Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

I genuinely love the obscure S/NES games we get on NSO. They work perfectly for a subscription-based service (and I normally dislike subscriptions) because most of them I would never pay for individually but a lot of them are actually pretty fun. Of course, I wouldn't say no to a few higher profile additions too, but it seems most third parties are more interested in releasing their old games in compilations.

Tony Hawk up to #3 on US eShop. Well deserved. A rock solid port of a timeless classic.

I got Ys IX, and have been playing it, but it needs a patch. It runs great mostly, but in the city it really struggles. They said a patch was coming, which feels reminiscent of Ys VIII which got several early patches. Anyways, I'm probably gonna hold off playing it until that patch drops. It's not unplayable- as I said it runs fine in most areas. But it is aggravating in the city.

Tomorrow is MH Stories 2. That's what I'm about. Shouldn't have burned so much vacation already. It would be a perfect day to take off.

I'll wait until Ys IX is patched before picking it up. Really don't need a repeat of Ys VIII's slideshow areas.

There's a bit of charm to Ys IX's current performance woes.

Kind of reminds me of the PS1, Saturn, N64 days in an odd way.

My switch got broken so i have some questions on what to do when i get my new switch number 1 how do you login number 2 how do you get your games back digital and cartridge and lastly do i need to deactivate the switch and if i do how?

@SuperepicGaming
1 Same way you'd login anywhere else. Put in your email and password associated with your existing Nintendo Account.

2 Once you've logged in with your Nintendo Account, go to eShop, select your avatar icon in the top right corner, then select "Redownload"

3 Yes. If your broken Switch can still navigate to the eShop, deactivate from there. If it can't, you can do so remotely once per year

Deactivate Remotely

• Navigate to the Nintendo Account website
• Sign in to the Nintendo Account you wish to deactivate
• Select Shop Menu
• Select Deregister Primary Console
• Enter your Nintendo Account password
• Select Deregister twice to confirm
• The next time you connect to the Nintendo eShop from a Nintendo Switch console, the console you use to connect will automatically be set as your primary console.

@JaxonH So when i get the new switch where do i go to login would it be like making a new profile?

@SuperepicGaming
On the system itself. You can't miss it. It shows a screen for Nintendo Account where you make a new one or sign into your existing one.

@Snaplocket The game becomes a slideshow in certain sections of Dana's optional dungeon. Like, it dipped so hard I struggled to even play the game.

@Ralizah I also played the game at launch and never noticed a substantial dip in the frame rate

Ys VIII is one of my favorite games on the system, but it does chug a bit in spots.

Mostly during sections of the dungeon you repeatedly visit as Dana (as @Ralizah said), and during certain busy raid events (I specifically remember it during a raid in a cave).

Granted, a lot of that was during portable gameplay sessions as far as I remember, so maybe it plays better in those instances docked?

@RR529 Performance in that post-game dungeon is pretty bad as well.

And, while I have no objective basis for saying this, my observation has been that the framerate was pretty much never more stable when docked. That particular dungeon area that slowed to single digits (I'm assuming; it was really bad) didn't seem to hold up better when played on or off the TV.

@Balta666 90% of the time, the performance hovers around 30fps. Granted, there are a ton of little drops during cutscenes or when a lot of stuff is happening on-screen, but it's nothing too horrible.

The worst drops happen almost exclusively in the sections that were originally added in the PS4 version, I've found.

If you've played through this extra content and didn't notice anything, then... I don't know what to say. They're not really drops I can imagine anyone being able to just ignore. Then again, I've had certain posters on here tell me they didn't notice about terrible XC2's resolution got in handheld mode when running around Gormott, and that literally gets bad enough that the characters look like impressionistic smudges on the screen, so...

Of course, I've had people tell me that Nocturne HD really suffered from terrible framerate issues on Switch, and aside from a few short-lived drops here and there, I haven't seen it.

I guess I can say I'm glad the performance issues didn't negatively impact your own playthrough of the game.

@Snaplocket Not quite all. The game randomly dips more often when in docked mode, and, in both modes, there's stutters when using multi-target elemental skills like Tornado. There was also this one really bizarrely stuttery room in a random dungeon at one point. Otherwise, though, it was fine. Hardly the stuttery mess that people kept warning others about. Almost the entire game is pretty smooth, especially when undocked.

I will say, while I'm excited for the simultaneous worldwide launch of SMT V, I did kind of like that Atlus games had a period of time where they were exclusive to Japan, as they had a lot of their performance kinks worked out before being localized. P5 Strikers had performance and load time improvements when it was localized as well.

As for Ys VIII, I guess I'll ask: did you do all of the sections of Dana's dungeon in the past and/or the post-game dungeon? Because, if you didn't, that'd explain why you didn't experience what I experienced. I also played at launch. I don't think any major performance improvement patches released after I was done with it, either.

And yeah, Xenoblade 2... in more contained areas, it looks fine. Sub-native, but fine for handheld. But once you get to those big open areas, the dip in resolution is shocking. And I'm a person who could (mostly) tolerate The Witcher 3 on Switch after coming from the PC version at Ultra settings at 1080p.

@Ralizah well I do remember a few dips in Nocturne but nothing major and XC2 definitely gets resolution drops constantly (and also sometimes HD assets loaded after the fact so for a few seconds you have N64 graphics lol) but that is something that does not bother me as the artstyle of the game is my favourite on switch by a countrymile (I adore that game ).
Ys VIII I never played after 2018 so maybe I just don't remember anymore

I feel like framerate issues on Switch are being overblown.

May have something to do with people on the internet saying that we need a Switch Pro and not an OLED because first party games run at 20fps.

Which ...I've yet to see. Its like how people say SMTV looks like a PS2 game. I wanna buy their PS2!

https://www.gematsu.com/2021/07/kemco-and-water-phoenix-offic...

@Haruki_NLI
There is a certain subset of games with FPS issues. But its only a small subset, and many of them aren't that severe. There is a smaller subset of games where it genuinely makes the experience unpleasant, but often the focus is put on those trivial few rather than the many which look fine and offer satisfactory performance.

@Haruki_NLI I am not a fps or resolution freak but I will say games like age of calamity are pretty much unplayable to my standards (does not help I am not into the gameplay for sure)

And on games like BotW (forest) and some areas of Monster Hunter stories 2 for instance is really poor

@Haruki_NLI
While framerate is important, it isn't the most important part of the game as long as it doesn't constantly affect the gameplay. This is because I don't really notice issues and the average tv show actually runs at 30fps, while a substantial number of today's games run at 60fps in comparison.

MH Stories 2 Amiibo up on Gamestop

https://www.gamestop.com/search/?q=Monster+hunter+stories+2+a...