Smash Ultimate but it's on PC 

man i miss making these kinds of videos. maybe i should make more! what game do you want to see on PC?? watch more PC remaster videos: ru-vid.com/group/PLPBVb36G1PK2NUCoPCkgo2-cWFzvNRqMZ&si=ELPmzJkDCLju2KnD5oyZMQ

"Take a look and see if you can tell a difference between 1080p and 4K." Me, watching in 480p on my phone during my lunch break: "Quite interesting..."

that donkey kong vs steve match looked so smooth. i also like the delay of when he turns red while he's hurt. i thought it looksed cool imo

This Rivals of Aether Nintendo character pack looking insane!

HDR dev here, nice to see you enjoying the mod! You're able to wavedash completely horizontally (no need to hold the stick diagonally), so if you feel like the wavedashes feel a little short, that may be why. Other than that, try checking in the tips section in the vault, don't be afraid to try the nightly updates (you'll get to try new content before they hit beta releases), and keep your eyes out for new content! We've got a ton of stuff in the pipeline for the next beta (including ASDI), so look forward to it! Edit: To specify (in case it wasn't clear), I am one of the devs on the dev team. Different people work on different parts of the game. For example, I write the tips, and made most of the changes to Pichu.

Also, rollback netcode, as far as I know, is being worked on for Smash Ultimate in emulators. Emulation is not perfect, but basically everything you highlighted are just some of the reasons why I am a huge advocate for emulation for all platforms. Nintendo and most other companies have shown time and time again that they are not willing to do what it takes to preserve gaming history in a convenient and fair way for the consumers. Therefor, we have to take matters into out own hands. Major shoutout to the legends who work on these emulators.

The unintentional way PC emulation encourages you to play all the characters is kinda neat.

7:23 I... Actually noticed it BEFORE: Steve flashed red every time you hit him, but that's not in the game! So I'm guessing that's a mod too!

just a quick note: while dash dancing is different in the mod, you could dash dance in ultimate and it isnt smash 4's weird long dash dance which is more similar to what was done in the video.

It will def feel better, switch has added latency for some reason and pc doesnt have this issue so less input delay

idk if anyone mentioned this yet but iirc the shader cache for characters are different when in a match with 4 or less players and in a match with 5+ characters so basically if you're doing 8 player smash with a character you haven't used in 8 player smash the emulator still needs to load the shader cache

perhaps people would prefer modding the emulated game rather than modding their switch.

Yes!! Something I've been waiting for! It's finally here! Good vid, Linklight! I also loved that HDR mod as well.

I dig the coverage of Smash Ultimate here. I don't have the funds to afford to keep getting better hardware, so it's nice to get a look at how a future-proofed Smash Ultimate would look for those who have the power to run it.

Two tip: 1. You can use a save editor to unlock all the characters. 2. Make sure you have hazards on when using hdr stages other wise some like fourside break.

This video was really cool! I love that you left so much to test out as part of the video and it got to feel like we experienced it alongside you! (Even tho this was already recorded obviously)

Thats actually sick tbh

Meanwhile, on my PC: *Blue screening for me even thinking about it*

"I feel useless without the c-stick" me who played sm4sh on 3ds for my whole life: I have no such weakness

There’s ways around no c-stick support. Kinda weird ik but if you really want it you can use something like xpadder to map “forward” and “A” to a single directional input.

Hey HDR dev here I’m glad you enjoyed our mod I was stoked to see you come back to both show the world the greatness of Ryujinx and HDR! There are tons of things still subject to change and that includes the stages and their general functionality, many of which have big plans (so expect those big stages to make a return at some point). Our next update is also gonna be one of the biggest yet so if you’re looking to make more HDR content the next beta release will have you covered 👍 And side note: as for me in particular I work on visuals and am planning on doing character changes (with big reworks for Steve and Mega Man to come). As for some good examples I’ve made the new Battlefield, FD, Small Battlefield as well as PS3 (appropriately Galar themed). I also am one of the creators of our skin pack which will be receiving a big update in the coming months too and will promptly be integrated into our launcher as an optional install. And for that launcher in question it may or may not be receiving some emulator support in the future 🫡

The main reason Linklight: future-proofing Me: bc no switch 😔

btw you can dash dance in vanilla ultimate, like, extremley fast with every character. you have to be very good at mashing the control stick fast and i reccomend using the palm of your right hand to do it but its pretty easy.

Here are some points i would like to add -since yuzu and ryujinx load shader caches you need to load them as you said,however,to have an initially better performance,both emulators have an option to make the emulator load shader cache without “remembering” the shaders so the game will overall run smoother the first time but it won’t be better next time -another thing emulator helps for is the accessibility of it,for example,while there was a mod that allowed to use different controllers on the switch (which i’m pretty sure doesn’t work now) by itself you are limited to first party controllers and weird third party controllers,however on emulators you can use pretty much anything -while other emulators have constantly been getting better and better over the years since yuzu (which was not the emulator used in this video) is a bit inconsistent,it’s not unusual that there are minor or big glitches during the game,ryujinx is much more consistent however it has slightly worse performance -you can get shader caches from other people to have an initially better performance,however it can be hard to find shader caches for new games That’s about it,i agreed with most of what you said in this video

5:00 probably because your computer connects to your controller faster, or if you mean FPS wise, its your GPU. its all just hardware related. The switch is portable, which means it has to cut down on some things, that includes bluetooth connections.

If _you're_ getting lag spikes after loading shader cache still because your CPU is outdated, then *I* definitely will have problems trying to run _any_ switch game on the laptop. I just wish there was like an option to load all the cache before you open the game (Like what Dolphin emulator has) that would help my laptop considerably.

This looks mad smooth.

wow I really enjoyed watching the video good shit

Everyone : brings their switch to a smash bros tournament This guy : brings his PC to the smash bros tournament

Smash Ultimate has 6 frames of input lag on the Switch. The lack of lag on the emulator can actually hurt you if you play competitively.

Speaking of 4K, I got a PS5 last month. Some games run in 4K despite my 1080p TV, and it seriously looks better than regular 1080. It makes a pretty big difference even if you can't output it.

interesting! ive always wanted to emulate some switch games, thank u for showin off how it would look

If I had a very buff PC, I would use it for modding and I wouldn't be surprised if Smash Ultimate gets the Slippy treatment in the far future because how far modding has come in a somewhat short period of time compared to Brawl and Melee.

here before nintendo sells his organs

If you experience constant lag on your TV, you can try setting it to game mode, or changing the response time in the settings, some TVs change the response time when you set them to game mode. Also you can download 100% saves on emulators to unlock all characters on Smash Bros for example.

Been playing it on steam with a friend, works like a charm

9:05 you can indeed do this in the base game, even faster than you showed for HDR, but I'm pretty sure it's useless (in base) aside from mixup

I don't even care about the comparissons between switch and PC, but the fact that this guy is so good at DK is just mind blowing

It looks so smooth

competitive 3-player smash is actually a lot of fun

"Unless you have a really keen eye you wouldn't notice that this Smash has been modded" Dude that Falcon Punch came out YEARS earlier than vanilla would there's no way people wouldn't notice Also Steve turning red but come on

One thing to keep in mind with 4k on RU-vid on the point made at 2:40 Bitrate is also an immense determining factor on the "quality" of an image (which is also incredibly murky when you get in the weeds) RU-vid 4K has a much higher bitrate, meaning that even not factoring your point on pixel compression it will automatically look better on busier forms of video.

Great video bro

the reason the resolution changes matter on youtube even without a 4k display, is because you are aftually viewing a higher bitrate. bitrate is often more important than reaolution for resolving the detail of an image, especially on smaller displays.

well, if you're looking for more smash ultimate mods to play, me and some friends made a sequel to tr4sh :)

I think everything looks cool here, but my only problem is how slow knockback goes. The biggest problem I’ve seen with older smash games is that you never truly feel an impact from the super strong hits because they send the opponent so slowly. I feel ultimate on the switch is at just enough knockback speed that it doesn’t remove some responsiveness when playing but it’s also fast enough that when you get sent to the blastzone, you’re there in a second and then either out of hitstun or in the blastzone.

HDR Mod Maker here, nice showcase of the mod 🐐

really liked the structure of this video, interesting points about the value of emulation!

Nintendo would like to know your location.

I agree with most points in this video other than the less input lag on emulation, because that is just not the case emulation 99% of the time will have more lag than native hardware because an emulator is essentially a system running inside another system which results in more lag, compared to the game running natively on real hardware. Theirs many reasons as to why u think theirs more lag on switch than pc one reason being the monitor u are using. For example if ur using a 4k screen than the switch would likely have more input lag than ur pc cause it outputs at 1080p so the screen has to downscale the resolution which results in more lag than 4k on ur pc.

LOVE THIS!!! Please show us how you did this!!

Hey, awesome video I’m definitely planning on getting a PC at some point

i have this on Yuzu and it sucks. Always has stutters or frame pacing issues even after full shader compilation no matter what settings or render settings you use. Is Ryujinx better at smash? It just runs "ok" on Yuzu

Got Ultimate on PC and invited a friend over to play. It was a very fun time

I definitely recommend trying if you have a PC. It’s very helpful when labbing as well. Idk about mods I’ve been having a lot of trouble installing them bc I never did it before on Ryujinx. Informative video frfr

great video, this info will become useful if i ever get a more powerful PC to try and emulate ultimate on here... i always wanted to try hewdraw and ultimate S, though i always feared that i'd be banned from online over on the switch if i tried that

I been playing smash on PC with my brother for 2 years, runs too smooth

i feel like a huge issue you glossed over is the inability to use the c-stick. will that be fixed at a later date?

The levels in this mod were what I was hoping Nintendo would do for the battlefield versions of stages. Like, we don't need 100 identical alternate battlefields. But slight variations that add some variety both in visuals and also in layout would be huge.

stay in a game walking around for 20 min, beat the cpu, challenge a new character (win to unlock), home screen on character select screen, exit game. start game, play a cpu, beat cpu, challenge a new character instantly (win to unlock), home screen on character select screen, exit game. repeat until roster is unlocked. learned this from a video ZeRo uploaded around the release of ultimate. i used it when i first emulated ultimate actually lol (which was actually before buying, and then i did the same when i did buy it), and because i did it at the start, i was downloading all the shaders for every scenario as i was playing and unlocking each char. a great way to gain shaders is to do what you did towards the end as well a couple of times but with a bit more to it. max out on cpus with cpus only and no player, play a big stage with hazards on, have all items on, and have the game last for a while until it runs smoothly. then do another with completely different cpus and a different stage. after 2 or 3 times it should run smoothly. also just run through a few common stages with various characters for a bit, then after time youll just gain necessary shaders without knowing it, especially if its with friends...

Would it be feasible to pre-load all assets on first startup?

This looks like it runs way better than Yuzu. At least on my pc lmao

I have actually tested it, and yes, it runs pretty smoothly on a steam deck, although any matches with more than 3 players does start to mess up the frame rate, so it probably is a bit worse

I'm pretty sure you can still play online in smash 4, I think the discontinuing stuff was mainly about the wii and other online services on it

Looks freaking beautiful.

my dude, smash switch does NOT look like that in the thumbnail.

That Wii U portable concept pic actually looked really cool 😥

i got my switch on launch with mario kart and mario odyssey and both of the cartridge stopped working so having this as an alternative is much better

Ryujinx is honestly a lot better than yuzu in terms of performance and graphics, seem the only problem is the long ass startup

Kinda crazy that the 8 player smash just looks like a normal ultimate online match

As soon as i saw thos video, i downloaded yuzu and started playing smash. Im pleasently surprised with the results. Runs amazing at over 4k, even with the 8 player smash test i get a locked 60. Thanks for this video!

I was gonna say for the first third of the video, I was like “Huh the camera looks reaaaallly good, different than vanilla Ult. Almost looks like HDR. Wonder if Yuzu is making it look like that” You bastard lmao

*Here's how to unlock the characters faster.* It may be different with the mods. Anyway, go to Games and More and there will be a glowing door at the bottom right of the screen where you can face previously fought characters. And if you need to complete matches to face new opponents, just do a one stock match. I think that inflates the counter.

trying way too hard to avoid discussing piracy

7:23 Nah mate you T Baged my man Fox 😂

I’m mindblown how Nintendo hasn’t taken this down yet. Cool video

Actually upscaling emulated games is different then just watching something in 4k. The internal resolution is independent from your screen resolution. If you ever have played an emulated game, let's say 3ds, and upscaled to whatever the highest resolution is, regardless of what screen resolution you have, it's going to look infinitely better.

So if you don't know: Smash Ultimate has some pretty heavy input delay (I don't know the number offhand, but I think it's around 6 frames of delay) Playing this on emulator would remove that and make the game feel more responsive.

As someone who uses Yuzu frequently, its such a nice option to have, HOWEVER, some games crash, or have glitches, so its nice to have a switch that can run the hardware natively will help if you run into unpassable crashes like i am on tears of the kingdom, I can pass it using my switch and go back to PC whenever. Also you will run into various issues like visual glitches, and other odd things, so expect that.

*Talks about all the great things it can do* then “Let’s discuss the negatives. There’s occasional lag…” *and immediately back to more positives*

I'm very shocked to see how ryujinx and yuzu developed throughout 2 years heck most of the games are glitchy even the shadows are weird

Who's here after the sad shutdown of yuzu and citra?!

the online elements for sure seem awesome!

9:07 Me casually dash dancing with Sonic: yeah...

I could go on and on about the benefits of emulation assuming you have decent hardware: -TONS of save files -You can take other people’s save files so you don’t have to unlock characters or if you want to go back to a certain part of the game -FPS is more consistent -Better resolution -Mods are easy to install after setting Yuzu/Ryujinx up -Online (Recent development) and it’s still being improved upon. I wouldn’t be surprised if it ended up being better than the Switch’s at some point. I could go on! It’s all only going to get better from here! 👍🏻👌🏻

i never thought we would be able to emulate the switch, i am actually flabberghasted

As a video professional- you’re correct, HDMI is inherently laggy. SDI with BNC connectors is a preferred connection for that exact reason

the craziest lag of shader caching stuff for me whas when the inkling in his map threw paint at my captain falcon, the game literally froze for about 30 seconds then came back like nothing even happened

I really like all the positives of having Ultimate of PC, especially in like, 10 years, but personally, the whole thing isn't how I would want to play. The individual 4K changes are cool, but most else isn't my cup of tea, but it is so cool for those who really want these changes.

14:48 nope the amount of times i've seen emulator devs refuse to add certain things because "they're too outdated" or "no new pc supports them anymore" is enough to make me want to learn coding and make my own emulators

The first 2 minutes of this feel like a RU-vid ad coming on at 3am

I play ryujinx and i can say that the quality is so much better that you can see the polygon edges sometimes.

😂 Nintendo's all pissed about emulators because they do a better job of running their software than their ancient piece of e-waste does.

How to download pls

Well you can dash dance in ultimate. You just gotta be fast enough.

The background on final destination looks amazing

I'm crazy about emulation. It's so fantastic how they managed to make other gamesystems work on your pc

I wonder if there’s a mod that lets you disable stage hazards in training mode, the fact it was never implemented into the actual game will always bother me. It’s such an oversight!

Thanks for showcasing this.PC is the way to go with smash because pretty soon even though they have not announced it yet.The online for Wii U and 3ds will mose likely be shutdown in the coming years.Playing these smash games on the PC is the best

most likely you don’t feel the 5 frame input delay because your frame rate is much higher because your pc is so powerful the set frame rule that is built into the game so it can be fair just doesn’t work correctly so it feels smoothly