26th March 2011, 12:33 PM
Ah yeah I see. Yeah, that's what I'd read too.
http://kotaku.com/#!5785954/how-the-3ds-...o-about-it
Hmm... Yeah so here's an issue. The screens have a higher resolution, but it isn't perfectly divisible by DS game resolution, so it has to be "smoothed" artificially to get around the "native resolution" issue of LCD screens. Some have complained that this makes it look bad. I can see that. You can also hold down select and start to simply force the games to display in their actual resolution, but it seems like it's incredibly small when you do that, much more so than GBA games displayed on a DS screen. Further, for some odd reason, when you turn on DS games there's a rather lengthy load time. The load times during the game are identical, but that first load is oddly long.
Thing is, these two issues probably aren't ever getting fixed, considering Nintendo's track record for shoddy firmware updates. About the biggest updates ever on the Wii are the addition of a visible clock on the main menu and being able to actually run applications stored on the memory card. Woo....
http://kotaku.com/#!5785954/how-the-3ds-...o-about-it
Hmm... Yeah so here's an issue. The screens have a higher resolution, but it isn't perfectly divisible by DS game resolution, so it has to be "smoothed" artificially to get around the "native resolution" issue of LCD screens. Some have complained that this makes it look bad. I can see that. You can also hold down select and start to simply force the games to display in their actual resolution, but it seems like it's incredibly small when you do that, much more so than GBA games displayed on a DS screen. Further, for some odd reason, when you turn on DS games there's a rather lengthy load time. The load times during the game are identical, but that first load is oddly long.
Thing is, these two issues probably aren't ever getting fixed, considering Nintendo's track record for shoddy firmware updates. About the biggest updates ever on the Wii are the addition of a visible clock on the main menu and being able to actually run applications stored on the memory card. Woo....
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