| ▲ | cdnutter 5 hours ago |
| I’m curious why people have started using the 3DS as the gateway device for ports of games, like Melee and F-Zero X. Don’t get me wrong, the 3DS is a gem of a console, and it harks back to when Nintendo put more thought into what they released instead of just another Mario sports game; but since the Switch is so much more powerful, I’d expect ports to that be more of a priority. |
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| ▲ | Gigachad 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Not sure why others are doing it, but the switch is kind of a boring console imo. You may as well just use one of the million PC handhelds with the same form factor, and persistent hacks require a hardware mod. The 3DS is a fun pocketable form factor which a lot of people already own and easy to permanently mod on any firmware version or hardware revision. |
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| ▲ | BoorishBears 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm surprised no one has mentioned online: most people don't want to risk console bans, and that immediately makes jailbreaking their Switch a non-starter At this point most people getting a 3DS are probably doing so specifically to jailbreak it |
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| ▲ | coffeesoda 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The 3DS has the novelty of 3D. I always wanted to play F-Zero in this form factor and it seemed like a reasonable port to accomplish. |
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| ▲ | tempest_ 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I would guess the 3DS is far more "jailbroken" than the switch. |
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| ▲ | prophesi 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Jailbroken 3DS scene is usually for modding the console OS itself given how easy it is to run custom firmware. And for ports, and emulation. While the GBA has a pretty dedicated community for custom games and romhacks, people often create games for the platform at gamejams because of how great the dev tooling is. It's a bit lackluster on the 3DS, but I did find the Love Brew[0] framework to be really nice. Even has simulator support[1] for testing your builds locally, though fonts will look much different on real hardware, with likely a bunch of other gotchas. Running out of RAM being a big one. [0] https://lovebrew.org/ [1] https://github.com/lovebrew/nest edit: compared it to the GBA homebrew scene since it's a large dedicated community to derive pros and cons between the two from. Switch is still receiving updates from Nintendo to brick your system. | |
| ▲ | tourmalinetaco 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It is. Any 3DS can be jailbroken with CFW with a simple Internet guide and no physical modifications. As far as I know, the Switch CFW is locked to only V1 motherboards or modchips, making it far less accessible even if it is more powerful. |
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| ▲ | shoobiedoo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The N64 dev scene seems to be taking off too. If I had to guess, working around limitations in hardware are the fun part for a lot of people. |
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