If you own a standard definition television and played through Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts without having a clue what was going on, Rare's got your back.
Today an update for Nuts & Bolts went live that offers a "Large Dialogue Text" option that will make in-game text far more readable on standard definition televisions. Simply hop online, start the game, and agree to the update. It's easy like that. You'll have the option to turn the option on and off, as well, so the large and somewhat gaudy text won't be forced upon you.
You can see our "before and after" comparison screens after the jump, but keep in mind these were taken with my digital camera off the screen of a high definition television. I left my SDTV somewhere back in 2004, so this is going to have to do. You can still see the difference, in that the text is clearly larger and bolder.
If you have a standard def telelvision, let us know if this was the solution to your woes.
[Thanks, Nicholas!]
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also woohoo for SDTV people w/e
I took the pictures myself and no, there wasn't a way for me to get an pic of it on an SDTV as I don't own any.
How can you say the controls were shit? It all depends on how you build the vehicle...the parts you are using...gah
It's worth a rent at least.
Anyway... the big text is WAY BETTER! I know I fail for not having an HDTV, but my eyes don't need to be fucking punished because I'm poor.
My eyes aren't as good as they used to be.. >.<
LOLWUT
Man, do you work at being this stupid? Or does it just come naturally.
@Soviet
Some of us don't have our mommies and daddies to buy us an HD, we have to work for a living and usually bills take precedence over a TV.
I'm a broke college student because I bought an HDTV.
That's fine and everything, but if you can't afford a ghetto 30" LCD, then how did you afford a 360 in the first place?
So yeah, Nuts & Bolts is cool and stuff.
Also, VGA cables are win for those of you who are still stuck with SDTVs. I have a massive projection SDTV that looks awful after five years of constant gaming, so I do most of my 360 playing on my spare computer monitor. I'm happy that they finally came out with this patch for all the people who don't want to spend extra to read the text. :P
Its not a great game. Get over it.
Its better than lair and haze combined and if they were both for free.
Also, I'm not exactly a graphics whore; so it's not a huge deal to me. It's just the text in some games is so small. I'm completely aware that I'm doing it wrong.
I don't mind playing on larger SDTVs.
60hz on a CRT monitor slowly destroying your eyes and melting your brain FTW!!
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