Behind the Faked Revolution Video

1up.com has an interview with the guy who faked the beautiful Nintendo On video prior to this year's E3. The faked video raised quite a ruckus on message boards from here to fark. From the article: "The Nintendo community is famously excitable when dealing with leaks and rumors - the uproar over recent comments insinuating Revolution's downloadable classics would be free sent shockwaves - and this instance was really no different. Still, there were plenty of skeptics and cynics. To many, the presence of the esteemed Virtual Boy, the company's infamous portable blunder from the mid 90s, tipped the scales. 'The Virtual Boy isn't something Nintendo should ever use to promote a new revolutionary product,' said Jeffery Van Camp, editorial coordinator at Nintendo fan site N-Sider. Even the visionary behind Nintendo On admits 'Nintendo would never make another reference to a console that didn't comply with their expectations, but in this case, it wouldn't be a mistake, but a correction.'"

Comments

it wasnt bad...

[teksno]

i never thought it was real... but after learning that it was for sure a fake, its nice to know that some people have that much time on their hands are they dont write spyware...

in all reality though it just speaks to the fanatical type of fans that nintendo has. VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!!

Let this be a lesson to all aspiring artists.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Save for a brief glimpse at a city for Metal Gear, however, all was lost in the hard drive crash. Had the scenes been completed, however, Solid Snake would have been seen hopping into Metal Gear Ray, going head-to-head against an all-new menace, Metal Gear Mantis. "It is better not to think about the loss now," he says."

There are two kinds of computer users (or sysadmins). Those that backup religiously, and those that have never had a hard-drive crash.

RAID1 is pretty cheap when you can get 2 200GB HDs for about 300$ CDN.

Wake up, Nintendo!

[Nomihn0]

Hire this guy and redesign your console to meet expectations. The research done for this video was meticulous. Nintendo's patents showed so much promise. But the original Mario Brothers in high(er)-definition? I don't see that as a "revolution" in anything other than deceptive marketing. NintendON, while unbelievable, restored my confidence in Nintendo as an innovative company.

Oh well. Dreams die hard.

Re:Wake up, Nintendo!

[FLAGGR]

Good virtual reality is not compuationally possible, especially not for the consumer market. The ability to download games is *not* the revolutionary feature of the erm, Revolution, as confirmed by Nintendo. (It is in fact the controller)

Re:Wake up, Nintendo!

[cgenman]

A headset with a gun-shaped controller, where player movement is on the gun and turning the camera is on a gyro attached to the head (along with a triangulated position reference to the console), is probably feasible, right?

Feasible, but laggy and expensive. Taking 20 MS for a character to respond to your input is basically imperceptable on a television, because, well, the rest of the world is whizzing by normally. But taking 20ms to updated a head-mounted VR system is nauseating, as the world drags behind where the world is supposed to be.

Likewise, the tech is pretty expensive. 640x480, when attached to your eyes is basically the highest grade consumer glasses you can get for a reasonable amount of money and yet is still really, really pixelated. For fully immersive VR with believeable resolution, the necessary pixel densities go way up.

So yes, possible. But not good enough to ship yet.

Re:Wake up, Nintendo!

[Riddlefox]

Not sure about your 20ms number. My thesis involved using a helmet mounted display. When I was doing research, I found (as you might imagine) tons of research on what an acceptable latency is.

The lowest maximum acceptable lag that I found was 20ms (ie 0-20ms is acceptable without making people sick). Other researchers found values between 40ms - 300ms! I think 300ms would be pretty bad, personally.

My thesis project only updated once a second (it used GPS data, which came out of the receiver at the rate of 1HZ), though, so the maximum latency was 1000ms. Surprisingly, it wasn't too bad. Of course, my display wasn't a totally immersive VR type system - it was more augmented reality - but none of my test subjects got sick. I'm not sure what the difference would've been if they could not reference the real world, or if the update rate between screen refreshes was different (say, the view updated 60 times a second, but with a 1 second delay between user movement and that movement being reflected on the screen).

How far?

[BandwidthHog]

raised quite a ruckus on message boards from here to fark

Wait, wait... from here all the way to FARK?

That far? Really?

Wow.

More interesting the reaction of the gaming forums

[CyricZ]

More interesting to me was the reaction at the gaming forums. Indeed, all hell broke loose, literally, at the GameFAQs forums when this fakery was made available. Users were banned outright for suggesting (rightfully so) that the video was a complete forgery, according to my grandson who posts there. But I think that just shows the complete intolerance and stupidity of many of the online gaming forums. They are so closed-minded that they refuse to actually investigate leaks such as this to verify their truthfulness. Instead they'd rather punish those respectable users who do take the trouble to inspect and analyze every such leak that comes their way.

Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for

[djSpinMonkey]

Indeed, all hell broke loose, literally

Really? Literally?

"That word... I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya

Fun, But....

[miyako]

Thinking about the Revolution is fun, but it also somewhat annoys me because everytime I see a Revolution story I spend hours trying to ponder what the revolutionary feature is going to be.
I understand Nintendo's fears that the other companies might try to rip off their ideas, but wouldn't patenting the hell out of everything be just as effective without driving all their potential customers absolutely insane?
Ah well, I guess it probably drums up some excitement. It doesn't really matter to me, I decided I'd be buing a Revolution as soon as I heard about it playing classic games. I'll probably get a PS3 too, but I doubt I'll get an XBOX360 though, if the current generation of games are any indication (and they very well might not be), XBOX seems to get the more mainstream games, which basically seems to me to be nothing but a crapstorm of FPS and Sports games, neither of wich I can stand.

Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for

[KDR_11k]

Hell only literally breaks loose when a bunch of demons roam the Earth torturing and killing humans and preparing for the end of the world. Contrary to popular belief there demons are not Americans and not currently roaming the Earth

Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for

[Guppy06]

"according to my grandson who posts there."

I hope I am not alone among Slashdotters when I say "your what?" :)

Re:Amazing, and pretty unbelievable...

[apoc06]

you must not have read the warez manifesto.

apparently people feel that it is ok to bootleg software for learning purposes. basically they do stuff like this with it: pet projects until they get good enough with the technology to the point where they can land a job in the field. then they will be able to get their employers to spring the cash for a real valid license. i wonder if anyone has checked mister belmonte's shelves for license agreements?

but seriously, at 24 i understand your doubt that he would have the disposable income to buy a highend video editing package and 3d modelling software. but then again if you look hard enough, you can find free and education editions of most of the major software packages. http://www.alias.com/glb/eng/products-services/pro duct_details.jsp?productId=1900003

now back to the topic...