After Dragon mAge 1 corrupted my save file on PS3, I’ve stopped playing very long games on console, because there’s no good way to back up the saves.  This is just another example.

Yes. Same reason why bars and restaurants need a special license to show sports channels.

This is something that the NES can do but that the SNES cannot. NES can do full-motion video at 60 FPS, subject to palette and resolution restrictions of course, but SNES can’t. This is due to cartridges being directly connected to the graphics chip’s bus on NES and not on SNES.

I played two seeds of this yesterday. I’m so bad at this that it takes me three times as long to beat as the speedrunners, but it’s a lot of fun.

What about Zelda 1 + Zelda 2? I’ve thought about making that, and have the technical ability to, but don’t know whether it would be fun!

I’ve considered making a Zelda 1 + Zelda 2 hybrid randomizer after seeing this craziness. I have the technical ability to pull it off, but not the design ability to make it fun!

The community itself decides how to categorize speedruns of the game. Some games do have an “I win” bug. A Link to the Past can be beaten in under 2 minutes using a walk-through-walls glitch. Super Mario World has human-doable arbitrary code execution at the beginning of the game.

They should use Switch hacking tools to modify the game to let them fly through the air to test theories like this. That way, they could avoid coming up with things like the crazy Goomba stack tricks until they show that a desirable result would occur if they could find a way to get up there.

Hackers are already working on allowing save backups for hacked Switches. Once again, hackers do what Nintendont.

My theory is also inconsistent with paging Captain Marvel: if she got the message, it would imply that she’s in the original side of the Universe.

I would not have posted that if the article I’m replying to hadn’t had the explicit “Spoiler Warning” marking on the top.

My theory: Thanos didn’t kill half the inhabitants of the Universe; he split the Universe into two parallel universes with half the population on each side. Thus, he didn’t really kill anyone at the end, but the inhabitants of both sides will think he did. This accomplishes his goal of matching population to resources.

I would love a physical...well, switch on my Switch that let me boot it as Android when I want then go back to being a Switch when I want.

Why do you speak of this “Konami” as if they were a game developer?

That makes two famous clowns named Donald.

Nintendo often uses that wording for patches that are entirely about plugging holes hackers use to get control of the system.

The reason that saves cannot be backed up is for security reasons. This is also why saves are on the console and not cartridges: so hacked saves cannot enter the system.

Hackers also discovered evidence of a new version of the Switch hardware, code name Mariko. It’s based on the “T214” variant of the Tegra X1 chip, whereas the original Switch was the “T210”.

Hoaxes like what you’re alleging are much less common now. A hoax would get disproved quickly.

We can only hope.