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I bet there was someone on the Pokemon team that wanted to exercise esoteric, obscure networking features just because they read about it in some spec and wanted to try it out.

It's like the person on your team that insists on shoehorning language features into the application from the dustiest corners of the language instead of sticking to the tried-and-true idioms.

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Using a broadcast address for service discovery is a perfectly normal use case, the Roku should be able to handle it.

These kind of features have been in pokemon games for over a decade. All the DS pokemon games search for other local Nintendo DSs’

And the later ones (and all the 3DS ones) have the option to do that perpetually in the background, which would probably be why this issue comes up here instead of on other local multisystem Switch games that only do it at specific times.

They've always been pretty conservative as far as game design goes; somehow I doubt they'd be pushing any boundaries on the backend.

> They've always been pretty conservative as far as game design goes

Uh, considering that Nintendo became popular by breaking the arcade game mold with Donkey Kong, and continued that trend with Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, etc. then went on to create things like Wii Music, not to mention the Wiimotes, building a tablet into the WiiU, Amiibos, Labo...

Conservative isn't the word I'd associate Nintendo with.

Specifically on Pokemon (so Game Freak), not everything Nintendo's done. Grandparent specifically said "the Pokemon team"

Announcement using datagram broadcast is not esoteric or obscure. It's how mDNS and a multitude of LAN games work. Likely reason that the Roku reboots is that it accepts the packet and fails gracelessly to parse it instead of just discarding it and carrying on. That's what not sticking to the tried-and-true idioms is like.

Why do you bet that?

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