Topic: The Nintendo Switch Online Subscription Service Thread

Sorry, meant to put right stick to aim. Typo!

What day are we on now, 4 or 5 of the same conversation? 🤣

@NintendoByNature
If previous threads are anything to go by expect this thread to be periodically revived every few months....

@skywake I hope not... it feels like groundhogs day and unfortunately, no one in here seems to be as funny as Bill Murray

Is it 3pm yet.

Edit sorry wrong thread

I do have to agree with those who say Ocarina of Time looks ugly. 😕 In truth it could really do with a complete remake. Imagine it remade with BOTW engine/controls...

Well, what do you expect? It's an N64 game. N64 games have aged like milk. I don't see the appeal to pay this much to play them.

If you are taking full advantage of the service it may be a great deal. However only wanting to play a select few games offline with limited to no internet service is a deal breaker. Those 80 games have on VC I don’t have to pay for again nor am I going to lose access to them (at least not in the foreseeable future. You haven’t taken into account sales and discounts for the games on VC so you could pay less. That $50 price tag is a constant however. Just look at the current drip feed of games. If none of the games released currently interested you on VC then you wouldn’t buy them. With this though you are given them anyway for $50 a year even if they only added 8 games (2 per nes, snes, 64 and Genesis) you still pay that price! Sure you may pay more one year than that if the offerings are decent on VC but overall the value is better to the individual consumer with that in mind.
If it was every single game ever published on all the consoles on offer and you didn’t need to check in weekly then it may be a good offer! But it’s not. We are at the mercy of some Nintendo employees dropping random games and even more random intervals.

How is that saying vulgar? I’ve heard it all my life. I didn’t drop any fbombs or anything inflammatory.

Not all of them. I'd say Mario Kart 64 and Zelda Ocarina of Time have aged poorly but the other games have aged surprisingly well. I played Sin and Punishment for the first time last night and it looked great, was hard to believe it was an N64 game. Mario Tennis held up really nicely too and Star Fox 64.

@GameOtaku I'm using it for later.

@Snatcher
Sounds good to me.

aged like milk? i've never heard that expression

@MajinSoul Awesome, thank you for the confirmation. I appreciate it.

With the number of N64 titles datamined and listed alphabetically, I thought I'd list them and provide my guesses for the missing titles. I have commented where the titles are either released, confirmed, highly likely (1st party or very popular amongst other options) and just a pure guess. Let me know if you think I may have gotten any wrong or if there are other likely candidates

1. Title Comment
   1 Banjo Kazooie Confirmed
   2 Banjo Tooie Highly Likely
   3 Blast Corp
   4 Cruis'n' USA/Conkers Bad Fur Day Likely Cruis'n'
   5 Diddy Kong Racing
   6 Donkey Kong 64 Highly Likely
   7 Dr Mario 64 Released
   8 Excitbike 64 Highly Likely
   9 F-Zero X Confirmed
   10 Goldeneye/Jet Force Gemini Likely JFG
   11 Kirby 64 Confirmed
   12 Mario Golf Confirmed
   13 Mario Kart 64 Released
   14 Mario Party 1 Highly Likely
   15 Mario Party 2 Highly Likely
   16 Mario Party 3 Highly Likely
   17 Mario Tennis Released
   18 Mischief Makers
   19 Mystical Ninja
   20 Mystical Ninja 2 Possibly something else
   21 Paper Mario Confirmed
   22 Perfect Dark Highly Likely
   23 Pilotwings 64 Highly Likely
   24 Pokemon Puzzle League
   25 Pokemon Snap Confirmed
   26 Pokemon Stadium 1 or 2
   27 Rayman 2
   28 Ridge Racer 64
   29 Sin & Punishment Released
   30 Star Fox 64 Released
   31 Super Mario 64 Released
   32 Super Smash Brothers Highly Likely
   33 Waverace 64 Highly Likely
   34 Winback Released
   35 WWF No Mercy Likely Wrestling game
   36 Yoshi Story Released
   37 Zelda MM Confirmed
   38 Zelda OOT Released

Treasure has said more games are coming to the service, so I'd class Mischief Makers as Highly Likely and probably add Bangai-O as well!

I have 13 months of an individual sub left and to upgrade to expansion, Nintendo wants £19.

I also have another code for 12 months individual. If I add this to my account, will it effectively reduce the upgrade to expansion amount from £19 to around £4?

Thanks

So...

A new update to Super Mario All Stars now allows that version of Super Mario 64 to be played with the N64 controller.

That's really awesome! Definitely the version I'd prefer to play, since it's an option with higher res textures, rumble, etc.

@JaxonH Lovely news. Just need to get hold of those controllers...

So speaking of games from upgraded NSO plan, I managed to beat M.U.S.H.A., a solid scroll shooter, which AFAIK was never released on Switch before either as part of Sega collections or as stand-alone game.

On N64 I replayed S&P one more time just to give it a go on the Switch.
I'd say playing it in handheld mode is the worst way to do it, I'd strongly recommend at least use a Pro controller.
Also I didn't remember the game being so hard on later levels (probably starting with the warship level), some of those stages took me several continue credits just to drag myself to the end of it. And 3-2 level with a side-scrolling perspective is one of the hardest among them.
What I never noticed before while playing it on Wii U is that beating the game on Normal unlocks Hard mode and a gallery with in-game music, but it's not all of it, I suppose beating it on Hard unlock more bonuses. I wonder what that is.

Aside from that I'm not really interested in the rest of current library. So I'll wait for more additions, hopefully it won't take more than 1-2 months for update.

2nded. Ristar is a top tier platformer of the era.