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[Draugoth]

Gameboy confirmed for Switch Online. Includes Tetris, Super Mario Land 2, Link's Awakening DX, Gargoyle's Quest, Game & Watch Gallery 3, Alone in the Dark The New Nightmare, Metroid II, Wario Land 3, Kirby's Dream Land. GB, GB Pocket, GB Color filters

 

[jigglet]

the drip feed continues.

 

[Soltype]

6 years into the console's cycle and we're just now getting GB/GBA on a system that is actually portable. Glad I can play so many games on the series x, Nintendo's playing around.

 

[Valedix]

Oh shit lfg pokemon games when

 

[jigglet]

Oh shit lfg pokemon games when

It came towards the end of the Wii U (or was it 3DS) lifecycle I reckon it might be the same

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Another excuse to play the Pokemon TCG again.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Can't wait for Mother 3

 

[Power Pro]

I really hate NSO...linking all this crap to a subscription service I don't want. I'm gonna hang on to my Wii U which still has a bigger library of games, and I own them and won't lose access because I stop paying a consistent payment.

 

[SCB3]

I never played Zelda Minish Cap so this is nice

 

[MacReady13]

Great! But, we still can’t purchase these fucking games! I don’t want to ONLY be able to borrow them whilst I’m paying these greedy fuckera a subscription fee for fucks sake.

 

[Labadal]

It's a shame they are behind Nintendo Online. I have zero interest in that, but I would buy a few titles if there wasn't that roadblock.

 

[MMaRsu]

Advance not advanced

 

[AV]

It's hard to get excited for ROMs you can literally play in a Chrome tab right now.

But, if you're already gonna sign up for this thing anyway. Please play the Zelda Oracle games. They're the most underrated in the series and I won't shut up about them until Nintendo remakes them, which will be never. Pokémon TCG is also a banger.

 

[Banjo64]

I wish my 3DS didn’t have TN panels as my 3DS has everything I’d ever want to play GB/GBA wise.

 

[Scotty W]

Og Waverace when!?

 

[Bragr]

Most of the Gameboy games are a bit too old, they are fun to play for the sake of nostalgia, but some of the Advance games on the other hand, like Zelda Oracle, Golden Sun, and Metroid Fusion, are legit worth playing through in 2023.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

I 100% expect them to never add RBY/GSC/RSE/FRLG.

 

[vodka-bull]

It‘s Advance, not Advanced goddamnit!

 

[RoadHazard]

People still call it "Game Boy Advanced" huh?

 

[Sp3eD]

Playing through Wario ware as we speak. Works great

 

[baphomet]

I booted up the GBA stuff and it told me I needed an expansion pass?

Definitely reminded me to cancel that NSO pass before it renewed on the 11th.

 

[kingwingin]

How do you adjust the filters?

 

[TLZ]

These made the direct for me.

 

[SpiceRacz]

Super Mario Land 2, Link's Awakening DX

 

[RoadHazard]

Why no Mario Land 1? That game is so weird, but cool.

 

[diffusionx]

Surprisingly strong lineup of games. I have an Analogue Pocket so I don't really need it but they hit on a lot of the best games.

 

[nush]

Can't wait for Mother 3

It's been translated, they'll announce it next E3.

 

[onnextflix5]

meh, where’s the gameboy classic Nintendo.

 

[fatmarco]

It is hard to be excited given what Nintendo games you can just immediately play on the Xbox Series consoles these days to be excited with this sort of drip feed of backward compatible content.

 

[Shits_McGiggles]

You just know that they are going to reset the drip feed when their next console comes out. In five years, we will have the ability to play N64 games on the next Nintendo console.

 

[Kataploom]

Warioland 3, Mario and Luigi, and Minish Cap for me right now... I'll happily wait for a Golden Sun release

 

[Alexios]

They need to bring back the VC formula, just having them in the online thing makes them feel so temporary and probably also stops many third parties from joining in if they can't just sell the dang game as it is (and they probably don't care to negotiate terms all that much for some ancient game).

 

[plip.plop]

Nintendo = Nino Brown

 

[NecrosaroIII]

It's been translated, they'll announce it next E3.

Yup

 

[AngelMuffin]

I booted up the GBA stuff and it told me I needed an expansion pass?

Definitely reminded me to cancel that NSO pass before it renewed on the 11th.

Not worth the $4 a month to you?

 

[ClanOfNone]

I just want the DS Vanias you goddamn bastards.

 

[baphomet]

Not worth the $4 a month to you?

Considering this is the first time in probably a year I've turned my switch on, obviously not.

Even if I did that would be the last thing worth $4 a month.

 

[V1LÆM]

I loved the Pokémon card game. Excited to play it again.

Hopefully we get mainline Pokémon games. I really want to play Gold and Silver again. If Nintendo released a paid version of the games I would buy them.

 

[lostinblue]

This is a zero effort endeavour.

Super Mario Land 2, Wario Land, Metroid 2 should have been revised with colors:

There are projects which do it via patching, but Metroid 2 was actually most likely colorized internally, or at the very least had a custom Super Game Boy palette.

There was also a PSP emulator a few years back that did it through scripts and worked flawlessly providing the game had a compatible pallete script file.

At the very least they should support super Game Boy Palettes and backgrounds But there's no excuse for black and white games of this caliber on a official paid service.

 

[Closer]

Why WHY why show that Pokémon TCG box art? The battle OST is already playing in my Head AAAaaaaa

 

[EDMIX]

smh, they can't be trusted for shit.

I'll wait till Switch 2 to see if they have the same online account set up before giving a fuck about any of theses titles. I just don't think this company can learn their lesson lol We'll see...

 

[Surfheart]

You just know that they are going to reset the drip feed when their next console comes out. In five years, we will have the ability to play N64 games on the next Nintendo console.

Man they had better roll this shit over day one on their new console or I'm going to EB and knocking stands over!

 

[RPS37]

No expansion needed?

 

[baphomet]

It's amazing that my original NES/SNES/GB/GBA/N64/etc can still be played and not only feel better but also look better than what Nintendo has managed to do(and charge for) nearly 40 years later.

No expansion needed?

Yes for GBA.

 

[LarsQMorient]

This is a zero effort endeavour.

Super Mario Land 2, Wario Land, Metroid 2 should have been revised with colors:

There are projects which do it via patching, but Metroid 2 was actually most likely colorized internally, or at the very least had a custom Super Game Boy palette.

There was also a PSP emulator a few years back that did it through scripts and worked flawlessly providing the game had a compatible pallete script file.

At the very least they should support super Game Boy Palettes and backgrounds But there's no excuse for black and white games of this caliber on a official paid service.

The video said you can use a GBC screen filter. And the GBC had special palettes for games like Wario Land, Super Mario Land 2, Metroid 2 etc.

 

[Forsythia]

Yes! Already have the originals on GameBoy, and bought then on 3DS, but at least this is a bigger screen.

 

[Kataploom]

It is hard to be excited given what Nintendo games you can just immediately play on the Xbox Series consoles these days to be excited with this sort of drip feed of backward compatible content.

I think it depends on availability, sure you can download a rom from somewhere on internet but many won't feel good doing so even if they basically count as abandonware, or getting the original game plus console to dump the roms isn't cheap nor hassle free enough, this gives people the most lazy choice to enjoy some games they haven't play or to replay some, even with its caveats

 

[Chittagong]

They really need to add a way to hide games. More than the red SP seal copies of games, the beautiful first party lineup on GBC is soiled by an inexplicable crap sole third party game, Alone in the Dark. Its inclusion is both baffl and infuriating.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

The good news is that Nintendo is almost done with porting all their classic games to the Switch. Do you know what that means? Switch successor must be on he horizon so the cycle of milking their customers can continue.

 

[TLZ]

Why no Mario Land 1? That game is so weird, but cool.

Yes I don't understand as well. Not even in the next batch. You'd think it'd be there day 1.