Game Boy Advance - July 2024 Game Update - Nintendo Switch Online 

Outside of Smash

Now if they can remember Hamtaro, my life will be complete!

@@BenLogterman This would be more complicated because copyrigth.

They have more to remember too

@@josiaswando9561 True, but still.

Yeah really I wanna be able to read the in game text…

@@awesomeocelot7475 you can if you learn Japanese

100% lazy garbage.

I was wondering about that. There were rumours of a finished-but-unreleased translation of 1 but I guess they were either bunk or they couldn't find it.

⁠seriously. How hard could it be to translate this game?

That's so cute

That's how I first discovered Starfy.

Wait a minute... A new M&L game, and Starfy 1-3 Ports..That must mean we're gonna get a Kirby and Wario game at some point!

Don't you mean the secret enemy in Super Princess Peach, hehe.

Same

​@@ArabellaGrethey kirby seems likeky, but i doubt we're getting a new wario game, unless it's warioware

yes they can nerd

Nintendo can. Such is the Power of Nintendo!

Yeah I mean- DID YOU SAY STAFT

You’re just joking. Besides Emio is just Horror video games are just entertainment. If it’s really good, I can try and handle it.😊 I played DOOM and Resident Evil and Castlevania and Metroid Dread.🙂

​@@Unknown_User174about the abuse and S references? No, those are actually in the game. You can check the Australian rating board

Nintendo been cooking these past couple months

LETS GOOOOOOO

Let goggogogogo!

I thought of your video on these games while wathcing this

Somos Tan Espalda.

Did Did they like try to like TRANSLATE the Japanese?! Like they usually do?! Sorry, I'm just at a loss for words at that official explanation

@@emiliciachandon’t worry; the Starfy team also is apparently at a loss for words too.

@@kingvideogames I would love to witness an interview of this or something that would be amazing

They probably do the same for Mother 3.

@@kingvideogames Yeah

Do a Kirby and the forgotten land with Starfy!

@@mrjoejon6882THAT WOULD BE SOSO AWESOME! edit: why do I think my sworn enemy will pop up out of nowhere and say “NOBODY ASKED YOU TO BE HERE GSTAR”

I hope so.

@@mrjoejon6882something I’ve been thinking about recently is the amount of parallels Starfy (for the Ds) has with forgotten land. Both of them have the main character in a strange new world with a rodent companion that is absorbed by the big bad in order to become god

I can only dream, god I can ONLY DREAM.

lol true they gave us a little scare

Somethin for everybody~

Nintendo tomorrow:

​@@lady_onisorry,man,too much water.

​@@alexanderthegreat-mx5zu Ok IGN aka team magma

I'M SCREAMING WTF

Who ?

Would have preferred GameCube games

STARFY FANS RECOGNIZED

@@charlieasalgadosalgado1369 yeah? Well go and try out THESE games and you'll realize what you REALLY perfer

His DS game that came to the west in 2009. The first time ever we got a starfy game outside of japan.

There was also a spirit for Mattel (the fish girl), but she's only in Starfy 4, which will now be weirdly the ONLY game in the series to never be officially released outside of Japan.

Yes I remember. I got 6 Spirits in The Legendary Starfy Series. Starfy (Prince of Pufftop / Main Protagonist) Starly (Starfy's Sister) Moe (Starfy's Friend) Old Man Lobber (Elder) Mermaid (Save Game & Checkpoints in the game) And Mattel (Princess of Amy Kingdom) 6 Starfy series spirits in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. And Starfy as Assist Trophy. Not fighters since Brawl in 2008.

​​@@knucklesmegaOf course. In June 8 2009. (15th Anniversary of The Legendary Starfy for Nintendo DS. In America version.)

I think they're supposed to be like stars like the sun, not starfish

Hello there.

I remember this exact memories too! I loved that game! A shame starfy didn’t become more popular.

I also remembered Starfy on my DS. The Legendary Starfy was one of my favorite games of all time when I was little ⭐️

Already in english wth

@@starxhilmie I saw the gameplay and they don't look like they're translated

hear me out, you can just use google translate. Joking aside I hope they bring the other games because I loved, the legendary starfy on the DS.

@@samuelmitschele-dauenhauer2984 hahaha just wait till you become a mother fan :insane_stare:

@@2_many_alts I AM A MOTHER FAN!!!

I think this is the most out of left field week Nintendo has had for a pretty good while now.

They did it with Earthbound Zero and the first Fire Emblem game (before Nintendo delisted it for no reason) Nintendo makes really odd decisions.

@@karnovrpg, the reason they had one for EarthBound Zero was because they had a prototype translation since 1990, which they didn't release due to worrying it wouldn't sell well due to the upcoming release of the Super Nintendo (even though Kirby's Adventure released on the NES in 1993 while the SNES was in the US for two years at that time). They didn't officially release that version until 2015 for the Wii-U Virtual Console.

Happy birthday bro!

Happy early birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday

Happy birthday!

Wario is the goat

AY YO?!?!

I'm looking forward to all the confused reactions on the internet from this. From what I understand, it's actually an entire world based around working with Wario, which is incredible.

Speaking of, would love to see Wario Land 4 at some point.

You gotta wonder tho... Why leave the games untranslated !? I can't read Japanese, so that's pretty much impossible for me to understand the context of the game or thr story :/

I was completely lost trying to play one of the Japanese language kirby games on the SNES switch emulator. I don't know how this is going to go.

@@Rainbowdragon2 Kirby Star Stacker 2?

I agree. Nintendo should at least put translations of the menus in the game info page.

@@jeremyriley1238 togglable translations would be sick

Pfffft, you're only paying $50 / year for this service! What, you want them to do something that would require they make an extra effort? How unreasonable. You'll play an untranslated ROM and like it.

I agree

They should.

They have done this pretty often for a while now!

Except not really cause Mother 3 still isn't translated.

@@Kingdom850 theres a fan translation

These aren't translated tho unfortunately

I’m happy for you guys, but they still haven’t localized Starfy NOR have they translated Mother 3.

​@@Kingdom850Mother 3 was translated over 15 years ago

Same here. ^-^

Cringe.

Sure glad I totally can read what's going on.

It would be better if I could read the in-game text

I agree.

Yeah, major problem: The text is completely untranslated. So Nintendo really didn’t do a “good job”, they just put the Starfy games on NSO and that’s… it. At least the first Fe game was translated iirc, this wasn’t sadly. :(

Mysterious Murasame Castle is already on NSO

​@@richtersundeen6105Oh, it is? I wasn't aware.

This just leaves For Whom the Frog Bell Tolls to get out of region lockout jail and Marvelous: Another Treasure Island to get put on NSO at all.

@@mariopikaman1imo it would add so much value in actually getting the NSO if Nintendo put the actual effort into translating these titles that they bring from japan for Western NSO subscription users. It’s unfortunate that there’s a decently handful of titles they’ve crammed into the NSO library where they are only Japanese text. Quite underwhelming imo, sure it’s great to see the starfy GBA titles release outside of japan but still not localized. 🤷‍♂️

You realize Nintendo isn't actually handling the emulation, right? It's being managed by an outside company. They're just getting the green light to add games. Outside that, they aren't actually involved.

A real hidden gem for western Nintendo fans.

So that’s what he is considered too 😔

Oh now I remember.😄

Remember how in Brawl he was called Stafy because there hadn't been a game localized in English yet? And Starly was called Stapy for the same reason.

Makes me think about that one actual fighter from another Japan-exclusive Game Boy Advance game. NO I AM NOT AN EARTHBOUND FAN!!!

It's that one character on a movie poster from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.

i guess they said Wario Land 3 is enough...would much rather have 4 than Starfy

I cry in no english or spanish translation, and cry in no pokemon games in nso

WAaAaAaAhhh!😫

It will come, in due time...

I'd rather have Wario Land 1 than 3 tbh

rockhaming not det

It’s not a remake or remastered it’s a port why would it not be on nso. Yeah the fact it’s a subscription service is stupid but where else would it be the Wii U eshop?

Its emulation, nso is the only way for them to sell it for anything

They didn’t make it NSO exclusive… they just just didn’t put effort into making it a native game

Yeah, because the Switch has nothing else

@@knuclear200xwasn’t your left hand excited for tons of Switch games?

​@@knuclear200xsource to back the l take with?

@@absolutezero9507 name all the games the Switch has

@@knuclear200x splatoon 2 and 3, Mario Odyssey, Mario kart 8 DX (which just overtook the nes' lifetime sales), Luigi's mansion 3, smash ultimate, animal crossing new horizons, Mario+rabbids kingdom battle, Mario + rabbids sparks of hope, Zelda Link's awakening, Metroid dread, Zelda tears of the kingdom, Mario wonder, Mario RPG, paper Mario origami king, paper Mario the thousand year door, PIKMIN 4

I know, right? Fans do it for free. And they put in effort to translate the first Fire Emblem only to NOT sell it after a few months, nor put it on NSO.

ATLEAST STARFY IS BACK BUT YEAH IT IS DUMB BUT IM FINALLY PLAYING THE GAMES

@@kirbgreen Nothing was stopping you before. GBA is region-free.

@@Schwarzorn well other than me not having a flash cart and the fact i don't pirate any games and the fact i can't get a copy of any but the 5th game and i already have it

@@kirbgreen I just meant that you can buy the first four games. Either at game stores or online places like eBay. 1 thru 3 can be bought for US$30. That's only $10 each! Not bad for games over two decades old.

A LOT of NSO games are not translated

It's easier to just toss the original Japanese games as-is than it would be to localize them. Thankfully you don't _need_ to be fluent in Japanese to enjoy these particular games, but it's kind of a shame people who can't read Japanese won't know the stories.

@@BlueAizu_ I find that using the Google app to translate helps to solve that problem.

​@@jesusramirezromo2037 i mean they are a few but in the total is like 10 out of 300

@@BlueAizu_, that's not truly the case with Starfy. Some of the gameplay (especially one level in Starfy 2) is completely hindered by the language barrier due to being very text heavy (which can contain hints) or is based on a word game.

They sadly can't handle games with too much text, Mother 3 is part of that

It's still not localized and you can play Mother 3 (in japanese) with a japanese eshop account. It's really simple. Also first party Nintendo games are a lot more cheaper on the japanese eshop, than the USA one.

Apparently that one has more to do with music licensing than anything else for why they can't release it to the west.

Mother 3 will never come, just play the fan translation.

@@MegaDarkness5000 Exactly! I would even say that it's the "official" one. It's not a cheap translation and it's not made by a nobody.

@@NegaLimbo I can translate a few with the screenshots and use the translate app on my phone to help you and anyone who can’t understand Japanese. If you can find my comment in the comment after I post it, I can help you guys out.☺️

​@@Unknown_User174 That's not the issue. Starfy is a game series where dialogue is a lot of the charm. Yeah, the series is definitely fun without reading, but it's very much so a game series designed with reading in mind. This isn't Mario, which has almost no text, or Kirby that only has text in a few places that many don't read. Starfy has a good amount of text and even some menu-ing. Not having an English localization is extremely disappointing for these games. Just Google translating a thing here and there does not cut it.

@@CuantumQ Good point. And well said, too.

@@CuantumQ DeepL would be better than Google Translate since Gigazine, a popular Japanese blog, also ran some tests of DeepL’s Japanese translations and found them to be more accurate than Google Translate. In general, people praise DeepL for having more natural-sounding translations and doing better with local idioms and slang. That is, DeepL is a little better at translating the actual meaning and tone of content, rather than just word-for-word translations that might technically be correct, but still sound a bit awkward or lack context. But still, maybe a fan translation would be better if there's no English localization in the future.

@@gelgel4823 I mean yeah, DeepL is definitely better than Google Translate, but even then it's not ideal for actual localization use. The process of a proper localization requires the experience of a person who is familiar with both cultures (not just both languages) and knows how to get a similar feeling in the localization that the original intended. A lot of planning to make sure key phrases are consistent and that unique wordplay can be interpretted if possible. You need to be an entire person to properly localize, not just a program that associates things with eachother. Especially if you're trying to keep the charm of character writing instead of just flattening it out into how most people would say a line.

Our boy is back!

At this point I think we have a pretty good chance (I've only seen the trailer they showed on the news a few weeks ago, but I'd love to play it!)

The only guess I have is that since these are platformers, and not text heavy RPGs like Mother 3 or Fire Emblem 1-6, Nintendo decided to release the games on the English side anyway because it would be easy enough to understand what to do. They've done similar things for some puzzle games on the NSO already like Puyo Puyo 2, Panel de Pon, and Mario's Picross. (But I agree it's dumb that they don't attempt to translate them anyway)

@@shanegiorgio4713 Yeah I agree. It's a win regardless to be able to easily play these, but for me its meh because I own all the JP starfy games anyway. Would be a bigger deal if we got translations

Because it still be fin and people would not like it if its was only on japan gba

​@@shanegiorgio4713 A translation would likely mean a separate release and could potentially come later than the Japanese update.

Thanks wikipedia. We'll send you a thank you card later.

@@WhatIsMatter101 You’re welcome but I’m not Wikipedia, I just went to Wikipedia and I just did some research on it.😄😊

Finally, someone says it!

You paid $50 anyway. They don't need to

@@knuclear200x Have you seen how much translators get paid?

@@liammcnicholas918 someone did it for free last year anyway

​@@knuclear200x And? Fan translators aren't the same as the translators at Nintendo.

That's where I learned about Starfy! 😄

Starfy also has a cameo in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.