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News just released!
I can't believe it, I thought it was a joke but its true!
Square will develop for the Gamecube and Gameboy Advance, bringing Final Fantasy BACK TO NINTENDO.
Want the info:
www.planetgamecube.com
NUFF SAID.
I can't believe it, I thought it was a joke but its true!
Square will develop for the Gamecube and Gameboy Advance, bringing Final Fantasy BACK TO NINTENDO.
Want the info:
www.planetgamecube.com
NUFF SAID.
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That rules Smeagol.
ninty's eh?
Next they'll be saying Nintendo and Square play golf together on the weekends and they make "games together" and are "exclusive" which (just incase your wondering) aren't ;-)
You wait I guarantee that'll crop up in the simple mind of a kiddy wink but I'd just like to remind everyone that Square have nothing to do with Nintendo, 'Squaresoft' publish they're own games so anyone who uses the phrase "back with nintendo" has obviously overlooked that Square have recently rehashed FF6, are going to release FFX,FFXI and FFXII on the PS2, not to mention the international version, parasite eve and all the other Square titles :-D
and one more thing? How are Sqaure possibly going to fit their games onto a 1.5 gig? They're rumor's flying about that FF11 may be dual layer so I see 4 maybe 5 discs for the GC and the modem? erm slight problem for GC users cus it's gona be a while, I don't know what Square are planning but I'll believe it when I see it :-D
Next they'll be saying Nintendo and Square play golf together on the weekends and they make "games together" and are "exclusive" which (just incase your wondering) aren't ;-)
You wait I guarantee that'll crop up in the simple mind of a kiddy wink but I'd just like to remind everyone that Square have nothing to do with Nintendo, 'Squaresoft' publish they're own games so anyone who uses the phrase "back with nintendo" has obviously overlooked that Square have recently rehashed FF6, are going to release FFX,FFXI and FFXII on the PS2, not to mention the international version, parasite eve and all the other Square titles :-D
and one more thing? How are Sqaure possibly going to fit their games onto a 1.5 gig? They're rumor's flying about that FF11 may be dual layer so I see 4 maybe 5 discs for the GC and the modem? erm slight problem for GC users cus it's gona be a while, I don't know what Square are planning but I'll believe it when I see it :-D
You can compress a GC disc to being the same size as a DVD in fact slightly larger (A DVD can also be compressed to far surpass this).
Dringo wrote:
> You can compress a GC disc to being the same size as a DVD in fact slightly
> larger (A DVD can also be compressed to far surpass this).
not a dual layer and can you imagine how much quality will be lost from the FMVs? The PS2 has a built in MPEG2 decoder so they look pretty damn impressive, the gamecube on the other hand will probably run extremely compressed video files which can't possibly be as high quality as the PS2 version. Resident Evil hsa already been spread onto 2 discs, I can't wait to see how many disc Final Fantasy appears on :-D
> You can compress a GC disc to being the same size as a DVD in fact slightly
> larger (A DVD can also be compressed to far surpass this).
not a dual layer and can you imagine how much quality will be lost from the FMVs? The PS2 has a built in MPEG2 decoder so they look pretty damn impressive, the gamecube on the other hand will probably run extremely compressed video files which can't possibly be as high quality as the PS2 version. Resident Evil hsa already been spread onto 2 discs, I can't wait to see how many disc Final Fantasy appears on :-D
Res€vilfan wrote:
> Dringo wrote:
> You can compress a GC disc to being the same size as a DVD
> in fact slightly
> larger (A DVD can also be compressed to far surpass
> this).
not a dual layer and can you imagine how much quality will be lost
> from the FMVs? The PS2 has a built in MPEG2 decoder so they look pretty damn
> impressive, the gamecube on the other hand will probably run extremely
> compressed video files which can't possibly be as high quality as the PS2
> version.
Why?
> Dringo wrote:
> You can compress a GC disc to being the same size as a DVD
> in fact slightly
> larger (A DVD can also be compressed to far surpass
> this).
not a dual layer and can you imagine how much quality will be lost
> from the FMVs? The PS2 has a built in MPEG2 decoder so they look pretty damn
> impressive, the gamecube on the other hand will probably run extremely
> compressed video files which can't possibly be as high quality as the PS2
> version.
Why?
Because the GameCube's CPU can't decompress full screen MPEG2 video at a high framerate. My 333mhz can barely handle 24fps DVDs with hardware scaling on a skeleton Linux/XFree86 system.
Edgy wrote:
>Why?
As much as I support Final Fantasy going to a wider audience, if I had the choice of picking up the gamecube version or PS2 version of Final Fantasy for the same price I'd choose the PS2 version, why? not because the GC version may be nothing more than a direct port but mainly because as I said the PS2 has an actual MPEG2 decoder inside (for the DVDs), to play all those spectatular FMVs just as the PS1 used it's VCD capabilities for FF7. I'm not 100% sure of what the outcome would be on the gamecube but unless it's spread across numerous discs (3 for the 4.7gig DVD) compression would effect I guarantee. Not only that Square now have experience with the PS2 (the bouncer,FF10,FF11 etc) and a keyboard/controller combo is on the way for FFXI and it will definatly use the modem (unheard of on the GC but on the way for PS2) and the HDD as an option to but loading times. Miyamoto said he doesn't intend to make the GC online "until it's ready" which could be anytime in the gamecube's life, so FFXI can't go ahead on the GC until it gets it's modem, why wait?
don't think I'm trying to have a go at ninty's here because they "scored" but try and see the differences in terms of file size, multimedia capabilities and internet access. oops went on a bit didn't I ;-)
>Why?
As much as I support Final Fantasy going to a wider audience, if I had the choice of picking up the gamecube version or PS2 version of Final Fantasy for the same price I'd choose the PS2 version, why? not because the GC version may be nothing more than a direct port but mainly because as I said the PS2 has an actual MPEG2 decoder inside (for the DVDs), to play all those spectatular FMVs just as the PS1 used it's VCD capabilities for FF7. I'm not 100% sure of what the outcome would be on the gamecube but unless it's spread across numerous discs (3 for the 4.7gig DVD) compression would effect I guarantee. Not only that Square now have experience with the PS2 (the bouncer,FF10,FF11 etc) and a keyboard/controller combo is on the way for FFXI and it will definatly use the modem (unheard of on the GC but on the way for PS2) and the HDD as an option to but loading times. Miyamoto said he doesn't intend to make the GC online "until it's ready" which could be anytime in the gamecube's life, so FFXI can't go ahead on the GC until it gets it's modem, why wait?
don't think I'm trying to have a go at ninty's here because they "scored" but try and see the differences in terms of file size, multimedia capabilities and internet access. oops went on a bit didn't I ;-)
Hah.. who cares.
Well done to those guys in the room where the meeting was in Japan and America... well done to Nintendo and Square.
SECRET OF MANAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Well done to those guys in the room where the meeting was in Japan and America... well done to Nintendo and Square.
SECRET OF MANAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
THE GBA FF will PLAY TOGETHER WITH THE GC FF.
*faints*
*faints*
Next thing it'll be Nintendo and Sony teaming up..
HA We don't need Sony scum, only MGS2 and GTA3 :o)
HA We don't need Sony scum, only MGS2 and GTA3 :o)
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