Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (Japan only)
Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem (Japan only)
Does anyone know which of the Nindies@BitSummit games are N3DS only? It'd be a stretch to wonder about N3DS enhanced titles, but I'm guessing some of the stuff built on Unity, like Back in 1995 64, has to be N3DS only?
Here's the montage trailer if anyone missed it. I'm hyped for the Puyo creator's next game! https://youtu.be/AG35UprNokk
I want an N3DS bad, but common sense tells me to hold for a price drop and NX.
Additional SNES VC has been announced or released.
Contra III: The Alien Wars
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble
Final Fight
Final Fight 2
Final Fight 3
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (Japan only)
Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem (Japan only)
Kirby's Dream Course
Mega Man 7
Mega Man X
Mega Man X2
Mega Man X3
Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Super Castlevania IV
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Super Punch-Out!!
Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
Meanwhile in Europe we are seeing pretty much nothing.
Contra III: The Alien Wars // out in NA+PAL+JP
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble // out in NA+PAL+JP
Final Fight
Final Fight 2
Final Fight 3
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (Japan only) // out in JP
Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem (Japan only) // out in JP
Kirby's Dream Course // out in PAL+JP
Mega Man 7 // out in JP
Mega Man X // out in JP
Mega Man X2
Mega Man X3
Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Super Castlevania IV
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts // out in NA
Super Punch-Out!! // out in NA+PAL
Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers // out in JP
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja // out in NA+JP
X/Generations runs at 30 fps with slowdowns in some areas, at least in the demo. It seems the same engine of MH3U but "powered" in terms of textures and light effects.I've been considering upgrading to a n3DS just for Monster Hunter X. Is it true that there is no frame rate/texture improvement this time? Easy pass, then.
The game that started out as an NDS game?I'm going to make a prediction that Federation Force was probably a N3DS exclusive at some point, just like Hyrule Warriors more than likely was.
Those rich textures look like a busy mess, especially on the environment. I prefer the cleaner look of MH3U. It's as if they downscaled HD textures vs. SD textures.X/Generations runs at 30 fps with slowdowns in some areas, at least in the demo. It seems the same engine of MH3U but "powered" in terms of textures and light effects.
So, yeah, it's a step back compared to MH4U engine. It's true when we said that MH4 didn't run at 60 fps (indeed, the average was 45 fps) but it still feels faster compared to this new game. Plus, MH4U has awesome rich textures thanks to the improved hardware of New 3DS.
X/Gen was designed for old 3DS hardware, it seems. Sadly.
Another thing: Nintendo now supports five different ways to program the GPU. The easiest way is DMPGL (OpenGL|ES with Maestro stuff), which is easy to use but has a very high overhead. Then comes GD, a functional equivalent but not compatible to OpenGL and more lightweight, followed by GR, which is even more low level and offers better performance, but requires more in-depth knowledge of the GPU. The next option is NW4C (NintendoWare for CTR), Nintendo's official middleware solution, complete with graphical frontends and stuff. Supposedly easy to use and high performance, but I assume flexibility is limited. And last, but not least, is direct register access, which requires arcane knowledge but offers the best possible performance (and the most ways for stuff to go horribly wrong).
Basically nothing major I would say. As this lead to one question.
Considering the rumored 3ds support until 2018, could we see New 3ds exclusive games popping up from now on, to increase the LTD life cycle of the console?
Are any of the games announced at today's direct n3ds exclusive or enhanced?
none are exclusive. we won't know about enhancements until closer to release.
Wow, added pirate pops plus and hype light e
New 3ds exclusive titles has just hit double digits lol
Ehhh, I was thinking about the same thing, but not knowing anything about NX, and not knowing when there was going to be a price drop, if ever (the most I've seen it go down to is $175), I just went ahead and sprung for it today. Got the standard black XL.
NO regrets. I can play Super Mario 3D Land, A Link Between Worlds, and a number of other games the way they were meant to be played, thanks to the nice and stable 3D. And I can play those games now, instead of waiting.
Also, when the N3DS first came out, there were lots of complaints about the potential transfer issues. Nope... after just a few button clicks on both 3DS's and about 1/2 hour later, my transfer was completely done. Super easy.
New Digital Foundry video up assessing MH Generations.
In short: It's N3DS enhanced, but the enhancements are slim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orbz3Astxx4
No enhancements to visual quality (texture quality on monsters, shadow quality, texture filtering), or framerate. But the game is locked at 30fps on both models and the game maintains a stable 30 even on the original 3DS, so it's hard to tell. I'd imagine if there are framerate drops in very busy areas when playing online then N3DS might have an advantage.
Load times are noticeably better on N3DS, so it must be using all three CPU cores and that L2 cache.
That's a huge step back from MH4.
It seems like N3DS is already dead. Sadly, it looks like the N3DS was another cash cow from Nintendo, just like DSi. The very least thing Nintendo could do was to deliver a update to older Nintendo 3DS games to take advantage of the N3DS power. I'm very disappointed in my N3DS purchase.
Umm you can't make a device more powerful by just issuing an update.
I don't think you know how technology works.
What are you talking about? I said older Nintendo 3DS games can be updated to take advantage of the New 3DS devices.
It's already possible with a custom CFW on New 3DS devices and its not a big deal.
that's....that's it?
I mean when they announced xenoblade, youd expect a few more retail exclusives.lol... pls
I mean when they announced xenoblade, youd expect a few more retail exclusives.
It's the engine used for creating the game..why is runbow "exclusive"?
some games dont look that good, but they need extra juice, i dont get it... are the devs just lazy fucks?
@mh generations talk:
iam utterly dissappointed by mh generations, since its not as good looking as mh4. unbelievable, how they fucked it up this hard.
or was it intended to not look that good?
The demo already runs on the N3DS better.Is there any word if Pokémon Sun & Moon will be enhanced at all?
Because of how it was advertised? I mean Nintendo puts out a new nintendo 3ds cover for one game? Just thought (like im sure others did as well) that there would be more than just xenoblade. Not that difficult to understand.why? to shut out 80% of the install base?
Xenoblade is a nice goody and a nice tech demo... nothing more.
why is runbow "exclusive"?
some games dont look that good, but they need extra juice, i dont get it... are the devs just lazy fucks?
@mh generations talk:
iam utterly dissappointed by mh generations, since its not as good looking as mh4. unbelievable, how they fucked it up this hard.
or was it intended to not look that good?
Because of how it was advertised? I mean Nintendo puts out a new nintendo 3ds cover for one game? Just thought (like im sure others did as well) that there would be more than just xenoblade. Not that difficult to understand.
I should have said cases. Not covers. My bad.not sure what the cover plate has to do with that. sure they did sort of imply there would be more exclusives but also never said that they'd be the ones making them. and as we see there now are several exclusives.
I should have said cases. Not covers. My bad.