I read about Nintendo’s ability effectively brick them remotely yesterday and decided to cancel my order. I have had every Nintendo console since the NES, for better or worse, but I am definitely skipping this one.
Both “canceled” and “cancelled” are correct spellings, but they are used in different regions. “Canceled” is the preferred spelling in American English, while “cancelled” is preferred in British English.
For whatever reason, even though I’m American, canceled just looks wrong to me.
I have a steam deck and figured out how to emulate BoTW.
I was initially disappointed by my inability to get it to run at better than roughly 20-25 fps even after some tweaks and bullshit.
… Then I realized that the Switch 1, in handheld mode… can’t actually do much better, claims to run at 30fps, frequently has framerate drop spikes.
So yeah, a Deck does a pretty good job, as has always been the case with emulators: its a bit less efficient than the native hardware env on the most demanding titles, but a Switch 1 can barely fucking run BoTW properly as well.
My next attempt at this?
See if I can jerry rig FSR 2 in the emulator to run it at a lower res and then upscale.
I have the mindset that I buy one for the lowest firmware, because nintendo always has people trying to hack it (successfully). Nintendo has very low investment in actually trying to get a proper OS engineer design their OS security. Youd basically have to go as far back as the fucking virtual boy to look for something non exploitable, and thats just because no one bothered with it.
I’ve considered buying one to hack later, the only issue is generally being locked in to low firmwares and thus only the games on those firmwares, unless they figure out some sort of hack later on.
Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if the switch 2 ends up requiring a hard mod down the road but I’ve decided I’m not going to worry about any of it until it materializes.
I read about Nintendo’s ability effectively brick them remotely yesterday and decided to cancel my order. I have had every Nintendo console since the NES, for better or worse, but I am definitely skipping this one.
The steam deck has been the direct replacement for the Nintendo switch for me.
I know ‘canceled’ is the American spelling but it looks weird to me without the second L.
Oh my god, it does have two L’s. I’ve been losing my mind this entire time for like the past… Well since getting auto correct.
I thought I was just bad at spelling.
Both “canceled” and “cancelled” are correct spellings, but they are used in different regions. “Canceled” is the preferred spelling in American English, while “cancelled” is preferred in British English.
For whatever reason, even though I’m American, canceled just looks wrong to me.
Get a steam deck and pirate any of the games you want
I have a steam deck and figured out how to emulate BoTW.
I was initially disappointed by my inability to get it to run at better than roughly 20-25 fps even after some tweaks and bullshit.
… Then I realized that the Switch 1, in handheld mode… can’t actually do much better, claims to run at 30fps, frequently has framerate drop spikes.
So yeah, a Deck does a pretty good job, as has always been the case with emulators: its a bit less efficient than the native hardware env on the most demanding titles, but a Switch 1 can barely fucking run BoTW properly as well.
My next attempt at this?
See if I can jerry rig FSR 2 in the emulator to run it at a lower res and then upscale.
What sites can you pirate switch games from? So I know to stay away from them
Idk, Nintendo games have zero appeal to me. Not sure what the best source is.
Fair
I won’t even consider buying one until they’re fully hackable. Until then I’d rather invest in my steamdeck and PC.
I have the mindset that I buy one for the lowest firmware, because nintendo always has people trying to hack it (successfully). Nintendo has very low investment in actually trying to get a proper OS engineer design their OS security. Youd basically have to go as far back as the fucking virtual boy to look for something non exploitable, and thats just because no one bothered with it.
I’ve considered buying one to hack later, the only issue is generally being locked in to low firmwares and thus only the games on those firmwares, unless they figure out some sort of hack later on.
Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if the switch 2 ends up requiring a hard mod down the road but I’ve decided I’m not going to worry about any of it until it materializes.
Just wait til it’s hacked bro. No way they are keeping this thing secure.