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Misc. => Other Gaming => Topic started by: petik1 on June 15, 2012, 04:09:10 pm

Title: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: petik1 on June 15, 2012, 04:09:10 pm
OoT 3D, StarFox 64 3D, Rayman 3D, Super Mario 64 DS, Diddy Kong Racing DS, and I'm sure there's more. I love the N64, and I'll probably get most of the above games, but has anyone else noticed this?
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: UglyJoe on June 15, 2012, 04:53:39 pm
You are surely not the first to notice.  The GBA did the same thing with SNES games.
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: L___E___T on June 16, 2012, 03:31:47 am
Yeah and the SNES even did it with some NES games.  Before that the NES did it with arcade games ;)

Personally I love it, but I don't think the DS can handle Mario 64 well enough with its d-pad.  I haven't tried it on 3DS.
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: X on June 16, 2012, 03:54:47 am
yeah.. that's how they market old games to new.

If I were to ask. I won't bother to play the game again since I already beat that game on their original platform.
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: DerZocker on June 16, 2012, 08:42:03 am
Actually i don't mind to play my old favs on a handheld as long we get the good ones^^
I'd love to see F-Zero X ported to the 3DS (complete with the Expansion Kit and no other musicians than Taro Bando and Hajime Wakai)
It's just too bad we'll never receive any new or old Banjo game on 3DS  :(
BTW SM64DS plays a lot better on 3DS with the circlepad. Even if it's technically still digital, it's way easier to move around or to throw Bowser and the screen-stretching looks pretty good with most DS 3D-games.
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: FamicomRetroGamer on June 16, 2012, 02:56:22 pm
I'd love to see a Super Smash Bros 64 3DS edition, the game's just so fucking awesome it needs to be remade.

Wii U's in HD so an HD Remake would be way cooler. ;D
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: manuel on June 19, 2012, 06:11:40 am
There's a whole new generation of gamers who didn't play the originals, so in my eyes it's  quite legit to put out remakes.
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: L___E___T on June 19, 2012, 06:29:41 am
Yes, thanks to this policy we had the Super Mario All Stars compilation...  
It's often also a good opportunity to include extra features etc, like adding Luigi, Wario etc. in SMB64 on DS.

By the way - you won't get an HD remake of Smash Bros 1 on Wii U, you'll just get Smash bros 4.
To upgrade the visuals only, wouldn't really be enough when there's so much more they can do.
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: Yelir on June 22, 2012, 01:27:02 pm
Quote from: FamicomRetroGamer on June 16, 2012, 02:56:22 pm
I'd love to see a Super Smash Bros 64 3DS edition, the game's just so fucking awesome it needs to be remade.

Wii U's in HD so an HD Remake would be way cooler. ;D

That would be killer, and I would actually purchase a 3DS to play that, but I'm unsure how well actual buttons would fare in terms of longevity. :(
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: L___E___T on June 23, 2012, 03:56:32 am
You guys saw the announcement right?  New Smash Bros Wii is also coming to 3DS, developed by Namco Bandai (aka Bandai Namco).
Before people get skeptical, I think they are more than capable when you look at Tekken 3DS at 60fps and the arenas.

Multiplayer online games like that are what the 3DS needs I think, it's a shame its so far off though. 
It's supposed to be a port of the WiiU game, which is great news.  I think NB are developing both, but I could have misread.
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: petik1 on June 23, 2012, 05:31:21 am
Personally, I'll have no opinion until I see some of the game. I don't think I've ever played a Namco Bandai game, so I really don't know how good or bad they are.
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: FamicomRetroGamer on June 23, 2012, 06:37:03 am
Hopefully Spike has absolutely nothing to do with the game or they'll fuck it up somehow like they've been doing for the past Dragon Ball games.
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: L___E___T on June 23, 2012, 07:14:05 am
Spike are the publisher/distributor right?  I've worked with them before, they were top guys so I'd have confidence in them.
Either way, Nintendo are publishing and distributing all their first party stuff, so I can't see Spike involved.
       
Some good games from NamcoBandai:
     
- Tekken (3D, Tekken 6, TTT2)
- Dark Souls
- Armored Core V (menus are bad though!)
- Soul Calibur sizznat
- Katamari shamalayanari
- Mario Kart GP 2 (which turned out great)
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: NostalgicRobotX on June 23, 2012, 09:24:44 am
I know Namco also co-developed F-zero GX with Sega and Nintendo, that game turned out to be pretty awesome. Namco is a big publisher though, so you can't be too confident in the quality they produce.
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: petik1 on June 23, 2012, 09:35:30 am
Nintendo is always careful when handing out their franchises to other companies, and they turn out great. Such as Mario RPG (square enix), Donkey Kong Country (rare) and as said before, f zero gx.
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: L___E___T on June 23, 2012, 09:37:05 am

Quote from: NostalgicRobotX on June 23, 2012, 09:24:44 am
I know Namco also co-developed F-zero GX with Sega and Nintendo, that game turned out to be pretty awesome. Namco is a big publisher though, so you can't be too confident in the quality they produce.


Because theyr'e a big publisher?  I certainly expect better things from bigger publishers than smaller.
Generally though, a publisher is just that.  It's the developers that count.

Petik's on the money though, they wouldn't be working with them if they weren't confidet themselves.  Zelda 3DS turned out fine didn't it?
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: NostalgicRobotX on June 23, 2012, 09:49:12 am
Quote from: L___E___T on June 23, 2012, 09:37:05 am
Because theyr'e a big publisher?  I certainly expect better things from bigger publishers than smaller.
Generally though, a publisher is just that.  It's the developers that count.


Yeah exactly, Namco owns contracts with quite a few developers, sometimes those developers are extremely high quality(From Software) and other times not so much.
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: FamicomRetroGamer on June 23, 2012, 04:46:19 pm
Quote from: L___E___T on June 23, 2012, 07:14:05 am
Spike are the publisher/distributor right?  I've worked with them before, they were top guys so I'd have confidence in them.
Either way, Nintendo are publishing and distributing all their first party stuff, so I can't see Spike involved.
       
Some good games from NamcoBandai:
     
- Tekken (3D, Tekken 6, TTT2)
- Dark Souls
- Armored Core V (menus are bad though!)
- Soul Calibur sizznat
- Katamari shamalayanari
- Mario Kart GP 2 (which turned out great)



Based on DBZ BT1, DBZ BT2, DBZ BT3, DB RB1, DB RB2 and DBZ UT it's more than likely it'd be utter shit than an actual amazing game. Whatever Spike touches turns into shit.

And I don't think Spike's the dev team (thank God even tho I don't believe God exists).
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: L___E___T on June 24, 2012, 08:16:00 am
I think that's just Dragon Ball games.  They keep selling regardless of quality, so they don't really have any onus to make them good.  At least that's how it seems...
Title: Re: What's with the (3)DS and N64 ports?
Post by: manuel on June 25, 2012, 05:06:31 am
I also think like L___E___T .
Dragon Balls sell because of the power of the franchise itself, not because the games are good.
As long as the games are "somewhat okay", they'll sell a decent amount.