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Nintendo Switch Games with Free Nintendo Switch 2 Updates

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Nintendo Switch Games with Free Nintendo Switch 2 Updates - Nintendo US

List below.

Depending on the game it's resolution/framerate improvements, HDR support, mouse controls or gameshare/gamechat support.

ARMS
Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics
Game Builder Garage
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
Pokémon Scarlet
Pokémon Violet
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
Super Mario Odyssey
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

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I decompiled Echoes of Wisdom. It uses the pretty horrible Hejl Dawson tonemapper. Pretty sure the HDR is going to be fake inverse tonemapping.
- Hejl Dawson tonemapper
  No idea what this means, but definitely curious. Do you have any links explaining how this works to share?
  
  Helm Dawson tonemapper is a filmic tonemapper built by EA years ago. It's very contrasty, similar to ACES (What Unreal mimics in SDR and uses for HDR).
  The problem is, it completely crushes black detail.
  https://www.desmos.com/calculator/nrxjolb4fc
  Here's it compared to the other common Uncharted2 tonemapper:
  Everything under 0 is crushed.
  To note, it's exclusively an SDR tonemapper.
  I've found this tonemapper in Sleeping Dogs as well and when modding that game for HDR, it was very noticeable there how much it crushed. Nintendo would need to change the tonemapper to an HDR one or, what I think they'll do, fake the HDR by just scaling up the SDR image.
  To note, I've replaced the tonemapper in Echoes of Wisdom with a custom HDR tonemapper via Ryujinx and it's entirely something Nintendo can do. I just doubt they will.
- Thanks for your work!
I wonder why the paid patches for the other ones.
- Nintendo seems to be breaking these patches in 3 "groups".
  Performance upgrades only -> Free
  Performance upgrades+ additional functionality -> Free with Online+Expansion, Paid otherwise (BOTW, TOTK)
  Performance upgrades+ DLC-like additional content -> Paid (Kirby, Mario Party)
  
  Performance upgrades+ additional functionality -> Free with Online+Expansion, Paid otherwise (BOTW, TOTK)
  You mean the smart phone apps? Nobody asked them. They should put all performance upgrades free and paid for the extras. One more reason why consoles suck against PC.
Get you used to it, so it becomes normalised nice
- The first hit is always free...
Curious to see performance reports. If Echoes of Wisdom is finally stable I'll pick it up.
The real question is if third parties will do anything to fix up some of their games. The titles I'd most like to play on Switch 2 already have shoddy Switch 1 ports, and I fear the titles that will get ported to Switch 2 will again mostly be above its weight class.
- Echoes of wisdom was great on the Switch too, definitely worth picking up regardless. ❤️
  Edit: oh you mean pick up the 2. I get it.
  
  I held off on Echoes because I've seen some pretty bad reports about its performance issues.
Oh, okay I guess. From the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct they made it sound like the Scarlet and Violet update would be paid DLC for nothing more than improved frame rates, glad it's not.
Finally super Mario sunshine, fire emblem and soul calibur and a GameCube controller for the switch.
We have reached peak humanity
- Any reason you don't like free updates?
  
  Considering we had most of these features on a switch emulator a couple years ago, the cost of Nintendo switch online for basic features that should be free, and the inflated cost of the switch 2 and it's games, I don't need them pretending like they're doing me a solid by patching games to work better on their emulator.
  
  "free"
- Why is this upvoted at all
  
  Wish I knew. But I'll tell you I'm not feeling very welcome or confortable about posting news on Lemmy again.
Pathetic
- This is a good thing.
  
  Are you forgetting Nintendo's shitty consumer practices, especially the bs they're pulling recently?
  
  It doesn't fix their anti consumer practices by a long shot

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