bdonvr

@bdonvr@thelemmy.club

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Nerd, truck driver, and kinda creeped that you’re reading this.

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bdonvr,

The Nintendo switch came out in early 2017, and it really wasn’t all that powerful then. It’s 8 years later, and it really shows. I don’t think they should make new games for the Switch. If developers have to consider the original Switch, the games will suffer. It had a good run, and a good library. But it’s time for the original switch to retire.

bdonvr,

You’ll probably want an early model then they usually have the most vulnerability

bdonvr,

Sure but that’s far less convenient than early switches where you could use a bit of aluminum foil in the controller socket lol

bdonvr,

noirscape.github.io/RCM-Guide/

You need to bridge a few pins in the controller connector. There’s several ways to do that as shown in that link. Then you can upload jailbreak software from a PC.

I personally used aluminum foil successfully, then bought an actual jig later.

bdonvr,

Basically.

So the Switch uses an Nvidia Tegra X1 chip to power it, which isn’t the only device nor the first that it was used for. The Nvidia Shield TV and Google Pixel C (tablet) used it too. On those devices holding down a certain button at boot would put it in a special mode that let it boot from code sent over USB.

The Switch simply did not have this button, but by shorting those pins you send the same signal.

This is a very low level hardware feature so Nintendo couldn’t ever patch it with an update. They had to make new hardware to fix it.

Game evoking Oct. 7 Hamas attack pulled after police appeal, creator says (www.aljazeera.com)

Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, released in 2022, lets gamers play as the fictional character “Ahmad al-Falastini,” a young Palestinian student, as he takes revenge on Israeli soldiers who tortured him and killed his family. An updated version of the game called Operation al-Aqsa Flood, the name Hamas uses...

bdonvr,

Only in the UK - still available elsewhere

bdonvr,

Honestly I struggle to imagine how Steam could support it more.

bdonvr,

Not really? Conceptually maybe. But if you can install whatever OS you want and aren’t forced to use official distribution methods then that seems pretty PC to me

bdonvr,

When I found out people are adding achievements to retro games (retroachievements.org)

I’ve played a lot of Super Monkey Ball 2. Time for a bit more

bdonvr,

I think a minimum would be open sourcing the server backend, or at least a compatible one, once servers reach EOL.

bdonvr,

Wait Arms Race left? Seems like it would’ve been pretty simple to keep in.

I used to do Arms Race as a warmup for comp matches

bdonvr,

YouTube view counts can lag a few hours behind when videos get sudden huge views like this

bdonvr,

Seems like a great reason for them not to fix it

bdonvr,

For a TV console? For better download speeds and more consistent connection for online gaming

WiFi works okay but it can’t have cost that much to put an Ethernet port into the switch dock

bdonvr,

Discs suck, other than for used game sales and collecting.

But used games sales is a huge plus. But realistically I think we’ll see maybe one more console generation with physical media.

bdonvr,

Could probably get a flashcart and load the ROM on there

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