The Switch, Nintendo’s next-generation console, prepares support for playing video games originally developed for the brand’s previous handheld consoles, GameBoy and GameBoy Advance.
A Twitter user known as trasbandatcoot discovered a series of files circulating on Discord servers and forums such as 4chan, in which two emulators were found.
Emulators are programs that allow players to access certain video games from devices other than those for which they were initially developed. In this way, it is not necessary to acquire a specific “hardware”, but you can play native titles on other platforms.
These emulators have the code names “Hyoko”, for GameBoy, and “Sloop”, for GameBoy Advance, and would have been developed by the Nintendo European Research & Development team, which usually manages emulation software for official products of the Japanese brand.
According to leaks made available to Video Games Chronicle, both emulators were downloaded from a Nintendo Switch console, suggesting that the company could be working to integrate native video games from retro consoles into the cloud of its next-gen console.
Some of the titles that could be included on this platform include those developed by the Japanese company itself, such as The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap and Metroid Fusion, as well as games created by other studios, such as Mega Man Battle Network 2 or Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow.
K. Tovar
Source: Hipertextual
