A pseudo "GCoac?"

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:39 pm

I bet you are all saying "OMFG NO WAI!" But you would not believe the strict logic behind this! On the revolution, it will be backwards compatible with the GC, correct? There must be a section on the board where The Gamecube hardware is, probably smaller. "OMFG YA WAI!" GCoac, discuss.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:40 pm

Emulation.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:42 pm

There is a 50/50 chance. I think nintendo will take backward compatiblity to a new level with this, and much faster. Remember, Nintendo focuses on value rather than getting their hands dirty in dirty money.

minkster · Post by **minkster** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:56 pm

vb_master wrote:Emulation.

It matters really how powerful the system is...for instance a 3ghz pentium 4 cpu can't even emulate a GC close to full speed. The FPS is around 11 or so. I think if they do have GC backwards compatibility it would be through hardware, yet I might be mistaken because I don't know how powerful the revolution will be.

TitaniumHamster · Post by **TitaniumHamster** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:19 pm

Nah. Both the revoution and gamecube run on similar PowerPC (read: Non-Intel) systems, so emulation would not be very difficult to accieve. Also, a main board built only for the gamecube would just be asking for trouble. Personally, I'm wait'n for N64 on a chip, or an us/jap nintendo ique. i mean, hell, the genesis is already on a chip, why not the 64?!

doctorjames · Post by **doctorjames** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:14 pm

Sega licensed the Genesis because their broke and can't make hardware. I doubt Nintendo will license the N64 because of the Revolution. For the Revolution, I think it would have to be emulation. The Nintendo coders know more about the GC than coders trying to reverse engineer the GC.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:29 am

Klefmung wrote:I bet you are all saying "OMFG NO WAI!" But you would not believe the strict logic behind this! On the revolution, it will be backwards compatible with the GC, correct? There must be a section on the board where The Gamecube hardware is, probably smaller. "OMFG YA WAI!" GCoac, discuss.

The Revolution is going to use a PPC G5 CPU core(s) and ATI graphics chipset. If the ATI chip's core is similar to the one used in the GameCube there should be no software needed to run GameCube games besides the bios/firware.

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:05 pm

The I-que or something like that has a Psedo-N64OAC

NES_fanatic · Post by **NES_fanatic** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:53 pm

Emulatedifyificated.
Like the Legend of Zelda disk thing with all the old games for Gamecube.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:59 pm

those were ported i think

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:52 pm

I don't think so.

Post by **Gamelver** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:59 pm

no, they were, for the most part.

they couldn't just update the GC with an N64 emulator, so they ported the games to the GC instead.

Post by **Skyone** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:09 pm

Even if they did make a GCOAC, who the hell would want to rip their Revolution apart?

It's not called Revolution for nothing!

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:17 pm

I mean a part of the revolution required to be cut out. Or just portablize the whole dang thing and do it, but it would be giant compared to a measly gcoac!

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:00 pm

Yeah but then you could play rev games.... and thats what i'm goin for!

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