Console porting!

[stuck portal]

I thought maybe M Vs. L Online would be playable on 3DS, Wii U and Switch, since they all are able to connect to Internet, they have a pretty cool image quality, and the best experience to play any Mario game is on Nintendo consoles. So, I was wondering if the game could be ported to 3DS, Wii U and Switch.

I forgot to mention, the 3DS, Wii U and Switch all support Unity, so I'd be easy

[gray fulcrum]

This has been suggested and denied many times

[crystal carbon]

Yea unfortunately it's not easy because of the age of the consoles

[silver pollen]

pretty sure it wouldn't

meh it's alright you can play through PC

[stuck portal]

What does the consoles age have to do with porting?

[stuck portal]

Why? Please make it happen

[stuck portal]

But it's boring on PC

[plain crescent]

some consoles probably aren't built for modern game engines, and would be really hard or next to near impossible to port them onto older consoles like the wii or ds

[stuck portal]

Who's talking Wii and DS?

[plain crescent]

and no, you cannot just make it happen, its a very difficult process that i'd assume ipod wouldn't want to spend time on just for it to not work

[plain crescent]

me

even though you said 3DS and Wii U, i doubt its ever gonna happen

[stuck portal]

3DS and Wii U are 8th gen, they support the Unity engine

[plain crescent]

i believe there was a wii u update that stopped rom hacking i think?

and the 3DS doesn't have those capabilities to support something like this either

[stuck portal]

Who's the dumb guy who said that? I play many mods of MK8 and NSMBU

[plain crescent]

honestly idk but that's what i heard from somewhere else and not here but

either way, none of this porting shenanigans is gonna happen

and like it was stated earlier, suggested and denied several times

so suggesting it again won't do anything

[stuck portal]

Let's just wait ipod's opinion. I mean, 3DS and Wii U both support Online play, there's nothing missing to enjoy a Mario game right? PC is not that neat.

[plain crescent]

ipod stated himself it's impossible to get this running on an actual ds

so what makes you think it's gonna happen on literally any other console or handheld????

[stuck portal]

Bro

DSi and 3DS is not the same

[plain crescent]

i know that

but my point still stands

this is impossible to do, and playing on a pc/android is the next best thing presumably

[stuck portal]

I wouldn't agree with that

[plain crescent]

ok then

do it yourself

prove me wrong

[stuck portal]

As I said, let's wait for ipod's opinion

[plain crescent]

ipod's opinion doesn't mean shit if he already said this

[peak geode]

yea

[stuck portal]

There are still chances yk

[plain crescent]

there is a WIP Wiimote mod that allows you to play the main game with Wiimote functionality

i'd suggest you wait for that

[peak geode]

where

[plain crescent]

or find something else like a different controller to play

[stuck portal]

Yea but it's still pc

[plain crescent]

but you're NOT gonna ever get this on anything else other than pc and android ports

[plain crescent]

idk what to tell you. deal with it

but if you REALLY think it's possible, do it yourself

prove everyone wrong and take the time to do it

you're not gonna get shit by asking for something that was already answered

[peak geode]

ehhh i dont think they really ever considered that when making this suggestion

after all this is a suggestions channel and not ideas channel

[torn mortar]

and you expect nintendo to go: oh sure why not

[peak geode]

??

whats nintendo's involvement here

[plain crescent]

what

[torn mortar]

I thought he meant game you can download without modding the console

[peak geode]

thats a wide skull if i had one

[torn mortar]

besides you can already play it on steam deck so who cares about switch or wii u

[plain crescent]

the OP apparently

[crystal carbon]

Because they don't support the networking and rendering engines MvLO is build with

Unity has evolved over the years, and the 3ds and Wii U have been left behind

[plain crescent]

MvLO is assumed to be made with a modernized engine, but the other consoles aren't up to date with this kind of engine and wouldn't work at all with them

so basically, asking for this kind of shit would never happen

[crystal carbon]

Yea, it's basically on the latest Unity version whereas those consoles support only half-a-decade old Unities

[plain crescent]

||(also off-topic but the only person who gave this a star reaction was the OP so uh )||

[crystal carbon]

I can only wish software development was as easy as it seemed

[peak geode]

grog react

[crystal carbon]

Oh btw if we're talking about a Switch port instead, since it's a newer console there are high chances of getting the web version of the game to run, but only after using homebrew to replace the browser for an "unlocked" one

[river prawn]

They support an outdated version of unity, one which mvlo is not made with

Some features of mvlo are made with the modern unity's features

[gray fulcrum]

It's impossible on 3DS or rather very very very hard so I would assume it would be for other consoles too

[verbal nebula]

If you want to make a game portable for multiple generations of consoles, you'd probably be better off coding it in a language that can compile to machine code like C++ (which MvL isn't), so i assume that figuring out how to port MvL for decade old low power proprietary hardware would be a very challenging and tedious task that would take a lot of effort and resources, or alternatively be just downright impossible without drastic measures.

[silver pollen]

in short, it's better to just not do it to save time resources and effort that would most likely go wasted anyway

[jagged pumice]

3DS wouldn't work. N3DS there's a 0.000000000001% chance. and it's not happening