocoon. And it bombed (by most accounts for trying to be too creative, and for not being about shooting and killing), which he probably took as an affirmation of his ideas.

    But then again, Gainax's biggest and most popular game, Princess Maker, isn't about mindless shooting and killing either. It's about playing with lolis. Which is what most of Miyazaki's films are really all about.

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    General Gaming / RE: What microsoft thinks of the virtual console.
    « on: February 05, 2006, 12:38:22 AM »
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    Still, they do bring up one good point: they're offering new games from indy developers and Nintendo might not be.

    Nintendo has reportedly been telling developers that they can't make "new old games". If they want to make something original, but low-tech, then they should just make it for the Rev/Cube/DS/GBA (whichever one they'd like).

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    TalkBack / RE: Ubisoft To Publish LostMagic
    « on: February 04, 2006, 11:02:04 PM »
    Interesting. But I thought Hayao Miyazaki hated videogames?

    Back around the time when he was starting Studio Ghibli, Gainax became really popular, due in no small part to their idea to bring their amazing artistic talent into videogaming. But Miyazaki didn't want to do go that route, because he thought videogames rotted kids minds worse than TV or movies, because "they were nothing but mindless shooting and killing." And then every time someone would come along and suggest "Hey, I've got an idea for how you can get ahead. Make some videogames, like Gainax does," his resentment of videogames would only increase, because he knew he was passing up easy money.

    Then one day, one of his top assistants did the artwork for the PSX game "Jade Cocoon" as a side job, and since his drawing style was pretty much the same as Miyazaki's work, a large number of excited reporters in Japan mistakenly wrote that it was being made by Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. Miyazaki "pulled a Yamauchi" and went nuts. He broke off all relations with his former friend, went on some public rants against videogames, and (IIRC) said that neither he nor Studio Ghibli would ever be involved with a videogame.


    Edit: Looking into it, the "assistant" guy is Katsuya Kondô, and Jade Cocoon came out shortly after 1997's "Princess Mononoke", at which point he seems to have entirely missed being involved in "Spirited Away", but then he returned for 2004's "Howl's Moving Castle". So I guess Miyazaki eventually forgave him.

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    TalkBack / RE:Atlus Announces Yggdra Union
    « on: February 04, 2006, 10:49:35 AM »
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    Originally posted by: KDR_11k
    Someone should've told them about not putting a black outline around sprites, that looks amateurish.

    I think it fits the style.







    And it works with the special effects.

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    General Chat / RE: February is VIDEOGAME TRANNY MONTH!
    « on: February 04, 2006, 01:00:48 AM »
    AWOL'd

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    TalkBack / RE: Atlus Announces Yggdra Union
    « on: February 04, 2006, 12:55:41 AM »
    http://www.sting.co.jp/yggdra/index.htm  

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    Nintendo Gaming / RE: RE:DS, I want to know more...
    « on: February 04, 2006, 12:43:07 AM »
    http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=80996
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    Resident Evil Deadly Silence is a 3D game, was it difficult to make a 3D game for Nintendo DS ?

    Well, the Nintendo DS is probably not suited for 3D, I think that Nintendo DS is carrying over the Game Boy Advance technology by adding some 3D support, the number of polygons that you can push on Nintendo DS is around a thousand, if you add textures it’s 800 polygons, so it’s not a lot. But still as you have seen there are a lot of 3D games that are coming on Nintendo DS, it’s going basically to come down to what we can do with that power that is given. First we had a lot of problems trying to make this game for the Nintendo DS, but after we learnt to program it the right way, we were able to do it, it’s all possible.


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    Why did you make the players look like pink colored stars in the multiplayer modes ?

    [Laughs] As I mentioned before, we were actually limited by the hardware power, we needed between 200 and 300 polygons for each character, it makes almost 1200 polygons for four characters, and we couldn’t get more then 800 polygons with textures on Nintendo DS. So we were stuck having to use something as a symbol rather then having actually real character. I’m not saying that the Nintendo DS is weak or underpowered, the system is more focused on the gameplay experience, we enjoyed developing on this hardware.

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    Nintendo Gaming / RE: Looking for official Mega Man X Collection artwork!
    « on: February 04, 2006, 12:16:48 AM »
    eBay?

    This one looks like it covers MMX through X3. It's a start.

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    TalkBack / RE: NoE Finds New Marketing Head
    « on: February 01, 2006, 12:41:06 PM »
    Of course he will be. He's French.

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    Nintendo Gaming / RE: Mega Man X Collection - X3 specifically
    « on: February 01, 2006, 12:31:13 PM »
    X3 was a rush job, because Capcom wanted to get it out before the SNES died.

    The version of X3 that's in MMXC is the PlayStation/Saturn port. It has added FMV cutscenes, and the music was remixed for it. Most people seem to say that the remixed music in X3 is worse than the original SNES version.


    BTW, I disagree with both you and Jonny, in that I think X4 was really good. Particularly if you play as Zero.

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    General Chat / RE: February is VIDEOGAME TRANNY MONTH!
    « on: January 31, 2006, 05:37:52 PM »
    Joined.

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    Nintendo Gaming / RE: Remind me why I shouldn't be playing Sprung.
    « on: January 31, 2006, 03:30:35 PM »
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    It's not a dating sim like it looks like...it's a text adventure, more like...

    That's what you get when someone who can't do romance (aka: anyone in the western videogame industry) tries to make a dating sim.

    The other reason why you shouldn't be playing Sprung is because it's (for all intents and purposes) impossible to get past first base (kissing) on a Nintendo console. The DS promised to take us to second base (touching), but that was a cruel lie. Now the Rev's promising to take us to third base? Hah! Not a chance.

    I'm willing to buy Sprung (and I did buy it), but I'm not willing to enjoy it. I must bitch and whine about it's wasted potential until Nintendo changes their attitude.

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    No porn toast, seeing as how it's not capable of images or video. No kitchen appliances. If I had one of those refrigerators with a built-in TV, I might be able to pull something off with that.

    Pornographic refrigerator magnets. They work on toasters too.

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    TalkBack / RE: Nintendo DS Lite
    « on: January 25, 2006, 10:53:34 PM »
    By the measurements, it appears to be slightly smaller than a GBA SP, plus the extra width, of course.

    I'm very glad that they moved the D-pad and buttons up higher, because their placement on the DS made it absurdly top-heavy. The reduced weight is also a big deal.

    I personally think they still could've done more to make it comfortable (this probably still has the pathetic little D-pad and buttons Nintendo seems to have gotten used to), but it looks like a very good balance of comfort and appearance (the old DS had neither, IMO). And the fact that it looks like a GBA SP is a great move.

    The MSRP seems a little high, and NOA in particular should be looking for a price drop, because while this redesign is very nice, I don't see it holding Sony at bay for very long, especially not if Sony has any surprises of their own in the works.


    Edit: I wonder how the L&R triggers are? Hopefully they don't "pull an SP" in that regard. It seems unlikely. And where's the power button? Don't tell me they "pulled a Micro" and put it on the lower edge of the unit? And while I'm complaining, I hope they ditched the "slider" volume control and moved back to a dial.

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    TalkBack / RE: Reggie Says Revolution will be
    « on: January 18, 2006, 02:41:11 PM »
    I don't think "less than $300" is a $299 price announcement. I mean, the question was "less than $700?" This is just a way of safely narrowing it down without talking about what Nintendo doesn't want to talk about yet.

    BTW, as for the N64 price, the PlayStation launched in Japan at 40,000 yen ($400). When it launched in America (Sept 95), it dropped to $300 (30,000 yen). Two months later, Nintendo unveiled the N64 at Shoshinkai and said it would be 25,000 yen/$250. Six months later at E3, Sony undercut everybody by dropping a full $100 down to $200, sending Sega panicking into a similar pricecut, and making Nintendo laugh arrogantly, saying everyone else needed to be $50 cheaper in order to compete with the N64.

    The N64 launched in Japan one month later (June) at 25,000 yen, but it fizzled after it's weak two-game launch (despite one of those games being Mario64), prompting NOA to push for a price drop down to $200, which was approved mere days before the American N64 launch.

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    TalkBack / RE:ATI Talks About Revolution
    « on: January 17, 2006, 05:49:18 PM »
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    Originally posted by: ShyGuy
    I infer from this interview that the Rev graphics are going to be smaller on specs, but are going to pump out a lot of bang for the buck. Lean and Mean!

    No, that was the GameCube.

    Nintendo has since demoted SGI/ArtX/ATi's job down to "irrelevant" status, and John Swinimer is just saying that, despite being forced to work out of a broom closet, ATi still tries to take pride in their work for Nintendo, and will be working hard to do as much as possible with what little they're given.

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    Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official DS Sales Thread
    « on: January 15, 2006, 05:25:30 PM »
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    Japanese sales numbers mean nothing to anyone here...the PSP was out for 3 months of the year less than the DS and still managed to sell over a million more.

    Nintendo had a million-unit launch in America that technically happened in 2004, and then it fizzled.

    Sony had a (forced) million-unit launch in America that came during the DS's down time, and then it fizzled.

    Then they both picked up again (the DS picked up when good games came out, leading into Christmas, while the PSP got a bigger boost just from Christmas by itself) and they each sold another 2.5 million units.

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