Gaming So Nintendo DOESN'T use emulators to record their video of DS.

[Aijelsop]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXmrxvMtwzI

In the comments, the creator of Inchworm Animation (a great game x3) says there is hardware to record DS.

yes, you are right. They make a special piece of hardware that will record the DSi video directly, but we don't have one of those. So this was pretty much the only way to make the trailer. Sorry if it looks lo-fi!

 

[Sausage Head]

 

[Zorua]

Isn't it a fact?
Why in the world would they use emulators?

 

[AlanJohn]

Wow big news.
We need to pin this on the front page.

 

[Waflix]

Why would they even use an emulator? (Not that I thought that before editing this post)

 

[Aijelsop]

Idk I always thought they used some form of an emulator (maybe not even using a ROM file) to record.

Maybe like a Nintendo-created-Nintendo-only DS emulator type thing

 

[wasim]

if they used emulator

how did they record it before there was an emulator ??

 

[Rydian]

http://www.pressthebuttons.com/2010/07/isn...-yes-it-is.html

if they used emulator

how did they record it before there was an emulator ??

That's not to say they would use NO$GBA or something, they'd use their own emulator they made and never released.

 

[Waflix]

http://www.pressthebuttons.com/2010/07/isn...-yes-it-is.html

if they used emulator

how did they record it before there was an emulator ??

That's not to say they would use NO$GBA or something, they'd use their own emulator they made and never released.

It doesn't make any sense to have such an emulator. The chance of leaking would be too big.

 

[Sausage Head]

there was an emulator developed by nintendo, but it could only run prototype flagged games. i dont think they used that to record though, only development

 

[Ikki]

Surprise!

There's also a specific capture device for the 3DS.

 

[WiiUBricker]

They're recording videos with a mobile cam.

 

[Rydian]

It doesn't make any sense to have such an emulator.Development purposes, very important. Hell, I've heard Normmatt actually has modified some emulators so he can run AKAIO on them to test things. If something you do might brick, it's better to brick a virtual device and just reboot the emulator than to brick hardware... and it's easier to compile shit and run it in an emulator than to transfer it to hardware every single time you need to test it.

QUOTE(Waflix @ Jun 14 2011, 10:56 AM) The chance of leaking would be too big.

Game companies have a ton of shit that's cooler than emulators that doesn't get leaked, such as encryption keys...

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

I thought this was common knowledge?
Sure some releases are filmed with SDK tools, but there is a slot-2 device for the DS that is used to film/take screenshots.
There was a commercially available clone of it, but it is no longer available due to a copyright claim from Nintendo.

Also +1 what Rydian said, it's more practical in every way to use NitroSDK's tools (even though one of them is an NDS slot-1 adapter designed for pretty much that purpose.)

 

[BORTZ]

http://www.pressthebuttons.com/2010/07/isn...-yes-it-is.html

if they used emulator

how did they record it before there was an emulator ??

That's not to say they would use NO$GBA or something, they'd use their own emulator they made and never released.

It doesn't make any sense to have such an emulator. The chance of leaking would be too big.

Actually thats very important to have lol