Nintendo released a remastered version of Metroid Prime for Nintendo Switch on February 8th. And, unsurprisingly, the game is already playable on PC at 4K/60fps via the yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator.
YouTube’s ‘reznoire’ shared the following video, showcasing the game running on the yuzu Early Access 3401 build. In order to capture this gameplay footage, reznoire used an Intel Core i9-12900K with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080. And, as we can see, the game runs smoothly at 1440p with locked 60fps.
What’s also interesting here is that emulation appears to be perfect. From what I could tell, there weren’t any graphical glitches or artifacts in the following footage.
As said, this didn’t really surprise me. After all, we’ve seen numerous Nintendo Switch releases running smoothly via Nintendo Switch emulators on launch day. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, Bayonetta 3, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 were among them.
Enjoy!
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Mobile phones arnt nearly as fast as advertised, because of insane GPU throttling, but handheld gaming is not about power anyway, but the quality of games.
Switch display has 1280×720 resolution, so 720p looks perfect on it. There’s no need for higher resolution on such small display.
Was working pretty good from get go, and now with several versions after on Yuzu, it’s friKKing awesome!
How I love to play the games in Superior way vs the turds dumb enough, to buy the POS Switch, and by then support the worst scum Nintendo is!
Emu’s rule and Piracy forever ?
It’s been a while since i checked the progress of Yuzu and Ryujinx, could you tell me if they changed much ?
Last time i tried Ryujinx had “better” performance and maybe compatibility but terrible frame-pacing, i think it was back when Metroid Dread came out.
Yuzu been working perfect for me, so I havent used Ryujinx in a very long time!
I mostly play MK8 tho. So I dont know about most other games, besides that and Metroid!
Ryujinx accuracy is better, but Yuzu performance usually higher on some cases probably due accuracy sacrifices being made). Both still complement each other perfectly … If one game not run or have game breaking bug in one, usually perform better on other
A remaster of a 20+ year old game that looks like a PS3 game (i.e. just one generation ahead) at best… While I applaud the developers for doing a great job with the extensive reworking of the title, I can’t help but feel that the game deserved a remake on better hardware. The switch was underpowered when it came out six year ago, it’s pretty much ancient now. If only nintendo would quit screwing around and just release a proper new machine already.
why would nintendo need to do that? The Switch is currently the third best selling system worldwide, why would they copy the competition they’re beating?
So what, Nintendo should just keep making switches until the end of time since it’s apparently the 3rd best selling console? What kind of logic is that?
Yeah, if it sells then why change it?
Nintendo’s games aren’t designed to be ultra realistic like the majority of AAA games today, that’s why their hardware doesn’t need that much power…
And I personally think that the classic is already perfect in terms of gameplay mechanics, that’s why it doesn’t need to be remade. A good remaster with updated visuals and reworked controls is all what this game needed, and that’s exactly what we got…
And they charged $40 US for it. Meanwhile Quake 2 recently got a free remaster update that arguably took far more effort than remastering Metroid Prime. Nintendrones are among the most sheep-like consoomers.
Its playable since day one for me both on Yuzu and Ryujinx. A bit of graphical glitch on Ryujinx build at the launch day (character model and ships darker than the rest) and performance hiccup on Yuzu build a day or two before the game surprise launch (that can easily fixed using handheld mode)