A Sad Day for Gamers.

Ninjaa · May 24th, 2002

I am not sure which forum to post this in. Off-Topic just didn't seem right, and this does affect all Nintendo games. If a moderator disagrees with me, they can move it to a more appropriate forum.

Today, Hiroshi Yamauchi, long time CEO of Nintendo, has stepped down. Satoru Iwata will replace him.

Personally, I am saddened by this, although I am sure that many of you will be cheering about now (and Nintendo employees). Yamauchi was the greatest President of Nintendo in its long history, and he has been responsible for much of the magic of the company. He was a strong leader, and will be missed.

Syed Fawad · May 24th, 2002

You even know the names of CEOs.
You just won the Fawad's Best Fanboy award.

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May 24th, 2002

haha

well Ninja, look at it this way: the guy needs his free time too

Ninjaa · May 24th, 2002

Seriously, the guy was my hero. He was by far the most blatant fanboy ever (you would know what I meant if you read any of his interviews). He was mean as hell, and never had anything good to say about the competition. He worked his employees to an extent that was simply inhumane, and he has to have pissed off just about every fan of Nintendo in his stay as the CEO of Nintendo.

Syed, he was a great man. Nintendo representatives and rulers have always been very interesting people, and the interviews with Shigeru Miyamoto, and Hiroshi Yamauchi were always the best. Miyamoto is always nice, and speaks freely. Yamauchi basically did his best to make everyone hate him.

My favorite Yamauchi moment? the time that IGN reported that in the next interview with Yamauchi, he was expected to knock over an old lady, take candy from a baby, and kick a puppy. It summed up his personality nicely.

I'll seriously miss the guy. He did a good job for Nintendo. It was under his rule that the NES was developed, and with the time that he picked to leave, Nintendo has never held a brighter future in its hands.

**Shiori** · May 24th, 2002

Maybe he suddenly grew up.

CEOs are supposed to be short-lived tenures anyway, even in Japan. He prolly had a wonderful run, but a successor has been groomed, and it's simply time for him to step down, sip his green tea, and maybe enjoy a Gamecube game or two.

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Syed Fawad · May 24th, 2002

Opps sorry Ninja.

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REi_FoX · May 24th, 2002

let the new guy have a chance maybe he can do something good or maybe better

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ToMegaTherion · May 24th, 2002

Well, Hiroshi Yamauchi is the only president of Nintendo we have known, he is inevitably the best

Btw do not forget he made some stupid choices like preserving the cartridge support for the N64.

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REi_FoX · May 24th, 2002

yeah the cartridge thing really sucks...

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May 24th, 2002

it helped killing the support.

there is an advantage though: look at the intro of Ridge Racer 64; A PS and couldn't do that because of the cdrom system. New consoles can do things like that because they're much faster.

ToMegaTherion · May 24th, 2002

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it helped killing the support.

there is an advantage though: look at the intro of Ridge Racer 64; A PS and couldn't do that because of the cdrom system. New consoles can do things like that because they're much faster.

Yeah but the cartridge is limited, that's a reason why squaresoft choose Sony for FF7

Btw, cartridge was not so bad, just look at Resident Evil 2 on N64, with videos and all the stuff of the Ps version

Since the Famicom, Nintendo has always been my favourite, I had all theirs consoles, just for Zelda

I'm still playing Zelda2 on my nes

I love this gold cartridge

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**Kirby** · May 24th, 2002

No load times with the cartidges and can save with the flash memory built in without the use of memory cards

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REi_FoX · May 24th, 2002

yeah but you wont get good sounds like in ridge racer 64...

not like the ps version the sounds rocks!!!

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May 24th, 2002

the sound in rr64 is quite good actually...

Spira · May 24th, 2002

i think Yamauchi made his decision to use cartridge coz thyre harder to duplicate than CD's.
Wise decision but hackers always get there in the end

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**Demigod** · May 24th, 2002

Square could have developed for the N64, except they wanted to show off their CG technology. If FF7 was a true 3D game (no pre-rendered crap) and had cut-scenes for the CGs then they could have easily fit it into the N64 game cartridges. Instead Square wanted to impress people with flashy graphics and movies and ended up neglecting the gameplay. I think they should have stuck with Nintendo.

The multi-media is what fills most of a PSX CD. If you chop all that out then you actually end up with a really small game. And the loading time on the PSX is rather dreadful. The first time I saw a PSX in action I was very unimpressed. It took like 10 seconds to load a fight scene in SS3 when in the Neo Geo version running on my P100 it was instantaneous.

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n0estoy · May 24th, 2002

long live the PS!

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Cless · May 25th, 2002

screw the bs and up with emulating it.

Ninjaa · May 25th, 2002

I have always been a cartridge person myself. Load time bothers me more than any kind of graphical error. In the N64's case, it wasn't the cartridge though, it was everything in the system. It wasn't developer friendly, and that killed it faster than anything.

The graphics on the BS1 were very unimpressive for the most part, and the load times rivalled those of the best PC games. In comparison, the N64 version of RE2 was simply gorgeous, and fit into a space that was a fraction of the BS1's version.

One last thing to say in the N64's defense. Name one game on BS1 that could hope to compete in audio, graphics, or fun factor with Conker's Bad Fur Day.

n0estoy · May 25th, 2002

lol, that game came out after the PS absolutely crushed nintendo...it was too little, too late.

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Ninjaa Banned Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Soviet Canuckistan Posts: 7,778	A Sad Day for Gamers. I am not sure which forum to post this in. Off-Topic just didn't seem right, and this does affect all Nintendo games. If a moderator disagrees with me, they can move it to a more appropriate forum. Today, Hiroshi Yamauchi, long time CEO of Nintendo, has stepped down. Satoru Iwata will replace him. Personally, I am saddened by this, although I am sure that many of you will be cheering about now (and Nintendo employees). Yamauchi was the greatest President of Nintendo in its long history, and he has been responsible for much of the magic of the company. He was a strong leader, and will be missed.

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Syed Fawad -PM to advertise here- Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: In an average country of an average planet of the solar system of an average star of an average galaxy of an average cluster. Still not average... Posts: 8,260	You even know the names of CEOs. You just won the Fawad's Best Fanboy award. __________________ Asus K8N (nForce3) AMD64 3000+ (754) 768MB DDR 400MHz (PC 3200) nVidia Geforce 6600GT 128MB (AGP) Aquamark3 - 53,000 "Good friends mustn't always be together. It is the feeling of oneness when distant that proves a lasting friendship"

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Samor Guest Posts: n/a	haha well Ninja, look at it this way: the guy needs his free time too

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Ninjaa Banned Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Soviet Canuckistan Posts: 7,778	Seriously, the guy was my hero. He was by far the most blatant fanboy ever (you would know what I meant if you read any of his interviews). He was mean as hell, and never had anything good to say about the competition. He worked his employees to an extent that was simply inhumane, and he has to have pissed off just about every fan of Nintendo in his stay as the CEO of Nintendo. Syed, he was a great man. Nintendo representatives and rulers have always been very interesting people, and the interviews with Shigeru Miyamoto, and Hiroshi Yamauchi were always the best. Miyamoto is always nice, and speaks freely. Yamauchi basically did his best to make everyone hate him. My favorite Yamauchi moment? the time that IGN reported that in the next interview with Yamauchi, he was expected to knock over an old lady, take candy from a baby, and kick a puppy. It summed up his personality nicely. I'll seriously miss the guy. He did a good job for Nintendo. It was under his rule that the NES was developed, and with the time that he picked to leave, Nintendo has never held a brighter future in its hands.

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Shiori :3 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Seoul, South Korea Posts: 10,126	Maybe he suddenly grew up. CEOs are supposed to be short-lived tenures anyway, even in Japan. He prolly had a wonderful run, but a successor has been groomed, and it's simply time for him to step down, sip his green tea, and maybe enjoy a Gamecube game or two. __________________ "...And when I finally meet you again, I want to ask you - have you found what you were looking for? Because that's what I felt you were doing, all these years. And I want to hear you answer, "Yes, I have, thank you for asking," and we'll be together again, until the end of our days..."

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Syed Fawad -PM to advertise here- Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: In an average country of an average planet of the solar system of an average star of an average galaxy of an average cluster. Still not average... Posts: 8,260	Opps sorry Ninja. __________________ Asus K8N (nForce3) AMD64 3000+ (754) 768MB DDR 400MHz (PC 3200) nVidia Geforce 6600GT 128MB (AGP) Aquamark3 - 53,000 "Good friends mustn't always be together. It is the feeling of oneness when distant that proves a lasting friendship"

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REi_FoX ¡¾¡¾¡¾¡ Fantasy ¡¾¡¾¡¾¡ Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Manila, Philippines Posts: 3,649	let the new guy have a chance maybe he can do something good or maybe better __________________ FoR PiNoYs WhO WanTs To BuY CheAp ParTs CliCk Here also Here Processor - Intel Quad 2 Quad q6600 G0 Stepping [Stock Settings] Memory - 2GB Team Elite 800mhz Graphics Card - Palit Daytone Geforce 8800 GT 512 MB Mobo - Abit IP-35-E OS - Dual Boot Windows XP Professional SP3 and Ubuntu Linux Pad - PS1 and PS2 > USB Adapter 3DMark05 Score - 35082

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ToMegaTherion Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: France Posts: 94	Well, Hiroshi Yamauchi is the only president of Nintendo we have known, he is inevitably the best Btw do not forget he made some stupid choices like preserving the cartridge support for the N64. __________________ The eye of the Night One Have seen the dawn of gods In the well of mimer And through the flight of ravens

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REi_FoX ¡¾¡¾¡¾¡ Fantasy ¡¾¡¾¡¾¡ Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Manila, Philippines Posts: 3,649	yeah the cartridge thing really sucks... __________________ FoR PiNoYs WhO WanTs To BuY CheAp ParTs CliCk Here also Here Processor - Intel Quad 2 Quad q6600 G0 Stepping [Stock Settings] Memory - 2GB Team Elite 800mhz Graphics Card - Palit Daytone Geforce 8800 GT 512 MB Mobo - Abit IP-35-E OS - Dual Boot Windows XP Professional SP3 and Ubuntu Linux Pad - PS1 and PS2 > USB Adapter 3DMark05 Score - 35082

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Samor Guest Posts: n/a	it helped killing the support. there is an advantage though: look at the intro of Ridge Racer 64; A PS and couldn't do that because of the cdrom system. New consoles can do things like that because they're much faster.

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Kirby red like my stool Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 9,036	No load times with the cartidges and can save with the flash memory built in without the use of memory cards __________________ AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+ @ 2.68GHz, Radeon HD4850 512MB, 2GB PC3200 2-3-2-5, ABit AN8-SLi, Sound Blaster X-FI XtremeMusic

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REi_FoX ¡¾¡¾¡¾¡ Fantasy ¡¾¡¾¡¾¡ Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Manila, Philippines Posts: 3,649	yeah but you wont get good sounds like in ridge racer 64... not like the ps version the sounds rocks!!! __________________ FoR PiNoYs WhO WanTs To BuY CheAp ParTs CliCk Here also Here Processor - Intel Quad 2 Quad q6600 G0 Stepping [Stock Settings] Memory - 2GB Team Elite 800mhz Graphics Card - Palit Daytone Geforce 8800 GT 512 MB Mobo - Abit IP-35-E OS - Dual Boot Windows XP Professional SP3 and Ubuntu Linux Pad - PS1 and PS2 > USB Adapter 3DMark05 Score - 35082

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Samor Guest Posts: n/a	the sound in rr64 is quite good actually...

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Spira Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: lost Posts: 48	i think Yamauchi made his decision to use cartridge coz thyre harder to duplicate than CD's. Wise decision but hackers always get there in the end __________________ Words are like bullets, once shot, they cannot be retreived:rockets: Windows XP 19" monitor Amd Athlon XP 1800+ Processor 576 DDR RAM 100GB Hard Disk Nvidia Geforce 4 MX440 64Mb DDR RAM 8x8x54 CDRW +40x12x48x CDRW And a **ty 54k connection Emuvision**

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Demigod これはバタスです Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Posts: 5,871	Square could have developed for the N64, except they wanted to show off their CG technology. If FF7 was a true 3D game (no pre-rendered crap) and had cut-scenes for the CGs then they could have easily fit it into the N64 game cartridges. Instead Square wanted to impress people with flashy graphics and movies and ended up neglecting the gameplay. I think they should have stuck with Nintendo. The multi-media is what fills most of a PSX CD. If you chop all that out then you actually end up with a really small game. And the loading time on the PSX is rather dreadful. The first time I saw a PSX in action I was very unimpressed. It took like 10 seconds to load a fight scene in SS3 when in the Neo Geo version running on my P100 it was instantaneous. __________________ CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Mobo: Intel DX48BT2 Memory: 8192 MB PC10600 DDR3 Videocard: PNY Geforce 9800 GX2 Soundcard: On-board SigmaTel High Definition Audio Hard drive: 1 TB Seagate & 1 TB Hitachi Optical drive: LG GGW-H20L (2x BD-R DL) PSU: Nexus 1000 Watt OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)

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n0estoy old-timer Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: texas Posts: 1,317	long live the PS! __________________ .::system specs::.antec nsk2480:.intel e5200:.ati hd4670:.2gb ddr2 ram:.liteon bdrom:.vista:. .::currently playing::. SF4:.FF Tactics:.super mario 3:.boom blox:. .::currently listening::.mia:.gorrilaz:.lady sov:.sigur ros:.bebel gilberto:. .::currently watching::.naruto:.seirei no moribito:.FMA remix:.lost:.deathnote

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Cless Banned Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,809	screw the bs and up with emulating it.

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Ninjaa Banned Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Soviet Canuckistan Posts: 7,778	I have always been a cartridge person myself. Load time bothers me more than any kind of graphical error. In the N64's case, it wasn't the cartridge though, it was everything in the system. It wasn't developer friendly, and that killed it faster than anything. The graphics on the BS1 were very unimpressive for the most part, and the load times rivalled those of the best PC games. In comparison, the N64 version of RE2 was simply gorgeous, and fit into a space that was a fraction of the BS1's version. One last thing to say in the N64's defense. Name one game on BS1 that could hope to compete in audio, graphics, or fun factor with Conker's Bad Fur Day.

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n0estoy old-timer Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: texas Posts: 1,317	lol, that game came out after the PS absolutely crushed nintendo...it was too little, too late. __________________ .::system specs::.antec nsk2480:.intel e5200:.ati hd4670:.2gb ddr2 ram:.liteon bdrom:.vista:. .::currently playing::. SF4:.FF Tactics:.super mario 3:.boom blox:. .::currently listening::.mia:.gorrilaz:.lady sov:.sigur ros:.bebel gilberto:. .::currently watching::.naruto:.seirei no moribito:.FMA remix:.lost:.deathnote