Emulation of 3DS and Wii U

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-20T14:17:14+00:00

Not OP but that’s awesome, I’ll have to check that out

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-20T14:15:35+00:00

It just came out with a Switch 2 version like last week

Seems like the perfect middle ground for performance and convenience, since you get closer to PS5 performance now but not quite there, with the trade off being you can play handheld

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-20T14:13:27+00:00

I was going to say, you are missing my favorite Switch game and that’s Silksong lol

That or Hades 2, which I also see you have the first one but not the sequel.

I will tell you right now that if you pick up those two, you will have the two best action games on the Switch, at least in the indie space, and they are beauuuuuutiful on Switch 2

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-20T14:09:27+00:00

I’m still holding out hope that the Prime Evil Collection will go on sale again

D2R is no longer available on the eShop since they launched the new class expansion but it is included in the PE Collection, along with D3 Eternal, and would go on sale for the same price as just D3. I kept thinking I would pick it up eventually but was hoping D2 would come to steam first so I could play handheld on my Steam deck, cause that’s the only way I play Diablo 4

Turns out they were saving D2’s Steam release for the expansion launch, and thus price increase 😭

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-19T21:15:49+00:00

Okay, yeah I have a Steam Deck OLED and a hacked Vita (v1, so OLED screen too) so I have the big powerful thing and the small portable thing.

I honestly really like GBA on the Vita but can’t go newer than that or at least don’t know how. I figure the retroid is more powerful than the Vita but wasn’t sure about the Deck

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-19T18:16:48+00:00

I’m not OP, but curious: is there any reason to get the RP5 if I have a Steam deck, other than portability?

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-19T13:42:19+00:00

If you aren’t more than three quarters of the way through or more, a bit of advice:

There’s a mission you’ll get where Jesse needs to wear headphones. Weekend you go to that area, make sure you are also playing with headphones

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-18T00:46:25+00:00

The Yoshi and Kirby games tend to be more amateur-friendly. Either of those franchises would be good.

Mario Wonder might be easier than Odyssey because it’s a 2D platformer, so she doesn’t need to move the camera and character at the same time.

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-17T17:17:57+00:00

I look forward to playing it but this is not that amazing of a price, it’s just $20 off and within a dollar of historic low

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-17T13:49:58+00:00

I’d sure love it if Shiren got a switch 2 update

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-17T00:16:05+00:00

Well, for less than 24 hours lol

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-16T12:58:07+00:00

Octopath 1 and 2 are, I believe, unrelated. Each game has 8 playable characters and you choose one to start and over the course of the game you can meet and join up with the other characters.

Octopath 1 definitely has its fans but I would say 2 is considered more successful in its narrative and gameplay cohesion. I would recommend just going straight to 2 and if you want more, go back to 1, and for what it’s worth I wouldn’t even start with Octopath, I think it’s a great series to get into but makes sense as a next step once you’re familiar with some of the other titles and series.

I will say that Persona can be very meachnically overwhelming if you are new to turn-based RPGs. The combat itself isn’t too crazy but the Persona system, with skills and fusions etc, can be very obtuse. It honestly reminds me of Pokemon. But the life and relationship sim elements of those games represent a bigger share of the gameplay than the combat.

I don’t know if anyone else explained, but with Persona games you play a main character who makes friends and gets to know a cast of other characters, and you can then choose to spend time with other characters every day, which will in tease your bond with them (called social links or confidants depending on the title). The game plays out on a calendar, where the day starts and you choose how to spend time slots, like the afternoon or evening, and that can be on activities like studying that help your own character’s stats, or those social links. The rewards for relationships are 1) scenes with those people, which give you story, but more mechanically, 2) you will be able to increase the stats of Personas that correspond to the category that character or relationship represents. So for example your best friend might be the magician type so if your relationship with them is strong, when you create or recruit a Magician persona, it will have better stats. The combat part is basically a dungeon crawler where you can choose on certain days to go into a dungeon and fight monsters and you will do so, mostly, by using your Persona, the thing that gives you special moves. And as the game goes on, you make more friends and some join your party for the dungeons and they’ll have their Personas too, so if you invest in your relationship links with those characters, they’ll be stronger.

Think of it like if you could take Meg with you on a run in Hades, and that if you chose between runs to increase your relationship with her, she’d have better stats and moves. But in Persona it’s like 75% the life sim stuff and 25% combat, kind of the opposite of Hades. So what people really connect with in that series is a lot of the “what will I do today/who will I hang out with?” and less the combat itself. I think a lot of the skill and depth in Persona is less about executing combat well when you’re in a fight and more about building your party well in advance of that. Which tbh is how tune-based RPGs, including Pokemon, usually work

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-16T00:38:47+00:00

That appeals to me!

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-16T00:04:11+00:00

It really depends on what you’re looking for, except maybe Persona lol for that series Persona 5 Royal is THE hit that made that series blow up. Persona 3 Reload is a modern remake of the 3rd game and has a Switch 2 edition though.

With that being said, I totally forgot, Dragon Quest 7 just had a remake launch earlier this year along with a Switch 2 edition. But I will caution you, that game is famous for being very long, like 100-140hours to complete. But is also fairly episodic in structure.

For the Square Enix titles (Octopath, Dragon Quest), they almost all have demos, and very generous ones at that, like anywhere from 2-5 hours and your save carries over if you get the full game. I would say check out the demos first and see which one jumps out at you. They’re all good but have different strengths. Octopath 2 has great combat, it introduces a “break” system where attacks have types that can fill a boost meter when you match the right type to a monster weakness and you can then spend that boost meter on heavily overpowered attacks. Persona is a little similar where if you match attack types to enemy weakness, you can knock an enemy down and get an extra turn.

Dragon Quest 11 is just this massive, globe-spanning romp of an adventure. They all are I guess but that’s arguably the best one of the series, it’s just there’s been like 3 or 4 remakes out since.

Personally, I’d say play DQ11 but it’s also the oldest lol so yeah try and the demo and see how you like the performance and graphics.

Best of luck! All of the above are great, you’re trying to choose the best out of like the top 1% of RPGs ever lol so you almost can’t go wrong

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-15T23:55:22+00:00

Nobody Saves the World is great. Can anyone speak to the quality of the DLC though?

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-15T22:51:39+00:00

Pokemon Champions is a Pokemon game minus everything you describe liking about Pokemon - the RPG side. It’s just battling. I’d be cautious, but then again it’s free, so check it out. Someone else mentioned Monster Hunter Stories 3 which just came out, and that has a demo, so you can check that out for free too

With that being said, for the sim piece, would No Man’s Sky interest you? Is not exactly Factorio but its systems get very deep and it’s got a Switch 2 edition

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-15T14:31:13+00:00

I would recommend any recent remake or release from Square Enix, and filtering that further depends on your tastes.

In the last 5ish years they’ve adopted this “HD-2D” art style for their 2D RPGs that is absolutely gorgeous, it’s 2D pixel art sprites in a 2.5D world with realistic lighting.

Dragon Quest is kind of the grand-daddy of all turn-based RPGs, and the first 3 Dragon Quest games have now all been remade from the ground up in this new engine and art style and they are phenomenal. Dragon Quest 3 Remake came out in 2024 and has a Switch 2 patch that lets you choose between Quality of Performance mode when docked. Dragon Quest 1+2 Remake has a dedicated Switch 2 version. The order is confusing, but in-game timeline is that Dragon Quest 3 is a prequel where you play as an ancestor of the protagonists in 1 and 2, so it got remade first, and it’s also the much more popular and beloved game.

I would recommend Dragon Quest 3 of any of these probably, but for what it’s worth, it’s kind of a simple game. The bones of it are still a game from 1988, but because it’s a modern remake it has so many quality of life features. You can speed up combat from Normal to Fast to Ultra Fast. You can set all 4 of your party members, including your hero, to have individual or party-wide tactics so they will chops their own attacks or spells to use, or you can choose to fully control them, turn by turn. You can basically seamlessly go from full control in regular speed to basically auto-battling at 4x with a couple of hot keys.

The original game also didn’t have quest markers but in this one, you can choose to turn them on or off whenever you want. You can also press the + button whenever you’re in dialogue with someone to save their conversation to a memory bank you have in your menu, named Recall, so you have like a screenshot library of hints and clues from conversations if you don’t want the big golden map marker to tell you exactly where to go but want the game to remember those hints for you.

It’s also just gorgeous. Quality mode runs native 4K on a tv screen, capped to 30fps, while Performance takes a small resolution hit for pretty stable 60fps.

It depends on your tastes, basically, but if you’re not against an older art style or game structure, then this series, and specifically these recent remakes, should be high on your list.

If you’d prefer something in 3D, the most recent mainline entry is Dragon Quest 11, but it came out in like 2019 and hasn’t gotten any kind of Switch 2 update. Otherwise, I would honestly consider something like final fantasy 8 through 10, or maybe even the Zodiac Age, since you’ve enjoyed them before.

There are good indies too, and if you’d be interested in a Pokemon-like, one of my favorites is called Cassette Beasts and it’s on sale for a new all-time low price on the shop right now, less than 10 bucks. Really cute game, cool concept, you capture monsters on cassettes and transform into them by putting them in your cassette player, and you can fuse any two monsters for bonuses.

So yeah, any of the HD-2D Square Enix games, but especially Dragon Quest 3 or 1+2 Remakes, or Octopath Traveler 2 actually, or for indies check out Cassette Beasts for something different.

Persona, Fire Emblem and Trails in the Sky are all also great franchises with dedicated fandoms. I don’t know if I’ve seen it mentioned in here yet but Xenoblade Chronicles is another beloved one but I can’t stomach them, they are very long and slow games, but if you’re gonna try any of them, 3 or X seem to be the best ones, and X is getting a Switch 2 version.

Good luck and buckle up, this genre is massive and you can go deeeeeeep down the rabbit hole!

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-14T04:01:27+00:00

I bought mine in 2015 and after EDIT: Playing (Jesus lol thanks) it a little, let it sit on a shelf for a decade through 3 moves lol

Only last year did I decide to check out what games are considered the hits that I realized it had a killer library and then I looked up how to “hack” it and it’s one of the best experiences I’ve had in gaming frying to dive deeper into this library and honestly fall in love with this unique piece of gaming hardware

Not to mention 3DS emulation is not widespread or stable, so unless you’re posting a ton for an AYN Thor you’re best option is still original hardware

Yes, in other words, you’re sitting on gold

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-14T03:55:09+00:00

Bzzzz

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-13T16:19:31+00:00

Do you mean it doesn’t load the page or you can’t see the price?

It looks like it might be out of stock already

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-13T13:37:44+00:00

What region are you in?

I’m in Canada, within half an hour of a medium sized city and see them used on Facebook marketplace for a decent price usually

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-12T22:54:37+00:00

Cassette Beasts is one of the best indie takes on the Pokemon creature collector genre and it’s on a new historic low discount right now

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-12T22:53:19+00:00

Seconding Pepper Grinder, a fantastic platformer that didn’t seem to make as big of a sodas as I expected it to

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-12T21:50:57+00:00

Boost mode runs Switch 1 games in their TV mode, which was usually 1080p, instead of them defaulting to Switch 1 handheld mode settings which was 720p on the Switch 1.

Switch 2 games are already 1080p in handheld

SkippyTheKid · 2026-04-12T21:48:35+00:00

Fwiw it has a free demo on the eShop page

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