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Ganoncrotch on 09 February 2014
osed125 said:
spurgeonryan said:
This uncompressed thing. What is the difference?

Have you ever used WinRar or 7zip? Before you extract the file, that's what's called a compressed file. When you extract those files, it is uncompressed. Compressed files are smaller in size.

This isn't exactly the same as what developers do with game files, but you get the idea.


That type of compression does little or nothing to big game assets like audio and fmvs tho, compressed video to fit on dvd's or game disks normally severely affects quality as it is impossible to reverse unlike unraring a file on your PC.



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KungKras on 09 February 2014

wow

I have high hopes for that game



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ishiki on 09 February 2014

the things that take up the most amount of space are

High Resolution Textures, increasing the texture (Mario also uses a lot of flat textures, and reuses the same textures a lot, it looks good though).
It's more complicated than this, but just increasing the texture resolution from 512x512 to 2048x2048 can increase the size by 6x. 

Uncompressed Audio
FMV's with Uncompressed taking even more.


There are many 10+ gb games that are shorter than super mario world.



Conina on 09 February 2014

Since I preordered the retail version, I hope that doesn't mean long loading times. Can the Wii U cache on the flash memory, if there is enough available?



Cleary397 on 09 February 2014

Woah, im suprised its that big.

Just like i was suprised 3Dworld is only 1.7GB - thats alot of content packed in.



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forethought14 on 09 February 2014

Looks like Retro really Cranked up their efforts and kept everything uncompressed....maybe....



ICStats on 09 February 2014

That Wii Fit is larger SM3DW should tell you something about size and quality of content.  Is DKTF full of video cutscenes?



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Nintentacle on 09 February 2014

Wow.



osed125 on 09 February 2014
ganoncrotch said:
osed125 said:

Have you ever used WinRar or 7zip? Before you extract the file, that's what's called a compressed file. When you extract those files, it is uncompressed. Compressed files are smaller in size.

This isn't exactly the same as what developers do with game files, but you get the idea.


That type of compression does little or nothing to big game assets like audio and fmvs tho, compressed video to fit on dvd's or game disks normally severely affects quality as it is impossible to reverse unlike unraring a file on your PC.

Oh yeah I know that. I just think is easier to explain using normal RAR files It is a similar concept



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NightDragon83 on 09 February 2014

That's because DK is the 8GB gorilla in the room.

But really isn't this game supposed to be fully rendered in 3D even though it's played from a side-scrolling perspective? That might be the reason.

And just compare it to a game like NSMB U, which from a technical standpoint is almost no different from the original NSMB on DS with the exception of its shiny coat of HD paint.



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