14th March 2005, 5:29 PM
As I said, there IS one example of them having 3D on both screens at once. Play Mario 64 DS and try some of the Mario mini-games. Specifically, the ones with Marios flying all over both screens. I examined it closely and the Marios are in 3D on both top and bottom, and it's easy to get a few on top and a few on bottom. The backgrounds are all 2D, but Mario IS being rendered in 3D the same way on top and bottom. So, it may be limited due to the amount of area the screen shows, and they may want to get a highly detailed but smaller image most of the time (and generally that's what they have been doing) but 3D IS possible on both screens at once.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)