is the 3ds as powerful as the gamecube?
Is the 3ds as powerful as the gamecube?
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Almost. It's pretty much a portable PS2.
Powerful is the wrong word. But its graphical potential with efficient programming can lead to rendering on par with gamecube standards.
Considering all the advantages and add-ons with a home console compared to a handheld, the gamecube is still more powerful. If you were curious about gamecube emulation on the 3ds; I wouldn't count on it.
well the games certainly don't look better imo.
Would you say Gamecube emulation on the Switch would be possible?
For sure. I mean, the even the Wii could play gamecube discs natively. I'm sure the WiiU could too. The issue in this case again is more about getting software set up properly. Home brews are created by the community, and we all know they aren't professionals. They try to find exploits in how the Wii will decode Gamecube discs, and take that to how the WiiU decodes Wii discs. Which takes time and certainly isn't effective. Its after that when they reverse engineer and rewrite for a more stable result.
The switch is also a brand new console by nintendo, still getting updated and locked down like the 3ds, so we probably wont see any home brews or emulation any time soon. If I'm not mistaken, the switch had already been browser hacked within the first few days, so nintendo had to remove the browser all together.
>almost
>pretty much ps2
>implying gamecube was more powerful then the PS2
Tegra tablets already play gamecube
If it's running dolphin i doubt it but if it was an official nintendo emulator it'd run perfect
Yes. Dolphin runs even on the GPD Win, a device close to with the Switch in its mobile mode.
The Wii and Wii U where literary beefy GameCubes, the Switch is a totally different architecture.
>Wii could play gamecube discs natively
oh shit I never knew this I found a wii on the first finding out it could use GC controllers for smash and some games was really neat since the thought of autisticly flailing my arms around to play a game made me never touch a wii
I really do need to softmod this thing and start reading into shit and download some games
also how shitty is 3DS emulation is it worth trying out now?
Anybody can tell you that the Gamecube was far more powerful than the PS2. It takes 20 seconds to find this out on google.
>Tegra tablets already play gamecube
>If it's running dolphin i doubt it
What else would be used to play the Gamecube games?
Architecture just makes optimising it harder yeah. However, its still got the specs and power to play them fine. We've done the same to numerous other gaming devices, and even home computers.
Do you mean the selection of emulators on the 3ds? From what I see, you might be better off getting a PSP or older DS if you wanted stability. The 3ds doesn't have a large selection yet and still seems to be issues with SNES titles as you'd expect on any platform. I'd say its not worth potentially bricking your 3ds over yet. 3dbrew.org
I meant emulation of the 3DS its late my brain canknot into sentence
the wii runs gamecube games in the same way as the gameboy colour runs gameboy games
the newer console is just a faster version of the older one, and can simply run in a slower "mode" to run the older game, and isn't really emulating anything
I don't know, Official NINTENDO gamecube backwards compatibility from NINTENDO
on the NINTENDO switch, the hardware in question?
>Architecture just makes optimising it harder yeah.
No. Different architecture requires several times the original horses to run foreign code.
Wii and Wii U literary didn't need to change anything for running GameCube code.
It literally was. Look at all the downgrades they had to give Tales of Symphonia when it was ported to the PS2.
>Anybody can tell you that the Gamecube was far more powerful than the PS2. It takes 20 seconds to find this out on google.
No? What are you basing this on, clock rate? Kek.
PS2's custom chips where much faster it taken properly advantage.
>look at shitty developers and their games when comparing consoles
>on Sup Forums
>games
>instead of actual hardware
That's retarded user. Go back to .
>literally the same game
>they had to downgrade the shadows, animations and other things while ALSO cutting the framerate in half
>the PS2 is totally stronger guys
>this comparison means nothing
Are you retarded? A stronger CPU means jackshit if that power isn't actually usable. The GCN was effectively and often objectively stronger than the PS2.
Depends which model you're talking about. The New 3DS is about on par with the GC. The old 3DS is on par with a PSP.
it's not very fair to compare the same game between two very different consoles, simply because the games is only likely to have gotten the Full Treatment on one of the systems it came out on, if any
if you're trying to argue which has better looking games, you should pick the best looking for either console. of course, this is complicated by the fact they will certainly be different games, so difficult to simply place side-by-side
different consoles also have different strengths and weaknesses, and different people have different preferences, one person might hold a particular strength/weakness in higher regard than someone else
that, and none of this is likely to directly affect how good the games are, making the whole argument pretty pointless to many people, who don't care at all
huh? there's two major versions? do they use different games or what?
>literally the same game
>they had to downgrade the shadows, animations and other things while ALSO cutting the framerate in half
>the PS2 is totally stronger guys
>this comparison means nothing
This is relevant how? This means shit if the developers can't program for a different platform.
>Are you retarded? A stronger CPU means jackshit if that power isn't actually usable. The GCN was effectively and often objectively stronger than the PS2.
You don't even know the difference between coding for different platforms and call others retarded? Also CPU? The GS was probably the harder part to cope with.
No, a shitty developer means jack shit, as I said, go to if you can't comprehend hardware. They are tech illiterates there.
There's the 3DS, the 2DS (runs on 3DS hardware), the New 3DS, and the New 2DS. Big boost, hardware wise. There's only a couple of games that outright REQUIRE 3DS hardware, though. Xenoblade Chronicles is one.
so it's sort of like the N64 memory expansion? useless for some games, enhances other games that explicitly support it, and required by a small handful of games?
> There's only a couple of games that outright REQUIRE 3DS hardware, though.
Meant that there was only a couple of games that outright REQUIRE New 3DS hardware.
Imagine games like san andreas that pushed the PS2 to the limits on the gamecube.
Sort of. There's a lot more improvements than what the Expansion pack provided. 3D function tracks eye position, so it always looks good. Game loading is a LOT faster. They also include a little nub to act as a second joystick.
>The GS was probably the harder part to cope with
I thought the VPUs were
Go back to you stupid uneducated children. Video games are fun for morons and I am not one.
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>not having portable PS2
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The Gamecube runs a single-core PowerPC CPU clocked at 485 MHz. The 3DS has a dual-core ARM11 CPU clocked at 268 MHz, although it would seem that newer 3DS models feature an 804 MHz CPU. The multiple cores of the 3DS are split between system and application software, however, so it is not as if that can be leveraged for a faster gaming experience.
For the GPU, the Gamecube's "flipper" GPU seems to beat out the N3DS' PICA200 in terms of GFLOPS, but not in terms of clock speed.
In terms of RAM, the 3DS kicks the Gamecube's ass, having 128 MB on older models and 256 MB on newer models, compared to the Gamecube's 43 MB, of which only 24 MB are usable as main memory.
I'm not really sure if we can say that the Gamecube was really good for its time, or the 3DS is rather shitty for its time.
Does switch even have emulators?
It was. Most games have better graphics than their PS2 counterparts.
Neat. But useless since Vita 2 will come out in a few years.
>Vita 2
lol
sony is out of the handheld market and even shitendo has problems because japs moved to mobile phones
You havent been in japan obviously
They turned in patents for a handheld console. It should compete with switch.
I don't care how powerful this thing is, it has a terrible, terrible resolution.
However I don't care how terrible, terrible the resolution is, it has a good catalog of games. So it's more like me trying to adapt myself to ancient technology for the sake of some quality games. Not that I don't do that with older consoles.
But I tell you what, it'd be fucking nice to have a portable gamecube with both 3DS and gamecube games. That'd be fucking neato. The switch is more powerful but that thing is expensive and barely has any games.
Thats why every multi console game looked miles better, higher resolution and further draw distance
The Gamecube was good for its time. It was comparable to the OXBOX despite having a significantly lower retail price and was well above the PS2 which came out the year before.
Im surprised how many people never knew this. PS2 actually had the shittiest graphics and performance of any console at the time. I don't know why it was so popular. But Xbox had the best graphics of any console at the time, it was severely underrated imo. Most powerful console and computer really for a while. Same with the 360, there was a period where the 360 was actually more powerful than top end consumer gaming pc's at the time of its launch. GC was pretty great though too.