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Tetris goes DS -- ONLINE!
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Just because they can doesn't mean they will. If Nintendo's really adamant about the safety thing, then it isn't a "rating" thing, it's a "making family friendly/safe products" thing. It seems to me that Nintendo just doesn't want to deal with the possible implications of VoIP or chat ...and I can understand that approach.ant1532 said:
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ant1532 said:
It's been mentioned here a bit that apparently it takes a fair bit of processing power to do the voip thing, not sure if that's accurate at all. Nintendo really show their newbness at online though, so maybe they just haven't made it work right yet.
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ant1532 said:
Yeah yeah, my fault. I usually correct people who do what I did on other forums... Stupid mistake by me. I had read on GAF that it'd have 16 online, and I just searched the net for anything to confirm it. I should have paid better attention, sorry for that!
Kroole said:
I don't see VoIP in any Nintendo game for a while. Especially after the XBOX live sex abuse thing. If something like that happened on a DS game... Can you imagine all the "Touching is good" jokes that will rampage through GAF?
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Tempy said:
LOBBY LOBBY LOBBY!
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Kroole said:
Well, the DS has its two processors. Only one screen would have to lose out on processing power. Most games only have 1 screen that is graphically intensive anyway. One processor could control the main action screen while the other could hand the other screen/VoIP. Though that's if Nintendo would do it. We know VoIP is possible because of the demos they had at E3 (i think it was at E3), but in game is yet to be seen. We gotta wait.
GreenGlowingGoo said:
Well one of those processors is basically a GBA and I don't see how that one will pull it of.
Yes Nintendo has shown that they can do VoIP but that wasn't in a game. That's why I said that I don't think we will actually have it in the main game but maybe in a chat between games (only using the arm7 processor for graphics).
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True, it looks 3rd Partyish. THQish. It has no solid, black borders and is quite colorful. Not really stylish. But okay.Kiriku said:
Someone said they are on Nintendos Press Site tho.
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Kroole said:
I wouldn't call the arm7 "basically a GBA processor", it's still quite a bit stronger... but even still, how much does VoIP require? I'm not disagreeing with you that they would probably use it in a lobby system, rather than in game. I just don't think it's impossible for them to use it in game with the arm7. Though I do not know requirements for VoIP.
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I think the screens with the Tetris...board are fine. Nice and clear, sharp, style seems fine.
The backgrounds on the other half of the screens on the other hand...well it doesn't matter much with the 10 players as you can't see it, but I don't think much of the goomba screen. Nor the grey lines surrounding that bit.
It doesn't matter though, the bit I care about is good. Just hope the music is too.
The backgrounds on the other half of the screens on the other hand...well it doesn't matter much with the 10 players as you can't see it, but I don't think much of the goomba screen. Nor the grey lines surrounding that bit.
It doesn't matter though, the bit I care about is good. Just hope the music is too.
GreenGlowingGoo said:
It is the same processor although it has twice the clockspeed (33MHz I think). I guess Nintendo might be able to pull it through if they perhaps lessen the quality of the speach, I just doubt it. If they do pull it off though I couldn't be happier, I'm just not setting myself up for disappointments
The Arm7 is 2x the speed of the one in GBA, and customized. The Arm9 is more powerful.Kroole said:
I heavily doubt that DSpeak uses both processors, only for voice. Of course, including VoIP in a normal game would be difficult, but for Tetris-like games, only one processor can probably do the job easily, so the second one could be used for VoIP.
But I don't think we'll see VoIP, for non-techncal reasons.
Trident said:
True. My enthusiasm dropt big time. I'm mean Tetris is allready pretty simple, the least they could do is put some effort into the presentation but that.... I really thought that was a Joke Photoshop at first (especially the Backround on the Mario Screen) but they really are on the Press Site. Very, very underwhelming.
Seriously but, Feb 20th for Europe, that is sweet, I'm gonna bust out my gameboy colour and get practicing.Christoff Yurievich
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yeah? I mean, they are portables. That seems to indicate a level of portability, you know?Kuroyume said:
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http://gamefront.de
10.01.06 - Nintendo gibt bekannt, dass Tetris DS am 20.02.06 in Europa erscheinen wird. Drahtlose Duelle sind mit nur einem einzigen Modul mit bis zu 10 NDS-Besitzern möglich. Über die 'Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection' spielen 2 oder 4 Spieler gegeneinander.