In his GDC presentation, Takeshi Shimada highlighted that some improvements to the NintendoWare development tools were underway. Specifically, these improvements would include emulation of Wii hardware on the PC so that artists can view an accurate representation of their special effects without loading their code onto a Wii development kit.

He also noted that his group is working on easy-to-incorporate fur-shading middleware and predictive input.

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