meanwhile, Digital Extremes is still waiting for a Switch 2 devkit so they can upgrade Warframe (a game that is currently averaging 50,000 players per day on Steam)

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honestly I personally quite like the intermissions

but I do think that an option for standard 3 lap lobbies should be added so that people who don't like them can have fun too

a JIT recompiler would let ROMs "just work", but the Switch 1 probably doesn't have the horsepower to run it very well, hence the Switch 2 exclusivity

(for comparison, afaik Dolphin's JIT recompiler doesn't run very well on the Switch 1 without underclocking the emulated CPU)

Super Mario Sunshine ran using ahead-of-time recompilation for the executable

meanwhile Super Mario Galaxy, Pikmin 1, and Pikmin 2 were all recompiled from their source code to run on the Switch CPU with a shim that forwards the game's SDK calls to the emulator directly (iirc)

I died more times on the fake final boss than the legitimate one, so I think there's something off with the balance

but either way, ZM is a great game overall, though maybe not my favourite 2D Metroid

that honor would go to Super or Dread