Pemalite said:
novasonic said:
supernihilist said:
ethomaz said:
supernihilist said:
ethomaz said:
YES
Best console
Best controller
Best games
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It wasnt the most powerfull. It was in theory, but in practice all those "modern effects" it had made performance cripple. I think they were about on par, being N64 the most advanced feature wise.
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It didn't have CGI fmv but 3D graphics was always better on N64... it was a gen of difference over PS1 or Saturn.
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oops sorry, i though you had knowledge on the matter. i guess you are too young
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The N64 had some hang ups with the RAM I believe. It made a solid frame rate tricky to lock in. The Playstation also had more disc space for more detailed textures and such. Developers would cut the quality of N64 game textures and sounds so they could spend less on a cartridge with less storage. That gave the PS some eye and ear candy, but as far as raw processing power, the PS didn't come close to the N64.
And the Saturn was actually more or less on par with the N64. It was a bitch to develope for because of the crazy hardware, but if a developer took the time to take full advantage of the hardware, the outcome was beautiful for its day.
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The Ram wasn't the issue, of course with a console, you can never have enough, especially as you approach the systems half-life.
Nintendo's solution to that however was the expansion pack which doubled the Ram.
The big issue was the limiting texture cache of which was an anemic 4KB, which resulted in small, low colour depth textures, hence once combined with trilinear filtering was why the Nintendo 64's textures all seemed blurry, low resolution and stretched, lacking much in the way of detail.
For some games it was better than the Playstation's more pixelated textures, depending on the games artistic style.
If you used mip-mapping on the Nintendo 64, then the texture cache was cut in half, developers did eventually work around that limitation with games like Perfect Dark and Conkers.
However, consdering it was Nintendo's first foray into fully 3D graphics for all their games, they did well and the cartridges did hold advantages like being more durable around children and having no load times. (With the cost of storage capacity.)
Not to mention it was also home to some of the best games of all time, I'm still waiting for a real successor to Lylat Wars and Perfect Dark. (Zero doesn't count!)
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