Honestly maybe the best part of this is that when they add shit like Colloseum and XD to the service, it will probably bring down the cost of those physical games a little bit. I thought I’d never end up getting them in my collection because they were just too expensive to justify.
GameCube Coming To Nintendo Switch Online With 3 Games At Launch
Submitted 1 year ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to retrogaming@lemmy.world
https://retrododo.com/gamecube-coming-to-nintendo-switch-online-with-3-games-at-launch/
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Guitar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ManicMambo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’ll come for Dolphin.
gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Emulators for them but not for us
froggycar360@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Please Kirby Air Ride!
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Well, considering they announced a new Kirby Air Ride that seems likely.
froggycar360@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
OMG WHAT I MISSED THAT HOLY SHIT
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Super Mario sunshine is my literal go to game
This is excellent news
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
It was a part of Super Mario 3D All-Stars bundle on Switch 1 although not having an analog trigger kinda sucks. New controller seems to have digital triggers again unfortunately.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Apparently, there is a design for GameCube controller for switch 2. If that I’ve works at least similar to the first GC version, many gamers dreams will become true
We are SO BACK BOIS
MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU
glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
feels like everything Nintendo does these days is is too little too late. I was playing gamecube games on my pc 15 years ago, 1080p, anti aliasing, save states, shaders, whatever controller I wanted, so on and so forth.
This is a nice plus for people who were going to buy a switch2 anyway, but from the perspective of someone who would need to be convinced (especially after being burned by nintendos asinine refund policy a few years back), I’m a bit offended by these paltry offerings.
kugmo@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
If the Switch 2 does not have analogous triggers then GX is going to be a shadow of a game, unless you use the USB to GC adapter.
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
That’s why they sell you a special controller. You can pay to be able to pay for the games you are paying for.
SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Is the Switch even powerful enough to emulate Gamecube? Or are they porting them?
zarenki@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Nintendo has already been selling a small selection of GameCube and Wii games that run emulated on Switch’s processor (Tegra X1) in 1080p.
- On the Switch itself: Super Mario 3D All-Stars runs emulators for Mario Sunshine (GC) and Galaxy (Wii)
- On the Nvidia Shield TV, which uses the same processor: Twilight Princess (GC), NSMB Wii, Punch-Out (Wii), Mario Galaxy (Wii), Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii). Only available on Shield systems sold in China.
The Dolphin emulator can be installed on Nvidia Shield (Android) and, thanks to modding, on exploitable Switch systems as well.
However, this newly announced library of GameCube games is only for Switch 2, which has drastically more powerful hardware than the 8-year-old original Switch.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was emulating the GameCube on a athlon64 15 years ago; the switch is underpowered but not that underpowered
chasingtheflow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home. They’re not much bigger than two meters.
vxx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The have N64 games on Nintendo online, which are still pretty Emulation resistant, so I assume they’re using a different method.
Fondots@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t exactly keep up with the latest in emulation, and who knows how Nintendo is going to do things, but my understanding that in a lot of ways GameCube (and WII for that matter) emulation has been in a better place than N64 for a while now, so I’m not too concerned about the switch being able to run it.
While the console itself was less powerful, the N64 is kind of a monster to emulate, it basically speaks a totally different language than any computer (or phone, console, etc) you might try to emulate it on, and there’s a lot of weird special code in individual games that the console needs to deal with, so there’s a lot more for the emulator to do and so you kind of need a comparatively beefy device for the emulation to run well.
GameCube and later consoles work a lot more similarly to how your computer and other devices work, so it’s a lot easier to emulate them.
I’ve seen it explained sort of like if the N64 spoke Chinese, the GameCube spoke Spanish, and your computer speaks Portuguese.
If a Spanish speaker slows down and throws in some hand gestures, a Portuguese speaker will probably more-or-less get the gist of what they’re saying, and Google translate can pretty much fill in the rest. That’s your computer emulating a GameCube game. There’s not too much the emulator actually needs to do, just some minor corrections here and there but mostly things translate pretty cleanly 1:1 between the two languages.
Spanish and Portuguese are wildly different languages though, almost no shared vocabulary, different languages families, even some of the hand gestures may have different meanings, and Google translate is probably going to spit out some weird garbled nonsense if you try to translate anything too complicated through it. It takes a lot more to facilitate communication between the two languages.
Guitar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pikmin 1 and 2 run great on Switch. I also never ran into any issues with Sunshine.
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
They used some kind of hybrid solution for Super Mario 3D All-Stars but I can’t imagine this won’t be powerful enough. Even relatively old Android phones can run Dolphin now.
commander@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’ve got to still be planning on the Wind Waker Wii U version release
toxicbubble@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nintendo have announced that The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, F-Zero GX, and Soul Calibur II will be launching first with other games such as Luigi’s Mansion, Super Mario Strikers, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, Chibi-Robo, Pokémon Colosseum, Super Mario Sunshine, and more coming at a later date.
papalonian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Super Mario Sunshine
You mean the game that’s already available on the Switch via Mario All-Stars?
Cmon, Nintendo.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, it has been delisted from the shop, otherwise why people would pay a subscription for playing that
Guitar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In my opinion, this is awesome. It’s about damn time they added offical Gamecube support to their systems. 3 games at launch is a little weak, but if they support it like the rest of NSO, the library will probably be great within a year or so.
heavydust@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
3 games is not a little weak. Its a fucking joke, but it’s Nintendo.
Guitar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well that’s pretty much how NSO started. It sucked at first with a tiny lineup of NES titles. Now there are tons of games and they’re still adding. I think it makes sense that they would hype up people with additional games added over time. I’m fine with that if I’m still paying $20/ year for NSO. I get enough value out of that as is, and more games at the same price is added value. But I absolutely agree that they should have started with more than 3 games.
Admittedly though, when I first commented on this, I hadn’t seen the new prices on Switch 2 yet. Now, I’m just as pissed as anyone else. I won’t be buying the system at all unless they drop their prices. And if they don’t, then I guess I will just stick to playing elsewhere.
Viri4thus@feddit.org 1 year ago
My steam deck has better Gamecube support than the official Nintendo next gen console, let that sink in…
smeg@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Were you expecting to have every game available from day 1? I’m sure they could, but they are a business and they probably want to make money.
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Meh. I was hoping for Windwaker to get a real release on Switch 2, not just become available as a GameCube title on Nintendo Switch Online
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I was also baffled at using WW for the demo. Give me that port of Wii U port you cowards.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
oh yeah, i forgot, my pc ran cemu just fine before my recent upgrade. I could totally play the wind waker remake.
kautau@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wii U ports will be available on the Switch 3 in 8 years
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 year ago
we will never get a new F-Zero :(
CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Kind of weird to focus on something like an emulated GameCube version of Wind Waker when they already released a more definitive HD version.