Komentarze

RightHandOfIkaros, rok temu do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

It is actually unreal to be downvoted for saying this. What a place to be.

RightHandOfIkaros, rok temu do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

You can downvote me too, I don’t really care about imaginary numbers. No need to apologize.

I am just disappointed that Lemmy was supposed to be a better place than Reddit, but my experience on Lemmy has actually become worse than my experience on Reddit.

RightHandOfIkaros, rok temu do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

Exactly. This place sucks just as bad as Reddit, and the only reason I don’t go back to Reddit is out of principle.

RightHandOfIkaros, rok temu do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

deleted_by_moderator

RightHandOfIkaros, rok temu do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

Loading screens in a game take longer than two seconds and don’t have the benefit of running one time before the game starts and adding surround sound support. So you would rather be greeted with a black screen as a game with less features loads instead?

Great idea.

RightHandOfIkaros, rok temu do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

Because Lemmy hates everything that isn’t FOSS. The more time I spend here, the more I see that it is no better than Reddit.

RightHandOfIkaros, rok temu do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

This is not true at all and demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of how surround sound worked.

Nintendo 64 games like Donkey Kong 64 and Conker’s Bad Fur Day supported surround sound. Even Star Fox on the SNES supported surround sound. All through composite cables.

It works by encoding multiple channels into two channels, so it can then decode those channels to send the proper signal to the proper speaker. For Dolby specifically, you need a Pro Logic compatible receiver, which could decode that signal. If you don’t have a Pro Logic compatible receiver then you will only hear stereo output.

RightHandOfIkaros, rok temu do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

I would understand the complaint if it was longer, like 5 or 7 seconds long for just the Dolby logo. But its not.

Like, if seeing a logo for two seconds bothers you that much, better close your eyes when driving riding the bus walking around town, otherwise you might see a dreaded billboard or advertisement.

RightHandOfIkaros, rok temu do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

It was uncommon, but not so uncommon that it didn’t warrant being added to the game. Especially when Dolby was handing out licenses like candy apparently. I would imagine it was cheap to get a license, and would make some sense why Air Ride wouldn’t have it. Air Ride is my favorite Kirby game, but even I recognize that Air Ride is probably one of the lowest budget Kirby games.

RightHandOfIkaros, rok temu do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

It is two seconds.

RightHandOfIkaros, rok temu do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

You realize this is Lemmy, and on Lemmy you have to hate every business and every product produced by a business apparently, right? If it isn’t FOSS, then you aren’t allowed to like it.

RightHandOfIkaros, rok temu do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

Actually yes, they do. You paid for a license.

See, now before you used to be able to buy an individual copy of the game. Then you did have the right to edit those out. Can’t do that when you only buy a license.

RightHandOfIkaros, rok temu do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

Its two seconds for the benefit of 5.1, so the people that have it can benefit. And the people that don’t can upgrade later.

RightHandOfIkaros, rok temu do games w Shoot em ups & run n' guns

I like Xevious and Zaxxon. Zaxxon was cool because it had a unique isometric perspective that I haven’t seen in another game.

Gradius 3 specifically I found to be quite fun. Its too bad Konami retired the Gradius series, but I suppose its probably better that way.

The Panzer Dragoon series is a great arcade shooter series.

Contra. Contra 4 specifically on the Nintendo DS I felt had the perfect balance. I really liked that entry.

RightHandOfIkaros, rok temu do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

Honestly, 5.1 surround sound is worth waiting the extra like 2 seconds of the logo. The fact that the game only has mono or stereo sound output just because he didn’t want to have a logo on the screen for a few seconds is not putting user experience over marketing.

It would honestly make more sense that Nintendo told him he couldn’t add it because they didn’t want to pay for it and this is how he justified it to himself.