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Author Topic: DS Development: N64 Conversion?  (Read 1493 times)

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DS Development: N64 Conversion?
« on: April 10, 2005, 02:23:15 pm »
Once people start getting hold of the DS develpoment package(s?), will it be possible for them to port n64 games to DS format?  Then when DS Flash carts are released, we could play n64 games? 

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Re: DS Development: N64 Conversion?
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2005, 09:17:28 am »
are you talking about developers or hackers?

you cant port a game without the source code.  developers could, hackers will just have to try emulation and n64 emulation on the ds is far away or not destined to be.

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Re: DS Development: N64 Conversion?
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2005, 07:21:21 am »
Once people start getting hold of the DS develpoment package(s?), will it be possible for them to port n64 games to DS format?  Then when DS Flash carts are released, we could play n64 games? 
Not that easy.
[1]Consider the DS' ARM9 + ARM7 CPU combo against the N64's R4300 + floating point unit + SGI vector processor and you'll find the the DS does not come to close to the processing power of the N64.
[2]The resolution of the DS LCD (256x192) is not even close to what a regular TV set can display (720x480 for NTSC and 720x576 for PAL). You could scale the picture but that would suck (text unreadable, blurry sprites....)
[3]The DS does not have the same controls as the N64. It would make all game depending on the analog stick pretty much impossible. Though you could have an on-screen N64 controller and move the stylus over the on-screen analog stick to control :)
[4]Finally some speculation: Nintendo will port most good N64 games to DS anyway in the same way they ported most good SuperFamicom games to the GBA.

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Re: DS Development: N64 Conversion?
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2005, 11:16:29 am »
Theyve done mario 64, and they will do more (mario kart etc) but emulating the n64 on the ds is unlikely.

oooooo, and Rare say they are going to make games for the DS...yay....fingers crossed for Banjo, Perfect Dark and Conkers on the DS :)