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zarx on 13 February 2010

that sounds like a lot of useless hardware to do something that most HD TVs already do, Upscale the input to HD. It would be a complete waste of time unless developers developed new games for the addon but then Nintendo may aswell put out a new console.



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hsrob on 13 February 2010
Netyaroze said:
Sega Addons= fail.

I dont remember an addon which improved graphics and was succesful. The N64 was planned right from the start with the expansion slot for the ram.

One game utilized it and the game was expensive. Because of the 4Mb ram addon.


USB 2.0 is to low bandwith way to low. For HD gaming. Where is the point designing an addon so people can play HD games ? A DVD drive is cheap. The hardware in the wii is cheap. The new addon would need more expensive hardware and be more expensive then WII.

Wouldnt it be better to make another console and sell Wii and the new console at the same time to get control over all markets.

from Wiki

List of games that support the N64 Expansion Pak

Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage
Pokémon Stadium 2,
Road Rash 64,
40 Winks
All-star Baseball 2001
Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M.
Army Men Sarge's Heroes
Battlezone: Rise Of The Black Dogs
Castlevania Legacy of Darkness
Command & Conquer
Cruis'n World
Daikatana
Duke Nukem Zero Hour
Extreme G2
Excitebike 64
F1 World Grand Prix 2
Gauntlet Legends
Hot Wheels
Hybrid Heaven
Hydro Thunder
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
International Track and Field 2000
Jeremy McGrath's Supercross 2000
Ken Griffey Jr.'s Slugfest
Madden NFL '99
Madden NFL 2000
Mario Golf
NBA Courtside 2
NBA Jam 2000
New Tetris, The
NFL Quarterback Club 99
NFL Quarterback Club 2000
Nuclear Strike 64
Quake 2
Rayman 2
Re-volt - Go into options and turn on Medium Resolution, typing in the FLYBOY cheat unlocks hi-fi (High Resolution)
Resident Evil 2
Roadsters
San Francisco Rush 2049
Shadowman
South Park
South Park Rally
Star Craft 64
Star Wars Episode 1 Battle for Naboo
Star Wars Episode 1 Racer
Star Wars Rouge Squadron
The World is not Enough
Tony Hawk's Skateboarding
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3
Top Gear Hyper-Bike
Top Gear Overdrive
Top Gear Rally 2
Turok 2 Seeds of Evil
Turok 3 Shadow of Oblivion
Turok Rage Wars
Vigilante 8
Xena Warrior princess

List of games that require the N64 Expansion Pak

Rare’s Donkey Kong 64,
The single-player mode of Rare’s Perfect Dark,
The multiplayer mode of Blizzard’s Starcraft 64
Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2
Conker's bad fur day



Netyaroze on 13 February 2010

Lol now I am surprised.

Just shows I have spend too much time with my PS1.



NJ5 on 13 February 2010
Kantor said:
morenoingrato said:
The stuff you listed are too hard to understand

Essentially, plug a new console into the Wii and use the Wii's GPU.

Actually he proposed having an external GPU as well... which would send 720p video across USB (obviously it would have to be compressed, thus losing quality) for the Wii GPU to decode and display (which BTW would not be needed, as the CPU could do that).

So basically he's proposing making a new console while saving money on the DVD drive and wireless chips, and probably a few more things which are already the cheapest parts. Not a great idea.

 



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ChichiriMuyo on 13 February 2010
Netyaroze said:
Sega Addons= fail.

I dont remember an addon which improved graphics and was succesful. The N64 was planned right from the start with the expansion slot for the ram.

One game utilized it and the game was expensive. Because of the 4Mb ram addon.


USB 2.0 is to low bandwith way to low. For HD gaming. Where is the point designing an addon so people can play HD games ? A DVD drive is cheap. The hardware in the wii is cheap. The new addon would need more expensive hardware and be more expensive then WII.

Wouldnt it be better to make another console and sell Wii and the new console at the same time to get control over all markets.

Several games used it (DK64, Rogue Squadron, at least one of the Zeldas and probably both), they just genreally didn't require it.  Also, IIRC the game it was packed in with was 70, maybe 80 dollars.  The expansion itself was only $30 (I bought it sepperate) so I don't see it adding any more than that to the cost.  As it is, there were plenty of games in the SNES/Genesis era that reached or exceeded those prices and games today are often sold for that or more with things packed in.  Hell, that's Nintendo's MO, now - selling higher priced games with pack-ins.  Still, what the topic creator proposed won't work, obviously.



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