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Nintendo Switch Update Ver. 4.0.0 Live! Some video capture, transfer profiles/saves
- Thread starter NMFried
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Oh man this is so hype. New Zelda playthrough incoming!
Some games even go up in value. If you want to sell something like SS or HG you can get more than you paid for. It all depends on the title, but if you're willing to sell rarer games you can make some easy cash. A handful of WiiU and DS games were enough for me to buy a refurb PS4.
Some games even go up in value. If you want to sell something like SS or HG you can get more than you paid for. It all depends on the title, but if you're willing to sell rarer games you can make some easy cash. A handful of WiiU and DS games were enough for me to buy a refurb PS4.
Assuming they allow you to video capture. It looks like they're not having it work on a system level like screenshot capturing.
Garou
Member
Real translation: you can save up to 100 movies in the internal memory, up to 1000 if you have a microSD card.
I imagine their reasoning is to allow people to opt out like on PS4 of being able to save footage of their game.
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
Just a hot guess from me but...was this always there?
https://twitter.com/BjoernTheSmexy/status/920888011042123776
It's hidden behind the Formating Options in the System settings menu.
Will we see a regular internet browser soon? Or am I just stupid and too hopeful?
https://twitter.com/BjoernTheSmexy/status/920888011042123776
It's hidden behind the Formating Options in the System settings menu.
Will we see a regular internet browser soon? Or am I just stupid and too hopeful?
peanutbutterlatte
Member
Dont know what Id do with thirty seconds... but dont know what Id do with video capture anyway really! Its nice for people that want to share, and its nice that Nintendo are incrementally adding features with system updates.
Just please give us a proper Activity Log app please. The Profile page method is totally insufficient.
Just please give us a proper Activity Log app please. The Profile page method is totally insufficient.
silpheed-mcd
Member
Yes it has: https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Support/...ing-the-cache/Clearing-the-cache-1200195.html
There won't ever be an Internet browser. It's just another entrypoint for hacking.
Looks really cool. Hopefully they add Youtube sharing soon.
There most certainly are other advantages to buying physical over digital. Namely, sharing. Im a game collector and I never, ever sell my games, yet I always buy physical when I can so I can share games. My husband and I are both big Nintendo fans, and buying only one copy of a game is a lot nicer than having to pay for two copies. Ill always stick with physical copies for this reason, and I like consistency so I dont want part of my collection to be physical and part to be digital, unless not available otherwise.
That said, digital has its benefits too, and thats why my husband prefers digital copies of his games. We get physical copies of every game unless its something we each want our own copy of, in which case he gets a digital copy in addition to our single physical copy.
Boy Wander
Member
That's what it sounds like. I mean I guess it's handy but it's not a game changer.
kraspkibble
Permabanned.
Transferring save data is huge.
Cool.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
This is an update with nice features, but to be fair video was promised in the console presentation pre-launch and the ability to backup your saves and transfer it to another system is a must-have feature (but not a miracle level feature in terms of complexity) which they have only allowed the latter (still requiring you to have both working system at the same time).
Seems like it (unless your og system is bricked to hell, ptobably).
Nice added features, now on to being able to move saves onto an SD card!
jimmythepage
Member
30 seconds are barely enough for most titles, but perfect fit for a game like golf story, perhaps the devs will enable it with the next update.
The local game update version sharing it's a nice addition.
The local game update version sharing it's a nice addition.
Chie Satonaka91
Neo Member
I tested out the functionality earleir with Mario Kart 8. It works well. I'm really hoping this gets rolled out to a bunch of other games soon. Hopefully they can roll this out to a bunch of 3rd party games already released.
Awesome!! Looking forward to trying it. Hopefully it's only 4 games because it's just something devs have to add support for and moving forward everything will have it. Otherwise it becomes a bit of a mess in terms of what supports it what doesn't.
But... I want to share my photos / videos to miiverse not mainstream social media
Nobody on FB/Twitter gives a damn about my Switch captures.
But... I want to share my photos / videos to miiverse not mainstream social media
Nobody on FB/Twitter gives a damn about my Switch captures.I think it's enough for cool little moments. Like salty finishes in Mario Kart, ragdoll moments in Zelda or combos in Mario Rabbids. Uploading videos takes a bit too long for my liking but the recording is seamless at least.
Especially indies should use this for easy marketing. "Post a video of our game with the hashtag on Twitter and we'll pick a winner who gets $50 eShop credit" or something. Done.
I mean its called transfer and not copy profiles for a reason. They dont want you to buy a game on one account and have it available on a bunch of other systems as well.
It's Reyn Time!
Member
Certain seems to point to the browser being on the way.
Chie Satonaka91
Neo Member
I'm kind of expecting at least quite a few indies to patch in this functionality during the upcoming weeks. Bigger 3rd party will probably update this in a slower pace.
Yep, it's rather just the system transfer known from (3)DS devices. But I got my hopes up a bit, maybe because I didn't have a coffee yet today...
But that works already. More cumbersome than on other systems, but you can do exactly that. Just that you don't have any means to continue your save or have access to unlocked fighters / cars / stages etc. on other systems.
Chie Satonaka91
Neo Member
Really hoping Bethesda is already on top of this, would be cool if I could take videos of Doom and Skyrim at launch.
How?
Maybe it's just in my head, but pre-update I had Auto Brightness on and my brightness at somewhere around 60-75%, and now I feel like setting it to max brightness with Auto Brightness on is dimmer than that. I feel like I need to do some battery tests at different brightness levels with auto on/off to see what I should leave it on.
I would argue it's a little better, since this seems to allow splitting multiple users onto multiple Switch consoles, something I don't think was possible on Wii U.
I would argue it's a little better, since this seems to allow splitting multiple users onto multiple Switch consoles, something I don't think was possible on Wii U.
It's not in your head. I noticed a slightly dimmer screen straight away
Most people seem to be saying that the bottom end was simply lowered, so if the old bar went from say, 50-100, then now it goes from 25-100, but I feel like the top end has been darkened as well, so more like 25-75.
The fact that it apparently reset everyone's brightness to 50% upon reboot doesn't help with how jarring it is.
Toadthemushroom
Member
Maybe video recording explains some of the small updates that a few games have been receiving over the last week: Namco Museum and Puyo Puyo Tetris got some, and another game I forgot.
All future games should support it by default at any rate.
I tried video capture on Mario Kart 8, and unsurprisingly it does impact screenshot capture. The OS having to wait for a button hold means you can no longer take screenshots in rapid fire succession with zero latency between each quick button press.
All future games should support it by default at any rate.
I tried video capture on Mario Kart 8, and unsurprisingly it does impact screenshot capture. The OS having to wait for a button hold means you can no longer take screenshots in rapid fire succession with zero latency between each quick button press.
KZXcellent
Member
Good one.
Honestly, all this seems a bit half-assed.
Video capture is not a system wide feature and needs to be actively patched into the games.
Transfer profiles/saves should not automatically delete the profile on the source system.
Still no way to back-up your saves.
Looking forward to see how the pre-purchase works, I could almost bet that it works just for some of the 1st party games and that's it.
Video capture is not a system wide feature and needs to be actively patched into the games.
Transfer profiles/saves should not automatically delete the profile on the source system.
Still no way to back-up your saves.
Looking forward to see how the pre-purchase works, I could almost bet that it works just for some of the 1st party games and that's it.
Described here by Nintendo itself. Notice the key point:
System 4.00 does not really change that IMHO.
ARMS players are enlightened and thus know about the Mii master race so there's no point.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Darkening the 100% brightness setting would seem like a cheap battery saving forced manoeuvre, are you sure they did not also activate the screen saving/dimming brightness reducing feature by default (a feature the system already has)?