this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
291 points (98.0% liked)

Nintendo

18438 readers
36 users here now

A community for everything Nintendo. Games, news, discussions, stories etc.

Rules:

  1. No NSFW content.
  2. No hate speech or personal attacks.
  3. No ads / spamming / self-promotion / low effort posts / memes etc.
  4. No linking to, or sharing information about, hacks, ROMs or any illegal content. And no piracy talk. (Linking to emulators, or general mention / discussion of emulation topics is fine.)
  5. No console wars or PC elitism.
  6. Be a decent human (or a bot, we don't discriminate against bots... except in Point 7).
  7. All bots must have mod permission prior to implementation and must follow instance-wide rules. For lemmy.world bot rules click here

Upcoming First Party Games (NA):

Game | Date

|

Mario & Luigi: Brothership | Nov 7 Donkey Kong Country Returns HD | Jan 16, 2025 Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition | Mar 20, 2025 Metroid Prime 4 | 2025

Other Gaming Communities

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
291
The GameCube And Wii Emulator Dolphin Is No Longer Coming To Steam (www.nintendolife.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
114 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haven’t all nintendo consoles been backwards compatible since the Wii though? Don’t Nintendo store games bought on the Wii work on the switch?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@Whirlybird @TheDarkKnight No? Switch isn't backwards compatible, like at all. I own a Wii U, a Wii a 3DS, a Game Cube, an N64... to name the most recent Nintendo consoles I have. Nothing I ever bought for them can be used with a Switch.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even digital titles? Damn, I thought that any digital titles you bought from the last few generations also worked on the switch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally none of them do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@Whirlybird @MomoTimeToDie Yes, extremely :( Fingers crossed, I hope the next console is backwards compatible! It happened between GameCube, Wii and Wii U so it's definitely possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The Wii U and the 3DS can be hacked to be incredibly backwards compatible. Wii U can run Wii and GameCube games natively, straight on the hardware, and the 3DS can do that for the old DS and GBA.

The Switch can do none of that, everything they got is ported or emulated.