Is Switch emulation even that good in 2024? It seems like most of the games people want to play (Fire Emblem, TOTK etc) play like absolute shit still despite endless bugfixing and updates.
Is it still worth doing on the Steam 'eck?
Is Switch emulation even that good in 2024?
i played through everything I wanted to play with 0 issues
Do you have an impressive PC? I want to bosh Fire Emblem but keep coming across people shitting themselves. I have a 2080ti, 5800x, 32gb ram
Is that a recent development? Could swear it was still in a dogshit state by Nov 2023
>Do you have an impressive PC?
i7 6700K and a 1070. I actually tried FE last week. Game ran fine but I didnt play it a whole lot
I have a 2060 and when I tried it run on 30fps, if it's stable okay since I'm used to playing on consoles, but it has constant frame drops, every 2 seconds it drops to 10fps
I tried just after the new Zelda released
I opened the game up and am walking around the campus and while I might have an occasional stutter here or there, I'm really not having one every two seconds
It's been good for that long
?I have literally the lowest GPU (1650 ti)
And I could run Fire emblem 3 houses & Engage 60FPS
Use VULKAN in GPU. that fixed everything
Yeah Yuzu is greatly optimized and probably my favorite emulator next to... hmm no it simply is my favorite emulator
Cemu, Dolphin and Duckstation are cool too
>1650 ti
>lowest GPU
moron alert
>It seems like most of the games people want to play (Fire Emblem, TOTK etc) play like absolute shit still despite endless bugfixing and updates.
have you been living under a rock for the past year?
I literally played the entirety of TOTK on a 2200G + RX580 8GB + 16GB RAM at 1080p 30fps with basically no issue.
Yes, the game wasnt perfect as soon as it was released and there were some graphical glitches initially, but all of that has been fixed in literally the first weeks since release, and by the time i started playing it all of those were entirely fixed, and as you can see the PC i played it on is an absolute potato.
you can easily run both TOTK and Fire Emblem at 60fps 1080p if not even 4K(30 or 60fps, depends).
Totk runs amazing on Yuzu don't know what you're talking about. 120 fps, snd even Raytracing shaders if you have a Nasa supercomputer
What? Is this bait? Most games run far better than they do on switch
totk was far better outside of the depths issues two weeks before it even officially released lmao
It's either bait or PBKAC issues.
he probably doesn't understand shader caching.
>Most games run far better than they do on switch
Depends entirely on your PC
TOTK ran fine for me when I tried it a couple months ago. Looked good too.
What controllers do you guys play with?
I've got the Xbox controller, but I'm thinking buying one of these 3rd party switch controllers, just for emulators, because I want the button labels to match.
Xbox. The prompts/labels dont really bother me
Totk has an Xbox prompts mod. So does Metroid Dread I think. Control schemes aren't really that different, just have to press A instead of B in Mario Wonder and stuff. Probably the best time in history to emulate is now.
Yeah it works great now. You just need to tweak some basic settings. Watch a YouTube vid or something
Relatively good. Not perfect, but hey, better resolutions than the switch runs at so compromises are made.
Switch emulation is pretty great. Been replaying some games and it looks amazing.
Played all of TOTK on an emulator. Usually 40fps to 60fps but still runs better than the stock switch
What games are even worth emulating? Not being snarky, I like Pikmin 4 and Smash Bros and Odyssey, but what else is there beyond the Nintendo titles? Wonder is way too easy
Nothing really. Most of the other games I use Yuzu for it's just because it was hard to find the Steam files
Oh there was a game called "Shinsekai into the depths" I haven't tried. It's a Switch exclusive.
If it's not a first party game it's probably already on other plataforms, good thing there's a lot of first party nintendo games there, even the new 3d kirby was a lot of fun
Astral Chain (played on the Switch, never finished it)
Bayonetta 2 & 3
RDR (played on the PS3, never finished it)
Metroid Dread if I want to replay it
The definitive version of Tsukihime, there's an English patch out by Tsukihimates
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code
It'd be worth doing for Metroid Dread alone imo. I'd still prefer it if all these games officially came to PC.
what I played and completed:
Pimin 1,3,4
Mario 3d World + Bowser's Fury
Mario Wonder
Kirby Forgotten Land
Metroid Dread
Metroid Prime Remake
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
MHGU
Super Mario RPG
Captain Toad Treasure Trackers
and I think that was it. Might have tried a couple more but didnt finish them
>no mario kart 8 deluxe with all the DLCs
you're missing out, my homie
i'll have to give pikmin 3 and 4 a try, but i need to play 2 first
already played 1 and metroid prime 1 on the GC so i don't feel the need to play their switch versions
honestly never come across any issues with switch emulation other than the luigi's mansion dynamic resolution thing that tanked performance.
i cant play treasure tracker on an emulator because i like touching the shyguys inappropriately. maybe when i play it on the ayaneo
>what else is there beyond the Nintendo titles
What the frick is the point of using a Switch emulator in the first place if you don't like Nintendo games?
>It seems like most of the games people want to play (Fire Emblem, TOTK etc) play like absolute shit still
They play better than on console. What's the problem exactly?
i tried smt 5 but it stutters on shader compile even with good pc and async, noone online seems to have a transferable cache upload so i cbf playing it with the stutter every time a new effect shows up
SMT V is just inherently weird due the switch not being able to handle it, it's clunky and feels sluggish, even at 60 fps just feels weird, I too wanted to play it, but I think it's better to wait for an official port.
>official port
never ever.
it's a turn based RPG so that sort of thing doesn't bother me too much.
coming from persona 5, the menu transitions feel awful and completely kill the game for me, SMT IV was also top tier in that regard
Pokemon SV isn't quite there yet. Problem with it is it's hard to tell what bug happen because of the emulator and what just happens on the console anyway. Lots of z-fighting and LOD issues on console.
I haven't felt like playing any of the Switch games I have saved, but I played the Switch version of RDR for like half an hour, had some graphical errors but the game ran well enough on the Deck. I didn't do any tweaking so I'm sure the performance could be bumped up, and with a reasonably powerful desktop it would probably be a locked 60fps.
I played the entirety of Bayonetta 3 fine besides the ocasional shader cache itch, the game sucks tho, who thought it was a good idea to have multiple sections of giant monster skating or slow ass giant monster battles should be downgraded to janitor.
Yes, it's amazing and it filters poorgays. Tendies btfo
>filters poorgays
moron, it's the poors who can't afford a $60 game that actually bother to emulate current systems as if their time has no value
Not paying for games will save you enough money to buy a PC.
I'm something of a moron lads.
Where do you even get started with learning how to emulate? Is there a guide for spastics? Is it pretty much just Reddit or can I avoid it?
What do you want to emulate? Most emulators and consoles are relatively easy but some might be more complicated like old neo geo arcade games.
Also you shouldn't be ashamed for relying on reddit or any kind of source to learn about this stuff. Reddit is resourceful for the info it can provide, not so much for honest online discourse.
Thanks anon. Mostly just Fire Emblem and perhaps Lost Odyssey. Maybe even Vagrant Story if it's worth doing. Likely three different emulators there.
whens the last time you've checked? TOTK runs flawless for me now, i even used the 60fps mod and some other fun mods.
Are save states a thing yet?
Ryujinx is better than Yuzu for some games. FE3H runs best on one and Engage runs best on the other, but I forgot which is which.
It is, in fact, better than actual Switch hardware.
i played p5r on yuzu on my Steam Deck and it ran perfectly the entire playthrough. i was surprised how amazing it ran
>wanted to play HM reprisal.
>runs like ass on both switch emus to a point it would be better just to pirate the mobile port
embarrassing