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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!

Great interview, I enjoyed reading it. Pretty excited for I robot. Looking forward to playing it at 90 or 240 for sure!

Wow, surprised to see this one being released. Harlan is such a great old school sci fi author!

@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!

Actually all these corporations, Nintendo more than any other, are making it so that piracy is the only way to own a game.

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!

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!

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!

For me, by far the most exciting new videogame related thing is the awesome new update to Lossless Scaling. It allows for going way beyond multiplying the base frame rate by 4. Now you can choose to multiply any game's frame rate by 5, 6, 7, etc up to 20!!! Nothing has me more excited for a high refresh rate screen than this new feature! I've been wanting a 480hz screen, and am excited about the newly announced 700hz screen, but I'll probably stick with my laptop's 240hz for awhile (it is awesome, after all). I've been playing Tears of the Kingdom at 60fps, then using Lossless Scaling for 4x to get 240fps. That's been awesome for months, but now I can just target the base game frame rate of 30fps and use the new 8x multiplier and it looks even better! It is simply amazing. I'm so glad that something like Lossless Scaling has come along for gamers and video watchers to enjoy! I just played Wipeout 64 using the same 8x frame generation and it is OK. I get snatches of time where it looks like 240fps (also playing at 1200p), but the emulation has some judder and frame drops. Oh, I also tried the 20x frame gen on TOTK and it produces an interesting visual effect that I like. It looks a lot like when you repeatedly drink alcohol in GTA 5. All these cool visual anomalies appear. On my 240hz screen there is also an interesting "smooth" judder. Oh, and that reminds me, when playing TOTK using 8x frame gen, if there is a stutter in the frame rate the frame gen feature makes it less annoying. I get more of an interesting visual anomaly instead of a harsh stutter. So that's cool too. Oh, and using the 20x frame gen makes the menus in TOTK look awesomely trippy! The icons for weapons, shields, items, etc. magically morph into each other in such a pleasing way! When I saw it I thought "this would be sick if devs used it in the menus of a vanilla game!" It really is slick and nice looking. I've never really used AMD or Nvidia frame gen, and I'm sure it's better with the motion vector info and everything, but I'm super happy with plain old Lossless Scaling! I looked today and Steam says I've used it for over 200 hours (it's a cheap app you can buy on Steam). The fact that it can fix basically any 30fps or 60fps game and make it look awesomely smooth makes me not want to play any games on any system that I can't run through my laptop's screen somehow. I highly, highly recommend Lossless Scaling!
I've also been enjoying Digseum. It's a "progression" game that has great music (sorta reminds me of the awesome Swedish psychedelic rock band Dungen) and is just well polished and hard to put down. I also like that it is relatively brief.
Also still addicted to ufo 50. Party House has been my favorite for weeks. A few days ago I discovered a nice new song that plays when you expand your house a lot so you can have like 26 people in a party.
Also been playing of bunch of great shoot em ups: Mirage Feathers, Xelan Force, Ganablade (feels like it could've been on PC Engine, awesome game!), Zakesta-Z (also awesome!), Crystal Breaker (love it!), and Airanblade (really nice 1 person dev team stg game that only has like 8 reviews, deserves to sell more!)
Also been playing Pikmin, Mario 64, and Rocket League.
I got Beach House's newest album Once Twice Melody. Probably my number 1 standout track is "Through Me"

I finally got my Switch jailbroken, but haven't done anything with it yet except look at the stuff installed (tinfoil, fbi, and other apps and utilities, no games). I've been too busy completing TOTK for the third time, but with a mod I haven't played much before this. I feel like I shouldn't talk about what I play because it might paint a target on wonderful people's backs for the corporate law criminals at Nintendo. So, I'm having a lot of fun playing Tears of the Kingdom, Starfox 64, Dungeon Clawler, Kingdom Two Crowns, UFO 50, wipeout, and Mario 64.
Also been playing Wipeout Omega Collection, Rocket League, and Jumping Flash! on a relative's PS4. I guess it's not surprising that Jumping Flash looks better on my Deck than on PS4 (and it looks incredible on laptop with lossless scaling and emu options getting it up to 1440p and 240fps).
If I have time, I'm looking forward to seeing if I can get BOTW and TOTK running at 60fps on my newly improved Switch.
Happy gaming everyone!

@Toastmaster Yeah, I've got Mario Kart Arcade GP whatever it's called, which I believe is a technoparrot thing. It's pretty fun and looks great.
Also, reguarding recompilation, I thought we might have more than Majora and Mystical Ninja (Japanaese version only) by now. Hopefully 2025 will see a variety of N64 games get recomps. Nerrel's video about recompilation is so good, so exciting.

@Toastmaster Yeah, I love playing the model 2 and model 3 games on PC. Same with Outrun 2, gorgeous.
Yes, that Blur.

@Toastmaster Oh yeah, the Legion Go would be awesome for decomps and PC ports with it's high res 144hz screen! I found a thread that lists pc ports, with links, and installed almost every single one on my OLED Deck. I swear these are the glory days of gaming! Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Blur, Perfect Dark, Starfox 64, the incredible Link's Awakening port, wipeout phantom edition, oh, and all the amazing unlimited frame rate Pokémon decomps! There's such a cornucopia of stuff available.

@Toastmaster Interesting stuff! I bought Bleem back in the day, but was disappointed that the improvements were minor. If it had bumped a game up to 60fps I would've been thrilled.
Yeah, I remember the 3dfx cards, but never got one. I remember reading, I think in Next Generation magazine or something, about wipeout xl running at 60fps on PC on a 3dfx card. They said it was amazing looking. I'd still love to see that, like in a game museum or something! But with wipeout phantom edition I am finally living that dream! It's my favorite of all the modern decompilations/PC ports.

I think it should say "Starship", not "Starlight" in the article.

@Toastmaster That's amazing. I didn't know people were playing Mario 64 at 60fps back in 1999. It blew me away when I first got Mario 64 running on my Deck and saw it at 60. Since I got my new laptop I've been playing it at 240, which is incredible. So fun!

Reading the comments I just want to add that I've definitely noticed how great Beetle Advemture Racing looks via emulation. Basically locked at 60fps.
I've also enjoyed some Diddy Kong Racing over the past months. It has a 60fps hack for emulation that works OK. It seems to crash a bit often.
Can't wait to see what Harbormasters do next! I hope it is Wipeout 64, but won't hold my breath!
Oh, it was also cool to read that a longtime Nintendo dev who helped make Starfox 64 said he was happy to see the PC port.

This is such an anticipated release! It is like another dream come true every time I can play an old classic that I've enjoyed, but now at 240 frames per second (or whatever higher frame rate a future monitor I buy can display, hopefully 480fps soon!). It really is incredible to play Starfox 64 at a high frame rate. So beautiful, so responsive, so fun! Thank you Harbormasters!

I'm completely into this mod of TOTK, playing through everything again. It is such a beautiful game, so fun to explore in. I wish Nintendo helped people making the game run smoother instead of attacking them and supporting deneuvo and other stuff like that. I'll probably never buy another game from an ESA supporting company! I've also been watching gameplay. One thing that's funny is the person putting out jogging videos of modded BOTW. People are supposed to use the video while running on their treadmill. Pretty good idea I'd say.
As minor side dishes I'm playing UFO 50, wipeout phantom edition, Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair (looks very nice at 90fps), Bullet Heaven 2, Micro Mages, Mario Kart DS CTGP Nitro, and Advance Wars Dual Strike.
Happy gaming everyone!

I'm just playing TOTK almost all the time. The mod I'm playing is way too difficult for me, but I love it anyways. I'm duping fairies, horns, turnips, etc. So I'm having another awesome playthrough, basically. It wasn't until 2024 that I played using mods, but now I'm completely sold on how awesome they are!
I'm also trying out Ballionaire, but not sure if I think it's great. I'll have to keep playing.
I mostly play Wipeout Phantom Edition on Deck, but whenever I play it on my laptop it just amazes me. It looks incredible at 240fps. I hope Valve releases a steam deck that can display 240fps, or some other company releases a handheld that cam run steam OS and has a 240hz OLED screen that can also have selectable refresh rate like regular Steam Decks can. That would such a dreamy game machine!!

Wish I understood this stuff better. I've been playing Majora's Mask at 90 or 240fps (depending on what device I'm using) for months now, yet the decomp just completed. Banjo Kazooie has completed decomp, but we have no idea if a port will be built by anyone. I know MM was using recompilation, but they say it benefitted from the near completeness of the decomp project.
Can't wait for Starship, and whatever else is being cooked up by all the awesome devs in the fan community!

I finally beat a level in Party House. Couldn't beat it until I watched a speed run and learned the main strategy, but it doesn't matter, still fun to play repeat attempts. I'm loving the second level too. I'm also getting more and more enthralled with new modded content for TOTK. Love watching people playing it and also playing it myself. I haven't yet beaten the lynel that's in the intro, but have jumped around with different game saves and love the tyrant class. I've also been mesmerized by wipeout phantom edition, partly because I added new songs to it. A drum and bass track called Snowflakes goes amazingly well with the smooth hovercraft racing. Also been playing the kinda old game Kami, such a great puzzle game. Also discovered I have other Jeff Minter games in my Steam account, so I've been playing Minotaur Arcade, Gridrunner Revolution, Space Giraffe, and Polybius. I've been playing Schildmaid MX at 240fps on laptop, what an awesome shoot em up! Also been playing Rush Rally Origins, Glyph, and Kingdom Two Crowns at 240. So beautiful and smooth, all of those are! The Olympus DLC in Kingdom Two Crowns continues to amaze me.
Also been enjoying the beginning of The Land Beneath Us (awesome Welsh chess like strategy game with great music), Patrick's Parabox (incredible puzzle game), Paper Trail (fun paper folding puzzle game), and Nine Sols (seems like a perfectly polished game so far, love it). I also really like Ninja Chowdown: Glaze of Glory, Arc Racer (pretty good wipeout or f-zero type game), Balatro (too addictive, jeez!), Boo! Greedy Kid, CyberBlocker (incredibly good Arkanoid shoot em up, Love this game!), Goliath Depot (super fun arcade style game, or old console style game), Gunlocked (got way more into this than I thought I would!), Murasaki Tsurugi (first class soundtrack, and seemingly great unique shoot em up gameplay), Super Woden (super smooth top down Gran Turismo style racing game with great music and tough gameplay), Zeno Death, and Zeno Hell (great stg games from a few years back).
This week I found out another Youtuber I've enjoyed had been attacked by Nintendo. In her video about the whole experience she was talking about Nintendo fans (who I assume criticized her for playing Animal Crossing with modded strawberries and stuff added in) and at one point she said "y'all console gamers are God's strongest soldiers" and I couldn't stop laughing! So good!
Tea of the weekend is Amber Wuyi, such a richly flavorful Oolong! And song is that Snowflakes song that is so immersive while racing wipEout!
Have fun gaming everyone!

Recently I've been most excited about Rainchaser. Many aspects of the demo lead me to believe it could end up being among my favorite stgs when it releases.
I'm also excited about Kingdom Two Crowns. I've gotten further into the new dlc and love the spider and lion/serpent/dragon mounts. There are so many awesome mounts, power ups, gameplay enhancements, graphics improvements, etc in this game/dlc/update!
Also been getting addicted to Dome Keeper, along with Balatro. They're both easy to get lost in.
Also enjoying BS F-zero deluxe. Amazing that modders rebuilt the lost games from a VHS recording.
I'm also really into Party House, even though I can't beat any levels yet. And Porgy and Devilition and Bug Hunter are awesome too.
Also been enjoying F-Zero 55, Daisy's Crazy Adventure, wipeout phantom edition, Need For Speed Underground 2 (looks pretty at 90fps), Battle Gear 2, Mario Kart Double Dash, Mario Golf Toadstool Tour, Grand Mountain Adventure, Tempest 4000, and Moose Life. I've also watched and played a bunch of the Jeff Minter Digital Eclipse documentary/game collection. It is amazingly good!
Also been playing TOTK and Rocket League. And been enjoying Mr Sujano, Linus Tech Tips, Nerrel, and Dunkey videos.
Have fun everyone!

Most exciting game of the week is Fzero 55. Absolutely love the music and gameplay (on lowest difficulty, can't get past basic jumps on hardest difficulty!)!
Party House is one of my new obsessions, although I still love playing Bug Hunter.
Oh, and I got Tetris Forever, which is amazing. It also got me back into all the older digital eclipse releases. So I "finished " the making of Karateka last night. Also been immersed in Minterland. These awesome releases also get me playing the roms they couldn't include. So I've been playing Prince of Persia, Nintendo's NES Tetris, TxK, The New Tetris, Tetris DS, Moose Life, etc. Can't wait to see what's next in the gold master series.
I've been enjoying Centipede Recharged even though it has some shocking stutters and frame drops.
Also having fun playing Grand Mountain Adventure, but I wish it had graphics options on PC. It can do 240fps, but can't eliminate the fade in and other stuff that looks the same as on Switch.
Also been playing Akka Arrh, Hellfire, wipeout phantom edition, PokeMMO, Geometry Wars 3, TOTK, and Gokujou Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack Saturn emulation on Steam Deck.
And I've been enjoying graslu's 60fps Bond gameplay after I found out Nintendo attacked him this week. It puts a huge smile on my face seeing graslu playing Goldeneye so masterfully at 60fps on the highest difficulty level.
Happy gaming!

I'm still mostly sticking with my 2024 old standards: TOTK, wipeout phantom edition, and UFO 50. I'm playing a different mod of TOTK that helps smoothen frame pacing, allowing a tighter lock on 240fps via Lossless Scaling, so that is fun. Plus, for the first time ever for me, I've added something to a mod to customize it with files from another mod. It feels great to have control over which patch I use, which game save I want to play on or store in a folder for later, and now be able to mod a mod! I really love this stuff, along with having control over resolution and frame rate! If Nintendo would stop committing crimes against the devs who make these awesome features possible, well that would be nice, wouldn't it?!
In UFO 50 I got my first gold disk, then my first cherry. Bug Hunter is amazingly fun. I've also started having fun with Vainger, Devilition, Campanella, and Planet Zoldath. I also love watching online videos of people playing these games.
Wipeout Phantom Edition is still my favorite racing game ever. After watching Digital Foundry's video about the 480hz monitor I can't wait to play it on a screen like that! I'm also excited for 960hz panels, if those ever get invented! 720p at 480fps sounds like gaming heaven for sure!
I'm also enjoying Metal Slug Tactics, Mario 64 render 96 (love playing this locked at 53fps on Deck!), Pokémon Infinite Fusion, Freedom Planet 2 (so awesome!), Kingdom Two Crowns (I keep repeating it, but the DLC and game engine revamp are incredible, seriously the clouds and lighting and music and gameplay in the Greek theme with Goddesses and Gods is so, so, amazing!), Void Gore, Z-Warp, Feeble Light (love all these similar STG games with great music), Planetiles, and Dream Tactics. And I've also been enjoying Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island at 240fps thanks to the glory of Lossless Scaling. I love Lossless Scaling! I've also started playing Wipeout Pulse and wipeout pure while using lossless scaling. They look very nice, and stay pretty much locked at 240fps. Wipeout at high frame rates is such a wonderful gaming experience!
For music I've been digging the soundtrack of Mario Artist from N64 DD. Many great tunes in there.
Have fun gaming everyone!

@UsernameMayne I agree, they've made timeless games for generations.

I've been playing Tears of the Kingdom, enjoying several different mods along with lossless scaling as usual.
Bug Hunter just keeps getting better and better. I've played about 5 hours of it and keep discovering new modules and techniques, which is amazing because it is such a seemingly simple strategy game!
I play Wipeout Phantom Edition almost everyday. Sometimes on laptop where I wish I had a 1000hz screen since it can run way above 1000 fps. Sometimes on Deck where I try playing at 40fps, 50fps, and eventually go up to 90 and just bliss out to the amazing electronic music I've added to the soundtrack. Incredible port.
Today I played the Super Mario Bros port to Commodore 64. It's really fun and very well done. It can't keep 60fps as well as the Famicom/NES, but is still super impressive.
Oh yeah, a few days ago I played Yoshi's Highland for the first time! What an amazingly crazy romhack! I really like it, but probably wouldn't have if I hadn't seen some online gameplay so I knew what to expect. It is difficult, frustrating, and exhilarating!
Other, much nicer, romhacks I'm enjoying are Yoshi's Lullaby, The Epic Quest of Birdo the Pink Dinosaur, Toad's Cherry Tracker, and Mario's Ruined Seclusion. So much amazing original music and great gameplay. Would be nice if Mario Maker had a quick easy way to only play such high quality levels/world.
I've also played some Pokemblem, but haven't gotten very far.
Also playing some Kill the Crows, Rocket League (really wish Epic would admit most matches are just all bots except 1 or maybe 2 humans, and let us play in offline mode against the very high level bots they've developed), and the absolutely gorgeous and super fun Kingdom Two Crowns!
Video of the week is some random British guy I've never heard of called Jonathan Pie or whatever.
Happy gaming, lol!

My game of the week is definitely Castlemania. Man I love it so much! I played through it on Deck, then later played it on laptop with lossless scaling so it looks like 240fps. It is just perfect with polished Mario controls, classic Castlevania music, and just right difficulty (I am using save states since I'm playing it on an emulator). Perfect Halloween game!
Also playing TOTK where I've lit every root on laptop and gotten the frostbite trousers on Switch. So fun just to traverse the world!
I've enjoyed Retro Game Corps' ally x video. It looks like a great system to have dual boot on, and I loved that Russ showed Parking Garage Rally. Also liked Nerrel's Silent Hill 2 review with the customary Halloween wishes at the end. I've been playing some of the original on Deck, but scary games aren't my jam.
I'm also enjoying nodebuster (addictive game with awesome chill music), Bug Hunter (can't get enough of this strategy game), Gokujou Parodius Da! Collection, wipeout phantom edition (I feel like I'm playing the most perfect, coolest, most fun game ever when I'm playing this AMAZING port), Snakebird, Rush Rally 3 (love it with high frame rates), 1000xResist (seems great so far), Research and Destroy (fun modern strategy game), and Orbital Bullet.
Also been having fun with Toad's Cherry Tracker, Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, Super Mario Bros Mini (love this demake even though I can't get it running smoothly).
Also been stunned by the beauty of regular old Metroid, Gun nac, and Blazing Lazers while using lossless scaling. And also amazed at how youtube videos of Wipeout Omega Collection look when using lossless scaling to bring it up to 240fps. I hope Shadps4 can run that game soon so I can play it at 240!
Song of the weekend is kassil's Astral Observatory in Breath of the Wild style!
Happy gaming!

Good news for gamers! Guess we gotta protect devs better to protect against the criminals of Kyoto.

I'm mostly playing Tears of the Kingdom and Bug Hunter. I think I've just got 1 lightroot left, about 15 shrines, and 2 pieces of armor. The thing I'm most grateful for recently is getting connected members of the gaming community who graciously helped me out. The gaming community is awesome! Then yeah, Bug Hunter is my other main thing. Love this strategy game. I've been playing UFO 50 with lossless scaling, so it basically moves as clearly as a CRT. I got to see a couple CRTs at a local retro arcade, which was nice. I haven't seen an old TV for like 6 years, so being able to compare it to my 240hz laptop is great. I'd say it's a similar motion smoothness.
Also been playing Thronefall, Rocket League, Mika and the Witch's Mountain (wonderful silky smooth visuals and flying), Afterplace, Majora's Mask (tremendously enjoying it at 240fps and with Nerrel's texture pack), Super Mario 3 (like always, I love using lossless scaling to play at 240fps, which sometimes makes a strange distortion on the right edge due to the way stuff flickers there as the game scrolls), wipeout phantom edition (I really can't express how much I love this racing game!), Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star, and Terranigma (incredible music and everything).
Video of the week is definitely Nerrel's breath of fresh air defense of Yuzu and emulation in general (his video is A Word about the Death of Switch Emulation). I'm glad the first announcement of Switch 2 came from him, lol. I've also enjoyed a great interview with gdkchan that's from 2021 on Boiling Steam.
Happy gaming!
Edit: and Killing Time Resurrected! Started playing it on Deck, then really really loved it once I later played more of it on laptop! Great 1990s stuff! Oh, and also playing lots of Mario 64 (various versions), Zelda Dungeons of Infinity, and Kingdom Two Crowns (again, amazing Greek DLC and game engine update!).

I also highly recommend Captain Toad to anyone considering it. I've played it on Wii U, loved the enhanced Switch version, and now I still dabble with it every once in a while on Deck. Great game!

@JohnnyMind My next goal in TOTK is getting all the shrines. I've never done that in BOTW or TOTK, even though they're my favorite 2 games.
And heal up soon!

@Ooyah I'm posting every week about my awesome laptop and OLED Steam Deck. I hope people can just block me if they don't want to see my posts! So stay and share!

Tears of the Kingdom of course. I've collected almost every article of clothing available in the mod I'm playing. I also messed up and got too many armors(up to like 160), and think I've permanently lost the champion's leathers. Kinda sad, but I've got about 145 other things to wear while exploring and fighting in Hyrule. I'm still amazed at how much is packed into TOTK. I'm also playing it on Switch, about to start the Sage of Lightning questline. But lossless scaling is like 1,000 times better than the bad frame interpolation on my "smart" TV, so I'm mostly playing on laptop.
I've also just set up Super Mario 64 coop deluxe on my laptop. It is super fun, and beautiful at 240fps. Actually, when I unlocked the frame rate it was saying 1,800 fps. That's definitely the highest number I've ever seen for a frame rate reading!
I'm also playing Burnout 2, F Zero GX, Rally Championship (this old rally game I used to enjoy looks awesome on OLED Deck!), Zoom Action Puzzle Game (Mino No Soft Series on GBA), Motoracer Advance, Thronefall (this new tower defense game reminds me of the Kingdom games and Bad North, and it runs flawlessly at 240fps. It is incredible, great music, upgrades, just awesome), Neva (devs limit it to 120fps for some reason, but my beloved Lossless Scaling comes to the rescue with the 2x frame rate multiplier!), UFO 50 (I'm starting to doubt I'll ever stop playing this game. Incredible! I'm super into Pilot Quest, Bug Hunter, and Attactics these days)(I haven't even tried over 30 of the games yet!), Power of Ten (fun twin stick STG RPG), Dwarf Fortress (finally tried this), Vividlope (awesome game!), Kingdom Two Crowns (the new DLC is awesome! They improved the game on Switch too, but I'm not tempted by it's 30fps, of course), Citizen Sleeper 2 (I like the demo), and UFO Unidentified Falling Objects. Oh, I'm also playing Fist of the North Star Boxing and Jump Rope Challenge on Switch. Love the music in North Star.
I've enjoyed Wulfden's video about Portmaster on tiny handhelds. Seeing UFO 50 on a small device is cool, and his great sense of humor in the section where he shows Mario 64 is funny! Oh, I also love that someone created an LX system to play UFO 50 on. The sound when connecting controllers is great. And they're going to release the 3D printing info for it soon.
Tea of the weekend is 1991 wild arbor pu-erh, such a rich and interesting flavor! Music of the weekend is anything from Dordogne - love that game!
Have fun and take care everyone!

I like this game, but quit playing it after one of the Nintendo attacks, like the indie dev who made Ryujinx, or the attack on Retro Game Corps and other Youtubers(which according to Kaze Emanuar were fake attacks done by rabbid Nintendo fans...). Anyways, I should rip my cartridge onto my laptop and steamdeck and just play it that way since it is a nice release.

Grand Mountain Adventure is incredible. I've only played it on Switch, and can say they did a masterful job programming this relaxing (and challenging, if you want it) skiing game. Gylt is also good, but I've only played it via Steam.
I've been wanting to try Vividlope and this article got me to get it. It is an instant classic, love it! Also, it started off at low res and 60fps, but a quick dip into options got it up to 800p and 90fps, sweet!
I've also been enjoying Flying Tank at 90fps for a few months. It is a super unique stg with great music and awesome graphics.
I can also vouch for Cash Cow DX, satryn deluxe, and Peglin.
Great article, thanks everyone!

I'm enjoying the hell out of Tears of the Kingdom, like usual. I've collected about 126 pieces of clothing/armor, and just keep exploring looking for more. It's so fun to romp around and climb and fly and dive and ride horses.
I just started Europa and think I'm going to love it. Journey seems like an obvious influence, which is great since that's one of my favorite games ever. I knew the devs are people after my heart when I saw it running at up to 777fps on the title screen, then like 374fps during early gameplay. Nice and smooth, the way I love it!
I am also trying to play the new Call of Olympus DLC for Kingdom Two Crowns! I bought it, but am still playing on old islands and just need to switch modes or whatever. I LOVE the Kingdom games and am super excited for this new DLC!
Like always I'm playing Wipeout Phantom Edition, so addictive. I've also been playing Phalanx on my Miyoo Mini plus. I played it decades ago, but forgot how nice it looks and how fun it is - great shmup/stg action!
Also playing Blur, Gunvein (awesome shmup I highly recommend), Demonizer (same!), Bugsnax (just got this again and am loving it so much!), UFO 50 (game of the century, pretty much), Tiny Glade (youtube videos of this have been blowing me away), Last Call BBS, Zachtronics Solitaire Collection (now I know I love playing solitaire at 240fps!), Gran Turismo 1 (this and other old PS1 games running at 1440p and 240fps always makes me smile), and Fist of the North Star boxing (and the free jump rope game from like 4 years ago).
Oh, and I've been using Lossless Scaling for like everything. Seeing Ryukahr playing Mario Maker 2 at 240fps is awesome. So I set up Super Mario Bros and scaled it, and yes, I now only want to play ancient classic games with this awesome 4x frame rate multiplier! It is just crystal clear sharpness as Mario shoots fireballs, moves past things, etc. And my laptop is OLED, so it looks stunning in that way too. My laptop also apparently has brightness adjustments that function at 960fps, which is what allows OLED to have VRR at 240fps. I hope TVs advance to 240fps soon. It really should grow into a new standard. I love watching YouTube videos with the frame rate quadrupled!
My YouTube video of the week is The Glucose Goddess interviewed by the British guy who does Diary of a CEO. It resonated with me and I've had more energy and less headaches since paying attention to how to avoid blood glucose spikes. Super good interview!
Have fun and take care everyone!
Edit: the Call of Olympus dlc for Kingdom Two Crowns is so awesome. Amazing music and visuals, plus I think they improved the engine since now I can increase the frame rate from 50 to 90 on Deck and it looks smooth at 90fps (beforehand it needed to be at 50fps to stay smooth).

It seems like Nintendo is kind of making the world into Hong Kong. Like sending people to indie dev's houses to threaten them into deleting their work, getting videos deleted, threatening people's jobs who Nintendo hates. And like gamers are just taking it. Like I read about people in Hong Kong just avoiding the news as security measures are put in place. Sept 2 2024 Nintendo introduced a whole bunch of their new security measures, saying that programming mods or showing a video of a modded game is illegal. I guess all this is one way of preparing the way for a new console. Why would gamers support all this crap? I don't know.
Edit: I'll leave it to the experts on whether Nintendo is guilty of coercion, conspiracy related to coercion, anti-competitive practices, etc.
Also, I've been playing TOTK, EoW, Victory Heat Rally(love this game, but really hope it gets an option to unlock the frame rate, I tried it with lossless scaling and it looks stunning at 240fps), UFO 50 (competing with wipeout phantom edition for my GOTY), Tiny Glade (Alex's Digital Foundry video got me into this awesome little gem made by 2 programmers/artists), The Legend of Santa (lovely game I found out about due to the Nintendolife article!), Minishoot Adventures (awesome twin stick RPG, sort of), Bzzzt (brilliant presentation, gameplay, everything), Beyond Galaxyland (incredibly beautiful rpg, I love it!), Tangledeep, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (amazing puzzling game that runs smoother than melted butter), Pampas and Selene (awesome Pixel art game), Forza Polpo (I can only play this awesome Jumping Flash! style game for about 1 minute before an incorrect "security handshake" between an old version of Unreal engine and windows causes the game to crash, but it seems super good), Jumping Flash! 1 and 2 (it blows my mind seeing these run at 240fps on my sweet laptop, huge thank you to the Duckstation gods! Well Duckstation gets them up to 60fps, then lossless scaling quads it up to 240fps), Parking Garage Rally Circuit (this cute racer just feels almost perfect), and Lunar Lancer (brand new free Gameboy game, it's a good shoot em up!). Among other things I've been enjoying Mr Sujano and Not Your Friend on youtube.
Have fun and take good care everyone!

@BringleWorkshop Of course! Thanks for releasing a cool little game.
I loaded it up on my laptop and it runs at like 237fps. I tried wipeout phantom edition and it also runs at 227 to 239fps. I wonder why thus is so? Still looks super smooth, just seems like stuff that's lightweight should simply be locked at 240. I can occasionally see a slight judger or hiccup in smoothness. Makes me wonder if it's a windows thing. Wipeout Phantom Edition is totally locked at 90fps on my OLED Deck. Anyways, I probably enjoy the details of frame rates a little too much, lol!

After I saw this I went and got it and started playing it. It's a nice platformer, and I love how it runs locked at 90fps on Deck (too many games just stick to 60 these days). So I recommend this little platforming game!

I agree with people asking for a 30fps cap option. I would quadruple that with lossless scaling and play it at my eponymous rate : )
(For the sake of all gamers I hope lossless scaling comes to all consoles pronto!)

Echoes of Wisdom runs pretty well in my opinion, but the frame rate does bother me. I've read about a patch that helps, but haven't tried it yet. Would be awesome if I could get it locked at 240fps though.

AM64 looks very interesting. I've been watching the trailers (definitely prefer the second one with better music) and getting excited for the eventual release.