Tears of the Kingdom Looks Gorgeous on PC with Ray Tracing

Take a look at how beautiful The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom can look on PC emulators with ray tracing enabled through ReShade.

[Becuzisaid]

I'd rather look at how beautiful it is and support the people who didn't years making it at the same time.

[porkChop]

You can emulate it for better graphics and performance but still buy the game to support the devs. Emulation isn't piracy.

[MadLad]

Exactly. I used to buy a copy of the games then just give it to my nephew. Now he's of the age he has one of my old PCs and he just wants to emulate them too lol.

That's the console only mentality though. PC guys just steal everything. They're not just a little jealous of seeing an open platform at work.

[Smellsforfree]

Agreed. Emulation is NOT piracy and emulation is preserving gaming history.

I recently reset my Switch and was flabbergasted at how many of my old cartridges would not play without some download from the eshop. It is like they all need authentication from Nintendo's servers in the form of a small update to play on a Switch with recent firmware. If Nintendo decides to shut down these servers, there is a good possibility that a lot of my purchased content, including physical games, will be no longer playable. However, all of the games I've backed up to my PC will be playable forever. And I've been thinking about that a lot lately.

[gleepot]

Correct, emulation isn't piracy, but when you buy a game you buy a single license to play the version of the game you bought. Just because you bought the game on one console, does not give you free legal reign to play it on anything else. Downloading and playing a rom is still illegal.

[badz149]

emulation is fully legal as long as you are not using any propriety copyrighted codes not owned by you. if the emulator is coded with ZERO codes from the original hw, it's legal. and dumping your games to .iso image or whatever has always been legal given that you bought the game and dumped the copy you bought. I think there was a law stating that.

HOWEVER to some extent, even if you download the iso but still buy the copy of the game, I personally still consider it as legal.

so, with all the above considered, there should be ZERO credibility for any console maker to go after legal emulation like what Nintendo is doing. why has it been allowed though? is Nintendo somehow above the law?

[GotGame818]

As long as people buy the game before playing on PC! I expected a new Switch this holiday, but according to Nintendo that's not going to happen. Sheesh Nintendo, release Switch 2 already. The OLED is nice, but a 1080p portable with at least the power of Series S is overdue.

In the past I used to say at least as powerful as XB1X.

[Viljong]

Thats imposible. 799e rog ally is 8.6tflop zen4 rda3 on paper but is not nearly series s level. Show how much better console api is. Switch is tiny 0.4tflop.

[C4rnos]

If you want to talk about teraflops, the Series S is only 4, the reality is newer; faster, smaller chiplet designs that are coming out now will be leaps and bounds ahead of what was possible even a few years ago.

The Steamdeck is the perfect example of the level people expect though, the Deck can play most games at 800p and while having higher framerates all the same, you'd likely be looking at 4-500 for something like that.

[Smellsforfree]

I think 720p is fine for a portable. I wouldn't expect Nintendo to target Series S performance. I expect it will perform better than Switch, but I fully expect Nintendo to take the same considered approach they took with Switch with whatever new portable they come out with. The original Switch has a severely underclocked GPU in the name of battery life, for example.

[FungLip]

Is it fully playable or just good to look at?

[MadLad]

Switch emulation has been easy for a long while now. If you have a decent enough PC it's really where you should be playing your Switch games unless you care about the mobility ... that's when you grab your Steam Deck lol.

[Vits]

The game is fully playable on PC, you can choose the input method, upscale, etc. But the 60fps patch and this RT patch are still hit or miss. The first is being optimized whereas the second is just a patch modification originally for BOTW so it can create some artifacts.

[badz149]

Switch emulation has been a breeze. the Steam Deck is running Switch games effortlessly

[z2g]

Other ppl have to make Nintendos games look more current for them.

[Adnanilyas21]

Who cares man

[ufo8mycat]

Nintendo have no right to complain about this. Dont like this Nintendo? Then release hardware that is capable of making your games look decent with 60fps and dont charge full price for a game that is technically not up to standard to AAA games from 2023.

Simple

[C4rnos]

i'd be happy with 60fps alone, the games don't *need* to look much better, they do well with the art styles honestly.
But the difference between 30 and 60 frames is very noticeable and is probably the only thing keeping me from buying a Switch at the moment, unfortunately.

[gleepot]

I'll just say it. I don't think ray tracing adds any beauty to games.

[tracyberge]

Stop saying Ray Tracing when it isn't