Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack N64 Emulation Improved Yet Again
The introduction of Nintendo 64 games via the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack subscription was welcomed by fans, given many of those games were no longer available on modern platforms. However, many such fans were frustrated to find that the Nintendo 64 emulation software running on Switch had performance issues, with many games failing to reach the quality of their original releases. However, recent updates to Nintendo Switch Online show that Nintendo is working on improvements.
This past week, Nintendo released version 2.0.0 of Nintendo Switch Online's Nintendo 64 service. It's a patch specifically for the Nintendo 64 content shared via the subscription service. Nintendo's typically quiet about the details on these types of updates. The one confirmed addition with the patch was the release of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. More changes than just Majora's Mask were made, however, with improvements being made to several Nintendo 64 games.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is Now Available to Switch Online Expansion Pack Subscribers
The Nintendo 64 on Switch community was able to make a list of the changes that it has been able to confirm. The biggest of which is a fix for fog in multiple games. For example, the Choco Mountain stage in Mario Kart 64 has had fog re-enabled, a key feature on the track. Additionally, fog has been reintroduced to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time's Water Temple room, Kakariko village, and the Forest Temple. Several smaller Ocarina of Time changes were also made, like a lighting issue in the House of Skulltula and «reflections» in the Water Temple room.
Other changes include a fix to a game-crashing bug in Paper Mario where dying with Watt as a partner would crash the game, slightly
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