I've been enjoying Astro Prospector and Sektori thanks to mentions last weekend. Astro Prospector is very good, very addictive, and I love the way it looks at 300fps! I don't really like the coffee theme, maybe it's popular enough to have mods being made for it... Sektori is just such an amazing twin stick shooter, love the music, graphics, everything. I'm also playing Trigonarium, which is the 24 MB, $2, older brother of Sektori. Good game, and it really saves storage space!
Also enjoying Timesplitters Rewind very much. I wish it was locked at 90fps, or maybe they can add a frame rate locker in the menu so Lossless Scaling can do it's beautiful work. Oh, they added lsfg to the Decky store! So now it's easier than ever for people to double, triple, or quadruple their frame rates on Deck/steam OS.
Also playing Birdcage, an awesome new shoot em up that everyone should play!
Oh, and I'm also playing Viewpoint 2064, the new N64 game that got saved from oblivion. Also the 60fps patch for Mario Kart Super Circuit, which is nice.
And also Beyond Words, which is a great word game. Looking forward to it's release next year.
Also playing Lonely Mountains Downhill, SF Rush, Perfect Dark, Wipeout Phantom Edition (so perfect locked at 240fps with my Deck docked to my monitor!), UFO 50, Magical Tetris Challenge, and Retro Endurance 8 Bit (so many games to unlock!)(and the dev keeps adding more).
Happy gaming everyone!
I'm pretty obsessed with The Catacombs of Solaris Revisited. It's not a game, but a visual light synth type of thing. It makes me say Oh My God and cusswords because the colors can flow like smoke or water and change direction in trippy ways. It's kind of amazing because it seems simple and not amazing at first, but start messing with the options and moving your analog sticks slowly, rhythmically, or just holding one down (basically with your back to a wall) and it can just be awesome. I'm also playing R Type Delta. I've had it set up via emulation for years as a non steam game, but now that I've bought it I'm playing it and really enjoying it. It is also incredible at 300fps with Lossless Scaling. Which reminds me to say that I've basically quite using my new gaming laptop for gaming and only use my old one since my old one with Windows 10 can run Lossless Scaling flawlessly. Games are so much more immersive at maximum frame rate. I've started Dungeons of Hinterberg on Deck, but performance kinda sucked, so I turned on lsfg and made it look like a locked 90fps. I'm also playing Dirt Rally with high settings at a good resolution and Lossless Scaling keeps it locked at 300fps — pretty stunning! Also playing an awesome puzzle game called Dissembler, just flip pieces and complete colors - I love it. And Wilmot Works It Out, another great puzzle game. And Jumpgrid, a great action game that's a simple well done design. Oh, and Terraflame is addictive at 300fps with frame generation. Also playing Utopia Must Fall and Lonely Mountains Downhill because I love those games! Take care, relax, and happy gaming!!
I'm just continuing to be fascinated and amazed playing stuff at 300fps. I decided to try out my old laptop with this cheap new 300hz monitor I bought and was amazed that it can run Lossless Scaling perfectly. I've been having endless trouble getting LS to work on my new laptop. I wonder if it's Windows 11 vs 10. I've never allowed the "upgrade" on my old laptop, and now I'm planning to protect it from any updates at all. I don't want to lose this ability to get emulation, videos, and all games up to 300fps with perfect frame pacing!! People talk about diminishing returns on higher frame rates, and they're right, but at the same time I'm amazed and enthralled by higher and higher fps. Playing Utopia Must Fall at 300fps and getting the triple shot for the first time, and realizing I can widen or narrow the triple shot with the triggers, well it just looks like a beyond perfect light show! I've gotten up to 16 days survived and something like 210,000 high score. I Love Utopia Must Fall. I'm also playing Dirt Rally at 300fps. Once I destroy all the settings and lower the resolution to 720p (probably my favorite resolution!) it can run at 300 to 400fps, and it looks gorgeous! Also playing Lonely Mountains Downhill (such an amazing and relaxing game), Pru the Pigeon, wipeout 2097 phantom edition (I'll always want to play this at 300fps!), Retro Endurance 8 bit (so grateful the dev programmed this to run at 300, or whatever you've got!), Rush Rally Origins, Classic Mario World 3 the finale, Super Mario World Redone 40 Years of Mario!, Zelda's Adventure DX, and Rocket League. Oh, and I'm super excited to get a Gabecube, Steam Controller, and Frame! I love that the Gabecube can output very high frame rates via Display Port — I'll be using that feature!! And I've enjoyed all the content online. Linus' love struck face cracks me up! I'm excited for the coming expansion of the "open ecosystem"! I also liked Alana Pearce's reporting on Saudi and Kushner investments in EA and games in general (Nintendo too!). I wish everyone well, and happy gaming!
Aside from working all weekend I'm excitedly trying out many games on my new 300hz monitor. It's my first time seeing 300fps, and it's oh so sweet! I was hoping to connect my Steam Deck to it to play at 300, but it seems like 240 is the max (not sure why there's any maximum). So I've played a lot of stuff at 240 like that, but also played many games at 300fps with my laptop hooked up. Utopia Must Fall, Lonely Mountains Downhill, Kingdom Two Crowns, Tetris Effect, Ball X Pit, Toem, West of Loathing, Rocket League, This Is No Cave, Skate Story demo, TOTK, Mario 64, wipeout phantom edition, SF Rush projectR, and many others all look incredible at 300fps! I find myself saying oh my god, or holy sh*t under my breath as I'm watching things move so smoothly. I can't wait for even faster displays to get cheaper so I can get one in a year or two! These 720hz monitors sound so awesome! And I heard there's a 1,000hz one coming soon. Mario 64 was showing up to 2,600fps in the frame counter in the corner, and I only get to see 300 of those right now! I guess it's safe to say I really like high frame rates.
I'm also playing Slots and Daggers (seems to max out at 180fps for some reason), Once Upon a Katamari(90fps handheld, more docked but something seems off at times with high fps), Megabonk (love playing this around 250fps), n++ (can't get this above 60fps, honestly seems like somethings wrong with the game, it will say 300hz in graphics menu but nothing changes), Shadows Over Loathing (played this at 240fps using my Deck), Retro Endurance 8bit (love this game! And it also runs at 300fps easily), Rush Rally 3 (incredible playing this at 300), etc.
And Silver Bullet, such a fun arcade shooting type game!
I'm also playing Cool Boarders Code Alien, MTX Mototrax, and Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder after watching John's awesome Digital Foundry Tony Hawk video.
Have a great weekend everyone! Happy Gaming!
Severed Steel, more time with the Skate Story demo, Retro Endurance 8 bit, Glyph, Vomitorium, Silver Bullet (amazing!) Slots and Daggers (pretty addicted to this one!), Jojos Bizarre Adventure (barely played this in the past, but it just went one sale and I'm liking it), fan games, 80 mods, etc. I've just discovered Rob Braxman's (or whatever his name is) youtube channel. He's an awesome cool headed advocate for privacy and tech freedom, kind of like Louis Rossman, who I also like. Oh and I really like Alex's video on GTA 4. Amazing to see what dedicated fans and programmers can do. I had a dream where I saw 3 new PC ports, but they announced that the public couldn't play them! Then I woke up and realized after checking online that I couldn't play them cuz they don't exist (or maybe they've made huge progress on 3, but haven't announced it yet, but somehow I dreamt about it! Lol). That reminds me I have been playing Duke Nukem zero hour since that recomp dropped. It looks pretty good if you use a 120hz display to get 60fps(I haven't yet tried a 240hz screen to see it running at 120fps). A nice alpha release that I'm happy to get to try out!
I've just been enjoying Once Upon A Katamari. It runs at 200 to 300fps on my laptop, and with my Deck docked to my monitor I've been getting about 100 to 170fps, but it could be smoother. I need to lock it down so it has perfect frame pacing at a lower frame rate. Looks great though. And sounds great! Soundtrack slaps! Fun levels and power ups, and the usual funny dialog make this maybe the best Katamari game yet!
I'm also enjoying the demo for Cairn. It's slow and fun climbing, but the frame rate needs work.
I'm still loving the heck out of Utopia Must Fall. I usually don't pay attention to achievements, but I'm totally into getting them all for this awesome game. I got the vibes one where you don't fire your main weapon all day just relying on automated help you've set up. Quite satisfying!
This Is No Cave is a new favorite, especially since the dev responded to my comments and to me review — they fixed the frame rate of their game within 24 hours of my buying it and commenting on how it wasn't smooth! Others had already commented on it too. Anyways, it's a fun and simple cave exploring game with great level design, great controls, excellent sound design, and is just a sweet little short game (but I can see people getting addicted to speed running it and spending quite a bit of time playing it).
I've been blown away by Skate Story. Such amazing music, fantastic Underworld atmosphere with stoic philosopher talk, incredibly awesome neon-like flames of hell, sidewalks you skate down where if you stop and look you can read the long list of sins that make up the texture of the sidewalk, etc. It's awesome, and I can't wait to play the full game and hear the full soundtrack of awesomeness in 2026!
Also loving Platypus Reclayed. Such a perfect remaster of a shootem up I've never played till now. Runs locked at 90fps on oled deck, has great graphics and music, and many difficulty settings.
Oh, I'm also happy with Retro Endurance 8bit, a game made by a dev of an SNES emulator. It's got like 40 retro games, a funny robot character called M.O.M. who controls your games, buys you new ones, and scolds you when you quit the game. It's really well done, and fun!
Also started Yooka Re-Playlee, and while I could get it up to 220fps, it still has a stutter that's likely due to my computer having some problem (likely just Windows, which sucks for gaming smoothly). I need to install it on Deck and see if I can lock it down then use Lossless Scaling to get it to 90fps with perfect frame pacing.
Also enjoying the totally normal and regular game Tingus Goose. It's a great demo of a normal game that doesn't have body horror or weird animation at all.
I've gotten even more into Utopia Must Fall. Read a guide that a fan posted on steam forums, watched some videos, saw what kind of high scores people were posting, etc. I feel like I've really accomplished something when I get to day 11, but others get to day 30, day 40, and higher. I love the music, sound effects, power ups, anti power ups (nuclear boycott and the hermit path are fun), and the humor of this awesome game. I just got into Gwen the Hen 64 and love it. Reminds me of the Toree 3D games, but some aspects are better. Also sinking further into the pit of Megabonk. Been playing it at 180fps, which is just beautiful and addictive. Also sinking into the pit of ball x pit. Love the music, gameplay, locked 90fps (I haven't remembered to try it when plugged into my cheap 180hz monitor, but it probably will run locked at 180), and just the whole feel of this game. And most surprisingly I really love the demo of Bubsy 4D. Forget double jumps, this game has like a quadruple jump and it's incredibly fun to play mostly just because Bubsy is such a joy to control. Fur ball mode is perfect with great acceleration when you hit the right trigger. The humor is good, it runs easily locked at 90fps (I had a lot of trouble trying to get it to run at 180fps, it kind of did eventually, but I think it prefers 120fps), has good music, and I'm looking forward to it's release next year. Also enjoying USG, a small not too popular shoot em up. It has beautiful purple and blue explosions, intense bullet patterns, and is a good stg for not much $. Also got Omega 6 after seeing the quote from Nintendolife on the game's Steam page. It looks like a good game, but I've barely started it. Also playing Tempest 4000 (180fps!), wipeout phantom edition, GZDoom with Robbit and Golden Souls and everything, Super Spartan Bros (Halo rom hack of Super Mario Bros), and Metal Black. Also going to show my support for my country this weekend at No Kings 2. We need warm hearts and cool heads, more than ever. Happy gaming everyone!
I've been playing favorites like Wipeout Phantom Edition in docked mode at 180fps. There's something funny going on with my laptop and it's dropping frames in basically all games, so my Deck is running stuff better than my much more powerful laptop. Perfect frame pacing at 180fps looks much better than tiny little microstutters at 240fps. I wonder if it's just windows vs linux...(but surely not, wipeout used to run basically locked at 240fps).
I got Yooka Replayee, but it's hard for me to fit a 25 gig game in my storage. Started Clover Pit and it seems good even though not my usual kind of genre. I'm also playing Utopia Must Fall(a huge favorite of mine), VVVVVV (enjoying it at 180fps for the first time!), Rocket League (always at 240fps, the slight stutter can seem like online latency stuff), Giant Mario Bros (2021 romhack with double size Mario and levels that work with that size), a beta release of Tengen Tetris (maybe from 1988 idk), Mole Mania DX (thanks to Time Extention for the heads up), and Classic Kong Complete (fun fan remake from 2012).
Happy gaming!!
A new one I'm enjoying is the demo for Under The Crown. These new chess games that are kinda like Balatro are really fun to me. I also like Passant and another good one whose name I can't remember right now.
Oh, I'm also playing a fangame that I saw on youtube. People were making fun of how bad the person was who played it, but I understood once I started playing myself. Really weird physics. Anyways, it's still interesting and fun to mess with even though it doesn't want to run smoothly at 90fps (or any other frame rate I set it at).
Also enjoying the Jumping Flash mod for GZDoom, wipeout phantom edition, 55 or 60 mods I've gotten working smoothly, and I'm also marveling at how fun and joyful all these character and resource packs are that I'm experimenting with.
Oh, a very cool thing I just found out about is that Utopia Must Fall is getting updated. I switched to the beta channel so I can use the new features, and yeah, it's awesome! They've drastically improved performance, added good controls on Deck, and improved tons of stuff. It's way better now than when I first started playing it a year or so ago (and it was great then!).
And Rocket League, I'm playing too much of it!
Happy gaming, and take care! And don't tempt fate, save your state!
I'm playing Killbug (fun 1st person shooter that I was able to quickly set at 90fps), Brazilian Drug Dealer 3 (interesting old school looking 1st person shooter that I can tell to run at 90, but it doesn't really, not sure why, but it looks pretty smooth), Operation STEEL (nice STG I just got that's pretty fun), Megabonk (super fun and addictive 3D vampire survivors type deal), Gnomes, easy delivery co, Koopa in a Hurry (short and fun romhack where you race through custom levels as a Koopa or Fire Koopa), F zero 55, wipeout phantom edition (but with wipeout 2097 tracks, but not with 2097 weapons sadly), GZDoom (I'm quite addicted to numerous wads and mods, but the absolute best is playing as mechanical space rabbit Robbit fighting Jumping Flash! enemies and in Doom 1 or Golden Souls or Mayhem 17 or....), Cyber-Core (fun STG for PC Engine that I'm enjoying playing through), Crash Bandicoot and the Retro Dimension (amazing romhack with Crash in Super Mario World type of levels), and Super Mario Bros Mini (finally got Yoshi in this cute demake).
I'm also experimenting with using display port between Deck and monitor. I've gotten about 20 games running at 180fps. It's amazing to me that my 3 year old handheld can run so much stuff at 180fps. It's great to play wipEout, Kingdom Two Crowns, Glyph, SF Rush, etc at a good frame rate.
Have fun gaming everyone!
@Serpent-Rider Just got about 20 GZDoom mods running. Mario Mayhem is awesome! I easily found the Castlevania one, it's awesome too, but quite difficult. Also got Brutal Doom, Golden Souls 1 2 and 3, a Megaman type mod, Space Hunter (awesome meteoid mod), a golf game, a flying game, etc etc. But my favorite is the Jumping Flash! mod. Being Robbit in Doom is very joy inducing! I even got Jumping Flash working inside Golden Souls, so I've lived the dream of playing an awesome mash up of Doom, Mario 64, and Jumping Flash! Very smile inducing stuff!
@Serpent-Rider Sounds fun. There will have to be a standalone setup for Mario Mayhem for me. I'm still a total beginner with GZ Doom so stuff has to be pretty simple or I won't be able to get it running correctly.
I've also started Ashes 2063 (and set up and tried the 2 sequels too). It seems absolutely awesome, but I need to tweak the controls to be less sensitive on Deck (I bet it's perfect on mouse and keyboard though).
There's mention of an awesome sounding Castlevania themed GZ Doom game, but it looks like I'd have to dig around to find it...
My big new fun game is Easy Delivery Co. I loved the demo, and even though the full release runs at a lower frame rate for some reason I still love it. Thankfully the community ported Lossless Scaling to Steam OS so I'm using that to keep Easy Deliveries locked at 90fps. It is so smooth and fun. Great music, excellent sound design, interesting and funny Animal Crossing villager like dialog, and fun driving physics make this one of my favorite games this year. I'm entranced by this short gem of a game.
Also just started playing Gnomes, which I can see why it has overwhelmingly positive reviews.
Then, also, thanks to Time Extension (thank you for reporting on Jumping Flash! within GZ Doom!) I tried playing GZ Doom again. This is my first time getting to play it, and oh my god it is Amazing! Everything is locked at 90fps (and would be higher if I bothered to dock my Deck to my 180hz monitor) and there are So Many Games to play based on this awesome engine. I've been playing regular Doom 2 in GZ Doom, and once I figured out how to eliminate visual artifacts (lower the rendering frame rate to 90fps or below, mainly) I couldn't believe how good it looked and how good it feels to play Doom with full smooth movement and camera controls while locked at 90fps. Amazing!! Then I installed Urban Brawl Reloaded, which is like a streets of rage beat em up, but in the awesome GZ Doom engine. So it's an awesome 1st person beat em up that runs locked at 90 on my Deck, so fun! And then I installed The Adventures of Square, another incredible game made to run off GZ Doom. It looks like Microsoft programs from 1992, but turned into a 1st person shooter in a vibrant world with awesome music. So damn good, and locked at 90fps of course! I haven't gotten Jumping Flash pk3 files working yet, but I just need to find someone on discord or find the right video tutorial to get it running. Can't wait!
Oh, and I finally got Doom RPG working. I gave up on it years ago on my Deck, but a few days ago I tried again and this sweet gem of a cellphone game is running at 90fps on my Deck!
Also playing Extra Mario Bros (love the Metroid flourishes!), Super Link Bros Remastered (improved old romhack where you play as Link in Super Mario Bros 1, quite fun!), Yoshi's Island Frozen Paradise demo (difficult romhack, but I like!), Super Mario Kart R (20 year old romhack, really love Night Lane 1 course and music!), etc.
I'm also interested in trying out the newly ported FSR 4. They've got that working with Lossless Scaling on Deck and people are playing Claire Obscure, Cyberpunk, and other heavy games with great visuals at 60 to 90fps.
@TromboneGamer I used to play Rocket League at 144fps with motion blur very similar to the Switch 2 screen. It was nice to have 144fps, but there was blur all over the place all the time. Big mistake to buy that display. Love my 240hz OLED display now.
@TromboneGamer 120fps would help, but probably still not look great. I've owned a 144hz screen that had horrible refresh speed like the Switch 2 screen and I never found a way to make it look good.
Monitors Unboxed has a great video showing the huge problem with the Switch 2 screen. It's a great YouTube video by a guy who reports on monitors and who owns a Switch 2.
This really cements why Nintendo wouldn't let anyone review Switch 2. They knew they chose a terrible screen and wanted to slow down the info on it as much as possible. This is almost worse than releasing drift con 2 and drift pro 2 controllers. I guess defeating your customers in court has to have some pay off, and that means continuing to dump poor sticks on customers.
@michellelynn0976 That's fine and good that people haven't complained about it. I can see clearly, even on my phone, what they're talking about in both the DF review and Taki Udon's review from a week or so ago.
I enjoyed watching this review. Wasn't surprised to see DF echo what Taki Udon said about the screen in his also very good review. Taki also mentioned that he knows what screens Nintendo has available to choose from. He said they could've used a nicer LCD screen for very little extra money per screen, and he has no idea why they went with these crappy, blurry screens. Now we know why Nintendo wouldn't let anyone review Switch 2 before launch, just like when a publisher is dumping off a crappy game and they don't send out review copies.
Also, I can't imagine dealing with all the key card and virtual game card crap. Oliver did a good job dragging that whole new system Nintendo's lawyers have cooked up. Watching the review makes me glad I've never updated to firmware 20. I'll just stick with 19 and continue my ban on Nintendo's account.
It's kind of amazing that Nintendo released a system with VRR, 120hz, and a screen with worse motion clarity than the OLED or launch Switch 1.
I'm mostly playing my beloved collection of 15 or 16 mods, but also much else. Just read that The Swapper was updated so I loaded it up and it looks wonderful locked at 90fps. Noita, by one of the same devs, also is super fun, but I can only get it up to 60 (don't see an easy option to increase). Also been playing The New Tetris, Starfox Assault, Starfox 64, StarVaders (great new deck type game!), Kingdom Two Crowns, Baba Is You, Red Blue Cell (great STG I just found out about), SF Rush 2049 (might be the greatest arcade racer ever), wipeout phantom edition (actually the best), Tinyfolks (wonderful and charming RPG type game), mariO (incredibly fun Mashup of Mario Bros and Portal, plus it runs super smooth)(and has tons of mods), A Webbing Journey (cute as hell spider game, but it has a thing like BallisticNG where it doesn't render frames correctly, it will say 90fps, but it looks more like 35 or 50fps), Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists (awesome GBA looking game), Strafe (fun 1st person shooter), and Super Demo World (great romhack).
I've also finally made major progress in UFO 50. Got gold disc on Mooncat, so fun! Then after beating it (at the basic level) I discovered you can run, then discovered you can sort of diagonally dodge down and forward! So many secrets to look for now. I also finally got gold disc for Party House (my favorite, but I still haven't even started about 8 games). Also playing Bushido Ball, Caramel Caramel, and Velgress a lot.
Happy gaming to everyone!
I'm playing UFO 50, Perfect Dark, Voids Vigil, wipeout (I might never tire of 90 to 240fps wipeout with amazing songs added to the soundtrack), Starfox 64, Blazing Lazers, Tamiku, Donut Dodo, Murtop, SF Rush, Majora's Mask (Nerrel's map really is amazing), 1080 Avalanche (relaxing to play 1 or 2 slalom gate runs every now and then), Castlevania ReVamped, Ninja JaJaMaru the great yokai battle + hell, NFL Blitz 2000, Dead Moon, and TOTK (I've got a selection of mods that I absolutely adore playing, perfect for me right now). Also enjoying MVG's video about Lemmings, which I've been playing a bit of recently. I also enjoyed the Chinese video about the internal components of Switch 2 (it the video where they purchased a faulty Switch 2 motherboard and show it off). And I've been listening to old Cure CDs I've had for years. Also been surprised to hear an Orbital remix of a new Cure song (might have to go into the phantom edition soundtrack folder). Happy gaming everyone!
Unless the full game is on the cart, and there is a way to rip it, and I'm in control of the rom of the game I bought, they can keep it. I'll only buy a Seitch 2 if I'm controlling it and there's no risk that Nintendo can brick it.
I'm enjoying a variety of STGs these days.
Battle Marine is a 4MB game that feels like an Atari 2600 game perfected. Once I followed a commenter's suggestion to map the keyboard "C" button to a trigger (for rapidfire) it was a blast to play! I've also been playing that same dev's next game, which is Battle Airforce. It's much bigger to download at 12MB. That larger file size allows more and better music, a variety of scrolling backgrounds during gameplay, and more enemy types. It's a fun, well made shmup! I'm also enjoying Final Exerion. It's got gravity (feels difficult to move your ship around), interesting popup scrolling backgrounds (like the 1980s original), and one of the devs used to work for Cave. It's worth a shot, so to speak.
Billy Bum Bum is another game I'm liking recently. Sort of a Boxxle clone, it has great graphics and gameplay.
I also just got Tengai on steam. It's nice on Deck, after downloading the community profile that allows controls to work.
Shotgun CopMan is also great, and I think it's locked at 90 on my Deck and 240fps on my laptop. Fun, well made game!
But for me the main draw in gaming right now is wipeout 2097 phantom edition. Someone online helped me increase the distance your hovercraft can go away from the track before a drone catches you and places you back on the track. This little change makes Spilskinanke playable(Spilskinanke still requires using the left side pit lane, and hugging the left side of the track in that area, to keep from crashing the game. It's the only track with a mjor problem like that right now)while making all the other tracks more fun. It's fun to use the modified .exe file (greater range allowed from track) with Altima 7 and Terramax. I love using a speed boost is just the right spot and launching way up to fly around above the track! I'm also adding perfect wav(using wav files instead of mp3s eliminates the crackling audio) file tracks like Underworld tin there mix(using a longer mix than what was in wipeout xl) and racing around Phenitia Park, hitting restart after the race so I can enjoy the entire track. It is absolutely awesome to see all these wipeout XL tracks at 90fps or 240fps depending on which device I'm playing on!
Take care, and happy gaming!
I forgot about UFO 50 and Parking Garage Rally Circuit! Some of the modded tracks in PGRC are amazingly fun (and often have great modded music too!).
Definitely not buying any key cards, not any switch 2 games, nor anything from the 50 billion dollar corpo that attacks free open source emulation, youtubers, modders, tournaments, their own customers (I'd love to know how many customers they've banned from downloading their own purchases!), etc etc.
@geshem lol, I upgraded my name. This time to a refresh rate I've never even seen! I do now have a 240hz display and absolutely love it. Can't wait to see 400 or 500fps! Or higher!
@jesse_dylan Yeah, for me the big problem is that I'd feel like I'm giving money to horrible corporate lawyers if I buy anything from Nintendo. I can't bring myself to do it. Which is a bummer because I like the 120hz VRR screen, and other improvements they've made. I also hate online lockdown stuff that corporate lawyers like Nintendo want you to pay for. I wouldn't want NSO if they paid me to take it. I'll control my own games, thank you very much!
@jesse_dylan the "free upgrades with NSO" are horrible. Take your Switch somewhere and then start a game offline and now you can't play certain tracks, or have a certain frame rate, etc. Totally anti-consumer and anti-gamer, lol.
@Andee I don't know about other systems, but I've heard there are mods for the Steam version. Perhaps those clean up the camera movement. Also, this kind of thing doesn't seem like something the Switch 2 would fix. I've tried overclocking my Switch but no dice, still looks juddery and stutters. I think John from Digital Foundry said these games are running locked at 60fps, the problem is something about the way the camera or movement is programmed, so it has to be fixed by software not brute force or a faster proccessor.
Still mostly playing Totk, but also some modded Botw at 60fps, which is fun and relaxing too. Also playing Advance Wars, old stuff on gameboy and NES, on up to the newest one at 60fps (I hope purchasers of Switch 2 can play it at 60 without having to buy an online lock down agreement or hit a paywall to get 60!), several different Parodiuses, Pikmin 2 (also at 60 of course), Rocket League (always at 240fps, of course!), Mario Sunrise (simple short romhack that I like), Megacopter (heli STG kinda game that runs at 90 or 240), Nurikabe World (wonderful puzzle game that also runs perfectly!), wipeout phantom edition (90fps or 240fps depending where I'm playing it), UFO 50 (played 70 hours of this and still haven't touched about 10 of the games included), a Sailor Moon romhack made by some awesome person in Brazil, Tengen Tetris, Overhorizon, Metroid mOTHER, blazing lazers, mariopaint, the princess rescue (awesome romhack from a couple years ago), JUMP 1/2 (really amazing romhack from 2019, the level "home run derby" is one of the best levels I've played in years!), Super bomberman 5, megabomberman, and super famicom wars. I've also enjoyed watching coverage of Switch via youtubers who I've liked for years, and who've been attacked by Nintendo. I hope Nintendo learns how to not attack gaming, stop attacking youtubers, stop stealing from and committing coercion against developers. They could eventually be seen as an ethical company instead of way worse than Denuvo. May the goddess smile upon you!
I've almost forgotten about my 240hz laptop and 90hz Deck because I'm so busy enjoying my modded Switch. I can't believe I didn't jailbreak it sooner since this is exactly the kind of thing I love messing with, setting things up on, and playing. I'm mostly playing my favorite game (major highlight was finding a beautiful light green horse with pink markings and orange and pink hooves, so awesome!). Also super impressed with Super Mario World 2.5, which is a French romhack with incredible music and very fun levels. That's the main thing I'm enjoying, the same thing I love about my Steam Deck, which is setting up my own little museum of my favorite romhacks, translation-hacks, and other unavailable favorites and rarities. I'll just mention one more that's been awesome: Super Mario World Merry Mountain Christmas Adventure. It has very well done music, levels, and info (helpful text boxes and characters that explain things). Absolutely charming! Oh, and I liked wulf den's video about 120hz panels on handheld. Made it sound like he thought high frame rates don't matter, then gushed about much enjoyment he gets out of them. Only thing missing was Lossless Scaling. Lossless Scaling makes every high refresh screen more useful, and the higher the better!
I've been really enjoying my Switch since I got it jailbroken. I'd love to have a 120hz screen installed, but many games still look good at 60 (more so on the small handheld screen, gets blurry looking with fast motion on my TV). I'm mostly playing TOTK, but also Soul Calibur, EVO Search for Eden, Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius, Parodius Da!, Super Aleste, Dezaemon, Dragon Quest, Ms PacMan, Bomberman 4, Super Famicom Wars, Castlemania, Mario Kart Horizons, Return to Dinosaur Land, Mario's Ruined Seclusion, Mr Do!, Terranigma, Gun Nac, Tengen Tetris, Burning Twinbee the rescue of Dr Cinnamon!, Fitness Boxing, Pokémon Pure Green, SF Rush, wipeout 3, Tekken 2, and Taiko no Tatsujin Chibi Dragon to Fushigi na orb! Take care and happy gaming!
@Andee I think they all have judder. John from Digital Foundry talked about it in one of their videos. He predicted they'd never fix it. Seems like they won't. I've played 2 of these Pixel remasters and they both look horrible to me. I'd never be able to enjoy playing these, especially when basically every other version runs with perfect frame pacing, 60fps, and no camera positioning or whatever problem programmers seem to have with Unity (I think these are done in Unity).
@MARl0 I'm with you on this one. The stuttery camera movement makes these by far the worst versions of these games. Amazing to me that they released them this way and then have never fixed it.
I'm mostly playing TOTK. Really loving the mods I'm playing and the frame rate of 60 due to overclocking. Also playing Rocket League (always loving the 240fps clarity, especially in this game), UFO 50, Last Bible 3, Super Mario World 2 + 2, Bucky O'Hare, Parodius (PSX version, not Sexy though), Jump Rope Challenge, Fitness Boxing, Dr Mario World House Calls, wipeout phantom edition, Project R SF Rush, Mario 64, Super Mario Maker 2, Pikmin 1, Tony Hawk, Yasha, and Birdigo. Happy gaming everyone!
I'm enjoying Lilac 0, SF Rush, Main Frames (loving those 90 frames), Moonless Moon, UFO 50, wipeout phantom edition, TOTK, Fitness Boxing, Castlevania the holy relics, Chrono Trigger, Pikmin, Blasteroids, and Kirby and the Forgotten land.
I'm also playing a bunch of fun demos: TMNT tactical takedown, Grit and Valor 1949 (wonderful little strategy game!), Haste broken world (makes me think of Nights, has fun flight/gliding, awesome), Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3, Fumes, Birdigo, and Koira.
Happy gaming everyone
Oh yeah, and Rocket League (always 240fps for me) and BOTW and Tony Hawk 1 plus 2 (those 2 at 60).
Have an awesome weekend everyone!
Just getting into A Highland Song and what an awesome game it is! Great voice acting, beautiful visuals, and gorgeous music.
Also loving the demo for Is This Seat Taken?
Been playing a lot of Starfox 64. Beat it for the first time since the 1990s. It's super fun and looks so good at high frame rates.
Garbanzo Quest is really fun, and so is Steredenn (which I've finally gotten to play in a way that looks smooth to me, using 55fps on Deck and Lossless Scaling on laptop).
Also playing SF Rush (love the decomp and the fan game made in Unity that allows for 128 car death races!), Battle Garegga, UFO 50, SM64 coopdx, Eigengrau, TOTK, wipeout phantom edition, and Pikuniku.
Happy gaming everyone!
I'm playing stuff like Kaikan, Looney Landers, Varyznex, Nova Drift, wipeout xl, San Fransisco Rush, wipeout 64, all of them with Lossless Scaling boosting the frame rate to 60 or 120fps or 240fps (mostly 240!). Some of those look perfect, some drop frames or are hard to play due to input lag. Luckily one of those has an awesome decompilation so I'm playing the hell out of that everyday.
Also playing TOTK discovering new stuff and tweaking Lossless Scaling to maximize smoothness and motion clarity.
Hmm, also playing Rocket League (always locked to 240fps), UFO 50, "Doom + Doom ll" (which they updated and I was shocked to see running locked at 240fps now, so beautiful!!), Flyknight, Snowball! (Amazingly good Pinball game!), Moons of Darsalon, wipeout phantom edition (added Phillip Glass with Brazilian musicians Amazon waters music stuff, Slowdive, this awesome slowed down version of Cold Storage's Tim Wright's Xpander, and Animal Collective songs).
Lastly, but firstly, I've just discovered Utopia Must Fall. This game is sick! It has fun gameplay, but somehow the simple graphics (which run at 90fps up to I think 240fps on laptop) along with the stellar, incredible, music and sound environment and sound effects create an atmosphere I find intoxicating. I've also played Utopia Must Fall with Lossless Scaling set to 20 x frame generation just to make it extra trippy looking. Either way, it is a mind blowing game. Highly, highly recommend it!
Happy gaming!
Edit- I read that Utopia Must Fall is programmed to go up to 200fps. Anyways, it can be very smooth and beautiful to see it in motion.
I really liked my LCD Deck when I got it, but when I got my OLED Deck it truly felt like the nicest system I'd ever owned. As a frame rate fanatic I've been completely enthralled by the ability to set the screen's refresh rate to all kinds of crazy numbers from like 14hz to 51hz to 72hz to 82hz on up to 90hz. I used to still play Switch all the time while owning a Deck, but after they attacked indie devs and tried to destroy emulators and the teams that work on them I've lost interest in supporting Nintendo. So I only buy stuff for my Deck and laptop, and emulate what isn't for sale on those systems. Seems like corporations like Nintendo and Rockstar could just stop attacking modders and youtubers, but I'm not holding my breath. Finally, this is off topic, but I wish Lossless Scaling would come to Steam Deck. I want to be able to experiment with fixing frame rates without having to install Windows on my Deck.
I've mostly been playing TOTK and Rocket league. Playing different mods on different machines, all of it super fun. Also, like usual, I'm playing Wipeout Phantom Edition, but I've also started playing Wipeout 3 using the awesome new 3.0 release of Lossless Scaling. Lossless Scaling has about 15,000 positive reviews on Steam for a reason - it is amazing! I've had people on discord tell me never to do what I'm doing (boosting Zelda from 30fps to 240fps), but I don't think they've tried it. Sometimes there's hardly any artifacts, and I can still hit flurry rushes. Boosting 60fps games up to 240fps doesn't seem to produce any input delay (it I at least minimal). I've been playing Eschatos with frame gen boosting it to 240 and I love it. I'm also playing Flying Red Barrel, Lil Gator Game (looks good at 240fps), Dystopika, Lonely Mountains Snow Riders (Love this game!), Melatonin (also love this game at 240fps), Judgement Silversword, Drop Duchy (fun demo of tetris roguelike card battle game), and Kingdom Two Crowns. Been watching modded content on YouTube, as well as msi claw 8 reviews and stuff Happy gaming!
I'm mostly playing Tears of the Kingdom at 240fps like usual. Lossless Scaling continues to be one of my favorite things in the whole history of videogames (and video watching, it is awesome for youtube, tv shows, and movies). UFO 50 is really fun to play with a high frame rate multiplier going. Star Waspir can look very trippy, Party House looks awesome with the people morphing into each other as I add more to the house, etc etc. I've also enjoyed Lossless Scaling with Zangeki Warp. Xelan Force is another one that looks nice boosted to 240fps. I've also been playing Rocket League, DKC Returns (I liked the Digital Foundry video covering the new release, but have just been enjoying the old version), Cavity Busters, Lunacid, The Rangers in The South (looks good on Deck, but using LS I can get an almost perfect 240fps), and Angel at Dusk. Oh, and I've been loving playing Wipeout Phantom edition with Beach House, Wednesday Campanella (Tapir and Utah work really well!), and Tame Impala added to the soundtrack.
I watched the retro game corps, wulfden, and whatever the Linus Tech Tips news thing is called to see impressions of the Switch 2 announcement. The Canadians at LTT always seem to have the funniest take. I loved how they reported that Nintendo said emulation is legal, then informed Nintendo they can't sue anyone anymore since they said emu is legal!
Happy gaming!
Edit: also really enjoying demos of Kero Quest 64 and Motor Town. Might have to pick both of them up!
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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (29th November)
I've been enjoying Astro Prospector and Sektori thanks to mentions last weekend. Astro Prospector is very good, very addictive, and I love the way it looks at 300fps! I don't really like the coffee theme, maybe it's popular enough to have mods being made for it... Sektori is just such an amazing twin stick shooter, love the music, graphics, everything. I'm also playing Trigonarium, which is the 24 MB, $2, older brother of Sektori. Good game, and it really saves storage space!
Also enjoying Timesplitters Rewind very much. I wish it was locked at 90fps, or maybe they can add a frame rate locker in the menu so Lossless Scaling can do it's beautiful work. Oh, they added lsfg to the Decky store! So now it's easier than ever for people to double, triple, or quadruple their frame rates on Deck/steam OS.
Also playing Birdcage, an awesome new shoot em up that everyone should play!
Oh, and I'm also playing Viewpoint 2064, the new N64 game that got saved from oblivion. Also the 60fps patch for Mario Kart Super Circuit, which is nice.
And also Beyond Words, which is a great word game. Looking forward to it's release next year.
Also playing Lonely Mountains Downhill, SF Rush, Perfect Dark, Wipeout Phantom Edition (so perfect locked at 240fps with my Deck docked to my monitor!), UFO 50, Magical Tetris Challenge, and Retro Endurance 8 Bit (so many games to unlock!)(and the dev keeps adding more).
Happy gaming everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (22nd November)
I'm pretty obsessed with The Catacombs of Solaris Revisited. It's not a game, but a visual light synth type of thing. It makes me say Oh My God and cusswords because the colors can flow like smoke or water and change direction in trippy ways. It's kind of amazing because it seems simple and not amazing at first, but start messing with the options and moving your analog sticks slowly, rhythmically, or just holding one down (basically with your back to a wall) and it can just be awesome. I'm also playing R Type Delta. I've had it set up via emulation for years as a non steam game, but now that I've bought it I'm playing it and really enjoying it. It is also incredible at 300fps with Lossless Scaling. Which reminds me to say that I've basically quite using my new gaming laptop for gaming and only use my old one since my old one with Windows 10 can run Lossless Scaling flawlessly. Games are so much more immersive at maximum frame rate. I've started Dungeons of Hinterberg on Deck, but performance kinda sucked, so I turned on lsfg and made it look like a locked 90fps. I'm also playing Dirt Rally with high settings at a good resolution and Lossless Scaling keeps it locked at 300fps — pretty stunning! Also playing an awesome puzzle game called Dissembler, just flip pieces and complete colors - I love it. And Wilmot Works It Out, another great puzzle game. And Jumpgrid, a great action game that's a simple well done design. Oh, and Terraflame is addictive at 300fps with frame generation. Also playing Utopia Must Fall and Lonely Mountains Downhill because I love those games!
Take care, relax, and happy gaming!!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (15th November)
I'm just continuing to be fascinated and amazed playing stuff at 300fps. I decided to try out my old laptop with this cheap new 300hz monitor I bought and was amazed that it can run Lossless Scaling perfectly. I've been having endless trouble getting LS to work on my new laptop. I wonder if it's Windows 11 vs 10. I've never allowed the "upgrade" on my old laptop, and now I'm planning to protect it from any updates at all. I don't want to lose this ability to get emulation, videos, and all games up to 300fps with perfect frame pacing!! People talk about diminishing returns on higher frame rates, and they're right, but at the same time I'm amazed and enthralled by higher and higher fps. Playing Utopia Must Fall at 300fps and getting the triple shot for the first time, and realizing I can widen or narrow the triple shot with the triggers, well it just looks like a beyond perfect light show! I've gotten up to 16 days survived and something like 210,000 high score. I Love Utopia Must Fall.
I'm also playing Dirt Rally at 300fps. Once I destroy all the settings and lower the resolution to 720p (probably my favorite resolution!) it can run at 300 to 400fps, and it looks gorgeous!
Also playing Lonely Mountains Downhill (such an amazing and relaxing game), Pru the Pigeon, wipeout 2097 phantom edition (I'll always want to play this at 300fps!), Retro Endurance 8 bit (so grateful the dev programmed this to run at 300, or whatever you've got!), Rush Rally Origins, Classic Mario World 3 the finale, Super Mario World Redone 40 Years of Mario!, Zelda's Adventure DX, and Rocket League.
Oh, and I'm super excited to get a Gabecube, Steam Controller, and Frame! I love that the Gabecube can output very high frame rates via Display Port — I'll be using that feature!!
And I've enjoyed all the content online. Linus' love struck face cracks me up! I'm excited for the coming expansion of the "open ecosystem"!
I also liked Alana Pearce's reporting on Saudi and Kushner investments in EA and games in general (Nintendo too!).
I wish everyone well, and happy gaming!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (6th November)
Aside from working all weekend I'm excitedly trying out many games on my new 300hz monitor. It's my first time seeing 300fps, and it's oh so sweet! I was hoping to connect my Steam Deck to it to play at 300, but it seems like 240 is the max (not sure why there's any maximum). So I've played a lot of stuff at 240 like that, but also played many games at 300fps with my laptop hooked up. Utopia Must Fall, Lonely Mountains Downhill, Kingdom Two Crowns, Tetris Effect, Ball X Pit, Toem, West of Loathing, Rocket League, This Is No Cave, Skate Story demo, TOTK, Mario 64, wipeout phantom edition, SF Rush projectR, and many others all look incredible at 300fps! I find myself saying oh my god, or holy sh*t under my breath as I'm watching things move so smoothly. I can't wait for even faster displays to get cheaper so I can get one in a year or two! These 720hz monitors sound so awesome! And I heard there's a 1,000hz one coming soon. Mario 64 was showing up to 2,600fps in the frame counter in the corner, and I only get to see 300 of those right now! I guess it's safe to say I really like high frame rates.
I'm also playing Slots and Daggers (seems to max out at 180fps for some reason), Once Upon a Katamari(90fps handheld, more docked but something seems off at times with high fps), Megabonk (love playing this around 250fps), n++ (can't get this above 60fps, honestly seems like somethings wrong with the game, it will say 300hz in graphics menu but nothing changes), Shadows Over Loathing (played this at 240fps using my Deck), Retro Endurance 8bit (love this game! And it also runs at 300fps easily), Rush Rally 3 (incredible playing this at 300), etc.
And Silver Bullet, such a fun arcade shooting type game!
I'm also playing Cool Boarders Code Alien, MTX Mototrax, and Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder after watching John's awesome Digital Foundry Tony Hawk video.
Have a great weekend everyone! Happy Gaming!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (1st November)
Severed Steel, more time with the Skate Story demo, Retro Endurance 8 bit, Glyph, Vomitorium, Silver Bullet (amazing!) Slots and Daggers (pretty addicted to this one!), Jojos Bizarre Adventure (barely played this in the past, but it just went one sale and I'm liking it), fan games, 80 mods, etc.
I've just discovered Rob Braxman's (or whatever his name is) youtube channel. He's an awesome cool headed advocate for privacy and tech freedom, kind of like Louis Rossman, who I also like.
Oh and I really like Alex's video on GTA 4. Amazing to see what dedicated fans and programmers can do. I had a dream where I saw 3 new PC ports, but they announced that the public couldn't play them! Then I woke up and realized after checking online that I couldn't play them cuz they don't exist (or maybe they've made huge progress on 3, but haven't announced it yet, but somehow I dreamt about it! Lol). That reminds me I have been playing Duke Nukem zero hour since that recomp dropped. It looks pretty good if you use a 120hz display to get 60fps(I haven't yet tried a 240hz screen to see it running at 120fps). A nice alpha release that I'm happy to get to try out!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (25th October)
@aozz101x rethawed is amazing. Super fun to play
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (25th October)
I've just been enjoying Once Upon A Katamari. It runs at 200 to 300fps on my laptop, and with my Deck docked to my monitor I've been getting about 100 to 170fps, but it could be smoother. I need to lock it down so it has perfect frame pacing at a lower frame rate. Looks great though. And sounds great! Soundtrack slaps! Fun levels and power ups, and the usual funny dialog make this maybe the best Katamari game yet!
I'm also enjoying the demo for Cairn. It's slow and fun climbing, but the frame rate needs work.
I'm still loving the heck out of Utopia Must Fall. I usually don't pay attention to achievements, but I'm totally into getting them all for this awesome game. I got the vibes one where you don't fire your main weapon all day just relying on automated help you've set up. Quite satisfying!
This Is No Cave is a new favorite, especially since the dev responded to my comments and to me review — they fixed the frame rate of their game within 24 hours of my buying it and commenting on how it wasn't smooth! Others had already commented on it too. Anyways, it's a fun and simple cave exploring game with great level design, great controls, excellent sound design, and is just a sweet little short game (but I can see people getting addicted to speed running it and spending quite a bit of time playing it).
I've been blown away by Skate Story. Such amazing music, fantastic Underworld atmosphere with stoic philosopher talk, incredibly awesome neon-like flames of hell, sidewalks you skate down where if you stop and look you can read the long list of sins that make up the texture of the sidewalk, etc. It's awesome, and I can't wait to play the full game and hear the full soundtrack of awesomeness in 2026!
Also loving Platypus Reclayed. Such a perfect remaster of a shootem up I've never played till now. Runs locked at 90fps on oled deck, has great graphics and music, and many difficulty settings.
Oh, I'm also happy with Retro Endurance 8bit, a game made by a dev of an SNES emulator. It's got like 40 retro games, a funny robot character called M.O.M. who controls your games, buys you new ones, and scolds you when you quit the game. It's really well done, and fun!
Also started Yooka Re-Playlee, and while I could get it up to 220fps, it still has a stutter that's likely due to my computer having some problem (likely just Windows, which sucks for gaming smoothly). I need to install it on Deck and see if I can lock it down then use Lossless Scaling to get it to 90fps with perfect frame pacing.
Also enjoying the totally normal and regular game Tingus Goose. It's a great demo of a normal game that doesn't have body horror or weird animation at all.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (18th October)
I've gotten even more into Utopia Must Fall. Read a guide that a fan posted on steam forums, watched some videos, saw what kind of high scores people were posting, etc. I feel like I've really accomplished something when I get to day 11, but others get to day 30, day 40, and higher. I love the music, sound effects, power ups, anti power ups (nuclear boycott and the hermit path are fun), and the humor of this awesome game.
I just got into Gwen the Hen 64 and love it. Reminds me of the Toree 3D games, but some aspects are better.
Also sinking further into the pit of Megabonk. Been playing it at 180fps, which is just beautiful and addictive.
Also sinking into the pit of ball x pit. Love the music, gameplay, locked 90fps (I haven't remembered to try it when plugged into my cheap 180hz monitor, but it probably will run locked at 180), and just the whole feel of this game.
And most surprisingly I really love the demo of Bubsy 4D. Forget double jumps, this game has like a quadruple jump and it's incredibly fun to play mostly just because Bubsy is such a joy to control. Fur ball mode is perfect with great acceleration when you hit the right trigger. The humor is good, it runs easily locked at 90fps (I had a lot of trouble trying to get it to run at 180fps, it kind of did eventually, but I think it prefers 120fps), has good music, and I'm looking forward to it's release next year.
Also enjoying USG, a small not too popular shoot em up. It has beautiful purple and blue explosions, intense bullet patterns, and is a good stg for not much $.
Also got Omega 6 after seeing the quote from Nintendolife on the game's Steam page. It looks like a good game, but I've barely started it.
Also playing Tempest 4000 (180fps!), wipeout phantom edition, GZDoom with Robbit and Golden Souls and everything, Super Spartan Bros (Halo rom hack of Super Mario Bros), and Metal Black.
Also going to show my support for my country this weekend at No Kings 2. We need warm hearts and cool heads, more than ever.
Happy gaming everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (11th October)
I've been playing favorites like Wipeout Phantom Edition in docked mode at 180fps. There's something funny going on with my laptop and it's dropping frames in basically all games, so my Deck is running stuff better than my much more powerful laptop. Perfect frame pacing at 180fps looks much better than tiny little microstutters at 240fps. I wonder if it's just windows vs linux...(but surely not, wipeout used to run basically locked at 240fps).
I got Yooka Replayee, but it's hard for me to fit a 25 gig game in my storage. Started Clover Pit and it seems good even though not my usual kind of genre. I'm also playing Utopia Must Fall(a huge favorite of mine), VVVVVV (enjoying it at 180fps for the first time!), Rocket League (always at 240fps, the slight stutter can seem like online latency stuff), Giant Mario Bros (2021 romhack with double size Mario and levels that work with that size), a beta release of Tengen Tetris (maybe from 1988 idk), Mole Mania DX (thanks to Time Extention for the heads up), and Classic Kong Complete (fun fan remake from 2012).
Happy gaming!!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (4th October)
A new one I'm enjoying is the demo for Under The Crown. These new chess games that are kinda like Balatro are really fun to me. I also like Passant and another good one whose name I can't remember right now.
Oh, I'm also playing a fangame that I saw on youtube. People were making fun of how bad the person was who played it, but I understood once I started playing myself. Really weird physics. Anyways, it's still interesting and fun to mess with even though it doesn't want to run smoothly at 90fps (or any other frame rate I set it at).
Also enjoying the Jumping Flash mod for GZDoom, wipeout phantom edition, 55 or 60 mods I've gotten working smoothly, and I'm also marveling at how fun and joyful all these character and resource packs are that I'm experimenting with.
Oh, a very cool thing I just found out about is that Utopia Must Fall is getting updated. I switched to the beta channel so I can use the new features, and yeah, it's awesome! They've drastically improved performance, added good controls on Deck, and improved tons of stuff. It's way better now than when I first started playing it a year or so ago (and it was great then!).
And Rocket League, I'm playing too much of it!
Happy gaming, and take care! And don't tempt fate, save your state!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (27th September)
I'm playing Killbug (fun 1st person shooter that I was able to quickly set at 90fps), Brazilian Drug Dealer 3 (interesting old school looking 1st person shooter that I can tell to run at 90, but it doesn't really, not sure why, but it looks pretty smooth), Operation STEEL (nice STG I just got that's pretty fun), Megabonk (super fun and addictive 3D vampire survivors type deal), Gnomes, easy delivery co, Koopa in a Hurry (short and fun romhack where you race through custom levels as a Koopa or Fire Koopa), F zero 55, wipeout phantom edition (but with wipeout 2097 tracks, but not with 2097 weapons sadly), GZDoom (I'm quite addicted to numerous wads and mods, but the absolute best is playing as mechanical space rabbit Robbit fighting Jumping Flash! enemies and in Doom 1 or Golden Souls or Mayhem 17 or....), Cyber-Core (fun STG for PC Engine that I'm enjoying playing through), Crash Bandicoot and the Retro Dimension (amazing romhack with Crash in Super Mario World type of levels), and Super Mario Bros Mini (finally got Yoshi in this cute demake).
I'm also experimenting with using display port between Deck and monitor. I've gotten about 20 games running at 180fps. It's amazing to me that my 3 year old handheld can run so much stuff at 180fps. It's great to play wipEout, Kingdom Two Crowns, Glyph, SF Rush, etc at a good frame rate.
Have fun gaming everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (20th September)
@Serpent-Rider Just got about 20 GZDoom mods running. Mario Mayhem is awesome! I easily found the Castlevania one, it's awesome too, but quite difficult. Also got Brutal Doom, Golden Souls 1 2 and 3, a Megaman type mod, Space Hunter (awesome meteoid mod), a golf game, a flying game, etc etc.
But my favorite is the Jumping Flash! mod. Being Robbit in Doom is very joy inducing! I even got Jumping Flash working inside Golden Souls, so I've lived the dream of playing an awesome mash up of Doom, Mario 64, and Jumping Flash! Very smile inducing stuff!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (20th September)
@Serpent-Rider Sounds fun. There will have to be a standalone setup for Mario Mayhem for me. I'm still a total beginner with GZ Doom so stuff has to be pretty simple or I won't be able to get it running correctly.
I've also started Ashes 2063 (and set up and tried the 2 sequels too). It seems absolutely awesome, but I need to tweak the controls to be less sensitive on Deck (I bet it's perfect on mouse and keyboard though).
There's mention of an awesome sounding Castlevania themed GZ Doom game, but it looks like I'd have to dig around to find it...
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (20th September)
My big new fun game is Easy Delivery Co. I loved the demo, and even though the full release runs at a lower frame rate for some reason I still love it. Thankfully the community ported Lossless Scaling to Steam OS so I'm using that to keep Easy Deliveries locked at 90fps. It is so smooth and fun. Great music, excellent sound design, interesting and funny Animal Crossing villager like dialog, and fun driving physics make this one of my favorite games this year. I'm entranced by this short gem of a game.
Also just started playing Gnomes, which I can see why it has overwhelmingly positive reviews.
Then, also, thanks to Time Extension (thank you for reporting on Jumping Flash! within GZ Doom!) I tried playing GZ Doom again. This is my first time getting to play it, and oh my god it is Amazing! Everything is locked at 90fps (and would be higher if I bothered to dock my Deck to my 180hz monitor) and there are So Many Games to play based on this awesome engine. I've been playing regular Doom 2 in GZ Doom, and once I figured out how to eliminate visual artifacts (lower the rendering frame rate to 90fps or below, mainly) I couldn't believe how good it looked and how good it feels to play Doom with full smooth movement and camera controls while locked at 90fps. Amazing!! Then I installed Urban Brawl Reloaded, which is like a streets of rage beat em up, but in the awesome GZ Doom engine. So it's an awesome 1st person beat em up that runs locked at 90 on my Deck, so fun! And then I installed The Adventures of Square, another incredible game made to run off GZ Doom. It looks like Microsoft programs from 1992, but turned into a 1st person shooter in a vibrant world with awesome music. So damn good, and locked at 90fps of course! I haven't gotten Jumping Flash pk3 files working yet, but I just need to find someone on discord or find the right video tutorial to get it running. Can't wait!
Oh, and I finally got Doom RPG working. I gave up on it years ago on my Deck, but a few days ago I tried again and this sweet gem of a cellphone game is running at 90fps on my Deck!
Also playing Extra Mario Bros (love the Metroid flourishes!), Super Link Bros Remastered (improved old romhack where you play as Link in Super Mario Bros 1, quite fun!), Yoshi's Island Frozen Paradise demo (difficult romhack, but I like!), Super Mario Kart R (20 year old romhack, really love Night Lane 1 course and music!), etc.
I'm also interested in trying out the newly ported FSR 4. They've got that working with Lossless Scaling on Deck and people are playing Claire Obscure, Cyberpunk, and other heavy games with great visuals at 60 to 90fps.
Re: "One Of The Slowest Modern LCDs I've Ever Seen" - Digital Foundry's John Linneman On Switch 2's Display
@TromboneGamer I used to play Rocket League at 144fps with motion blur very similar to the Switch 2 screen. It was nice to have 144fps, but there was blur all over the place all the time. Big mistake to buy that display. Love my 240hz OLED display now.
Re: "One Of The Slowest Modern LCDs I've Ever Seen" - Digital Foundry's John Linneman On Switch 2's Display
@TromboneGamer 120fps would help, but probably still not look great. I've owned a 144hz screen that had horrible refresh speed like the Switch 2 screen and I never found a way to make it look good.
Re: "One Of The Slowest Modern LCDs I've Ever Seen" - Digital Foundry's John Linneman On Switch 2's Display
Monitors Unboxed has a great video showing the huge problem with the Switch 2 screen. It's a great YouTube video by a guy who reports on monitors and who owns a Switch 2.
Re: "One Of The Slowest Modern LCDs I've Ever Seen" - Digital Foundry's John Linneman On Switch 2's Display
This really cements why Nintendo wouldn't let anyone review Switch 2. They knew they chose a terrible screen and wanted to slow down the info on it as much as possible. This is almost worse than releasing drift con 2 and drift pro 2 controllers. I guess defeating your customers in court has to have some pay off, and that means continuing to dump poor sticks on customers.
Re: Digital Foundry Is "Happy" With Switch 2 But Feels The Screen Is "Problematic"
@michellelynn0976 That's fine and good that people haven't complained about it. I can see clearly, even on my phone, what they're talking about in both the DF review and Taki Udon's review from a week or so ago.
Re: Digital Foundry Is "Happy" With Switch 2 But Feels The Screen Is "Problematic"
I enjoyed watching this review. Wasn't surprised to see DF echo what Taki Udon said about the screen in his also very good review. Taki also mentioned that he knows what screens Nintendo has available to choose from. He said they could've used a nicer LCD screen for very little extra money per screen, and he has no idea why they went with these crappy, blurry screens. Now we know why Nintendo wouldn't let anyone review Switch 2 before launch, just like when a publisher is dumping off a crappy game and they don't send out review copies.
Also, I can't imagine dealing with all the key card and virtual game card crap. Oliver did a good job dragging that whole new system Nintendo's lawyers have cooked up. Watching the review makes me glad I've never updated to firmware 20. I'll just stick with 19 and continue my ban on Nintendo's account.
It's kind of amazing that Nintendo released a system with VRR, 120hz, and a screen with worse motion clarity than the OLED or launch Switch 1.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (31st May)
I'm mostly playing my beloved collection of 15 or 16 mods, but also much else. Just read that The Swapper was updated so I loaded it up and it looks wonderful locked at 90fps. Noita, by one of the same devs, also is super fun, but I can only get it up to 60 (don't see an easy option to increase). Also been playing The New Tetris, Starfox Assault, Starfox 64, StarVaders (great new deck type game!), Kingdom Two Crowns, Baba Is You, Red Blue Cell (great STG I just found out about), SF Rush 2049 (might be the greatest arcade racer ever), wipeout phantom edition (actually the best), Tinyfolks (wonderful and charming RPG type game), mariO (incredibly fun Mashup of Mario Bros and Portal, plus it runs super smooth)(and has tons of mods), A Webbing Journey (cute as hell spider game, but it has a thing like BallisticNG where it doesn't render frames correctly, it will say 90fps, but it looks more like 35 or 50fps), Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists (awesome GBA looking game), Strafe (fun 1st person shooter), and Super Demo World (great romhack).
I've also finally made major progress in UFO 50. Got gold disc on Mooncat, so fun! Then after beating it (at the basic level) I discovered you can run, then discovered you can sort of diagonally dodge down and forward! So many secrets to look for now. I also finally got gold disc for Party House (my favorite, but I still haven't even started about 8 games). Also playing Bushido Ball, Caramel Caramel, and Velgress a lot.
Happy gaming to everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (17th May)
I'm playing UFO 50, Perfect Dark, Voids Vigil, wipeout (I might never tire of 90 to 240fps wipeout with amazing songs added to the soundtrack), Starfox 64, Blazing Lazers, Tamiku, Donut Dodo, Murtop, SF Rush, Majora's Mask (Nerrel's map really is amazing), 1080 Avalanche (relaxing to play 1 or 2 slalom gate runs every now and then), Castlevania ReVamped, Ninja JaJaMaru the great yokai battle + hell, NFL Blitz 2000, Dead Moon, and TOTK (I've got a selection of mods that I absolutely adore playing, perfect for me right now).
Also enjoying MVG's video about Lemmings, which I've been playing a bit of recently. I also enjoyed the Chinese video about the internal components of Switch 2 (it the video where they purchased a faulty Switch 2 motherboard and show it off).
And I've been listening to old Cure CDs I've had for years. Also been surprised to hear an Orbital remix of a new Cure song (might have to go into the phantom edition soundtrack folder).
Happy gaming everyone!
Re: Rumour: New Leak May Explain Why So Many Switch 2 Physicals Are Game Key Cards
Unless the full game is on the cart, and there is a way to rip it, and I'm in control of the rom of the game I bought, they can keep it. I'll only buy a Seitch 2 if I'm controlling it and there's no risk that Nintendo can brick it.
Re: Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation
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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (3rd May)
I'm enjoying a variety of STGs these days.
Battle Marine is a 4MB game that feels like an Atari 2600 game perfected. Once I followed a commenter's suggestion to map the keyboard "C" button to a trigger (for rapidfire) it was a blast to play! I've also been playing that same dev's next game, which is Battle Airforce. It's much bigger to download at 12MB. That larger file size allows more and better music, a variety of scrolling backgrounds during gameplay, and more enemy types. It's a fun, well made shmup! I'm also enjoying Final Exerion. It's got gravity (feels difficult to move your ship around), interesting popup scrolling backgrounds (like the 1980s original), and one of the devs used to work for Cave. It's worth a shot, so to speak.
Billy Bum Bum is another game I'm liking recently. Sort of a Boxxle clone, it has great graphics and gameplay.
I also just got Tengai on steam. It's nice on Deck, after downloading the community profile that allows controls to work.
Shotgun CopMan is also great, and I think it's locked at 90 on my Deck and 240fps on my laptop. Fun, well made game!
But for me the main draw in gaming right now is wipeout 2097 phantom edition. Someone online helped me increase the distance your hovercraft can go away from the track before a drone catches you and places you back on the track. This little change makes Spilskinanke playable(Spilskinanke still requires using the left side pit lane, and hugging the left side of the track in that area, to keep from crashing the game. It's the only track with a mjor problem like that right now)while making all the other tracks more fun. It's fun to use the modified .exe file (greater range allowed from track) with Altima 7 and Terramax. I love using a speed boost is just the right spot and launching way up to fly around above the track! I'm also adding perfect wav(using wav files instead of mp3s eliminates the crackling audio) file tracks like Underworld tin there mix(using a longer mix than what was in wipeout xl) and racing around Phenitia Park, hitting restart after the race so I can enjoy the entire track. It is absolutely awesome to see all these wipeout XL tracks at 90fps or 240fps depending on which device I'm playing on!
Take care, and happy gaming!
I forgot about UFO 50 and Parking Garage Rally Circuit! Some of the modded tracks in PGRC are amazingly fun (and often have great modded music too!).
Re: Talking Point: Will You Be Buying Any Game-Key Card Switch 2 Games?
Definitely not buying any key cards, not any switch 2 games, nor anything from the 50 billion dollar corpo that attacks free open source emulation, youtubers, modders, tournaments, their own customers (I'd love to know how many customers they've banned from downloading their own purchases!), etc etc.
Re: Opinion: It's Time To Get Rid Of Fall Damage
@Doomcrow it is amazing how much better the games are without flimsy weapons, fragile shields, and ultra weak bows!
Re: Mario Kart World Is Reportedly The Smoothest Entry Yet
@geshem No problem, thanks for the feedback. I guess I'm happier?! I'm happier when I don't read the news, that's for sure! Take care!
Re: Mario Kart World Is Reportedly The Smoothest Entry Yet
@geshem lol, I upgraded my name. This time to a refresh rate I've never even seen! I do now have a 240hz display and absolutely love it. Can't wait to see 400 or 500fps! Or higher!
Re: Mario Kart World Is Reportedly The Smoothest Entry Yet
Would be nice to see a Kart racer like this running at 120. Sounds very pretty!
Re: Digital Foundry Says Switch 2 Running Switch Games At 4K Is "Quite The Thing" In Performance Breakdown
@jesse_dylan Yeah, for me the big problem is that I'd feel like I'm giving money to horrible corporate lawyers if I buy anything from Nintendo. I can't bring myself to do it. Which is a bummer because I like the 120hz VRR screen, and other improvements they've made. I also hate online lockdown stuff that corporate lawyers like Nintendo want you to pay for. I wouldn't want NSO if they paid me to take it. I'll control my own games, thank you very much!
Re: Digital Foundry Says Switch 2 Running Switch Games At 4K Is "Quite The Thing" In Performance Breakdown
@jesse_dylan the "free upgrades with NSO" are horrible. Take your Switch somewhere and then start a game offline and now you can't play certain tracks, or have a certain frame rate, etc. Totally anti-consumer and anti-gamer, lol.
Re: Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters Land New Update As Series Passes 200 Million Sales
@Andee I don't know about other systems, but I've heard there are mods for the Steam version. Perhaps those clean up the camera movement. Also, this kind of thing doesn't seem like something the Switch 2 would fix. I've tried overclocking my Switch but no dice, still looks juddery and stutters. I think John from Digital Foundry said these games are running locked at 60fps, the problem is something about the way the camera or movement is programmed, so it has to be fixed by software not brute force or a faster proccessor.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (5th April)
Still mostly playing Totk, but also some modded Botw at 60fps, which is fun and relaxing too. Also playing Advance Wars, old stuff on gameboy and NES, on up to the newest one at 60fps (I hope purchasers of Switch 2 can play it at 60 without having to buy an online lock down agreement or hit a paywall to get 60!), several different Parodiuses, Pikmin 2 (also at 60 of course), Rocket League (always at 240fps, of course!), Mario Sunrise (simple short romhack that I like), Megacopter (heli STG kinda game that runs at 90 or 240), Nurikabe World (wonderful puzzle game that also runs perfectly!), wipeout phantom edition (90fps or 240fps depending where I'm playing it), UFO 50 (played 70 hours of this and still haven't touched about 10 of the games included), a Sailor Moon romhack made by some awesome person in Brazil, Tengen Tetris, Overhorizon, Metroid mOTHER, blazing lazers, mariopaint, the princess rescue (awesome romhack from a couple years ago), JUMP 1/2 (really amazing romhack from 2019, the level "home run derby" is one of the best levels I've played in years!), Super bomberman 5, megabomberman, and super famicom wars.
I've also enjoyed watching coverage of Switch via youtubers who I've liked for years, and who've been attacked by Nintendo. I hope Nintendo learns how to not attack gaming, stop attacking youtubers, stop stealing from and committing coercion against developers. They could eventually be seen as an ethical company instead of way worse than Denuvo.
May the goddess smile upon you!
Re: Digital Foundry Says Switch 2 Running Switch Games At 4K Is "Quite The Thing" In Performance Breakdown
@PolitiClank Yeah, Oliver was kind of laughing as he pointed out what they were saying a few days or a week ago. The 120hz screen is kind of shocking!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (29th March)
I've almost forgotten about my 240hz laptop and 90hz Deck because I'm so busy enjoying my modded Switch. I can't believe I didn't jailbreak it sooner since this is exactly the kind of thing I love messing with, setting things up on, and playing. I'm mostly playing my favorite game (major highlight was finding a beautiful light green horse with pink markings and orange and pink hooves, so awesome!). Also super impressed with Super Mario World 2.5, which is a French romhack with incredible music and very fun levels. That's the main thing I'm enjoying, the same thing I love about my Steam Deck, which is setting up my own little museum of my favorite romhacks, translation-hacks, and other unavailable favorites and rarities. I'll just mention one more that's been awesome: Super Mario World Merry Mountain Christmas Adventure. It has very well done music, levels, and info (helpful text boxes and characters that explain things). Absolutely charming!
Oh, and I liked wulf den's video about 120hz panels on handheld. Made it sound like he thought high frame rates don't matter, then gushed about much enjoyment he gets out of them. Only thing missing was Lossless Scaling. Lossless Scaling makes every high refresh screen more useful, and the higher the better!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (22nd March)
I've been really enjoying my Switch since I got it jailbroken. I'd love to have a 120hz screen installed, but many games still look good at 60 (more so on the small handheld screen, gets blurry looking with fast motion on my TV).
I'm mostly playing TOTK, but also Soul Calibur, EVO Search for Eden, Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius, Parodius Da!, Super Aleste, Dezaemon, Dragon Quest, Ms PacMan, Bomberman 4, Super Famicom Wars, Castlemania, Mario Kart Horizons, Return to Dinosaur Land, Mario's Ruined Seclusion, Mr Do!, Terranigma, Gun Nac, Tengen Tetris, Burning Twinbee the rescue of Dr Cinnamon!, Fitness Boxing, Pokémon Pure Green, SF Rush, wipeout 3, Tekken 2, and Taiko no Tatsujin Chibi Dragon to Fushigi na orb!
Take care and happy gaming!
Re: Feature: "It's A Perversion Of The Whole Thing" - Jeff Minter On Scam Games, Switch 2, And 'I, Robot'
Great interview, I enjoyed reading it. Pretty excited for I robot. Looking forward to playing it at 90 or 240 for sure!
Re: Chances Are You've Never Heard Of Nightdive Studio's Latest Switch Rerelease
Wow, surprised to see this one being released. Harlan is such a great old school sci fi author!
Re: Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters Land New Update As Series Passes 200 Million Sales
@Andee I think they all have judder. John from Digital Foundry talked about it in one of their videos. He predicted they'd never fix it. Seems like they won't.
I've played 2 of these Pixel remasters and they both look horrible to me. I'd never be able to enjoy playing these, especially when basically every other version runs with perfect frame pacing, 60fps, and no camera positioning or whatever problem programmers seem to have with Unity (I think these are done in Unity).
Re: Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters Land New Update As Series Passes 200 Million Sales
@MARl0 I'm with you on this one. The stuttery camera movement makes these by far the worst versions of these games. Amazing to me that they released them this way and then have never fixed it.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (15th March)
I'm mostly playing TOTK. Really loving the mods I'm playing and the frame rate of 60 due to overclocking. Also playing Rocket League (always loving the 240fps clarity, especially in this game), UFO 50, Last Bible 3, Super Mario World 2 + 2, Bucky O'Hare, Parodius (PSX version, not Sexy though), Jump Rope Challenge, Fitness Boxing, Dr Mario World House Calls, wipeout phantom edition, Project R SF Rush, Mario 64, Super Mario Maker 2, Pikmin 1, Tony Hawk, Yasha, and Birdigo.
Happy gaming everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (8th March)
I'm enjoying Lilac 0, SF Rush, Main Frames (loving those 90 frames), Moonless Moon, UFO 50, wipeout phantom edition, TOTK, Fitness Boxing, Castlevania the holy relics, Chrono Trigger, Pikmin, Blasteroids, and Kirby and the Forgotten land.
I'm also playing a bunch of fun demos: TMNT tactical takedown, Grit and Valor 1949 (wonderful little strategy game!), Haste broken world (makes me think of Nights, has fun flight/gliding, awesome), Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3, Fumes, Birdigo, and Koira.
Happy gaming everyone
Oh yeah, and Rocket League (always 240fps for me) and BOTW and Tony Hawk 1 plus 2 (those 2 at 60).
Have an awesome weekend everyone!
Re: Switch Emulator 'NxEmu' Is Back And Hopes To Avoid Nintendo's Wrath
Actually all these corporations, Nintendo more than any other, are making it so that piracy is the only way to own a game.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (15th February)
Just getting into A Highland Song and what an awesome game it is! Great voice acting, beautiful visuals, and gorgeous music.
Also loving the demo for Is This Seat Taken?
Been playing a lot of Starfox 64. Beat it for the first time since the 1990s. It's super fun and looks so good at high frame rates.
Garbanzo Quest is really fun, and so is Steredenn (which I've finally gotten to play in a way that looks smooth to me, using 55fps on Deck and Lossless Scaling on laptop).
Also playing SF Rush (love the decomp and the fan game made in Unity that allows for 128 car death races!), Battle Garegga, UFO 50, SM64 coopdx, Eigengrau, TOTK, wipeout phantom edition, and Pikuniku.
Happy gaming everyone!
Re: Poll: 10 Years On, Which Version Of Zelda: Majora's Mask Is Best?
Yeah, well, obviously for me it's got to be the PC port running the N64 perfection at 240fps with Nerrel's awesome texture pack. Such a good game!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (8th February)
I'm playing stuff like Kaikan, Looney Landers, Varyznex, Nova Drift, wipeout xl, San Fransisco Rush, wipeout 64, all of them with Lossless Scaling boosting the frame rate to 60 or 120fps or 240fps (mostly 240!). Some of those look perfect, some drop frames or are hard to play due to input lag. Luckily one of those has an awesome decompilation so I'm playing the hell out of that everyday.
Also playing TOTK discovering new stuff and tweaking Lossless Scaling to maximize smoothness and motion clarity.
Hmm, also playing Rocket League (always locked to 240fps), UFO 50, "Doom + Doom ll" (which they updated and I was shocked to see running locked at 240fps now, so beautiful!!), Flyknight, Snowball! (Amazingly good Pinball game!), Moons of Darsalon, wipeout phantom edition (added Phillip Glass with Brazilian musicians Amazon waters music stuff, Slowdive, this awesome slowed down version of Cold Storage's Tim Wright's Xpander, and Animal Collective songs).
Lastly, but firstly, I've just discovered Utopia Must Fall. This game is sick! It has fun gameplay, but somehow the simple graphics (which run at 90fps up to I think 240fps on laptop) along with the stellar, incredible, music and sound environment and sound effects create an atmosphere I find intoxicating. I've also played Utopia Must Fall with Lossless Scaling set to 20 x frame generation just to make it extra trippy looking. Either way, it is a mind blowing game. Highly, highly recommend it!
Happy gaming!
Edit- I read that Utopia Must Fall is programmed to go up to 200fps. Anyways, it can be very smooth and beautiful to see it in motion.
Re: Steam Deck Sales Business As Usual For Valve During Week Of Switch 2 Reveal
I really liked my LCD Deck when I got it, but when I got my OLED Deck it truly felt like the nicest system I'd ever owned. As a frame rate fanatic I've been completely enthralled by the ability to set the screen's refresh rate to all kinds of crazy numbers from like 14hz to 51hz to 72hz to 82hz on up to 90hz. I used to still play Switch all the time while owning a Deck, but after they attacked indie devs and tried to destroy emulators and the teams that work on them I've lost interest in supporting Nintendo. So I only buy stuff for my Deck and laptop, and emulate what isn't for sale on those systems. Seems like corporations like Nintendo and Rockstar could just stop attacking modders and youtubers, but I'm not holding my breath.
Finally, this is off topic, but I wish Lossless Scaling would come to Steam Deck. I want to be able to experiment with fixing frame rates without having to install Windows on my Deck.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (25th January)
I've mostly been playing TOTK and Rocket league. Playing different mods on different machines, all of it super fun. Also, like usual, I'm playing Wipeout Phantom Edition, but I've also started playing Wipeout 3 using the awesome new 3.0 release of Lossless Scaling. Lossless Scaling has about 15,000 positive reviews on Steam for a reason - it is amazing! I've had people on discord tell me never to do what I'm doing (boosting Zelda from 30fps to 240fps), but I don't think they've tried it. Sometimes there's hardly any artifacts, and I can still hit flurry rushes. Boosting 60fps games up to 240fps doesn't seem to produce any input delay (it I at least minimal). I've been playing Eschatos with frame gen boosting it to 240 and I love it.
I'm also playing Flying Red Barrel, Lil Gator Game (looks good at 240fps), Dystopika, Lonely Mountains Snow Riders (Love this game!), Melatonin (also love this game at 240fps), Judgement Silversword, Drop Duchy (fun demo of tetris roguelike card battle game), and Kingdom Two Crowns.
Been watching modded content on YouTube, as well as msi claw 8 reviews and stuff
Happy gaming!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (18th January)
I'm mostly playing Tears of the Kingdom at 240fps like usual. Lossless Scaling continues to be one of my favorite things in the whole history of videogames (and video watching, it is awesome for youtube, tv shows, and movies). UFO 50 is really fun to play with a high frame rate multiplier going. Star Waspir can look very trippy, Party House looks awesome with the people morphing into each other as I add more to the house, etc etc. I've also enjoyed Lossless Scaling with Zangeki Warp. Xelan Force is another one that looks nice boosted to 240fps. I've also been playing Rocket League, DKC Returns (I liked the Digital Foundry video covering the new release, but have just been enjoying the old version), Cavity Busters, Lunacid, The Rangers in The South (looks good on Deck, but using LS I can get an almost perfect 240fps), and Angel at Dusk. Oh, and I've been loving playing Wipeout Phantom edition with Beach House, Wednesday Campanella (Tapir and Utah work really well!), and Tame Impala added to the soundtrack.
I watched the retro game corps, wulfden, and whatever the Linus Tech Tips news thing is called to see impressions of the Switch 2 announcement. The Canadians at LTT always seem to have the funniest take. I loved how they reported that Nintendo said emulation is legal, then informed Nintendo they can't sue anyone anymore since they said emu is legal!
Happy gaming!
Edit: also really enjoying demos of Kero Quest 64 and Motor Town. Might have to pick both of them up!