Topic: The Nintendo Switch Online Subscription Service Thread

Is Kirby & The Amazing Mirror available yet?

@LilyGoMEOW Yep, it's available right now 😃

Heya folks, just wanted to pop in here to ask a quick question regarding Mario Party on NSO (and no, it's not questioning where the hell MP3 is XD): do the two MP games currently on NSO support the use of a single Joy-Con on its side?

My sister just came back from college and we were hoping to have a Mario Party game night in celebration but given how the only Switch controllers I have are the pair of Joy-Cons that came with the system (unthinkable I know), I'm worried that the two separated won't work with N64 games like MP1&2 due to having less available buttons.

It isn't a deal breaker by any means since, if Mario Party falls through, we can always just play MK8 Deluxe instead but it'd be nice to be able to actually play a bit of local Mario Party for once, you know? If anyone has an answer to my question, please let me know as soon as possible! 😁👍

@Fizza So? Did NSO's Mario Party support playing two player with half joycons? (I saw you posted that you played)

@WoomyNNYes Surprisingly yes! A bit finicky for sure but by god it worked out pretty alright in the end! Kinda makes me want to grab Super in all honesty since I've heard that one's designed around a single Joy-Con only 😅

Also thanks for reminding me to post about it; meant to do it after I finished my game earlier on but forgot XD

Summoning the Mario Party fans now

Mario Party 3's coming soon, hooray! Been wanting to play it for a good while now!

That's a possibility, but it's likely some business strategy that would seem weird to all of us. Nintendo probably calculated that announcing a slew of N64 for 2023 (even if it meant taking all year for them to release) was better than saying nothing.
1080 Snowboarding still needs to come out this year unless they end up delaying the release.
I'm pretty sure the only unannounced first-party games that still need to come to Switch Online are Donkey Kong 64 and Super Smash Bros. They should release both in 2024 for the 25th anniversary of those games.
Hey You, Pikachu obviously won't happen because it's dependent on a microphone. Banjo-Tooie might happen but it's not published by Nintendo anymore.

@LuigiTheGreenFire I brought it up in the main Switch thread but given the NSO Expansion Pack can only be bought as 12 month subscriptions, you can look at it as different years of content. Year 1 (October 25th 2021 - October 24th 2022), Year 2 (October 25th 2022 - October 24th 2023), Year 3 (October 25th 2023 - October 24th 2024), etc.

Year 3 is looking rough for additions:

• N64 games confirmed (Mario Party 3, 1080 Snowboarding, Harvest Moon 64)
• GBA games confirmed (F-Zero Maximum Velocity, Golden Sun)
• DLC confirmed (MK8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Wave 6)

Then you can speculate what could come:

• N64 - DK64, Smash, maybe some more Rare games or Starcraft 64 (but Microsoft games are 1 a year, you'd also hope that Nintendo are cautious of Microsoft after the Xbox leaks)
• GBA - Golden Sun The Lost Age, Mario Golf Advance Tour, Mario Power Tennis, Kirby Nightmare in Dream Land, Mario Pinball Land, Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones, Pokemon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire, F-Zero GP Legend, Metroid Zero Mission, Game & Watch Gallery 4, Drill Dozer, Mario Party Advance, Wario Land 4

Some of these may get remakes instead like we saw with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Advance Wars 1+2 and Mario vs. Donkey Kong. So I think there's 3 potential "wow" NSO Expansion Pack moments that would make year 3 a stronger year:
1. Mainline Pokemon - If they added Red/Blue/Yellow/Gold/Silver/Crystal to base NSO and Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald to NSO Expansion Pack, that would massively increase excitement about the subscription
2. A new console added - It feels extremely unlikely but if they were to add something like GCN to NSO Expansion Pack, that would massively increase excitement about the subscription
3. Another high profile DLC added day 1 - Some people will have subscribed partially because of Happy Home Paradise and Booster Course Pass. Booster Course Pass 2 would be a natural fit but I'm not sure whether the future of Mario Kart will be more MK8 or a new game.

The next N64 update with Mario Party 3 is here now.

@kkslider5552000 @JaxonH the renewal date is getting close 😅 did you two get my emails?

@Eel no, i haven't

@kkslider5552000 is it still the same one from before? I’ve been using the same addresses I had from last year.

Anyway basically all it said was that it’s still the same amount of money as last year, and that the subscription renews on the first of November.

@Eel yes it is but I didn't get any e-mail

@kkslider5552000 I sent a test email a while ago. Did you get that one? Perhaps it’s in spam?

I’m traveling at the moment so my connection is spotty.

@Eel It actually was. That's stupid, why would it be in spam? What decided that?

At least I know it went through now

@kkslider5552000 guess that’s what happens when one writes emails asking for money.

New Game Boy, NES, and Famicom Disk System games for NSO. Castlevania Legends, Devil World, and The Mysterious Murasame Castle.

Oh, those are a bigger deal than usual (at varying degrees).

That's a pretty decent lineup of games, honestly. Been wanting to give The Mysterious Murasame Castle a shot, I missed out on it on the 3DS.