E3: The DS game thread

[OB1]

IGN has two interviews with Miyamoto and co. up, where they talk about the DS and Zelda.

In the DS interview Mario Kart director Hideki Konno says that he's making Metroid Prime Hunters, so EAD is actually creating the game! WOO!! Though it's still strange that Retro didn't know about it.

[Dark Jaguar]

MY rumor that it wouldn't work with GB or GBC games?! I never said that! You said that to ME and convinced me of it!

[A Black Falcon]

A GBC is also useful for Bionic Commando if you have one of the buggy copies that works correctly in a GBC but not in a GBA, like mine. :)

And DJ, um, weren't you the one who said that rumor? I don't think I've seen it anywhere else, actually...

[Great Rumbler]

In the DS interview Mario Kart director Hideki Konno says that he's making Metroid Prime Hunters, so EAD is actually creating the game! WOO!! Though it's still strange that Retro didn't know about it.

I'd heard that it was NST making Hunters, though that could be true and still have Konno as the director.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, IGN said that they confirmed that NST was making it, I thought...

[OB1]

I only heard that was speculation.

[Great Rumbler]

Cube-Europe:

It seems the company behind Metroid Prime: Hunters is none other than NST, the guys behind the incredible Wave Race.

They seem pretty sure that NST is the developer.

[OB1]

Where did they get their info from? I hope that's correct though since a reliable guy at the IGN boards said that someone from NST hinted at a single-player mode for the game.

[Great Rumbler]

I don't know where they got that from.

[OB1]

Well....

[A Black Falcon]

That pic's great... :)

[OB1]

Did you watch the conference? It was great to see a Nintendo marketing head who doesn't hesitate to trash talk the competition. :) He got on the job in December 2003, so maybe Nintendo's marketing will improve.

[Great Rumbler]

Reggie casts "Trash the Competion".

Like I said, Reggie is awesome.

[OB1]

http://students.washington.edu/rsluman/Party2.mov

[Smoke]

Hey that nintendo user name and password doesn't work anymore...

It still works for me. :/

[OB1]

Yeah it's fine for me now.

[A Black Falcon]

It wasn't working for a while, but fixed itsself. :)

[Dark Jaguar]

ABF, about that rumor.

NO! I said "does it play GBA games?". Someone either told me or directed me to a link that said, not as a rumor, but as a fact, that it only will play GBA games but not GBC or GB games. I made the mistake of believing it. Anyway, not sure why you thought I came up with it. I'd never assume they would do that.

[A Black Falcon]

I did see one place say that since that post... so I'll say that I don't know. I did see some places say it would play GB/C games, but not in a form that directly refuted this rumor... so it could be either way. But I think leaving it out would be really stupid.

[Sacred Jellybean]

Yeah, it'd make no sense to leave that out. I'd be pissed at Nintendo if they snubbed the GB/C.

Well, maybe not, because I'm buying that neat little NES GBA SP anyway.

[Dark Jaguar]

Yes it would be, and honestly I don't even consider it an option any more. It was just stated as a straight fact at a link I was given during the chat. I need to raise the sensitivity of my myth radar again...

Anyway, aside from that, I do hope that PURELY for the sake of full backwards compatibility, they add in SGB support. I've mentioned it many times before, and likely will continue to, but I still really wish they'd add it in there.

[A Black Falcon]

SGB support? But this screen isn't the same resolution as a SNES screen... and anyway they'd never do it. Sorry.