{"id":128757,"date":"2022-10-09T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-138920"},"modified":"2022-10-09T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T09:05:00","slug":"pilotwings-64-for-switch-online-appears-to-be-targeting-a-higher-frame-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/10\/09\/pilotwings-64-for-switch-online-appears-to-be-targeting-a-higher-frame-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilotwings 64 For Switch Online Appears To Be Targeting A Higher Frame Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c412830b14abe\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c412830b14abe\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pilotwings 64\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c412830b14abe\/pilotwings-64.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNjI4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"628\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c412830b14abe\/pilotwings-64.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pilotwings 64\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo announced the 1996\/97 game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/pilotwings_64\">Pilotwings 64<\/a> would be making its debut on the Switch Online + Expansion Pack service a few days ago, and it seems this will be the best version of the game yet.<\/p>\n<p>GameXplain has taken a closer look at the footage shown in the trailers, and it appears the gameplay will be targeting 60fps. In the original version of the game, it&#8217;s highlighted how it was only the menus that ran at 60fps while gameplay was around 30fps. This latest re-release will also feature a higher resolution.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It seems Pilotwings 64 may be targeting 60fps on Nintendo Switch and it looks SO MUCH BETTER! See how the new N64 games stack up to the originals in our graphics comparison!<br \/>WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2XzX4JcZKN\">https:\/\/t.co\/2XzX4JcZKN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/14evghw2jb\">pic.twitter.com\/14evghw2jb<\/a><\/span>\u2014 GameXplain (@GameXplain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameXplain\/status\/1569770440931049472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Apart from GameXplain&#8217;s footage, Nintendo&#8217;s Japanese YouTube channel also shared around 2 minutes and 30 seconds of direct gameplay footage of the NSO version of Pilotwings in action (<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/random-the-narration-on-the-new-pilotwings-64-trailer-really-is-something-else\">without that smooth voice<\/a>). Here it is in action:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"r2yuBO9OsWc\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The only notable &#8220;side effect&#8221; GameXplain spotted was the way the timer functions &#8211; it&#8217;s always counted the milliseconds a bit odd, but it&#8217;s now more noticeable with the game running at a higher frame rate. You can check out GE&#8217;s <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gvK46Ak6FOY\">latest graphics comparison video on its YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pilotwings will arrive on the Switch Online + Expansion Pack service next week on October 13th. Are you looking forward to playing this game? <em>Tell us in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Nintendo announced the 1996\/97 game Pilotwings 64 would be making its debut on the Switch Online + Expansion Pack service a few days ago, and it seems this will be the best version of the game yet. GameXplain has taken a closer look at the footage shown in the trailers, and it appears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}