Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 out Oct 2nd for Switch, new amiibo announced

I spent a long long time setting up SMG 1 + 2 on Dolphin, 4K texture + UI packs which don't alter the art style in any way, mods turned on to add per-pixel lighting instead per-vertex among other tweaks/fixes which help when you're rendering the game at such a high resolution, like disabled aggressive LoDs for Mario and enemies/NPCs. Having the flick to spin mapped to a button and full gyro support on DS4/Dualsense as well after I gave up on emulating the Wiimote on PC.

It runs at native 8K internally with 2x SSAA, so effectively 16K and then thats all downsampled to an output of 4K. It looks absolutely incredible and runs at locked 60fps. It was funny once I got it all working at 8K and it was such a clean image but even at that resolution AA is required to remove aliasing so there was a very fine jagginess to it, luckily Dolphin has a good quality FXAA implementation which perfectly smoothed out all theose edges with very very minimal loss of detail.

When the tiny Mario (tiny as in the camera is way zoomed out) is suspended in the air the planet select screen in each "room" of the hub he was perfectly rendered on my 65" TV, you could walk up the screen and be a few inches away from it and he was realised with more pixels than he is when he's normal size on the original Wii game ha.

It won't get close to that level of IQ but hopefully something close so I can have a version of it thats pick up and play. What puts me off is that it doesn't look to have any of the fixes that are in Dolphin, even if its running at native 4K with decent AA and some sort of upscaled textures things like that are quite jarring.
 
I just hope there are ways to play left handed. Im aware on the switch 2 we can remap controls but Im not sure if that works for motion controls. It made skyward sword hd very awkward for me.
 
I pre-ordered this today only because EB Games has it at 89 doliroos or trade-in 2 eligible games + $29, I did the latter and ended spending only 46 doliroos.

But USD70 in the US is something only seen by Nintendo, sadly this will sell heaps.
 
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