Khuutra said:
jarrod said:
roxaskey said:
No N64 third party game will be released on VC, ever. Because N64 games are extremely difficult to emulate on Wii.
If even Nintendo struggles to emulate Donkey Kong 64 on Wii, then I don't see how third party publishers would go through the pain of doing all of that to re-release games that aren't even guaranteed to succeed given how crappy N64 third party games were.
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Nintendo does the emulation for all the games on their systems, even 3rd party. DK64 is probably a beast because it's one of a handful of games that uses microcode.
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The Hell is microcode
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Custom microcode, ie: direct access to the N64's GPU (RCP) allowed developers a degree of programmable flexibility for graphics functions. In a crude way, the RCP's two sub chips (RSP, RDP) were like early programmable vector units (ie: shaders).
The only developers who ever shipped games using custom microcode were Rare (Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie, DK64, JFG, Conker), Factor 5 (Indiana Jones, Battke for Naboo, Rogue Squadron) and Boss Games (World Driver Championship).
