#100409 - Iteo - Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:12 pm
would it be possible? Would it be easy? It is an awesome old game that would be cool to have on my ds so i dont have to power it up on my computer...
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#100411 - tepples - Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:42 pm
A port of Myst (German for crap) would need cooperation from Cyan Worlds, assuming that the license to Sega for a PSP port wasn't exclusive over all handhelds.
Until then, there are plenty of ScummVM games you can try.
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#100425 - Optihut - Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:53 pm
| tepples wrote: |
| A port of Myst (German for crap) |
Nit: "Mist" would be German for crap. The english word "Myst" is similar in pronunciation to "Mist", though.
#100448 - ?hr - Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:25 am
i played myst around 3 times. its really really great! i would also like to see this on my ds :)
but it might be a bit to big: 700mb and all these movies!
and how could we play the movies? we need a new codec for ds... uhh, to much work for just 1 game...
#100451 - Darkflame - Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:30 am
lisenceing one of the lovely working movie codecs (see: Metroid, or Dragon Lore) would probably be cheaper then liesenceing the game itself :p
Actualy, movies wouldnt be that hard, use the DPG format moonshell uses....run the game from a 1Gig CF card.
Remember, everything resized to the DS's screen will reduce size a lot.
Id say a port is perfectly possible thinking about it...but the time and work required wouldnt be worth it, imo.
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#100466 - Mr. Picklesworth - Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:47 am
Myst is the only one of the Myst games I didn't get through, sadly.
I loved all of them; Myst 4 especially... and Riven was in a class of its own; I just like how the puzzles somehow worked as the player trying to learn about a civilization instead of just trying to work around mehanisms built by some idiot with a lot of time on his hands.
It's a shame how different Myst 5 was... though it was still pretty good, I suppose, if I forget how well the previous developers did. (Even more of a travesty that the developer to make that imperfect finale was Cyan themselves). Still, it did have that nice animation work... especially with the faces. And the ending wasn't bad except for the disappointingly ugly view of Releeshahn. I don't see why they couldn't do FMV characters as before, since all the cutscenes had the game take control of the camera.
I have to play the original Myst some day, and it will have to be on the DS or some other small thing because playing stuff at low resolutions on my PC is just unbearable.
Riven would be great, too. Not sure if the DS could handle that one, but it could be possible...
The only problem in that case is storage space.
I'm surprised Cyan hasn't released their engine for those games. Presumably it's a little program that reads from a data file, and there's probably nothing totally revolutionary in the program itself.
They could get completely legal unofficial ports to all sorts of platforms, and still make money from people buying the data files!
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#100484 - Nintendo Maniac 64 - Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:08 am
Oh yeah, speaking of Myst on handhelds, does it even make SENSE for Myst to be onthe PSP when the DS has a stylus enabling mouse-like-functionality?! >_>
#100487 - tepples - Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:33 am
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| Oh yeah, speaking of Myst on handhelds, does it even make SENSE for Myst to be onthe PSP when the DS has a stylus enabling mouse-like-functionality?! >_> |
Sony bought Psygnosis, developer of Lemmings, one of the first side-view real-time sims. When it terminated CLI?, Sony also became the only console maker not to have a handheld system with a stylus. (Microsoft has Pocket PC, and Nintendo has Nintendo DS.) Don't you love it when Sony shoots itself in the foot?
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#100489 - retrohead - Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:49 am
| tepples wrote: |
| Don't you love it when Sony shoots itself in the foot? |
Yup! And i'll love it even more when the PS3 is a flop :D :D
On topic though, Myst would be great for the DS. i only really played Myst I on the Saturn though ;)
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#100490 - Mr. Picklesworth - Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:51 am
Sony terminated CLIE?!!?
I was seriously tempted to buy one of those things...
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#100531 - OOPMan - Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:21 pm
Ah yes, Myst, loved by some, hated by others...
I couldn't stand it personally, but that's me...
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#100535 - ?hr - Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:15 pm
| OOPMan wrote: |
Ah yes, Myst, loved by some, hated by others...
I couldn't stand it personally, but that's me... |
hated? i can't hate games. i dont like some games, but i dont hate 'em...
#100540 - Sektor - Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:57 pm
Stylus has it's uses but I find myself playing games more that don't require it. I like to have both hands on my DS when I use it on a train, the stylus gets knocked around too much.
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#100610 - Darkflame - Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:07 pm
Which is exactly why I use a thumbstrap.
I rule you all with my thumbstrap! All you feable humans that can not assend to my highly plan of DS playing. All you DSlite owners late to the party. You will never enjoy metroid ds while standing up! never!!
Mahaha!!!
*cough*
sorry, i get carried away at times.
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#100612 - Iteo - Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:10 pm
I'm glad that people like the sound of it, but nothing can be done without any rights to the game so I don't think it will go anywhere.
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#130884 - Iteo - Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:02 am
I cannot believe this. Someone stole my idea, and this game is now commercially being made. http://www.dsfanboy.com/2007/06/07/myst-coming-to-the-ds/
What a ripoff! And what do I get for coming up with this idea? NOTHING? YOU HEAR ME? Nothing! Lol. Well everybody have fun looking forward to this game! :)
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#130907 - Mr. Picklesworth - Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:53 am
Right after I play through RealMyst (which also has the extra Rime age), so this is no longer exciting :(
I want Riven. RIVEN. RIVEN!!!!!
I'm never fully pleased.
Nice to see it being done, though.
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