Last week, we reported on Nintendo’s announcement that some Super NES games were finally coming to the 3DS, and further discussed our disappointment that older units aren’t in line to receive the new feature. Today Nintendo provided us additional details.
“As previously announced, New Nintendo 3DS has an improved CPU, which enables Super NES games to run on the system with quality results,” Game Informer was told by a Nintendo representative. “The Super NES games also include Perfect-Pixel mode, which allows players to see their games in their original TV resolution and aspect resolution.”
The clarification indicates that older 3DS units aren’t up to the task of rendering Super NES games at an appropriate quality level for Nintendo’s standards. That clarification is still likely to trouble the millions of players who don’t own one of the newer units, but hunger to play older games like Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, and Super Metroid.
