Nintendo's Lost DS Prototype: Project IRIS

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• KO

  @kok0nut · 2 years ago

  imagine being one of the devs working with the iris devkit and nintendo calling you up and basically going "hey we're adding a second screen and also it's a touchscreen, you have like 8 months before manufacture to integrate it into your game"

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• KI

  @kitterbug · 2 years ago

  I've heard that Yamauchi suggested a second screen after seeing the PSP and thinking "If they're going to show off a wide screen then we're going to show off two regular ones!"... which actually worked somehow

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• LE

  @legospacememe8468 · 2 years ago

  Nintendo: replaces the iris with the nitro<br><br>developers: WHAT AM I DEVELOPING FOOOOOOOORRR

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• DI

  @diddlyd · 1 year ago (edited)

  I remember working on the early version of that TEG board (the green motherboard with one screen attached), on a Majesco launch title for the DS called Moonlight Fables that ended up getting cancelled. We had to give the board back when they sent us proper devkits. I wish I had hung on to it. It&apos;s graphics capabilities and everything else were pretty close to the actual DS, and it took minimal porting to get what we had developed on this board working on the final DS dev kit. I vaguely remember a way of doing early dual screen rendering on it too, but you had to choose which screen to display on the single monitor. Long time ago!

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• LA

  @LaskyLabs · 2 years ago

  Project Iris is neat, but boy am I glad we got the DS. Wireless local multiplayer and download play were the best things ever conceived and I challenge anybody who thinks otherwise.

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• SU

  @sucrosa · 2 years ago

  this channel is a hidden gem

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• AC

  @ACKYS_YT2 · 2 years ago

  Funny how we kinda came into full circle now, now that the DS/3DS era is over we are back into a single-screened handheld (actually hybrid), Switch family!

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• ST

  @starfrost6816 · 4 years ago (edited)

  One of the leaks has the ensata cvs repo, the earliest versions call themselves the &quot;IRIS Software Emulator&quot;. Also ensata was developed by intelligent systems not nintendo

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• CH

  @chfgn · 2 years ago

  I always thought that Iris already had a touch screen, so the switch to Nitro only added the top screen to the equation. Maybe I was mistaken.

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• SP

  @spaghetto181 · 3 years ago

  so iris was just gba 2. ok yeah good move to use this hardware to make something unique.

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• OS

  @oscie · 4 years ago

  awesome video! loving how in-depth some of the information is. i never knew about the existance of the iris until now, but it seems like a pretty cool system to be honest, though i am glad it turned into the DS

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• 擢

  @擢 · 2 years ago

  im so sad this hass less than 10k views, this is too high quality content for you to not have 100k subs at least. cmon algorithm

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