I know there using it as a reason to buy a Switch 2 but honestly I think Switch 1 could of done decent GameCube emulation, fact we got Sunshine in wide screen and hd textures and on a cartridge on Switch 1 proves it can be done. Still odd why Sunshine hasn't been added yet to NSO tho Wario World is more then welcomed
Looks great, plays great. I do wish they could have gotten it to at least 40FPS, but considering the fan sounded pretty maxed out whilst playing, I can accept the limitations.
Anyone who has not played this before is in for a treat.
Still a hard pass unless devs offer up an easy mode/adjustable difficulty. Raging at a game for weeks is not an enjoyable use of my time. Shame the devs have made the choice to exclude a significant portion of gamers from their business model. Works for them clearly, and I’m happy for anyone who enjoys this project.
Im definitely going to give this a download when I get home from work. If things work out well, ill have both Metroid Prime 4 and Red Dead Redemption completed by the time it releases.
Based on the anemic marketing, I get the feeling that Nintendo was anticipating the somewhat lukewarm reception. There was no dedicated Direct, for instance. For a title as anticipated as MP4, you would expect it to be given the "VIP treatment".
For comparison, Dread was an OLED launch title and got a collector's edition.
@Suketoudara Awesome, thank you for letting me know. Will definitely give F-Zero GX another shot then! I played it a ton back on GC, hopefully it now more closely replicates the feel of the original.
@JohnnyMind & also @Suketoudara People often overreact to a lot of things on the internet, and they're really too quick to judge anything as being worse than it really is. Whether it's gameplay, graphics, nerdy voice acting in the isolated shooter adventure, that one tiny little sidequest in the corner of the map in a JRPG, etc. It is what it is though, I'd say don't let these things judge how you yourself experience these games. You be the judge of your own experience!
The artsyle and humor in this game are top notch, the system and progression are very well made, hope this update refreshes the fun I had with it! Amazing little gem
That one is even worse. It added over 40GB in storage and you are hard pressed to notice the difference in-game. In fact, the game is now 37GB larger than on any other platform. It's nuts.
@Anti-Matter I think that the Wii U HD version with the Gamepad is the best way to play the game. With the Gamepad, inventory management no longer pauses the game. Of all the improvements in the HD version, this one feature has the most impact on gameplay.
@Kid_Sickarus I can’t think of anything Fates did better than Awakening. The cast didn’t feel particularly memorable outside of a few select characters and the story was oftentimes painful because of the number of routes making motivations incredibly muddled to justify why they won’t listen to reason in each of them. The sheer contrivance of a lot of the conflict in Fates goes beyond simple plot convenience, its fanfic levels at times. Gameplay wise, it’s just OK, but the child unit justification was incredibly weak and again felt like them trying to use features from Awakening that actually had narrative purpose there. Fates is probably the least inspiring FE game out there, everyone remembers it for Camilla’s design but I don’t know a single person who’s went to seek out their old 3DS to replay it, it’s just not really worth the effort.
If they do do DLC I hope the quality is good. (The Switch DLC was of poor quality. The Wii U DLC was the same quality as the rest of the game so okay.) I wish there was more incentive to go for first the whole race. (I only play knockout tour.) I guess it is okay at a £30 premium over the console on its own but it is definitely not worth its full price. (I don’t get why people have any interest in playing hours and hours of Mario Kart other than in like a student house etc. I put 300 hours into the Steam version of all stars racing transformed because it actually had something I wanted to improve at. There should be none of me thinking I wish I was playing something else for the amount of MKW I have played and there is a lot.)
We could do with less exaggerations of these games and other ones in general not being "actually playable" when that's far from the case - that said, glad to hear that the input lag has been improved, looking forward to replaying Wind Waker on NSO even more than I already was (doubt I'll have the time to do so also on my own, most likely only for my channel whenever its time comes)... unless the HD version also gets rereleased on Switch 2 at some point, fingers crossed for that!
@Yosher F-Zero GX feels a lot better, if there is still a lag it's really not noticable to me.
Wind Waker as I recall had a bit of lag in the original game played on the GameCube too, definitely in the roll at least which has a slight delay built in.
I would guess the low reviews of both critics/players and the high price tag puts people off. I would also pass on a game this expensive if I was not a big fan. Well, to be honest, after playing it I would also advise people to pass if they are not big fans. For a lower price one can get great games like Hades2, Silksong, Absolum, etc...
Anyway, considering the bonus items I might play it as soon as my copy arrives and then immediately continue my file there (always appreciate when your save data carries over) - glad that the demo is now available, hope those trying it will enjoy it!
@TomSupreme Exactly this, especially with all the issues currently affecting games and even more so their creators (i.e. not only those making the games people enjoy, but also fellow humans whose livelihoods depend on them) I'm sorry, but Game-Key Cards are the least of my worries, only starting price which are constantly and often significantly lowered by discounts for most games matter even less - it would be great if people considered also the several positives of physical they still have compared to code in a box as @SBandy1 has already mentioned, exclusively digital and the worst of the worst, games as a service including cloud ones...
The most baffling aspect as pointed out also by @Pillowpants is that people are bashing Nintendo the most despite them being the only ones that still have fully physical games and among the few with partially physical ones, on PlayStation and Xbox you always have to install and so consume storage and more often than not a lot of it while all other platforms are purely digital and before someone claims yet again that Steam is "safer" compared to others several games get delisted monthly there as you can see here - ironically enough one of the benefits of physical that GKC still have is that games released as such should be available even if they get delisted individually or the eShop closes (of course as long as the servers are up, but even the Wii ones haven't been shut down yet if that ever happens in addition what @electrolite77 has already mentioned)!
@electrolite77 yeah that’s a great point. There is literally not a single console that had an online store where you cannot still access the content you purchased in past and we are getting close to 20 years now.
I still really don’t like the idea of game key cards. I suppose they are fine for some games that you might try and dislike, or games that you know you’ll only play for a brief time like sports games.
I already have Wii U version and I didn't experience with lag input. The Wii U version looked way much better than GameCube version, more colorful and brighter.
Was really excited for this, especially since they’ve decided to price it reasonably on the eshop instead of being greedy, but the more I think about it, maybe I should wait for a potential sale leading up to the launch of the second game in the trilogy since I’ll be avoiding the “physical” and honestly don’t really fancy waiting ages to play parts 2 and 3. There’s also the small case of my big backlog.
I haven't played it on NSO, yet. I played the game on Wii U and don't feel a particular need to revisit it on NSO, because the Wii U version is superior. But glad to read that the input lag issues have been resolved!
@electrolite77 The thing is that it's always been like that with Steam on PC, but for some reason Nintendo fans can't seem to get used to the idea that the future will be digital only. I'm very keen on physical collection, but I've got peace with the game key card thing. I wonder how long people will cling onto the Anti-GKC-bandwagon.
@PinderSchloss Totally. As it is, the idea that I have for a Zelda anime (based on a webnovel that I am currently writing) would see Ufotable animate it, not Ghibli. I know that many people say Ghibli or no one at all, but I just don't think they're the right choice for a Zelda anime. And I stand by that.
It’s pretty bizarre. The idea of denying yourself games now because you might lose access to them (if you haven’t downloaded them) at some currently non-existent point in the future when you may not be alive seems pretty self defeating to me.
This game's credit theme is one of the best out there honestly. Also, surprisingly many tracks for this game, even when taking out all the "hurry up" versions.
Also I never knew this game has two of those hurry up versions. Time is just rarely an issue in this game for me.
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If I had 190$ I would spend them in something else. The should really, really drop those prices.
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
It would be cool if Nintendo actually listed changes on every update instead of having us guess and get a feel and potentially get placebo'd.
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
I know there using it as a reason to buy a Switch 2 but honestly I think Switch 1 could of done decent GameCube emulation, fact we got Sunshine in wide screen and hd textures and on a cartridge on Switch 1 proves it can be done. Still odd why Sunshine hasn't been added yet to NSO tho Wario World is more then welcomed
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Just finished the demo.
Looks great, plays great. I do wish they could have gotten it to at least 40FPS, but considering the fan sounded pretty maxed out whilst playing, I can accept the limitations.
Anyone who has not played this before is in for a treat.
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
I played it back in in October / early November and had no problems with input lag back then - at least none that I noticed.
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Still a hard pass unless devs offer up an easy mode/adjustable difficulty. Raging at a game for weeks is not an enjoyable use of my time. Shame the devs have made the choice to exclude a significant portion of gamers from their business model. Works for them clearly, and I’m happy for anyone who enjoys this project.
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Im definitely going to give this a download when I get home from work. If things work out well, ill have both Metroid Prime 4 and Red Dead Redemption completed by the time it releases.
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Based on the anemic marketing, I get the feeling that Nintendo was anticipating the somewhat lukewarm reception. There was no dedicated Direct, for instance. For a title as anticipated as MP4, you would expect it to be given the "VIP treatment".
For comparison, Dread was an OLED launch title and got a collector's edition.
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Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
@Suketoudara Awesome, thank you for letting me know. Will definitely give F-Zero GX another shot then! I played it a ton back on GC, hopefully it now more closely replicates the feel of the original.
@JohnnyMind & also @Suketoudara People often overreact to a lot of things on the internet, and they're really too quick to judge anything as being worse than it really is. Whether it's gameplay, graphics, nerdy voice acting in the isolated shooter adventure, that one tiny little sidequest in the corner of the map in a JRPG, etc. It is what it is though, I'd say don't let these things judge how you yourself experience these games. You be the judge of your own experience!
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The artsyle and humor in this game are top notch, the system and progression are very well made, hope this update refreshes the fun I had with it! Amazing little gem
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@topsekret It is the same with Skyrim.
That one is even worse. It added over 40GB in storage and you are hard pressed to notice the difference in-game.
In fact, the game is now 37GB larger than on any other platform. It's nuts.
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I love this soundtrack.
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Why won’t this team take money?? Two of the greatest games of all time and they simply won’t charge for their work 😂
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
@JohnnyMind Yeah, that's ridiculously hyperbolic but that seems to be a common thing with a lot of the Switch 2 discourse online :-/
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
@Anti-Matter I think that the Wii U HD version with the Gamepad is the best way to play the game. With the Gamepad, inventory management no longer pauses the game. Of all the improvements in the HD version, this one feature has the most impact on gameplay.
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@Kid_Sickarus I can’t think of anything Fates did better than Awakening. The cast didn’t feel particularly memorable outside of a few select characters and the story was oftentimes painful because of the number of routes making motivations incredibly muddled to justify why they won’t listen to reason in each of them. The sheer contrivance of a lot of the conflict in Fates goes beyond simple plot convenience, its fanfic levels at times. Gameplay wise, it’s just OK, but the child unit justification was incredibly weak and again felt like them trying to use features from Awakening that actually had narrative purpose there. Fates is probably the least inspiring FE game out there, everyone remembers it for Camilla’s design but I don’t know a single person who’s went to seek out their old 3DS to replay it, it’s just not really worth the effort.
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If they do do DLC I hope the quality is good. (The Switch DLC was of poor quality. The Wii U DLC was the same quality as the rest of the game so okay.) I wish there was more incentive to go for first the whole race. (I only play knockout tour.) I guess it is okay at a £30 premium over the console on its own but it is definitely not worth its full price. (I don’t get why people have any interest in playing hours and hours of Mario Kart other than in like a student house etc. I put 300 hours into the Steam version of all stars racing transformed because it actually had something I wanted to improve at. There should be none of me thinking I wish I was playing something else for the amount of MKW I have played and there is a lot.)
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
We could do with less exaggerations of these games and other ones in general not being "actually playable" when that's far from the case - that said, glad to hear that the input lag has been improved, looking forward to replaying Wind Waker on NSO even more than I already was (doubt I'll have the time to do so also on my own, most likely only for my channel whenever its time comes)... unless the HD version also gets rereleased on Switch 2 at some point, fingers crossed for that!
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
@Yosher F-Zero GX feels a lot better, if there is still a lag it's really not noticable to me.
Wind Waker as I recall had a bit of lag in the original game played on the GameCube too, definitely in the roll at least which has a slight delay built in.
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I would guess the low reviews of both critics/players and the high price tag puts people off. I would also pass on a game this expensive if I was not a big fan. Well, to be honest, after playing it I would also advise people to pass if they are not big fans. For a lower price one can get great games like Hades2, Silksong, Absolum, etc...
Re: Surprise! Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's Free Switch 2 Demo Is Now Live
For those wondering, the demo's file size is 7.9GB. That's less than a 10th the size of the full game
Re: Surprise! Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's Free Switch 2 Demo Is Now Live
Anyway, considering the bonus items I might play it as soon as my copy arrives and then immediately continue my file there (always appreciate when your save data carries over) - glad that the demo is now available, hope those trying it will enjoy it!
Re: Surprise! Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's Free Switch 2 Demo Is Now Live
Nice. Will try this evening. I played this through once on Steam Deck and it ran well. Hoping for the same on SW2.
Re: Surprise! Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's Free Switch 2 Demo Is Now Live
I hate the game, but since it's a GKC I might buy it to support the format.
Re: Surprise! Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's Free Switch 2 Demo Is Now Live
@TomSupreme Exactly this, especially with all the issues currently affecting games and even more so their creators (i.e. not only those making the games people enjoy, but also fellow humans whose livelihoods depend on them) I'm sorry, but Game-Key Cards are the least of my worries, only starting price which are constantly and often significantly lowered by discounts for most games matter even less - it would be great if people considered also the several positives of physical they still have compared to code in a box as @SBandy1 has already mentioned, exclusively digital and the worst of the worst, games as a service including cloud ones...
The most baffling aspect as pointed out also by @Pillowpants is that people are bashing Nintendo the most despite them being the only ones that still have fully physical games and among the few with partially physical ones, on PlayStation and Xbox you always have to install and so consume storage and more often than not a lot of it while all other platforms are purely digital and before someone claims yet again that Steam is "safer" compared to others several games get delisted monthly there as you can see here - ironically enough one of the benefits of physical that GKC still have is that games released as such should be available even if they get delisted individually or the eShop closes (of course as long as the servers are up, but even the Wii ones haven't been shut down yet if that ever happens in addition what @electrolite77 has already mentioned)!
Re: Surprise! Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's Free Switch 2 Demo Is Now Live
@electrolite77 yeah that’s a great point. There is literally not a single console that had an online store where you cannot still access the content you purchased in past and we are getting close to 20 years now.
I still really don’t like the idea of game key cards. I suppose they are fine for some games that you might try and dislike, or games that you know you’ll only play for a brief time like sports games.
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@Exerion76
in my haste to make a dumb joke, i missed it!
well, I'm genuinely glad for that 😊 and thanks for pointing it out to me! ✌️
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Invincibility BGM for the win. 😊
(The one that sounds like the Can Can.)
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
I already have Wii U version and I didn't experience with lag input.

The Wii U version looked way much better than GameCube version, more colorful and brighter.
Re: Surprise! Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's Free Switch 2 Demo Is Now Live
Was really excited for this, especially since they’ve decided to price it reasonably on the eshop instead of being greedy, but the more I think about it, maybe I should wait for a potential sale leading up to the launch of the second game in the trilogy since I’ll be avoiding the “physical” and honestly don’t really fancy waiting ages to play parts 2 and 3. There’s also the small case of my big backlog.
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
What about other GC titles? It felt bad on F-Zero as well. If it's just Wind Waker that's kinda, whatever, but a step in the right direction.
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
That's cool and all but i'd still prefer it if they released the HD version on Switch 2
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
I haven't played it on NSO, yet. I played the game on Wii U and don't feel a particular need to revisit it on NSO, because the Wii U version is superior. But glad to read that the input lag issues have been resolved!
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
I finally managed to get this game on GameCube. Absolutely beautiful game.
Re: Surprise! Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's Free Switch 2 Demo Is Now Live
@electrolite77 The thing is that it's always been like that with Steam on PC, but for some reason Nintendo fans can't seem to get used to the idea that the future will be digital only. I'm very keen on physical collection, but I've got peace with the game key card thing. I wonder how long people will cling onto the Anti-GKC-bandwagon.
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@PinderSchloss Totally. As it is, the idea that I have for a Zelda anime (based on a webnovel that I am currently writing) would see Ufotable animate it, not Ghibli. I know that many people say Ghibli or no one at all, but I just don't think they're the right choice for a Zelda anime. And I stand by that.
Re: Surprise! Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's Free Switch 2 Demo Is Now Live
This is one game that I may have to break my physical law for as I love the original so much that I really want to play this game.
Hate it how its Game Key-Card so will save the plastic and go full download if I like the Demo
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
@Hero-of-WiiU yeah, the coders.
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
Also known as skill issues
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
"Actually playable" 😂😂😂
Re: Users Are Reporting "Greatly Reduced" Input Lag On Zelda: Wind Waker For NSO
I suggest playing it on a GameCube, a Wii and if you don't have one of those, your phone will likely run it very well.
Re: Surprise! Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's Free Switch 2 Demo Is Now Live
@TomSupreme
It’s pretty bizarre. The idea of denying yourself games now because you might lose access to them (if you haven’t downloaded them) at some currently non-existent point in the future when you may not be alive seems pretty self defeating to me.
Re: Surprise! Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's Free Switch 2 Demo Is Now Live
@TomSupreme
Yep. And it is actually a far superior solution to code in a box as the games have re-sell value. I genuinely don't understand the hubbub around it.
Switch 2 carts are crazy expensive, this was probably the only way Nintendo could convince third party's to release games physically.
Re: Surprise! Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's Free Switch 2 Demo Is Now Live
@SBandy1 This Game Key-Card bashing is crazy. I get it that collectors are unsatisfied, but missing out a potential good game?
Re: Surprise! Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's Free Switch 2 Demo Is Now Live
@topsekret
Looks like you will be missing out on a lot of games then.
Re: Surprise! Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's Free Switch 2 Demo Is Now Live
@topsekret Just get it from the eShop. All games will be digital-only by next gen anyway...
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This game's credit theme is one of the best out there honestly. Also, surprisingly many tracks for this game, even when taking out all the "hurry up" versions.
Also I never knew this game has two of those hurry up versions. Time is just rarely an issue in this game for me.
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@SpaceboyScreams how can people tell it isn’t good if they haven’t played it? What a stupid argument.
Re: Surprise! Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's Free Switch 2 Demo Is Now Live
Nope, I'm not interested in picking this up since it's on a Game-Key Card.