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Can't believe Nintendo would half ass something internet related
lol it's not even actually internet related. The emulator and games run entirely on the Switch itself. They just stuck it into an online subscription because they want more money.
N64 games worked perfectly on my family PC 10 years ago, how can you fuck up emulating your own games?
The fucking cost increase is absolutely absurd. If it was like a $5 or even $10 bump, but literally doubling it and then adding another ten bucks on top of that? Come the fuck on.
The 30$ bump is really obscene. Like I wish them nothing but evil intent.
And still, motherfuckers are like "oh but it's a third as expensive as Game Pass" as though it's remotely comparable.
I've never had an Xbox system but I've heard that's not a bad deal, don't they throw you full on fairly new free games on occasion for it and stuff?
If you have an xbox, game pass ultimate's 15 a month, covers your xbox live sub, plus gives you a few hundred games to play on your xbox, pc, and streaming onto your phone, plus access to EA's equivalent service. If you're on PC, the $10 version still has all the games on PC and EA's service as well, but obviously you don't need the xbox live subscription. Comes out to 120 or 180 a year, and really makes Nintendo's thing look comparatively pretty crappy, especially at 50 bucks a year. It's only even vaguely tolerable at 20 a year, when you factor in that most of the backup and security features don't require a sub on xbox, and that free-to-play games have free online there as well.
I wonder what the Chuds who got mad at Kotaku for "promoting piracy against Nintendo" are saying now
just kidding
I know they're all :bootlicker:
It was literally an article about how Metroid Dread works on the Switch emulator and they threw the biggest fucking fit I've seen in the last year
:wojak-nooo: IF YOU DOWNLOAD METROID DREAD INSTEAD OF BUYING IT, THEN NINTENDO WILL SPEND ANOTHER 17 YEARS NOT MAKING A METROID GAME AND THEN TAKING DOWN ALL THE FAN GAMES AND BASICALLY IGNORING THE ENTIRE SERIES EXISTS
I just wanted to play Star Fox 64 on handheld. Can't have nice things.
Lol I was curious if they would do better than the independent rom makers. Of course they wouldn't be.
oh fuck I tripped and accidentally dropped a link to an N64 emu with netplay support god dammit
https://m64p.github.io/
it takes like 3 seconds to download an emulator and a rom and it's free lol
I know a ton of people who would buy a switch just for a collection of N64 games built in. I mean look at the Super Nintendo adapter they sold a couple years back.
And here they are insisting on a shitty subscription service. Capitalism is always efficient.
They could sell a Micro SD card with an emulator and a bunch of ROMs and people would go nuts for it. When it comes to their back catalogue, Nintendo has consistently made terrible choices.
Literally me. I own an N64 and a collection of games and an adapter that makes it all look not terrible on HDTV. I don't like going this route and if I could access the N64 library for a reasonable price I'd probably buy a Switch. But it's a very limited library and it seems like it has plenty of issues. And of course it's the (expensive) monthly subscription thing anyway.
N64 is notoriously difficult to emulate. Something like what Analogue does for SNES would be perfect but they said it's too hard.
Btw good carts of popular N64 games can sell for well over $50-$60. Not even as collectors items, there's just that many people who want to play them.
Reminder that there's a community made native PC port of SM64 (with improvements and a redrawn HD texture pack) and the decompilation of OoT is pretty close to done and will inevitably lead to a native PC port.
