17th February 2006, 5:35 PM
yes, a wireless router or modem. i said the rev would need a dongle, in that that it would need a dongle on your PC for the rev to connect to.
the jumper pack on the N64 was fast enough ofr its bottleneck, looking at the jumper it actually looks like a small cart, so I think the transfer rates on the DS ram expansion will be a comparable speed and could be used for video games. After all, RAM for the browser would mean to store info in the memory to pull from when its needed at cart-speeds, so i think that's going to be fine.
Looking at the back of the rev, it seems to only have proscan cables and no AV cables. which means you must either get a seperate adapter to run AV cables to your TV or have a HD ready television. What this means is, out of the box, the Rev can hook up to an HD television and deliver 480p which is the first step of HD (progressive scan), people give it all kinds of names, but progressive scan can only be accomplished on HD ready displays and all other upconverted resolutions, 720, 540 (PAL), 1080 (including the new 1080p) can be done. It wont be native but it would look beautiful and sharp, even though the textures aren't HD atleast the standard res will look beautiful when upconverted. The question just becomes how are we going to increase the RAM capacity - with multiple developers complaining about lack of RAM or how the 512 flash memory isn't going to be used for actual game loading, one would think that Nintendo is planning something for 'Their most ambitious system in the company's history".
the jumper pack on the N64 was fast enough ofr its bottleneck, looking at the jumper it actually looks like a small cart, so I think the transfer rates on the DS ram expansion will be a comparable speed and could be used for video games. After all, RAM for the browser would mean to store info in the memory to pull from when its needed at cart-speeds, so i think that's going to be fine.
Looking at the back of the rev, it seems to only have proscan cables and no AV cables. which means you must either get a seperate adapter to run AV cables to your TV or have a HD ready television. What this means is, out of the box, the Rev can hook up to an HD television and deliver 480p which is the first step of HD (progressive scan), people give it all kinds of names, but progressive scan can only be accomplished on HD ready displays and all other upconverted resolutions, 720, 540 (PAL), 1080 (including the new 1080p) can be done. It wont be native but it would look beautiful and sharp, even though the textures aren't HD atleast the standard res will look beautiful when upconverted. The question just becomes how are we going to increase the RAM capacity - with multiple developers complaining about lack of RAM or how the 512 flash memory isn't going to be used for actual game loading, one would think that Nintendo is planning something for 'Their most ambitious system in the company's history".