Nintendo DS specs revealed...

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Originally Posted by epmode

um. maybe i'm missing something here.
1 gigabit = 1/8 of a gigabyte = roughly 125 megabytes.
the biggest gba game i know of is 16 megabytes, though there might be a 32 megabyte cart.

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Yeah, 256 Mbit was the maximum on the GBA spec sheets.

So most likely most games will be around 64megs. So you can pretty much kiss all those cinema's goodbye. Then again I don't know if I would care, since I would be seeing them on a tiny screen and hence the wow factor is considerably diminished.

I hope they stick with the 2d games since 64megs will make things very cramped for devs for 3d games.

If Nintendo gives it six face buttons arranged Street Fighter style, I will sleep with it every night.

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Originally Posted by Damian79

Yeah, 256 Mbit was the maximum on the GBA spec sheets.

So most likely most games will be around 64megs. So you can pretty much kiss all those cinema's goodbye. Then again I don't know if I would care, since I would be seeing them on a tiny screen and hence the wow factor is considerably diminished.

I hope they stick with the 2d games since 64megs will make things very cramped for devs for 3d games.

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64 megabytes/512mbit is plenty. That's how big RE2 was on N64. Twice the size as Zelda. I don't know why you think 3D games take up more space than 2D games either.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

64 megabytes/512mbit is plenty. That's how big RE2 was on N64. Twice the size as Zelda. I don't know why you think 3D games take up more space than 2D games either.

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Most of RE2 is 2d(ie backgrounds). If they had to make it entirely 2d, you have the problem with repetitive textures. 3d games take up a fair bit of space at the start and take far less than 2d games for adding new levels and the like. But the initial size is quite big. Unless you are happy to see n64 textures on it, it is a tad cramped.

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Originally Posted by Damian79

Most of RE2 is 2d(ie backgrounds). If they had to make it entirely 2d, you have the problem with repetitive textures. 3d games take up a fair bit of space at the start and take far less than 2d games for adding new levels and the like. But the initial size is quite big. Unless you are happy to see n64 textures on it, it is a tad cramped.

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You wouldn't hear me complaining if I basically got a portable N64.

Texture size isn't going to be a problem at resolutions this small.

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Originally Posted by Damian79

Most of RE2 is 2d(ie backgrounds).

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Let's not forget the tons of FMV that made it onto that cart.

Yeah, tose cinemas were both low res and grainy as hell. Then again who would bitch about that in such a small screen.

Wait, I thought 2D games were more memory-intesnsive than 3D games. Virtua Fighter 2 on Saturn has a fraction of the load time that SFA2 has. SoulBlade on PSX loads faster than any 2D fighter, and without anything cut out either...

I think the touch screen is by far the coolest part. The microphone input has potential too. I can't wait to see what R&D1, HAL, and others do with these features.

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Originally Posted by Wildkat

Its says 802.11 based proprietary meaning somthing like 802.11 but not the same. So I doubt it will do anything with a wireless lan.

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So? More likely than not, the lan drivers are stored in the software so they can be updated -- otherwise, Nintendo would have to deal with potentially crappy lan drivers throughout the system's lifespan unless they could flash the lan chipset's ROM (which they probably don't want to do, since that introduces a whole new set of problems). I find the development of homebrew software exploiting the wireless lan entirely feasible, given what we know here.