It has come to light that Hexadrive, who developed the role playing, Square Enix-published shooter The 3rd Birthday for Playstation Portable, also had a hand in developing The Wind Waker HD for Nintendo’s Wii U. Hexadrive reportedly helped change textures in the game to high resolution. The do-it-all company has been seeing a lot of work lately, as they were also responsible for “programming optimization” on The Wonderful 101.

Much has been said about the new HD graphics Hexadrive worked on for the Wii U update of Wind Waker. Comparison videos between the new HD version of the game and the GameCube classic have been popping up again and again on Youtube, as many reviewers have called the Wii U remake the “definitive version.” While the title was released in the Wii U eShop on September 20th, the coveted physical copy of the game will be arriving on October 4th.

Source: http://mynintendonews.com/2013/09/26/zelda-wind-waker-hd-developed-by-hexadrive-the-team-that-made-the-3rd-birthday/

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They are a very capable studio, Okami HD is considered one of/the best HD-remake around and the patched Zone of the Enders 2 runs better than on the original Playstation 2 (after the atrocity that High Voltage Soft. shat out)

....on an unrelated note: Do you rember that we had a japanese dev. in the forum (forgot her name) who had a huge meltdown and told us to look out for her name in the credits ? Guess she worked (works?) for Hexadrive !

I have never heard of them before. Was there actually a Japanese developer?

Oh yeah that crazy chick! What was her name?

Yes, there was one, she was usually on the negative side (concerning Nintendo) and not very active.

...but suddenly boom, she made a thread called something along the lines of "the problem with nintendo fans" in which she basically said that Nintendo fans would only buy fist party games  and that the bad third party support would be our own fault etc. (and spitted quite a bit of venom in the process) and then asked for a permaban...

...but before leaving she told us to look for her name in the credits of WW HD (I seriously can´t remember the name....Asao ? Ayota ?...are those even japanese surnames ?)

...quite sad actually...in retrospect :/

They were the company that saved ZOE HD on PS3, right?

Good for them, they seem pretty good at what they do. Seem to be like an eastern version of Bluepoint.

they are even better than Bluepoint :P

In what way?

Also, I wasn't making it a competition, otherwise I would've said "a lesser version" rather than "an eastern version" :P

Now the real and important question, what is Grezzo doing? Majora's Mask 3D? Majora's Mask U? Twilight Princess U? A Link Between Worlds? ALBW sequel for 3DS? Zelda U?

I was just joking

...Okami HD is just super impressive, the game renders internally at 2160p and the picture is downsampled to 1080p (supersampling) !

so those are the collaborations Nintendo is having for development. Pretty smart, instead of having your own team finishing the game, they just move to other project while others are finishing it.