Continuing on the linked post, I wonder if another option could be to simply wait for the game to become ported/ready for emulation. I have zero experience with the world of console emulators.

Please advise 😊

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[–] 37 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Switch 2 games are already being dumped and run on different hardware. Dont give fucking Nintendo any money!

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 day ago (10 children)

    Dont give fucking Nintendo any money! Word. That's why I'm aksing. 😁 So, what's your ETA on the remake of OoT? 🥹🙏

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    It was already dumped the day before launch, running at 15-30 fox on Lichii, just wait a month or two and it'll have playable frame rates.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 day ago

    Mostly, I hate the world.

    But when some random internet stranger says

    It was already dumped the day before launch, running at 15-30 fox on Lichii, just wait a month or two and it’ll have playable frame rates. I hate nothing.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Ah my bad, I thought the question was regarding game dumps in general and then you were just discussing your reasoning why. As another commenter said though Ocarina is already out there. Good luck enjoying both the game and not giving Nintendo money :D

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (4 children)

    How does one learn to look for this solution? I haven’t emulated since PS2 was figured out lol.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Emulator is Lichii

    Rules say cannot link but dump can be found on a popular Russian tracker.

    I’d wait a little till it runs better though.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Thanks! I’ll probably have to wait a bit longer for Mac arm support. It’s my latest/powerful GPU device at the moment. Can’t wait to play OOT for like the hundredth time lol

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  • [–] 1 point 21 hours ago (1 child)

    It will probably be smoothly running natively on Mac before anything else since Switch 2 is also arm. Take a look at NXNative.

    I’ve not tried it because I don’t like gaming on my MacBook.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

    Iirc the first news are about a month old now, pretty recent stuff. Having followed console modding and emulation for some decades now, from my experience, patience's the key.

    On the Switch 2 specifically, I made a thread of posts a while back, listing my irritations with the console and its overdependance and overreliance on internet connections.

    But if you'd be interested in following news on the matter, GBAtemp's a good source for that, and adjacent to that there's also !emulation@sh.itjust.works and !emulator_news@crust.piefed.social (latter one run by me hehe). In fact, GBAtemp has RSS feeds, so I think I'll link to Piefed too.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    I get 60fps apart from shader stutter and random crash in oot-r on a 7950 and 7800xt. uses like 5-6gb vram. If there are a lot of new shaders at once it will crawl but only once, same as we had with switch1. Within the span of playing up to getting zeldas lullaby and entering kakariko, I updated like 6 times and watched the visual glitches go away in twos. At this rate ill give the remaining issues a couple days to a week.

    In dk bonanza I got to the little gem people area and that slowed down significantly but the next area was back to regular fps.

    arch btw cachy, bazzite on a lesser pc will be tested tomorrow

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    https://gbatemp.net/news/ocarina-of-time-switch-2-remake-is-playing-on-lichii-emulator.686265/

    I mean, they probably won’t be perfect but it looks like people can get something going pretty quickly.

    Also, there seems to be more work on specific builds of different emulators than a cohesive general emulator at the moment.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    Awesome! I don't know anything about emulators at the moment, so I don't quite understand the implications of "general emulator" versus "builds of different emulators, but I'll start reading up on the subject as soon as I'm done with another project! 😊

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  • [–] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    It’s like any other open source project. Forks for different specific uses.

    In your digging, I’d caution you to stay away from sites that offer switch 2 roms. No semi-credible site is sharing them, atm. There are a ton of people putting out malware, etc in the interim.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 23 hours ago

    Right. Thanks for the headsup! I've never "dabbled" in executables/roms/software piracy before, so I never really worried about malware in that sense (while still keeping a fair cyber hygiene). Maybe it's time to setup a virtual machine in case I ever want to test run "shady stuff". Thanks again! 😁

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Wait what?

    I am playing switch 2 games on my Android handheld already.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    It wouldn't surprise me if Switch 2 ran quantum computing one year from now.

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