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I just discovered Lossless Scaling, a program one can buy on Steam that can triple your frame rate in any game or movie (video, even Youtube). I'm like, where have you been all my life?! I applied it to BOTW and couldn't believe how much it helped smoothen the frame pacing while keeping it at 130 to 144fps. I played Gran Turismo 2 at 120fps, amazing. I watched Curb Your Enthusiasm at 90fps. I love Lossless Scaling! Now I want to try about 300 games with it.
I've also been playing GT5. I love the 189 song soundtrack in that game. I'm playing through it vanilla, and also separately using the master mod which has over 40 tracks added from GT3 and 4, along with about 1,000 other extra things and features. Super fun.
I'm also playing Selaco after watching John's DF video praising it. It really is an awesome experience. I was happy to see my old laptop can run it at 130fps to 550fps depending on which graphics settings I use. I've tried to play GZ Doom and Doom Infinite, but failed to get it working correctly. Maybe someday I'll figure it out. Anyways, Selaco has awesome music, gameplay, graphics, and interactivity.
Oh yeah, I've been watching a ton of YouTube videos by Nerrel, teakanji (amazing GT vids), and Retro Game Corp. It was hard to watch Nerrel's blistering TOTK video, but I generally agree with stuff he says about Nintendo, emulation, and motion controls.
Also playing Kingdom Eighties, Majora's Mask, TxK, Wipeout phantom edition, Mario 64 coop dx, and Rocket League.
Song of the week is Banshee Beat by Animal Collective (even if Summertime Clothes is more approachable). Tea of the week is Wuyi Green, a lovely Chinese Green tea.
Have a blast gaming everyone!

@dew12333 Nintendo attacks gaming and/or gamers almost as a weekly activity. Either taking down Youtuber's videos, attacking sites that host 40 year old games, spewing lies about "unethical" and "unlawful" actions, or in some other way they make known their extreme displeasure about stuff. I love their games, but like a youtuber I watch, I hate the corporation. Nerrel has some great youtube videos eloquently explaining the poor decisions Nintendo makes. Nerrel also has helped out with making games like Majora's Mask more beautiful and fun than ever before.
Also, this stuff is not of concern to most gamers. I get that, and hope people just enjoy gaming!

All I want is for gaming corporations to stop attacking gaming. So I want Super Switch to be an open system where I can buy stuff from Nintendo's eshop, but I can also install whatever other games I like. Just like I can do on my laptop and Steam Deck. I'm so sick of hearing about Nintendo and Sony attacking gaming that I won't give another dime to them until they change their behavior.

Because it was mentioned above I just got Astrolancer and I love it! It feels like I'm playing a Compile game that just got discovered. Thanks! Also thanks to Time Extension I've been enjoying Devil Blade Reboot, another great shoot em up. This week saw the release of an awesome SNES style Mario Kart romhack that's really like an entire sequel to Super Mario Kart. Super Mario Kart Horizons is amazing, with awesome tracks, music, and gameplay.
I've mainly been obsessed with Gran Turismo though. I played hours of GT2 and 1, then got so sick of the music I switched to the Japanese releases and am enjoying progressing through those 2 classics at 60fps on Duckstation. I love the music in East Town in GT2 (all regions)! Also playing TxK, Tempest 4000, PO'ed (so weird and fun, and 90fps on OLED Deck), Majora's Mask, BOTW, and Jumping Flash!
Also, I just played Diddy Kong Racing at 60fps because about 1 day ago someone released a fan patch that allows 60fps in DKR. I loved that game decades ago and am excited to play it at a decent frame rate! Thank you to whoever made that possible!
ALSO, I got Super Mario 64 set up with raytracing on my 3 year old laptop and it is incredible. I don't know why I've never played anything with Ray tracing before, but this has been an awesome way to see it! It really is gorgeous and it's hard to stop playing once I start it up.
Finally, I've been playing a lot of Nexzr and what an awesome shoot em up it is! I can't remember who developed it, but it feels like classic Compile or Star Soldier dev team. Great music(maybe perfect, in a relaxing music kind of way), satisfying power ups that look cool, and just fun levels and enemies. I've got it all dressed up with nice artwork in my favorites, of course.
Tea of the week is a lovely 3 flower herbal we got a sample of this week (chrysanthemum and 2 others).
Oh and I keep playing lots of Rocket League and Super Mario 64 Coop DX.
Happy gaming everybody!

Imagine the fortitude it would take to play all of Mario Kart Wii Deluxe's 800 tracks in one go. I hope no one does that, actually!

@Banjo- I'm sure it's already happened. I like finding YouTube videos like that. Seeing Open Lara running on a jailbroken Switch, or Ship of Harkinian. I wish my 3DS, Wii U, and Switch were jailbroken, but I haven't done it yet (or paid for it to be done in the case of Switch since Nintendo has made it so difficult to enjoy games like wipeout phantom edition, open Lara, and Ship of Harkinian on it). I'd love to see a Switch Lite or OLED Switch running wipeout phantom edition!
Yeah, once I saw how awesome 120fps is on my PS5 I had to upgrade my name! Now I just play higher frame rate stuff on laptop or Oled Deck, so it's always 144fps or 90fps (if the game isn't too heavy, so those numbers are attainable).

I've been enjoying this and Ship of Harkinian 2. The awesome slider for motion blur in 2 Ship 2 harkinian is the one thing that makes me like it better than Zelda 64 recompiled. It looks so trippy to play with motion blur/after effects dialed way up!
I can't wait for more games to get this amazing treatment (recomp or decomp)!

@Banjo- That's probably Ship of Harkinian. People have it on their Switches also (modded, jailbroken, liberated, Switches).

My big gaming excitement is playing Super Mario 64 Coop Deluxe! It's 144fps on laptop and 90 on deck and I can't get enough of it. I've enjoyed widely varied online multi-player (shell riding mario kart races, gun based arena fights, and good old coop in vanilla Mario 64). It's also great for single player gaming. I turned on the day/night cycle mod and have been racing to later levels just to hear the awesome underwater magic music box version of the level song that plays at night! And the sunrises and sunsets are beautiful in an N64 at high frame rate kind of way. I also LOVE that they're porting so many rom hacks to SM64 COOP DX because I've enjoyed them, but it's way nicer to play interesting rom hacks at 90fps vs 30fps. One rom hack has an awesome demastered version of Noki Bay from Mario Sunshine with heavy percussion/drums, so good! Oh, and there's like 60 characters you can play as. I've been playing as Goombella, but Waluigi is also a favorite of mine.
I'm also still playing BOTW all the time. I've turned off night skeletons popping out the ground, so I have my peaceful night exploration. So beautiful trying all the different reshades/contrast settings.
Also still loving Majora's Mask, Mario Kart Midnight, and Wipeout Fusion.
Bought the Nightdive Humble bundle and have enjoyed playing Forsaken.
Also playing some of Panzer Dragoon Remake. It says unsupported on Deck, but runs locked at 60fps no issues!
I've also played some Mario Golf, Mario Maker 2, and Advance Wars 1 + 2 on Switch.
On Miyoo Mini + I've been amazed by Star Parodier. By level 3 I knew I love this shoot em up. I'm setting it up on Deck so I can have my favorite artwork for it as a non steam game. Also on Miyoo I'm enjoying Super Mario World 2 + (difficult Yoshi's Island romhack), Doom 2 mod Stardoom (star wars stuff in doom), and Mushroom Kingdom Meltdown (fun Super Mario World rom hack).
Also playing Rocket League all the time. I think the player base is dwindling cuz I get crushed by great skilled players, then I look like them crushing opponents in later matches after I've slightly downranked.
I finished The Raven Tower and highly recommend it. Very interesting narrator and relationships!
Tea of the week is Tulsi Ginger.
Have fun gaming everyone!
Edit: jeez I play a lot! Forgot I also got the decompiled Link to the Past set up and I love it! I compared it to playing the GBA version and regular SNES version, and yes I like the PC version best. Beautiful and natural and subtle evolution of the graphics.
Final edit!: I actually felt like crying when playing Mario 64 coop dx in single player with the day night cycle turned on. I delivered the Lil penguin lost to it's momma at around 5:10am with sunrise bright blues streaming behind the mother penguin as she cried out for her baby. I really love the day night cycle thing. I just installed ray tracing Mario 64 render96 on my laptop and it's incredible, but I'm madly searching for a way to combine the day/night cycle with the ray tracing!

Today I enjoyed the Mario Maker 2 level where someone recreated all of Super Mario Bros in 1 level. Took me like 14 minutes to beat, super fun. Code: FW8 LJN LMG. I also want to mention that I love Vimm's Lair and hope it stops getting harassed!
I've been really tempted by Ghost of Tsushima, but have held off so far. It would be a fun time on my Deck and laptop, but I'm still very enthralled by Breath of the Wild via Cemu. I've got the day and night cycle slowed down enough to make the clouds move much slower, got hearts and stamina turned off (visually only, I don't want infinite hearts or stamina) so nothing shows up but the very real and smooth looking beauty of Hyrule. I've also turned off weapon destruction, which I love even though I've never complained about breakable weapons. It's awesome to finally enjoy shield surfing since it looks good now versus the unpleasant choppy mess it feels like to me on Switch. I'm also enjoying Gran Tourismo 3. Got a gold on a license test and the music made me feel like I'd saved the world or something! Also really enjoying Pikmin 1 at 60fps, looks so awesome. I also got Vita emulation set up and couldn't stop playing TxK. TxK is one of the very best videogames ever crafted, simply amazing and very difficult to put down. Also playing Virtua Tennis 4, Futuridium, F1 2011, Muramasa Rebirth (crashes after bit for some reason), Proteus, and Warlock's Tower. I tried to get Galaxy Wars 3 working, but Vita3k can't manage it. Then I thought, hey, maybe I could buy it on Steam! Then I found it on Steam, then saw I've bought it, and it is installed on my Deck! LOL. I have like 120 digital games on Vita, but no Vita anymore, so it's awesome to play them on Deck.
Have fun gaming and with everything else too everyone!
Edit PS: Alex's video about Zelda 64 recompilation is awesome! I'm super excited about it and Future high frame rate n64 games!

@BillyB All the Doom games are fun in coop. I think maybe the Turok 1 and 2 games have coop??

This is a good discussion. I'm in the running for biggest fan of TOTK on earth, so it can be hard to listen to even minor criticisms, yet I can understand where people are coming from.
I'd like it if there were larger sky islands, if there was a town in the sky, another in the depths, if the land of Hyrule had all new topography. But I'm still overwhelmed by how amazing the game is, as it is.
I'd say my 3 best moments in the game are gliding on a wing the first time, getting on a dragon the first time, and stumbling in the dark and happening upon a piece of armor that provided some light (and wonderful decorative and useful lights balls on each arm!). And that's saying nothing about the joys of elevator rails, the rail jets they make possible, and fast electric vehicles that make the world incredibly fun to play around in.
I cannot wait to play TOTK at a decent frame rate! (Hopefully soon if I can get it set up on my laptop, and it runs decently on the elderly 3 year old laptop I've got!).
Today I've been watching videos and looking at the many, many things I stored on my Switch. So, so many TOTK pics and videos. So many funny or amazing ones.
TOTK is pure videogame brilliance, and supremely unlimited fun.

Sounds like a fun game. I've been playing the NES remix games this past week and they're great games. I can see this new game being a fun party game.

@amongtheworms one of my minor disappointments was flying a contraption to the ceiling in the depths and not being able to ascend out. But TOTK is my number 1 game of all time.

I beat him after about 220 hours of play. And I've played another 300 or so hours, but stopped when Nintendo sued Yuzu. Recently set up Cemu on Deck and laptop and have been completely amazed at how awesome Breath of the Wild looks. It is freaking incredible. So now I'm trying to get TOTK set up on my laptop (not interested in getting it working on my Deck since the frame rate looks to be the same as on my Switch). I'm super excited to jump back into my favorite game at 60fps or whatever my laptop can run it at!
And hopefully Super Switch can run TOTK at 60 or 120fps. I think fans would eat that up!

I finally got Breath of the Wild set up on my Deck and oh my God I can't pick my jaw up off the floor. I guess I didn't bother with it since I'd read that you could only get like 40fps and I thought it would be a stuttery 40. But in simple shrines I've gotten a locked 90fps, and on the open world I've been able to get 50 to 55 with compromises. It was so amazing I set it up on my laptop. I can't stop saying oh my God while playing it there. Up to 144fps in shrines and 70 to 110fps in regular surface world. I can't stop playing it on both systems. Next year when Nintendo releases their new hardware (based on my 3 year old laptop graphics card) it will be an amazing treat. I really hope Nintendo makes their next system an open system like Deck, PC, and next Xbox (from the sounds of it) because there is so much awesome stuff coming out that I'd love to be able to sideload and play on Super Switch.
Just today I got to have the incredible experience of playing Majora's Mask at 90fps on Deck and 144fps on laptop. It is incredible! They're calling it static recompilation, and if it is what they're saying it is, then May 10th will go down as one of the best days in the history of videogames. Like, I really might get to play wipEout 64 at 90fps very soon, along with San Fransisco Rush, Tetrisphere, and the rest of the N64 games I've loved for decades. I hope it comes to PS1 also because Jumping Flash!, Gran Tourismo, Wipeout XL, Wipeout 3, and Ridge Racer Type 4 would be incredible at high res and 144fps!
I've also been playing Animal Well and Witchball.
A major thing I've been loving is adding non-Steam games to my Deck and picking artwork and adjusting it. I spend a lot of time doing this! Sister site Time Extension just had an article on Earth Light being translated, so I got it, added it, and found images online to use for the capsule, hero, logo, etc. It's a fun game too, I recommend it! I've made art for Advance Wars Returns, and found great stuff for other games. I love the art I've got right now for Blur, Gran Tourismo 4, and Majora's Mask. Gaming is incredible these days!
Tea of the week is Gokuro Houjicha and amazingly rich and complex Hojicha with top grade leaves added, then lightly roasted. Incredible!
Oh, another amazing peak gaming experience this week: winning the rapier class championship in Wipeout Phantom Edition and having "We Own the Sky" by M83 play as the credits/victory lap sequence unfolded. I put that song in the folder, but haven't listened to it before, so I thought it might have been the actual final credits song for the game, lol. I've got different soundtracks set up on Deck vs PC for Wipeout. And it now runs mostly at 144fps on laptop, but drops to like 130 sometimes and I have no idea why.
Enjoy your gaming everyone!

Today I've been playing Orbient, Tony hawk 3, reTHAWed (awesome 60 to 120fps highly modded version of Tony Hawk American Wasteland), Yoshi's Island, and Super Bomberman 5 all on Deck. I'm also continuing with FF 7, but I got stuck in Wall Market such that stuff wouldn't trigger so I could proceed so I played through the beginning of the game again and now I'm in the sewers.
Wipeout phantom edition still blows me away every time I play it. These decompilations are the greatest thing to happen in gaming in my opinion. Seeing wipeout, Link's Awakening, Ocarina of Time, Jak and Daxter, Re-Volt, Perfect Dark, etc running at 90fps (or 144fps on laptop) is absolutely incredible pure gaming bliss! I've seen YouTube videos where people installed Ship of Harkinian on a liberated Switch, so Ocarina of Time at a locked 60fps is possible on Switch!
Also playing Kirby Gamble Galaxy Stories which an amazingly fun little fan game.
Oh, and the 1964 emulation bundle package thing that runs Goldeneye 007 at 60fps. That has been really fun to play. Using motion controls, fast and smooth zooming with the sniper rifle, etc is great at a medium frame rate like 60.
Also all the Kururin games. Gamers have translated all of them now so I've been enjoying them on Deck. It's really cool to be able to play the translated GameCube game on Deck.
I'm also heavily into Gran tourismo 4. It stays at 60fps with perfect frame pacing about 98% of the time. It is an amazingly fun and deep racing game. I've also gotten Crazy Taxi 3 working very well on Deck, super fun! And Wipeout Fusion, it works fairly well staying mostly at 60fps.
I've been sorry to see Nintendo have another bad week, attacking PC games and websites like usual. I wish the company was run by gamers instead of greedy corporate lawyers! Pyoro 64 sums it up well. When you load up the game the dev begs Nintendo not to sue them.
Blissful gaming everyone!

What would be awesome is if 1000 Year Door was being released in a new 90 , 120, or 144fps version. That would be amazing to play!

@epicgamner Sure, enjoy gaming!

Thousand Year Door looks gorgeous on my Deck. I have no interest in giving money to a fiercely anti-emulation corporation for a half frame rate "remake".

60fps often looks blurry to me, but it depends on the game. The Tomb Raider remaster looks great on Switch at 60, but is just a nice bit more luxurious at 90fps on OLED Deck.
I'd like a game company to release a console with a minimum frame rate of 60fps, no more maximum frame rates!

I'm playing Advance Wars Returns on Miyoo Mini +, Rocket League on laptop, and Ocarina of Time on Steam Deck. Really loving Djipi's 3DS experience texture pack and the dragon(wyvern) knight Malon mod for Ship of Harkinian. It's amazing how REAL Ocarina of Time looks and feels at 90fps on Deck.
Also loving the Europa demo on Deck, what a cool game. Also started Pokémon Xenoverse on Deck, but it's another Pokémon game that seems stuck at 40fps, so I'll gravitate back toward PokeMMO locked at 90. Oh, I'm also loving the What the Car demo on Deck, and the Biomorph demo too.
And I continue enjoying Blur, Wipeout Phantom Edition, Mario 64 render 96, and FF 7 seventh Heaven mods galore. And I've continued failing to get THUG Pro running on Deck. I might just install it on PC, then decide if I want to transfer it over and try to get Wine and Proton and everything working together so I can enjoy it on the smaller screen.
Tea of the week is Riverbottom, an amazingly delicious Pu-erh. Movie of the week is Bladerunner 2049 along with Narvent and Memory Reboot!
Enjoy your software everyone!

I'm playing Mario Kart 64 remade (which is awesome, great sense of speed and excellent feeling controls and boosting), Mario Kart Wii Black, Jumping Flash 2 (at 60fps, mostly, which looks awesome seeing it for the first time), Pokémon Pure Green and Prism (which both scroll nicely at 60fps)(I just found out that fans have figured out how to enter some code in with a hex editor to boost all the old Gameboy and GBC Pokémon games to 60fps, sick!), Pokémon Jupiter, Pokémon Turquoise, Mario Kart DS CTGP, Pokémon Infinite Fusion, Sonic Robo Blast 2 (which looks awesome at 90fps), Sonic Triple Trouble 16bit, Ion Fury (another 90fps beauty on Deck), Highlighters Cosmic Puzzle Action (awesome demo), FF7 seventh Heaven, wipeout phantom edition, and Link's Awakening HD. I haven't been able to get Tony Hawk Underground Pro working. Even with help from Dischord I keep failing with the first step of getting THUG 2 working in gaming mode. I don't think it runs above 60fps, so I'll probably be disappointed with it when I finally get it installed correctly. I loved Tony Hawk 1 + 2 on PS5 with it's sweet 120fps mode.
Oh and I'm playing tons of Rocket League mostly on laptop at 144fps.
Oh, and PokeMMO! It's the only Pokémon game I can get running above 60fps and I love it. Such beautifully smooth movement!
Happy gaming everyone!

The weekly highlights for me are playing Jumping Flash! at 60fps, Pokémon Black at 90fps (via the awesome PokeMMO), and Gran Tourismo 1 and 2 at 60fps. I've loved Jumping Flash since the PSX launch, but absolutely love seeing it at 60fps on Steam Deck!
I also want to say that even though I've quit playing Switch and totally disagree with Nintendo's actions, I also see a broader perspective. I do this exercise with a friend (who happens to be a therapist in her career) where we share emotional stuff every 2 weeks or so. A month ago I was going off about Nintendo stealing computers, websites, software, and millions of $. Afterwards she asked what this scandal was about because her son got a Switch to connect with friends in Fortnite. I said "Oh, people don't need to worry about it! I've just been upset about it." So people should take my opinions with plenty of salt!
I've also been playing Outrun 2006 (PC version on Deck), Need for Speed Underground 2 (60fps wide-screen on deck), Megaman Rock N roll (awesome fan game), Dogyuun and Grind Stormer(awesome new shmup releases on Steam), Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers, Simpsons Hit and Run, and the incredible PC version of Blur! It's awesome to finally play Blur at 60fps (I've only played the 30fps PS3 version)! Oh, and I got an old PSX Choro Q running mostly at 60fps via setting the processor at like 900% of normal in Duckstation on Deck.
Oh yeah, and I'm also enjoying Pokémon Brown, Unbound, Gaia, and other very nicely done romhacks.
And still playing tons of wipEout Phantom Edition, Rocket League, FF7 at 60fps with tons of great mods, Ship of Harkinian, Render 96, and Peggle Nights.
And book of the week is The Raven Tower, while tea of the week is Osmanthus Flower Oolong!
Enjoy your games everyone!
Edit: oh yeah! And I've been supremely enjoying Mario Kart Wii Deluxe. It has 800 tracks! I love seeing every SNES course, and hearing the unique remixes of their awesome songs! Can't imagine how much fun people have been having playing it online (I'm stuck with time trials and CPU races on Steam Deck). What an incredible fan creation though!

I've been having too much fun installing stuff on my Deck. Jak and Daxter and Jak 2 are incredible 90fps beauties. So is the awesome Bloodborne demake that looks like a perfect high res 90fps PS1 game. Final Fantasy 7 is finally appealing to me at 60fps. FF7 is interesting because you have to buy the Steam version to use all the awesome mods people have created. So basically the huge corporation who drops dueces and calls it a remaster and charges high prices gets paid while the awesome fans who work so hard lovingly bringing the choppy mess up to speed gets nothing. I'd love to pay the emulation developers who made it possible for me to play 1000 Year Door perfectly smoothly on Deck, but don't want to give anything to Nintendo who cuts the frame rate in half, sues emu developers, attacks Youtubers, and destroys fans sites. Whew, anyways, I'm also having fun playing Parodius, AM2R, Detana Twinbee, Doom 2 RPG, Ship of Harkinian(Ocarina of Time smoothly and with tons of cheats, upgrades, and randomizers), Mario 64 Render96, Mushroom Kingdom Fusion (amazing fan game!!!), wip3out Phantom Edition, and Final Soldier.
And also Rocket League on laptop and Oled Deck.
Happy gaming to all!
Oh, and Sticky Business. Sticky Business is a great game.

I'm playing Mario Maker, discovering some really fun 7 year old levels. Also skiing in Wii fit U, which is always tons of fun even though I wish there were 7 or 8 diverse ski slopes.
But mostly I'm enthralled by Mario 64 render96. I cannot express how fun, and how much of a dream come true it is to play Mario 64 at 60fps, finally! I also love dropping the frame rate on my Deck to 44 or 50fps, turning on moon gravity, and just playing for an hour in the first level. It is incredible.
Also incredible is the ship of harkinian. Playing Ocarina of Time at 90fps is beyond a dream come true! I can't get enough of it.
I'm also still freshly astonished at how awesome wip3out phantom edition is. Absolutely the most fun and beautiful racing game ever!
Also just got Mario Sunshine running at 60fps for the first time this week. And just got Pikmin 1 and 2 back running at 60. Oh, and a day ago I saw Link's Awakening DX HD for the first time! Seeing that game scrolling at 90fps is a sight to behold! Amazing, amazing stuff.
I got Gematombe on steam. The demo ran locked at 90fps on my oled deck, then I bought the game and it's maxing out at 30fps with no graphics options in the menu! I've heard of steam games having nerfed deck versions. Ridiculous! I'll assume it will be taken care of with a patch at some point...
Pepper Grinder is perfectly fun at 90 on my Deck, as is Gylt (which likes to drop into the 70 to 80fps range, but still looks and plays great on Deck).
I also just got a Miyoo Mini plus and it is amazing. Mine is preloaded with Onion and an excellent game collection including many translations (Super Famicom Wars, Mother 3, and about 300 other Japanese games) and rom hacks. It's a dangerous tiny little handheld, hours can evaporate instantaneously! I'm getting to play many shoot em ups I've only read about up till now.
Happy gaming to all!

Felix is great, but Nintendo should open up their system like steam deck or "developer mode" on Xbox so people can enjoy all the old public domain games easily. Collections should then offer some kind of bonus content or various improvements or something.

@JohnnyMind Yeah, I'm probably going to mod my 3DS and wii u sometime soon. Sounds like it's faster to download games now using the unofficial shops.

@Tyranexx I find it very fun to play the game slowed down! Regular speed is great too, but it can be so enjoyable to replay levels at various degrees of slowness. I wish more game had this option! I've been playing the Mario 64 Render96 PC port on my Steam Deck, playing it at a lower frame rate (which slows down the gameplay just like in Pepper Grinder) and turning on moon gravity - it is so fun!

This game is absolutely sick! I read a review on some other website that complained about the brevity of the game, saying it is only like 4 or 5 hours long (that reviewer still gave the game a 9.5). All I can say is that I've put over 2 hours into the demo (first the Switch demo, then the Steam demo on my oled deck). I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of slowing the gameplay down and relaxing my way through the fun and smooth levels included in the demo. It appeared to be locked at 60fps on Switch, and it's locked at a buttery 90fps on my Deck. Can't wait to dig into this grinding masterpeice!

I've also played some Splatoon 1 and Mario Kart 8 over the past couple days. Looks like there will be people playing until the last minute. Hopefully enthusiasts will keep it going after Ninty shuts their servers down.

I haven't been able to redownload wiiware titles on my wii U the past few days. I wonder if it's temporary or what? I should probably just mod my wii u and use the free online stuff (which I'm sure is way faster too)..

I still measure lunar lander type games against the lander mini game in Timesplitters 2. Same with snake games. I remember being amazed during the sequences when Timesplitters 1 ran at 60fps on PS2. Then Timesplitters 2 and Future Perfect just provided endless fun. Glad to have them on my Steam Deck now, but sad that there's nothing new on the horizon...

@Yalloo Thanks, I've got the wipEout for Mac box, the Parodius PSP collection, and Katamari Damacy in my profile pic. It was just random stuff I like so I used them for my accidentally upside down profile pic.
Also, wipeout phantom edition is quite a light game. I bet a 5 or 6 year old PC or laptop could run it locked at 60fps. It's just the PS1 game at higher resolution and frame rate, basically. My Steam Deck can pretty much run it above 200fps.
Anyways, happy skiing and wii fitting!

@Yalloo Yeah, the fit meter/pedometer is fun to carry around, then see the credit you get as your little Mii climbs mtns and goes along trails. Also love the skiing in Wii fit U.
Wipeout is my favorite racing game ever, even though I like many others too (including all the ones you mentioned). If you have a PC I highly, highly recommend phantom edition!

I'm even more enthralled with wipEout Phantom Edition now than I was last week. I've downloaded a bunch of songs from the whole history of wipEout and put them in the folder so they're part of the soundtrack when I play phantom edition on oled deck and it is incredible. Sea of Sand and a Kraftwerk song called Tour de France 2003 (remixed by James Kenny?) are the stand out experiences, but I also love the Orbital and Cold Storage tracks. Xpander from wipeout 3 is also incredible. Playing this ancient game at 90 fps continuously blows my mind. Really can't get over the incredible job these programmers did with the graphics, sound effects, and gameplay (improving while maintaining the PS 1 game rom that is used to build this free PC edition). I've also been really loving all the Model 2 and Model 3 arcade games, especially Daytona 1 and 2, Sega Rally 1 and 2, Sega Ski Super G, Emergency Call Ambulance, Le Mans 24, Bass Fishing, and Ski Champ!
Also on Deck I've been playing Moose Life, Rocket League, Tetris Effect, Battle Garegga, Saturn Bomberman, and Bomberman Hero(such a nice soundtrack!).
Tea of the week is Amber Wuyi. Incredible flavor!
Oh, and hiking. I climbed a mountain and put the data in wii fit U (that's the only Ninty owned machine I touched this week!). I love hiking!
Happy gaming everyone!

By far the biggest game of the week for me is wipEout phantom edition! It is absolutely incredible. Time Extension (sister site to nintendolife) has an article on how to install in on Steam Deck. I did it and couldn't stop playing the first wipEout game, but now it is locked at 90fps (on OLED Deck) and is a dream to play. I also set it up on my laptop and saw the frame rate counter go above 500 at times! I saw it say 513fps. Never seen that before. My monitor maxes out at 180hz. Anyways, old PS1 and N64 games at high frame rates are incredible. Also been playing Llamasoft the Jeff Minter Story, Holocure (don't start this game!), Moose Life (quickly becoming one of my favorite games ever because it is so trippy and amazingly crafted that I sometimes feel like it is going to knock my consciousness out of my body, and it looks AWESOME at 144fps on my laptop and on my monitor), Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (awesome locked at 90fps on Deck), BallisticNG, Marble It Up Ultra (loving this game at high frame rates!), and Super Aleste (incredible shoot em up I'm playing on Deck).
I've also played some TOTK, but have not been interested in Switch much since Nintendo sued Yuzu. Kinda want my Switch banned since it might help keep me from accidentally patching TOTK.
Also, I really agree with John in one of the recent Digital Foundry discussions. He was gushing about the side menu on Deck and how we've never had this kind of easy access to changing the refresh rate of a screen and stuff. I totally agree. Like he said, we need this on PC. We need it on all consoles too! Wipeout Phantom edition looks better on my OLED Deck than it does on my laptop running at 180fps. There's lots of times where a game is running very smoothly on laptop, yet I can still see a really tiny difficult to notice stutter, and that won't be present on OLED Deck running the same game. It's probably because I'm not good at setting stuff up, but that kind of underlines the value of the interface and hardware Valve has established with the Deck. Can't wait for higher and higher hz Decks to come out! It really is amazing and great at delivering what I want as a gamer. I love being able to set the screen to 72hz to play wipEout if I want. I love being able to reduce the wattage to 6 watts and still see wipEout running locked at 90! It is amazing!
Happy gaming to everyone!
Edit: I just realized how perfect this wipEout phantom edition is for me to post about since I've had this artwork from the old Mac computer version of wipeout as part of my profile pic since I started posting on Nintendolife years ago.
Also, I've got to say that phantom edition is the best I've ever seen wipEout look. The 90fps and higher makes it more beautiful than wipeout HD or Omega Collection which are locked at 60fps on PS3, PS4, and PS5.
I wish Sony would bring Wipeout Omega Collection to PC so it could be played the way it has always been destined to be played, at 144fps and higher!

@MirrorFate2 Yeah, Ristar nailed it. Open Lara is amazing. Check out YouTube videos of it running on a jailbroken Switch. It looks amazing! I've been wondering why it's better than the admittedly awesome eshop release. I guess it might be because on a jailbroken Switch you can increase the clocks, thus allowing things like the awesome water effects while keeping a locked 60fps. Who knows...

@Gimli very nice! Thank you

A HUGE thank you to Damien McFerrin and the time capsule website or whatever it's called that is a sister site to this one. The wipeout phantom edition article popped up on my phone a few days ago and today I finally followed the steps and holy crap I can't believe how magical wipEout looks and plays on my oled deck! I was smiling and laughing in awe at how awesome it is. Locked at 90fps, classic gameplay and graphics, yet improved controls and wall scraping (if you want it instead of the old thunk and being stopped), it is astonishing. Now I can't wait to see if it goes up to 180fps on my monitor.
What an absolutely INCREDIBLE piece of emulation though! If whoever created that does the same with wipeout xl, Wipeout 3, and Wipeout 64, well, I don't know what else I'll do besides play those games every day. So amazing.

@Antraxx777 I guess I can try to simply answer your question! For me, I'd say about 20 are worth playing. But also, for me, just colourspace and Llamatron make it worth it!

@Gimli thanks for posting this. I just tried Ancipital for the first time about 30 minutes ago and holy cow was I confused. I loved the craziness, but didn't know what to do.

@Antraxx777 This is very difficult to answer. Do you enjoy very old games that run at low frame rates? If so you might like many of these 42 or whatever games.
I haven't played every game yet, but I can quickly tell that I love Tempest 4000, TxK (the awesome Vita game that is the best version of Tempest ever), Moose Life, and Polybius more than anything in this compilation. I love this release, and am very glad I got it on Steam Deck (I'm sure it's great on Switch too), but it is like a very cool digital videogame museum/documentary. Also, I LOVE Colourspace, which is an 8 bit Atari light synthesizer included on this release. Ancipital is crazy and I like it. Llamatron: 2112 is a great Robotron type game that I'll probably play quite a bit. I just played Hover Bovver and I'd say you've got to like old Commodore 64 type games for this release to really be good "value". Most gamers would not be interested in about 37 of the games here. And I hate saying that because I really love this release!
I don't know. I'd say give it a try!

So far this hasn't dropped on Steam or eshop. I'm sure it will within hours, I was just hoping for midnight gameplay.
Just got all the rest of the Llamasoft stuff on Steam and it's awesome. Had a hard time with one on Deck (almost none are certified), but otherwise they play and look great. Moose Life just makes me smile and laugh while playing it. It looks awesome at 90fps on Deck, but on laptop it astounds me. Really seems to be a perfect match for my motion blurry 144hz laptop screen!

These social credit score posts are cracking me up!

@Mr_Monochrome I'm a combination - I love playing games at all the lowest settings with the highest possible frame rate. I haven't set up BOTW or TOTK on PC yet, but I'm excited to because I want to play at like 640p and 180fps. Today I saw a YouTube video of someone playing TOTK on suyu at 65 to 120fps. Assuming it was real and the frame rate reading was accurate it looked so fun, so beautiful.

Great review, can't wait to play and watch this on my Deck and laptop. Last night I got Moose Life and was utterly transfixed at how hypnotic, beautiful, and fun it is! It was running at 144fps on my laptop, and I swear no game has looked better on my laptop's screen. Amazing stuff.

Sounds awesome! And the name always makes me laugh, which I can't say for other software names.

I'm playing a ton of games: Party Crashers (same Tasmanian developer who made Party Golf), Pseudoregalia, 20 Minutes Till Dawn, Rocket League, Shashingo, Balatro, Pepper Grinder demo, Jelly Car Worlds, and New Star GP - all of which look stunning at 90fps on Steam Deck (many also put a huge smile on my face when I play them on PC at 144fps or higher). Also on Deck I've played a ton of Nintendo 64 games that either run better than on Switch, or will never arrive on Switch. Also playing a number of great GB and GBA games via emulation.
I've played some Tears of the Kingdom, but kinda feel sick to my stomach playing on anything owned by Nintendo ever since they stole computers, years of emulation development (presumably so they can try to force people to pay for their newly stolen emulators), and millions of dollars. What a sick puppy Nintendo is!

Nintendo is worse than Denuvo, they are the corporate embodiment of DRM. The most filicidal company I've ever heard of. Just awful