Do you think 3DS and/or Wii U games will be backward compatible with NX?
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Indeed.
Giving it backwards compatibility with both the Wii U and the 3DS would by proxy give it native backwards compatibility with Wii U, Wii, GameCube, 3DS, DS and GBA, since the Wii U actually has a "virtual Wii" which is the Wii system and can natively run Wii and GameCube games, so no need for emulation, which would make the games easier to implement. While the 3DS can run DS games natively due to having the DSi system inside, as well as the GBA's system.
Thus, they can put a bunch of games as VC easily, since the most processing-heavy games can be played natively (Wii U, Wii, GameCube, 3DS and DS) and the rest can be emulated, which Nintendo already does with actual VC titles for SNES, NES and others.
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It could be easily made compatible, same way they made wii u compatible with wii stuff, easy.
Of course, backwards compatibility is always optional for the costumer, so not having a gamepad wouldn't make you miss out on NX stuff.
Alternatively, if they were to follow my opinion on what the NX should be, the gamepad would be completely unnecessary, i said it on another thread
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Slayerpon Tatsu
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It could sort of be like the gamecube gameboy reader. Loved that feature so much.
@Kuudere-Kun care to elaborate on the GameCube on Wii u?
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Sure.
The Wii U has the Wii's OS integrated, it's known in Gbatemp as the Virtual Wii or vWii for short.
The original Wii was capable of running GC games natively, this function, of course, is absent on the Wii U for normal users due to the Wii U not reading GC discs and the GC games not being available digitally.
The vWii on the Wii U does have the capability to launch GC games, there's a vWii homebrew that allows the execution of GC game images. I cannot elaborate much since it's technically illegal >.< but to keep it short, the Wii U has the software required to run GC games through it's Wii OS, other features not available physically, like memory cards, can be easily simulated.
So, Ninty doesn't have much of an excuse to not put GC games available as VC
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Makes sense. Only problem is that they made the GameCube controller adapter only for smash u. Pretty dumb but maybe we can see itSure.
The Wii U has the Wii's OS integrated, it's known in Gbatemp as the Virtual Wii or vWii for short.
The original Wii was capable of running GC games natively, this function, of course, is absent on the Wii U for normal users due to the Wii U not reading GC discs and the GC games not being available digitally.
The vWii on the Wii U does have the capability to launch GC games, there's a vWii homebrew that allows the execution of GC game images. I cannot elaborate much since it's technically illegal >.< but to keep it short, the Wii U has the software required to run GC games through it's Wii OS, other features not available physically, like memory cards, can be easily simulated.
So, Ninty doesn't have much of an excuse to not put GC games available as VC
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Oh, maybe that's not much of a problem.Makes sense. Only problem is that they made the GameCube controller adapter only for smash u. Pretty dumb but maybe we can see it
That homebrew app allows the use of regular Wii controllers for GC games, not sure about the GC controller adapter, but if some hackers can, then Ninty, who hold the source code and all the documentation, surely could tweak it to work, dunno if it would be possible, but it's likely