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Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

hark@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. This is a significant enough feature that a couple seconds is really not a big deal. There are likely time-wasters just as long, if not longer, elsewhere in the game and they do not contribute a much richer audio experience. While I’d love to minimize time wasting as much as possible, this is something that appears once on boot-up while I’m sure there are other time-wasters that appear multiple times while you’re playing the game. If they’re even a fraction of a second, they will quickly add up more than this logo’s time.

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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Because Lemmy hates everything that isn’t FOSS. The more time I spend here, the more I see that it is no better than Reddit.

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- englislanguage@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Nope. It’s just an unnecessary label which provides no additional features, i.e. no benefits. You can have Dolby sound without the Dolby label.
  
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  - hark@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The title states “Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo” presumably because you actually cannot have Dolby sound without the logo. Yes, technically you could, but it’s likely part of the license agreement and so him refusing to display the logo as outlined by the license means he couldn’t use Dolby sound in the game (or would get sued if he went ahead and did it anyway).
    
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- essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Don’t like it? Write your own equivalent and selfhost it using my favorite distro. /s
  
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  - RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Exactly. This place sucks just as bad as Reddit, and the only reason I don’t go back to Reddit is out of principle.
    
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- dditty@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  - RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You can downvote me too, I don’t really care about imaginary numbers. No need to apologize.
    
    I am just disappointed that Lemmy was supposed to be a better place than Reddit, but my experience on Lemmy has actually become worse than my experience on Reddit.
    
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altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Two issues though. Sakurai was taking about how he likes the ability to jump from game to game at an arcade and jump straight into the game. But a lot of console games had you go through intros, menus, tutorials, etc. And he didn’t like that, hence why he was saying he’d rather not have an extra logo screen to click through

The second issue was that the game in question was a GameCube game. It only outputs in stereo. Surround sound wasnt a common thing in games at the time. It would have been the old school Dolby Surround/Pro Logic II encoding. Most gaming setups didn’t have surround sound receivers or sound bars yet. Also, it’s a Kirby game. The target audience wouldn’t have cared

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- hark@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The arcade experience is fundamentally different from the console experience. Arcade games are generally crafted to eat quarters and kick players off as soon as possible without making them feel ripped off. Jumping in and out of games is common at arcades. While it’s nice to save that couple of seconds on a console game, it’s not something that adds up a lot unless you’re jumping between games a few minutes at a time, which again, is more like an arcade and doesn’t make as much sense in a console gaming context because you generally have a better idea of what games you own and want to play.
  
  As for the second issue, if it was a feature that wasn’t worthwhile and that nobody cared about, then why was he considering it in the first place? There are many technical details in games that exist that casual players don’t pay attention to, but subconsciously would enjoy. Surround sound adds quite a bit to a racing game, considering that the entire game is about racing against other characters that are positioned all around you.
  
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