Zelda On The DS, Sega on the Revolution

At the Nintendo Keynote today, Company President Iwata reiterated the same 'think differently' ideas that he espoused at last year's GDC. This time he had concrete data to back up his industry disruption message, detailing the millions in sales their 'Brain Training' line of games have racked up. Along with his message, he announced a new Zelda title on the DS, and the fact that Sega Genesis games will be on the Revolution, a part of the online library of games they're offering.

Video Trailer

[tmjr3353]

Here's a link a page where you can view the released trailer [nintendo.com] for the announced Zelda DS game. Can't wait to get my hands on this!

Links are wrong

[(A)*(B)!0_-]

Those two links are backwards:

Revolution to play Genesis and Turbografx games [gamespot.com]
Zelda on the DS [gamespot.com]

Re:Video Trailer

[drwiii]

Better quality trailer [britishgaming.co.uk] over here, if you can put up with WMV.

Re:viva la revolution?

[sehryan]

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/697/697733p1.ht ml [ign.com]

Been on display at GDC.

Of course, if you are talking games, Iwata implied, and possibly flat out said (can't remember right this moment) that there would be playable games at E3 this year. Which, of course, is pretty obvious if they are planning to launch later this year.

Re:2 questions here

[The MAZZTer]

Nintendo has already used emulation lots: - Super Game Boy (SNES) - Pokemon Stadium (N64, emulates GB Pokemon Games) - Pokemon Stadium 2 (N64, emulates GB/GBC Pokemon Games) - Game Boy Player (GC) These I'm less certain, because of changes, but the memory card screens in the game as well as the disc loading screens make me pretty sure they ARE emulated: - Zelda Promotional Disc (GC, emulates Zelda, Zelda 2, Zelda OoT, and Zelda MM. Certain graphics and text have been tweaked in the final two.) - Zelda Master Quest (GC, Zelda OoT and MQ. Again, hud graphics and text referring to "Z-Targetting" has been tweaked to match the GC controller.)

Retrogaming is cool

[Orion Blastar]

Gametap already does this for Windows based PCs with an Internet connection somewhat. There are also $10 to $35 video game controller units that play old Genesis, Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, NES, etc games on them, showing that this is a good idea. None of them have tried to do almost a whole library of several classic consoles at the same time, or at least the best of a certain game console library.

Classics like Sonic the Hedgehog my son likes to play on my Sega Genesis system, and Rogue Squardon and Diddy Kong Racing on the Nintendo 64.

I hope that one can buy teach classic console game and save it on a hard drive to play while the system is offline, and this is not just an online only feature. I would hope that it is affordable as well, like 99 cents a game or something, or a low monthly fee for unlimited downloads or something.

Nearly Complete Transcript

[Tringard]

Alice has a transcript of the keynote [typepad.com]. Missing a couple of phrases and names, but otherwise appears complete if you want to read what Iwata actually said.

Re:Never thought I'd see the day

[boarder8925]

I wouldn't mind them porting Knights or whatever that game was called.

I believe the game you're looking for is NiGHTS into Dreams [wikipedia.org] for the Saturn [wikipedia.org]:

Players take the role of either Claris or Elliot, two children living in the city of Twin Seeds. In their dreams, they enter the world of Nightopia, where all human dreams are played out. An evil creature known as Wizeman is gathering power to take control of the dream world. The children attempt to save Nightopia by teaming up with NiGHTS, a Nightmaren (nightmare-dweller) who rebelled against Wizeman.

Re:Feasable...

[Anonymous Coward]

If I'm not mistaken, that "mystery slot" is for a standard SD memory card, which the Revolution can save downloaded games to. Their Play-Yan MP3 cartridge for the GBA also uses the SD format.

More likely, you'll be able to transfer smaller games to the DS using wireless download play, the same way you download a game to play multi on one cart. You can download NES games to the GBA from Animal Crossing pretty much the same way; you have run in sleep mode when not playing, or you lose the ROM. Its possible that games with a save state could also send the save back to the Rev to be stored. You won't be able to run very large games (such as anything for the GC) with this process, because the DS only has 4 megabytes of memory to store downloaded games. Sonic the Hedgehog (bundled with a Genesis emulator) would probably fit, though.

Re:2 questions here

[bombadillo]

Why dont we see more companies making their back catalogs available

Lets see....

1. Atari no longer makes Atari consoles. But you can buy those little Atari like things in any store. I almost bought one just for Yars Revenge
2. The Connecticut Leather Company no longer sells colecos.
3. Sega no longer makes Sega consoles. Although the genisis could play SMS games with an adapter.
4. Hudson no longer sells TurboGraphix consoles.
5. Neo-Geo is no longer sold and no one could afford to buy them when they were sold.
6. 3D0 why bother... 7. Playstation 2 can play playstation 1 games.
8. Xbox is to new to really have a back catalog.


Ninento is smart for getting into the legacy game market. They can most likey provide these games on the cheap and make good money. Kind of like Apple with iTunes. I am definitely going to buy a Revolution just so I can play games with out having to wory about finding roms and dealing with emulation issues. Hell my modded XBOX gets more play time with the nes and n64 emulator than XBOX games.

Re:Sweet, but what about the controllers?

[mrgreen4242]

How do you figure any of this? They've already announced the wireless wand controller will fit into a shell with GameCube style controls, which will make just about any game playable (it has enough buttons, although they are laid out differently). Plus, Nintendo being the the accessories whores they are will surely release classic controller shells for all the systems they sell games for; it only makes sense.

As for supporting only 2 controllers... it's been pretty well established (I mean I'm not even really following all the Rev news and even I have seen this) that the system will allow for 4 wireless controllers. Plus it has 4 GameCube controller ports on it as well.

So, ya, don't really know where you were going with all that.