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Someone has found a hidden VR mode on Nintendo Switch

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I'm not sure what to title this, so I did my best. Someone datamined a hidden VR Mode on the Nintendo Switch.



And then someone decided to access the hidden VR Mode on the Nintendo Switch, running on firmware 4.1.0. This is done by calling on ICommonStateGetter::SetVrModeEnabled(true).



It's in French, so I don't know what it says though.

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The French message translation:

gabrielredu said:
The user replied the tweet with "for non-french people, its says "Please move the console away from your face and click the close button"".
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Mullet2000 said:
I speak French.

The screen says "Please move the console away from your face and press "close".
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gabegabe

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The user replied the tweet with "for non-french people, its says "Please move the console away from your face and click the close button"".
 
pwnsweet

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VR is pretty bad at 1080p, can you imagine how bad it would be at 720? Not sure why they bothered...
 
rpm

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Kadin said:
Yeah was it the N64 or GC that had a port on the bottom that was never used? Looked and can't remember.
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GC, although basically every Nintendo console up to GC has an expansion port that is useless or almost useless.
NES has an expansion port, never used (Famicom's was actually used for a lot, like the Disk System, the zapper, etc.)
SNES had one, the Satellaview used it in JP, but I think the only thing to use in NA was the exercise bike controller
N64's was only used for the 64DD, which was JP only
GC has 3, one was used for the Gameboy Player, one was used for the modem/LAN adapter, one was never used
They stopped having expansion ports with the Wii, cause they just had USB ports by then
 
LinkStrikesBack

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VR would be crap on current switch anyway, so I hope they don't bother, at least without another hardware iteration m years down the line. Hopefully it's just a leftover bit of code
 
Stitch

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Huh, so I guess it works like Google Cardboard. So maybe they want to release a Labo VR set.
 
Afrikan

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Maybe this was planned before Nintendo decided to go with a 720p screen.

Maybe orginal was supposed to be a 1080p screen.
 
Sexy Fish

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rpm said:
GC, although basically every Nintendo console up to GC has an expansion port that is useless or almost useless.
NES has an expansion port, never used (Famicom's was actually used for a lot, like the Disk System, the zapper, etc.)
SNES had one, the Satellaview used it in JP, but I think the only thing to use in NA was the exercise bike controller
N64's was only used for the 64DD, which was JP only
GC has 3, one was used for the Gameboy Player, one was used for the modem/LAN adapter, one was never used
They stopped having expansion ports with the Wii, cause they just had USB ports by then
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Don't forget we also got the Wii U controller port (for accessories) that never got used.

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Eh, makes sense that they expiremented with VR until the final concept and hardware were locked down. API is just a leftover.
 
Elfforkusu

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It would make a lot of sense for the OS to support it if they released a smaller form factor version of the Switch.

(but that screen door effect is going to be brutal)
 
NinjaScooter

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Callibretto said:
We survived 3ds resolution just fine. Curious about this. I assume they'll make Labo VR casing some time in the future
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poor resolution in VR can make consumers nauseous. It's a little different. I don't see Nintendo as the kind of company to half ass VR and give their audience a poor first impression of the technology just to check off a box.
 
Sexy Fish

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rpm said:
Good point. I assumed that was used for charging via the cradle till someone pointed out that the cradle only uses the contacts on either side to charge, I believe (don't own the cradle myself to check)
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It was definitely going to be used for a zapper, but that never came out. Always wondered if they had other ideas for that port.
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delete12345

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gabrielredu said:
The user replied the tweet with "for non-french people, its says "Please move the console away from your face and click the close button"".
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Mullet2000 said:
I speak French.

The screen says "Please move the console away from your face and press "close".
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Thanks. Adding to OP. Goodnight.

Jaded Alyx said:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/possible-vr-mode-coming-to-switch.60876/
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Oh... I did a quick search on Resetera for "Nintendo Switch VR" before I posted this thread... and nothing shows up. Going to close this thread because of rules.
 
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Kaeden

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rpm said:
GC, although basically every Nintendo console up to GC has an expansion port that is useless or almost useless.
NES has an expansion port, never used (Famicom's was actually used for a lot, like the Disk System, the zapper, etc.)
SNES had one, the Satellaview used it in JP, but I think the only thing to use in NA was the exercise bike controller
N64's was only used for the 64DD, which was JP only
GC has 3, one was used for the Gameboy Player, one was used for the modem/LAN adapter, one was never used
They stopped having expansion ports with the Wii, cause they just had USB ports by then
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Thanks, had no clue about the NES and SNES ports.
 
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