29th March 2007, 3:40 PM
Sega Saturn VC eh? Well the problem is you could only store roughly ONE of them, and nothing else. The thing is, as I found out by testing, you can't play VC software off of an SD card. It just won't even show up on the list of stuff until you copy it into internal memory. Until Nintendo allows the downloaded content to be actually executed from the memory card, there are issues. At least you can safely STORE the excess on one, but moving everything around is a tad unweildy. Further, some CDs are likely to be completely full. Take it a little further you realize that the internal memory doesn't have the space (sans compressing, which I suppose is possible).
Basically what I'm saying is eventually Nintendo should announce a hard disk add-on via USB. Knowing Nintendo, it would be some proprietary format to prevent, as best as possible, copyright problems. Anything would do really. The alternative is, of course, far less memory via far more expensive memory cards.
Here's another bit to consider. Do you suppose Nintendo will ever take the next step beyond merely emulating old games? I'd like to see them actually improving upon the really big old games, like maybe online multiplayer in some old multiplayer games? As it stands, there is only one downside with the way MS is handling things. For some reason, they seem to insist on putting very in-the-way menues over all those classic startup sequences in the games. It is very ugly... I'd rather they only show that menu after you press "start" to load it instead of that overlay all these remakes insist on using.
Basically what I'm saying is eventually Nintendo should announce a hard disk add-on via USB. Knowing Nintendo, it would be some proprietary format to prevent, as best as possible, copyright problems. Anything would do really. The alternative is, of course, far less memory via far more expensive memory cards.
Here's another bit to consider. Do you suppose Nintendo will ever take the next step beyond merely emulating old games? I'd like to see them actually improving upon the really big old games, like maybe online multiplayer in some old multiplayer games? As it stands, there is only one downside with the way MS is handling things. For some reason, they seem to insist on putting very in-the-way menues over all those classic startup sequences in the games. It is very ugly... I'd rather they only show that menu after you press "start" to load it instead of that overlay all these remakes insist on using.
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