64DD and Super Mario 64

[Barc0de]

A member (Jimmy130) of 64DD.net brought this to my attention:

(Shadow or someone else, could you please translate this, as my Spanish isn't all that stellar anymore, although I got the gist of it)

http://s5.largeimagehost.com/display...tXh&skey=pri21

[kammedo]

Originally Posted by Barc0de

A member of 64DD.net brought this to my attention:

(Shadow or someone else, could you please translate this, as my Spanish isn't all that stellar anymore, although I got the gist of it)

Intresting...it says that someone showed the author a version of Super mario on a disk!

[TransatlanticFoe]

Holy crap!

Is this as big as I'm assuming it is? And by that, I mean has there ever been any previous proof of M64 on disk?

[kammedo]

Originally Posted by TransatlanticFoe

Holy crap!

Is this as big as I'm assuming it is?

Well it states that the game was just the same, and as far as my spanish alows me to go it mentions loading times.

[MottZilla]

Perhaps someone just figured out how to hack some ROMs to run on the 64DD? It shouldn't be that hard for alot of games.

[NeoPenny]

i have that issue, not with me at the moment.

at the time Mexico's club Nintendo was pretty good keeping up with the 64DD info....

anyway basically what they say are talking about is a tech demo.

It's Mario 64 running on 64DD and they talk about the short load times.

thats pretty much it.

[andoba]

Originally Posted by The proof of speed

One of the reasons which Nintendo decided to use the 64DD as an external media storage device, is it's really fast transfer speeds. For explaining that, a Nintendo worker showed us a copy of Super Mario 64 but into a disk (he states that it's the same game, just copied into a disk). We did look very carefully how much did each part in the game to load, and here are the results:

Between you insert the disk and the save select screen appears, 2.5 seconds do pass. In this time, the start logo and the Mario deformable face has alredy loaded, and of course, all the files with the saved stars, coins, etc.

3 seconds for waiting the game to start. That is nearly unnoticable with the cartridge version.

Takes 2.5 seconds for loading the whole castle, Mario animations, and all that stuff, if you haven't noticed, the game keeps reading data from the disk when you're playing, reading the data on-the-fly.

When you enter into a level, instead of watching the star select sequence, and waiting until the level appears, all the whole level with every object does load in a mere 4 seconds.

If you do compare the loading times with the actual cartridge, most are not noticeable, since the cartridge loading times are very fast too.

So that's it, basically.

[Blur2040]

Originally Posted by andoba

So that's it, basically.

Gah! I thought I was going to get to flex my spanish translating muscle. (Yeah, I have one of those).

Not really interesting though...just the same game on DD disk. Kind of interesting to hear about the load times though.

[Barc0de]

comes to show that they could have ported M3 over in a giffy if everything was in place - and since development was already budgeted and payed for, it would have made a lot of sense to do so too . Something else must be at play with M3 then.

[sayin999]

I heard about this demo awhile back. Didn't realize it was just used to show off the 64dd loading times.