the left image is of a native port recompiled for PC, and the right one is an emulator being developed to run Switch 2 games
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Nintendo doesn’t deserve money at this point. Its either nostalgia bait remakes or garbage new Pokémon game
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Who the fuck can afford a switch 2 right now
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Fuck nintendo
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I am backing up emulators, roms and recomp tools as long as they are available to the public.
lol, 52人fell for OP‘s🎣
Knowing Nintendo, we’re gonna see the most fucked up respond from them to this fucked up AI shit.
And i’m running out of popcorn.
They’ll just double the size of their legal department and continue on their merry, DMCA-fuelled way.
DMCA works only where the platform cares about. Eden devs in example have their own repository on their on site. They don’t care about the DMCA claims. And if Nintendo can’t prove in court, they cannot do anything about it. I expect more and more devs go their own way too, if this trend is continuing.
to this fucked up AI shit
In case you didn’t know, this is not just “one thing” going on and not everything is Ai shit. The native ports are most likely supported heavily by Ai, but the emulators was done before Ai was a thing. They just extend this to the Switch 2 hardware, which is very similar to Switch 1. Since the Switch 2 can be jailbroken they have access to everything they need. I can’t say if every emulator developer is against Ai too, but not everything is at least vibe coded shit.
Every current Switch 2 emulator I’ve seen is vibe coded. Yes they are built on existing Switch 1 emulator code, but the Switch 2 parts are all AI generated
I for one am very happy about this because OOT is one of my favorite games of all time and I really want to play the remake but I don’t have a Switch 2, and I really don’t want to fork over another $500+ on top of the thousands I’ve spent on the gaming hardware I already have just to play this, and maybe a handful of other Nintendo titles.
I just want to play it with mods so I can fix those faces
This for me, but with the new Fire Emblem. I’ve played almost every game in the series. But I can’t justify $500 for a console for a single game, then pay whatever the going cost is now for the game ($60-80?), and then have all the inevitable DLC that actually raises the cost of the game to somewhere between $140-160 (most FE games since 3DS have DLC that nearly double the price of the game).
Oh, and if I pay $500 for that console, I have to pay a subscription fee if I do want to use internet features.
I hate Nintendo for their corporate practices, but at least up through the Switch, they actually make good games. And when people complain about their high price games, when you buy physical, that also means you can sell your games and get most of your money back from them. It’s the attacks on fan projects, the DMCAs, the DLC, and paid internet subscription that made me lose any love for them. Almost every older Nintendo console was worth it, but not now (I had a Wii U, lmao). It’s also incredibly frustrating in this day and age to be locked to a console when I might want to play things elsewhere.
Just admit you wanted to pirate it.
I thought they just did.
If Nintendo ported the game to PC I would gladly pay for it.
If Nintendo ported the game to PC I would gladly pay for it.
Me too. As Gaben said, piracy is mostly a service problem.
I don’t know how much money they make selling hardware but they could just sell games overpriced for PC (to compensate for what they didn’t earn selling hardware and store fees) and people will just buy.
The problem with that in Nintendo’s mind is, its not worth it. They would sell more games for sure, but in Nintendo’s mind the console becomes obsolete. But their entire business is around consoles and all the third party games they get the money from too. In order to sell their console to as many as possible, they need to have these blockbuster exclusives. In example this is why Microsoft is also going back to exclusives too, and Sony does less again.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of this. I only play on PC and doing piracy since decades. But from the business standpoint, I understand where they are coming from. Platform holders operate differently than third party devs / publishers.
There was literally no ambiguity
Miyamoto-san is gonna be so pissed.
So does the decompiled one work yet? I feel like i woildve seen more on this if it did. I will absolutely play it this way once it happens.
The NX2 decomp is currently inferior to the slopulators. Probably multiple decomps by now. Fritchii emulator fork is #1 right now but I think it’s only for OOT. It’s a fork of Lichii which is a fork of Eglantine which is a fork of Eden which is a fork of Yuzu. I think? My head hurts. Lmao. What’s better or not changes every 6 hours.
I tried Fritchii last night after work and it’s playable now. The only graphical bug I noticed was some corrupted text box background texture when an NPC is emphasizing something like the Deku Tree boss door combination 2-3-1. Shader stutter and pretty demanding on hardware but I usually stayed above 30FPS in the more graphically intensive areas. Indoors was usually 60fps. Fritchii can cap to 30 if the variable frame rate annoys you.
12th gen core i5 / Radeon 9070XT. I ran Fritchii through Faugus Launcher / Proton-GE because no Linux build. Some have appimages, some are on AUR like another fork called ichii. It’s messy.
~~Video cutscenes desync audio on Radeon cards in all forks I’ve tried so far. ~~
Fritchii fixed desync.
If you’re wondering where I’m following progress it’s on the /r/decomps subreddit. Which is also posting all these Switch 2 slopulators.
Edit: the subreddit is already getting pressured to stop direct linking to github repos that are Switch 2 related. Nintendo big mad.
The NX2 decomp is currently inferior to the slopulators.
Depends on what you compare. The code quality and documentation itself is probably better. In the long run, this is more important. But I’m not against for the short term win with slop too. I need both.
It works great but you need a very powerful computer. Was playing lots yesterday.
I’ve heard several reports that it does! I’m leaving the afternoon free today so I can try to set it up myself.
I doubt it. I’ve recently checked whether the Tekken 6 recomp/port for PC was any good, but framerates are abysmal, it’s still effectively an emulated game.
Reminds me of Napster in a way.
