We\u2019re now several months into a brand new Nintendo generation, and waiting impatiently for important information such as the release date for Metroid Prime 4 and the whereabouts of the next 3D Mario game. But in the meantime, the company has been gradually updating its various retro console emulators on Nintendo Switch Online, with the latest being the Game Boy Advance.<\/p>\n
As spotted by Nintendo Everything<\/a>, the 3.0.0 update to the GBA app adds button remapping, which is already possible with the N64 and SNES emulators. Accessible from the menu while playing a game, this allows you to mess around with controls if you\u2019re not happy with the default option, which admittedly does feel like something that should have been there from the beginning, but hey.<\/p>\n Nintendo Everything adds that GBA games in the Nintendo Switch Online library are also now playable in 1080p in handheld mode on the Switch 2<\/a>, which is hard to verify as there\u2019s no option to toggle video quality. Presumably any game booted on the newer hardware now just defaults to the higher resolution, where before they\u2019d have been stretched from the original Switch\u2019s 720p maximum output. Of course, if the idea of playing a game from the early 2000s with pin-sharp clarity on a huge display appalls you, there is still the option of enabling a bordered small screen, as well as the \u201cclassic feel\u201d filter, which adds analog-y scanlines.<\/p>\n