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Looks interesting - I wonder if it could handle GameCube with an optimised emulator?

As for the (typical) 'omg dirty hackers hang them all!!!' convo - I'm all for the homebrew scene and indeed some wonderful stuff has come out of it, eg. services which bring back NintendoWFC online play, media player apps, various minor tweaks and adjustments to enhance the user experience, etc, and indeed emulators which can be a great way to experience older games, assuming you've bought the physical game before you start running it in Dolphin or similar.

As for those who seek to simply pirate games, they deserve everything they get hit with by Nintendo (and honestly are incredibly naive if they're surprised to be banned from online) - the main homebrew devs going back as far as Team Twiizers/fail0verflow on the Wii have all been against piracy and indeed have made conscious efforts against it - pirates give them a bad rep which honestly they don't deserve.

Just as Mario Kart 7 was based on the l Wii engine, I would think that Smash Switch would most likely be based on the Sm4sh code, of course with improvements and modifications as happens when you make a new game / release on a new platform.

@stealth When you say that all so-called 'hackers' are 'scum', I think you're forgetting that aforementioned 'scum hackers' have actually done some great stuff for the Nintendo community such as bringing Flipnote Hatena back on the DSi (Sudomemo) and running online servers for Wii and DS after Nintendo stopped (Wiimmfi, AltWFC, RiiConnect24) (:

@skywake A router isn't essential; there's a protocol called Multicast DNS in which each device assigns itself an IP address from within a dedicated range and searches for others in that range. (Apple call it Bonjour / Rendezvous)

@RupeeClock Indeed; WebKit let homebrew devs crack 3DS and Wii U open, haha. (Although the 3DS did have that architectural flaw of sorts allowing the GPU to write to parts of main RAM)
I suppose this is why Nintendo are reluctant to release a full browser right now.

This is rather interesting. Reddit thinks it's likely a Maxwell chip, which while a little disappointing is still way more powerful than anything Nintendo has used thus far, and we've all seen how Nintendo can pull off amazing feats even on underpowered systems.
PS, @ThomasBW84, "Tegra-based graphics processer"? (:

@SanderEvers That takes 30 seconds on my 2008 triple-core 6GB RAM PC.

@NintySnesMan Supply and demand, my friend, supply and demand.

Now somebody try it running on Citra in 1080p.

I actually found the browser on the New3DS to be really nice and haven't actually had issues with many pages.

I guess I'm just weird though.

If Nintendo make the Switch SDK available like they did for Wii U and 3DS, I'd happily learn C and make a browser, hehe.

@Action51 I'm not sure you quite understand. To use your book analogy, if I made my own outer cover for that book which describes it (just as an iNES header data is added to a ROM to describe it) then I would own the copyright for the cover I made / header data I created, although not the book / ROM data itself.

If Nintendo did indeed use a downloaded ROM from the Internet, couldn't you argue that the uploader actually has intellectual property rights over the header data?

Having looked at the FCC filings, I didn't see anything that indicates that Switch has mobile data functionality, but then again I didn't dig very deeply into it, and there is also a confidentiality thing over most of the documents anyway.

It does, however, support 5GHz WiFi. ¯\(ツ)/¯

But can it run Doom?

This is really nice of Nintendo; I've not heard of games ever getting another 25% content as a FREE update, especially three years after launch!

This might just rope me back into New Leaf.

@Yorumi I believe the campground is built when you update; I'm downloading it now, though (my broadband is slow at the moment), so am not quite sure yet.

This is exciting news, if true; however, based on the Macronix link, I unfortunately have to doubt that if Nintendo are indeed using ROM chips.

The link states that Macronix manufactures Mask ROM chips with a maximum of 128Mb — that's megaBITS, not megaBYTES. 128 megabits actually equals 16 megabytes, which is half the maximum size of a GBA cart!

Their "Gaming Machine XtraROM" can support a density of "up to 32Gb" — gigaBITS again, which equates to 4 gigabytes.

Of course, Nintendo could use multiple of these chips, and there's always the possibility that the person writing that page didn't know the difference between MB and Mb, but ROM chip capacities are almost invariably stated in bits (or multiples thereof) rather than bytes.

Indeed, the 'block' measurement Nintendo uses equals 1 megabit. \ o /

@matthep Not the DSi version, but Flipnote Studio 3D was available for early My Nintendo adopters.

@shaneoh Yes; the hotspot list is stored in the system memory. (They will have just deleted all the entries for the UK barring Game)

Note that you need to get your own Windows 95 image sorted. For obvious reasons (copyright and the fact a W95 install is around 200MB!) it doesn't come with one.

I downloaded this and it does actually boot to the desktop - if you change the input settings you can use the D-Pad as the arrows on the emulated keyboard and Start as Enter. I manged to load up My Computer and Control Panel this way

Still takes forever and a day to boot though xD
I'm sure optimizations will help this, though.

Now what we need is Circle Pad for the mouse, L/R for left/right click and a touch keyboard.

To be honest, I think they (the Nantwitch Education people) are getting way too big for their boots here. If they want to stop kids playing GTA, that's fine, but there are better ways to do it than sending parents threatening letters and getting the police banging down on their door. Also, unless this Nantwich Education Partnership have cameras in peoples' homes (cough American school-issued laptop spying scandal cough) this is pretty much unenforceable.

In addition to this, while I think no child under 12 should be playing GTA, it really depends on how mature the child in question is.

This N.E.P bunch should instead send parents a letter about what GTA, et al. is, how it's violent etc, and to think how maturw the child is before letting them play games like GTA.

After all, it's the parent's decision what children should and should not play.

Oh, and good one, @rjejr.

When I put my 2DS into my coat pocket (sideways, only just fits) the cart pops out occasionally while I walk. The first time it happened I had Animal Crossing running. Needless to say, Resetti gave me a verbal lashing.