A Nintendo leaker suggests that some of the GameCube's best games could be making their way to the Nintendo Switch.

According to leaker Zippo, two of these games are classic GameCube titles in the form of F-Zero GX and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. This isn’t the first time that HD remasters of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door or F-Zero GX have been rumored, but Zippo believes that both will be released by the end of the year.

    • ascagnel@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      We know why Dolphin wasn’t put on Steam.

      1. Dolphin ships with a decryption key for Wii games
      2. Valve’s legal got worried about hosting that, and reached out to Nintendo
      3. Nintendo did their usual thing and said no (because they wrongly believe all emulation of their hardware is illegal, except if they do it)
      4. Valve pulled down the Dolphin page on their own, without a legal demand from Nintendo

      Valve continues to host RetroArch and the various cores, so it’s not like they’re opposed to emulation in general. The ability to copyright “magic numbers” in the US (Valve is an American company) isn’t up for debate, and it would also put them in violation of the DMCA, so it’s not hard to see why Valve would be worried about this specific emulator.

      As for Dolphin, they have options:

      • they can choose to keep shipping as-is, without being on Steam
      • they can choose to add BIOS support and sidestep the entire question of decrypting keys
      • they can require users to enter their own decryption key they dump directly from their consoles (which, realistically, means that users would get one off the web separate from Dolphin)