Physical or digital
6 years ago

Which is faster when speedrunning?

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Georgia, USA

There are theories that digital is faster, because all the data is stored directly on the Switch. Of course, this has not been confirmed, so take it with a grain of salt.

404UNFX and sweating like this
Argentina

there is no perfect data about it but almost positive if 1 is faster than the other is for few frames, and that will not affect ur speedrunning

sweating likes this

Thanks for the reply

AteBallEight likes this
Virginia, USA

Digital is estimated to be 8-9 seconds faster with loads, but with physical you can get version 1.0.0 which is a 22 second timesave (not counting loads). However, runs using the timesave must be submitted to the true any% board in SMO Category Extensions.

IwerSonsch likes this
Germany

Note that the 22 second timesave Noguy refers to comes from a skip, which isn't mandatory in the physical version nor the 1.0.0. It just saves time at the cost of being in a different category

New York City, NY, USA

physical, the switch reads the data faster on physical, meaning less lag frames

Virginia, USA

The switch does not read the data faster on physical, because the data is in a cartridge and not the actual switch itself.