Player Two Start: An SNES-CD Timeline

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Nivek

Golden Darkness said:
Couple of other questions.

Resolution Output of Ultra games. 640 by 480, or 320 by 240?

Does FF7 use pre-rendered backgrounds for maps?

Who is the developer of Deathblow? Will Nintendo have equivalents to Sega's 3D fighters given now popular they are on the Saturn?

Will we see what's Nintendo doing with Game Boy color for the holidays?

With Sony getting into GPU design for the Ultra, will Sony be leveraging that knowledge for other markets?

Should have asked this earlier, but does Dedede appear in Kirby's Adventure 3?
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Some big questions, some are ry territory, some will give you the answer.

Resolution both are supported(remember some people still use tv from 70's) but that is up developers, i think all major release have widescreen support(a little streched image but support). for true 480p and progressive scan...would be next gen.

The Maps is more 3D-esque and detailed(to showcase ultra power, i think like Valkyria profile ones) some elements are pre other are full real time.

Deathblow developers...(that was acclaim right? or was EA...ry help), was a new developers with support of third party publisher, they must be happy the bump mr Griffin give it in the news ;) . Well, nintendo was always mixed with figthers, but here i think they will depend for third parties in that front(something from capcom, tecmo and original developers here).



Nintendo have some first party and third party games, and pushing the colour capacities, the rest is safe for holidays but we will see spikes in console front(ultra and snes-cd games see a spike thanks to Backward compatibility)

We're thinking about it...more details would be spoilers.(again this is the era of 3d dreams...)

About Kirby dreamland 3...i think would be like otl, that was Shinichi Shimomura team unless some new butterflies in the way.
 

DurableShift

Awesome update, I continue to want to play games from this ATL.

Are there any changes to how Richter plays from standard? As for Maria, how does she play? She has two different incarnations in remakes, and neither plays the same.
 

Golden Darkness

Nivek said:
About Kirby dreamland 3...i think would be like otl, that was Shinichi Shimomura team unless some new butterflies in the way.
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No, I meant Kirby's Adventure 3, as in this post:

Kirby's back for another epic adventure in Kirby's Adventure 3! He'll need all the powers he can get if he hopes to defeat Torogore, the bullish new villain who's out to stampede all over the magic of Dreamland! Joining Kirby in his quest is his new pal Girby, Kirby's pretty companion on this magical journey! Take control of Girby to unlock alternate powers for every enemy she swallows, or have a friend join you and take Kirby and Girby on their new adventure together!

Kirby and Girby explore seven exciting new worlds over the course of the game. Here's a brief description of all of them to get you started on your journey!

Green Greens – The familiar grassland is back, and Whispy Woods still rules the forest, but Torogore's fiery influence can even be felt in this early stage!

Molehill Mountain – Kirby's got to navigate these treacherous cliffs and duck the mole people living within if he wants to make it closer to Torogore's lair!

Aquatic Arboretum – Underwater gardens fill this beautiful stage, so put on your flippers and send Kirby and Girby on a swim!

Cake Canyon – This is the sweetest world in the game, full of yummy treats for Kirby and Girby to consume, but don't spend too much time eating cake and not enough time eating foes!

Doomdark Doorway – This creepy world harbors a secret: one of Kirby's old foes has been calling this place his home!

Skysurf Soaring – Kirby and Girby take to the air in this challenging world full of flying foes!

Big Bull Barricade – Torogore's made his lair here and some of the game's toughest challenges lay in your path. Don't give up, Kirby!

-excerpted from Nintendo Power's October 1997 article on Kirby's Adventure 3
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RySenkari

Resolution Output of Ultra games. 640 by 480, or 320 by 240?
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Most Ultra Nintendo games (all the notable ones and many of the non-notable ones) could do 480i. No 480p, but if you had S-Video the games still looked pretty good. They also looked quite good even if you only used the standard red/white/yellow cables.

Does FF7 use pre-rendered backgrounds for maps?
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What Nivek said, the backgrounds use a lot more 3-D (though when appropriate, 2-D was used for certain backgrounds).

Who is the developer of Deathblow? Will Nintendo have equivalents to Sega's 3D fighters given now popular they are on the Saturn?
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Deathblow is developed by Tecmo as a Nintendo exclusive. Nintendo also has a lock on Killer Instinct and Street Fighter III and will get Mortal Kombat 4 first. However, Saturn is still considered the superior system for fighting games, Tekken 3 in 1998 clinches that pretty much.

Will we see what's Nintendo doing with Game Boy color for the holidays?
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Maybe. The next major Game Boy game is a new Zelda title in spring 1998.

With Sony getting into GPU design for the Ultra, will Sony be leveraging that knowledge for other markets?
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Well, Sony does make some pretty nice computers even IOTL, so that is a potential application.

Should have asked this earlier, but does Dedede appear in Kirby's Adventure 3?
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He appears in Doomdark Doorway all disshevled and dirty and sad. Dedede in this game has been given the fan nickname of "Hobo Dedede".

Are there any changes to how Richter plays from standard? As for Maria, how does she play?
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No to Richter. As for Maria, she utilize various forms of magic, her standard attack is a fireball and she can use other magic as well with the collection of different items.

Is Sony still acquiring development studios? I wonder if they might pick up a certain Swedish pc developing studio?
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Mmmm....I think we'll have to leave that as a spoiler for now.
 

Golden Darkness

RySenkari said:
Deathblow is developed by Tecmo as a Nintendo exclusive. Nintendo also has a lock on Killer Instinct and Street Fighter III and will get Mortal Kombat 4 first. However, Saturn is still considered the superior system for fighting games, Tekken 3 in 1998 clinches that pretty much.
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Deathblow is from Tecmo? Huh. What of Dead or Alive? That was an arcade debut in 1996 before a Saturn release in '97 and PlayStation release in '98.

Someone's going to do some fanservice games sooner or later.

Maybe. The next major Game Boy game is a new Zelda title in spring 1998.
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I think that was mentioned before. Speaking of Gameboy Zeldas, will there be a equivalent to Flagship, the co-developers of most of the pre-DS handheld Zeldas in OTL?

And what of Pokémon? Going straight to the sequels, or releasing updates to Red and Green like Blue and Yellow in OTL?

Well, Sony does make some pretty nice computers even IOTL, so that is a potential application.
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I'd just figure if Sony developed the GPU tech, it wouldn't be just for one application. After all the Cell in OTL was meant for more than just the PS3. Now the question is Sony going to expand further into providing computing solutions for anyone in terms of processor technology, or restrict it to their own divisions?

He appears in Doomdark Doorway all disshevled and dirty and sad. Dedede in this game has been given the fan nickname of "Hobo Dedede".
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Dang. Is he going to return to his position as the so-called "King of Dreamland"?
 

Nivek

Golden Darkness said:
Deathblow is from Tecmo? Huh. What of Dead or Alive? That was an arcade debut in 1996 before a Saturn release in '97 and PlayStation release in '98.

Someone's going to do some fanservice games sooner or later.



I think that was mentioned before. Speaking of Gameboy Zeldas, will there be a equivalent to Flagship, the co-developers of most of the pre-DS handheld Zeldas in OTL?

And what of Pokémon? Going straight to the sequels, or releasing updates to Red and Green like Blue and Yellow in OTL?



I'd just figure if Sony developed the GPU tech, it wouldn't be just for one application. After all the Cell in OTL was meant for more than just the PS3. Now the question is Sony going to expand further into providing computing solutions for anyone in terms of processor technology, or restrict it to their own divisions?



Dang. Is he going to return to his position as the so-called "King of Dreamland"?
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About tecmo...stay tuned ;) , the same with zelda.

Pokemon is Coming, GBC have good life yet and GBC is still cheaper enough to childern and people who want to give the jump(plus is not more different otl, heck pokemon in japan delayed the OTL Game Boy Atlantis/Advance)

Not only GPU, worked with Ericcson for celphones and CELL was based all their CPU and microchips developments... and there is those robot dog, maybe a lot of stuff would be butterfly away(or as sony is getting more money getting better funds) plus IIRC...sony have their PC brands...VAIO..ummmm

Possible, Kirby games are full of details and nods, still Shinichi team would jump into Kirby for ultra soon....
 

Nivek

Lavanya Six said:
I'd also like to know how they're doing outside the Japan/NA markets compared to OTL.
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The issue is...outside japan and lesser degree USA-NA, numbers and figure are not that excat or approximated, we can do some number approximation and own average, that will come later.
 

Nivek

ryanidious said:
In what type of case do SNES CD and Ultra Nintendo games come in.
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Because this author is bad at graphics design, for a general idea... for SNES-CD imagine a big box with a simple jewel case inside and the manual and a more playstation esque jewel case for ultra.
 

RySenkari

mmm, SNES-CD games are in jewel cases, but Ultra games are in PS2-like black plastic cases. No box for SNES-CD games (most of them anyway).
 

RyderWest

I've got a few questions about Pop Culture, and it's about the Eurovision Song Contest. With the butterflies of pop culture affect the ESC results in anyway? At this point OTL (December 1997), the United Kingdom would have hosted in 1998 after winning in Dublin '97.

This is the list of Winners OTL for the 1990's:

Zagreb 1990: Italy
Rome 1991: Sweden
Malmo 1992: Ireland
Millstreet 1993: Ireland
Dublin 1994: Ireland (Seriously, they did win 3 times in a row)
Dublin 1995: Norway
Oslo 1996: Ireland
Dublin 1997: United Kingdom
Birmingham 1998: Israel
Jerusalem 1999: Sweden
Stockholm 2000: Denmark
 

RySenkari

Honestly, I know next to NOTHING about European pop music, so if any of our readers or Nivek would like to handle Eurovision, be my guest!

Same goes for the NHL, hockey's the one of the four major American sports I know least about so if any hockey fans out there want to cover what the NHL's been up to during this time, go right ahead.
 

Goldwind2

ANARCHY_4_ALL said:
What about college football?
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I have working on a timeline on another site in winch the mutnat league ( a footbal game know for it voincle black hummor and monster parody of famous athltes) spawed of a whole series of monster themed sport games includeing mutant college atlectic assocation football. I feelt that it could be easy for me to come with spoofs of team names but i will need some help coming with parody of names of athlest. could. Anarchy for all could give a few parody names for collage atheltics perferly onces form around 2006 because that when mutant college atlectic assocation football came out in my timeline.


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