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

You're right.

F-Zero is so good it counts as 10 games

It's because there's Zero updates

Shut up nerd

F Zero 99 is getting huge updates tomorrow but yeah this is for MV

It definitely didn't move forward at all this game is atrocious

Yeah and this game isn't that great too

That's because they want the fans living in the past

Because they want to milk the Nintendo Switch Online subscription as much as possible. Can't have fans beating all the games they want to beat then cancelling their subscription.

Funny you should say that. Apparently, there is a F-Zero 99 update that adds mirror mode and a few other features

I would unironically rather see these tracks in F-Zero 99

Would've been a better idea. F-zero climax and gp legend are better than maximum velocity too. Shame nintendo didn't really market the anime but glad it was on fox box for some episodes years ago.

​@@MrVariantI'm surprised someone remembers FoxBox.

@@MrVariantwhat’s fox box?

Agreed!

Good point.

Asking the real questions

They’ve never actually even stated that Zero Mission is coming. I mean it’s definitely likely, but in contrast they’ve already had F Zero revealed and lined up since the intitial announcement of the GBA Online app a year ago. For the expansion pack tier services, they tend to only release things that they’ve previously announced were coming. There are exceptions, like the games immediately following the first batch of N64 titles before the subsequent Direct where they revealed more, and the recent Rare titles. But GBA almost never has shadow drops. Yes, we can assume they’ll add Zero Mission eventually, but they never promised it or even mentioned it.

Yeah as well as Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland

I mean there were 3 Gameboy games added like 2 weeks ago. And five Rare games added in the previous month.

If they drop their entire load there would be nothing left for the future Their tactic is smart

@@prime7213this

Golden Sun 1 and 2, Jet Force Gemini, 5 more Rare games, GB Golf, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis and now F Zero GBA... in very quick succession. What are you on about?

@@madnessarcade7447these games are decades old. They should not be drip-fed as slow as molasses

it probably won’t put f-zero back in the spot like considering nobody actually gives a damn

@@LordGalactic39fzero 99 was pretty big

@@LordGalactic39ok and now people will the point of this is to get this in front of a new audience so people who didn’t give a damn before could give it a try

Keep telling yourself that idiot

I really got into F-Zero when 99 was big. I've played them before and enjoyed but the recent releases have me wanting more of the series.

Pretty sure those were owned by a Japanese tv studio since they were tie ins to the anime.

Much better games

I want climax so badly

Climax was a sequel to GP legend ? It seemed more like a follow up to MV .

I hope they also make it too, there are a ton of games missing from Nintendo switch online expansion pack I want. Only talking about NES SNES N64 Sega Genesis Game Boy and Game Boy Advance

For me, its DK64, Banjo-Tooie, Smash 64, and Mystical Ninja starring Goemon

Classic games are usually gate kept by Nintendo until sales are drying up. So we're not gonna see those games for a long time.

I just wish they bring back the Gamboy Advance Pokémon games. We be all reliving those glory days again

mother 3 for me

@@beafraidofthebananas I've got some bad news...

Yes we do

And both Metroid: Zero Mission & Donkey Kong 94. Also, Super Mario Land.

Yeah as well as WarioWare Twisted

@@r-rod8116 Donkey Kong 64?

PIZZA TOWER

Still more news than star fox aha….

We just got one with 99, what are you waffling about

I mean, at least were getting anything related to the series, even if its not a new game

Nope

I mean 99 is a new classic title… but for a new 3D title we can dream

Lmaoooooo they changed it

Gotta save stuff for the future

@@madnessarcade7447 The future is the Switch 2 where they will reset once again and drip feed like with the wii and wii u

@@gyrate598Let’s hope they do better long term. I have a strong feeling they will.

@@gyrate598all these games run through emulation so there is no reset. It’ll all carry over to the new system.

​@gyrate598 The NSO Service is going to stay active by moving forward onto Nintendo's next gen hardware.

I see what you mean since part of the title for this RU-vid Video states "Updates".

Where's this love? The re-release of one game on NSO and a free-to-play asset swap of the original F-Zero, now with online multiplayer isn't much love in my opinion. If Nintendo wants to show love, they need to do something impactful, and so far reception for F-Zero 99 was mixed and overwhelmingly disappointed, and this again.. just a re-release of an older game, with no new features or additions, and locked behind what I still consider an overpriced online subscription.

F-Zero 99 says hi.

At this rate you will have some of those by 2050

I'd trade all of those for Metroid Zero Mission.

You said it

And it's mr pants sabre wulf and banjo pilot

Donkey Kong County is my favorite from GBA Play as DK working for ICE, immigrating mexicans so Diddy Kong can traffic dem for 💰🤪

Missing in Action

Metroid: No Mission

FACTS

I REALLY want that one! I finished Super Metroid, & bought/finished Dread. AMAZING game!

No

Fzero 99

I swear comments like this have to be a meme They "acknowledge" this series every other day

That's why they made a new F-Zero game... Oh. 🙄

@@user1point0 nah I meant I found it surprising that they’ve acknowledged fzero quite a lot recently.

F-Zero 99.

Yes very impressive. Nintendo, a multi-billion dollar company and the wealthiest company in Japan, animated a five second clip using 20 year old sprites and uploaded it to RU-vid. Praise be!

​@@koolaid33 A cynic, how clever.

Probably cast as much as making this game lol

Me too

Same here. And Donkey Kong 94 for Gameboy NSO.

Yeah as well as Mario Gold Advance Tour

Actually the game that would benefit from being added to GBA NSO the most. It's crazy that it hasn't been announced yet.

Yeah as well as Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland

We need windwaker port for switch first

There’s one teensy-weensy problem about Four Swords.

Screw 4 swords when are we getting any mainline pokemon games? You could buy them on the 3ds but you can't get a single one on the switch is ridiculous

Mario maker is dead buddy

You don’t say?

@@SawdawgGamingit still sells

​@@madnessarcade7447 they're done with game updates

@@SawdawgGamingyea that’s the point they’re making

Yeah, I feel like most people wanting a new F-Zero have never played the GBA games

a lot of people dislike the heavy, slippery controls of Maximum Velocity. and i don't blame them, the original F-Zero had more intuitive and comfortable physics, the change here is weird

@@UmbraVivens94Can't really agree here - I grew up with the SNES original and still struggle today at times with the controls. Maximum Velocity however is far more precise and easy to control, don't get the criticism there. The first four vehicles are not the best, but you can unlock a lot more and there are really great ones among them.

To be fair, X and GX really gave lasting impressions of F-Zero for most people. Smash Bros. also heavily references both games more than they did the Classic ones until 3DS./Wii U. That and aside from Maximum Velocity, which most of those fans shunned way back (for not being like X despite MV being on something that isn't N64), GP Legend and Climax especially just never did the numbers. And also they really did push the Classic style a lot. To fans of the 3D titles at the time, there was way too much of only one style and not enough 3D to compensate.

@@CR-Nova Yeah but still they are still all too overlooked, granted one of them was in Japan only but still.

or metroid zero mission

That depends on if Sega is willing to play ball. Cause they were only available on the Japanese eShop back during the WiiU days.

That would be great. I'd love an underrated Sonic game trilogy to gain some attention.

Yeah as well as Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland

the satellaview F-zero tracks and cars would be AMAZING to have in F-zero 99, agreed. some of the tracks were meh, but having them in regardless would be a moment.

Would be awesome, but will absolutely never happen. If Nintendo pretends their older consoles don't exist, they REALLY pretend their failed older hardware doesn't exist. Satellaview, Pokémon Mini, N64DD, Virtual Boy, they've all been swept under the rug. I'd like one example where Nintendo re-released any of these games in the last 15 years. Trick question, you can't find one because it never happened.

@@pigfish99 They can even redesign Forest I and Forest II to have a healing section for the classic race. A time-based mode can be added to be based on the broadcasts where you can keep on racing or crashing until time is up to go to the next race.

That makes it sound like F-Zero is get a revival

I reckon we'll probably get more games soon and the next set will be announced on an upcoming Direct. They'll probably be the last set too before the Switch 2 comes out either late this year or next year.

@@definitelynotapervert5602 - Diddy Kong Racing is all I’ve ever wanted. ✨

If we don't get an announcement, we'll def be getting some blind stealth announcements, at least until the next gen console arrives. This past two months alone saw games we had no knowledge were coming.

You're completely right. All of the roadmaps that Nintendo announced before are now completed. It's also true that either Nintendo will make an announcement for new roadmaps or we'll get nothing at all. The Nintendo Switch Successor will definitely be released next year so it's basically hard to tell at this point.

That's not true

Yeah as well as Super Smash Bros 64

Ask Game Freak/The Pokémon Company.

@@maverickhuntermeta4954 well Game Freak, The Pokemon Company and Nintendo all own a share and other Pokemon games are on Switch Online so you would think their number 1 handheld franchise main games would be

Yeah as well as Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland

Both N64 Goemon games would be utterly amazing.

@@TimedRevolver I'm pulling for the 2nd one specifically because it's multiplayer, and would benefit from the whole "online" aspect. The 1st one can come along later, too. I just don't want Konami pulling another 2-game "collection" pack, offline only, way too high a price, and using the lowest common platform features so they can make it mulitplat.

Also Buck Bumble would be fun to see

Nintendo needs to go back to kindergarten English class

There were three of them, one being exclusive to Japan.

It had multiplues, this is the only one that came out of Japan.

The worst FZero game of all time

GP Legend also came out in America. The only one that never left was Climax​@@kotlolish

They sold like only 20k copys that’s why nobody knows them and the series is dead

real

Nah, it's better

Don’t hold hope for Mother 3, it isn’t worth it anymore.

And it never will be

Beyond delusional to think mother 3 will come

We got three games just a week or so ago...

shaddap the value is there, wine man

We got games like last week Don’t be a brat

Yea they do because it builds up gotta save stuff for later on

Leave the multi billion dollar company alone.

Honestly with the quality of the current games i dont think they want to. One guy (think it was Arlo but im not sure) said that they might not do it because they dont want people to remember how good the previous games were

​@@whydatduck662Which would be extremely counterintuitive. Gen III has been entirely *_unplayable_* since DSi.

Gotta save stuff for the future

It's F Zero tho so who cares

We literally just got 3 2 weeks ago, and 5 a month before that. You all have such short term memory

Cool

Yeah as well as Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland

They never announced Zero Mission as even coming. With the GBA app, they follow a pretty specific order with what they’ve already announced. Unlike some of the other Switch Online Apps, they’ve done very few if any shadow drops for GBA. This announcement of F Zero coming will finally wrap up the first batch of GBA titles that were announced a year ago when the GBA app launched. I would imagine an announcement of a new wave of games is coming, probably in a Direct at some point, and probably also including the next batch of N64 titles, because they finally finished that list of releases, too.

If I’m not mistaken, the first three Mario Advance titles and the Japanese only rerelease of Mother 3 are the only GBA titles that have been added that were not on that original list of their gameplan when the GBA app dropped.

Yeah as well as F Zero GP Legend

Yeah as well as Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland

nintendo making a whole video to announce they have you one more rom to play

Is that a problem? Sometimes you just want to fire up your editing software and be creative. Especially for easy task to inform a new game.

I mean, how else are they supposed to announce that there’s a new game on switch online

It’s called marketing

Yeah as well as The Legend of the Mystical Ninja

@@carloslovestoswimMetroid Zero Mission too. It’s a crime for them to release Fusion and not Zero Mission.

@@artagle_14 yeah as well as Donkey Kong King of Swing

And THIS is why Nintendo gets away with EVERYTHING

I mean, we did get 3 earlier this month.

Still more than Metroid prime 4

It usually is just one game, it's only more than one if it's a group of similar games like the mario advance games😊

it ain’t mother 3

Cringe

Captain Falcon wasn't in Maximum Velocity.

They seem to be having issues with their emulation. So Pokémon might be a big ask, because if the clock in those games goes wonky, everything falls apart. That's why we still don't have Donkey Kong 64. Notoriously difficult to emulate well.

​@@TimedRevolverWhy would the clock go wonky? The reason that happened in the GBA versions is because of the internal battery running dry, which doesn't exist on NS.

@@Mystmon It sometimes happens with Pokemon roms, where the clock goes bonkers.

@@TimedRevolverOK. I don't know why that happens, to be honest. Could it not just use the system clock for NSO emulation?

@@Mystmon Not sure how that would work. Could be something like that is why they haven't been added yet.

Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, and the Gen 1 remakes 😭 just out of grasp

Yeah as well as Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland

Poor kid thinks this is a new game

Who’s gonna tell him

...ummm is someone gonna tell him the bad news?

It’s not new… it’s an old game ported to the switch online expansion pack

Just a rerelease

Buy oras

@@madnessarcade7447 already have it- I want the original on my switch. 😅

​@@madnessarcade7447They are not the same.

Truly wait for that too, and they could do big money profits with this because since months ago, i never use the Switch again

Same, I want to play 3 again.

Ask SEGA.

Legal limbo with THQ, who published the games in North America. Sega did publish the games in Europe and Japan, hence why they got those games on Wii U Virtual Console. The only way to get them now would be if Sega decided to remake them using the Sonic Mania engine and give them the Origins treatment.

when someone decides to give a F*** about them

It is online, NSO lets you play with friends

I mean like at least 12 players. Like f-zero 99

Yeah as well as Donkey Kong King of Swing (GBA) Battletoads and Double Dragon (SNES) Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega Genesis) Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Sega Genesis) Game and Watch Gallery 2 (Game Boy) Elite Soccer (Game Boy) & Battletoads (NES)

I agree there are many great games for the systems you mentioned

wdym months

@@platinum-or3y These games that they’re depriving you of are readily available to play on PC, yet new releases only come occasionally for seemingly no reason