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potato_hamster on 11 January 2018
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HoangNhatAnh said:
potato_hamster said:

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.

Weaker hardware mean take more time to optimize for emulate, isn't it obvious ? Since when i said 4 months? New 3ds came out in Japan in 2014, SNES VC is 2016 mean 2 years later and you knew New 3ds CPU is 4 times faster than 3ds. Definitely take more times than 2 years like New 3ds, 3 or 4 years? As we see, Switch came out last year, put SNES VC on Switch now is way better choice than 3ds. And all SNES games you mentioned run on 3ds emulator at 60fps in 3D? Yes or no?

I know that English isn't your first language, but I'm having a pretty hard time trying to figure out what you're trying to say for most of this post. I assume you're trying to argue that Nintendo is better of spending their time on making an SNES emulator for Switch instead of putting their efforts in to making a base 3DS emulator today? Of course that's true. Then again, I'm not arguing that Nintendo should do this today, I'm arguing that the could have done it when they were developing the emulator the new 3DS and chose not to. Whether it would take a significant amount of time or effort getting a SNES emulator running on the base 3DS that can play all the games currently available on the N3DS Virtual Console, I'm not about to speculate. It's entirely plausible that the N3DS SNES emulator already works perfectly on the base 3DS for the SNES currently available on the Virtual Console.

And yes, all the SNES games that are currently out for the N3DS Virtual Console are playable on the SNES 9X emulator for the base 3DS at 60fps. I'm not sure what you mean by 3D. These are SNES games. Most of them are 2D. The games on the N3DS Virtual Console aren't 3D games like Star Fox.