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Update on NS2 Backwards Compatibility testing (www.nintendo.com)
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[–] ladel@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The thing that worries me here is the ones that are marked okay have passed "basic compatibility testing". What are the chances that when someone actually plays through them, something will be broken? Maybe slim, I don't know, but would there be a patch for those cases?

[–] TAG@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nintendo is not going to do extensive QA testing for every single Switch game (especially not every third party shovelware game which might have had errors running on a regular Switch). I assume they ran every automated test they had handy and had someone spend X hours poking around the game to try to find issues.

The more interesting question would be how will games be fixed? Are they patching the game to fix the issue or are they patching the Switch 2 firmware to match Switch behavior? The more bugs they fix with the later approach the less important it is to exhaustively test every single game.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I expect they'll patch both. Start with patches to the Switch and then, if the game can be patched, patch that.