Topic: The Nintendo Switch Online Subscription Service Thread

@Fizza When Mario Party comes out we gotta try to play it together.

I put together a guide to some of the secrets in Pilotwings 64, including how to unlock the Birdman mode. Hope this helps some newcomers get the most out of this awesome game!

Games like Pilotwings 64 make me glad Nintendo put something together other than VC (even if I maintain VC could've existed alongside it). That's a game I'd not be interested in buying for even 10 bucks tbh, when so many games interest me more for around that price (either in general or from a sale), so this is the only way I'd (officially) be playing it in all likelihood.

Also by sheer coincidence in the past like 3 months I've played like 4 different games that are notable early examples of 3d gaming. And all originally from different platforms too.

Mario Party 1+2 is on November 2nd:

Which suggests Goldeneye may be December then.

@Grumblevolcano GoldenEye would be the perfect Christmas gift for Switch.

YO, we can finally have 90's game nights with Mario Party and GoldenEye!

@Kermit1 It would fit the scene of the Game Awards where games and movies collide. Goldeneye shadow drop alongside another Mario movie trailer.

@Grumblevolcano Now your just getting my hopes up.

I had to do a double take to make sure I wasn't still asleep when I saw this in the morning. Two games coming out is one thing, but for them to be two of the MARIO PARTY'S!? YES PLEASE!

Also they happen to come out 3 days before my birthday which would be brilliant timing....if it weren't for the fact my NSO EP subscription runs out exactly one week before that. Time to go scrounging for money I suppose.

@Grumblevolcano I thought Goldeneye was slated for next year? I’d love for it to be December though.

@FragRed Only in the Japan Direct, it's "coming soon" elsewhere. There have been games that released at different times in different regions on NSO, for example Japan got Super Tennis in September 2020 meanwhile outside Japan got the same game in September 2019.

So it could go either way, it could be 2023 for both or it could be 2023 for Japan meanwhile December for outside Japan.

I do think if Goldeneye doesn't come in December, that no N64 comes in December (like September was) otherwise it would've appeared in the Direct.

I'm honestly surprised that they're having Mario Party 1 and 2 on NSO simultaneously, I seriously thought they would have one per month. So that's cool they're doing that. As for GoldenEye, I don't expect it to come out this year. Would be cool for it to come out on December, I didn't play much of that game as of now, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

@Fizza I know it's off-topic, but how has your Switch been if you've been using it recently? I saw that you've been having that error code earlier. Would be cool to play Mario Party with you once that problem gets resolved.

@MarioLover92 Thanks for asking! I hadn't touched it since then until about 2 days ago where I was able to play N64/NES NSO and Splatoon 3 for an entire hour with no hiccups whatsoever. It definitely seems tied to my screenshots/videos for the time being which does put me at quite a bit of ease. That being said however....I definitely want a more permanent solution. So I've come up with this complicated plan involving buying a used Switch Lite, transferring stuff over, then sending my old Switch to be repaired (since it's still within warranty), waiting for that to come back and hopefully having it all sorted before Pokemon comes out in mid-November.

I wasn't kidding when I said it was complicated.

@Fizza Gotcha, good to see that you're keeping things safe. Yeah that might be because of the screenshots/videos from the looks of it. Hopefully that repair of yours will go smoothly.

Turns out the NSO Expansion Pack icons (the N64 ones) are one set per month so the first batch lasts until December 7th. Also you get 100 extra Platinum coins per game for playing Mario 64, Kirby 64 and Majora's Mask.

Here we go! The eShop is down for maintenance until 5:00 PM PST and the SEGA GENESIS NSO app is also under maintenance so it seems likely the next batch of games are releasing tonight! @Grumblevolcano @Kermit1 @MarioLover92 @Fizza

@TowaHerschel7 I'm interested to see what the next batch of Genesis games are.

@TowaHerschel7 Thanks for the heads up on that Mega Drive maintenance! Pulse Man or Streets of Rage 1/3 would be nice (as a plebeian who doesn't know of most of the MD library).

I wonder if the Eshop is getting some kind of makeover or re-design.