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You don't need a PC for that, MAME has been ported to the Switch and it runs great.

FWIW the original Crazy Taxi for Dreamcast is a blast in handheld mode and is another example of a great game that will absolutely positively never get a legal option in Switch.

Drugwars: Remastered

The horrible new animated style makes it look like he got smashed in the face with a shovel

To contrast complaints with the FPS issues, it should be said that the controls feel really excellent and are a big improvement over the Game Boy game's controls.

@Seth_Reaver overclocking helps, but not much. a mod that cuts back on the complexity of the on-screen filters might help, though.

Spoiler alert: slowdown city

No surround sound? What decade is this?

If the sticks on the OEM joycon weren't such utter garbage, these would have no reason to exist. However...

Game sorting! That's something the Switch really, really needed. Good on Nintendo for making an update that actually adds something useful!

Good job Square.

People, please stop funding their incompetence.

The graphics in this game are some of the worst I've seen on Switch; it's completely unplayable in handheld mode (haven't tested docked yet).

That much for an unenhanced port of a 20 year old game? Yeesh.

Toys-to-life is the stupidest retail phenomenon in recent history. Truly the Beanie Babies of the 2010's.

Be safe and always keep a Checkpoint backup.

@Balta666 The Switch hardware was revised around June '18 and no major exploits for that revision have been made public, and they won't be made public until Nintendo releases another hardware revision that fixes those exploits or someone leaks the details of the exploit. Whether those exploits even exist or not is only truly know by a handful of individuals.

It's not any worse, it's exactly as bad as it's always been. Unpatched Switches, which is every switch made before June of 2018, are all vulnerable to the same exploit and there is nothing Nintendo can do about that, other than to block those Switches from their official network. Given the general public's feelings towards NSO, Nintendo is stuck waving a rather short stick.

Nintendo has found themselves in the peculiar situation where they make spectacular games that everyone wants, they can't be secured.They can secure their services, but noone really cares about that because NSO is terrible and there are free alternatives (and maybe even a paid ones in the future).

But yes, Nintendo has completely lost the security game this time around, and the cancellation of internal revision projects, such as Mariko, indicates to me that they have acknowledged this defeat. But as long as Nintendo continues to to produce and host excellent and unique games, their defeats on the security front will be left irrelevant.

@SCAssassin The new sercurity changes have already been bypassed, took about a half hour. There's really nothing more N can do to secure hackable switches, about all they can do is randomly rearrange elements of the boot process like they did here.

There's no point at all in N trying to fix the unfixable, they should focus on feature updates that will at least make some people happy.

Giving this version a full version number bump is bizarre. Even the under-the-hood security changes are pretty minor.

This is some pretty weird turn of events right here!

That'll work. All cheating issues solved. Go home and have a drink.

Idiots.

Only the world's smartest and most beautiful people main Zero Suit

Pretty lame, Nintendo. anythingbutnes plz kthxbai

Oof. Meanwhile, the free alternative, lan-play.com, will be running without interruption.

Oh Jesus yes please don't get my hopes up

At least Nintendo is promoting exclusives.

Now that free online play works:
Smash, Smash, and more Smash

Nintendo really screwed the pooch on this one. Ship the game out to stores in developing countries weeks before allowing access to even trusted reviewers.... gee, I can't see how THAT would ever backfire. I don't think the Russian guy is the only Nintendo executive in imminent risk of termination.

It's a great game, but unlocking new fighters takes forever. World of light does make it pretty fun, though.

Super Smash Brothers Ultimate leak It's not really my favorite game , but when in Rome...

@Yasaal It wouldn't solve anything, especially on a compromised system like the Switch. It would just make life more difficult for legitimate customers.

@Heavyarms55 It didn't need to be stolen. Nintendo shipped to some countries with less-than-ideal shipping networks early so that stores there would have it in release date. Turns out said stores don't care much about release dates.

Pretty much expected for every major Nintendo release at this point.

@Trajan No, the physical exploit (Fusee Gelee) is not fixable. Period. Basically, in 6.2 what N did is they used a currently unhacked security chip to verify at boot whether the OS has been modified, and if it has been, the Switch crashes. Someone clever figured out a way to defeat that check.

The general consensus is that Nintendo did a good job with security on the 6.2 update, but the CPU is so deeply exploited their efforts are a waste.

In somewhat related news, the new security features of the 6.2 update have been bypassed, and will be completely hacked by the time Smash is released.

It's real. Some countries have less than ideal shipping services, so Nintendo distributed them to those places early. Expect a flood of videos and spoilers imminently.

And this is why people hack Nintendo games. This, right here

@Retupmocnin Smash was finalized a while ago and won't be able to take advantage of the new 6.2 security benefits, so Jack will have no problem getting his free Smash fix, and probably before the release date, to boot.
However, I would bet the all-important updates will require 6.2, so this is definitely a big win for Nintendo.

@Trajan All major Switch updates (2.0, 3.0, 4.0, etc) have blown a fuse, but this one blows a fuse and goes MUCH further. Despite the stability jokes and lack of end-user features, don't fool yourself, this is the most significant Switch OS update since 2.0. I expected something like this before Smash, but I'm surprised Nintendo left PLG and all the other significant recent 3rd-party releases out in the cold.

Considering the recent amount of shovelware and lack of true exclusives from Ubisoft on the Switch, this isn't surprising at all.

Some of you will be happy to learn that, despite the short changelog, this update is one of the most significant in the history of the Switch, and it completely breaks all known hacking and piracy methods (for now, anyway).

This is the smarter way to catch Mew.

Game leaked a few days ago. He's not wrong, it's boring.

Because it worked so well for Konami >_>

I hope this isn't the beginning of the end.

Hey, at least it can't be pirated directly from Nintendo's own servers anymore. Nintendo is, slowly, improving their security game.

But considering every Switch sold in the first 15 months of its life is basically the most hackable console in history, there's really not much more Nintendo can do.

Stupid China. Can't blame Nintendo for this one.

A. Men.
Time and again Nintendo proves that they just can't do online. The current state of cloud saves is an absolute joke, but not a very funny one.

All the points the review makes are valid, but emphasis needs to be put on just how poorly this game performs. The frame rate is bad, of course, but the part that gets unbearable is the constant audio popping. The bigger your cities get, the more unplayable the game becomes. At 15,000 the game disables fast-fast-forward and the time progression becomes obnoxiously slow. 50,000 is about as big as you can go, beyond that the game becomes a laggy stuttering popping mess.
A 5 seems harsh, the core gameplay is excellent, but this is literally the worst performing console I've played for more than a couple hours. I really hope it gets performance updates.

But how? I thought Nintendo shut all the ROM sites down ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

On the bright side, Nintendo seems to have created so much backlash with this "premium" online service that it might inspire an entity with considerable means to reverse engineer the Switch's internet protocol and release their own 3rd party internet service. I'd pay $40 a year for online play on my Switch that avoids Nintendo servers.

Spoiler alert: this will not go well.

Talk about desperately trying to distract from the elephant in the room...