NVN is just an API, it's not an application binary. So 32bit will have no effect on it.
It'll take a bit of work/hacking to translate to Metal, but it's completely doable.
Will be interesting to see where this project goes.
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It'll take a bit of work/hacking to translate to Metal, but it's completely doable.
Will be interesting to see where this project goes.
There use to be a playstation one and two program until Sony bought the company and put them out of business. Game companies want you to buy their hardware and software not use some third party software to do it. They have good lawyers and will find a way to sue. Anyone remember napster and people stealing music. iTunes file protection on the file ended that process. Game companies don’t really care about 15 year old games but they do care about current titles running on there current hardware.
I agree - although if there’s any company they might ever consider an exception for, it would be Apple.
Others, like Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook or Google, wouldn’t have a chance.
No, I'm pretty sure the only way to play the Metroid Prime Trilogy right now is with a Wii Disk. If I'm not mistaken, the Trilogy disk sold better than Corruption (Prime 3) or Echoes (Prime 2) on their own.
The trilogy was available as a downloadable game on Wii U (I know, I got it for $10 ~6 years ago), but I think Nintendo shut down the Wii U's online store after the Switch was released. Which leaves a used Wii Disk as the only way you can legally acquire it now. That disk should work fine in a Wii or Wii U... I don't know which console is easier to come by.
It's been rumored that Nintendo would rerelease the trilogy in HD for the Switch for years... it's widely expected it'll come about the same time as Prime 4, which we know nothing about other than it's been getting worked on for about 3 years.
Thanks for the info.
Metroid Prime 4 was/is still in development ... the first 2.5 yrs was with a different company whom had absolutely nothing to show to Nintendo and dropped the ball. I don’t think they had anything more than a storyboard for game scenes.
The creators of the Prime Trilogy was asked/tasked by Nintendo to work on Prime 4, which Nintendo should’ve done in the first place since they did such ground breaking work on the Trilogy: 3rd Person Shooting, 3D Morphball views and movement and controls, a fully explore blue world (regardless of range border limits) which the player discovers more of each area after moving forward to come back get more to progress further forward. Loved the the first two, as I never got to play Corruption.
Hopefully Prime 4 debuts in 2021. I feel a further year delay means Nintendo has finally been working on releasing upgraded internal hardware or more powerful Switch like console.
What are they going to sue over when there is no infringement going on? If they were distributing Switch games, Nintendo would have a case. ROM-distribution sites get shut down all the time. Fan-games and ROM-hacks are a grey area, but Nintendo is free to defend their IP by taking those down as well if they so choose. But emulators by themselves don't infringe on anything they could sue over, and as far as I understand, owning ROMs of games you archive yourself is technically legal as long as you do not distribute them to anyone else.
It's an open source emulator that's existed since 2018. Nintendo can't do anything about it.
Software for $300 hardware released three years ago runs semi-reasonably on hardware supporting the same architecture that was just released and costs $1000 more? Imagine that.
