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impur1ty on 25 January 2010

Puyo Puyo 64 was by Compile, not Sega. ^^^



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Imphamis on 25 January 2010

Most rights to those games currently today are pretty screwed up, atleast I think.



 

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jarrod on 25 January 2010
impur1ty said:
Puyo Puyo 64 was by Compile, not Sega. ^^^

Right, but Compile no longer exists and Sega owns all rights to the Puyo games.  If it were released on the VC, it'd be by Sega.



roxaskey on 25 January 2010

No N64 third party game will be released on VC, ever. Because N64 games are extremely difficult to emulate on Wii.

If even Nintendo struggles to emulate Donkey Kong 64 on Wii, then I don't see how third party publishers would go through the pain of doing all of that to re-release games that aren't even guaranteed to succeed given how crappy N64 third party games were.



Khuutra on 25 January 2010
roxaskey said:

No N64 third party game will be released on VC, ever. Because N64 games are extremely difficult to emulate on Wii.

If even Nintendo struggles to emulate Donkey Kong 64 on Wii, then I don't see how third party publishers would go through the pain of doing all of that to re-release games that aren't even guaranteed to succeed given how crappy N64 third party games were.

Ogre Battle 64 is being released on VC this week in Japan

And that's one of the hardest games to emulate period



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SuperAdrianK on 25 January 2010

glover anyone? it just has a few problems and it was fun... and hard...




              

roxaskey on 25 January 2010
Khuutra said:

Ogre Battle 64 is being released on VC this week in Japan

And that's one of the hardest games to emulate period

Well maybe a few will get released. But nowhere near as much as SNES titles.



jarrod on 26 January 2010
roxaskey said:

No N64 third party game will be released on VC, ever. Because N64 games are extremely difficult to emulate on Wii.

If even Nintendo struggles to emulate Donkey Kong 64 on Wii, then I don't see how third party publishers would go through the pain of doing all of that to re-release games that aren't even guaranteed to succeed given how crappy N64 third party games were.

Nintendo does the emulation for all the games on their systems, even 3rd party.  DK64 is probably a beast because it's one of a handful of games that uses microcode.



Khuutra on 26 January 2010
jarrod said:
roxaskey said:

No N64 third party game will be released on VC, ever. Because N64 games are extremely difficult to emulate on Wii.

If even Nintendo struggles to emulate Donkey Kong 64 on Wii, then I don't see how third party publishers would go through the pain of doing all of that to re-release games that aren't even guaranteed to succeed given how crappy N64 third party games were.

Nintendo does the emulation for all the games on their systems, even 3rd party.  DK64 is probably a beast because it's one of a handful of games that uses microcode.

The Hell is microcode



jarrod on 26 January 2010
Khuutra said:
jarrod said:
roxaskey said:

No N64 third party game will be released on VC, ever. Because N64 games are extremely difficult to emulate on Wii.

If even Nintendo struggles to emulate Donkey Kong 64 on Wii, then I don't see how third party publishers would go through the pain of doing all of that to re-release games that aren't even guaranteed to succeed given how crappy N64 third party games were.

Nintendo does the emulation for all the games on their systems, even 3rd party.  DK64 is probably a beast because it's one of a handful of games that uses microcode.

The Hell is microcode

Custom microcode, ie: direct access to the N64's GPU (RCP) allowed developers a degree of programmable flexibility for graphics functions.  In a crude way, the RCP's two sub chips (RSP, RDP) were like early programmable vector units (ie: shaders).

The only developers who ever shipped games using custom microcode were Rare (Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie, DK64, JFG, Conker), Factor 5 (Indiana Jones, Battke for Naboo, Rogue Squadron) and Boss Games (World Driver Championship).