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...
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!
@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.
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!
Great review! I've been enjoying it a lot. It plays at a locked, buttery-smooth, 90 fps on my Deck. It's really gorgeous to behold. I bet if I connected it to my monitor it would play at 180fps (but maybe I'd have to connect my laptop to my monitor for that level of smoothness and motion clarity). Since Nintendo made it clear they support piracy and thievery I'm not buying anything from them again, so it's nice that this game is easily available from ethical outlets like Steam.
@SpaceboyScreams and, it seems the free, enthusiast developed version will always be better and more fun. It's fun to play videogames. Nintendo seems to just want control, power, and wealth. Why pay Nintendo to play a choppy, frame dropping version of f zero x (on NSO expansion pack) when it runs locked at 60 on Deck (and many other devices)? It also happens to run locked at 60fps on N64 and virtual console on Wii U, so I don't know what the hell Nintendo is doing...
@Shiesty I'm planning on not buying Super Switch at all. I say support freedom for the future of gaming, not Nintendo's authoritarian, dystopian nightmare where people don't own their consoles, don't own their purchased copy of software.
@GrailUK I'm a huge Nintendo fan, so I hope the wonderful artists, musicians, and programmers that currently work for Nintendo can find employment in a healthier, pro-gaming context as soon as possible!!
Nintendo is worse than Denuvo. It's like Nintendo is made out of DRM. An unethical and unlawful corporation like Nintendo deserves to have their corporate charter/license revoked and be put out of business. People have the freedom to jailbreak their devices. People have the freedom to modify copies of software. Nintendo used their immense power and wealth to abuse a corrupt judicial system and steal. No one should give any money to support Nintendo's dystopian vision for the future of videogames.
@Moistnado exactly, Nintendo creates this context where you have to emulate to enjoy gaming. Such a ridiculous and "unlawful" corporation (to use their lawyerly word from this sickening lawsuit).
If you can't own it, then it's not possible to pirate it. If I don't own the things I buy, then I'll quit buying them! Thanks for helping me see this clearly Nintendo!
The more I read and watch on YouTube about this the more angry I get, and the more I hate Nintendo. They win this, they establish legal precedent to shut down all emulators. Nintendo is absolutely evil, Jesus christ. I think I need to abandon my Nintendo account, hack my own Switch that I OWN, and play my favorite games outside of Nintendo's orbit. I DO NOT want to play 1 new Gameboy game every few months when Nintendo decides to drop it from their newly established absolute ownership of thousands of old games. F Nintendo!
I'm still totally into Tears of the Kingdom, building fast electric vehicles, railjets, boats, etc. Just exploring, doing side quests, and being amazed at how good the game is. It's amazing how fun fast vehicles are. I built this one from YouTube called Hank the Tank, but I'm not good at building yet, so I call mine Jank the Tank. It achieves star fragment streaming speed on the plains, can climb well, and can go in reverse. It's amazingly fun. I always drive it until the wheels despawn!
Also playing Advance Wars 1 + 2, Super Mario RPG, Mario vs Donkey Kong, Vampire Survivors, Mario Golf Super Rush, Mario Wonder, Ufouria the saga 2, and Terraflame. I also canceled auto renewal for my NSO subscription since I realized Nintendo uses my payments to fight to eliminate emulation that is freely available and doesn't require an online connection to them. That honestly makes me want to quit giving them any money...
I've also ordered another emulation handheld since Nintendo got me thinking about the subject so much!
And I've been enjoying the awesome Emulation Station on Steam Deck.
Also on OLED Deck I've been enjoying Star Wars Dark Forces at 90fps (and at 144 beautiful fps on my laptop), Ultrakill is also amazingly beautiful and fun at 90fps on Deck, Dirt Rally too!, and Cuccchi is pretty awesome on Deck, Penny's Big Breakaway is also super fun and smooth at 90fps, and I've also been playing Ballistic NG on Deck (which runs at 90, but has something going on that produces a slight stutter, still fun and smooth though!).
I also tried out Detroit Become Human on Deck, but will save it for playing on my laptop for higher fps. It looks super fun and interesting though.
Oh, and damn you Felix for that video about getting exact game playtime! I can't resist that kind of thing and now have over 270 games entered into it, and it says 1040 hours played on Switch. I factory reset my Switch last summer when Nintendo nerfed the elevator rail in one of the many unwanted TOTK patches. So now I know I've got 219 hours in TOTK and 107 in BOTW since last summer. And all the other hours and minutes in hundreds of other Switch games...
Edit: also got Balatro and love it. Even though it's not a racing game or 1st person shooter I still appreciate the 90fps it has on Deck.
@Chinesus that's a great read, thanks for posting it! Nintendo can really act like a creepy authoritarian when they feel like their position as wealthiest corporation in Japan might be slightly under threat from open source emulation developers.
I also don't think Yuzu getting patreon supporters is something that should contribute to them getting sued and getting computers and websites confiscated. This is a tough issue to deal with though.
@Shiesty I've bought 3 copies of Tears of the Kingdom (one as a gift, one I needed to play version 1.0 cuz Nintendo patched out easy building with the elevator railing). And I really want to play it at 120fps or higher. I wish Nintendo would release games on PC instead of attacking people like the Yuzu developers. But I also think this is a tough issue. I can see Nintendo's point of view too.
Arceus is my favorite Pokémon game by far, so I'm thrilled to see this announcement! I can only hope it runs at a PS5 Pro frame rate! But I'll play it even if it's only 60fps or a blurry unpleasant 30!
Yeah, I wish this was coming out Feb 28! Really love the graphics, music, gameplay, awesome movement control, and first few level designs. I think my favorite thing about the game so far though is the ability to slow the gameplay down to various degrees. It's so fun to replay levels slowed down. Makes the game relaxing instead of exciting, but both ways are fun.
This is a great video. I'm glad to know what's going on with the game before release. I'll get it on Steam so I can adjust my Deck's refresh rate to make the game play very smoothly, as mentioned in the video. 72fps, can't wait to see you.
I love playing this, it seems better than the original 3DS game to me. I do notice the frame drops in the bigger views of the race, bit it's still exciting and fun to play with fantastic music and writing. Had no idea how happy I'd be to play this on Switch!
I think of the elevator rail found in the Right Leg Depot and at the bottom of a chasm near or on the Great Plateau as the best DLC ever. Even though it seems to be an accident where a Nintendo programmer was just making a light elevator that 4 fans could lift with Link in it, crafty players figured out you could break the railing off the main elevator piece/unit. It's incredibly light, with high air resistance, and is just amazingly fun to build with and play with. It is the basis for "railjets" which are very fast and fun aircraft to fly around Hyrule. The next best DLC is quantum linking, which allows for very fast electric cars/vehicles in Tears of the Kingdom. Having fast big wheel vehicles is simply awesome due to all the hills, ramps (or things that can be used as ramps), and cliffs to drive off of in the game. So those are my favorite non-DLC DLCs! In terms of real DLCs, it would be a tie between Captain Toad Treasure Tracker, Yoshi's Island track in Mario Kart, and the awesome Breath of the Wild DLC (oh, and windbombing is also sorta like another awesome user invented DLC!). I've spent so many hours windbombing in BOTW that I think that's my number 2 favorite "DLC".
Love the questions at the end! You might want to add my favorite question: When is wipEout 64 coming to Switch with it's much vaunted 120fps mode? Answer: Get a life you frame rate jerk!
I'm playing Tears of the Kingdom and having way more fun than I thought I'd be having. I've been addicted to TOTK recently because of the higher level builds I've been working on. Discovering the speed of "electric" cars that use quantum linked big wheels has been amazing. Oh, and I explored 2 awesome caves recently. This game is so gorgeous and fun to explore and create in and mess around with!
I've also been tremendously impressed by Pepper Grinder. Had so much fun playing through a few levels, then discovering you can slow the gameplay down. Then I slowed it all the way down and found that the game is relaxing and fun in a new way. Plus the slow gameplay really goes with the music! Can't wait to get the full game!
Also been enjoying Unicorn Overlord, Moon Lander (don't like how it's one of the rare Switch games that doesn't save my game or register which user profile I'm playing it with), Real Drift Racing (good 60fps drifting), Advance Wars 1+2, Mario Golf Super Rush, Golfinite, Pocket Card Jockey Ride On! (I liked th3 3DS game, but forgot how good it is, and this Switch edition is great!), Inkulinati, Dr Kawashimas Brain Training (got on Japanese eshop and bought this. Used to have the cartridge y3ars ago), Final Vendetta (love this game, and I don't love beat em ups much), Switch Sports, Fitness Boxing North Star, Snake bird, Rainbow Laser Disco Dungeon, and the wonderful Mario vs Donkey Kong (I've gotten stumped by a couple levels! Love this remake though!).
On Steam Deck I've been amazed by how awesome Penny's Big Breakway is. It feels as good as it looks running at 90fps. Another one I've loved is the Lunar Lander Beyond remake/new game demo. It has amazing music, sound design, and gameplay. Halls of Torment is better than I expected. Had a hard time stopping playing it.
Oh, and back on Switch I've loved playing RC Pro AM, Battletoads, Snake Rattle and Roll, and Blast Corps! Oh, and Earthbound Beginnings, I've started it in earnest and like it a lot.
And I've enjoyed Rocket League on laptop at 144fps and on Switch at what feels like way less than half that!
Can't believe Minter Wonderland is coming out in just a week or two!
I've also been playing more of Mario RPG. It's so good, and makes me wish for a Pokémon game that runs and plays just as quickly! Would be amazing to play a Pokémon game where the movies, gameplay, battles, and traversal are all locked at 60fps. Sounds so fun!
After reading other's posts I remembered I've been playing Mario Maker 2, the most amazing and neverending game ever, I think! And also Side Order! I played a lot of Splatoon, and Splatoon 2, but haven't played much of 3. I'm liking side order, and playing more of the card battles, whatever they're called, putting shapes down to take territory.
@Warioware Yeah, I used to play Omega Collection on PS5 and PSVR 1. It was only 60fps, and I think it is still limited to that frame rate. They finally added a 120fps mode to Gran Tourismo, so it seems like they'd do it for Wipeout... Yes, there are tons of Amiga and Commodore 64 games that I'd love to see come to Switch. If Digital Eclipse does it, all the better!
I don't know what to expect, but I want Arceus 2 locked at 60fps, with very quick gameplay, quick battles, quick opening and shutting of menus and pokedex and everything. Just fast, fun, and addictive exploration, battles, and loading! I don't care how small the areas have to be to facilitate this level of speed. This kind of Pokémon game seriously sounds extremely fun to me!
Looks fun! Would love for it to have all kinds of pedals and effects to play with too. Include a My Bloody Valentine song, a Cure song, Smiths song, etc!
@Warioware Yeah, all sounds good. Cannon Fodder would be sweet to have on Switch. Wipeout 64 happened, so maybe old wipeout games could come to Switch. I still can't believe Sony hasn't released a 120fps wipeout on PS5, and Jumping Flash for PSVR.
@Warioware Psygnosis would be an incredible release along these lines. The team that originally made Worms, and all interactions and other games they made, would be awesome too. Oh, and I would LOVE for Digital Eclipse to get access to all the old obscure Compile games from the 1980s!
I've got to post again about this! I think this will be my favorite release of 2024. Simply can't wait to play, watch, and gush about this release. I'm already planning to get it for Switch and on Steam. Come here March!
@NeonPizza Yeah, I appreciate what you're saying. I am a huge fan of black frame insertion though. For me it's very worth the input lag. I play Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom with Samsung's motion clarity and black frame insertion turned on and they look incredible. When I move steadily, or am paragliding or flying (pretty smooth movement), those games can almost look like 90fps or something. Recently I've built some crazy electric cars with lots of big wheels, weapons, and fast movement and it almost makes TOTK unplayable. But then I took this crazy vehicle to the Depths and the lighter load down there means more overhead for the Switch to maintain 30fps with perfect frame pacing, so my awesome fast car is fun to use again. Also, I'd love it if some company would release a new CRT for gaming. I'd buy it instantly since I know it would look way better than any LG C3 in terms of motion clarity. I'd be happy with a 20 inch CRT, especially if it could do 120hz! That would be sick!
I just saw a review of this (the Apple version) where they wished it had an option to run at 60 or 120fps. So what does this game run at on Apple?! And what does it run at on Switch? The original ran at 60fps, so I'd hope this doesn't reduce the frame rate...
Oh my God, March 14! Thought I'd have to wait more months than that. Can't wait to play this. I also wonder if it'll run at higher frame rates on systems that support 90, 120, and higher frames per second....
@JibberX From what I've seen on youtube only the cutscenes run at 60fps on Switch. The gameplay is only 30fps. I'm glad that doesn't bother some people, but as you could guess from my name I vastly prefer quadruple that frame rate. I'm excited to play this on PC or something.
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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (16th March)
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!
Re: Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Dev Shares Update On Launch Issues
@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...
Re: Review: Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story (Switch) - A Dazzling Trip Into A (Gold) Master's Mind
@Gimli very nice! Thank you
Re: Review: Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story (Switch) - A Dazzling Trip Into A (Gold) Master's Mind
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.
Re: Review: Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story (Switch) - A Dazzling Trip Into A (Gold) Master's Mind
@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!
Re: Review: Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story (Switch) - A Dazzling Trip Into A (Gold) Master's Mind
@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.
Re: Review: Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story (Switch) - A Dazzling Trip Into A (Gold) Master's Mind
@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!
Re: Review: Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story (Switch) - A Dazzling Trip Into A (Gold) Master's Mind
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!
Re: Creators Of New Switch Emulator 'Suyu' Hope To Avoid Nintendo's Wrath
These social credit score posts are cracking me up!
Re: Creators Of New Switch Emulator 'Suyu' Hope To Avoid Nintendo's Wrath
@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.
Re: Review: Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story (Switch) - A Dazzling Trip Into A (Gold) Master's Mind
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.
Re: Creators Of New Switch Emulator 'Suyu' Hope To Avoid Nintendo's Wrath
Sounds awesome! And the name always makes me laugh, which I can't say for other software names.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (March 9th)
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!
Re: Game Boy Emulator Developer Permanently Removes App From Google Play Store
Nintendo is worse than Denuvo, they are the corporate embodiment of DRM. The most filicidal company I've ever heard of. Just awful
Re: Review: New Star GP (Switch) - A Stylish, Moreish Homage To The Likes Of Virtua Racing
Great review! I've been enjoying it a lot. It plays at a locked, buttery-smooth, 90 fps on my Deck. It's really gorgeous to behold. I bet if I connected it to my monitor it would play at 180fps (but maybe I'd have to connect my laptop to my monitor for that level of smoothness and motion clarity).
Since Nintendo made it clear they support piracy and thievery I'm not buying anything from them again, so it's nice that this game is easily available from ethical outlets like Steam.
Re: Reaction: Nintendo's Switch Emulator Fallout Is Shocking Only Because It Took This Long
@SpaceboyScreams and, it seems the free, enthusiast developed version will always be better and more fun. It's fun to play videogames. Nintendo seems to just want control, power, and wealth. Why pay Nintendo to play a choppy, frame dropping version of f zero x (on NSO expansion pack) when it runs locked at 60 on Deck (and many other devices)? It also happens to run locked at 60fps on N64 and virtual console on Wii U, so I don't know what the hell Nintendo is doing...
Re: Reaction: Nintendo's Switch Emulator Fallout Is Shocking Only Because It Took This Long
@Tober sounds like an accurate description of the emperor, pretty close anyways
Re: Reaction: Nintendo's Switch Emulator Fallout Is Shocking Only Because It Took This Long
@GrailUK exactly
Re: Reaction: Nintendo's Switch Emulator Fallout Is Shocking Only Because It Took This Long
@Shiesty I'm planning on not buying Super Switch at all. I say support freedom for the future of gaming, not Nintendo's authoritarian, dystopian nightmare where people don't own their consoles, don't own their purchased copy of software.
Re: Reaction: Nintendo's Switch Emulator Fallout Is Shocking Only Because It Took This Long
@GrailUK I'm a huge Nintendo fan, so I hope the wonderful artists, musicians, and programmers that currently work for Nintendo can find employment in a healthier, pro-gaming context as soon as possible!!
Re: Reaction: Nintendo's Switch Emulator Fallout Is Shocking Only Because It Took This Long
Nintendo is worse than Denuvo. It's like Nintendo is made out of DRM. An unethical and unlawful corporation like Nintendo deserves to have their corporate charter/license revoked and be put out of business. People have the freedom to jailbreak their devices. People have the freedom to modify copies of software. Nintendo used their immense power and wealth to abuse a corrupt judicial system and steal. No one should give any money to support Nintendo's dystopian vision for the future of videogames.
Re: Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
@Serpenterror thanks!
Re: Switch Emulator Yuzu To Pay $2.4 Million To Nintendo & Cease Development
@Moistnado exactly, Nintendo creates this context where you have to emulate to enjoy gaming. Such a ridiculous and "unlawful" corporation (to use their lawyerly word from this sickening lawsuit).
Re: Switch Emulator Yuzu To Pay $2.4 Million To Nintendo & Cease Development
If you can't own it, then it's not possible to pirate it. If I don't own the things I buy, then I'll quit buying them! Thanks for helping me see this clearly Nintendo!
Re: Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
The more I read and watch on YouTube about this the more angry I get, and the more I hate
Nintendo. They win this, they establish legal precedent to shut down all emulators. Nintendo is absolutely evil, Jesus christ.
I think I need to abandon my Nintendo account, hack my own Switch that I OWN, and play my favorite games outside of Nintendo's orbit. I DO NOT want to play 1 new Gameboy game every few months when Nintendo decides to drop it from their newly established absolute ownership of thousands of old games. F Nintendo!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (March 2nd)
I'm still totally into Tears of the Kingdom, building fast electric vehicles, railjets, boats, etc. Just exploring, doing side quests, and being amazed at how good the game is. It's amazing how fun fast vehicles are. I built this one from YouTube called Hank the Tank, but I'm not good at building yet, so I call mine Jank the Tank. It achieves star fragment streaming speed on the plains, can climb well, and can go in reverse. It's amazingly fun. I always drive it until the wheels despawn!
Also playing Advance Wars 1 + 2, Super Mario RPG, Mario vs Donkey Kong, Vampire Survivors, Mario Golf Super Rush, Mario Wonder, Ufouria the saga 2, and Terraflame. I also canceled auto renewal for my NSO subscription since I realized Nintendo uses my payments to fight to eliminate emulation that is freely available and doesn't require an online connection to them. That honestly makes me want to quit giving them any money...
I've also ordered another emulation handheld since Nintendo got me thinking about the subject so much!
And I've been enjoying the awesome Emulation Station on Steam Deck.
Also on OLED Deck I've been enjoying Star Wars Dark Forces at 90fps (and at 144 beautiful fps on my laptop), Ultrakill is also amazingly beautiful and fun at 90fps on Deck, Dirt Rally too!, and Cuccchi is pretty awesome on Deck, Penny's Big Breakaway is also super fun and smooth at 90fps, and I've also been playing Ballistic NG on Deck (which runs at 90, but has something going on that produces a slight stutter, still fun and smooth though!).
I also tried out Detroit Become Human on Deck, but will save it for playing on my laptop for higher fps. It looks super fun and interesting though.
Oh, and damn you Felix for that video about getting exact game playtime! I can't resist that kind of thing and now have over 270 games entered into it, and it says 1040 hours played on Switch. I factory reset my Switch last summer when Nintendo nerfed the elevator rail in one of the many unwanted TOTK patches. So now I know I've got 219 hours in TOTK and 107 in BOTW since last summer. And all the other hours and minutes in hundreds of other Switch games...
Edit: also got Balatro and love it. Even though it's not a racing game or 1st person shooter I still appreciate the 90fps it has on Deck.
Re: Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
@Chinesus that's a great read, thanks for posting it!
Nintendo can really act like a creepy authoritarian when they feel like their position as wealthiest corporation in Japan might be slightly under threat from open source emulation developers.
Re: Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
I also don't think Yuzu getting patreon supporters is something that should contribute to them getting sued and getting computers and websites confiscated.
This is a tough issue to deal with though.
Re: Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
@Shiesty I've bought 3 copies of Tears of the Kingdom (one as a gift, one I needed to play version 1.0 cuz Nintendo patched out easy building with the elevator railing). And I really want to play it at 120fps or higher. I wish Nintendo would release games on PC instead of attacking people like the Yuzu developers.
But I also think this is a tough issue. I can see Nintendo's point of view too.
Re: Pokémon Legends: Z-A Announced, Coming To Switch In 2025
Arceus is my favorite Pokémon game by far, so I'm thrilled to see this announcement! I can only hope it runs at a PS5 Pro frame rate! But I'll play it even if it's only 60fps or a blurry unpleasant 30!
Re: Random: Check Out This Cool SNES-Style Digital Game Manual For Pepper Grinder
Yeah, I wish this was coming out Feb 28! Really love the graphics, music, gameplay, awesome movement control, and first few level designs. I think my favorite thing about the game so far though is the ability to slow the gameplay down to various degrees. It's so fun to replay levels slowed down. Makes the game relaxing instead of exciting, but both ways are fun.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry's Technical Analysis Of Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster
This is a great video. I'm glad to know what's going on with the game before release. I'll get it on Steam so I can adjust my Deck's refresh rate to make the game play very smoothly, as mentioned in the video. 72fps, can't wait to see you.
Re: Review: Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! (Switch) - Game Freak's 3DS Gem Is Still A Prize Pony
I love playing this, it seems better than the original 3DS game to me. I do notice the frame drops in the bigger views of the race, bit it's still exciting and fun to play with fantastic music and writing. Had no idea how happy I'd be to play this on Switch!
Re: 35 Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games To Look Forward To In 2024
@Spider-Kev Also, I'd like 1080 at 1080fps at 1080p!
Re: Best Nintendo Switch DLC & Expansions
I think of the elevator rail found in the Right Leg Depot and at the bottom of a chasm near or on the Great Plateau as the best DLC ever. Even though it seems to be an accident where a Nintendo programmer was just making a light elevator that 4 fans could lift with Link in it, crafty players figured out you could break the railing off the main elevator piece/unit. It's incredibly light, with high air resistance, and is just amazingly fun to build with and play with. It is the basis for "railjets" which are very fast and fun aircraft to fly around Hyrule.
The next best DLC is quantum linking, which allows for very fast electric cars/vehicles in Tears of the Kingdom. Having fast big wheel vehicles is simply awesome due to all the hills, ramps (or things that can be used as ramps), and cliffs to drive off of in the game. So those are my favorite non-DLC DLCs!
In terms of real DLCs, it would be a tie between Captain Toad Treasure Tracker, Yoshi's Island track in Mario Kart, and the awesome Breath of the Wild DLC (oh, and windbombing is also sorta like another awesome user invented DLC!). I've spent so many hours windbombing in BOTW that I think that's my number 2 favorite "DLC".
Re: 35 Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games To Look Forward To In 2024
@Spider-Kev 1080 is on NSO, and it's great, but it would be awesome at 60fps or higher. I think it's at 720p, maybe even 1080 in docked, I'm not sure
Re: 35 Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games To Look Forward To In 2024
Love the questions at the end! You might want to add my favorite question: When is wipEout 64 coming to Switch with it's much vaunted 120fps mode? Answer: Get a life you frame rate jerk!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 24th)
I'm playing Tears of the Kingdom and having way more fun than I thought I'd be having. I've been addicted to TOTK recently because of the higher level builds I've been working on. Discovering the speed of "electric" cars that use quantum linked big wheels has been amazing. Oh, and I explored 2 awesome caves recently. This game is so gorgeous and fun to explore and create in and mess around with!
I've also been tremendously impressed by Pepper Grinder. Had so much fun playing through a few levels, then discovering you can slow the gameplay down. Then I slowed it all the way down and found that the game is relaxing and fun in a new way. Plus the slow gameplay really goes with the music! Can't wait to get the full game!
Also been enjoying Unicorn Overlord, Moon Lander (don't like how it's one of the rare Switch games that doesn't save my game or register which user profile I'm playing it with), Real Drift Racing (good 60fps drifting), Advance Wars 1+2, Mario Golf Super Rush, Golfinite, Pocket Card Jockey Ride On! (I liked th3 3DS game, but forgot how good it is, and this Switch edition is great!), Inkulinati, Dr Kawashimas Brain Training (got on Japanese eshop and bought this. Used to have the cartridge y3ars ago), Final Vendetta (love this game, and I don't love beat em ups much), Switch Sports, Fitness Boxing North Star, Snake bird, Rainbow Laser Disco Dungeon, and the wonderful Mario vs Donkey Kong (I've gotten stumped by a couple levels! Love this remake though!).
On Steam Deck I've been amazed by how awesome Penny's Big Breakway is. It feels as good as it looks running at 90fps. Another one I've loved is the Lunar Lander Beyond remake/new game demo. It has amazing music, sound design, and gameplay. Halls of Torment is better than I expected. Had a hard time stopping playing it.
Oh, and back on Switch I've loved playing RC Pro AM, Battletoads, Snake Rattle and Roll, and Blast Corps! Oh, and Earthbound Beginnings, I've started it in earnest and like it a lot.
And I've enjoyed Rocket League on laptop at 144fps and on Switch at what feels like way less than half that!
Can't believe Minter Wonderland is coming out in just a week or two!
I've also been playing more of Mario RPG. It's so good, and makes me wish for a Pokémon game that runs and plays just as quickly! Would be amazing to play a Pokémon game where the movies, gameplay, battles, and traversal are all locked at 60fps. Sounds so fun!
After reading other's posts I remembered I've been playing Mario Maker 2, the most amazing and neverending game ever, I think! And also Side Order! I played a lot of Splatoon, and Splatoon 2, but haven't played much of 3. I'm liking side order, and playing more of the card battles, whatever they're called, putting shapes down to take territory.
Re: Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story Delivers Playable Industry History Next Month
@Warioware Yeah, I used to play Omega Collection on PS5 and PSVR 1. It was only 60fps, and I think it is still limited to that frame rate. They finally added a 120fps mode to Gran Tourismo, so it seems like they'd do it for Wipeout...
Yes, there are tons of Amiga and Commodore 64 games that I'd love to see come to Switch. If Digital Eclipse does it, all the better!
Re: Talking Point: Pokémon Presents Predictions - What Are You Expecting?
I don't know what to expect, but I want Arceus 2 locked at 60fps, with very quick gameplay, quick battles, quick opening and shutting of menus and pokedex and everything. Just fast, fun, and addictive exploration, battles, and loading! I don't care how small the areas have to be to facilitate this level of speed. This kind of Pokémon game seriously sounds extremely fun to me!
Re: Hori Unveils Guitar Controller And 'Guitar Life: Lesson 1' For Switch
@Krambo42 Yeah, Shoegaze Guitar Life would be a day one purchase for me, a pre-order as early as possible purchase actually.
Re: Hori Unveils Guitar Controller And 'Guitar Life: Lesson 1' For Switch
Looks fun! Would love for it to have all kinds of pedals and effects to play with too. Include a My Bloody Valentine song, a Cure song, Smiths song, etc!
Re: Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story Delivers Playable Industry History Next Month
@Warioware Yeah, all sounds good. Cannon Fodder would be sweet to have on Switch.
Wipeout 64 happened, so maybe old wipeout games could come to Switch. I still can't believe Sony hasn't released a 120fps wipeout on PS5, and Jumping Flash for PSVR.
Re: Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story Delivers Playable Industry History Next Month
I'm so glad this includes a couple of his light synthesizers. I got soooo much enjoyment out of the one for Jaguar CD!
Re: Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story Delivers Playable Industry History Next Month
@Warioware Psygnosis would be an incredible release along these lines. The team that originally made Worms, and all interactions and other games they made, would be awesome too. Oh, and I would LOVE for Digital Eclipse to get access to all the old obscure Compile games from the 1980s!
Re: Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story Delivers Playable Industry History Next Month
I've got to post again about this! I think this will be my favorite release of 2024. Simply can't wait to play, watch, and gush about this release. I'm already planning to get it for Switch and on Steam. Come here March!
Re: Surprise! Penny's Big Breakaway Is Available To Download Right Now
@NeonPizza Yeah, I appreciate what you're saying. I am a huge fan of black frame insertion though. For me it's very worth the input lag. I play Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom with Samsung's motion clarity and black frame insertion turned on and they look incredible. When I move steadily, or am paragliding or flying (pretty smooth movement), those games can almost look like 90fps or something. Recently I've built some crazy electric cars with lots of big wheels, weapons, and fast movement and it almost makes TOTK unplayable. But then I took this crazy vehicle to the Depths and the lighter load down there means more overhead for the Switch to maintain 30fps with perfect frame pacing, so my awesome fast car is fun to use again.
Also, I'd love it if some company would release a new CRT for gaming. I'd buy it instantly since I know it would look way better than any LG C3 in terms of motion clarity. I'd be happy with a 20 inch CRT, especially if it could do 120hz! That would be sick!
Re: Pokémon Developer's Brilliant 'Pocket Card Jockey' Bolts To Switch Today
I just saw a review of this (the Apple version) where they wished it had an option to run at 60 or 120fps. So what does this game run at on Apple?! And what does it run at on Switch? The original ran at 60fps, so I'd hope this doesn't reduce the frame rate...
Re: Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story Delivers Playable Industry History Next Month
Oh my God, March 14! Thought I'd have to wait more months than that. Can't wait to play this. I also wonder if it'll run at higher frame rates on systems that support 90, 120, and higher frames per second....
Re: Surprise! Penny's Big Breakaway Is Available To Download Right Now
@JibberX From what I've seen on youtube only the cutscenes run at 60fps on Switch. The gameplay is only 30fps. I'm glad that doesn't bother some people, but as you could guess from my name I vastly prefer quadruple that frame rate. I'm excited to play this on PC or something.