F-Zero Climax Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Free Course

If you get one character wrong, do you need to enter the whole thing again? I can seldom enter a gift card code without getting it wrong at least twice! 😆

I didn't know you could share the courses made in F-Zero Climax (through passwords which is pretty inconvenient, but still), pretty cool and even further so since it allowed Imamura-san to share one to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the game!

@Yoshi3 To be fair, they have at least released F-Zero 99 now which is technically a new game but still, I feel you (have barely played games in this series in particular, but I have been waiting for new games in other ones and I can empathize regardless) and have my fingers crossed we'll finally get a completely new F-Zero on Switch's successor - along with a rerelease of GX in some way or the other of course!

@Dirty_Croc As much as I'd love to see an option to buy the retro games on NSO for those who need or even just would prefer it (doubt it will ever happen, but that's besides the point) it's worth mentioning that:

• the service will almost surely continue also on Switch's successor at the very least considering Nintendo themselves mentioned continuing the Nintendo Accounts on it and not only continuing, but also expanding their "Value-Added Services" (https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2021/211105e.pdf, page 41) and they reconfirmed both either implicitly (https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/10/switch-onlines-expansion-pack-promises-excitement-in-2025 and https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/10/nintendo-announces-switch-online-playtest-program-related-to-new-feature - there's no way they'd metion something coming to Expansion Pack next year and even less so test a new feature if they were about to discontinue NSO) or explicitly (https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/10/nintendo-accounts-to-help-ease-next-gen-transition-according-to-doug-bowser) way more recently than the document I pointed out;
• so far you download the retro apps and they just check weekly if you still have an active subscription so when the service gets discontinued you'll still be able to access them through modding at least.

While personally I'm more than happy with NSO including the Expansion Pack and even more so considering I pay around €10 per year for it by sharing a family plan with my friends again, I'd love to see the option to straight up buy the games for those that need/want it, but at the same time I wish people kept in mind the abovementioned instead of exclusively repeating that it's a service so it will eventually be shut down and so on!

@Dirty_Croc It's perfectly fine if the NSO service is not for you and I can agree to some extent to the criticism you mentioned (although in the case of messages and especially chat I can see where Nintendo is coming from as they certainly don't want to open the can of worms that is in-game texting and even more so considering most of their games are also for children) along with, again, hoping that there will be at some point the option to buy the retro games for those needing/wanting it including you even though I unfortunately doubt it will ever happen, but that's not a good reason to ignore the straight up facts and the educated guesses based on them I mentioned.
Oh well, even if you keep on disregarding what I said we can at least hope together that Nintendo will eventually make a new F-Zero game and release it also physically like they usually do (personally, I'd also take a rerelease of GX in the meantime, even better if a remaster and so with a physical release as well instead of it coming to NSO if that ever gets GameCube games)!

@LinktotheFuture Most certainly because that's how long they have to be to contain all the data necessary to recreate the tracks in other people's copies of the game.

@Dirty_Croc Not making up excuses, I'm just guessing a potential reason why Nintendo hasn't implemented such a feature yet as much as I'd be glad to see it for those interested like you - avoiding any potential issue and even more so involving minors is what makes the most sense to me (doubt it's just due to its cost as I don't think it would be that high), especially after what happened in the Smash community for example.
Again, fingers crossed despite my abovementioned doubts that Nintendo will eventually add such a feature for those who want it including you as the more people enjoying even further Switch, NSO or whatever other Nintendo or even gaming in general product the better!

@Dirty_Croc Unfortunate to hear, hope you'll enjoy whatever you'll pick up instead of future consoles - sounds like playing consoles you already have and/or PC games (could even be something unrelated to gaming even though it seems less likely based on what you said, but my wish for you doesn't change regardless)!

@Dirty_Croc You're welcome and glad to hear you'll keep on playing the games you have! You can find my Friend Codes in my profile so you can send me a friend request if you ever feel like it.