Topic: Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online

I'm hoping the online features will include high-score challenges and so on, but I suspect it might be limited to the standard 2-player mode being made available for friends only.

Glad to hear that. Definitely „i can play it when i feel like it” mentality is better than not knowing when the particular game may just disappear.

Oh, I'm sure high score sharing is going to be included. I wonder how speed running purists will feel about these games being available on the Switch? Will they consider them equal to the original physical releases, or dismiss them as cheating?

@FaeKnight they'll probably see it as emulation and thus not acknowledge the scores.

Nes games on Nintendo switch

Where is the Nintendo switch

Probably in the dock

Ya know what let's just use this thread to talk about the app and the games.

From now on this is the main NES - NSO thread.

Yesssir! Don’t forget than you can use the Y button to move titles around in your “catalogue” screen. The size of the box art changes based on the amount of titles in a row.
1) Move the cursor over a title
2) Press Y
3) Move the cursor to any square dot that now appears
4) Press Y again to confirm

I just got 999999939992492! Yep, I'm that good.
Haha, nope, I suck at Balloon Fight. Started with the Mario games. And maybe, just maybe, I'll play thru the first Zelda for the first time now lol

anyone up for some double dragon or something? add me. SW-2024-0976-9899

While I've only had a quick test of the NES games, its looks good so far. Games load insanely fast, they look great in handheld with the same display options as NES Classic and while the guy I joined online didnt seem to know how to get a 2 player Double Dragon match going, the connection to his feed seemed flawless.

Pity its just Friends Only online but thankfully my Friends List should have more than enough people online. So far so good.

Just beat Mario 1. Emulation seems spot-on, no complaints from me so far!

If you guys are willing to curate and mantain a highscore/competition thread then go ahead.

As for my time playing the NES games, I started with a quick Yoshi match, and then took time to set up a proper starter file in Zelda (blue ring, white sword, big shield, blue candle).

I don't usually like using save states, but saving normally would be too cumbersome on this system (since you need to exit the game to set up the second controller as player two). So to get the money to buy the blue ring I used some save states outside the money making game.

Already?! What are you, a Speedrunner?

I have to admit, I've been erratic in my jumping from game to game here. Played a bit of SMB and lost all my lives by world 1-3 (wow I'm out of practice), tried out Yoshi, played a few boards of Dr Mario, did a round in Wrestling where I had no idea what I'm doing but won anyway, played a bit of River City Ransom... Just kind of hopping from game to game rapid fire. Something I never would have done on the actual console since by the getting the game cart to work could be fiddly, so when you did get it to work you played that game for hours.

Well he’s my first high score:

Yoshi type A, speed High.
5360 - 25

My best so far was 7, not that I thought to grab a screencap. Instead I jumped from that into Zelda and attempted to complete the 1st dungeon. After finding it, that is.

September 2018

01. Balloon Fight (Nintendo)
02. Baseball (Nintendo)
03. Donkey Kong (Nintendo)
04. Double Dragon (ARC SYSTEM WORKS)
05. Dr. Mario (Nintendo)
06. Excitebike (Nintendo)
07. Ghosts'n Goblins (CAPCOM)
08. Gradius (KONAMI)
09. Ice Climber (Nintendo)
10. Ice Hockey (Nintendo)
11. Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
12. Pro Wrestling (Nintendo)
13. River City Ransom (ARC SYSTEM WORKS)
14. Soccer (Nintendo)
15. Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
16. Super Mario Bros. 3 (Nintendo)
17. Tecmo Bowl (KOEI TECMO)
18. Tennis (Nintendo)
19. The Legend of Zelda (Nintendo)
20. Yoshi (Nintendo)

October 2018

21. NES Open Tournament Golf (Nintendo)
22. Solomon's Key (KOEI TECMO)
23. Super Dodge Ball (ARC SYSTEM WORKS)

November 2018

24. Metroid (Nintendo)
25. Mighty Bomb Jack (KOEI TECMO)
26. TwinBee (KONAMI)

December 2018

27. Wario's Woods (Nintendo)
28. Ninja Gaiden (KOEI TECMO)
29. Adventures of Lolo (Nintendo)

And here are the easiest predictions:

16 Games missing from the NES mini:

Bubble Bobble (TAITO)
Castlevania (KONAMI)
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (KONAMI)
Donkey Kong Jr. (Nintendo)
Double Dragon II: The Revenge (ARC SYSTEM WORKS)
Final Fantasy (SQUARE ENIX)
Galaga (BANDAI NAMCO)
Kid Icarus (Nintendo)
Kirby's Adventure (Nintendo)
Mega Man 2 (CAPCOM)
Pac-Man (BANDAI NAMCO)
Punch-Out!! (Nintendo)
StarTropics (Nintendo)
Super C (KONAMI)
Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo)
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (Nintendo)

47 Games missing from the NES Virtual Console for Wii U:

Adventure Island (KONAMI)
Blaster Master (Sunsoft)
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (KONAMI)
Clu Clu Land (Nintendo)
Crash 'n the Boys: Street Challenge (ARC SYSTEM WORKS)
Devil World (Nintendo)
Dig Dug (BANDAI NAMCO)
Dig Dug II (BANDAI NAMCO)
Donkey Kong 3 (Nintendo)
Donkey Kong Jr. Math (Nintendo)
Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones (ARC SYSTEM WORKS)
Duck Hunt (Nintendo)
EarthBound Beginnings (Nintendo)
Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll (CULTURE BRAIN)
Gargoyle's Quest II: The Demon Darkness (CAPCOM)
Golf (Nintendo)
Hogan's Alley (Nintendo)
Kung-Fu Heroes (CULTURE BRAIN)
Life Force (KONAMI)
Little Ninja Brothers (CULTURE BRAIN)
Lode Runner (KONAMI)
Mach Rider (Nintendo)
Mappy-Land (BANDAI NAMCO)
Mega Man (CAPCOM)
Mega Man 3 (CAPCOM)
Mega Man 4 (CAPCOM)
Mega Man 5 (CAPCOM)
Mega Man 6 (CAPCOM)
Mighty Final Fight (CAPCOM)
Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos (KOEI TECMO)
Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom (KOEI TECMO)
Pac-Land (BANDAI NAMCO)
Pinball (Nintendo)
Renegade (ARC SYSTEM WORKS)
S.C.A.T. (Natsume)
Shadow of the Ninja (Natsume)
Spelunker (Tozai Games)
Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight (CAPCOM)
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (Nintendo)
The Adventures of Bayou Billy (KONAMI)
Ufouria: The Saga (Sunsoft)
Urban Champion (Nintendo)
Volleyball (Nintendo)
Wild Gunman (Nintendo)
Wrecking Crew (Nintendo)
Xevious (BANDAI NAMCO)
Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II (Nintendo)

7 Games missing from the NES Virtual Console for Nintendo 3DS:

Adventure Island II (KONAMI)
City Connection (Hamster)
Donkey Kong - Original Edition (Nintendo)
Milon's Secret Castle (KONAMI)
Star Soldier (KONAMI)
Summer Carnival '92 RECCA (Kaga Electronics)
The Mysterious Murasame Castle (Nintendo)

13 Games missing from the NES Virtual Console for Wii:

A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia (Majesco)
Adventures of Lolo 2 (Nintendo)
Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (KONAMI)
Blades of Steel (KONAMI)
Double Dribble (KONAMI)
Faxanadu (KONAMI)
Lunar Pool (D4 Enterprise)
Ninja JaJaMaru-kun (Hamster)
Operation Wolf (TAITO)
Skate or Die (KONAMI)
Smash Table Tennis (Nintendo)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (KONAMI)
Yoshi's Cookie (Nintendo)

Total: 112 NES Games

Ugh, need to get to bed. But my last attempt at doing so has me all giggly due to playing SMB3 in bed instead of sleeping. I've docked the Switch, and should try again. But...

@toiletduck I really hope we do get SNES games in the future. I'd love to play the older Final Fantasy games and Chrono Trigger. As for NES games I wish they could make Duck Hunt work on a modern TV. Man I loved that game as a kid, but it simply doesn't work on flat screens.