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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Announcement Trailer – Nintendo Switch (www.youtube.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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FINALLY! Looking forward to this one!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm hoping it's gonna be like a GameBoy Color game. One cartridge. Play on Switch, regular graphics. Play on Switch 2, next-gen graphics. Everyone wins

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That would be really cool.
Fun tidbit: there's a tiny physical switch in the plug in port that tells those systems which mode the game is for. So if the cartridge presses that switch in, the Gameboy will use the Color/Advanced software, for example.

I don't remember which way is for what specific system, but I always thought that was clever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, GBC cartridges could physically fit inside the OG GB, but would throw an error when it required the extra power of the GBC. The GBA had the notch that determined Advance/not-Advance mode and made GBA games physically exclusive to the GBA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That's what I was thinking of. Thank you!