The scan of the S2 chip highlighted a different architecture it's custom between Nvidia's newer and prior gen, S2 use a high level emulation where rather than emulate the older hardware it instead reads the coding instruction and translates them to something native to the newer hardware, this is how it saves on processing power on the hardware but the result is incompatibilities are more likely if a game is coded in an unorthodox way or an engine is heavily modified specifically for a certain game.

The games aren't actually compatible with the hardware per say the emulation process has to translate for the hardware to run them. DMC4 could be ported over but seeing as the is no S1 version it would need to be a ground up affair where as DMC5 is likely more a job of scaling on RE Engine.

They need to release a S2 version tbh.

Not even the end of year 2 tbh it's easy to forget this holiday will only be a year and a half which would make such a library even more impressive.

Alright… so I just got finished up with the Mario Wonder DLC. I must say: This is probably the best DLC/NS2E Nintendo has pumped out so far. If you are simply looking for more Super Mario Bros Wonder, you get 60+ missions, 8 boss battles, an entire expansion upon the SMBWonder world, in addition to 4K HDR 60fps. It genuinely feels like what SMGalaxy 2 was supposed to be for SMGalaxy 1: It’s literally just Super Mario Bros Wonder: More.

That said, if you’ve got the money and you really liked Mario Wonder, then this is a must buy IMO. I admittedly didn’t find any of the levels particularly challenging… though there were definitely some that had me sweat a bit.

Also! Once I finished the Wonder DLC, I finally got started on a game that has been in my backlog for four years straight: Kirby and the Forgotten Lands. This is the oldest game in my backlog, and I’ve been dying to play it for the longest time. Here’s to hoping it lives up to the hype!

How is it just as a single player experience, for someone who's played the base game and just want some extra solo content? I am interested, but the upgrade is a bit pricey.

Hope you enjoy Forgotten Land; are you updating it to the Switch 2 edition/Star Crossed World expansion? 

The single player experience is all that I got to play— the multiplayer content (of which there is a lot) cannot even be as much as previewed if you aren’t with another friend from you Friend list or couch co-op.

That said, single-player left me very impressed. Not sure what else I can say beyond my initial post TBH… what are you curious about in particular, I guess I should ask? The missions were very fun and creative, and are a significant bump in difficulty compared to the base game; I really found how they incorporated the Poplins into the Captain Toad Brigade to be super charming; etc.

Also: Yep! NS2 Edition. Apparently I bought the $20USD upgrade back in August, so lucky me lol.

About how long would it take to beat the extra missions and boss mode, do you think? :)
Kirby is a banger, especially at 60fps, I had a blast with it and I hope you do too.

For the reference sake: It took me 20hr to beat SMBWonder back in October 2023.

Today: It took me from 11am to 7pm (8hr) to 100% complete all single-player content. But you have to keep in mind that I just ran through NSMBWii, SMBros 2 USA, and recently even some of SMBros 2 JP… so I was literally blasting through everything first try. Had I not been in such a prepped state, it would’ve definitely taken closer to 10-12hr.

And I’m so excited for Kirby! Got through the entire first world already… definitely feels like it’s gonna be a very special game!!

Thanks for the info; I went ahead and downloaded it, as Mario Wonder was one of my favourite games of the Switch 1 gen, so more of that sounds like a great time.

Funnily enough it's my first ever 4K game!

And yeah I loved Forgotten Land as well, one of my top games of 2022 along with Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Bayonetta 3, and Prodeus.