The Daily Populous Wednesday October 30th, 2024 day edition
Authored by nintendolife.com and submitted by DataLore19

As much as I like my switch for the form factor (after getting Nitro Deck for it, joycons are crap), I have to admit that the performance is hot garbage. I can't blame people for choosing to emulate switch games if the only alternative is to play them on an ancient tablet chipset. I would never have finished BotW if it wasn't for Ryujinx because playing it on switch literally gave me motion sickness. I know that the big N doesn't care if I play it or not after I already bought it, but my experience trying to play it on its native platform was so bad that I straight up skipped TotK and don't plan to check it out until I can buy it on something that can run it correctly. My experience with Pokémon Violet was quite similar, though I was able to push myself to play it on an actual switch as at least it doesn't depend on real time inputs all that much. But shadows flickering and models constantly popping in and out of rendering distance as I moved around weren't kind to my eyes either. It's a shame that only small indies run well on switch as they can already be played on other platforms, while 1st party titles aren't optimised at all to run well on switch despite being the only real reason to get switch over a handheld pc. I feel like this (along with the fact that switch is nothing more than an ARM tablet which have been around and reverse engineered for ages) is the reason why switch emulation was way easier and more widespread very early into the console's life cycle. Not many people bothered emulating 3DS when it was still an active platform because 3DS games ran perfectly fine on 3DS, but switch titles are a choppy, pixelated mess on the system they release on. I understand that Nintendo is not fond of people emulating switch, but they are partially responsible for the problem when they keep releasing games that are too demanding for their own system. Either reduce the scope/fidelity of the games or release more powerful hardware. If not people will emulate these games to play them comfortably, no matter how many projects Nintendo tries to kill.

jalog100 on October 29th, 2024 at 15:41 UTC »

Every Nintendo emulator will take vacations till mid April 2025 I think, because the new Nintendo console will come out soon and the Nintendo lawyers are in heat ready to fk up anyone that dares to sour the party

powerhcm8 on October 29th, 2024 at 15:30 UTC »

It was not a legal takedown; rumor is that they paid the main dev to fuck off.

Battlefire on October 29th, 2024 at 15:17 UTC »

"Cut off one head, two more will take it's place."