How to optimize Nintendo Switch for Smash.

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Smash bra, I want to be stronger!Good news for the person.It may be better to practice anyway to improve, but there are some things that can be solved with things.That doesn't mean you need something special, but you can upgrade the Nintendo Switch play environment if you use the adapters, controllers you usually sell, and the display / TV settings.Let's take a look at what to do.

Do not use Wi-Fi

Nintendo Switch does not have an Ethernet port if it is standard.So it's easy to think that the only way to access the net and play with friends is to connect to Wi-Fi.But Wi-Fi is not the best in Smash, where the difference in the timing of several milliseconds is divided into win or loss.Wi-Fi tends to be a little clogged, which leads to the lag of the game.The switch Wi-Fi is especially slow, and it can take hours to download updates and new games.

But if you stop Wi-Fi and make it a wired LAN, it will be faster.You can see three USB-A ports in the Nintendo Switch dock, but if you connect a Nintendo regular LAN adapter here, you can connect to the network by wired LAN.The adapter can be inserted into any port, and you can set it from the Home of the switch.

But those who want to spend as much money as possible, or gadget bloggers or some people who have LAN adapters here and there are even better.With Nintendo Switch, most third -party LAN adapters should be used."Most of them" are said to be that they have not confirmed all the LAN adapters in the world, and in some cases they "did not recognize".But for example, you can buy this for about 1,200 yen, and you can check the operation on the switch.So, you don't have to be particular about regular license products.If you are looking for an affordable LAN adapter that claims to be confirmed, or if you are aware of it, you can build a more comfortable smash environment by catching an old gadget storage area.

Upgrade the controller

Nintendo Switch's Joy-Con is a surprising engineering, but when trying to cut the upper quickly, you may not be able to move the joystick as you wish, and you will eventually be blown away from the map.

Fortunately, there are several ways to upgrade the controller.The first thing that is easy to understand is to use the Nintendo Switch Pro controller.After all, both in the sense of ergonomics and in terms of operability, PRO con is much more comfortable than Joy-Con.

Just like Joy-Con, the Nintendo Switch Pro controller is wireless.In other words, some lags occur in the game play.So the next option is the wired game cube controller.Whether you buy the current product, find a cheap drop on the net, or find it from the closet.

In this case, a USB-A conversion adapter is required separately from the game cube terminal.There are some Nintendo genuine ones, but you can use any adapters from USB to Game Cube Controller.At the time of the article translation, the genuine product seems to be scarce, but there are various third -party ones, and the price is a little cheaper than the genuine product (list price 2,700 yen).Also, according to Gizmodo's Alex Cranz, it seems that the old USB adapter I bought for a personal computer was used without any problems with Nintendo Switch.

Optimize TV settings

So far, I wrote the Nintendo Switch connected to the included dock and played on TV.You may think that you can play comfortably by connecting a switch and a TV, but that is not the case.

The resolution of the smash in the switch is 1080p.The frame rate is a smooth 60 frame per second.So, to see it cleanly, Ideally, the TV is also set at 1080p/60Hz.

However, it is okay if you can't do that.Recent new TVs are usually 4K and the frame rate is 60Hz.The 4KTV should have automatically uploaded 1080p content for 4K, but it was no longer unreasonable as a time ago when the 480p content was uploaded for 1080p TV.4K refers to a display resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 pixels, four times that of 1080p (1,920 x 1,080 pixels).Up -scale may make you feel a little uncomfortable, but the content should be clean and smooth.

Surprisingly, I tend to forget.Double -speed function

What I want to be more careful about is the process that the TV is put in to make the video look beautiful.For example, there is a "double -speed function" that complements a frame and outputs a smooth image, which may be a bit of a lag.To eliminate that kind of processing, open the TV settings and select it if there is a "game" setting.In this way, the processing that slows the display speed will turn off and the display will be faster (although the image quality will probably drop accordingly).

If you don't have a "game" setting, or if you're worried that you're doing extra processing as "game for games", look at the TV settings a little more.Since the name of the setting differs depending on the TV, it is not clear which settings to turn off, but the unnecessary thing is a function that says that the image is sharp or smooth.The name of the settings is "noise reduction" (reducing noise), and "motion" and "motion smoothing", "motion motion", and "motion".

For those who want to see which settings are reduced to the display speed in exchange for the image quality, it will cost 75 UK pounds (about 1500 yen), but Lag Tester of Leo Bodnar is useful.(You can also order from Japan).This is a gadget scanning the frame rate of the display like a stethoscope, and if you follow the instructions from the tester, you can see what is the cause of the lag.

If you do so far, you may be able to play a smash with the rugs reduced to the limit, and you may be able to improve a little.But if it's still useless ... it may be just practice.