Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in Gaming in General | 0 comments

5.09: The Amount in GigaBytes that you Will Use Downloading the Final Fantasy XIII Demo

A Japanese blog on the internet has done a technical analysis both Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, and the Final Fantasy XIII Trial Edition (Demo). Apparently, the Blu-Ray movie comes in at about 30GB due to a video bitrate of 27.8Mbps, and audio bitrate of about 1.9Mbps.

However, the Final Fantasy XIII demo will come at the price of a whopping 5.09 Gigabytes, including the 256MB PS3 Update Data, which, depending if your a huge Final Fantasy fan or not, because the demo only contains an hour of gameplay.

Further analysis of the files in the demo show that there are two big movie files, one of which is 2.04GB (z016_ps3.wmp), and the second is 2.37GB (z000_ps3.wmp). This means that 4.41GB of the demo is just video.

So what does this mean? The 360 will obviously have to have a lower video quality due to the Final Fantasy series’s knack for having high-ass-quality CG rendered movies. Will it go the route of having only a couple “real” rendered movies, with the rest in-game, or what?

Also, does this mean that the 360 will get the “worse” version of the game as compared to that of the PS3, or will the PS3’s version be knocked down a little bit so that the game is true to both console owners?

Link

Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in PS3, Xbox 360 | 0 comments

Resident Evil 5 DEMO Comparison

What follows is a comparison of the Biohazard 5 demos which were recently released for the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3. What you should keep in mind when viewing the pictures below is that, as of the publishing of this article, the game still has three months of development time and any of the things you see below could very well be changed by the time the game is released. Another thing you should note is that I took these shots through component video output on both consoles. Its common knowledge that the Xbox 360 has a sharper output that the Playstation 3. As with most multi-platform releases, it’s standard practice for different platforms to be on different build releases as they are created. So while these two demos were released just a few weeks apart, it’s very likely that one of them is using old assets and code, which may help explain some of the differences. Also worth mentioning is the fact that you aren’t viewing these screenshots in an uncompressed format, however the same compression levels were used for each version. Before we begin the comparison, I’d like to give a little history of how the demos were released to the public.

The Xbox 360 demo was released first on December 5th, exclusively on the Japanese Xbox Live Marketplace. The demo was free to download, regardless of the console region for around 12 hours. After this short window, Capcom had began taking measures to insure that only Japanese 360 owners would be able to play it. Firstly, any new downloads of the demo would be met with a screen denying you access to the download. We assume the 360 was detecting your IP address and denying anyone outside of Japan. Since the demo had since spread to torrent sites, Capcom took things a step further and signed you out of Xbox Live whenever the demo was loaded. While this disabled online play, users were still able to play Single Player, and Local Co-op. This was short lived however, when Capcom activated a nasty flag, which would corrupt the demo if you loaded it while connected to Xbox Live. Thus rendering the demo completely useless. Its also interesting to note that one user reported that he had encountered similar problems despite being a Japan resident, on a Japanese console.

Check out the full article here

Posted by Keenan "SuperMario290" in Xbox 360 | 0 comments

Get Your Ass up and Download the Resident Evil 5 Demo Now!

So you want to get your hands on the demo of Resident Evil 5 before it officially comes out over here? Well you can, because today, the demo just came out in Japan, and we have the perfect instructions on how to obtain it.

UPDATE: It looks as though Capcom has figured out what everyone is doing and region-locked the demo, too bad but you can still get it from the crazy guys at Neogaf by clicking the following link: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=344266&page=16

Here’s some instructions thanks to Planet Xbox360:

Quick Guide to Getting Japanese 360 Gold:

• Go here: http://www.passport.net/
• Sign up a new account, Click “No, sign me up for a free MSN Hotmail e-mail address”
• Pick JAPAN for your country, pick Tokyo-to as your Prefecture 150-2345 for your zipcode
• Keep going, and then have it set you up with a @hotmail.com address.
• Go to your 360, and create a new profile. Log in using your hotmail address on your 360, and it should set it to Japan.
• If this is less than your 4th trial account you get gold free, so select yes when it asks you. (the RE5 demo requires Gold standing)

How to actually download the demo via Japanese Xbox LIVE Marketplace:

• Login to your Japanese Gold account
• Once logged in press the xbox button in the middle of your controller to bring up the “old” dashboard
• Navigate to the market place tab, then go to Game Marketplace
• From Game Market place navigate all the way down to ALL GAMES
• Then from ALL GAMES. Then go to “ALL” (instead of trying to understand japanese alphabet). Then just scroll through all the games until you get to BioHazzard 5 (it should be 270 of 40
• Once you get to BioHazzard 5, the first screen should say “Get Demo” and viola you are downloading the demo. Should be like 472 MBs.

Link