Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Remake comes out today on the Nintendo Switch. It looks like you can already play it on PC using Nintendo Switch emulators. Shocking, right?
In this game, players will explore a colorful paper world with charming characters in every fold. The remake comes with better graphics and an updated soundtrack. Moreover, it packs some gameplay additions like updated quick-travel pipes and a Partner Ring to swap characters in a jiffy.
Now what’s great here is that Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Remake can run with 60fps on the latest version of Ryujinx. For comparison purposes, the official Nintendo Switch version is locked at 30fps. Given the game’s graphics, I don’t really know why the big N decided to lock its framerate. It doesn’t appear to be a graphical powerhouse. Surely the Nintendo Switch should be able to run it at 60fps, right? Anyway, the point is that PC gamers can enjoy the game at higher resolutions and higher framerates. This is huge.
To be honest, I’m not surprised that Ryujinx can run this latest Nintendo Switch game so smoothly. After all, this has happened with many Nintendo Switch games before. Games like Red Dead Redemption, Bayonetta 3, Monster Hunter Rise, Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, and Pikmin 4 were all playable on PC as soon as they came out. Some games were even playable on Nintendo Switch emulators before they were officially released. Such examples are Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, Super Mario Wonder and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
You can go ahead and download the latest version of Ryujinx from its official website. As for the other Nintendo Switch emulators, Suyu and Nuzu, they may also be able to run it. We haven’t tested them, though, so we don’t know for sure.
Finally, you can find below a video that showcases the game running in the latest version of Ryujinx. To run Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Remake, reznoire used an Intel Core i9-14900K with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. From what I can see, there is only a 1440p/60fps version, so we can assume that the game was running at that resolution. And, as we can see, the NVIDIA RTX 4090 was barely used in it.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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Excellent, once the decensorship and accurate translation mods come out it’ll be perfect.
As a side note, just lol at everything being turned into reflective surfaces. Even grass and carpet are now reflective. It reminds me of those awful “ray-tracing” Reshade presets where every single surface becomes a mirror. I bet the game could’ve run at 60fps on the switch had they turned that completely unnecessary effect off.
I haven’t even had a chance to play Thousand Year Door yet despite loving the original Paper Mario back in the day. I think I would just rather inject the GC game into my hacked Wii U and play it without the woke crap.