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.

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In 1996 few houses had a computer, mobile phones were only used to call and almost no one used the Internet, but a video game saga brought technology into homes, with the launch of the first Pokemon title in Japan: Pokemon Green and Red for the Nintendo GameBoy handheld console.

On February 27, Pokémon Day was celebrated, which this year commemorates the quarter century since the birth of the saga of pocket monsters created by the Japanese Game Freak for Nintendo consoles.

The idea of ​​the franchise was born as a role-playing video game (RPG), in which the player becomes a young trainer whose objective was to catch the 151 pokemon of the initial Pokedex, make his team stronger, defeat the eight gym leaders and beat the best trainers in the Pokémon League.

Part of the game also consisted of catching legendary pokemon, hidden in the great open world, facing and defeating the antagonists of Team Rocket and exchanging creatures with other players through the Game Link cable, from the Nintendo GameBoy, released in 1989 and which has already turned 30 years old.

In 25 years, Pokemon has sold more than 368 million units of video games in the world and the saga has transcended this sector and has starred in television series, comics and movies, among other media, until managing to integrate into popular culture to a large extent of the planet and beat more than one record.

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