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"Mega Man Prepares for UK Tour After a Crazy Year"
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@accc I dunno Blarg is one of the nest Snes emulators out there, the list of green is pretty extensive.
http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/BlargSnes_Compatibility_List
The creator said compatibility issues have more to do with extra chip support the still has not yet put in. According to him, games like star fox will work once he adds the extra chip compatibility.

The PS2 was worlds behind the GC and Xbox, this has been stated by developers and users for years now and is the general consensus, so its absurd you would try to convince people otherwise. Find one other person who believes the PS2 came close to the GCN in CPU/GPU power, everyone knows the PPC and by extension the Arm11 runs circles around the Emotion.

The levels in Ironfall are large and have tons of things going on such as fire, water, particle effects. The developers stated the game can handle to 40+ enemies on screen at the same time while keeping the framerate consistent, even in 3D. The game also puts LoD to good effect to allow for huge draw distances such as at the Russia power plant level.

Black? Are you kidding? That game rarely displays more than 5-10 enemies on screen at once with frame dips and pop-ins. Ironfall's horde mode throws 20-40 and sometimes 50 enemies at you at any one time. And that's with the particle and fire effects and no frame drops. Show me a better example plz.

@accc I don't think you've ever heard of Blargsnes, the Snes emulator that is widely recognized as one of the best Snes emulators.
Those types of PS2 games aren't on 3Ds because no one is there to make them. PS2 was not a beast by any stretch of the imagination, I was known for being under powered at the time closer to dreamcast than the other systems. I would've been able to take that statement seriously if you were referring to the GC or Xbox, but even then the 3DS's CPU is around the former in Raw power. Again, show me one game on PS2 that shares graphics and scope with Ironfall.

@accc @Yasume
Nope. The 3DS's CPU is on par with the GC's which in turn was ahead of the PS2 by a large margin. The Arm11 is just too new, has more advanced architecture, more cache, longer pipelines, etc. PS2 doesn't come close to the best performing games on 3DS. The GPU is a ahead of the Wii's GPU as evident in RE:R and Ironfall, the latter of which had more going on on screen than any PS2 game, developers also stated this. 3DS even emulates Snes better than PS2, at 60fps.

@AVahne So was the mobile version.

@Dipso 3DS games with realistic graphics run circles around Steam visually.

Investigating, investigating. And still deciding against it. Typical Ninty.

Should've stuck with the original controller layout.

Castlevania-style game debuting on every other platform but the one that made the original series what it was.
Ha, I hope this is a reeaally late april fools joke.

Plot twist: Were all colour-blind.

• Scrolls over picture and sees the purple bat*
  Did they buy the rights to Spyro or something.

@Moon They actually hinted they would consider a Unity-based New 3DS version based on the success of the kickstarter.

So where are the announced games for it? Geez, E3 is way too far away to wait to reveal games for this thing.

@ DBPirate
The rumour that its only going to be on New 3DS is just that, a rumour and an assumption.

@Ralek85 A visual downgrade is unlikely unless its being ported by Monster games again.

There are apparently 2 other users who received this.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CC-DbtgWMAIR1Ld.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CC-EiSuXIAEZh8g.jpg

You really need to read up on what the ARM11 MPcore can do. And you really need to drop the Mhz myth while you're at it as that'll only give you a ballpark estimate for CPUs in the same family let alone unrelated ones.

Not only is the ARM11 MPcore newer and uses more modern technology for better efficiency, but it also has: more transistors, more/faster cache, faster bus( wider bit bus), OoO completion, smaller nm, Thumb2, multi-core, 4-core VPF, etc. Many, many other superiorities over the ancient PPC in the GCN/Wii. The clockspeed might be a bottleneck but, for the N3DS, thats where the additional cores comes in. And all this is not even mentioning that developers stated the N3DS received a single-threading speed boost over the old 3DS making the speed it processes linear code even faster than it already was.

As for the GPU, that has already been confirmed by devs to be, for the screen size, superior to the Wii's, sporting more modern shaders and lighting. RE:R demonstrates the graphical capabilities while Ironfall, while sporting better graphics, also display up to 40 enemies on screen at a time while maintaining framerate(stated by the devs), smoke/particle/water effects, and explosions all within huge maps. And this is OLD 3DS software. Certainly blows the GCN out of the water.

No, its stronger than the Wii. So it can handle better overhead just fine.

@Tsuzura Its an engine that most indie(and some AAA) devs use to make their games. Every platform known to man currently supports but the 3DS. This announcement basically means more a lot games for the eshop.

@AVahne It was scalable to the Wii. Of course it would be on New 3DS.

@icedude545 The GBA(for the most part) doesn't render 3D graphics.

@rjejr 3DS screen resolution in 3D mode is 800x240 and 400x240 in 2D mode. If you're playing on a larger screen, not only will the image be blown up, but the bigger screen won't have the 3D function and therefore cannot access the higher resolution of 3D mode.

@rjejr Why do people want this? The resolution would be lower than the 3DS screen.

@jasonbrr Specs of old and new 3DS
http://3dbrew.org/wiki/Hardware#New_3DS_Specifications

Shantae: Half-genie hero port. called it!

OMG!!!
Twitches like a giddy child

A lazy port doesn't garner many sales.

@lividd3ad Gameplay footage on youtube shows pretty consistent framrate even in intense cases. But I'll have to play it myself.

Why isn NL reporting of all things the region-swapping hack that's being developed?
http://puu.sh/gLb3E/f332f4f020.png
Hackers figured out how to change the firmware of a EUR N3DS to US N3DS.("U" at the end stands for US).

@AVahne Off screen footage videos show a much higher framerate. Like 30fps or more.

@Kifa You mean't ARM7 right?

Someone is also making a classic Spyro the Dragon style game.
I'm looking into making 3D platformers as well with that as my inspiration.

Good to hear the game is great. Still wish they would've ported it better with more detail, lighting and such. But looks like a good game none the less.

@DarkKirby You're drunk. It has good hardware.

@gatorboi352 Doesn't already have Unity capable hardware specs? One game on old 3DS has Unity.

@DarkKirby It needs a full 6-7 year run, its hardware from 2010. Its going to be outdated.

I skimmed over the article. Is he talking about KARL3DS by any chance?

@Monado_III 30% of the 4th core is available to developers. This sis similar to the old 3DS where 30% of the 2nd core was made available. The OS is split between the Arm11 and Arm9 which is why you can access it when playing DS/GBA games. Unfortunately, the 4th core cannot do multithreading so technically there are only three "full" cores.

@crzysortagamer Its not about thinking. The fact of the matter is that the N3DS is superior to the Wii, atleast on paper. Someone I know who has worked with hardware before has deemed this guys comment as an excuse for
unskilled porting. I, Capcom, Vd-dev and many other developers agree.

@crzysortagamer Why would they have to dumb down the textures and graphics to match 3DS's superior capabilities? Only the most skilled developers can properly port games and take advanatge of 3DS's hardware. Monster gammes isn't one of them.

@Haz
Really? I've honestly seen much better on the 3DS.

@AVahne Neither 3DS models are from today's standards tbh, they're both 2010 released hardware With CPU architecture from 2003 and GPU from 2008 (updated versions of the older models you mentioned). The New 3DS is just two old 3DS's taped together.
If the New 3DS was "extremely weak" it wouldn't be able to run this game at all.
Not to dismiss or deny Hiro's statement or anything. But his comment on the N3DS's hardware conflicts with what a number of other developers have said about the old 3DS's hardware. Namely that many aspects of the old 3DS's hardware(particularly GPU) were stronger than that of the Wii, and that intact GCN ports were easily possible. On OLD 3DS. Old reports found that the Wii isn't even 2x power of the GCN, so how is it still more powerful than a quad-core New 3DS? I suspect architecture differences between Wii and N3DS had a play in this aswell.

@hydeks And then have it flop anyways? because people who want games like on X1/PS4 would've just bought those systems.

"Of course Nintendo's working on hardware, it always is"

I love how people always need to be reminded of this every gen. Its almost like they're new or something.

@Spoony The game's file size is much smaller than the original Wii version, so thats likely the biggest factor. Off-screen footage looks much better, though. You should check those videos out

@GamerJunkie You're missing out.

@TrueWiiMaster The higher resolution in 3D mode adds detail to what is otherwise 2D mode. 2D mode is 400x240, 3D mode is 800x240. More detail is displayed to the eyes because both framebuffers are activated, showing the same scene at differing angles, displaying different levels of detail per image, per eye.

@Monado_III No offense, but that was ignorant. Its a well know fact that the N3DS is a Quad-core, a hacker found the specs and even IGN and Wikipedia gave in and has them listed as such. Again, the ARM11 has better, newer pipelines. Don't make the argument that because the PPC has only one fetch stage makes it better. The Xbox 1 has two fetch stages and is still hailed as superior architecture to the PPC.

@Monado_III Closck speed means very little if your architecture is ancient which is the case with the Wii. The ARM11 in the N3DS is much newer and has faster architecture, better pipelines, more transistors, smaller nm, wider bus, more cache, more Gflops, 4-core, etc. GPU is also better but Capcom already established that. Not only is the (V)RAM FCRAM(making it much faster than the Wii's), but there more of it too. Only the resolution is lower, at 800x240 in 3D. Overall the N3DS is stronger. There is little excuse for such a lackluster port.

Ugh. I disagree, this game squanders the N3DS's capabilities. There little reason it should look or run worse than the Wii version. Then again, the devs haven't been known for smooth ports anyway.