5th gen fmv's

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5th gen fmv's
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mikezelot	Aug 4 2017, 12:14 AM Post #1
Star Wolfs Worst Nightmare Posts: 127 Group: Established Members Member #838 Joined: June 2, 2012	I am trying to understand fmv video quality on the top 5 systems during the fifth generation. In theory the 64 should not be able to run high quality fmv's but Pokemon puzzle league looks great where as the 3do should in theory have the highest quality fmv's of the 5 but I have yet to see a game with as good of fmv as FFVII on the ps1.
	N64 forever starfox 64 champion "Im an elephant" - Conker Both the n64 and the ps4 have 64 bit processors. Now I'm not saying the 64 could run crysis at 60 fps but I'm not saying it couldn't. 115 games 2 consoles 6 controllers


Grizzmeister	Aug 4 2017, 08:01 AM Post #2
Latter-day Nostradamus Posts: 3,243 Group: Legendary Member #457 Joined: March 8, 2011	I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at but my favorite full motion video tends to be the intros to some original PlayStation games. Here are examples. Armored Core 1 Soul Blade Colony Wars
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No64DD	Aug 4 2017, 08:44 AM Post #3
Neva wizard Kee Posts: 3,439 Group: Legendary Member #789 Joined: March 13, 2012	FF7 fmv fits the game perfectly and would not be the same without it! I want to say that when it came to titles that were on both PS and N64, and the main difference came down to the PS version having fmv, was never a selling point for me. I could care less then, and i care less now. It's a moot point, and i'm tired of hearing it in game reviews especially. I'll take the N64 version any day. Anything is better than having load times. But overall, does a game benefit from having fmv?? Edited by No64DD, Aug 4 2017, 11:52 AM.
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buddy1983	Aug 4 2017, 11:25 AM Post #4
Veteran Posts: 2,457 Group: Admin Member #861 Joined: June 20, 2012	Resi 2's FMVs are great and still look pretty good on the N64 too
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mikezelot	Aug 7 2017, 12:33 AM Post #5
Star Wolfs Worst Nightmare Posts: 127 Group: Established Members Member #838 Joined: June 2, 2012	I mean more on the technical side. How is the 64 able to do a Pokemon puzzle league quality fmv where the 3do who has a whole MB of video ram has fmv videos of lower quality.
	N64 forever starfox 64 champion "Im an elephant" - Conker Both the n64 and the ps4 have 64 bit processors. Now I'm not saying the 64 could run crysis at 60 fps but I'm not saying it couldn't. 115 games 2 consoles 6 controllers


sanni	Aug 7 2017, 01:38 AM Post #6
Senior Member Posts: 639 Group: Senior Members Member #762 Joined: February 21, 2012	The N64 with the Expansion Pak has 8MB of unified memory that can be accessed by the video hardware. The 3do only has 1MB of video ram. The 3do's 32bit CPU runs at 12Mhz while the N64's 64bit cpu runs at 93Mhz. Clearly the N64 has the better hardware. The reason the N64 normally does not use FMV is because the space inside the game cartridges is very limited and super expensive. Resident Evil 2 is one of only a handful games that are bigger than 32MB.



mikezelot	Aug 18 2017, 02:55 AM Post #7
Star Wolfs Worst Nightmare Posts: 127 Group: Established Members Member #838 Joined: June 2, 2012	Interesting, I'm surprised that the 3do having dedicated ram to just video didn't make a bigger impact. Thanks for the answer
	N64 forever starfox 64 champion "Im an elephant" - Conker Both the n64 and the ps4 have 64 bit processors. Now I'm not saying the 64 could run crysis at 60 fps but I'm not saying it couldn't. 115 games 2 consoles 6 controllers


sanni	Aug 18 2017, 04:03 AM Post #8
Senior Member Posts: 639 Group: Senior Members Member #762 Joined: February 21, 2012	If you remove the size constrains of the cartridge like by using a flash cart you can have really high quality videos on the N64 as demonstrated by marshallh here: I bet Nintendo sold their cartridges to the game publishers at a huge markup making cartridge space even more expensive or else we might have seen more FMV on the N64. Edited by sanni, Aug 18 2017, 04:04 AM.



Vaettur	Aug 18 2017, 04:30 AM Post #9
Established Member Posts: 116 Group: Established Members Member #3,188 Joined: June 28, 2016	Just like Sanni said, I think technically the N64 could have some great FMV quality, but the cartridge's storage forces the use of such a strong compression that in the end, it's the last in it's generation. Saturn had some great ones, but i think PS1 is the winner in the end.



The White Falcon	Aug 18 2017, 08:38 AM Post #10
Senior Member Posts: 379 Group: Senior Members Member #3,214 Joined: July 25, 2016	The 3DO had a slower CD drive as well, so it took longer to get the video off the disc.


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