Why Zelda 64DD Will be better than Zelda 64
By Rich Ellis
Many of you are pondering why is Nintendo releasing the sixth
episode of ZeldaDD on the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive (N64DD)
when they could just make it on the Nintendo 64, like Zelda
64. And another thing you don't want to do is buy a 64DD
because you think its just a way that Nintendo can get other
developers to make games for the system because of the cheaper
price of the disks. This however it not true at all!
The whole reason behind the N64DD is to create a read and write
system. With magnetic disks companies can use them for
action, sports, RPG's, and plenty of other kinds of games
to make a more realistic game. For example, if you kill an
enemy or a ally at the beginning of a game the N64DD will be able
to write that to the disk and therefore that enemy you killed
with never return, which could be good or bad towards the plot of
you game. Another thing that the N64DD has is a internal
clock. With this feature the N64DD will be able to make
games with a real-time day and night feature. Unlike the
games like Quest and Zelda 64, which have Sunrises and Sunsets on
a predefined path like say 20 minutes of Day and 20 minutes for
night, the games on the N64DD will be able to take the
clock and determine what time of day when your playing the game
and therefore put it into the game's memory. For example:
After you finishing eating lunch at noon, you go and plug in your
ZeldaDD game and turn it on. When you begin you find that
it is also noon in the game to. Then you get tired and quit
for awhile and get back in the evening and then you see that the
sun is setting in the land of Hyrule. That obviously adds a
very special thing to a game. So with a read, write, and
clock feature ZeldaDD is a most definite game to get when it
comes out around the christmas of 1999. And for those of
you that are worrying about weather the N64DD will come out or
not don't worry why would Nintendo leave and good sytem that can
do all that in Japan. So those things that you read on
other web sites about it not coming out is just a way to take up
some space on there page.
