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potato_hamster on 11 January 2018
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HoangNhatAnh said:
potato_hamster said:

But they can both run Shovel Knight, Shantae: Half Genie Hero, and Steamworld Dig, all of which are 2D games. The 3DS also has games like Super Mario Maker, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Mighty No. 9 and Super Street Fighter IV, which are also 2D games. I'm not sure why you have the impression that the 3DS can't run 2D games.

Besides, Hyperlight Drifter was cancelled for Vita and Wii U not because it couldn't be done, but because it turned out to be too much work and not worth the effort. Besides, Hyperlight Drifter.

https://www.polygon.com/2016/9/9/12853072/hyper-light-drifter-wii-u-ps-vita-canceled

"Heart Machine spent months trying to optimize the game for the [Vita], Preston told backers, but doing so would require essentially starting from scratch.".

That is why i said 2d or not is meaningless if the hardware is too slow and cost too much time to optimize. If Nintendo try to optimize old 3ds hardware to run SNES VC, then maybe in 2018 it can happen with 75% games at full 60 fps in 3D, 25% left is impossible. Meanwhile, let's ignore New 3ds can run all 100% at 60fps in 3D and takes only one-third of years to work on, sound reasonable

I never made an argument that the 2D nature of the games were meaningless. We are however, talking about Super Nintendo games that are almost 30 years old. Let's not pretend these are demanding games on par with 2D games that were released in the past few years.

Again, we already have a homebrew emulator in SNES9X for the base 3DS that already has perfect emulation in over 85% of Super Nintendo games. There's no reason to suspect that Nintendo can't do even better than that with their own in-house developed emulator considering a) they have an technical team with far more combined expertise and b) they understand the SNES and 3DS hardware better than literally anyone else on the planet. Why would we expect Nintendo to be less successful than you can.

Also, please provide a source that the SNES emulator Nintendo built for the 3DS plays 100% of Super Nintendo games perfectly, and provide a source that Nintendo spent 4 months working on it. Please note that 100% of the games released on the N3DS Virtual Console are already emulated perfectly by the SNES9X base 3DS emulator.