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Come on Garrus. Pointing to community PC ports actually proves my exact point. Those versions exist because massive teams of volunteers spent what can often amount to years or at least 100s of hours reverse-engineering the original assembly code line by line specifically to decouple the game logic from the frame rate. That is the exact opposite of flicking a switch and im sure they wouldnt appreciating you diminishing their hundreds of man hours to a flick of a switch just for the sake of pressing an argument.

Furthermore, relying on animation interpolation for a hardcoded 60fps tick is just a visual band-aid. It regularly introduces input latency or ghosting artifacts, which might be fine for a free fan mod but wouldn't pass basic quality assurance for an official commercial release. The fact that fans had to put hundreds or sometimes even thousands of combined hours into doing it manually shows exactly how labor-intensive the process is.

Understanding the technical realities of software development isn't defending a corporation, it's just living in reality :-/

Projects like Twilight Princess on PC are great efforts, but they are built on the back of massive community reverse-engineering efforts that took years of unpaid labor to complete. A hobbyist pushing a decompiled game to 240fps on a modern PC without having to worry about strict commercial QA testing, hardware certification, or production budgets is a completely different universe than native console development! Lol.

Laugh all you want, but throwing volunteer passion projects into the mix doesn't magically make the underlying code easier to rewrite at an industrial scale.

Garrus youre really out here just saying anything at this point lol. Saying a resolution bump and widescreen support for SNES games is harder than 120fps support for 3D games shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how these totally different architectures work. Theyre both hard. How do you quantify it? Lol.

​Whilst you can just bump the resolution of a 2D 16-bit game. It relies on fixed pixel art, so increasing the resolution natively just gives you sharper squares unless a team manually redraws every single sprite from scratch. Widescreen on the SNES is an even bigger nightmare. Those games don't have a 3D world sitting off-camera. They use strict 4:3 culling to save memory, so if you stretch the viewport, you just see the level geometry end abruptly and watch enemies pop into existence out of thin air. Fixing that means manually rewriting the spawn mechanics, AI triggers, and camera boundaries for every single stage.

​On the flip side, 120fps on Gamecube requires completely decoupling the core physics and logic loops of a 3D engine from its frame rate so the game doesn't run at double speed. You are comparing a 2D sprite culling overhaul to a 3D physics logic rewrite. They are two completely different development nightmares. Neither of them is easy, neither is a simple setting you toggle, and claiming one is harder than the other just proves you are guessing about what it actually takes to make these ports work commercially. A multitude of fan efforts existing doesnt change the development effort required and said fan ports wouldnt necessarily meet the quality assurance standards of a commercial release