Nintendo may well fix the most obvious bugs in its Switch emulator, but it's never going to have that kind of dedication to solve tricky issues years after they're discovered. JMC4789 gave me a great example: Back in 2014, Dolphin developer delroth fixed a notorious heat effect bug in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker that had plagued players for years. The missing reflection is the kind of tiny thing that the developers of fan emulators would absolutely catch, because they're not working under the time constraints of Nintendo developers trying to ship a product. They see things that we'd never see, because they know the original game so exactly that they see the smallest of differences that the average person wouldn't even see as a bug… If you haven't played OoT in 20 years, you probably wouldn't realize this room looks that wrong." The best bug reporters for emulators are people that love the original games. "This is a failure on a huge level, and shows that they either didn't test the game, or more likely, the person testing the game wasn't familiar with the original. Or it's not a flaw in the emulation itself, but a deliberate decision a programmer made to disable fog thinking it was no longer necessary to maintain a stable framerate.Įither way: " Something went seriously wrong," JMC4789 said. The Switch version is missing the fog and reflection from the tree Nintendo has, somehow, made its Switch emulator less accurate than the one it built for the Wii nearly 15 years ago. Pay particular attention to the water, tree, and foggy background in each frame. Here's perhaps the most viral criticism of the Switch Expansion Pack going around: streamer Zfg1's comparison of Ocarina of Time running on Nintendo 64, Switch, and the Wii Virtual Console release from 2007. Nintendo's emulator is convenient, but it awkwardly fails to be better than decades-old fan emulators when it comes to game preservation-representing games accurately as they ran on original hardware- or enhancing them to look significantly better on modern hardware.
Rollback isn't necessarily right for every game-the point is Nintendo's gone with the barebones option here, despite having the resources to build something more robust.
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Fighting game player Ricky Pusch does a good job in this article of breaking down the common problems with lockstep code and the benefits of rollback netcode, which has become so popular with fighting games that it's now being patched into decades-old games like King of Fighters '98.
A poor internet connection might not be the only culprit: if the emulator drops below 100% speed for a single player, that would cause issues for everyone else, too. Lockstep is essentially the simplest way to implement online play, and that makes it ripe for issues. Throw in a single dodgy wifi connection, and, well. Programmer OatmealDome, who also contributes to Dolphin, has datamined the Switch Online's emulator and learned a few things about it, including its "lockstep" netcode that requires every player be in perfect sync at all times. And while it technically has, its implementation really just highlights how much better its emulator should be. It's not simple to set up, so Nintendo had an opportunity for an easy win-this is absolutely an area where it can improve upon fan-made emulators. With popular emulator Project 64, for example, many players use a plugin called AQZ and game-specific hacks to get netplay working.
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On PC, multiple Nintendo 64 emulators have supported netplay for many years-heck, some of the earliest emulation software built for online play dates back to 2001. It's just disappointing that it's so bad at launch." It does matter that something like this exists. It opens up N64 netplay to a lot more people.
Anyone who owns the service can invite a friend to play online. For Nintendo Switch Online, no one has to be familiar with emulation. I know every little thing that I need to do and every little thing that I need to avoid. "But, to get to that point, I've been using the emulator for nearly a decade. "For someone like me, setting up Dolphin netplay is easy," he said.
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