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Family Computer => Famicom / Disk System => Topic started by: UglyJoe on January 04, 2009, 09:06:59 am

Title: Mii's for FDS
Post by: UglyJoe on January 04, 2009, 09:06:59 am
This is old news, but I just found out about it and don't see it on the forums anywhere.  In the 2007 GDC Nintendo Keynote, Miyamoto talks about the origins of the Mii system.  Apparently it was prototyped back in the 80s for the FDS :o

I clipped the Game Trailers video to just the relevant part:

http://ximwix.net/storage/fdsmii.avi (http://ximwix.net/storage/fdsmii.avi)
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: Paul-FC on January 04, 2009, 09:08:15 am
yeah i saw that on youtube
its pretty cool!
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: JC on January 04, 2009, 09:44:36 am
Wow, that's awesome! Wish someone had gotten a hold of that back in the day and put it on pirate disks or something. This doesn't surprise me, though. Nintendo was always way ahead with its development, with maybe the best example being the PowerGlove, also similar to today's Wii.
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: satoshi_matrix on January 04, 2009, 10:29:40 am
Was it Nintendo that devoloped the PowerGlove? I always thought it was Mattel, the toy maker.
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: UglyJoe on January 04, 2009, 10:38:37 am
Yeah, Nintendo wasn't involved in the development of the Powerglove.  They just licensed it.
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: JC on January 04, 2009, 11:30:29 am
Hey, good catch. Don't know why I didn't think of that. And, in Japan it was PAX, not Mattel. I don't know what the relationship was between those two.
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: Doc on January 04, 2009, 12:35:40 pm
Me neither. For a while I thought that maybe PAX was some kind of version of Mattel, but that's not the case. ???
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: satoshi_matrix on January 04, 2009, 06:34:15 pm
What else has PAX made? I've never heard of the company before.
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: JC on January 04, 2009, 09:20:36 pm
I've only seen their name on the PowerGlove.
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: Doc on January 05, 2009, 11:01:55 am
Probably a company moonlighting under a different name? ???
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: JC on January 05, 2009, 11:45:26 am
Well, you can find so many sealed PowerGloves, so I wouldn't be surprised if the company went under because of it.
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: UglyJoe on January 05, 2009, 11:51:07 am
The Wikipedia article claims that PAX marketed it as simply an alternate controller instead of a controller + games package (since Bad Street Brawler and Super Glove Ball never saw Famicom releases).  Because of that, PAX went out of business.  No cited references, though, so it's all speculation.
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: NintendoKing on January 05, 2009, 01:24:03 pm
I have that program on a rom... I am not even kidding. I found that awhile back on a Thailand site, and thought it was funny to mess with face making.

Odd.
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: vgthing on January 05, 2009, 01:50:34 pm
I want the ROM too... :-\
But I know it's probably against the rules for you to hand ROMs out on the forum right?
could you e-mail it to me? ;D
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: NintendoKing on January 05, 2009, 02:00:32 pm
I have sent the rom to JC, so that he can test it out.

I apparently found the rom back in 2005. Heh.
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: JC on January 05, 2009, 02:20:30 pm
It's a different face-making program from the one Nintendo developed. I've never see any face-making programs, so this one is pretty neat, too.
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: NintendoKing on January 05, 2009, 02:30:42 pm
Quote from: JC on January 05, 2009, 02:20:30 pm
It's a different face-making program from the one Nintendo developed. I've never see any face-making programs, so this one is pretty neat, too.


I completely forgot about it until I was shown the video.
I hope you like it.

(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u68/Evil_Vlad/Mii.jpg)
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: ericj on July 26, 2011, 06:25:44 pm
Quote from: The Uninvited Gremlin on January 05, 2009, 01:24:03 pm
I have that program on a rom... I am not even kidding. I found that awhile back on a Thailand site, and thought it was funny to mess with face making.


Do you still have the rom for this? If so, I'd like to check it out.  :)
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: famiac on August 04, 2011, 10:53:38 am
i pmed and emailed him a while ago and he lost the rom
Title: Re: Mii's for FDS
Post by: klax on August 09, 2011, 12:50:51 pm
No, you don't. The Mii game has never been found. Bluff!