WiiGeePeeYou (Hollywood) what IS it ?

N64's audio quality was quite a disappointment, I often thought, hey that music would have sounded tons better on SNES (whereas it was more like bad MIDI on the 64).
For digital sound effects and voices, the sampling was sometimes very low (see Mission Impossible), and lowish in general. that can't be blamed on the sound hardware (or lack of) but a SNES could do better if given better source material I think..

 

I wonder how games like StarFox would be emulated on the Wii console (I know some of the music is actually timed with certain slowdowns, and even emulating it on a PC had been a problem).

 

I guess if Nintendo had put out a very powerful system that also had the new controller,the bulk of the resources for game development would have gone to the standard development practices..better graphics,bigger games in general. Wiimote development would have taking a back seat and we would mostly see current genres using the Wiimote in very standard ways like we are seeing mostly now.
That's ok in the beginning to get things going but eventually Nintendo has to really assert it's difference by showing innovation in regards to control and gameplay.

Innovation takes time, and risk. The Wiimote will take time and experimentation to come up with new ways to use it. By giving devs a cheaper system that they are very fimilair with it means they can take more time with experimenting with the Wiimote and take more risk in putting out games that might not do it.That's my theory on one reason why they went with the Wii as it is.
I guess I look at it like a scale that you are trying to balance. On the one side Nintendo added weight(risk, cost) by adding something so new with the Wiimote,they felt they had to remove some wieght on the other side to rebalance the development equation.
Not only devs but consumers are more likely to take and chance and try something new when the financial commitments are less.

 

Whoa, there. That is not true. only 59 or 57(I counted them manually with these wikipedia articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-DD1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_SA-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSP-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_chip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_FX I may have accidentally counted two extra due to losing track of the numbers for a moment.) games had the chips. Approximately 800 or more SNES games were released without chips.

 

Flash drive can be used for caching it seems,to reduce load times.
http://www.n-europe.com/forum/showpost.php?p=270619&postcount=5218

 

The IGN articles said that Hollywood won't come with any new programmable shaders.

Is that really too big a problem?

 

Actually that was a podcast and matt also claimed it couldn't do normal mapping which we know GC can. Lastly info was taken from dev kit source that wasn't final for reference.

 

GC cant do normal mapping (in real game conditions) like ERP explained why before, yet it can do some similar tech like the bump mapping from RL or the poly bump from crytek.

Anyway if Wii can really do normal mapping it is nice to know the GPU had been upgraded.

 

That GPU had really existed or it is like the 1Tflop Cell and the Cell GPU that we "heard" a few years ago? I mean even just the flipper with 8MB of Edram would take a a chip ~twice as big as flipper (about 240mm^) not even counting all the extra logic for the double of pipes and vertex shaders (that would made it at probably at least 4x as big).

Anyway here can I find more info about the dolphin (features, CPU, performance), I didnt followed it but from what you say it seems that it would be (maybe with less edram) a very nice chip for wii (given the 200-250 price point), specially if the CPU (info please) is in line with the GPU? Personally that really seems exactely what I would like to have on Wii (if it is what I am thinking about).

 

Wait, they downgraded flipper for the GC? I thought they downgraded Gekko and UPgraded flipper at the last minute?

 

Yeah I know that though I thought it was due to a lack of ram, and are you refereing to embm or something else that RL does? Either way matt was proven wrong on this with THDJ and midway saying that rampage would feature normal mapping as you can see in a several screenshots.

 

Gekko was upgraded and Flipper downgraded.

 

I thought they are doing just emboss mapping in those games, anyway I as refering to Factor 5 implementation.

 

I was wondering. With the recent announcement that Zelda could have downloadable content, would it be possible getting something like a texture pack? I mean, if you can download, say a new level or something, then it should be possible, right?

 

Anyone?

 

Given the huge difference in capacity between the Wii game disk and the Wii flash memory, I can't see any chance for a downloadable update to make a significant improvement to the game graphics

 

Remember that Zelsa: TP is not a Wii game, is a GC game with GC requirements, so downloadable content should be posible using the flash memory.

 

I think thejeeks point was to do with the size of the download as determined by disk size. As a GC game, ZTP is going to be 1.5 GB in size. Let's say a third of that is textures. That's 500 MB of textures. If you want to quadruple texture resolution for Wii, you'd need 2 GB of textures. Where are you going to store that? It'd be possible on disc. They could do a ZTP for Wii on DVD with extra textures. As a download though, as you downloaded the data per level or something odd, I don't see that there's anywhere to store larger textures.

 

Did anyone else check out the Need for Speed: Carbon video over at IGN? There's a nice headlight effect that looks a little better than what we saw in the PS2 games IIRC. But I didn't play this series at all, really.