Comment on ‘Palworld: Feybreak’ Draws 200,000 Concurrent Players, Now In Steam’s Top 10
derpgon@programming.dev 1 week agoThe only way there is emulation. Sure, you won’t get to use the cool features of their hardware, and you might get to play a buggy game a year after release, but you are not supporting a shifty company - and that counts.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
What “cool features” does Nintendo do anymore? The big draw of the switch was that it’s portable, and there’s dozens of handheld PC’s to compete there. Then there’s the motion control, which wasn’t great in the long run and can also be done by emulators with a variety of controllers supporting it
derpgon@programming.dev 1 week ago
Especially detachable controllers and their games supporting them. You can have two per player in a 4 player game, or 8 where each holds one. I quite liked the feature and found it novel. I am not sure if you can do the same using emulators - or at least do it as seamlessly.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
You could just have extra regular controllers. That was always an option. And with the price of Joycons it wouldn’t be much more costly
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 week ago
yup. we use Xbox controllers with our hacked switch