
Nintendo is still rolling out new content updates for its battle royale racer F-Zero 99, with the Switch Online title today receiving all sorts of additions.
Patch 1.5.0 adds five new tracks (including Satellaview content), practice mode gets expanded, there's now a tab for Grand Prix Ace, and much much more. There's also a one-year anniversary event! Here's the full rundown, courtesy of Nintendo's official support page:
Latest update: Ver. 1.5.0 (Released October 1, 2024)
New Additions
- We have added five tracks (MUTE CITY IV, SAND STORM I, BIG BLUE II, SAND STORM II, SILENCE II) from the Ace League of the BS F-ZERO GRAND PRIX game, which was distributed exclusively on the Super Famicom satellite broadcast adapter known as Satellaview. Grand Prix Ace League has also been added.
- The new tracks have been adjusted for F-ZERO 99.
- Practice Mode has been expanded so that you can practice by unlocking the Ace League tracks.
- A Grand Prix Ace League tab has been added to the leaderboard.
- Ace League track information has been added to TRACKS and PRIX under Records in the Workshop.
- If you complete the Grand Prix Ace League, you will receive a decal with the motif of a BS F-ZERO GRAND PRIX machine.
- A one-year anniversary event will be held. A total of 12 anniversary badges, backdrops, borders, and emotes have been prepared. During the event, if you match at least one Lucky Rank (updated daily), you can obtain one of the one-year anniversary rewards. If you collect all 12 of them, you’ll unlock a bonus decal for each machine.
- The one-year anniversary event will be held for a limited time only. During the event, Ace League tracks will appear more frequently. You can press the L Button on the Main Menu to check the status of one-year anniversary rewards and how much time is remaining in the event.
- One-year anniversary rewards that could not be obtained during the event period can be obtained from regular Lucky Ranks after the event ends. Unlock requirements for bonus decals will also remain in place.
- If you obtain all the one-year anniversary items during the event period, you will revert to regular Lucky Rank rewards.
- Any Bounty Chips from Lucky Ranks you earned before the event will be retained, and by returning to regular Lucky Ranks, you can pick up where you left off.
- As part of the one-year anniversary celebration, players will receive four new remotes as a gift when launching the game.
- Added the ability for players to set which emotes they want to enable, and added a function where they will be automatically displayed at specific times.
- You can set which emotes to display by going to the Workshop menu and selecting EMOTES.
- You can now also set emotes to automatically display when you KO another pilot, crash out, or finish a race.
- In addition to one-year anniversary rewards, new boost colors and Spin Effects have been added to customize your machine. New backdrops, badges, and borders have also been added for Pilot Card customization. All of these can be unlocked when certain conditions are met.
- One default decal, four backdrops, and four borders will be added upon completion of the F-ZERO 25 training. These will automatically be added for players who have already completed the F-ZERO 25 training.
- The new boost colors and Spin Effects can only be obtained through limited-time challenges. Press the L Button on the Main Menu for the Challenge Highlights screen where you can check limited-time challenges.
- You can check acquisition conditions and equip new items by selecting MACHINES or PILOT CARDS from the Workshop menu.
Other Adjustments and Changes
- The training flow has been revised so that Practice and Workshop are unlocked sequentially while the game content of F-ZERO 99 is explained to first-time players. Also, it’s now possible to restart training at any time by selecting Replay Training from Options.
- You can now choose team colors from Team Battle in a Private Lobby.
- A new bar has been added to the top of the Main Menu that shows your skill rating and how far you are from the next level.
- A screen showing a list of machines and Pilot Cards has been added to the Workshop.
- Move the cursor over MACHINES or PILOT CARDS under Workshop and press the Y Button to display the screen.
- Boost colors and Spin Effects can now be previewed by selecting Machines from the Workshop menu.
- Adjusted Balance of Machines
Machine Adjustments WILD GOOSE - Increased maximum Boost speed
FIRE STINGRAY - Increased maximum Boost speed
- Increased maximum speed when driving on dash plate
- Decreased amount of power needed for Boost
- Reduced the amount of damage received and the amount of repulsion when colliding with other machines.
- Made adjustments to WILD GOOSE because, while it performed well in races with more participants, it struggled in races with fewer participants.
- Made adjustments to FIRE STINGRAY because it tends to lose power easily in situations where machines are crowded together, and due to the high cost of Boost and low recovery in the Pit Area, it tends to perform worse than other machines in races with a large number of participants.
- In order to reduce situations where you are hit from behind by a Bumper after the Bumper has crossed a dash plate, we reduced the speed of the Bumper coming off the dash plate.
- The number of wins displayed above other players' machines is now hidden on the lobby screen for players who have never won a race.
- The EXP and tickets awarded for Lucky Rank matches have been adjusted to give more EXP and tickets.
- The bonus ticket obtained by logging in once a day has been eliminated. In conjunction with this change, the daily bonus for completing F-ZERO 99, Pro Tracks, Classic, and Team Battle was revised from 250 points to 500 points.
- In Pilot Card customization, certain badges that reflect the number of times an action like Boost or spin has been achieved can now be set on a Pilot Card to show all the badges that you have acquired.
Other Issues
- Fixed an issue where limited-time challenges weren’t being updated.
- Fixed other minor issues to make for a more pleasant gaming experience.
Will you be checking out this new update? Let us know.
[source en-americas-support.nintendo.com]
Comments 34
Wow! A rare Satellaview acknowledgement!
Didn't they say the last update would be the final one to introduce new courses? I haven't been playing much of 99, but I'm pumped to see them actually bring in Satellaview-exclusive content after it was seemingly scrapped
Woah, is the the first time BS content has appeared on... Well literally anything other than the SNES?
Time to fire this baby up again then, cool! Didn't expect them to add the Satellaview stuff but I'm all for it.
F-Zero 99 continues to be my favorite of all of the Battle Royale games on the Switch. It's grown so much since it first premiered a year ago.
Very exciting to see them acknowledge the long-lost BS F-Zero tracks!
An update to this, and two F-Zero GBA titles added to Switch Online? Really makes you think…
Oh this is cool, have to jump back in then! 😄🤎
I hope to see Forest I/II/III and Metal Fort I/II too!
I jumped back in as the Golden Fox, practiced each track in a private lobby by myself with CPUs & won that, earned a new emote with five in a row so I finally unlocked an achievement in one, ended up playing the Ace League when it became available & died on Sand Storm II. That was brutal, these tracks are forcing me to abuse boost just to keep up so I don't get sucked up by the UFO early.
Satellaview content is super cool actually. They could honestly replicate that across the Switch Online app for some fun, it requires you to be online for authentication anyway.
This game shoul get the physical treatment like Tetris 99. They should make it happen.
Okay, I'm saying it now. F-Zero launch game for Switch 2?
On topic; I'm happy they keep updating this game with new features and maps.
Satellaview Tracks?!!, oh my, this is very interesting, maybe, only maybe, tracks from F-zero gba (maximum velocity, gp legends and climax) will appear in this game, well, it's only an idea/wish, XD
Ufff a Satellaview NSO section would be a dream. The Zelda BS games were actually good.
So they ended up actually adding Satellaview tracks despite what they said about not adding more courses at the time at least, love to see it and gives me one more reason to eventually come back to playing at least some more F-Zero 99!
And yes, I'd also love to see more Satellaview games coming to Switch and/or its successor in some way or the other, especially the Zelda ones!
Wow, this is amazing! Just last night I was playing F-Zero 99 and thought to myself that the game needs another major update, as the lobbies were dead (nine humans on the last race I played). I look forward to diving in to this.
Wow, is this turning into a real full game ... I haven't tried it yet. Maybe I should give it a go.
Love that they're offering this to NSO members.
Soon I would need a physical version of this game Nintendo and a new F-Zero game for Switch 2 as well.
Ok so the machine decals, will they actually change the body style of each as well? The satellaview machines look very different from the base game but I hope we are getting those to race as well. I would absolutely love to have a physical version of this game, like splatoon tho, I do hope this game will give us a bots offline option so we can play this long after the servers shut down.
FINALLY! BS in an english press release
F-Zero fans are eating good today. Just all we need is a shiny GX port, or better yet a new entry.
Nice.... I actually just found the BS tracks as a stand-alone game on my modded Xbox, but this is great news. Now about a proper single-player mode.....
I'll be expecting this to update, then.
This is awesome! I already main the Fire Stingray so seeing it get buffs is awesome! Gotta try out the new machines and tracks for sure!
@SuperBro64 my favorite as well. I wish the Mario 35 game hadn't been a limited time, as that's a great idea that should stick around.
I love normal Tetris, but Tetris 99 I find annoying.
F-Zero is great and a perfect fit for online!
I love this game, so i am happy to see it get updated... Even though my skills are nonexistent!
F-Zero BS was a good game. They should also add to the new tracks, the commentator that the Satellaview enabled for the game when you played it back in the day, under a certain time of the day. Let's see if they release any other BS games on the SNES NSO app.
Since they're actually releasing them, this makes the official release of Forest (I, II, III) and Metal Fort (I, II) tracks a genuine possibility. If you're unfamiliar, these are the other 5 BS tracks that have yet to, and possibly never will, be recovered via BS cartridges. A fan has manage to recreate them recently based solely on video footage, but an official release would be a "StarFox2 on the SNES classic" level of monumental.
The content is great but holy crap how about those detailed patch notes. How un-nintendo
As a long-time F-Zero fan this has been easily my most played game of the last year with over 80 overs spent on it so far, I'm loving the updates too. As others have said we just need a proper single player offline mode now, and a physical version a la Tetris 99 (which I got the physical of and also thoroughly enjoyed).
Damn x damn, sheesh what an update. Satelleview! Looks like I'll be firing F-Zero 99 up again. I'm glad the Wild Goose got an adjustment that I think would help it.
On a side note since we dipped in Satelleview, toss us BS Zelda please.
This is an insane amount of content. F-Zero fans must be in heaven. Now, if they could do all this for Star Fox or Wave Race I’d be over the moon.
I better get back into it before my subscription expires in a week. Hopefully can finally win a race too. So many second places; yet to win a regular race.
This all got me to jump back in, after not really giving my much of a chance. It’s such a great, complete game now! Having a blast with it though wish there were more players….
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