Nintendo Switch 2 emulation is already making some impressive progress, and Mario Kart World is one of the first major games to demonstrate just how quickly things are moving!
Thanks to an experimental emulator called Eglantine, Nintendo’s colourful kart racer is now running on PC, with some early tests reportedly reaching around 60 frames per second.
That’s an impressive achievement for such a young console, although there are a few catches!
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Good news, physical game collectors! Nintendo has confirmed it has no plans to abandon physical video games. But does that mean our beloved cartridges are safe forever? Not necessarily!
While the gaming industry continues its march towards an increasingly digital future, Nintendo has offered some welcome reassurance for gamers who still enjoy owning a physical copy of their favourite games.
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Nintendo has once again taken aim at Nintendo Switch emulation, with a new wave of DMCA takedown notices resulting in 401 emulator-related repositories being removed from GitHub.
The latest action targeted a number of Switch emulation projects and forks, including repositories connected to Suyu, Skyline, MonoNX and Yuzu-derived projects.
However, there is an important distinction to make: this does not mean Nintendo removed 401 completely separate Switch emulators.
Many of the repositories were forks, mirrors or modified versions of existing projects. In fact, Suyu alone accounted for a huge portion of the total.
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Mario Kart Wii is one of those games that just refuses to disappear.
More than 18 years after its original release, the Wii racer still has an incredibly active fanbase, a huge modding scene and plenty of people who swear its drifting mechanics remain some of the best in the series.
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Imagine opening an old cardboard box and discovering 97 apparently brand-new Nintendo games inside.
Not Switch games.
Not Nintendo 64 games.
We’re talking about 97 pristine NES cartridges that had been sitting untouched for decades.
That would already be a pretty spectacular retro-gaming discovery, but this particular box had another surprise waiting inside.
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