The emulation of N64 games in the higher category of the Nintendo Switch Online service is slowly starting to improve.
The Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack category was launched in October (so you can access SEGA Mega Drive games beyond Nintendo 64 titles, for example) and the reception wasn’t overwhelmingly positive: the N64 game emulation wasn’t the best, and neither for example, it was not possible to change the key assignment. There are places where the sound is lagging behind, for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, we can see from the comparison below that the handling of the fog on the Switch is extremely weak.
In November, Doint Bowser, the U.S. president of Nintendo, said in an unusual way that his criticisms of Nintendo Switch Online’s N64 emulation were taken very seriously. And two months have passed since then, and Banjo-Kazooie has appeared on the playlist. But that’s not the only thing that happened in the background, because the big N seems to have taken the formula slap really well, because the emulation was slowly moving in the right direction. In the Ocarina of Time, for example, the quality of the water is no longer a snap, but the fog may still be lacking.
LuigiBlood, a data miner according to the Japanese company has not modified the game’s ROM files, which could be a sign that the console emulator has been repaired. But it’s really far from the end of the tunnel: Yoshi’s Story, Paper Mario, and Dr. Mario 64 are pretty much mistaken graphically. The Controller Pak is not supported (i.e. the memory card is not working…) but is not currently activated from a user point of view, although it is there in the code.
The Nintendo 64 game library could be expanded with twenty more titles to include at least 38 games on the Nintendo Switch Online, writes MondoMega, and there would be 17 more N64 addresses there than on the Wii and Wii U Virtual Console…
So Nintendo is slowly but surely rolling towards the right quality, but it doesn’t hurt to ask the question: why didn’t they wait a little longer? a by starting a service?
Source: VGC
[NSO – Nintendo 64]
It seems the water in the now-infamous Water Temple room has been fixed in the latest update? I think the fog is still missing, though.
Haven’t checked the rest of the game to see if any of the other issues have changed, but this is promising. pic.twitter.com/wcoG3hIxu2
— OatmealDome (@OatmealDome) January 21, 2022
No, @NintendoAmerica did not fix the Paper Mario game over crashes with Watt or the save data issues in the Banjo-Kazooie update.
Thank you, very cool. 🥲 pic.twitter.com/tGneyqtlMj
— JCog (@JCog_) January 21, 2022
I guessed it doesn’t? I think that weird mirror effect is the bug right? pic.twitter.com/XwwIJ43IAt
— NullType (@NullType42) January 21, 2022
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