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Guest

06-18-2003, 04:50 PM

will it?

Tip

06-18-2003, 04:55 PM

They couldn't get Max Payne on gamecube, somehow I doubt they'll even try getting Max Payne 2 on there.

squint

06-18-2003, 04:57 PM

This is a definite "no way in hell".

Joe Siegler

06-18-2003, 05:29 PM

Don't bet on it.

06-18-2003, 06:13 PM

Originally posted by Tip:
They couldn't get Max Payne on gamecube, somehow I doubt they'll even try getting Max Payne 2 on there. I think "couldn't get" is the wrong choice of words. "[They] didn't want to develop [MP for Gamecube]" would be more like it.

Tip

06-19-2003, 12:37 AM

Originally posted by j:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Tip:
They couldn't get Max Payne on gamecube, somehow I doubt they'll even try getting Max Payne 2 on there. I think "couldn't get" is the wrong choice of words. "[They] didn't want to develop [MP for Gamecube]" would be more like it. <hr /></blockquote>They didnt port it due to technical limitations of the gamecube (i.e. a small amount of ram), I believe George said they would have loved to port it to gamecube but it wasn't feasible without a lot of extra work in restructuring the engine and a lot of the levels.

06-19-2003, 02:46 AM

Originally posted by Tip:
They didnt port it due to technical limitations of the gamecube (i.e. a small amount of ram), I believe George said they would have loved to port it to gamecube but it wasn't feasible without a lot of extra work in restructuring the engine and a lot of the levels. So, like I said, they didn't want to port it to Gamecube [because of the amount of work it would have involved]. I think it was much harder to port it to PS2 than it would have been to port to GCN (because of PS2's inferior hardware), but PS2 would have been an obvious choice even if they'd had to summon the gods Ninti and Ishkur and sacrifice their firstborn sons to get it to work on PS2 because of the larger user base.

Tip

06-21-2003, 09:32 PM

Originally posted by j:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Tip:
[b]They didnt port it due to technical limitations of the gamecube (i.e. a small amount of ram), I believe George said they would have loved to port it to gamecube but it wasn't feasible without a lot of extra work in restructuring the engine and a lot of the levels. So, like I said, they didn't want to port it to Gamecube . I think it was much harder to port it to PS2 than it would have been to port to GCN (because of PS2's inferior hardware), but PS2 would have been an obvious choice even if they'd had to summon the gods Ninti and Ishkur and sacrifice their firstborn sons to get it to work on PS2 because of the larger user base. <hr /></blockquote>They said PS2 was easier because it had more memory.

scorpian007

06-22-2003, 01:27 AM

I thought the PS2 had only 32mb system ram and thee GCN had something like 43mb. Anyway will Max 2 be on PS2?

Tip

06-22-2003, 02:03 AM

Originally posted by scorpian007:
I thought the PS2 had only 32mb system ram and thee GCN had something like 43mb. Anyway will Max 2 be on PS2? The ps2 has 32 megs of system memory and the GCN has 24 megs system memory and then little chunks of memory spread to different little subsystems (the way I understand it).

Akari

06-22-2003, 06:30 AM

yeah

MrC

06-22-2003, 06:32 AM

The GC's memory is split into 24 MB of IT SRAM which is faster then the PS2's 32MB and an additional 16MB of RAM set aside for stuff usual sound altho you can use it for things normally handled by the main ram if you want.

I think the main stumbling block for Remedy is converting MP2 from Direct X to the GC's Open GL system which is more difficult.

Pity as I prefer the GC's controller to Sony's abomination for 3d games.

Maybe Rockstar could outsource it to someone else more familiar with the GC, like Konami giving Metal Gear Solid to Silicon Knights?

I thought the PS2 had only 32mb system ram and thee GCN had something like 43mb. Yeah in a way. 24 + 16 plus an extra 3MB on the flipper graphics chip = 43. But I think you can only use the 40 if Im not mistaken.

[ 06-22-2003, 06:35 AM: Message edited by: MrC ]

Akari

06-22-2003, 06:37 AM

I still doubt they will port though.

MrC

06-22-2003, 06:39 AM

I still doubt they will port though. Like I said maybe they wont have too.

Akari

06-22-2003, 01:42 PM

ah right.