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Nintendo Switch: new Firmware update now live
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Being able to have a setting to keep the Switch in sleep mode when I undock it is a big deal for me. Making the transition from docked to carrying case faster.
With cloud backup you could already transfer a save to a new system (without loosing it on other systems).
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I can live without the Activity Log, but personally, my most requested feature from the (new) 3DS is the file transfer to PC. Moving the MicroSD card is such a pain in comparison.
I still have a weird UI bug that doesn't let me browse the OS in handheld mode with the left joycon (either d-pad or analog stick): basically if i press down it does nothing sometimes.
I've heard somewhere a while ago that i have to reset the console but that would mean cancelling all my data and redownloading it again (i have cloud saves) which is a lot of work.
I've heard somewhere a while ago that i have to reset the console but that would mean cancelling all my data and redownloading it again (i have cloud saves) which is a lot of work.
If I had to guess the Switch is using the play time found under your Profile activity, so yeah, check it out as usual from there.
Can you try if the Switch powers on when removing from the dock while the option is enabled to not let the Switch power on when removing from AC adapter?
Your profile is only showing the playtime for the last x games you've played, so that's actually not as easy as it sounds.
No. You could already do this, just not a la carte on a game-by-game basis.
The feature that already existed - transfer all user and save data - is actually better suited to migrating your stuff to a brand-new system.
But in a world before that feature existed, you might have already created a second profile on a second system. Not having the option to move over data from one system without replacing all your data on a second system really sucked.
It meant my wife, who created her Splatoon profile on her system but had her BotW file on my launch unit, couldn't move her BotW file without wiping her Splatoon file.
This fixes that for people who don't have NSO.
Yeah, I think we should give Nintendo feedback about displaying play times when they're sorted that way, just like how the publisher name is listed when sorting by publisher.
But you can't view it for all of your games at once, only your recently most played. Plus you have to wait 10 days or something before it even displays there.
Someone needs to test out the save data transfer in v8.0.0 and see how it it does. Need someone's save data that can't be backed up to the cloud for sacrifice.
Welp, now I can finally deduce my 1-2 Switch playtime (nestled between two "10 hours or more" games). Seems it adds up all profile's playtimes since some games that I've replayed on other profiles are out of order from my main profile metrics. Curious to redownload the Puyo Puyo Tetris S demo and see where it falls. Played that so much those first two months
Not waking up automatically when undocked/unplugged is good. Now how about making it not wake up when docked/plugged in either?
Yeah, I think this is the secret most interesting change. A new system-level option doesn't seem like something that would happen for one Labo game and a couple patched modes into old games.
If they did, it would likely be under the same restrictions as the existing avatars (EPD franchises + Kirby only). Hopefully Nintendo diversifies their character pool, or at least gives us a paid option to buy more avatars from other franchises.
Transferring saves between hardware. How MYSTERIOUS.
I honestly don't get Nintendo dripfeeding these avatars. Splatoon 2 came out nearly TWO YEARS AGO and we are just now getting Off the Hook icons. I get holding some back for new releases like Yoshi, but are these things extremely difficult to add? Is it the Nintendo equivalent of changing your PSN name in terms of hoop jumping? Take all the Smash avatars and make them Switch avatars, boom you've improved that feature tenfold.
I honestly don't get Nintendo dripfeeding these avatars. Splatoon 2 came out nearly TWO YEARS AGO and we are just now getting Off the Hook icons. I get holding some back for new releases like Yoshi, but are these things extremely difficult to add? Is it the Nintendo equivalent of changing your PSN name in terms of hoop jumping? Take all the Smash avatars and make them Switch avatars, boom you've improved that feature tenfold.
If you own games that didn't support cloud saves, you'd have to do a full account transfer every time before. This update removes the need to do that.
This feature being dropped tells me that we are getting those new revisions sooner rather then later. I know that we can't really map past actions to the current administration, but for the New 3DS there was a two month wait between announcement and release. I'm ready Nintendo, I'm ready!
Much of the Switch OS is actually reused from the 3DS, they just rebuilt the entire UI.
I don't think it's a matter of competence. It's by design in this case.
They should have somehow tied them to your purchases. Adds small little incentive to buy morw games.
Labo Variety gave me 60 coins as well, but Vehicle Kit had the same region error as VR kit. Don't know about robot, I haven't opened that
Does that work the other way around? Can I press left to go to all software immediately?
Where did you get this from? It's far more similar to the Wii U's Quick Start OS (built into the Gamepad) than the 3DS.
Then I'm 99.9% sure that is a new feature because I tried that before and it did not work.
Pressing left on the first icon takes you to the "All Software" icon as well.
All of the reverse engineering efforts point to the Switch OS being a fork of the 3DS one. It's diverged pretty heavily, but it still has the same code names and general design.
Also I find it incredibly doubtful that there's any meaningful technical relationship between the Switch OS and anything that was running on the Wii U Gamepad.
So you can sort software by playtime. So the system knows the playtime for every game.
When am I going to get a proper activity log?
When am I going to get a proper activity log?
It's a similar layout and feature set. It has a news feed, list of recently played games, shortcuts to user settings, system settings and eShop. That's not similar to how the 3DS worked or was laid out. It's also incredibly small, similar to how the Gamepad OS was and the code name was similar to QuickStart which is what the Gamepad OS was called.
So I just checked this out and my first reaction is holy shit I sure did play that Puyo Puyo Tetris demo a lot huh? I played it more than the likes of Doom for crying out loud. The DEMO. I remember that demo being addictive as fuck but damn that puts it in pperspective. Combine that with the full game and that's a lot of Puyo Puyo Tetris.
Second reaction is oh this doesn't arrange the home menu this is lame.
Second reaction is oh this doesn't arrange the home menu this is lame.