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This category is for articles concerning games that support figurines, cards, and other NFC-embedded items under Nintendo's Amiibo brand, Amiibos are NFC toys exclusive to the Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Switch.
Toys-to-life is a video game feature using physical figurines or action figures to interact within the game. [1] These toys use a near field communication (NFC), radio frequency identification (RFID), or image recognition data protocol to determine the individual figurine's proximity, and save a player's progress data to a storage medium located within that piece. [2]
Amiibo [a] (/ ə ˈ m iː b oʊ /, ə-MEE-boh; stylized as amiibo; plural: Amiibo [1]) is a toys-to-life platform by Nintendo, which was launched in November 2014.It consists of a wireless communications and storage protocol for connecting figurines to the Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Switch video game consoles.
RetroArch is a free and open-source, cross-platform frontend for emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications. It is the reference implementation of the libretro API, [2] [3] designed to be fast, lightweight, portable and without dependencies. [4]
The coverage and development of the emulators has attracted notable attention from the industry, including Nintendo, as well as Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH which, at the request of publishing companies partnered with them concerned about piracy, has developed a digital rights management measure intended to prevent play of emulated Switch games.
The emulator has received positive reception on its ability to play Wii U games on PC at higher resolutions than 1080p, the base resolution of the console, via the usage of community graphics packs. For example Mario Kart 8 and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild can be run in 4K resolution on compatible hardware.
In some cases, emulators allow for the application of ROM patches which update the ROM or BIOS dump to fix incompatibilities with newer platforms or change aspects of the game itself. The emulator subsequently uses the BIOS dump to mimic the hardware while the ROM dump (with any patches) is used to replicate the game software. [7]
Multi-system emulators are capable of emulating the functionality of multiple systems. higan; MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) Mednafen; MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), formerly a stand-alone application and now part of MAME; OpenEmu