29th May 2005, 6:05 PM
Well, I wonder about those 3rd parties. If they make some profit from it, they'll join in, but otherwise I don't see them wanting to do that.
Oh and, if the game is not multiplayer, what on earth are you asking for online for? How exactly is Chrono Trigger going to be online if there's only one person at the controls? I suppose you could have other people WATCH you play and basically backseat drive the whole time... Secret of Mana on the other hand, that would be great online. Final Fantasy 2 and 3, those would be great NES additions, if Square-Enix would translate the old 8-bit versions of those games, and that's yet another advantage. They could release the games they skipped over in the US, finally! I'll get back to that.
Anyway, a game editor, that's asking a LOT. For one, who knows if they even still have the original programs they used to make those old games. Second off, who knows how user friendly those things are. Most likely, the really old arcade games were made with straight code. Now, I'm all for letting all the "normals" get free access to programming languages from the past. But, realistically they would really have to actually program editors specifically for EVERY game that were user friendly. It's not that it wouldn't be something I'd welcome, but it's not something they would ever DO.
Instead, here's something more reasonable. Nintendo should basically offer simplified programming "kits" that let you make your own RPG with, more importantly, a custom designed combat system and so on.
Debugging, that's a nice suggestion. They may do this but only in some limited capacity, like for the most popular games but not for 3000 of them. I'd like to see Super Metroid but with the ability to actually get out of the last area of the game if you happened to save there, for that "after game party" I tend to have with all the powers I just got.
Back to something I mentioned earlier: they could give us games we never got before. We could get Mother 1, or all the old Fire Emblem games before GBA, or all the old "Wars" games, that sort of stuff, fully translated.
Oh and, if the game is not multiplayer, what on earth are you asking for online for? How exactly is Chrono Trigger going to be online if there's only one person at the controls? I suppose you could have other people WATCH you play and basically backseat drive the whole time... Secret of Mana on the other hand, that would be great online. Final Fantasy 2 and 3, those would be great NES additions, if Square-Enix would translate the old 8-bit versions of those games, and that's yet another advantage. They could release the games they skipped over in the US, finally! I'll get back to that.
Anyway, a game editor, that's asking a LOT. For one, who knows if they even still have the original programs they used to make those old games. Second off, who knows how user friendly those things are. Most likely, the really old arcade games were made with straight code. Now, I'm all for letting all the "normals" get free access to programming languages from the past. But, realistically they would really have to actually program editors specifically for EVERY game that were user friendly. It's not that it wouldn't be something I'd welcome, but it's not something they would ever DO.
Instead, here's something more reasonable. Nintendo should basically offer simplified programming "kits" that let you make your own RPG with, more importantly, a custom designed combat system and so on.
Debugging, that's a nice suggestion. They may do this but only in some limited capacity, like for the most popular games but not for 3000 of them. I'd like to see Super Metroid but with the ability to actually get out of the last area of the game if you happened to save there, for that "after game party" I tend to have with all the powers I just got.
Back to something I mentioned earlier: they could give us games we never got before. We could get Mother 1, or all the old Fire Emblem games before GBA, or all the old "Wars" games, that sort of stuff, fully translated.
"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)