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The Nintendo Switch turns 4 next month.
by rriepe 6y ago
The Nintendo Switch turns 4 next month.
- AshamedCaptain 6y agoExactly. I remember UltraHLE was less than 4 years after the N64.... and it was a more alien architecture...
- JansjoFromIkea 6y agoWas something like 2.5 years! In this era where convenience is super important it's less of a deal but when a not especially powerful PC could emulate the key N64 games and the games were both downloadable via dialup (Mario 64 was like an hour long download iirc?) at a point when they were $70 in shops... Just absolutely mindblowing stuff for the time really, especially if you were from a place like me where you'd have to get a long train journey to the nearest city to get these games. That being said, I was far too into SNES games at the time and found the analogue controls painful via keyboard to ever look into it that much.
- plussed_reader 6y agoI once chopped and moved an Ocarina of time rom via 24 3.5floppies to move it to a system with a beefier video card in the days before I had access to a CD burner.
- AshamedCaptain 6y agoYes, but this would not have been something common for the era. Very late 90s I already had a 32MB flash card and PCs were starting to lose the floppy drive.
- JansjoFromIkea 6y agoDoubt I even seen a flash card until 2002 or so. Floppy disks were still being used in my school up into the middle of the decade. CD burners only seriously ramped up in ubiquity in 2000 or so too; they very quickly became common place
- plussed_reader 6y agoI had a diamond rio with 16mb internal with an 8mb expansion from an older digital camera. 32MB flash back then was $$$$.