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@Snakesglowcaps This is exactly what I thought when reading this information.

The SM64 softlock is likely due to a bad dump, since folks with the cart don't seem to have a problem.

Maybe it fixes that "censor" sound in SMS that is missing modulation.

Oh, thank goodness. For a moment, I almost forgot that NSO had S/NES games on there with how infrequent they add to it.....

Seriously, what is the hold-up on adding more games? It used to be where we'd get at least 4 games a month, but now it's almost like it's 4 games every 3 months. Nintendo still has a number of games they can add, and there's a plethora of 3rd-party games (which Nintendo would need to make an agreement with to get those games, much like with the Classic systems). Understandable why it won't get some games like from the Mega Man series or Secret of Mana because those are available on the Switch separately, but where's Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Act Raiser, even the freaking Super Star Wars Collection? As it is, there are a number of games on the S/NES Classic systems that aren't on NSO. I'd imagine if those collections were made available on Switch, not just part of NSO, to purchase for the same price as the physical Classic units, a lot of people would buy them, including myself.

Not Not

https://youtu.be/aMxcAaR0oHU

Prepping for BotW sequel?

Switch doesn't fit well with the others.

The others fit well with the Switch.

Do note that No More Robots released Nowhere Prophet recently on Switch and PS4 with 95% of total sales between the two for it on Switch.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/indie-publisher-suggests-small-indie-games-might-b/1100-6480502/

Anyone that had an interest in the game over the last 7 years has likely already purchased it. Anyone complaining about not being able to purchase it now after all this time likely doesn't have a Wii U, which they'd have to buy the system itself to get the "cheapest" Pikmin 3 version....

It looks like it as online co-op, yet the footage they showed looked like there was a lot of lag (second character doing the "stuck in a wall" motion against the enemy, then teleporting away).

> Chooses GBA game
> Graphics not displayed at 3:2

Also...

"No need to think about bringing another device with you in the morning. Just take the usual. Phone..."

Well, there you go.

It didn't, but here's hoping for more Mini Directs, or Directs in general.

Here's the thing about SwSh that demonstrates GameFreak's incompetency. The split-screen shots of allies and opponents before battle, and in between raid actions. Nothing complex is happening during those times, yet they not only run at 15fps, but animations run at half-speed.

Konami: "Switch owners aren't interested in this, so they must not be interested in Gradius, Castlevania and other games we make."

@NerdyBoutKirby "Get in there, Shulk!" - "The future can be changed!"

Anyways, I hate to say this, but if they're looking to increase the value of the XC brand, perhaps they should also be looking to improve the engine used for it. The XCX engine works, but it's based on Wii U's design of having eDRAM, which Switch has none of. They should get in touch with Shin'en, who knew the Wii U inside and out, and yet proved the Switch was far superior despite not having some of Wii U's benefits.

I'm playing the "Waiting for my XC:DE copy I ordered from Best Buy but it's now delayed and sitting in Louiseville, KY which has riots and whatnot going on" game.

Funny thing is, if these numbers were never dug up, how many of the people with a problem regarding resolution would even noticed? Their perception would be based on the game itself, not numbers.

As others have pointed out, the numbers are a range in the configuration. Doesn't necessarily mean it drops down to the lowest ranges all the time or at all. Heck, XC:DE runs on an improved XB2/Torna engine, and with those games at least, docked mode was a steady 720p according to Digital Foundry (with Torna having at least an improvement over XC2 in portable mode).

People compare this dynamic resolution to XCX's constant 720p in favor of the latter, yet fail to acknowledge that XCX not only lacks much of the graphical effects and improvements present since XC2, but the frame rate was also not consistent. It didn't have any AA unlike the Switch games either. If the Switch Xeno game didn't push with features not present in XCX, they likely could have gotten better resolution, but with lower overall image quality. If XCX were to even try to push features found in the Switch games and kept it at 720p, it would definitely be a slideshow.

hah, this is probably a trick to get people to move Raymond out of their island. I'm not falling for it.

Started reading the quote, and my mind drifted into a famous Bender quote from Futurama.

"Hey listen, we're going to start our own Punch-Out!! game ... with blackjack, and hookers ... in fact, forget the game!"

@Scoopz Except the PS4 only has 8GB of RAM and that has an even bigger allocation for its OS. Be aware that physical Switch games must reserve some space on the carts to hold the needed FW updates the game requires. That could easily require close to 1GB.

Guessing the author got hit over the head with a net one too many times as a child.

@KoopaTheGamer I hate to talk poorly about FUZE, but it's a real mess. For instance, I have to program my own MML player in it to provide my own custom music (which then eats into precious CPU cycles on an interpreter), but it can't even run for a minute without literally crashing the app. Their method for handling data juggling when assigning new data into existing variables doesn't seem to clear old data, and garbage collection doesn't seem to do its job. Like a memory leak with the app itself that I have no control over. And this was to make a feature in FUZE that is not only in SmileBasic by default, but has some major restrictions associated with it, like MML processing being restricted to the frame rate. Never had this problem with PTC way back in the day, and I doubt SmileBasic is any different.

Unlikely to allow a port of my MM2PTC project from years ago on it, considering the copyright stuff involved with sharing.

@NookMiler well, it got me Cuphead and Ori on Switch.

Gamevice: Stop!

Nintendo: HAMMER TIME!

One important note to make.

Dream's ToS clearly states such infringement is not allowed. Dunno why anyone would blame Nintendo for taking action when this action would have happened regardless by Sony themselves.

The only thing people can blame Nintendo for on this is having such memorable franchises to the point that folks choose to plagiarize them rather than make their own unique stuff. There's no doubt that if Nintendo's stuff was not popular, folks would not be trying to use them for their own purposes.

Just what I needed to see. A rabbit flailing his monkey around.

@CurryPowderKeg79 same here

inb4 "Japan is racist" comments.

As it was I think back in April 2010, it was reported that SE planned on remaking V and VI for the DS much like III and IV, but ran into technical difficulties. They commented that they'd look into the 3DS to continue the remakes, but I think because the 3DS didn't sell too well initially, they canned the projects and went mobile with those games.

I hope all the prev gen starters make their way into the game/raids. I must have my Fennekin line.

@Heavyarms55 They'll just give you the 3rd game for full price while making the trilogy on other platforms for the same price.

Heck, with Nintendo partnering with Nvidia, they could possibly fill the cloud-gaming void on Nintendo platforms with Nvidia GeForce Now.

All these different games that include Joker yet no P5 for a Nintendo platform makes me wonder. Does Atlus want P5 on Switch? Can they even bring it over? Is there a contract preventing them from doing that? Is this a test to see just how much the Nintendo fanbase would want a Persona game? Maybe P5 is exclusive to Sony so it can't come over, but if they're planning P6, maybe they won't make it exclusive, at least not Sony-exclusive.

Games get parts outsourced all the time, including AAA games. This is no different.

@Bolt_Strike "IDK if this was mentioned (I can’t watch the video right now), but Game Freak has actually removed Creatures from its website. So major changes very well might be coming."

Something occurred to me after reading that, so I looked up what Creatures has done for Pokemon. Turns out they are the ones behind the 3D modelling for Pokemon, all the way back to Pokemon Stadium and those included in Super Smash Bros on the N64. Even Pokken Tournament had Creatures handling the modelling.

@Aeleron0X
I'm just saying that it's rather silly to think a team would make something low-quality only to go about making high-quality stuff not many years after when they could make the high quality stuff from the beginning and then scale it down. Take Wind Waker HD. They didn't remake the assets in a higher quality, like the textures. They used the originals made during development which were already of high quality. What was used on the GC were scaled down versions to fit the platform.

@Aeleron0X

Not saying those links you posted aren't by someone who doesn't know their stuff, but with regard to the Pokemon models, it just seems off. For one, when a team goes about making models, assets, etc for a game, they don't limit themselves to the restrictions of the platform from the very start. They make them of higher quality, with all the bells and whistles, such as the different "maps" used on the meshes. Then they take that, and scale it down. They aren't taking the models straight from the 3DS games to put on Switch. They are using the originals that were made that they then scaled down for the 3DS games. Most of the work is already done from taking from the master versions. They can't account for everything, like the additional animations needed for scenarios like the camping portions, but for the most part, they would have the majority of what they need without having to redo anything.

I feel the game was rushed, but not so much out of incompetence completely, but having a strict schedule to release it alongside the anime. We joke/complain about Dexit (I miss my Fennekin), the trees, etc, but I imagine that if they had more time, they could have worked those out. But there are times where incompetence really is the answer. For instance, there are numerous times where the performance leaves me baffled as to why it struggles. The face-off frames just before battles has very little happening, yet the frame rate gets sluggish.

This is not to say I'm not enjoying the game. I do enjoy it.

@Aeleron0X

My problem with that explanation, regarding the response to them already been made for X/Y, is that they weren't taking from the 3DS games to use in the Switch games. They took from whatever they used that then got converted to the 3DS games. The future-proofed models. Heck, the X/Y games weren't even the first to have most of these models. The Pokedex 3D (and Pro) did, over 2 years prior to X/Y.

@Lando_ I thought performance was improved on release, since DF was comparing with the demo.

Before Nintendo opens up to the idea?

It is real everyone. Go to archive.org, and search for "newsupermarioland". Grab the zip and test on your favorite emulator (works on SNES9x).

What could cause it to brick? Easy. Someone with a hackable unit who chose not to make a NAND backup and tried to install the game illegitimately, and did something wrong. But instead, claims something that the hacking community knew was false.

@Zeldafan79 Hmm......ok, someone set the date on their Switch to around Christmas time, and launch the game - for science!

@TJWorks Is that why the more recent 3DS versions sold so poorly? Because everyone was transitioning to the Switch from the 3DS? Paper Jam only sold about 1 million, but that was late 2015/early 2016 before the Switch. SS 3DS only sold like 70k, so BiS 3DS was even worse than that. Youch!

I do hope Nintendo picks them up. I loved their games, though later titles did a bit too much with some of the gimmicks.

The problem with the parallax background scrolling is that the layers are reversed in terms of speed as the camera pans. Stuff far away should scroll slower than those meant to be up close.

Maybe it's just me, but one thing I noticed outside of the swamp and Turtle Rock's lava sections, most of the times where it dips is during area transitions, but not specifically from that, but when the text displaying the name of the area shows up. It drops fps during that time, but the moment that doesn't show anymore, fps goes back up.

@TheFox That is most likely what's happening here. The whole cause of drift is due to wear and tear over months. For someone to have this happen straight out of launch is more of being a defect with manufacturing than wear and tear. Not everything is perfect.

That makes me so FMIF'ed!