Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack

[Anonymous No.8239550]

So I saw /vr/ was interested in these a few weeks ago when it was announced, how do you feel about it costing over the double the original memberships price?

Also the N64 controllers have already been sold out and are currently being scalped on eBay did you get one before.

[Anonymous No.8239563]

>>8239550
The picture you use is the family plan price, this is the individual price

[Anonymous No.8239574]

>>8239563
It's still too fucking expensive for 20+ year old games.

[Anonymous No.8239583]

>>8239574
Its only $30 more that's like the average N64 game price. Pretty big bargin

[Anonymous No.8239605]

it's easy to get n64 games for free or to play on original console. i see no use for this feature. I will not purchase it. I do not pay for online so i cannot comment on whether 50 bucks is fair for it.

[Anonymous No.8239615]

>>8239550
The controller seems interesting, but only if it can connect to bluetooth so I can use it on my PC. I'm not going to pay $50 a year for games that I can emulate for free. RetroArch is not that hard to learn, and I can put it on my Switch. There is zero reason to buy that scam.

[Anonymous No.8239623]

>>8239583
You massive fucking faggot damage control shill, get a goddamn Everdrive. I don't know how many fucking times I have to say this on this board. I just wanted to play these games portably without shilling out for a Steamdeck or another device.

[Anonymous No.8239629]

>>8239583
Lmao no. You're paying for roms. Roms are free

[Anonymous No.8239632]

>>8239623
I support the devs for their hard work, I don't have low morals like most people here.

[Anonymous No.8239636]

>>8239605
This
>>8239623
Retroarch for the switch exists

[Anonymous No.8239637]

The selling point of the $20 isn't to play the NES and SNES games though, it's to play Switch titles online. They're supposed to be supplementary. Charging over twice the price for adding two more platforms is fucking ridiculous. Even if they're somehow adding other consoles later to this "Expansion pack", charging $30 more is pretty shit

[Anonymous No.8239639]

>>8239632
yes, this will go right into the pocket of those devs from 20 years ago.

fucking idiot

[Anonymous No.8239642]

>>8239550
What's going on with that stickbox? Will it have gears and shit like the original or is it completely new? Does it send the same range of analogue inputs? How does it stack up against a steelstick? I got so many questions
none of these questions have to do with scalpers, just buy from the site when they update

[Anonymous No.8239654]

>>8239632
Top tier bait

[Anonymous No.8239671]

>>8239632
I own a good chunk of the N64 library physically. I supported the devs when these games came out. These games are over 20+ years old and some of the people involved are no longer receiving compensation for it. You are severely and utterly braindead if you think it's morally correct to continue supporting a megacorporation like this rereleasing someone else's past success on a subscription service no less.

You are bait. Anything further you say is bait. It's fucking pathetic to suck Nintendo's cock even ironically. I hope Nintendo's PR and anyone else trying to fill in for damage control has mental breakdowns trying to deal with this.

[Anonymous No.8239675]

>>8239636
How's the N64 emulation given that it's still shit in just about every other emulator?

[Anonymous No.8239678]

>>8239675
>given that it's still shit in just about every other emulator
stop repeating this nonsense

[Anonymous No.8239679]

>Old membership was $6 AUD a month
>new one will probably be $10-15
>controllers are $70 each
Fuck it, I'm just gonna buy an everdrive on Black Friday. Shame my N64 isn't modded for deblur (just RGB), but the hell with it- I can get any scaler with an integrated SLG and it'll still look better than on Switch.

[Anonymous No.8239682]

>>8239678
It still sucks, I don't expect Switch emulation to be much better unless someone's able to steal more source code from Nintendo. Play a good chunk of the games on actual hardware and you will see the difference. The fact that you're telling me N64 emulation being notoriously shit is nonsense and not actually telling me how the Switch emulation runs says everything I need to know.

[Anonymous No.8239683]

>>8239679
>Old membership was $6 AUD a month
huh isn't it 20?

[Anonymous No.8239687]

>>8239682
>It still sucks
wtf are you talking about

[Anonymous No.8239693]

>>8239683
It was $30 for a full year.
I generally don't like multiplayer games, so it makes no sense to pay more than for just the 1 month to order the controllers.

Unless I missed something and you need the annual sub to be eligible to order them.

[Anonymous No.8239694]

>>8239675
>>8239682
N64 emulation is fine.
>>8239679
>$6 a month
It's $2.50 AUD a month ($30 a year).
As for your N64, an unmodded one with a retrotink looks good ino, given that modding one with an UltraHDMI is nigh impossible in Aus

[Anonymous No.8239695]

>>8239550

Does it finally have a bit of the space-tech component called lubricant in it even if some stupid child could get it on his fingers and then in pure genius eat it?

[Anonymous No.8239698]

>>8239679
They aren't doing the new membership yearly from the looks of it

[Anonymous No.8239702]

>>8239698
They are. This has been confirmed. It costs twice as much as the base membership

[Anonymous No.8239712]

>>8239687
N64 emulation even on PC still sucks. Why would it be better on Switch? There's no emulator that runs decently without some sort of monkey's paw tradeoff sacrificing transition effects, framerate, textures, latency, etc. There's always issues, it's fine if that's how you prefer to play the games, but don't try to convince me to overlook them when I have better options. (Everdrive.)

>>8239694
>N64 emulation is fine.
Emulating N64 games is fine and perfectly acceptable, yes, but emulating N64 hardware still comes with issues. It's nowhere near NES or SNES levels of accuracy or performance.

[Anonymous No.8239713]

>>8239712
>N64 emulation even on PC still sucks
stop lying

[Anonymous No.8239721]

>>8239712
You have a bad PC

[Anonymous No.8239726]

>>8239694
>It's $2.50 AUD a month ($30 a year).
No point paying annually if it's only for the privilege of buying a N64 controller.
Anyway I actually was going to grab a RT5x in the last restock, but I let it slip through because the 50 USD forced-DHL due to COVID really burned my ass on top of the 300 USD for the unit. Comes out to 500 AUD and that's a lot of extra money I'm being charged just for the crime of being Australian.

[Anonymous No.8239732]

>>8239713
>>8239721
What do you gain from telling yourself it's perfectly accurate when it's not? I told you the issues that exist. You're telling me these were all solved by now? Come up with a different fucking response that doesn't equate to "you're wrong." I'm genuinely curious why you would consider RetroArch to be 100% console accurate, more importantly which core you're considering 100% console accurate.

[Anonymous No.8239741]

>>8239732
>What do you gain from telling yourself it's perfectly accurate when it's not?
>100% console accurate
No one said this. Don't strawman

[Anonymous No.8239742]

>>8239732
>You're telling me these were all solved by now?
yes, it is not 2010 anymore
there are no fps issues and you can run games at a smooth 30 or 60
graphical glitches and textures are also now accurate, the stairing effect is gone
no one said it was 100% accurate but functionally it is as accurate as ps1 emulation is

[Anonymous No.8239747]

>>8239742
This

[Anonymous No.8239774]

>>8239741
That was my whole point. There's no emulator that replicates or runs N64 games accurate to the actual console or at least as close as NES and SNES do for their games. Texture and transition effects are still common on less popular games, switching cores always comes with a tradeoff of some sort. It's close enough if you decide to play games like Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time, but considering how many N64 games tie their mechanics to frame rate, sometimes you're better off playing off actual hardware with an Everdrive.

>>8239742
Are the games with framerate related mechanics fixed then? It's good to hear it's running better on PC, but what about running it from a Switch?

[Anonymous No.8239780]

>>8239742
you sound like every brain dead faggot bitching about psx2

[Anonymous No.8239785]

>>8239774
>or at least as close as NES and SNES do for their games. Texture and transition effects are still common on less popular games
no, any glitches you are experiencing are most likely from upscaled resolution issues
>>8239780
stop using project64

[Anonymous No.8239807]

>>8239785
I try running natively as possible. Mario Tennis was notorious for not having it's transition effects work and you'd get a black panel every time instead. Other games simply wouldn't load textures and you'd have a blank white space where the texture was supposed to go, lighting effects were all or nothing. Particle effects being too close to each other sometimes tanked the framerate. I've had so many issues with every emulator and core imaginable with a PC that's only 2 years old by this point that I just play off Everdrive or actual cartridge. I've also had more problems with the few N64 games I tried than the numerous amount of PS1 and SNES games. Only PS1 game I emulated that ran like shit was Medievil.

[Anonymous No.8239812]

>>8239807
I used parallel and experience no issuers whatsoever
played through both banjo games

[Anonymous No.8239814]

>you give Nintendo $50 and they give you a copy of mupen

I fucking hate Nintendo so much it’s unreal

[Anonymous No.8239824]

>>8239812
A lot of the popular games seem to affect what gets tweaked about an emulator so those games run better in them. Did you go for 100% in Banjo-Tooie at all? That's a game that uses a lot of framerate tied mechanics, especially in it's minigames. The FPS segments are apparently harder in emulator, the timer actually matches with the framerate so running at higher frames can cause them to be harder instead of anticipating slowdown like actual hardware.

>>8239814
A copy of Mupen you're only allowed access to for a year.

[Anonymous No.8239828]

>>8239824
banjo is not affected by this, perfect dark and goldeneye are, luckily you can turn that off

[Anonymous No.8239832]

>>8239824
The worst part is that people will look at this and say it’s fine. That it’s good even. Nintendo can act just as evil and money hungry as any other company but they get some kind of free pass because they have that warm friendly image/these are classic games. People genuinely think they’re one of the “good guys” when they’re just as scummy as EA or Activision at times, and they’ll keep getting away with it too. Those controllers will sell like hot cakes, and so will those Zelda game and watch things which are $50 pieces of plastic with Mesen and a rom dumped inside.

[Anonymous No.8239837]

>>8239828
Does turning it off force the timers to run separate from the framerate? Does it accommodate for the slowdown that would be given to it from running the game on actual hardware?

[Anonymous No.8239838]

>>8239837
ah, you're from emugen, say no more

[Anonymous No.8239841]

>>8239550
>>8239563
What’s the Animal Crossing thing?

[Anonymous No.8239843]

>>8239841
some shit from the new game as a "bonus"

[Anonymous No.8239847]

>>8239841
Sequel to that home designer thing that came out a few years ago

[Anonymous No.8239852]

>>8239847
And by sequel I mean it’s DLC

[Anonymous No.8239856]

>>8239832
To be fair, I wanted one of those controllers but the pre-orders sold out before I could get one. (How the fuck do pre-orders sell out anyway?) They were cheaper than pro-controllers and cost about as much adjusted for inflation anyway. If not for Switch, then I would've used on emulator. Modern joysticks don't have the same control feel when playing N64 games.

>>8239838
Don't know what that is. I've just been screwed over too many times by bullshit timers emulating Rareware games. One of the biggest issues I had when emulating N64 games, didn't know if they had fixed it recently, I'm just curious what or how they would've fixed it.

[Anonymous No.8239869]

>>8239856
Rare N64 games are held together with duct tape and bandaids. DK64 was notoriously hard to emulate properly for years and Tooie still brings some emulators to their knees if you don’t fuck about with the settings. They’re honestly anomalies in design, some of them

[Anonymous No.8239873]

>>8239856
>I've just been screwed over too many times by bullshit timers emulating Rareware games
then stop playing with full speed hack

[Anonymous No.8239889]

>>8239873
I haven't. I'm the same anon who said I try to play as natively as possible.

>>8239869
>DK64
I'm having mechanical fish flashbacks. It's one of those N64 games where a modern joystick doesn't feel right in emulator for some reason. I was hoping I could get the N64 controller Nintendo was offering. Hyperkin's N64 to USB plug doesn't work so well either for DK64. If the remaining issues are solved it'd probably be better to play in emulator because of the Switch Kongs Anywhere cheat that doesn't work on actual Gameshark.

[Anonymous No.8239959]

>>8239889
>I try to play as natively as possible
then you should have no issues playing the game through parallel, graphical or framerate wise

[Anonymous No.8240173]

Does anyone know anything about these controllers yet? Do rumble paks work?

[Anonymous No.8240183]

>>8239841
Basically, they made a sequel to the 3DS game where you could design the houses of Villagers but made it the DLC for the Switch instead of it being stand-alone. If you pay for the new Switch Online Premium, you get it for free. Anyone else has to pay $25 for it.

Honestly, making the major DLC for their first party games obstinately "free" with the Premium service would be a fucking great move on Nintendo's part.

[Anonymous No.8240358]

Imagine all the gaylords that pay for this

[Anonymous No.8240413]

>paying monthly fees to play 25 year old roms

[Anonymous No.8240517]

>>8240173
The rumble was confirmed today to be built-in. Hopefully it will be as good as the actual Rumble Pak, but I have my doubts.

[Anonymous No.8240607]

>merisharts pay more excluding VAT than yuropoors pay including VAT
BASED Ninty.

[Anonymous No.8240976]

>>8239550
>So I saw /vr/ was interested in these a few weeks ago
i seriously doubt /vr/ was interested in paying for roms unless it's just for the "portable n64 meme" as if any of you leave your house often enough to be playing video games in the park or on the train or something

[Anonymous No.8241370]

>>8239550
I'm not doing it because there's not enough games to justify it. I'd rather buy ROMs.
t. already has a Nintendo Switch online subscription and know when to tell my dealer, Nintendo: "No."

[Anonymous No.8241665]

>>8239712
>N64 emulation even on PC still sucks
Take me back to 2014 with you please.

[Anonymous No.8241697]

>>8239632
Devs aren't getting any money for any of these games any more.