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Super Mario Bros. 35 is an interesting social experiment: Pit 35 players against one another in a contest for…
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OK, we can all stop asking now (for this game, anyway). Nintendo just announced that Donkey Kong Country is coming…
By the end of the month, there will be 46 games in Nintendo Switch Online’s NES library. There will be 52 if you…
Double Dragon II, City Connection, and Volleyball are this month’s NES games being added to Switch Online on June 12. Nothing we haven’t seen on Virtual Console in the past, although playing the two-player Double Dragon II online sounds like fun.
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Last week, Nintendo added the cult-classic 1990 NES game StarTropics to the Switch Online library. There’s just one…
Yesterday Nintendo announced and released Tetris 99, a battle royale-style multiplayer Tetris game for the Switch in…
Super Mario Bros. 2 and Kirby’s Adventure are coming to Switch Online on February 13, Nintendo said today. Get ready to tear up some turnips. The Japanese NES app will get these two games and also Tsuppari Oozumo, a sumo game made by Tecmo.
As usual with Nintendo’s classic game services, Switch Online’s NES app now has more games in Japan than it does in…
Switch Online’s NES classics app now has titles and descriptions for 22 Super Nintendo games buried in its code,…
Today, Nintendo continued to build out the NES library in its Switch Online app with the previously-announced…
This week, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe got online voice chat as part of Nintendo Switch Online. Before now, I didn’t think I…
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Nintendo Switch Online hasn’t even been out for a day and hackers have already found a way to upload new NES games…
You can download the Famicom versions of Switch Online’s NES games from the Japanese eShop using a fake Japanese Nintendo Account. There aren’t many differences in most cases but it’s still pretty neat. Plus the Famicom box art is way cooler, and in the future Japan might get different games.
PSA: Switch Online doesn’t create backup saves for games automatically. You have to manually initiate the process by either loading the game or going into its settings by hovering over top of its icon and clicking “+”. Only afterward doing that will the backup saves stay updated automatically.
Nintendo Switch Online launches tomorrow on September 18, and in the past few days, we’ve learned a bit about the…