WiiGeePeeYou (Hollywood) what IS it ?

I don't think Zelda will have downloadable content. Read the follwing questions and answers from this article again:

Seems to me that Harrison makes clear that Zelda does not have any downloads (to his knowledge) but other titles might/will, interpet it how you like

 

Yeh, I saw it to. It looks pretty good. Didn't really pay much attention to the lighting, I'll look at it again.

 

Can't you use SD cards?

And 2 Gigs? Would it really be THAT big?

 

Possibly, but then to use these texture packs you'd need a 2GB SD card which is going to alienate a lot of Wii owners - at which point would you bother creating texture packs?

Possibly, at least by my reckoning. The major data-guzzler of a game is the graphics assets - models and textures. I don't think it unreasonable to expect a third of a GC disc to be taken up with textures, though maybe someone here can correct me on that. That'd be 500 KB. If you doublt the size in both dimension, from say 128x128 textures to 256x256 textures, that's a 4x increase in size = 4x increase in storage = 2 GB.

I guess there could be an alternative in the textures being stored in the download as JPEGs and decompressed into Wii memory as needed, when the level loads. Then you might be looking at more like 200 Kb.

Still, I'm unconvinced anything like downloadable ZTP content exists.

GP: What sorts of online features are you looking forward to in the future?
Harrison: Downloadable content, such as additional levels.

GP: Any plans for any type of post-release online component for Twilight Princess?
Harrison: I haven't heard of anything yet. I think everyone is still busy trying to make sure the game gets out correctly.

I can't imagine there'd be able to add download content into ZTP if it's not written into the engine already, and if it's already written into the engine to support downloadable content, wouldn't Harrison's answer be more like 'there isn't anything planned at the moment, but it is possible to do'? I find it hard to imagine that they've included the ability to enhance the game with downloaded content and yet not let people know.

 

If they're undocumented, there's not a lot you can say about them. They might have been rumors, or they might have been untenable at the time to maintain the price and reliability of the system.

 

Is the upgrade in textures confirmed in the Wii version? I thought they said the only differences between the cube and Wii version were that in the Wii version Link was right handed, the dungeons were flipped and widescreen support.

 

But what kind of downgrades are those that you talk about, just clock speeds and Edram or features too and what about the CPU? From what you talked before (up to 8MB) it seemed very irrealistic for the time, althought maybe not for todays consoles (even at the 200-250$ range), so we may see some of that tech on Wi it could be usefull for this thread know what had been originally planned for Dolphin (aparentely like the controlers), interesting that at least once of the IGN reports also talked about 16MB of edram.

 

BTW there is a FC:V video on IGN, it is hard to tell because I just saw the low rez version but it looks like the water is better on Wi (but I always thought that the water in GC games is better than XB ones) the scenarios seems equal, cant talk about the caracthers as we dont see them time enought. Still it can be a ilussion of the low rez, but if it is at least equal then it will probably be a good job considering the probable amount of time/work they had for the gfx on the game.


http://wii.ign.com/articles/744/744521p1.html

 

I interpret that differently.
I interpret that to mean there would be some downloadable content,but no online play(component).

As far downloable content,I'm thinking minor stuff like new clothes for Link or other stuf.

 

New Pokemon Battle Revolution actual gameplay footage from Nintendo World (offscreen):
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/7327

Hitting target renders yet? (Looks like it. I'd say the highlights from the earliest movie was due to the lighting of the stadium. Since this one has a sunset, the stronger light source seems to overhighlight much of everything else.) From the looks of it, it seems to be running at 60fps (although the movie only plays back at 30fps, there are instances of smoothness that can only be seen when videorecording games running at 60fps)

Footage seems to have some rather abnormal contrasting put into it, perhaps to match the prerenders (to a horrible degree) of the commercial?

 

I heard GC has some specialeffects added to the gpu to make some effect like water look better.

 

The Far Cry video also seems very much like a work in progress. I noticed quite a few surfaces without textures, which I expect to be fixed in the final version. But another thing I saw is that unlike the Xbox version, shadows didn't generally project onto the player, and the hands just looked like they had a simple texture, but yet on 1up there are some new screens that look bump-mapped. But one other thing that does make me happy is that Ubisoft bothered to write a decent water shader--of course, the Prince of Persias and Beyond Good and Evil all had pretty cool water effects; Ubisoft was the only 3rd party besides Factor 5 to do that.

 

Where did you hear that?

 

He's probably talking about indirect texturing. But that's not really a "special effect"

 

On a dutch gaming forum. I believe some dev told that in a interview. But its waaaaaay back so I dont really know who said it.

 

With the same feature set of the GC? I ask this because IIRC I saw in a forum that GC is supossed to have vertex shaders or something else to help with the rendering and that is why they latter upgraded the CPU (althought I dont know if this info is legit or no). Anyway that seems to match the 3,5-3x GC we heard about Wii. Thanks for the info.

 

Bah. Reading the articles that IGN posted last year when they were finding out the Wii specs, it's even more annoying to find out that Wii's GPU/CPU/RAM were downgraded even further than they planned. It was originally supposed to have:

~1.0 Ghz CPU
~333 Mhz GPU
~128 MB RAM

Feh.