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Switch 2 delivers GameCube emulation - but Nintendo has had a great Wii/GC emulator since 2017
GameCube emulation is part of the Switch 2 offering, but did you know that Nintendo has had excellent GameCube and Wii emulation for years?
The games shown in the Direct all arrived in the west in 2003 and include some bona fide classics: the futuristic racing of F-Zero GX, the iconic The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, and third-party fighter Soul Calibur 2. Looking back at that older emulated titles, these were born out of the Nvidia/Nintendo partnership that resulted in Switch's use of the mobile Tegra X1 chipset - considered a great deal at the time for Nintendo, given the availability of the part. Rather, there were plenty of bespoke tweaks to suit the Shield hardware, including 3x resolution boost to 1920x1404 in Twilight Princess and Mario Galaxy, improved texture filtering and scaled-up vector-based text elements.
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