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"Super Mario 64 - Several Years On"

I still play this game. And I have a few questions:

1) Can the Mad Piano in Big Boo's Haunt be killed?
2) What's this "Secret Room" at the top of the Castle?
3) Can you beat the Penguin's Race after getting all 120 Stars?
4) What's with that inscription on the fountain?

If anyone needs help with the game, just ask - I have all 120 Stars. Not that anyone WON'T have them all by now...

So theoretically, Rare could do a Perfect Dark port over to the DS.. Are Rare supporting it? Surely if they're supporting the GBA..?

I still don't get that. Rareware are actually part of Microsoft Game Studios, but they work on a Nintendo machine still? Weird.

Rare own the franchise, but Nintendo own the rights to the original Perfect Dark game on the N64.

That means that Rare could make a NEW Perfect Dark with the same characters and trademarks, but can't re-release the N64 version without Nintendo's permission.

Strafio wrote:
> Having said that, Nintendo refused to publish Conker, so perhaps
> that's why Rare can re-use that one.

Didn't Ninty publish Perfect Dark? If so, then how can they make a Perfect Dark 0?

But if Conker's Bad Fur Day is coming to the Xbox, then I think that the rest of Rare's back catalogue might.

Having said that, Nintendo refused to publish Conker, so perhaps that's why Rare can re-use that one.

Nintendo own all of Rare's back catalogue... Rare own the rights to the various franchises aka Conker, Banjo and Perfect Dark.

Rare have a specialist GBA team that have produced 3 GBA games in the past year...

More than X-box games.

Forgive me here but what the hell is a DS?

But could be adapted for a second screen.

We've already discussed Goldeneye.


And if the DS has N64 power and a second screen then why not?



Also, do Nintendo actually own ALL the rights to Rare's back catalogue?
I know the own the rights to some characters, but if Conker's being ported to the Xbox, there's no reason why the rest of it shouldn;t turn up on a MS console.

Nintendo would therefore let Microsoft develop games they own?

Please.

The DS is a dual screen system... the N64 titles you listed are not dual screen games.

Probably. Or maybe the DS.

I was only saying that if MS released a competitor... ;-)

Strafio wrote:
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> Refined classics such as Diddy Kong Racing (with new characters to
> replace the Nintendo-owned ones), Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Conker and
> Jet Force Gemini (refined remember, so Rare could iron out the flaws
> from the N64 version) with wireless multiplayer...


Surly these games will appear on the GBA2... lets be honest it'll certainly play N64 titles (I mean the iQue did it) and Nintendo got Rare to help them produce the DK series for the GBA currently.