sc94597 said:
The ds has two proccesors. One is clocked at 66mhz the other at 33mhz. Then you forget that the ds' arm processors are more efficient than the n64s VR4300. They both have the same amount of ram , but I believe the ds' is faster. The n64 wa capable of more polygons, but the ds is capable of 262,144 colors while the n64 is only capable 32,000 colors on-screen. Then you have the ability to fit more on the ds cart which means less compressed files. Oh and the ds runs at a lower resolution, allowing more to be done in the hardware. The ds is capable of alot better textures because they don't have to be compressed, and has better effects. The ds is far more capable than the n64. Btw When has a system been weaker than a console from a generation before. Even when inovating the consoles have been upgraded graphically. Oh and nice attacking me with a thread I made 3 months ago. edit: I forgot to add the only advantage the n64 has over the ds is that it has bilinear and trilinear filtering. Which nobody could really tell the difference except thos adapted to. Edit2: Oh and there are more sacrifices for a game to run at 60fps on the n64 than the ds. Most games run at 60fps on the ds.
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Wiki much?
If you truly knew this you would have never said BS like ".5 more powerful" which does not make much sense.
And about the samus comment..um it's in your sig.
Dreamcast rivaled some PS2 games first couple years ..nothing on DS can ever rival anything on DC or PS2 or even come within a hundred miles of it. As good as the upcoming games like FFIV or released games like Prime Hunters,Zelda or Ninja Gaiden would look absolute crap even on DC and this is now 4 years into the systems lifecycle pretty much showing it's best and still looks like slightly better than PSone games.(most PSone games did look better than N64 but mainly due to carts vs CD roms..while N64 tried to smooth out pixels but still ended up looking more blocky) That brings up another point The carts for DS hold far less data (even though in more recent releases the cart has been expanded quietly) DC used GD roms (since DVD roms was too expensive then) and the GD rom disc can hold 1 GB of data...latest updated DS carts about a 3rd of that.
Hell even early dev kits for DS was just an over clocked GBA with a SNES controller...since then it was switched to the blue box.(basically the guts of a DS in a big ugly box)