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@Clyde_Radcliffe The problem is that Nintendo also implemented a pretty advanced hacking system in the emulator and clearly have taken the time to reverse engineer games with some advanced stuff to the point that I find it 100% possible to do automatic pak switching through that system.

So, no, it's not impossible, and they clearly could have taken that time to implement this.

@Clyde_Radcliffe I edited my comment right before you mentioned it but it's still pretty sad imo because you shouldn't be forced to use save states, ever.

@Angelic_Lapras_King Well what's sad is that Winback is a Controller Pak only game. It doesn't use it. You need to use save states in the app.

As far as I can tell when I looked, Controller Pak emulation existed since Wii U Virtual Console, but they simply never used it for some reason.
There's also a bit of Transfer Pak but don't get too excited, it's pretty much nothing.

There was also 64DD emulation code dating since the Wii U too, but it was unfinished and unplayable and this code was finally removed in the Banjo update (1.2.0).

The emulator being unofficial is one thing and probably the primary reason, but I assume they were using SNES9X since it was the only truly portable emulator of its time... which had a non commercial use clause in the license so that could have been an additional more legitimate reason for it.

I think it's fair to at least expect emulation quality on par with Wii U (which was worse than Wii and I don't mean the dark filter), the fact that their emulator has only gotten worse over the years is pretty darn sad.

One N64 game a month? Sure.
But what about the rest of the consoles..?

As sorta mentioned by the video, the lack of planning is actually very saddening for a subscription.
Other console makers use a subscription for online and have basically something happening every month. And then the dripfeed is just insanely slow like what the heck...

@Roam85 There is what's called "BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2 Practice", but this is not it, this was just to practice tracks that were originally exclusive to BS F-Zero Grand Prix 1 (all dumped).

They're looking for real deal, the main broadcasts of Grand Prix 2 (which was in 2 parts).

@chardir Satellaview had no subscription, it was actually free. The only payment was to buy the equipment to even play (so, satellite antenna, BS Tuner, Satellaview and stuff).

It is a lottery even before we even get to see if the data is corrupted or not because just even finding it on a Memory Pack you still have to dump it to find out since BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2 is a soundlink game and is therefore invisible in menus.

Satellaview preservation has been this way for a while: Buy a bunch of Memory Packs and hope it has something interesting in it even if the seller says it's empty (which it may not be because you cannot trust menus).