Ocarina of Time might be coming to 3DS

[Deathcom3s]

Old news, but i felt like posting it anyway.

Quote from 1up;

We've seen a short teaser demo with the Ocarina of Time title screen, more or less confirming this rumor. This appears to be legit, Ocarina of Time is coming to the 3DS.
The Nintendo 64 classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time may be coming to the Nintendo 3DS, according to allegedly leaked images from Nintendo.

1UP user OKeijiDragon blogged about the find earlier today, saying that he found the images tucked away in the company's E3 press packet.

The images have since been removed, but we've rehosted them below.

If this is legit, it's a definite buy for me.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Old news.

However it is still possible that this was a techdemo like square enix did with FF7 as all the pictures show link in cutscene like ways as apposed to ingame play.

 

[Steel_Stallion]

Don't be so sure that those are cutscenes. If you look up some 3DS gameplay vids, well...

that little thing is pretty powerful.

 

[Dr Super Good]

The fact there is no interface points towards eithor engine tests or a tech demo. The fact nentindo wanted them removed so fast generally means it was a tech demo.

 

[BlinkBoy]

nah, it's official: http://e3.gamespot.com/story/6265862/legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-coming-to-3ds it was also announced in an interview (i read in teh wikipedia). Plus why would you waste resources to remake the graphics of an old game just for a demo?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Square enix did that with their FF7 intro.

Lots of companies do it to get their programmers used to new hardware or to show off what games could look like on hardware.

However again, the pictures shown lack interface and are not in the usual play camera. This points towards very early production footage showing off the most basic of mechanics if the game is going through production.

 

[Steel_Stallion]

 

[TLW]

It's all well and good updating the graphics into 3d etc, but I hope they add some new stuff instead of just a complete remake with higher graphics.

Will be awesome, don't get me wrong, could just be a bit more fun with some new area's and mini games.

 

[leet.firefox]

I'd rather see it on the PS3.

 

[Lincoln_Logs]

I want a new Kingdom Hearts game on the PS3. -_- But Zelda would be sweet too.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

gamefaqs have created a forum for the game. wikipedia also lists 3ds as a console on the games own article site.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Thats old news. I am pretty sure it is confirmed already the project is under way by nentindo. Weather they let it complete or decide to explore another direction we will have to wait and see.

 

[Geazergimli2]

This isn't old news to me lol, thats awesome! i loved that game back then

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i actually played the game cube version of it last week. i could have played the nintendo 64 version if i had wanted to but i dont know where my nintendo 64 is at the moment.

 

[Dr Super Good]

You should really look into emulators. As long as you own the game ligitimatly that is.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

i have used emulators to play games that i purchased. i havent found any gamecube emulator that can legally run games though. so, unless i find that i play my gamecube games either on gamecube or wii.

 

[Dark_Arm3]

Interesting... but why the DS?

 

[Dr Super Good]

i have used emulators to play games that i purchased. i havent found any gamecube emulator that can legally run games though. so, unless i find that i play my gamecube games either on gamecube or wii.

Dolphin the nentindo wii / gamecube emulator.
Open source, 100% legit.

Ofcouse there are bugs, and emulation can be slow if you lack the processor for it but they have super smash bros brawl, mario galaxy 1 and 2 and some people even have footage of the brand new sonic colours running on it.

You are better of emulating the N64 version of OoT though cause basically that is what the gamecube version is already. An emulator running an emulator is a bit wasteful.

Interesting... but why the DS?

Cause the 3DS is physically more powerful than the N64 it came from and should be capable of PS2 quality rendering with modern effects. They could make if for wii but it would be drowned out by skyward sword and compete with the gamecube port and wind waker and twilight princess. They also need a solid launch title, and what is more solid than a remake (not another port, a remake) of the all time classing OoT. Hopefully they fix the bugs demonstrated in the video I linked.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

the version i have of that emulator can only run illegal copies of gamecube games.

 

[Dark_Arm3]

the version i have of that emulator can only run illegal copies of gamecube games.

ILLEGAL, EH?! Then how would you get that.. without... y'know, breaking the law?

 

[Dr Super Good]

The lattest version of that emulator runs ligitimit versions of games perfectly. Ofcourse you do have to rip them from the orignal disk to hard drive (like the PS3 and 360 let you do to their games for better load times) before it can run them. It includes the tools to do this I heard.

That however is (or should be) perfectly legal as you own the game, the game is not being distributed to people who do not and the game is not being modified or reverse engineered. Gamecube games can be problimatic due to their odd size (only certain DVD players can read them) but you can just source the data for your game from somwhere else as you do legally own a copy of the game.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

ripping games like that is illegal. thats the problem. in order for it to be legal the games have to be run from the original cds. i wont break the law to run games that i have purchased. i usually have my gamecube connected anyway.

 

[timothyhuth]

i saw a commercial for that on Wii Nintendo channel it had like 5 minutes of real gameplay from Old link oh horse to entering The Great Deku Tree

 

[SA Dashie]

so Dr Super Good your saying that the new 3DS can handle the game Armored Core from PS2? idk im just curious because thatll be awsome!

edit: I hope that nintendo are gona make Lylat Wars remake for 3DS because that game is god like and already has great graphics and if they make it even better Ill be so proud and happy

 

[Dr Super Good]

Graphically, Sony and its NGP seems to beat the 3DS maswsivly as far as graphics go (with graphics comparable to current generation consoles atleast visually). The 3DS however should be capable of PS2 level graphics.

Do rememeber that games do not need to take advantage of its 3D capabilities I believe. Doing so will give slightly over double the time to render each frame which should allow for some prety good graphics of its own. That is if it has enough memory in the system to permit for such graphics.