Subscribe to Nintendo life on YouTube Nintendo surprised fans last week by dropping the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance libraries for Switch Online. If you’re wondering how Nintendo’s official emulations hold up, the game developer and YouTuber A modern vintage player now he looked at the new libraries. The verdict is that these emulators ...
Image: Nintendo Life The GameCube may not have had much success in terms of sales, but it was actually home to quite a few amazing first-party titles. To this day, many of them are still locked to the same Nintendo platform. This includes games like Eternal Darkness, F-Zero GX, and even third-party hits like Sega’s ...
Image: Nintendo Last week, a video game miracle was accomplished with the release of GoldenEye 007 on Nintendo Switch and Xbox. As amazing as it is to relive this classic first-person shooter on modern platforms, not everyone is necessarily overjoyed. Former Rare employee and GoldenEye 007 composer Graeme Norgate recently took to social media to ...
Image: The Pokémon Company Switch emulation is a thingand it’s something Nintendo obviously isn’t happy about – with a lot of first-party releases often leaking ahead of official street dates, and in most cases, running on other devices at much higher resolutions and frame rates. Nintendo’s taken action in the past against piracy and emulation, ...
Image: Steam Deck HQ Valve’s Steam Deck has already proven it’s able to run all sorts of video game emulators. What’s even more impressive though is just how capable it is when it comes to Wii U and 3DS emulation. As highlighted by the website Steam Deck HQValve’s handheld PC is not only able to ...
The Nintendo console is the most unique of the consoles that we currently find on the market, more than anything due to the fact that it is fundamentally portable and this means that its hardware for reasons of consumption and size is inferior to that of their rivals. Which means he’s much easier to imitate ...
Earlier this week at Gamescom, Denuvo by Iredeto launched a “Nintendo Switch Emulator Protection Solution” to safeguard games launched on the hybrid system. Essentially, it’s going to be inserted into Switch games in an attempt to prevent them from being played on emulators. Denuvo, as you might already know, doesn’t have the best reputation on ...
Image: @dariosamo (via Twitter) Remember the absolutely stunning showcase of Super Mario 64 with ray tracing? Well, the same individual is now working on a new project that could evolve N64 emulation. Modder turned software developer Dario has just revealed ‘RT64’ (the path tracer behind the sm64rt project) is being transformed into a Nintendo 64 ...
While The obvious use case for the Steam Deck is playing new (or current) PC games on the go, the unspoken use case is that it should also be a dream come true for anyone who wants to play emulated classics. Let’s see how the handheld fares a few weeks after release. YouTuber ETA Prime ...
Picture: Nintendo Back in 2020, a Famitsu column suggested Masahiro Sakurai and his team considered rollback netcode for Super Smash Bros. Ultimatebut apparently, it didn’t work out. While we have seen rollback support in other fighting games on the Switch, there’s one software engineer – known as ‘DShad’ on Twitter – who has been working ...
