Nintendo Switch Games with Free Nintendo Switch 2 Updates
Nintendo Switch Games with Free Nintendo Switch 2 Updates
Free updates to improve playability on the Nintendo Switch 2 system will be released for selected Nintendo Switch games.
List below.
Depending on the game it's resolution/framerate improvements, HDR support, mouse controls or gameshare/gamechat support.
- ARMS
- Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
- Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics
- Game Builder Garage
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
- Pokémon Scarlet
- Pokémon Violet
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
- Super Mario Odyssey
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
I decompiled Echoes of Wisdom. It uses the pretty horrible Hejl Dawson tonemapper. Pretty sure the HDR is going to be fake inverse tonemapping.
Hejl Dawson tonemapper
No idea what this means, but definitely curious. Do you have any links explaining how this works to share?
Helm Dawson tonemapper is a filmic tonemapper built by EA years ago. It's very contrasty, similar to ACES (What Unreal mimics in SDR and uses for HDR).
The problem is, it completely crushes black detail.
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/nrxjolb4fc
Here's it compared to the other common Uncharted2 tonemapper:
Everything under 0 is crushed.
To note, it's exclusively an SDR tonemapper.
I've found this tonemapper in Sleeping Dogs as well and when modding that game for HDR, it was very noticeable there how much it crushed. Nintendo would need to change the tonemapper to an HDR one or, what I think they'll do, fake the HDR by just scaling up the SDR image.
To note, I've replaced the tonemapper in Echoes of Wisdom with a custom HDR tonemapper via Ryujinx and it's entirely something Nintendo can do. I just doubt they will.
Thanks for your work!
I wonder why the paid patches for the other ones.
Nintendo seems to be breaking these patches in 3 "groups".
- Performance upgrades only -> Free
- Performance upgrades+ additional functionality -> Free with Online+Expansion, Paid otherwise (BOTW, TOTK)
- Performance upgrades+ DLC-like additional content -> Paid (Kirby, Mario Party)
Curious to see performance reports. If Echoes of Wisdom is finally stable I'll pick it up.
The real question is if third parties will do anything to fix up some of their games. The titles I'd most like to play on Switch 2 already have shoddy Switch 1 ports, and I fear the titles that will get ported to Switch 2 will again mostly be above its weight class.
Oh, okay I guess. From the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct they made it sound like the Scarlet and Violet update would be paid DLC for nothing more than improved frame rates, glad it's not.
Pathetic
Finally super Mario sunshine, fire emblem and soul calibur and a GameCube controller for the switch.
We have reached peak humanity