Animation Sequences

[Jyd3n]

I don't know about you guys but it is very possible tohave some decent voiceovers for the cutscenes. I mario 64 the princess talks to you and the whole introduction is done by voice. It was actually really good, so I'm looking forward to any cutscene in Dragon Song

[DevNall]

No you're right. One wikipedia it says 1 gigabit. But thats about to be expanded with Resident Evil DS. The game itself was over 300MB on CD and since they are also going to include the FMV's in the game its gonna be a costly $40 game.

So they put a lot of effort into compression. Resident Evil for the N64 was done on a 64MB cart (64 megabytes = 512 megabits).

[LUNARverse]

Most games dont even use the gigabit size cartridge. Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow is on a 64MB cart and the data itself only takes up about 47MB of that.

[HuBBsDoctor]

So they put a lot of effort into compression. Resident Evil for the N64 was done on a 64MB cart (64 megabytes = 512 megabits).

Resident Evil 2 was on a 512MB cart.
As taken from wikipedia.

"Since the N64 uses cartridges instead of discs, several compression techniques had to be used in order to fit all of the game's voice acting and FMV sequences into a 512 MB cartridge. In spite of this, there's a noticeable drop in quality in scenes and dialogue compared to the original PlayStation version and certain "duplicate" FMV scenes were also removed, resulting in continuity errors such as Leon and Claire getting off on the wrong side of the police car in the 2nd Scenario and Claire speaking to Annette in Ada's voice."

Yea they compressed it but not to the degree that you might've said. I doubt you could compress a game that was 2 discs long into 64MB cart. If they compressed it to a 64MB cart then they would've lost all the FMV's, Voice acting, and several cutscenes.

[DevNall]

Resident Evil 2 was on a 512MB cart.
As taken from wikipedia.

"Since the N64 uses cartridges instead of discs, several compression techniques had to be used in order to fit all of the game's voice acting and FMV sequences into a 512 MB cartridge...

Yea they compressed it but not to the degree that you might've said. I doubt you could compress a game that was 2 discs long into 64MB cart. If they compressed it to a 64MB cart then they would've lost all the FMV's, Voice acting, and several cutscenes.

I think this was a typo, or the person made a mistake. (Some people are not aware of the difference between MB and Mb.) If there was a commercial 512megabyte game for the N64, I'd be amazed. That'd be a practically exponential jump in cart size.

I note that both GameSpot and IGN list it as 512 megabit, as do sites with N64 technical information (like this one). The technology is out there to compress stuff really well if you're willing to put the effort into it. Also remember with 2 discs, that there tends to a lot of duplication, and you can remove that when you're dealing with one cart.

[HuBBsDoctor]

I hate the world. Why am I so good at finding misinterpreted information or typos on system and game specs.

[Mormon88]

Capcom said that Xenosaga 1&2 will have cutscenes, so i don't see why lunar can't have them...

[Sonic#]

Because Lunar isn't Xenosaga 1&2.

Maybe they could've fit some cutscenes on there, but... there are more ways of telling a story, and more ways that work as well. It just wasn't the developer's cup of tea, I guess.

[Greensky]

Xenosaga's cutscenes can barely be called "cutscenes" anyways. They use the actual in-game graphics for them compared to high quality CG scenes. But we'll see what they do for the DS versions.