The text of this post is no longer accessible. It was deleted using Redact, possibly for reasons related to privacy, security, or digital footprint reduction.
saw include different possessive future entertain weather smart full ink
by lennysinged
Nintendo
25 Comments
Wild take.
I play all the Pokemon games emulated on a gba emulator device. It plays the same way you would lol.
It depends on the emulation type imo. Hardware emulation on dedicated devices is fantastic and i would argue is legitimately important to long term preservation since the original hardware will inevitably degrade. Nor can game companies be trusted to always have their old catalog available to play.
It this a joke post?
Well good news: it’s not inherently wrong. Didn’t even need to read the post to tell you that.
Edit: I read the post and that’s an even worse argument than I imagined at first.
So buying it on the Switch 2 isn’t emulation? lol
I guess bro
Nintendo uses emulation on lot of their old games
Noted, and ignored.
Without emulation, a whole lotta games would’ve been abandonware. The skill of emulator developers is testament to their dedication, love and care for game preservation. The big companies only later took notice when they saw money could be made off of nostalgia.
It’s such a pity that Nintendo is putting everything up behind paywalls/subscription services. The Virtual Console was such a great way to pay (once) and play (forever) for old games. Pity it’s never coming back.
Emulation bad when it’s on PC, emulation good when Nintendo does it I guess?
NES, SNES, N64, GB, GBA and Gamecube games were never made to be played on the Switch.
Not really sure what you’re trying to say here.
You know, I get your point. I too prefer to play on original hardware. But it’s not like Nintendo didn’t use Emulators since the Wii era.
Edit: I just remembered this is wrong. Ocarina of Time on the Gamecube was also emulated
Unfortunately emulation is going to be more important as the years go on. Cartridges, discs, old consoles, etc. don’t have eternal lifespans. I was shocked by how many of my old DS cartridges don’t work anymore, and even consoles like the DSi get yellowed screens as they get older.
If Nintendo brings the games to Switch, that would generally be my preferred way of playing, but if they don’t, then emulation may actually often be the best way of playing, especially with the nicer screens we have nowadays.
But it does depend on what you’re going for–there is more input lag with emulation, but the graphics are often nicer (especially vs older consoles where they run terribly on HD TVs). And then even systems that can play older games, like the 3DS with DS games, the DS games look downright awful on it.
So I’m getting more into emulation, though yea emulating a Switch 1 or Switch 2 game is ridiculous. Come on guys, lol.
The FireRed and LeafGreen Switch release is using emulation, so I’m not entirely sure what your point is.
>”why don’t I just buy the best PC and call it a day”
As someone that got my first gaming PC 11 years ago. Yes I can confirm. That is the mindset, lol. but regardless…
>they were never meant to obviously be played that way.
Most games were never meant to be brought forward to a future platform officially either, is there any real difference between Fans taking matters into their own hands to preserving a consoles library of games, and it happening officially, well there is actually, most of the time the fans do a better job.
Like it or not there are countless great old games that are simply not practical to play them though official means. Just think about Arcade games. Most of those Physical Arcade cabinets don’t even exist anymore. I’m sure everyone would love to own Arcade Cabinets or even just be within close distance of a modern arcade that still preserves them, but that’s just not in the cards for most people.
And IMO the platform in which a game is being played stopped mattering in the GC/PS2/Xbox era, I was lucky enough to have all 3 consoles, and the games were basically the same on all three. The Prince of Persia trilogy were the same games regardless of what you played them on.
I don’t emulate to save money or preserve history or Yada yada.
I emulate because games like Xenoblade Chronicles 2 run like dogass on consoles they were release for, sub 15-20 fps during battle sometimes docked, and I can use mods/cheats to improve the experience in other games. An example is Xenoblade 3, wherein you only unlock the ability to level down in the post-game, unless you use cheats. This option was added in to XB1:DE, so it’s unknown why they wouldn’t just let you do this whenever n XB3.
I have no issue playing games on consoles if the experience was comparable, but playing at silky smooth 18 FPS during a XB2 chain attack vs a modded smooth 60 fps with upscaling, bloom removable, etc?
To be entirely frank, this is only a Nintendo problem. I have not emulated any other games before besides Demons Souls. This is mostly due to the fact that nearly every games ports to PC now anyway, sans one company.
I think there’s a certain kind of special energy or sentiment so-to-speak when it comes to playing any game how it was originally intended to be played. I prefer it that way myself sometimes. Am I glad that emulation exists on other consoles and on PC? Sure. But point remains
You can buy controllers that connect to whatever device you’re emulating on…
It’s not that hard to find a Bluetooth controller shaped like whatever console you want and then to connect it to the console emulator of your choosing.
That just means you’re somebody who prefers to play on original hardware. Plenty of retro gamers like that. I used to be one of those people until Retroarch got so good that the experience of playing on Retroarch is better than playing on original hardware. Now I’m like, 50-50 on it.
Hey champ why don’t you tell me exactly how all the games on NSO are running? This whole debate really showcases how nobody knows what emulation is. Literally 9 times out of 10 if you are playing a retro game on a modern console it’s gonna be emulated. In rare cases they may get a full port however that is few and far between.
I’ve always been told it was about preservation and if Nintendo would offer their old games then it wouldn’t be a issue. Then they did with switch online and it became you dont own the game. Now you do own the game and people are still calling for games to be emulated, so stop the dog whistle theat its for game preservation people, you just dont want to pay for your games.
To be clear emulation is fine, just dump your own ROMS. But In the case of Pokémon those games are more expensive to dump than buy on switch so I doubt this is what people mean by emulate the games.
Do you think rereleases of old games on modern platforms are wrong? Emulation is often used for such rereleases, which includes virtual console games and NSO. All games there run on an emulator to ensure you can play the games on modern platforms.
Aren’t all of the NSO games emulated on the Switch/Switch 2?
Nintendo uses emulation, all the time. They won’t add a Gameboy Advance chip into the Switch.
When peopel liek that talk about conservation, they clearly do not mean physical conservation, but digital access to it. Mostly because this conservation movement is there because physical things break or deteriorate and become unusable. And digitally things can be preserved forever.
Of course a vast swat of people in the emulation scene just use it as a crutch to have free access to shit.
Parody isn’t creative enough for this