/v/ - Video Games

>>16512950

you can already play Minish Cap on Switch

>>16512989

to be fair, last Nintendo system I owned was a Gamecuble and I wouldn't mind having more games on this new handheld without the hassle of hacking the system. Hell I've never even owned a GBA or GBC. I've been emulating their games for over 15+ years. If I give Nintendo a few bucks after I've been such a hook-nosed cheapskate I don't really feel like they are the ones being the Jews.

>>16513004

>why do you spend money you dumb goyim! You should steal form everyone and hoard your gold.

I'm not really a selfish Kike.

>>16513038

Anon you don't have to get this mad

>>16512950

Got a theory about this.

>Only X amount of good retro games on the VC. Eg: no one want to buy games like Urban Champion, Tennis, over factors like limited gameplay, clunkyness, overpriced or people skipping them to buy a better "modern" equivalent. Gaming websites reviewing these VC games and giving them low scores doesn't help.

>Why buy NES Tennis when you could get Mario Tennis N64 and get way more content, replayability and better multiplayer and you only have to pay double the NES games price? (1000 instead of 500 Wii Points)

>Users only buy the good games they never got to play back in the day (eg: the classics if you will). The VC also DOES NOT HAVE SALES, basically stopping users from even wanting to consider any other lower quality retro game

>So Nintendo stops doing the VC digital store and now uses their (NES) retro backlog (with online multiplayer) as a drawcard for users who get an Nintendo Switch Online subscription

>These users will still play the good NES games (Mario, Zelda, etc) while getting to try the worse games (Urban Champion) or clunky games (Ice Climber) without any buyers remorse

May as well pay me $5 and emulate them yourself. You'll get the same experience too!

Short answer: Nintendo is retarded

Long answer: Nintendo thought that people would be so excited to sign up for a service that offers NES games every month that it basically acts as a replacement for the standard model. Additionally they're saving the virtual console for the Switch Pro in order to get people to buy more games and forget about the ones they bought on WiiU/3DS

Nintendo wants you to pay for online once those games come out on the service.

>>16512950

only reason they havent done so is so they can release N64 mini/gamecube mini/etc to us to make more money. once WiiU e-shop goes down we'll have nothing left

>>16513151

Reported for CP

For whatever reason Nintendo seems to feel the need to relaunch the service on every system they put it on Wii, 3DS, Wii U, switch.

Can't say I'm a super fan of the current incarnation of it. Maybe they feel like they can't just give the games people own on 3DS/Wii U to them even though that history is on a new permanent registry that doesn't need any ancillary service to track.

>>16512950

If you want virtual console on the go get your switch hacked or get a hackable 3ds. You're a good, dumb goy paying for emulators that have terrible filters enabled and zero options outside of savestates and controls.

>>16512950

Probably because they think that if they make people wait a generation or two, there's that many more people who will be interested in forking over shekels so they can play classics on a current system again.

Hack your fucking switch.

>>16512950

Ok I think I know why they ditched the vc.

Basically, shit like mega man legacy collection is what killed it.

Why pay 30 dollars for 6 different megaman emulators with limited content, when you can pay like 20 for those same games, plus bonus challenges and concept art.

And with new shit like the castlevainia collection, megamanx, namco museum, sonics mega drive classics, atari flashback, and so on. You get a better bang for your buck with more content.

Now say both these compilations, and the virtual console are still being supported.

With the wiiu you had an option to transfer over your wii data and rebuy older games for a discount, a poor buisness practice but none the less, say that concept of rebuying older games comes back for switch when all these better offers are coming out.

Why would any company put out a version of one game that would compete with a compilation that contains the same game.

And with the lack of third party on the vc, a vast majority of classic nes and gb games being boring, games from the game cube era katamari reroll, re4, okami hd being stand alone titles. As well as handheld titles lacking multiplayer, they had to remake pokemon gens 1-2 to fix that. The vc just can't beat these game compilations any more.

>>16513434

>get a PC

I'll never understand that phrase from wannabe mustards here. There's no reason to "get a PC" for that shit, any office computer can emulate fucking GBA.

>>16514426

You don't even need a computer, people who aren't luddites just use phones now that are faster and smaller than most PCs.

>>16514430

I think I know of all of two emulators that are decent on mobile, and that's sort of stretching it.

>>16514430

Most phones are garbage for emulating anything more powerful than gba, and the control schemes for those phone emulators are carpel tunnel inducingly awful and make your hands block the screen if you hands are bigger than an old Asian lady's

>>16514592

Emulation should always be viewed as icing on handheld systems other than possibly Switch. Otherwise they stand apart from phones by running actual games. Not gacha shit.

I'd like a Nintendo collection series on Switch like Rare Replay that basically has a cartridge with games from the SNES classic and another cart with games from the NES Classic, N64 and GBA.

>>16514765

Because it's officially developed emulation and is basically perfect. People will do the same thing they did on the 3DS. Take the official emulation ROM. figure out where the emulator ends and the game begins, and casually swap the game with a different game.

Bam, one ROM gives access to the entire emulated console library.

>>16514470

emulating on touchscreen requires a bluetooth controller.

Because there is no benefit to them from doing so.

With the new online, they're giving games away for free. Whereas with prior VC, they could make money. If their online wasn't successful, they'd add more, but since it is, they don't need to. Want VC? Make the online fail. But good luck with that, considering three of the Switch's biggest games, being MK8, Smash and Splat, are gatekept behind online, and so will Mario Maker 2 which will be huge as well.

Sage because the thread is shit, even if the topic isn't.

>>16516067

They clip on the phone, like >>16516078 said. A better question is how can anyone think touchscreen controllers for emulated games can ever work.

>>16516078

So basically they ripped of the joycons from nintendo. Fucking chinks respect IP. Yeah right.

>>16516273

PS1 emulation is as far as I've ever seen on smartphones. Actually, when I think of mobile emulation I just think of handhelds & snes.

>>16516313

For emulating older RPGs Smartphones can be great, don't get me wrong. But they are far from a means to an end and even still most emulators as old as the SNES era in my experience can really push those poor ARM cores and make your hand sweat. In all fairness I think half the problem is also Android itself. Even after the introduction of Android Runtime and the Bionic C library devs still essentially need to bootstrap Java to their apps. Hence why Android apps still run like trash compared to their iOS counterparts even on comparable hardware

>>16516078

But anon there is so much input delay that its honestly garbage to even try to play games on your phone.

>>16516341

Wait, Android has no proper C apps?

>>16516468

Obviously it does, considering PS2 and OG XBox games have been ported natively to android which were all written in C++

>>16513083

>Nintendo see mini consoles will sell for $100 each

>Decide not to cannibalise the market with VC releases when they can release minis with the same games but much higher profit.

Is it worth it to buy a used switch?

>>16516485

> have been ported natively to android which were all written in C++

There is no such thing as truly native code in Android. You CAN port C/C++ programs to it, but again, you still need to bootstrap Java because of how Android works. This was a compromise Google basically had to make when introducing Android Runtime to avoid compatibility issues with older software. Android Runtime tries compiling Java to native code but even compiled Java will never be as fast as properly optimized code.