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Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo (www.videogameschronicle.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This is not true at all and demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of how surround sound worked.

Nintendo 64 games like Donkey Kong 64 and Conker's Bad Fur Day supported surround sound. Even Star Fox on the SNES supported surround sound. All through composite cables.

It works by encoding multiple channels into two channels, so it can then decode those channels to send the proper signal to the proper speaker. For Dolby specifically, you need a Pro Logic compatible receiver, which could decode that signal. If you don't have a Pro Logic compatible receiver then you will only hear stereo output.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Well TIL.

profound misunderstanding of how surround sound worked

You got me, I didn't know anyone who even owned a surround sound setup in the gamecube era.