Nintendo Switch Catch-All 2.0

New trailer.

More discussion in Metroid thread.

Don't go to the Metroid thread if you're trying to be on blackout like me. I just posted it, didn't watch it, but I think I'm spoiled.

Odd problem. I have no idea how to access the notifications on the nintendo eshop. I click on my profile and don't see any option to read notifications. I tried clicking on the 13 but that doesn't do anything.
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I also tried accessing the eshop on the switch but I couldn't find any notifications there either. I'm pretty sure the notifications are just "you bought something stupid on the eshop because you are stupid. You are even to stupid to access these notifications ha ha." type of things. I need to prove them wrong. I need to access those notifications or I'll go mad I tells you.

They might show up if you click your name, "Baron". They're usually just notifications about deals or sales or whatever and don't have much of a "mark all as read" option. Chances are they don't bother updating because there aren't many folks using the web portal of My Nintendo that would find it worthwhile to report it as bad design.

That, and I've seen how many folks have e-mail inboxes with thousands of unread e-mails. I don't get those people. I assume they're similarly unbothered by tons of notifications on My Nintendo that are irrelevant.

I did indeed click on my name. The problem has fixed itself. The notifications did in fact show up but the number never went down even when I clicked on them and the number of them were less than 13 so I didn't think they were actual notifications. I thought they were just ads For some reason when I loaded the page again the number went down to 3 and when I click on my name the number went away.

There’s notifications in the eshop?

Loop hero come out already. You would be perfect addition to it.

According to this interview, apparently, development crunch was such a big deal for Metroid Prime 1, Retro almost imploded, but Nintendo stepped in and fixed it. I didn't watch the video, just read the transcribed quotes.

Dang beat me to it. Anybody tried?

I'm on vacation this week so have my switch but brought my wired headphones as usual.

Updating right now. Cannot wait.

Edit: On first try, the latency was really bad—very noticeable. These headphones connect to a Genki adapter and have minimal delay at all, even on standard mode. But they also have a game mode, and connected direct to the switch with game mode on was much better. Latency calibration on cadence of hyrule has it at 145ms with game mode on.

All in all, I’m pleased. I may still use my Genki at times when I’m going for even less latency, but for daily use, I think this will be ideal—and one less adapter to carry around. And this will be much nicer for connecting docked, for sure.

Oh, and can finally do Fitness Boxing on tabletop with headphones without needing a stand to keep the weight off the adapter—that may be my favorite bit of all.

Been waiting so long for this.

Headphones, earbuds, speakers, and other audio devices that connect with Bluetooth can now be paired with Nintendo Switch family systems for audio output.
Bluetooth microphones are not supported.
Up to two compatible wireless controllers can be connected to the system while using Bluetooth audio.
Bluetooth audio cannot be used while local wireless communication is active.

Oh you, Nintendo.

garion333 wrote:
Headphones, earbuds, speakers, and other audio devices that connect with Bluetooth can now be paired with Nintendo Switch family systems for audio output.
Bluetooth microphones are not supported.
Up to two compatible wireless controllers can be connected to the system while using Bluetooth audio.
Bluetooth audio cannot be used while local wireless communication is active.

Oh you, Nintendo.

I'm having images of holding Joycons up to your ears like those taco phones.

Jonman wrote:

I'm having images of holding Joycons up to your ears like those taco phones.

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Randomly reading that low latency ear buds/headphones are okay but not great. You probably want to stick to wired or your third party adaptor.

What counts as low latency?

Generally, and mind you I’m not a Bluetooth engineer or whatever, but Bluetooth audio has two modes: phone or high-fidelity. Phone mode is what you hear when on a phone call: instantaneous audio that sounds like a conventional radio broadcast, whereas high-fidelity is audio CD quality (or better?) but usually has like a 1-second delay between signal transmission and audio playback. To see the effect try watching a YT video or playing a game on your phone while connected through Apple Car Play (probably Android Auto works the same?). Technologies such as aptx have been developed to provide decent-quality audio in near-instantaneous time, so any with those are called low-latency Bluetooth devices.

charlemagne wrote:

What counts as low latency?

It's like porn. You know it when you hear it.

But realistically, audio latency above 20ms starts to be detectable, but not problematic. 100ms and above will bother most folk for gaming, my pair of fancy noise cancelling Sony cans clock in at 250ms, and that was unusable for gaming.

garion333 wrote:
Headphones, earbuds, speakers, and other audio devices that connect with Bluetooth can now be paired with Nintendo Switch family systems for audio output.
Bluetooth microphones are not supported.
Up to two compatible wireless controllers can be connected to the system while using Bluetooth audio.
Bluetooth audio cannot be used while local wireless communication is active.

Oh you, Nintendo.

Does this mean you can't be online while using bluetooth audio? I know Nintendo makes some of the best single player games out there, but man! Not great.

Local wireless means system to system directly, most likely because they're using Bluetooth or something as well. So if you and your friend with a Switch are playing via wireless LAN on a couch connecting your two systems directly.

I simply think it's a bit nuts they included Bluetooth but you can't talk to people through it.

Jonman wrote:
charlemagne wrote:

What counts as low latency?

It's like porn. You know it when you hear it.

But realistically, audio latency above 20ms starts to be detectable, but not problematic. 100ms and above will bother most folk for gaming, my pair of fancy noise cancelling Sony cans clock in at 250ms, and that was unusable for gaming.

I have those too. Bad for gaming. Exquisite for audio, especially music.

RawkGWJ wrote:
Jonman wrote:

fancy noise cancelling Sony cans

I have those too. Bad for gaming. Exquisite for audio, especially music.

They're my second best pair of headphones for listening to music, but the best pair for a living room mosh pit (cos the nicer ones are wired)

Jonman wrote:
RawkGWJ wrote:
Jonman wrote:

fancy noise cancelling Sony cans

I have those too. Bad for gaming. Exquisite for audio, especially music.

They're my second best pair of headphones for listening to music, but the best pair for a living room mosh pit (cos the nicer ones are wired) :)

I use mine at work. Loud job! Yet, the Sony headphones are mind-blowingly great. When I have the EQ dialed in properly the bass sounds are out of this world.

Ha! Yeah, I got mine when I had a desk in the second floor of an airplane factory and there were parts being drilled the other side of a corrugated steel wall!

It would appear that my right joy con has bitten the dust—it’s not being recognized by the switch and none of the lights on the joy con itself respond to any button presses so I don’t think it’s a connection issue. 5 years is a decent enough run I guess, but I’m in need of a replacement.

Does anyone have any experience with non-Nintendo joy con replacements? I am thinking of just biting the bullet and shelling out for an official Nintendo one. Given that I’ve replaced the stick on my left controller myself a couple of times already I’m wondering if it just makes sense to pay the $70ish for both left and right rather than the $40 for just the right.

I believe these kinvoca knock offs are the best. A few people around here used them. Reviews are overall very good.

I connected my bluetooth earbuds last night and the latency was terrible. Granted, I have relatively cheap ear buds so I'm sure that didn't help.

Started Lost in Random last night. Love the Nightmare before Christmas aesthetic. Battle system is pretty cool too. It's..........a mixture of CCG, turn based, real time brawler? The battle starts off real time. You have a slingshot that you have to use to target weak spots on enemies. When hit they will drop gems, those gems build up your mana. Once you have enough mana you can roll your companion, a die called Dicey, once you do that the battle stops and you can deal a card. Cards, so far, cost 0-3 mana. There are buffs, debuffs, defense and offensive cards. For instance, you can deal a card that spawns a magic sword and then deal a card that significantly slows enemies. You then go back into real time and go ham on the slow enemy with your sword.

Stele wrote:

I believe these kinvoca knock offs are the best. A few people around here used them. Reviews are overall very good.

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll give those a shot.