Mario Kart: Double Dash to ship with system to system Broadband support (1 Viewer)

[GlenHaag]

http://www.avault.com/news/displayne...=7142003-95743

Nintendo has confirmed that the newest game in the Mario Kart series - Mario Kart: Double Dash - will ship with system-to-system broadband support. The capability will allow up to eight players to compete against each other. Both EBGames and GameStop have the title listed for a November 17 release on GameCube.

Sounds like good news to me.

Glen

 

[Allen_Appel]

It's certainly a start towards the online path.

 

[Morgan Jolley]

So it has LAN support using the BB adapter. Nothing new, that was announced a while ago.

 

[Shayne Judge]

Interesting news. Does this mean they have programmed the game to fully support online play, or just LAN?

 

[JamesHl]

Just LAN. They announced that at E3, I think.

 

[Damien]

lets hope they juice up the game speed

 

[NickSo]

If there's LAN, im guessin its only a matter of time before somebody sets up something similar to XBConnect for Gamecube...

 

[Jeff Kleist]

If it's true it'll have P2P Broadband support, sounds like someone realized that they were being stupid and rigged up a native version of XBConnect

Either way, if it's true it's good to hear that SOMEONE at Nintendo has their head on straight

 

[Michael St. Clair]

To me it's bizarre they would even announce it without native internet support; two-console link goes back well over a decade with Atari Lynx (actually up to 16 nodes), NEC TurboExpress, and Gameboy.

For home consoles, system link titles are available for the PSX, Saturn, Dreamcast, and others.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

Unfortunately the # of games not on handhelds that took advantage of said system link can be counted on both hands

 

[Michael St. Clair]

Unfortunately the # of games not on handhelds that took advantage of said system link can be counted on both hands

Actually, at least twenty-nine PSX titles, but the Saturn and Dreamcast had much less.

 

[Shayne Judge]

Interesting news. Does this mean they have programmed the game to fully support online play, or just LAN?

 

[BrianB]

Just LAN.

 

[GlenHaag]

I don't believe this to just mean LAN support. How often do you hear LAN gaming refered to as Broadband?

I think this actually means that you will be able to play the game over the internet against another user.

Glen

 

[DonRoeber]

Glen,
I doubt it. I've never heard of LAN gaming to be considered the same as Broadband gameing; LAN stands for Local Area Network, whereas broadband is anything but local. I'm looking forward to hooking two 'cubes together for big Mario Kart games. Mario Kart is a great party game; 3/4 of the fun is playing with your friends.

 

[BrianB]

I think this actually means that you will be able to play the game over the internet against another user.

I'm sure someone will get it working. I just don't think Nintendo announced it.

 

[GlenHaag]

Brian,

Let's just say that I'm hopeful.

I know someone will get this working eventually. This little news tidbit just caught me off guard yesterday. I've looked through most of the major news sites and this is the only mention of it. It just seems like an odd story to post when Nintendo had announced LAN capabilities for Double Dash quite some time ago.

Got me.

Glen

 

[Michael St. Clair]

Oh, if it uses ethernet, somebody will get it working over the internet.

But it could likely be a laggy mess if the game was coded assuming extremely low latency.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

If I had to guess, they probably stuck in some Internet login protocols, and will say something like "We don't support Internet play"

I would guess it's a developer descision rather than Nintendo's

 

[Morgan Jolley]

I would guess it's a developer descision rather than Nintendo's

Who is developing the game? Nintendo? A second party that they own?