Give it time and I'm sure the CD-based games will be available - once Nintendo figures out how to deal with the huge download times.
The same thing could be said about Neo-Geo games available for the Rev (that would be so freaking awesome) - the ROMs are waaaay too large for dialup customers to deal with.
http://revolution.ign.com/articles/697/697882p1.html
Well, It appears Sega has successfully convinced Satoru Iwata, to place Mega Drive/Genesis game on the Revolution, could this be good news for us Sega fans?
BIGGG UPDATE to this topic!
Follow-up with yesterday's announcement of supporting PC-Engine/Turbografx and Genesis game software via virtual console on Revolution, Nintendo confirmed that PC-Engine/Turobgrafx CD-ROM2 gameswill be supported, but no confirmation on Mega-CD/Sega-CD games yet.
http://www.the-magicbox.com/gaming.htm
I think it is absolutely hilarious how everyone on the internet thinks they are the first to post this news to the forums. This news has been posted at least 1,000 times since yesterday on every forum on the internet. And people are still acting surprised. Maybe I am from the future?
Where's SuperGrafx?
Man I want to believe that they'll offer CD-based games...but until I see some corroberation from a larger news site that references a Nintendo press release or quotes a named Nintendo source...I'll not get my hopes up.
It's a matter of the size of the meda. IIRC, the Rev has 512MB of internal flash storage. CD-based games can theoretically get up to 640MB per disc (granted, most games didn't completely fill the discs), so one game would either completely fill up the flash storage, or couldn't even be saved. Besides, the average gamer wouldn't want to hang around and download what is essentially an ISO of the game before they can play it - even on a broadband connection (dialup? forget about it).
Unless Nintendo develops some sort of streaming methodology for networked disc access instead of having to download the entire image in one shot...hmmm...
It would be cool if unreleased in the U.S. titles were released to the Revolution, but It probably won't happen.
Maybe they mean the real CDs will be supported (re: if you own them) but only the carts will be available for download. It would be easy to do this with the PC Engine/TurboGrafx since the CD attachment requires no extra emulation. But the Sega CD has a new 68000 and a mess of other stuff.
Agk! The fourth thread since yesterday!
The official thread is in News Feed, so please direct all posts there. :)
CD-ROM2? Only? No Super CD?
Even if the console supports actual TurboGrafx/PC Engine discs, I can't see how are these going to work on an European REV since the system was never released on Europe, maybe Nintendo will make these region-free?
Turbografx/PCE discs have always been region-free.
True enough, but the PC Engine has never had a slower version of the hardware for PAL territories. So you'll either need a PAL 60 TV or the Revolution will need to upscale the game to HD (bleh). I hope most TVs over there have PAL 60 these days.
In my opinion NONE of the new consoles should work with PAL 50. PAL60 or HD only. It's the wave of the future.
Uh, are you sure? I mean, what's this then? And this? Notice the mention of a 220v power supply, and also notice the slightly different logo -- the "16" was dropped for Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
What makes you say that? Anything can run on PAL 50, it just has to be converted, which is a process easily done on the Revolution itself. You know how Master System games are generally the same for US and UK?Quote:
So you'll either need a PAL 60 TV or the Revolution will need to upscale the game to HD (bleh). I hope most TVs over there have PAL 60 these days.
Yeah but then they are missing frames and the like. Anything that is generated by the hardware cane be generated at pretty much any frame rate. Stuff that is pre-rendered must drop frames. PAL frame rate sucks ass. That's why they need to step up to PAL 60 and leave PAL 50 in the past... WHERE IT BELONGS. NTSC needs to go into the past as well.
Also, Europe/England confuses me. To me they are the same thing because they both begin with the letter "E".