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Important note on Kirby's Adventure VC:

This is the European version of the game, which was optimised originally by the developer to offer gameplay and music speed similar to the US version. Demos and animations may run at PAL speed. The aspect ratio has been corrected for this release.

Very interesting in a variety of ways, I really appreciate how Nintendo is continuing attempts to give Europe the optimised 60Hz versions of games in these instances.
However, "Demos and animations may run at PAL speed". Is this negligible? I'm not as knowledgeable on  regional differences as I could be, but yes it's nice that Nintendo are making a regionwide effort to bring PAL versions "up to speed" (badumtss)

SuperLink said:
However, "Demos and animations may run at PAL speed". Is this negligible? I'm not as knowledgeable on  regional differences as I could be, but yes it's nice that Nintendo are making a regionwide effort to bring PAL versions "up to speed" (badumtss)

Seeing this, I guess next month Super Metroid will be the 5OHz version too, so we can get the version that contains German and French texts (although these are useless really...). But again, we won't notice that much of a difference compared to the 60Hz version so it might not be as big of an issue as was with Ballon Fight.

( Edited 15.04.2013 15:08 by RudyC3 )

Oh huh, really? When I played the Wii VC version I didn't notice much problem with it, so I guess there isn't much difference between them. In this case, is there a problem with it being 50Hz at all considering the aspect ratio was also fixed? :?

SM was poorly done, shoving German text at the bottom of the screen by default. Would rather the 60Hz version.

I don't know if Kirby is one of these examples, but some games were 'optimised' but were sometimes just cases of skipping frames to make them run quicker and such. I don't know exactly which ones were and weren't. Some say SMB3 runs quicker than if it was a straight 50Hz version, for example. But given that description Nintendo put out, perhaps Kirby was one of those that was optimised but actually, many parts of the game do in fact run in 50Hz, so it's not the true 60Hz game. It's a bit complicated, and I don't know for certain, but that description they put out makes me think it's something like this.

For what it's worth, I didn't notice any significant errors while playing it on Wii, I was actually constantly surprised at it being a NES game the whole time, Kirby is too advanced man.

Also I too hope they release the proper 60Hz version of SM, at least in UK.
The awkward subtitles made me think I'd accidentally gotten a non-English version of the game

Maybe for the most part Kirby was optimised very well, but only certain bits and bobs were left unoptimised (like animations, as they say). Nintendo maybe threw that disclaimer in there 'just in case' some people spotted the differences between the NTSC version, perhaps. So long as it really isn't a 50Hz game, then that's fine. They're definitely trying to get the 60Hz and optimised ones out there. But I guess if they have a choice between 60Hz English Only and Optimised Multi Language, they go for the latter to please more European non-English speakers.

No Castle of Illusion HD for Wii U...

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/04/15/sega-confirms-castle-of-illusion-hd-remake

^Very weird considering it was registered for classification for both WiiU and Vita, neither of which have the announcement.

Either it's coming at a later date, or those versions have been dropped. Maybe SEGA Studios Australia being closed has something to do with it.

SuperLink said:
^Very weird considering it was registered for classification for both WiiU and Vita, neither of which have the announcement.

Either it's coming at a later date, or those versions have been dropped. Maybe SEGA Studios Australia being closed has something to do with it.

Still says for Wii U and Vita on the IGN page...but i guess that is not much to go by. 

Doesn't bother me too much anyway, who doesn't own one of the other formats anyway...

Azuardo said:
Maybe for the most part Kirby was optimised very well, but only certain bits and bobs were left unoptimised (like animations, as they say). Nintendo maybe threw that disclaimer in there 'just in case' some people spotted the differences between the NTSC version, perhaps. So long as it really isn't a 50Hz game, then that's fine. They're definitely trying to get the 60Hz and optimised ones out there. But I guess if they have a choice between 60Hz English Only and Optimised Multi Language, they go for the latter to please more European non-English speakers.

These things don't matter too much in terms of display, since the game on wii U is in fact rendered at 60Hz by the emulator (as in the console still sending 60 frames per second to the TV screen). But of course when it comes to scrolling, a Superman who can make out every individual frame out of 50 might notice the difference. But to the common mortal (as in myself), I can't see the difference.

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