RTTP: Pilotwings Resort (at New 3DS speed)

Cute pic!

I remember buying the game at launch, playing a lot of it but never touching it again once new games came out a few months later.

You just reminded me that this game exists, and I definitely should try it on New 3DS with smoother framerate!

I remember a journalist who bought a 3DS right after reviewing PilotWings, lol. Found it kinda funny that this game was a system seller for some people (not discussing about the quality, but I didn't think people would be that interested by PilotWings).
 
Is there footage showing how well it runs on an OC'd New 3DS?

I remember how the game would jump up to 60 fps on the original 3DS if you flew directly into the sky so that none of the actual world geometry was visible.

Yeah I'm curious about this as well, and ha I forgot that about the brief spurts of 60fps. The weirdness of an unlocked frame rate
 
So it runs between 10% (when things are really busy) and 25% faster which is nice to see. This translates roughly as between 3-10fps increase.

It's shocking how much the frame rate jumps around. The O3DS drops below 30, can touch 60 when looking out to sea, but is generally around 40.
The N3DS never drops below 30, touches 60 more often, and is generally around 45.

Nobody did!
It's not possible on the level where the different columns of wind need to take you to different heights.
Not possible I said!
I've done it! And I'm in the process of doing it again :)

Well, it seems I got better than perfect in everything other than Diamond and 3 odd levels. Quite the challenge! Edit: that's 100% complete, see below.

I can't remember what you have to do to turn the level select pink rather than blue? Edit: ah, pink level select is once you get to a certain part of the game and unlock the super vehicles.

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Man what I would give for a new Pilotwings with its own maps and a more modern game design.
Imagine the Jazz Fusion soundtrack of 64 with the band that did the soundtrack for Mario Kart 8.
 
So it runs between 10% (when things are really busy) and 25% faster which is nice to see. This translates roughly as between 3-10fps increase.

It's shocking how much the frame rate jumps around. The O3DS drops below 30, can touch 60 when looking out to sea, but is generally around 40.
The N3DS never drops below 30, touches 60 more often, and is generally around 45.

That's really interesting! I actually would have thought the performance increase would have been greater when overclocking. Can you overclock the GPU as well, or only the CPU? I guess the game must be GPU bottlenecked if you're overclocking the CPU by 300% and only getting a 10-25% performance boost.

By any chance, can you compare the fps of Luigi's Mansion 2 and Rayman 2 when running overclocked versus stock speed? I've heard these two games really benefit from overclocking.
 
Man what I would give for a new Pilotwings with its own maps and a more modern game design.
Can you give us some examples of the more modern game design you're referring to? I'd love to see another Pilotwings, too.

That's really interesting! I actually would have thought the performance increase would have been greater when overclocking. Can you overclock the GPU as well, or only the CPU? I guess the game must be GPU bottlenecked if you're overclocking the CPU by 300% and only getting a 10-25% performance boost.
It's not overclocking the CPU but simply running the game at N3DS native speed, rather than the original O3DS speed. It changes CPU clock speed from 268MHz to 804MHz. And also activates L2 cache on the CPU. Sorry I have to reiterate that.

So yes you're right about no GPU tweaks.

By any chance, can you compare the fps of Luigi's Mansion 2 and Rayman 2
Sure!

RAYMAN 2
Amazing benefit!
I watched the intro and played through the first slide and start pond area.
O3DS: 20-25fps, fluctuating
N3DS: 59fps, solid
I've had this in my case since launch and I really should play it as I loved it on Dreamcast.

LUIGI 2
N3DS speeds gives you an extra 5fps generally
From about 35fps to 40fps or so, but it varies a lot.
 
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