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More Switch Games Receive Switch 2 Backwards Compatibility Fixes (www.nintendolife.com)
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Games that received recent fixes:

  • Buddy Collection
  • Dragon Quest Builders
  • Laysara: Summit Kingdom
  • Monster Hunter Stories
  • Neon Inferno
  • Overcooked! All You Can Eat
  • This is Fine: Maximum Cope
  • Top Cop - Police Training
  • Wolfenstein: Youngblood
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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I have trouble fully understanding the article. Did the games get updates, so they are FORWARD compatible with Switch2 or did the Switch2 OS get updates to be BACKWARD compatible with otherwise unmodified Switch1 games?

Switch1 games receiving updates for hardware in the back would mean Wii U and that's obviously idiotic and Wii U is not what the article is about.

I assume it's the developers of the listed games released updates for those for better forwards compatibility with newer hardware and the article author just doesn't understand how direction works but I'm not 100% certain.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago

Switch 2 runs Switch 1 games via a compatibility layer, rather than hardware-level BC like previous Nintendo consoles. Some games have bugs, but Nintendo has been continuously updating the compatibilty layer to iron those out.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Both exist. Crypt of the Necrodancer, which still exists only as a Switch 1 game, had devs pushing updates to their code to try and fix a bad bug that happened exclusively on Switch 2.

But at the same time, and probably more commonly, there are patches to the Switch 2 backward compatibility layer so more Switch 1 games run correctly through it (possibly with patches dedicated to special cases, but still part of the Switch 2 OS). I suspect the games in that list are examples of that since the source seems to be Nintendo's own compatibility list.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Both exist.

I know. That's why I asked which one it is. I don't have access to my Switch 2 for a couple of days and I also don't have any of these games, so I cannot look for myself.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I agree, "backward compatibilty" has become kind of catchall.

In this case though, following to the article mentioned in the source it says:

Nintendo is still slowly but surely implementing backwards compatibility fixes for Switch games on Switch 2.

Seems like Backward compatibility fix in Switch 2 by Nintendo. Haven't seen any news of it other than that though.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

IF device_name{switch_2}

Screen Resoloution = 1920x1080

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Switch 2's backward compability is not hardware-level, it uses a translation layer.

It's almost complete at this point, but it's not perfect, which is is why there are still a few games that don't work (7 of them have been identified in the linked article).

So no, when they say they released compatibilty fixes, they didn't tell the game to crank up the resolution, they tweaked the compatibility layer so the game run normally.

I used to have a few of the broken ones, now I think the only one still having problems is AOT2, which is on their list.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

No wonder they go after emulation so hard thank you for the facts