Nintendo - Zelda Bonus Disc Hands-On, 2004 Releases Trailed

Thanks to Game Informer for their hands-on impressions of Legend Of Zelda: Collector's Edition, as the GameCube bundle/bonus compilation approaches release. The article describes "The first two old-school games [The Legend Of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link] look just as they did when they released way back in the day", and shows comparison screenshots for the N64 titles [The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask], for which "...the graphics are now in high-res." Elsewhere, 1UP has news on Nintendo release dates for 2004, as "The four-player GameCube Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles is still on track for February 9", and "will share that ... release date with Metroid: Zero Mission for Game Boy Advance... [which] expands on the original 8-bit Metroid adventure with revised levels, new story elements, and other added features."

Re:Slowdown/Flicker

[Acidic_Diarrhea]

Continuing in that GameInformer paragraph: "But, on the positive, a lot of flicker that was present in the games when they released on the NES and SNES is magically gone."

These people are paid to write about video games and they don't even know what system Zelda 1 and 2 were released for?

No Link to the Past?

[indros13]

I'm sorry, but I seriously think that the SNES Zelda was the best one. Given its (relatively) small size, why couldn't they include that in an emulator? Now I won't be able to travel by duck...

Except on my ZSNES, of course.

Re:FF: C

[shadowcabbit]

Thanks for pointing out the trailer.

By the way, is it just me, or does FF:CC seem to look and feel an awful lot like a Zelda game, almost more so than an FF game? Judging by the trailer and the seemingly action-oriented combat, it looks that way to me. Of course, I'll buy it either way, but I'm more looking forward to Sword of Mana first...

Why not sell it?

[Trillian_1138]

I still don't understand why they're not selling the bonus disc. I don't want another GameCube, don't want any two of the games that are required to get the bonus offer, and don't want Nintendo Power.

Why not LET me pay $25, which is more than Nintendo Power without the cost of actually sending me the magazine I don't want. Nintendo Power used to be the only good source for Nintendo info, but with dozens of websites out there it's useless. I don't want it.

Couldn't Nintendo make MORE money this way?

-Trillian

Re:Why not sell it?

[smoondog]

One word: eBay. You will find gamecube games at a reasonable price there.

-Sean

Re:Haha?

[Guppy06]

"Maybe Nintendo should take some programming tips from the evil emulator community."

Like what? The only emulators the community has come up with for GameCube play Chip 8 and Game Boy software. To my knowledge, the emulator community has yet to produce an emulator for a console that adequately runs a console from the generation immediate preceeding it. The closest thing to that is a port of SNES9x for N64 that runs incredibly slow. It's just too difficult when you don't have the option of just throwing more RAM and a faster processor into your box.

Nintendo has managed to get a decent version of N64 games to play on a console that simply was not designed to play N64 games. While it may not be perfect, it's still good (better than what these games look like on an N64 emulator for a PC, I'd wager), it's cheap and it allows players who don't have an N64 (quite possible with the recent spike in GCN sales) to play some of the greatest games in gamedom.

You think the EMU community can do better? Put up or shut up.