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Nintendo Online's N64 Emulation Leaves a Lot to Be Desired - NVC 584

Nintendo Voice Chat

IGN & Geek Media

Technology, Video Games, Leisure

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

It's a packed episode this week on Nintendo Voice Chat! First up, the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack is out, and there's some frustration over how the N64 games run on Switch. Join Seth Macy, Peer Schneider, Kat Bailey, and our old Ninfriendo Zach Ryan as they hash it all out. Plus, hear about IGN's Mario Party Superstars review, the new Pikmin AR game, and more. Stick around to hear some spoilery thoughts on Metroid Dread. Timecodes: 00:00:00 - N64 Expansion Pack chat 00:29:25 - Is Mario Party Superstars the best Mario Party? 00:33:32 - The new Pikmin AR game 00:37:51 - Top Nintendo Games #43: Metroid Prime  00:48:25 - Why Nintendo's history deserves better 00:55:10 - Metroid Dread SPOILERCAST Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is up super nymphrendos we are back its episode 584 of Nintendo voice chat. I am Seth Macy

0:09.1

returning this week to the froggy chair we have Zach Ryan. Welcome Zach back and everything is different. Wait what what just happened

0:22.4

It's a special Halloween episode. I had to do it. Yeah, I'm sorry

0:25.6

I'm sorry.

0:27.6

Oh, nice to be back. Thanks for having me. Welcome back glad to have you also with us as always well as most always is

0:34.8

Peshnider. It says if you have never left Zach just you're waiting the show and everything. Yeah, I know right

0:41.9

D railing it right out of the gate. Uh huh. And of course what episode of MVC would be complete without industry legend cat bill.

0:49.3

What up nymphrendos.

0:51.3

We are going to start this week's show with a little bit of housekeeping about last week's show where the premise of the show was what is the deal with Nintendo.

1:00.4

Nintendo not supporting Animal Crossing. What is the deal with that? Well Nintendo actually reached out to us about that op ed and said oh no that's the last oh I should point out and a lot of people on Twitter also pointed out that's the last major free update so there's still going to be updates coming along.

1:19.3

So for everyone who tweeted us out or tweeted out to us to like clear that up thank you very much it's much appreciated so that's it for housekeeping let's get right into the meat of it.

1:28.8

In Nintendo 64 back here talking about that old chestnut again 25 years since that bad boy came out guess what we have it on Nintendo switch online and everybody hates it well.

1:42.1

That's what I do. That's not true. I did I did actually put a poll on the on the NBC Twitter and most people who did buy it are okay with it. Some love it. Most like it.

1:55.0

Some of them have no hard feelings one way or another. A small amount of people actually are filled with regret sorry you actually can't cancel it as far as I know so.

2:03.9

There are no refunds here. No I found that out because I was trying to cancel my family plan and go to the single but anyway who cares about that.

2:13.9

Yeah people aren't happy about the n64 emulation apparently according to oatmeal dome on Twitter this is the same emulator that's used in Super Mario 3D All Stars.

2:28.6

Co-named hovercraft these are deep dives into the system here uses I mean well this we all knew but it uses JIT direct emulate the N64 CPU obviously like I don't even know why I'm reading that.

2:41.8

But Vulcan is the graphics API and rom files are zealib compressed N64 man I do love me some zealib compression anyone want to want to speak to that what do you think about that lib compressed files.

2:54.9

It's kind of compression. It's the best kind right. Well all all that translates to an emulator that works fairly well with certain games like I could not tell the difference between Dr. Mario 64 my switch and my N64 version.

3:10.4

I believe you love family multiplayer game but a pretty marked difference between Mario 64 running on hardware and the CRT and all carina time versus the switch version which.

3:21.9

Yeah it's some if you hadn't played those games in a long time and you didn't have a comparison you might not immediately notice but something feels a lot like they feel.

3:32.0

Flogged she can feel that there's input lag and then there definitely differences in the visual quality because this emulator seems to whatever reason struggle with some of the alpha channel like fog effects that N64 developers used a lot you know they.

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