Topic: Super Mario 3D All-Stars

@Octane Is that Nintendo Japan's Twitter account?? If so, the cut-scene is zoomed-in. It baffles me that we are more rigorous on our anonymous forum accounts than gaming websites such as Gamexplain that claims that the cut-scenes are remastered. We have to wait for the serious people that don't use clickbait such as Digital Foundry.

@BlueOcean Yeah, it's an official Nintendo Twitter account.

I think if an analysis is needed to discern whether something is technically remastered or not, because you can't definitively tell the difference on your own, then it probably doesnt make a split of difference either way.

If it's in the general ballpark of appearing to be a remaster thanks to using other techniques, then at the end of the day that's basically just as good anyways.

The games may not be impressively different, but I think its fair to say that the little changes they did get make them more of a remaster than a port, even if it's only 10/100 points in that direction of the scale.

What I could see working is them using the L and ZL buttons together, one for weak pressure, one for strong pressure, hold both together for maximum pressure, and quickly tap both at the same time for the spray function.

You could quickly alternate between the buttons to make the water go in between.

I haven't watched it yet, just saw it on youtube and thought you all might want to see it.

@Eel Gamexplain said "remastered cutscenes", do you think that's rigorous after seeing Nintendo Japan's video? I agree with you because there are some improvements that we have discussed but I also agree with @Octane because this is a lazy and cheeky full-priced cash grab... that I have pre-ordered.

@Slowdive @Eel I have been testing Super Mario Sunshine on GameCube after the reveal as you know and it would be very nice to have the R trigger for full-pressure and lock Mario's movement and the L trigger for mid-pressure allowing Mario to move. It feels right. It's more intuitive than R/ZR, R+ZR, L/ZL or L+ZL, in my opinion.

Nintendo-centered YouTube channel defending Nintendo. Surprise

Bad and lazy remasters are still remasters. Ask Silent Hill.

Not that I think the cutscenes look bad though. But I do have to admit I wasn't talking about the cutscenes in my other comment.

Gamexplain said that the cutscenes are remastered and they aren't.

They are, aren't they? They took higher quality footage and edited it to fit the new resolution and aspect ratio.

Remastering doesn't necessarily mean remaking. And the result doesn't need to be amazing.

@Slowdive Good to know 😁.

@Eel What about Nintendo Japan's video, then? It's the zoomed-in GameCube intro.

What about it?

Isn't it the same one game explain used? Or something?

@Eel If the Super Mario 35th Anniversary Japanese account posts the intro of the Super Mario Sunshine port included in Super Mario All-Stars and it's the zoomed-in GameCube intro, where's the remastered cutscene?

Ok here's the thing:

• Is the video the japanese twitter account posted the same video Game Explain claimed to be remastered?

And most importantly:

• Is the video literally just a screen capture taken directly from the game cube, zoomed in?

If the answer to that second one is no, then there you go, that's the remastered intro.

But why would Nintendo Japan not post the remastered cutscene, if it exists, after Super Mario 3D All-Stars has been revealed and on the official 35th Anniversary account?

Why are we answering questions with questions?

Find out in the next episode.

@Octane @Slowdive @Apportal Thoughts?

Where did remastered cut scenes come from?
I thought it was same as the gamecube cutscenes but zoomed a little

@1UP_MARIO the one shared by game explain has a few changes done to make it widescreen, sometimes it's zoomed in, other times it's stretched wide, and at times it's both stretched and zoomed in.

It also uses a higher quality version of the original. Likely something they had in the archive.

I haven't watched the Japanese twitter one, but I assume it's the same one.