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The Best 64-bit System?

Discussion in 'Gaming Lounge' started by slingshot182, Feb 25, 2010.

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  1. slingshot182

    slingshot182 Well-Known Member

    What do you think the best 64-bit system is and why?

    I prefer the N-64 becuase I'm a Nintendo Fanboy and it had lots of awesome games like SSB and StarFox64.
     
    slingshot182, Feb 25, 2010
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  2. ace1o1

    ace1o1 Well-Known Member

    I LOVE me some N64.

    What's even better is that I can play it on almost every system I have except NDS of course. :p
     
    ace1o1, Feb 25, 2010
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  3. slingshot182

    slingshot182 Well-Known Member

    Yeah, thats a real bummer that it isn't strong enough.


    It seems with all the extra size they added the the DSiXL they would be able to do some hardware updates too. Although, sadly, I have heard nothing so far.
     
    slingshot182, Feb 25, 2010
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  4. ace1o1

    ace1o1 Well-Known Member

    Same as the DSi. :p

    But the Playstation had some pretty good games.
     
    ace1o1, Feb 25, 2010
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  5. slingshot182

    slingshot182 Well-Known Member

    Yeah, it would probably be my second choice.
     
    slingshot182, Feb 25, 2010
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  6. mds64

    mds64 Well-Known Member

    This topic is only gonna be about the nintendo 64, as they only other 64bit system was the atari jaguar, which...frankly looked like crap and had only a handful of good titles.

    Why, what other systems did you think were 64bit?

    (I'd say the ds, but loonylion tells us it's 16bit...don't know how that works but I'll leave it at that)
     
    mds64, Feb 25, 2010
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  7. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    I think the sega saturn was 64 bit offhand.

    personally my favourite is the AMD 64bit series.
     
    Loonylion, Feb 25, 2010
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  8. mds64

    mds64 Well-Known Member

    WHat do you mean by off hand?

    And...I thought it was a 32bit console like the playstation was.
     
    mds64, Feb 26, 2010
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  9. nemesis11

    nemesis11 Well-Known Member

    well there was only 2 64 bit systems,the nintendo 64 and the atari jaguar wich i say it wasnt 64 bit
     
    nemesis11, Feb 26, 2010
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  10. mds64

    mds64 Well-Known Member

    It was listed as 64bit, but a rather weak 64bit...Ive actually played one of these things...only 1 good game on it....

    Alien vs predator, yup they made an fps of that on this console made by the people who made the current one on consoles, as well as the classic pc one's we know and love :)
     
    mds64, Feb 26, 2010
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  11. nemesis11

    nemesis11 Well-Known Member

    lol the only game i played on atari jaguar was doom lol
     
    nemesis11, Feb 26, 2010
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  12. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    if you want to get technical the N64 wasnt 64 bit either.

    sega saturn had two 32bit processors, making it equally 64bit as the N64
     
    Loonylion, Feb 26, 2010
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  13. nemesis11

    nemesis11 Well-Known Member

    sega saturn is the best hehehe i love it
     
    nemesis11, Feb 26, 2010
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  14. mds64

    mds64 Well-Known Member

    man...that confuses the hell outta me :(


    Why do they claim it was 64bit when it supposedly wasn;t?
     
    mds64, Feb 26, 2010
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  15. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Funnily enough, the atari jaguar actually had the most claim to being 64bit. It had 5 processors, two were 64 bit, two were 32bit and one was 16 bit. All the buses and memory were 64 bit. N64 and sega saturn actually had two identical 32bit processors (saturn actually had 3, though only 2 were identical) and were called 64 bit.
     
    Loonylion, Feb 26, 2010
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  16. mds64

    mds64 Well-Known Member

    But most games were weak...even the alien vs predator game used a heavy amout of sprites...


    Did they just under use the power or something in the arecture that prevented it from being as good as the n64?
     
    mds64, Feb 26, 2010
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  17. nemesis11

    nemesis11 Well-Known Member

    well sega saturn is integrated in the category of 32 bit,if you saiy it had 2 32 bit processors why sega used only 32 bit of it,all the games looked inferior to ps1 grafics!
     
    nemesis11, Feb 26, 2010
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  18. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    processor has nothing to do with graphics. thats the domain of the graphics engine.
     
    Loonylion, Feb 26, 2010
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  19. mds64

    mds64 Well-Known Member

    So why did the jaguar get games that looked worse than 32bit at times?
     
    mds64, Feb 26, 2010
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  20. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    probably under developed games, it was a very complex system
     
    Loonylion, Feb 26, 2010
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