Topic: The Nintendo Switch Online Subscription Service Thread

Um... I tried doing the button mapping on the GBA app, and it looks like it won't let me map anything to the ZL and ZR buttons. Am I missing something here? If it helps anybody to know, I've been playing Wario Land 4. Really want to map the GBA's L and R buttons to ZL and ZR since it's more comfortable. I'm honestly pretty upset about that...

Oy, I am struggling trying to play Forsaken with a pro controller. Anyone got any solutions besides for buying an N64 controller?

@Croctopus the boot up screen trick also works on S1

Virtual Boy coming back years after the 3DS is so funny. Most I reacted to the Direct, for better or worse.

I mean if Mario Party 1 can come back, sure why not...

@kkslider5552000 the fun part is the $100 fake virtual boy they sell to go along with it

realizing they found a new use for cardboard takes the cake for me

True vintage cardboard

I have questions about the quality of the accessories and the pricing. And as a display piece it looks pretty decent although, again, not worth the price I would say. I'd certainly want to see some actual reviews of it before I even considered getting the full version and even then I'm probably not interested. Personally at least, I'm not super keen on that kind of thing. If I wanted to spend that much on a display I'd buy some LEGO

But also you need some kind of construction for this to work. Assuming it's possible to jerry-rig, paper-craft or 3D print something I think a pre-made option is fine. I think it makes sense to sell an "authentic" version of it for the people who are willing to pay for it, and for those who don't they do have a non-display tier version which.... is still a bit pricy it's not tooo bad. I'll probably see what the community comes up with, if not I'll probably grab the cardboard one

But, just generally, Virtual Boy on NSO is kinda neat. This is kinda the point of the classics on NSO isn't it? Giving you access to games from the vault you otherwise wouldn't have been able to experience. And, might I add, I would imagine that playing VB through a Switch OLED screen is going to be quite a bit better than what the VB had. A single row of red LEDs pointing at a mirror rotating at 50Hz

Why this was never on 3DS VC I'll never know but the fact that it's here now? It's kinda nice. And certainly more accessible than, what does an original VB go for? ..... $700AU or so.... ... yep..

I assume the people who saw 3DS and refused to add Virtual Boy are the same ones who saw the Wii U Gamepad and never wanted to make a new Pokemon Snap for it. Avoiding easy Ws for fans was the MO of that era of Nintendo, which is why despite any other issues things are better now imo. (this is half-serious, I'm still talking about Virtual Boy after all)

Mr Driller 2 and Klonoa Empire of Dreams is the next batch of NSO releases.

Interesting, Mario & Wario is now available outside Japan for the first time.

Babsy is such a weird choice. Not because its Bubsy but because they JUST put out a collection that includes this game.

@skywake
If you have a modded 3DS, download RedViper Virtual Boy emulator. It plays the entire VB library in glasses-free stereoscopic 3D, and lets you choose to output any color from the full spectrum.

I'm telling you, glasses-free 3D Virtual Boy on 3DS is every bit as incredible as it sounds. Don't get me wrong- I'm gonna get the NSO+ Virtual Boy also and experience them how they were originally presented, but I will always maintain the 3DS is the pinnacle of the Virtual Boy experience.

@kkslider5552000 clearly, people will play it on the NSO app and like it so much they’ll go buy the collection.

I wonder which retro Nintendo console the Nintendo Classics brand will stop at? The Wii? The Wii U? The 3DS? Place your bets.

I think most people are considering the GBA and GCN eras to be a stretch for "retro"

Depends on your age I think. DS came out more than 20 years ago so is older than some of the adults who are on this website. To current kids it must feel super retro.

I've said this before, but I personally think that the final "Nintendo Classics" collection will be either the Wii or maybe the 3DS. If they keep releasing them at the same pace they have been doing, they will all be out by the end of the Switch 2 console generation.

If I was Nintendo, I would honestly take as long as possible to add any newer systems than what they already have. Doesn't make sense, because once you have NSO for a system, barring remakes, that feels like the end of selling those games individually, barring maybe certain remakes. Which considering they're selling the Mario Galaxy games as their most recent release, and it'll probably sell millions of copies soon, yeah, take your time on that. I also don't see the point. N64 still has major first party games missing, GBA just recently got I think its first ever 3rd party releases, Gamecube just started, Virtual Boy hasn't even started, and they're still adding SNES games. If they don't add a new system for a long time, that's just fine.

And even if they do, I'd imagine Turbografx 16 happens first. And in a perfect world, Saturn too.

I'm guessing 4+ years before we see Wii and DS, and it'll be a new price tier.

NSW2 era feels like it'll be GameCube, VirtualBoy and DS. And for NSW3, they'll add Wii and 3DS, which will be the final platforms added to NSO. I feel like anything before the HD era is fair game for being considered retro or a classic console/handheld. Wii U was the birth of the HD era for Nintendo, and nearly every game worth its salt was ported to Switch. So they're not gonna add Wii U for at least another 15-20 years, if ever. Those games hold up, will sell on Switch/Switch 2 for a long time, and after that will be prime candidates for remakes and remasters.

So ya. I expect GC and VB to be the platforms they add games for over the next 2 years. Then I expect DS to be added, and games for that to span 2 years, then for the latter half of the generation I think it'll be a random smattering across all NSO platforms, bouncing from one console to another.

Then, in 2033, when they release NSW3, I think their big NSO reveal will be Wii, with an NSO Wiimote and Nunkchuk, as the system will have reached the 25-year-old mark by then. Afterwards in 2036 I think we'll see 3DS, which will be 25 years old at that point, a perfect threshold for being considered retro (much like GameCube is now roughly 25 years old). In fact, N64 was added when it was around 25 years old too. I suspect that's Nintendo's internal goal.