Ocarina of Time, a perennial short-list contender for the title of “greatest game of all time” since it was first released in 1998, suffers from input lag that makes it frustrating to play and graphical downgrades that undermine the original game’s atmosphere.
Two of the biggest games in the entire package are the most impacted by these emulation issues.
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And the emulation issues can’t be fixed unless Nintendo itself issues a patch given these games are over 20 years old, and mostly made by Nintendo itself, it’s just weird that they were released with these problems to begin with. The controller issues can be addressed by buying a special Nintendo 64 controller made for the Switch, but that’s a limited edition release that’s sold out everywhere and selling on secondary markets for far more than its recommended price of $50-making it really impractical to buy the thing.
Also, the Nintendo 64’s unique controller layout is hard to replicate on a traditional controller, making some of these games very awkward to play. The emulation of some of those Nintendo 64 games is pretty rough. Many of the Genesis games were already available on the Switch through the Sega Genesis Classics collection, but this is the first time Nintendo’s late ‘90s library has made it onto the Switch. Still, it gets you instant access to some of the greatest games of the ‘90s, including Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart 64, Streets of Rage 2, Gunstar Heroes, and more. That’s still cheaper than what Xbox and PlayStation players pay annually for online gaming, although the Switch’s online infrastructure isn’t nearly as feature-rich or efficient as those services. The new plan is $50 a year, and doesn’t have a monthly option. The new Expansion Pack add-on more than doubles that price-and it’s the only way to get those Nintendo 64 and Genesis games.
Since it launched Nintendo Switch Online has cost $4 a month or $20 for a year, which is significantly cheaper than online subscriptions for other consoles, and not a bad deal for a growing library of old games that were being sold by Nintendo for $5 a piece through the Virtual Console as recently as a few years ago. This is a beefed-up version of the Switch’s online subscription plan, which not only lets people play against each other online, but also grants access to dozens of classic NES and SNES games, as well as new competitive games like Tetris 99 and Pac-Man 99. Nine Nintendo 64 games and 14 Sega Genesis games are now available on the Switch as part of the absurdly named Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership. Nintendo fans have been waiting for Nintendo 64 games to hit the Switch ever since the console-handheld hybrid came out, and they’ve finally gotten their wish-only in that monkey’s paw kind of way.
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