Apparently some of the lagginess could be due to the project's SD card support. A viewer pointed out that some SD cards can deliver a much better experience. YMMV!
For a second I thought I was watching your 3 Petabyte Project Vid and I thought you were gonna make it out of SD Cards. Unfortunately, it will probably happen in 5-10 Years.
Samsung cards are recommended, sandisk A1 cards make issues but A2 ones are fine. So get a Samsung Evo select from amazon and you´ve got everything you need.
100 IQ: Buy Nintendo Switch to play Nintendo games 200 IQ: Buy Nintendo Switch to run Android >9,000 IQ: Buy Nintendo Switch to run Android so you can install an emulator to play Nintendo games
At first it sounds like that, after you check Nintendo Switch game's prices, is really a high IQ move. Here in Brazil at least, 3-4 games = the console price....
@Xtreme Performance It wont for a year or two because of Smash bros Ultimate. It broke the record for the most sold fighting game ever, so it helped a ton in funds for Nintendo
Oh, and Android on the Switch has gotten a lot better! There are unofficial builds out there built from the source code by the Switchroot devs, and it’s on Android 10 and the Joy-Cons connect directly over the rails without needing Bluetooth! I found it to be much smoother and long-lasting in terms of screen-on time than the current 8.1 build.
14:59 Microsoft calls that an “INDETERMINATE” progress bar. You more, the progress bar that doesn’t actually show progress, it just indicates something is happening (hopefully)
@@Jono997 i want to emulate it on a pc i don't have a console or just buy it through the website and never actually play just to be ethical edit* plus that ain't physical mate
Unfortunately the screen doesn't turn off automatically when docked. I can see that becoming a cooling issue. Next video, WATER COOLING A NINTENDO SWITCH DOCK!
@@Phynellius I've been really hoping someone has made a 3D printed shroud for a 120mm fan to blast air in the back of a open switch dock, but no luck. Guess it's time to break out the cardboard and gaff tape.
Valve just announced a portable game console that basically does what this video is achieving if it was done properly, except it natively runs Linux and will most likely won't be locked down like Nintendo would do with it. Should be interesting!
As someone who works at a videogame retailer, an easy way to tell between a gen 1 switch and a gen 2 is the first three digits in the serial number. If it starts with XAW it's a gen 1 and if it starts with XKW it's a gen 2
@@Zardif eh not if you don't want your switch to brick when something goes wrong. You can recover it but it is a really shitty process and you don't want to. Well enough advise for today i hope you don't get bootlopetd
It might also be down to the sd card reader being slower to read than the Switch's internal memory. Actually most mobile device manufacturers both with phones and tablets cheap out on sd card readers so fast sd cards are often a waste of money since the reader is the real bottleneck.
@@bbbbbbb51 I've never been able to get keyboard+mouse to work for me, I've always used a controller. (Yes, I know, it's definitely not the best method.) I come from consoles to PC gaming, I'm old. lol
Hassan Alsayoud It's to be expected considering they're not using the same hardware. The reason why the Wii could play Gamecube games was because they used very similar hardware.
But... Didn't the video show it generally running on par with if not worse than the built-in Switch operating system? The hardware's support for the precise functionality of the control peripherals were somewhat compromised when trying to use them with Android for instance.
@@LocoMe4u Huh, weird. I guess I got a different feeling from the video then. Linus kept bashing the inconsistencies on every step if I'm not mistaken. It just sounded somewhat negative in connotation if you ask me.
I've watched Linus shill Ridge wallet for years and I'm finally going to say it: Any wallet that comes with a screwdriver has lost the convenience of a wallet.
16:10 ah, that's really disappointing. I was actually almost ready to order myself a switch, eh. Would be super nice to have some old sega games and some android games in this format.
Yeah, similar head-shaking moment for me too. I knew that Switches made after the first year were beyond the initial vulnerability, but I thought (since they made no mention of limited applicability until the end) that this was something new and globally awesome. Nope. SSDD.
You can get one used C: And the pure-nintendo mode (Atmosphere) is fast and not laggy, you can play older games emulation (SNES-NES-SEGA-N64 etc...) and backup of your switch games c:
i luckily got a switch super earily on and i've been able to use tin-foil to hack it lmao. but look online, i seen hackable switches for not that much more than retail prices.
The switch is just a shield tv. There's a version of the shield you can play Nintendo games on in China. That's why everything is being hacked so fast.
Nintendo could achieve a lot if they actually saw what modern tech is capable of and what consumers are looking for in a gaming experience. their last 3 home consoles were a joke to anyone outside of the casual or young gaming community. they also don't seem to be willing to move on from repetitive franchises with low cartoony graphics
Switch is budget mobile hardware with a scheme to make you waste 60 dollar per game and a premium subscription. It will be cheaper at the beginning but much more expensive on the longterm and nowhere near as valuable as other options. The point is not graphics, is more about processing power and resolution. Games need severe optimisation work to get good framerates and smooth gameplay in switch. Thats why you get the choppy 30 fps experiences of Pokemon games that are developed in a rush, when compared to Breath of the Wild games that take years, because they need to be optimised a lot in order to run properly in the hardware. Nintendo has great franchises and good marketing. it just baffles people they use such a crap hardware to achieve it. Its great from business perspective, and they generate social acceptance around its products. most people dont care/know anything about hardware.
Yeah it sucks but you can just buy a USB C wireless transmitter. That's what I did. But I do notice a slight audio lag with my AirPods but still playable. My Bose QC35 audio lag is unplayable. So maybe thats the reason. Wireless headphones latency isn't good enough especially back in 2017 when the switch first came out.
@@manaspradhan8041 you dont always need a playstation bios.... Especially when your using retroarch you shouldnt have to get a bios for PS1 unless a game you have cant save without it. The only reason i got a bios downloaded was so that FFVII would save properly but other games were just fine like parasite eve
Would love to see a updated video for this using switchroots new android 10 version. It fixes ALOT of problems. Most notably on rails joycons work now. Been using it for a little under a month and it's quite impressive honestly.
That thing was hands down the best Android tablet ever made, sensibly priced, a tasteful stock ROM without any skin, software updates for longer than any other Android device I can think of, a 1200p IPS display and two front firing stereo speakers.
@@mos6581com I owned one briefly and encountered a lot of Battery Drain and auto brightness jumps when viewing certain media. I've since moved to a Tab S6.
@@matthieulucas9059 No that was the chrome browsing experience on it, but whos really going to be using it for that... (It doesn't seem like they even tried a better browser) The actual emulators mostly ran fine, and other android apps did as well... So yea if you aren't that interested in using it for its web browsing experience then it looks like something worthwhile to do with your switch other than custom firmware... Or if android's not your thing running the version of Linux for it might be a better bet for you!
You guys take me back to my early (1980's) hardware hacking days when I would spend ENTIRE WEEKENDS trying to make some random PC hardware hack work that would do things like recompiling executables to save a few hundred kilobytes of space on a ramdisk that held a stripped down version of MSDOS 2.0. God but my brain worked so much better back then! Anyway, great show!!!
I kinda want to learn more hacks, mostly to "fix" Netflix for Android TV to request Widevine L3 (the Switch doesn't support Widevine L1 DRM, so Netflix for Android TV doesn't work, but the regular non-TV version supports all levels and works because Android phones don't guarantee support for L1 and L2.) This is because with it, and by cracking Chromecast anti-clone checks on my phone's Play Services, Chrome and the Switchroot Android's Mediashell, I could get a crude, albeit functioning Chromecast out of the Switch.
@@Veetiful Yup. Also as Umos said it's totally legal to dump roms off of a physical game that you own for "backup" purposes, it's the distribution to others that is against copyright law
Android's pretty lightweight, 4GB should be fine for at least another couple of years. Phone manufacturers just wants you to think otherwise so you can buy the latest phones.
Maybe, juust maybe we can get a “Sh*t manufacturers say” about those Ridge RFID blocking plates on those wallets with some tests? Would be interesting to see imo
"ridge wallets" is a very successful fake brand Their products are not actually their's They get all their products from Ali Express and ask the Chinese manufacturers to add their fake brand logo Ali Express wallet : $1 Ridge wallet: $30
they work but you can get the same product directly from china for less than 5 bucks shipped also theyre not really necessary, contactless payment has quite a few security measures including a very low transaction limit without pin
@@AirshBornely There really is something to be said about getting an experienced actor/video host with just an interest in tech and bringing them on, in addition to people who are mostly just techies with lots of knowledge. Not everyone is as comfortable in front of the camera as Linus.
@@WildVoltorb Nope, wouldn't even try. All modern console games bore me. But I did have over 100 SNES games on it awhile ago. Now I just play SimplyPiano with it, plugged directly from the tablet to the Yamaha keyboard. Learning an actual skill is so much more rewarding.
If I own a piece of hardware, I'll modify the damn thing any way I see fit. I reserve the right to repair and the manufacturer can kiss my Toretto torque wrench
Thats all fine and cool but with buying the device you accept their Terms of Service for as it is now. And if you install hacked games you never owned that’s a problem...same with hacking their software probably clashing with their intellectual property. But I agree right to repair and modding should be allowed and possible, with the cost of losing warranty...piracy tho goes hand in hand with modding tho so I have no clue how to solve that
@@romdex I'm one of those guys that likes to have a hard-copy of everything that I (listen to, play, use, etc.) If I find and download a game and hate it, oh well. But if I like it, I'll find a retail version of it - either second hand or new. With retro gaming, I download ROMs to games I have because I don't have know-how on getting the data off a cartridge. Here's the kicker, I'm an end-user and not doing this and selling anything.
@@MikesLifee If its a toy, then why are you here watching a video on it? Hyane-Artikel made good points on both sides of the issue and it really is a toss-up between modding and piracy. Seriously, though, there is no need to attack someone like that.
Android on a Switch is a thing that only Google could prevent, since you dont do anything illegal to the Nintendo software, you only use your hardware in a different way than intended. And even that....
I remember "hacking" my Steam Link. That device literally is asking to be "hacked". You literally only need a single file in a specific folder on a USB drive, the login infos you can easily find online, and you get access to the Steam Link's entire drive + its console via SSH. To compare, most Android devices require you to use a computer and to erase all data to be rooted, the 3DS (also another device that is easy to hack, and extremely easy to manage the hack) requires on the latest version for you to either flash a flashcard (ntrboot) or to exploit the dsi firmware, and the PS Vita needs to be kept at a certain firmware. Compare anything else to simply putting an empty file on a USB. Good job, Steam. Too bad the Steam Link is a *streaming device* so there isn't really much point in all that. Oh and also, RetroArch supports it for some reason. Not that I'm complaining.
