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Nintendo European Research & Development is a subsidiary of Nintendo located in Paris, specialized in highly optimized software technologies
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NERD Contributes to Remastering Effort in Pikmin 1+2 for Nintendo Switch™
For the Nintendo Switch versions of the two first Pikmin games, originally released on Nintendo GameCube, NERD shared video remastering...
NERD Develops Tools Used to Help Produce Animations in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
NERD developed in-house tools to help generate and modify animations using physics and mathematical optimization. These tools were used by...
NERD Provides the Texture Compression Technology Used in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Textures in games are commonly encoded using specific texture codecs designed to minimize RAM usage while maintaining quick texture access...
NERD Develops Part of the Rendering System and the WYSIWYG Tools Used to Produce Caves, Sky Islands and Other Terrain Elements in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
In close collaboration with the game development team in Japan, NERD engineers developed a continuous Level of Detail based rendering...
Working With Rotations
Rotations in 3D space (which we will just call “rotations” in this article) are useful for many applications – physics...
NERD Provides Emulation Technology for Game Boy Advance™ - Nintendo Switch Online
In order to bring the Game Boy Advance™ experience to Nintendo Switch™ via Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, NERD...
NERD Provides Emulation Technology for Game Boy™ - Nintendo Switch Online
In order to bring the Game Boy™ and Game Boy Color™ experiences to Nintendo Switch™ via Nintendo Switch Online, NERD...
NERD Provides Filtering Expertise and Improves Robustness of Gesture Tracking in Nintendo Switch™ Sports
In Nintendo Switch™ Sports, players compete against each other in a series of user-friendly motion-controlled sports games using a simple...