{"id":41217,"date":"2018-07-26T17:50:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T12:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/?p=41217"},"modified":"2019-12-27T06:48:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:48:34","slug":"nvidia-lightspeed-studios-wii-nvidia-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/nvidia-lightspeed-studios-wii-nvidia-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios Ported Wii and Game Cube Games to Nvidia Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia Shield is a handheld platform that has many titles on it, including various Wii and Game Cube games, earlier it was revealed that these were actually being emulated on the Nvidia Shield device using some sort of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/nintendo-switch-hacking-emulators-homebrew\/\">emulation software<\/a>. Now it&#8217;s been revealed that\u00a0NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios were behind these ports, check out the details below.<\/p>\n<h2>NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios<\/h2>\n<p>It has been reported that the logo for\u00a0NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios shows up when you boot up Super Mario Galaxy&#8217;s, check out the logo below<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41226\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NVIDIA-LightSpeed-Studios.jpg\" alt=\"NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NVIDIA-LightSpeed-Studios.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NVIDIA-LightSpeed-Studios-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NVIDIA-LightSpeed-Studios-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NVIDIA-LightSpeed-Studios-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NVIDIA-LightSpeed-Studios.jpg\" alt=\"NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NVIDIA-LightSpeed-Studios.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NVIDIA-LightSpeed-Studios-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NVIDIA-LightSpeed-Studios-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NVIDIA-LightSpeed-Studios-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/noscript> NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios Logo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unaware of what\u00a0NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios have done in the past, they&#8217;ve worked on remakes of various PC games and brought them to Android and Nvidia Shield including DOOM 3, Half-Life 2, Portal.<\/p>\n<p>This pretty much confirms that the studio has been working on all the porting, whether it involves the use of emulation or fully remade\/remakes of classic games, now including Nintendo titles.<\/p>\n<p>The studio shared information about itself on its blog<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>&#8220;We\u2019ve also recently formed a new team, NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios, whose mission is to remaster and remake classic PC games and bring them to Android for billions of people to enjoy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>We enhance these beloved games as we remaster them by increasing visual fidelity and introducing new features, not in the original, such as higher resolutions, anti-aliasing, cloud <\/em>saves<em>, and more.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of remasters and remakes, the demo for Yakuza 3 is now up for download on PS Store, which you can read all about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/yakuza-3-demo-ps4-available-asia\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia Shield is a pretty popular device in China and one of the biggest reasons to get it is due to the ports of games from Nintendo Wii and Gamecube, which aren&#8217;t readily available on other platforms, even on the Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a Nvidia Shield? What do you think about\u00a0NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia Shield is a handheld platform that has many titles on it, including various Wii and Game Cube games, earlier it was revealed that these were actually being emulated on the Nvidia Shield device using some sort of emulation software. Now it&#8217;s been revealed that\u00a0NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios were behind these ports, check out the details below. NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios It has been reported that the logo for\u00a0NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios shows up when you boot up Super Mario Galaxy&#8217;s, check out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":15199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[391,4454,750,547,4452,4451,866,4453],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios Ported Wii and Game Cube Games to Nvidia Shield<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NVIDIA LightSpeed Studios has Ported Wii and Game Cube Games to Nvidia Shield, check out more details here.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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