Classic XBOX games are now rolling out for Win11 PCs: news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0... I've taken a look inside one. This works by running the "Fusion" XBOX emulator used for 360 inside the "XEO3" 360 emulator used for One/Series. Same as backwards compatibility on those consoles.

Play More of the Games You Love, Wherever You Play with XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC - XBOX Wire

Today, we’re introducing XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC, making it easier to play classic XBOX games from the past across PC and handhelds, including the ROG XBOX Ally and XBOX Ally X.

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YOU CAN OPEN IT ON DESKTOP NOW IT'S PEAK

Man, I didn't mean to get people fear mongering about this... This is completely normal, inoffensive, they've been doing it for decades, and you agreed to it when you signed up for your Nintendo account. You can even disable it here, if you'd like: accounts.nintendo.com/privacy

Meatball132@meatball132.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Here's something from the emulator code: it sends telemetry about your game progress to Nintendo. There's quite a lot, including some things that aren't pictured, like which Pokemon you have and what level they're each at.

OK, here's my "the (English) Pokemon Pokémon game for the Nintendo Switch system" cursory analysis. First of all, I dumped the game to immediately discover the most sad romfs ever:

they removed the n64 trees new pokemon gen looks visually good wtf

important video www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ls...

Yoshi Bah

YouTube video by ParallelSkawo

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$20 is automatically overpriced for a GBA ROM, but what do you MEAN each language is a separate purchase??? That is *offensive*. And no, "but they did it on 3DS a million years ago" doesn't make it OK. And "well it's better than buying the og cart for $500" isn't helpful either.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen coming to Switch on Feb 27th ($19.99 each). Listed on Switch eShop in coming soon section

The Virtual Boy Classics app uses Lua scripts for everything, so it'd be trivial to mod it to work in docked mode and render a fullscreen 2D image, but I think people who want that are missing the fact that these games were designed for 3D and don't play very well without it.

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Here are the other supported codes: BEE = SW2 HAC = SW HAD = SW (revision) HDH = SW Lite HEG = SW OLED The Switches have a convention of starting with H. OSM doesn't fit this convention for either SW or SW2. The image is probably placeholder. This seems like something different.

sky :3@dootsky.re · 7mo ago

I think I've discovered something interesting, but I have no idea what it implies: On Nintendo's Account Portal, there's an unused model code under the name "OSM". (The Switch 2's model code is BEE.) The portal has images for each Switch model, and requesting OSM returns an image of a Switch 2.

deltarune fans are currently datamining the frontend of a website because they think it will reveal secrets that would be in the backend >.>

i can't believe they actually just teased gabe newell and then sung a song about how the game awards will never let you down instead

ok he knows what he's doing

LMAO THEY SHOWED KOJIMA WHEN GEOFF SHOWED UP

I played through the first area of Metroid Prime 4 on Switch 2 and it's great but... there's no option to invert the Y axis for mouse controls. You can for literally everything else, but not mouse. :| I was looking forward to playing that way, but not without that option.

I was planning to build a PC this December. But the laptop I'd been using as my main machine died earlier this year, which prompted me to build it three months earlier. This was a blessing in disguise. The 64 GB RAM kit I bought in September for ~$250 is now ~$800.

What the FUCK do you mean they replaced the search bar with Copilot?????? Those of you still clinging onto Windows 10, congratulations, you were right. Enjoy your extended planning time for migration to Linux.

Tom Warren@tomwarren.co.uk · 10mo ago

Copilot on the taskbar is one of Microsoft's new Windows 11 features it announced today. It replaces the search box and gives you a launcher-like prompt window and access to Copilot Vision / Voice

I don't know where this started but I've heard a lot of people parrot some false claim that the Switch versions of Super Mario Galaxy are based on the Shield version. They are totally unrelated versions with nearly zero similarities, created independently by two different teams.

Bank toad seems to have been removed from the Switch version of SMG2. He just tells you about amiibo now: twitter.com/Odme_/status...

SMG1+2 technical info: The new Switch port of Super Mario Galaxy is based on the 3D All Stars version (although naturally, there are a significant number of changes). Like SMG1, SMG2 uses Hagi for graphics/audio emulation, and the code itself was compiled natively for Switch.

This floor is the most noticeably-changed texture shown from SMG1+2 so far, and wow it looks like a cheap fanmade "HD" emulator texture pack... Nice seams, by the way.

Mario Galaxy 1+2's HUD is... smaller. In like, an offputting sort of way that's hard to describe. Like, the proportions are wrong, or something. Skyward Sword HD was the same way. And given it shares the exact same scope as SMG1+2, I'm inclined to believe Tantalus did this.

I WAS JOKING

I would like to once again point out that we do not have the good instrumental trailer version of the Kirby and the Forgotten Land main theme, only the boring flute "bonus" version, even after the soundtrack has been released two times now www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiPc...

Kirby and the Forgotten Land - Copy Abilities and Co-op - Nintendo Switch

YouTube video by Nintendo of America

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"gee the battery in this vintage powerbook doesn't seem to be working, i sure hope it didn't corrode toxic nickel cadmium all over the place" the battery compartment:

After 100%ing DK Bananza I've given it some time to simmer, thinking I might become jaded with the game like I did with Mario Odyssey... but, no. DK shows that EPD Tokyo has still got it. Odyssey was just a fluke. I hope Tears of the Kingdom was a fluke, too.

The Donkey Kong Bananza final boss gives you a glimpse at what the game's Switch 1 framerate would've been like.

why do streamers put chat behind their facecam/vtuber avatar/whatever so the most recent messages, the relevant ones you want to read at that moment, are obscured, please stop this practise

I won't be posting more about this, to respect the Rules™, but I jumped on it and actually got in this time.

Patapon 1+2 (underneath the Unity wrapper) seems to just be a PSP emulator. And it does the typical emulated re-release thing of replacing textures and whatnot at runtime. All expected, since that's what the PS4 versions were.