More Nintendo rumours quashed News
Wii News by Ellie Gibson
Following the emergence of yet more rumours regarding the Revolution's unique "freestyle" remote controller and what you'll be able to do with it, Nintendo has informed Eurogamer that it's all just more speculation.
The rumours surfaced after Joystiq.com published excerpts from an article in National Geographic Kids magazine. NGK claimed you'll be able to play old games with the remote controller - using it as a sword, shield or fising pole in Legend of Zelda, for example, or to punch enemies in Super Smash Bros. The magazine also suggested that two controllers could be used as drumsticks or maracas in Donkey Konga.
But this is all just wishful thinking, according to Nintendo. "What the magazine has done is imagine how existing franchises would work with the Revolution controller, rather than actually seeing anything," a spokesperson told Eurogamer, adding: "It's all still speculation."
So there you have it - we've still got a while to wait before Nintendo officially reveals just what the freestyle remote can do. The possibility of playing old favourites in new ways is certainly an interesting one, though...
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ball bearings in tubes are pretty useless for measuring angle and movement.
if you tip a tube with a BB, even at a low angle the ball will eventually hit the end and stop. How's the sensor supposed to know if you then tip the controller further over? It can't. You can use the BB method for digital motion detection but that's pretty useless for using it as a controller mechanism Then there're richochet type problems when the ball hits the end at speed, a thing which also make a "weight on a spring" solution and fluid systems flawed. gyroscopes offer the best solution because when you tip them over, they exert a force until they're at 90degrees to the direction in which gravity is acting. It's then easy to measure the force which the gyrocope is inducing and use it to work out angle and acceleration. I wish Nintendo would comment on the rumour that the controller has gyroscopic feedback. They've said they've one more big suprise to come up. Imagine if you're playing a sword game and the controller actively resists you when you hit something or you get actual recoil when firing a gun... |
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i dont think playing old games on the new controller would be that hard to do, it would just depend on how the hardware handles the controllers responses.
in the video you hear what sounds like max brothers on the nes and the controller flipping up to make him jump. doesn't require too much changing re-assigning joypad action... |
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mr_steve100
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Ah ya see - The National Geographic Kids magazine, being for kids, is probably a good way to hype up the little 'uns, who already own a GC, into buying the Rev. with the prospect of being able to play their old favourites in a new way. Possibly, a nice marketing scheme to get the little buggers interested and getting their parents to buy a Rev. I wouldn't blame them, mind. I want a Rev to.
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I'm not sure that this would be such a brilliant idea if it were true. Personally I think that the true beauty of Nintendo's Virtual Console is the fact that it's pretty much the closest thing to a truly comprehensive games archive that we're ever likely to see - I'd be more than happy if it were to simply preserve the classic titles of years gone by as they were then as a reference to all of us who were not around for those days (technically I was around since the 8-bit era but my brother and I never had a home console until the N64) and I don't see why Nintendo would even need to tweak the gameplay by changing control methods (for that matter I wasn't too impressed by the use of the GCN's C-stick in the Zelda ports so I'd be curious to see how they handle the control methods on the N64 games).
As many have said the Revolution controller has it's place and that's in brand new games. |
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