Multiple Switch Games Get Switch 2 Compatibility Fixes

Nice! The more games get fixed on Switch 2, the better.

Yay! Windjammers is awesome 🥳

Excellent about Batman. Looking forward to giving that a try. May still hold out for a switch 2 update though…

Considering the Switch had like over 6000 games, there's no way Nintendo will ever complete that list of Switch compatible games for Switch 2. They need to just focus on the most popular ones.

Every time I see this list I pray Nier is added to it.

@Serpenterror It's not different than emulator development, surely. Fix one game and you probably break another.
It sounds much like how older SNES emulators that focused on getting "popular" games working ended up taking shortcuts that didn't really fix the problems. They just found ways to fudge the numbers but that created a bigger mess long-term. Not until Higan came and said no fixes, popular games broken stood broken until they could figure out what was really wrong with it.

Glad to see they're fixing software; however, I am still hoping Nintendo will make more hardware, like a Switch 2 Lite.

cries in NieR Automata

I hear Batman Arkham Knight is still bad

@Andee9001 Can you detail anything in particular? Just curious since I was checking Reddit and a few people on there said it was stable now. But maybe others are finding issues.

Forgot Tokyo Xanadu wasn't compatible. Been kind of curious about checking it out so glad they fixed it.

@Andee9001 I like to play devil's advocate with Arkham Knight and say that a lot of the complaints were very overblown. For a game that was apparently "unplayable" I completed far more of it on Switch than PS4. Personally, just my opinion, I think that the real issue is that Arkham Knight just us not that good. The Batmobile felt awful on PS4, the endless tank battles were dreary, the idea behind it all just seemed to be bigger and more which didn't equal better (looking at you Riddler challenges), and the fights descended into massive crowds where bad luck (Batman punching, unbidden, an electric thug 🤬😡) was the main challenge. Now obviously the Switch's performance did not help with any of these things but we did basically get the "pocket version" of a not particularly good game that did at least complete the Rocksteady trilogy.

With the Switch 2: performance I haven't had the space to re-download it but I know that Switchup and I think DF looked at it and said that performance had improved across the board with it, but the textures remained ugly. Didn't mention any crashing. Those are on YouTube.

Oddly enough, Trails from zero has backwards compatibility issues but Nintendo or nis america don't seem to realise.

I hope ARKHAM KNIGHT stops crashing. I was surprised to see DOOM 2016 on the progression issues list. I literally just completed a run on my S2 over Halloween season. No issues whatsoever.

Please fix South Park fractured but whole

Oh yes! I love to see Nintendo supporting their consoles with... compatibility?! What is this tomfoolery?!?! Where is the stability gosh darn it, Nintendo!!!

@Serpenterror

Why shouldn’t Nintendo solve the issues for all games (it’s more like 13000 ones, according to MobyGames)? They know both platforms exceptionally well and can solve the fundamental problems of their emulation layer. With every fundamental problem identified and solved, a number of games will work.

The list of incompatible games should be significantly shorter than 1000 entries. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that one day, compatibility with every already released game was achieved.

@xenobladexfan What are the issues with Trails From Zero? I just started chapter 3 today, and I haven’t had a problem yet. Anything I need to worry about?

@imgrowinglegs on switch 2, when I played the game and few months ago the game would crash when in game cutscene was viewed, I already finished the game on switch 1 and had no issues viewing the anime cutscenes in between story chapters or on the menu after new game plus, however on switch 2 the game would crash and force my switch 2 to go to the home screen after viewing in game cutscene.

Please see my forum post about this
https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/nintendo-switch-2/nihon_falcom_games_on_ns2?start=60#reply-69

Frustrating from my perspective these lists always seems to fix lots of games I haven't heard of and then find issues with a few I genuinely want to play / own. Hope the Doom 2016 ones aren't very severe (or would love a switch 2 edition)

Whenever Xenoblade shows up, I just assume that is just a happy byproduct of their on-going behind the scenes upgrade efforts for the game.

@KingMike It's not emulation though.

@AG_Awesome I’m really desperate for a Switch 2 update. I tried it in my steam deck quite a while back and it looked and played really well, so on Switch 2 I think it would also

@AG_Awesome from what I've heard the framerate is more stable but they haven't fixed some glitches and the textures just look muddy

@xenobladexfan Have you tried reporting it to Nintendo? Maybe they'll add it to the list if enough people report it.

@Sambuc : In the meantime, I still want a Switch Micro.

Still waiting for Strania...

@Wilshiire You'll notice when the game title changes to the Fixed but Whole

@xenobladexfan Interesting. In my 30 hours or so in that game, I haven’t had any crashes yet whatsoever.

Been playing xcom2 this week. Its been crashing ALOT,!

Not sure what the issue is with Captain Tsubasa. I have put a good 10h on Switch 2 without any issue. BTW, tge game was almost unplayable on S1 due to its very laggy menus but they are now almost smooth on S2.

Still no fix for the first Monster Hunter Stories, then? The audio issues in the cutscenes are terrible on Switch 2, but they play fine on the OG Switch...

@Serpenterror The Switch actually has over 15 000 games (I know thousands of them are shovelware, but it's the highest any console ever had).

@Lizuka Tbf I played the game on Switch 2 3 months ago whilst it wasn't compatible and I completed the game with no issues what so ever. I don't know what was meant to be wrong for it not to be compatible.

Finally Arkham knight runs! Should be reviewed again - performance is much better than 3/10

@imgrowinglegs
The game is 80 hours long, have you had any issues with viewing anime cutscenes in the game,
when I played it on switch 1 the anime cutscenes played at the climax of each chapter or does it skip on switch 2.

@SupDan
I did report it to nis america but got no reply.
Also I tried reporting it to Nintendo via share error on switch 2 but I don't know how to contact them directly.

I still don't get the issue with Tokyo Xanadu Ex+

People claim they have troubles but ppl like me didn't. This was before the first bunch of compat updates.

I even made a video way early into S2 release showing the game being locked 60fps on S2 so yeah. One guy even commented on the video saying his game wasn't booting.

Nier Automata and Chrono Cross when??

@imgrowinglegs 'from that i gather cutscenes which would normally crash the game when viewed from the gallery instead just dont play when encountered in game and are just outright skipped.

it apparently is a problem across both Zero and Azure which is unfortunate since some of the most memorable moments in the story feature FMV scenes.

an example i used in the past would be imagine playing FFVII and when THAT moment occurred the FMVs didn't play (if you havent played FFVII then disregard this example)

@xenobladexfan Oh! That’s interesting. I don’t recall a single anime cutscene between chapters, so I guess they just skip them if you’re playing on Switch 2.

There isn’t even any indication that you’re missing anything. The game just continues and feels totally natural. Weird.

I’m confused. The last Xenoblade X update was 1.0.2 in April. What is this new update they are talking about?

Still waiting for Nier...

@Nep-Nep-Freak love the name haha I love Neptunia games too ❤️

@imgrowinglegs I have heard other players experiencing the exact same thing as you, the cutscenes that are supposed to play are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcFOWEHLmUg

Weird thing is in booted up my old switch 1 with a copy of zero earlier and the cutscenes were able to be viewed on the home menu without errors or crashing so its only a switch 2 issue.

@xenobladexfan Thanks for all the info and the YouTube link.

@Dang_69 at this point they owe us a Switch 2 edition

@imgrowinglegs cool awesome, hope Nintendo fix these issues on the next update because trails zero and azure are some of my favourite video games.

@xenobladexfan So I just tried to watch the beginning of the video to fill in any cutscenes I may have missed in my playthrough so far.

I’m very confused now, haha.

It showed the intro animation (which works on Switch 2), a quick flash of a train (which I’m pretty sure I saw, but it wasn’t anything besides a shot of the train), then it immediately goes to a car action sequence that I definitely shouldn’t be seeing yet. That’s where I stopped watching.

So I don’t think I’ve actually missed anything yet. I feel good about that. I thought I’d have missed a bunch of cool scenes, but there’s nothing yet.

Console has been out for half a year and one of its main features still doesnt work for many games

@SplatRay001 they don't owe us one. But I'd love love love one. I'd pay a little for one as well.

I’m glad to hear about Xenoblade X definitive. It’s on my wish list and I am hoping for a sale soon.

Still waiting for them to fix Raiden III & IV. One of the selling points of the Switch versions of those games is all the extra BGM remixes they added, but on Switch 2, the BGM randomly cuts out for entire levels.

@imgrowinglegs if the car cutscene plays on trails zero on switch 2 then i think the main game is playable then,
I was worried for trails to azure on switch 2 because that game had some really important cutscenes in the story.

Its weird that the in game movie viewing menu on new game plus is completely broken on switch 2.

They just found ways to fudge the numbers but that created a bigger mess long-term

@the_beaver Yeah just noticed Chrono Cross is listed as unsupported. Was gonna get it because it's discounted to a few € currently. Wonder what's the issue... wasn't it quite a dirty conversion in the first place, AI upscaled and looking not great?

@Andee9001 You take that bat!

im shiny hunting dialga in bdsp and my game crashes a ton and now i know why. still sucks

@Gohanjin Weird Captain Tsubasa seems to run fine on my Switch OLED...🤔

@TensuraFan7 The games itself runs fine on S1 when playing some matches. The menus however are horribly slow and laggy. This is resolved when playing on S2.

My copy of bdsp just updated today, dont know if its related to the crashing issue

Resident Evil 4 now glitches out for me a minute or two after loading my save. A youtube video of the same thing happening also shows several enemies onscreen causing major slowdown before the screen glitches out.

Seems then that the downside of trying to fix multiple games through changing the system firmware is that others that apparently worked fine before can get broken.

@Ralek85 It still has to be something along that line. It's obviously not running Switch 1 programs from 100% (or even close to that number) compatible chips, or there wouldn't be a problem where they'd need regular compatibility updates.
There obviously is some kind of code reinterpretation thus it is at least SOME FORM of emulation, even if it's completely an "emulator".

@KingMike It is a translation layer. It translates the basic instructions from the set of one architecture (SW1) to that of another architecture (SW2) on the fly. In other words, unlike in emulation there is no Switch (1) running on Switch 2, neither in software nor in hardware.

Emulation generally takes a lot more ressources, but is more precise. Nintendo's solution is a lot more performant - as we've seen in many games - but it can demand a lot of specific ad-hoc tweaking and it is only possible due to the architectures being different, but also similar.

In that sense, the distinction is important since most people are probably looking for actual improvements in running their games, not for a precise reproduction down to the flaws for every imangineable game and they want it now, not in two or three generations (or at highly inflated prices due to OG hardware being replicated within the new hardware).

In other words, there are upsides and downsides to both. I'm just weary of people (not target at you) being impatient for fixes. That is the other side of getting this out-of-the-box-for-free-boost in many games. Fair trade-off I would think and most big games are already running convincingly to say the least!