Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

I suppose with the release of Portal 1 & 2 for Switch we can assume Half Life 2 isn't far behind for Switch as well?
https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/05/12/half-life-2-now-avail...

Here's some interesting info about the MK8 Deluxe DLC from the eshop:

"Even if you haven't purchased the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass or a NSO + Expansion Pack membership, you can still try out the courses if you play with friends who have access to the Booster Course Pass.
Additionally, starting on 22/03/2022, courses included in the Booster Course Pass will appear in the Random selection when playing Global or Regional races with anyone online."

Not sure whether by Random it means specifically the Random option or whether it also includes the 3 specific courses you can vote for each race (as those are randomly selected) but it seems the DLC will appear in matchmaking even if you don't own it.

@Grumblevolcano That's great then for big groups of friends. Since only one person needs to have the DLC, you could just have that person make the lobby and everyone can play the DLC online together. I wonder if the any-track selection would also have them then?

@DarthNocturnal
Which is how Call of Duty does their DLC maps. Only pairing players with other players who own the map.

@DarthNocturnal Before I got both Fighter's Pass', it was very annoying to get a really sick replay, try to go save it as a video, only for it to not work because it was with a DLC character/stage that I didn't own yet. I remember this happened once because a DLC SONG was playing (Spiral Mountain on Battlefield I believe) as well which, as you can imagine, was very frustrating.

@Tay205 Reagarding your battery percentage not displaying correctly. That has been a known issue, like JaxonH mentioned. Here's nintendo's troubleshooting page for the issue. It may require a few charge cycles to resovle it. Hopefully it works for you. https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a...

@WoomyNNYes I followed the same instructions already 7 times and still nothing.

The original battery is 4,300 MAH

The replacement us 4,300 MAH

Everything else is the same 3 V etc

I am planning on going back to the 3rd party repair center where I had them replace the battery to see if they can replace it again under warranty.

I thought to ask you guys to see if anyone here had ideas

Oooo, @Tay205's on the ball. Yeah, I agree, questioning the actual battery seems like the next logical step.

@Tay205 Sorry about this double post. If anyone gives you toxic guff, like I saw earlier, don't be afraid to use that Ignore button or the Block feature.

@DarthNocturnal @JaxonH You know the modern call of duty games give maps and new weapons to every player for free, right? By seasons with updates. They sell cosmetics skins on their battle passes, not maps like back then.

@MsJubilee
Really?

Cause when I was buying all the CoD games on Steam recently, there were tons of map pack season passes I saw.

@WoomyNNYes ya I just can't believe that person accused me of hacking my switch.

I just had the battery replaced

I am still playing Zelda breath of the wild which is for the switch

If I hacked it do you think I can still play breath of the wild or still have access to switch games and the switch eshop?

I believe that kid who accused me of hacking my switch hacked his switch.

I reported him on both comments he posted because I got mad

People probably thinks I hacked it when I didn't

@Tay205 He was a little ineleant there😁, but there is a nintendolife community rule against discussing hacking/modding current gen consoles. I think it's for legal reasons, and nintendolife wants to keep a good releationship with Nintendo.

Trying to repair simple-ish stuff like, replace battery, replace fan, fix a joycon or pro controller, that seems to be ok.

@JaxonH All the COD games before Modern Warfare (2019) have awful season passes. The ones after Modern Warfare 2019, they're all going to receive free maps. Only cosmetic skins will be paid. So as of right now, MW19, Cold War, and the new one Vanguard all have free DLC maps & weapons.

@MsJubilee
Oh. Right on.

@DarthNocturnal
So, which ones are missing from Steam? I got Vanguard on Series X since I can play with gyro aiming now using XIM Nexus.

But if there's other CoD games not on Steam I wanna grab them on Series X

@DarthNocturnal
Nevermind.

• Black Ops 4 (no campaign)
• Modern Warfare 2019
• Black Ops: Cold War
• Vanguard

Guess I didn't realize how many had passed me buy. Easy skip on BO4, but I grabbed the other 2 I didn't own on Series X just now.

check out the analysis of the reveal trailer of Xenoblade Chonicles 3

@Tay205 Since you installed a new battery, I think that's normal that the console has to learn/re-calibrate to the new battery, and probably explains the wonky percent changes. That's why that nintendo support troubleshooting page I linked to said it may take multiple charge cycles to resolve the battery charge display - the console is learning (that's my understanding).

In the past, I thought I recalled that if a cell phone charge display wasn't accurate, that doing full dischage then full chage of the battery helps the system learn/calibarate to correct charge display issues. I know shorter use & charge sessions are better for prolonging lithium ion batteries, but that's what the solution was. So, I'm not surprised Switch troubleshooting seems to echo that solution, since the Switch is mobile tech.

@WoomyNNYes ya I done the calibrations 7 times and nothing as changed.

I am planning on going back to the repair shop to get the battery replaced again since I only have 90 day warranty.

I wish I have 6 month warranty instead of a 90 day warranty

This repair shop charged me $160 for their battery when ifixit sells them for $40

I guess for now on I will replace the battery myself

@WoomyNNYes so I just took it back to the repair shop and they told me to give it a month to see if any changes.

He also told me not to leave it inside the dock after its 100% charged.

Do you leave your switch in the dock all the time?