Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

D.J.Fudge · Post by **D.J.Fudge** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:59 pm 0

Opera Software today announced that the Opera Web browser for Nintendo DS will be released in Japan on July 24. The DS browser will initially be sold online only at a price of 3,800 yen, and come with an additional memory expansion pack. Nintendo has not yet announced product release dates for the U.S. and Europe. More details about the Opera browser for Nintendo DS will be unveiled on July 24.

http://www.opera.com/announcements/en/2006/06/21/

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:12 pm 0

Nice price...that works out at ~Â£18...you can be damn sure we won't ever see it at that price over here if it ever gets released, tho

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:48 pm 0

Much better quality clip of the Pokemon Wii here (with translation):

http://www.filb.de/?option=news&aktion=komm&ID=397

This one shows new info about the drumming demo in E3:

http://www.gwn.com/movies/play.php/f/220

grue · Post by **grue** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:57 pm 0

Samus wrote:Much better quality clip of the Pokemon Wii here (with translation):

http://www.filb.de/?option=news&aktion=komm&ID=397

This one shows new info about the drumming demo in E3:

http://www.gwn.com/movies/play.php/f/220

The Wii graphics are just fine for me.

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:07 pm 0

Samus wrote:Elebits footage, looks very interesting to me:

Elebits (Konami)

Elebits screen shots.
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthrea ... 35&page=25

romanista · Post by **romanista** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:49 pm 0

http://consoles.gwn.com/articles/article.php/id/719/

soo wii footage.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:03 pm 0

Kemper_Boyd wrote:
Samus wrote:Elebits footage, looks very interesting to me:

Elebits (Konami)

Elebits screen shots.
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthrea ... 35&page=25

Makes me wonder what those guys on that board are talking about meeting the trailer standards

and the graphics & style in this game is old news...

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:11 pm 0

Samus wrote:
Kemper_Boyd wrote:
Samus wrote:Elebits footage, looks very interesting to me:

Elebits (Konami)

Elebits screen shots.
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthrea ... 35&page=25
Makes me wonder what those guys on that board are talking about meeting the trailer standards and the graphics & style n this game is old news...

They are talking about a different trailer which is clearly prerendered,
but which some people said was real-time, not the one you posted.

*edit* This one, particularly the bits in the kitchen.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=11287

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:16 pm 0

Yeah, I assumed they were talking bout the trailer where the Elebits were dancing or something, why would anyone think all that was in-game is beyond me

Edit: yeah, that's exactly the one I was referring to...

Kemper_Boyd wrote:particularly the bits in the kitchen.

You think Konami tried to fool people with this one?

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:28 pm 0

Samus wrote:
particularly the bits in the kitchen.
You think Konami tried to fool people with this one?

No but fans see it and claim it's for real.

Besides that what about that Pokemon footage you posted?
Don't you think that looks rendered? To me it looks like Nintendo
are doing exactly the same thing Sony gets slagged off for doing.

D.J.Fudge · Post by **D.J.Fudge** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:30 pm 0

Are any of our German Yak-Yak'ers going to the Nintendo exhibition in Koblenz?

http://www.landesmuseumkoblenz.de/sonde ... b6f826c9ab

I'd be interested in hearing what it's like.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:33 pm 0

Kemper_Boyd wrote: Besides that what about that Pokemon footage you posted?
Don't you think that looks rendered? To me it looks like Nintendo
are doing exactly the same thing Sony gets slagged off for doing.

I don't know about the Pokemon clip, but it looks reasonable to my non-technological eyes. Small area, couple of different 3d models, simple backgrounds, turn based action, etc. I'd be surprised if the game doesn't look like this. SMG looks much better to me.

Also regarding the Sony slagging thing, this Pokemon vid was not in E3, etc. but in a closed Nintendo meeting..

romanista wrote:http://consoles.gwn.com/articles/article.php/id/719/

soo wii footage.

Looks like the link is down now. I checked most of the other vids this morning:

Shooting Demo (shows the accuracy and the speed of the hardware)
Excite Truck (looks fun and the guy seems to enjoy playing it)
Wario Ware (:D)

In the Orchestra demo the first couple of people did nothing, but the last guy actually stumbled on to some interesting functions and possibilities the demo has, worth a look..

Nixie · Post by **Nixie** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:03 pm 0

pokemon seems real time; the floor texture (see curved lines) looks lo res, and seems to exhibit some basic bump mapping.

although the characters look v high poly or perhaps are using nurbs or similar?

namor7 · Post by **namor7** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:24 pm 0

Kemper_Boyd wrote:
Samus wrote:
particularly the bits in the kitchen.
You think Konami tried to fool people with this one?
No but fans see it and claim it's for real.

Besides that what about that Pokemon footage you posted?
Don't you think that looks rendered? To me it looks like Nintendo
are doing exactly the same thing Sony gets slagged off for doing.

Hmm...at first I thought the new Smash Brothers trailer was cg, but a bit of a closer look reveals that it's for real, at least most of it. There might be one or two scenes that are in a higher res, but that's all. As far as Pokemon goes, well, I'm hoping that's for real, cause it looks great

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:02 am 0

The smash brothers trailer is a mix of CG and realtime, which seems quite obvious when i watched it.
All the models Id say are the game models, however.

As for pokemon, the quality is not good enough to judge yet, imo.
Two charecter and a flat plane effectively gives you a lot to play with polygon wise per charecter, even at cube specs.