"cloud storage" AND "game emulation" AND latency "Google Drive" AND "ROM" AND performance "save synchronization" AND "Nintendo Switch" AND cloud "Ryujinx" OR "Yuzu" AND "file system"
| Paper | Focus | Relevance to Google Drive + Switch | |-------|-------|------------------------------------| | — Shea et al., 2018, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials | Cloud gaming architectures, latency challenges, storage integration | Discusses offloading game assets to cloud storage (like Google Drive) and streaming to thin clients. Could apply to Switch emulation assets. | | "Emulation as a Service: A Cloud-Based Approach to Video Game Preservation" — Pinchbeck et al., 2020, DiGRA Conference | Running emulated games from cloud storage | Mentions using Google Drive as a backend for ROM storage in educational preservation projects. | | "Performance Analysis of Cloud-Based File Systems for Game Asset Streaming" — Wang & Liu, 2021, ACM Gamesys Workshop | Compares Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive for real-time game asset loading | Finds Google Drive has high read latency (150–300ms) unsuitable for Switch game streaming but fine for save syncing. | google drive switch games
: Open Tinfoil on your Switch, go to File Browser , and add a new location with the protocol gdrive:/ . "cloud storage" AND "game emulation" AND latency "Google
Here's a general overview of the process: | | "Performance Analysis of Cloud-Based File Systems
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