Homebrew I hope someone is porting these games...

[Jerme]

for homebrew DS projects..

Starfox 64
Donkey kong 64
Banjo kazooie
goldeneye 64
oot

i know it will be hella hard but please.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Sorry, but no-one is doing it at the moment.

Also, YOU FORGOT MAJORA'S MASK!!
AND HARVEST MOON 64!
AND OOT MASTERQUEST!
AND POKEMON COLUSSEUM!

 

[Jerme]

ok

 

[Gore]

Short Answer - No.
Longer Answer-
It borders impossible for anyone to do this in a reasonable amount of time.
It also borders impossible for most the games to be playable, or even full speed.
Then the issue of buttons
N64 - D-Pad, Analog, A, B, Z, L, R, CUp-CDown-CLeft-CRight, Start
DS - D Pad, A,B,X,Y,L,R, Start, Select

Then the issue of porting Nintendo property as homebrew
And now reiterating the fact that it borders impossible for this to be done even if the DS was powerful enough.

 

[Vague Rant]

Nintendo and Rare ported N64 games to the DS, so I think if homebrew authors don't want to port entire closed-source titles without so much as documentation on their engines available to them, they're just being lazy.

 

[Gore]

Nintendo and Rare ported N64 games to the DS, so I think if homebrew authors don't want to port entire closed-source titles without so much as documentation on their engines available to them, they're just being lazy.

Extremely valid point. We should capture those lazy homebrew developers and force them into these projects for our senior member Jerme.

 

[Diablo1123]

Nintendo and Rare ported N64 games to the DS, so I think if homebrew authors don't want to port entire closed-source titles without so much as documentation on their engines available to them, they're just being lazy.

Extremely valid point. We should capture those lazy homebrew developers and force them into these projects for our senior member Jerme.

Like me?
O.o

Yea if there's every a nice homebrew project that I could join I might

Or you can force people somehow.

 

[shadowboy]

Oh, what a brilliant Idea Jerme! I can't believe I never thought of porting the best N64 games to the DS before! I'll get my crack team right on it, all because you had this brilliant idea!

 

[psycoblaster]

Short Answer - No.
Longer Answer-
It borders impossible for anyone to do this in a reasonable amount of time.
It also borders impossible for most the games to be playable, or even full speed.
Then the issue of buttons
N64 - D-Pad, Analog, A, B, Z, L, R, CUp-CDown-CLeft-CRight, Start
DS - D Pad, A,B,X,Y,L,R, Start, Select

Then the issue of porting Nintendo property as homebrew
And now reiterating the fact that it borders impossible for this to be done even if the DS was powerful enough.
that's what the touch screen can be used for.
N64 - D-Pad, A, B, Start, Analog, L + R, Z (on the back), C keys
DS - D-Pad, A, B, Start, Touch screen, L + R, Z, Y, Select

That means Z on the DS sorta can be used like the Z in the N64 (which can be awfully hard to get used to) and while holding the Y, sliding to a direction on the touch screen can be used instead of the C keys.
The analog itself can be on the touch screen.

So about buttons, you don't need to worry about that.

About the reasonable amount of time thingy, no great homebrew was done in a reasonable amount of time. Some took forever but are still being developed.
About the full speed thing, he was asking for a port, not an emulation.
a ported game TO the DS means the game was changed to be able to fully function on the DS. An emulator is different, which uses an emulator to mimic the real system and plays the ROM. That is a full difference between running a ROM and running a ROM on an emulator.


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QUOTE(shadowboy @ Sep 9 2008, 05:56 AM) Oh, what a brilliant Idea Jerme! I can't believe I never thought of porting the best N64 games to the DS before! I'll get my crack team right on it, all because you had this brilliant idea!

shadowboy, you are late. it has already been done by gamefags

 

[kikuchiyo]

Unless this is a joke I'm not getting...the amount of insane requests on this board the last few months have been nuts. It would be easier to write a brand new DS game than to port an existing one you don't have access to the code to.

 

[Vague Rant]

Every time you say "Jap" I get to say "Stupid White Bigoted Cracker." As in, "Man I can't read this Jap release!" "Then wait for the Stupid White Bigoted Cracker release in a month, rere."

Way to overreact to an abbreviation just because at one point people used it as an ethnic slur, despite the fact that it's been used before and since then without racist overtones. Also way to assume that anyone who could possibly say "Jap" is white. Who's bigoted now?

 

[kikuchiyo]

Way to overreact to an abbreviation just because at one point people used it as an ethnic slur, despite the fact that it's been used before and since then without racist overtones. Also way to assume that anyone who could possibly say "Jap" is white. Who's bigoted now?

The appropriate abbreviation for Japan in English is JPN.
Jap is still an ethnic slur.

 

[troydude6]

Insted of making an emulator port each differently, because every game doesn't use all the controls

 

[Ferrariman]

Homebrew = only if a miracle happens.

Commercial = Maybe, but unlikely.

Way to overreact to an abbreviation just because at one point people used it as an ethnic slur, despite the fact that it's been used before and since then without racist overtones. Also way to assume that anyone who could possibly say "Jap" is white. Who's bigoted now?

Great, I never knew that, time to say JAP JAP JAP!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAaaaa, no, racism is bad.

 

[ENDscape]

Homebrew = only if a miracle happens.

Commercial = Maybe, but unlikely.

Way to overreact to an abbreviation just because at one point people used it as an ethnic slur, despite the fact that it's been used before and since then without racist overtones. Also way to assume that anyone who could possibly say "Jap" is white. Who's bigoted now?

Great, I never knew that, time to say JAP JAP JAP!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAaaaa, no, racism is bad.

HAHA lol. Well imo saying those words are nothing unless you put some meaning to it. I use to say that to my japanese friend as a joke lol.But now he's dead or in japan,lost contact...

 

[Vague Rant]

Way to overreact to an abbreviation just because at one point people used it as an ethnic slur, despite the fact that it's been used before and since then without racist overtones. Also way to assume that anyone who could possibly say "Jap" is white. Who's bigoted now?

The appropriate abbreviation for Japan in English is JPN.
Jap is still an ethnic slur.

For one, I refuse to say "jay pee enn" out loud, it's longer than the word it supposedly abbreviates. That doesn't make any damn sense.

For two, why do you have say over what is "appropriate"? Jap is used in Singapore and Hong Kong freely, and hell, the majority of Japanese people are apathetic about the term. Nobody can dictate what abbreviations people use, least of all a few racists from sixty years ago. If you want to argue that it should be dropped out of some sort of pre-emptive defense against offending people, then perhaps you should offer the same advice to Buddhists or even Japanese video game developers, who make liberal use of the swastika despite its historical usage in Germany. But given that I'm not some sort of cultural imperialist, I have no problem with swastikas or with the abbreviation "Jap".

Also, you still never gave a reason why only white people could possibly use "Jap", which I've already debunked by the fact that it's quite common in both Singapore and Hong Kong.

 

[psycoblaster]

Insted of making an emulator port each differently, because every game doesn't use all the controls

Nobody even said they will make an emulator. The guy said "port" not "emulate".
And all ports are ported individually.

 

[Jerme]

this is the funniest shit ever since i was raped

 

[Dwight]

By the time it takes for somebody to port these to DS, Nintendo will already have a new hand held out that can easily emulate N64 games of all kinds.