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Nintendo Switch Update Ver. 4.0.0 Live! Some video capture, transfer profiles/saves
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LOL that's even worse
Yeah cloud saves would've be fucking swell
Hoping that they introduce that when they launch their online service
pls be free though
It's 720p. It's also very compressed (5 mbps bitrate)
What? That's horrible.
Jaded Alyx
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Biggest things for me are pre-purchases/preloads, and being able to use my wireless headphones.
The recording feature is ok, but I do wish there were save backups of some sort.
The recording feature is ok, but I do wish there were save backups of some sort.
Ugh, I just noticed MK8D clips play with a lot of stutter for some reason. Both Zelda and MK8D get a 30 FPS recording, but while the Zelda one has proper frame pacing, the MK8D is a stuttery mess. Weird.
EDIT: Wait what the fuck, it's only stuttery if I play the video on the Switch. On PC/Youtube it looks fine. wat
EDIT2: Now it looks properly on the Switch too... no stutter at all now. wtf. Must have been a glitch in the video player.
EDIT: Wait what the fuck, it's only stuttery if I play the video on the Switch. On PC/Youtube it looks fine. wat
EDIT2: Now it looks properly on the Switch too... no stutter at all now. wtf. Must have been a glitch in the video player.
fabricated backlash
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Bitrate. Low bitrate coupled with fast movement looks horrible. I have a few captures of Dolphin games on YouTube and while stuff like Goldeneye or Metroid Prime Look pristine and sharp on youtube, fzeroGX is full of blocky artifacts and looks absolutely horrible.
Look at my last posts.
It's not horrible, it's a good feature, the problem is that people jumped the gun when they saw "- Transfer user profiles and save data to another system", they thought it would allow them to backup their savefiles, the description doesn't mention backup so i don't know why people were so excited.
I guess that makes sense. Still, pretty disappointing. That's a game that's that would be fun to take some clips of, but at that video quality? Yeah, no thanks.
Yeah, I noticed that too. Both games obviously record at 30 FPS, but Zelda looks much smoother in motion, not to mention much better image quality.
Portugeezer
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Yeah it looks like a normal 30fps for me.
thatJohann
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Wait, you can connect Bluetooth wireless headphones now? Does it work with the Apple airpods?
Blam
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That would be a godsend if it works.
jts
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I think for now it's just support for USB wireless headsets. Those that you still need to plug a wireless dongle. Like the Playstation official ones.
KratosEnergyDrink
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Nonetheless cloud saves would be a nice feature.
The notes are clearly saying "transfer", why people jump to the conclusion it is a backup is beyond me. Do nobody even read the patch notes?
At least this thread is entertaining, like the guy that made the ridiculous assumption that the Switch is now creating and saving constantly a video stream. How people come up with such hilarious ideas.
The notes are clearly saying "transfer", why people jump to the conclusion it is a backup is beyond me. Do nobody even read the patch notes?
At least this thread is entertaining, like the guy that made the ridiculous assumption that the Switch is now creating and saving constantly a video stream. How people come up with such hilarious ideas.
I agree, they implemented it in a great way. Now they only need to increase the time you can capture.
But really, this way you won't miss great moments.
You don't have to cut through long stretches of video material, if all you want to show is highlights.
The "save transfer" is more like a profile transfer. It's only useful when you share a Switch with someone else and either you or them get their own later.
The limited video recording is likely due to it being stored in RAM and only saved to the SD later, instead of being constantly written to the SD in background. This is probably to avoid impacting the running game.
The limited video recording is likely due to it being stored in RAM and only saved to the SD later, instead of being constantly written to the SD in background. This is probably to avoid impacting the running game.
Minsc
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I mean we're talking about writing to SD at somewhere around 650 KB/s, that's not exactly high demands there lol. I'm shocked they can't keep that running for hours, even days on a larger SD card.
Gamegeneral
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Thirty seconds isn't much but I am glad that they're doing something.
Jaded Alyx
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You don't... You press it to capture the previous 30 seconds..
Yup, they work via USB in Docked Mode. It's awesome cuz now i have a wireless headset I can use for Docked Mode.
Schucky Ducky
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Yup, they work via USB in Docked Mode. It's awesome cuz now i have a wireless headset I can use for Docked Mode.
Hmm I wonder if that nice Corsair headset I got for $10 a while back will work with this. I'll have to try it later when I get home from work.
Spectromixer
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Did anyone find out what the Joycon update did?
boiled goose
good with gravy
Wait USB audio wireless now works?
Why not on patch notes.
Why not on patch notes.
FutureLarking
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I was curious about the claims that MK8 clips had less quality than other games, so I analyzed a clip from both games. They appear to be pretty much identical. (Left is Zelda, right is MK8)
Quality sucks tbh, but it is what it is. I guess they can optimise the RAM usage of the OS and maybe record at a sightly higher bitrate if it doesn't impact performance, or just use the extra RAM to store larger (longer) files. I sure hope so. This feature is currently in the "better than nothing" territory, it's kind of bad, but I'm still gonna use it a lot lol.
No need for additional RAM - are these things not implemented as rolling file chunks (maybe 1-2 seconds per file) that get properly assembled when you press save? The hardware itself can encode at better quality in real time perfectly fine (unless it's affected by the GPU clock), but it'll take it's toll on memory access bandwidth and battery life for the constantly rolling buffer.
Frankly it wouldn't cost them anything in realtime performance to do longer recordings either... it'd just take a long ass time to actually save it in the end (and need a large amount of cache space), and it's not exactly a speed demon as it is.
Seems about right for social media purposes.
I believe 30 seconds is the limit of the Nvidia chip used, it probably has a hardware buffer and that's the maximum it can store. They can't just magically make it record longer without either A. Affecting the system performance or B. A new hardware revision with a bigger buffer.
Recording to either the NAND or an SDCard constantly would significantly reduce their life span which would be an unbelievably stupid move.
The Main Event
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Good news!
LightningXCE
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JershJopstin
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It's almost certainly completely on the system level, with the only requirement from games being that they have a flag raised indicating they're record-able. Some publishers/developers prefer not to have shareable video clips (for whatever reason; it seems bizarre to me with the existence of capture cards). Nintendo, unlike Sony, has decided to make this an opt-in feature instead of an opt-out. The reason for this is unclear, especially given the news from Kotaku that Nintendo is trying to rush their partners to support the feature for their games; they're not really benefiting from this either. My only logical guess is that the framework for video capture wasn't really settled on until sometime recently, well after launch, and Nintendo wanted to avoid forcing already released games to support video capture. Had this been available before launch (or, more specifically, in the SDKs before games would've needed to go gold to make launch date), I think the story might be different.
Obviously, this is all speculation on my part.
Huh, sweet. I really didn't expect this. Nice to here 5 minutes, though; that's enough for entire Splatoon ranked matches. I've always been interested in analyzing my own play to improve in Splatoon, but I've never been able to justify buying a capture card. Perhaps I should invest in an SD card to avoid Twitter's awful compression.
Pharaoh 117
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I lost all audio on my receiver after the update. Tried turning it off, changing settings and nothing. Anybody else have this problem?
Interfectum
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If I had to guess, it will be standard in every game sometime in 2018. It's probably not built into the current Switch SDK which is why games built on that SDK will have to be recompiled and patched. Once Nintendo puts it in dev kit, games will have video capture support by default.
HackTheSlash
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Wonder when or has there been anymore word on when digital pre-order/load goes live? Just tried to digital pre-order Fire Emblem Warriors and Odyssey, to no avail.