--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 169 ARCADE Ref: DGU00010 Date: 12/23/96 From: ROB VASQUEZ Time: 10:34pm \/To: O. DAVID SALERY (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: SOTE KB> overhead, or "camera." The action is there, and it is really fun KB> gunning down storm troopers. As far as I can tell many of the levels KB> are designed using real 3D, and graphics are good. I'd recommend this KB> game to anyone with a N64. It is worth it, especially if you like Star RV> RV> It is all real 3d...no raycasting or 2d maps here OD> OD> Sorta like the trees in Mario 64? All of mario 64 and all the nu64 games are 3d...not all that there willl be will be 3d, but at least all the ones out now, cept for mk trilogy --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Unholy Realms BBS (517)695-9732 (1:239/666) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 169 ARCADE Ref: DGU00011 Date: 12/23/96 From: ROB VASQUEZ Time: 10:35pm \/To: O. DAVID SALERY (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: N64 RPGS RV> You cant program in the NU64's ability to procces more graphics and do it RV> faster than a PSX. Just think of it this way, on a PSx you might max out at RV> 5000 textured and shaded objects, and the NU64 maxes out at, say, 6 or 7 RV> thousand and does them with bilinear filtering OD> OD> Interesting, but that won't mean much if they're both running off a (God OD> forbid) double speed CD drive........if they both were.... Yeah, that 300k a sec double speed drive....that abou tthe worst thing they could do....the ROM carts will xfer about 600 megs a second.... --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Unholy Realms BBS (517)695-9732 (1:239/666) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 169 ARCADE Ref: DGU00012 Date: 12/23/96 From: ROB VASQUEZ Time: 10:36pm \/To: O. DAVID SALERY (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: NINTENDO 64 RV> The playstation doesnt have as much power as the NU64, and the 64DD is just RV> storage medium, it doesnt nothing for speed or power OD> OD> Speen as far as GRAPHICS or how it stores it?? Its really for storing games or 3d pictures from the new 3d paint program coming out, your supposed to be able to change pictures from games and add ew characters etc --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Unholy Realms BBS (517)695-9732 (1:239/666) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 169 ARCADE Ref: DGU00013 Date: 12/23/96 From: ROB VASQUEZ Time: 10:37pm \/To: MARC MARSHALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Nintendo 64 MM> Squaresoft does REALLY good music for their games. If the FF7 CDs doubled a MM> music CDs, ya wouldnt have to go and buy the soundtrack :) They shouldnt have a problem ;using the game music as a music cd, most dos games have the musi c on them --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Unholy Realms BBS (517)695-9732 (1:239/666) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 169 ARCADE Ref: DGU00014 Date: 12/23/96 From: ROB VASQUEZ Time: 10:39pm \/To: O. DAVID SALERY (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Nintendo 64 Sucks Big AK> You have a point there. But i have a question for you which was out first t AK> regular NES or Sega? OD> OD> He usually doesn't, but that's a good question! Are you talking about the OD> Sega Master system or the Sega 16 bit system? The sega master system was superior to the nes, but the super ness was better than the genesis, and the n64 is technologicaly supereior to the saturn but isnt everything better than the saturn? --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Unholy Realms BBS (517)695-9732 (1:239/666) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 169 ARCADE Ref: DGU00015 Date: 12/23/96 From: ROB VASQUEZ Time: 10:40pm \/To: SYDNEY ROC (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Best fighting game of all SR> MC> Hi Sydney, ummm Mortal Kombat IS a fighting game... It has moves and SR> MC> combos and some of the best Story Lines in any game... SR> SR> It might have moves and combos and story lines, but it has no fighting. SR> In MY book, a fight is when two people face each other for at least 30 SR> seconds without a head flying off. As I said before: It's not a fighting SR> game, it's just an excuse for blood and gore. if there were no fatalites, MK would have been an also rean, as a game it sucks --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Unholy Realms BBS (517)695-9732 (1:239/666) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 169 ARCADE Ref: DGW00000 Date: 12/25/96 From: O. DAVID SALERY Time: 05:28pm \/To: KEN PRETTY (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Nintendo 64 Sucks Big KP> EY> about. The cartridges can only hold 8-12 Megabytes. KP> Last time I checked The cartridge held 125 megs... Yeah, 'cause the KI Gold cart was pretty heavy! KP> EY> A CD can hold 650 Megabytes. The advantage for a KP> CD's are variable..some hold 650, some hold all the way to a gig and most KP> the ones made hold 120. See, here we go with the different formats!! If everything was universal ife would me MUCH easier! KP> EY> cartridged is it is a lot faster. However, it holds KP> EY> very little information. And it is a LOT more It's a lot more only in SOME cases! --- GEcho+Intermail+OS/2 * Origin: SHOCK Therapy BBS, Boynton Beach-Florida (1:3609/64) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 169 ARCADE Ref: DGW00001 Date: 12/25/96 From: O. DAVID SALERY Time: 05:30pm \/To: MATT CLINGER (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Mkii MC> Does anyone have any codes to be the Hidden players in MKII for Genesis? MC> MC> Thanx. You play MK too much! =) --- GEcho+Intermail+OS/2 * Origin: SHOCK Therapy BBS, Boynton Beach-Florida (1:3609/64) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 169 ARCADE Ref: DGW00002 Date: 12/25/96 From: O. DAVID SALERY Time: 05:30pm \/To: RANDY MEEKIN (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Carts storing as much as a CD! RM> In reference to your reply saying that the biggest SNES game was about 40 m RM> Yes, but that was 40 megabit not MEGABYTE! BIG difference. Your orgetting RM> that it costs about $30 for every 8 MEGABYTE and that is being rather gener RM> too. Someplaces it is more than that. CD's are 600 megaBYTE not megaBIT. Interesting!! Someone who ACTUALLY *KNOWS* the difference! --- GEcho+Intermail+OS/2 * Origin: SHOCK Therapy BBS, Boynton Beach-Florida (1:3609/64) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 169 ARCADE Ref: DGW00003 Date: 12/25/96 From: O. DAVID SALERY Time: 05:33pm \/To: ROB VASQUEZ (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: someone said this BE> It will be using an optical drive, which is pretty much a CD in a caddy BE> which runs a little faster but holds a little less. OD> OD> Oh well....it's an improvement over the carts!! That's for sure.... RV> RV> Nothing wrong with the carts, I dont see any games being held back by it Yet....I'm talking about space! I'm hoping more space will encourage LONGER gameplay! Chrono Trigger was only 32 megs, but I was stuck on that game for weeks! My first RPG lasted me longer than all my games put together!! I eat 'em all within a 20 hour to a 3 day period! --- GEcho+Intermail+OS/2 * Origin: SHOCK Therapy BBS, Boynton Beach-Florida (1:3609/64)