Members of the Switch Developer community have recently discovered a hidden Easter egg in the Nintendo Switch firmware known as "flog" (golf backwards). Present in all versions, if the current date is July 11th (Iwata's death-day) and you detach both joycons and make his "direct" gesture, it will launch the NES title Golf (with a little voice clip of Iwata speaking), which is playable by 2 people using the joycons.

It must be noted that you cannot manually set the time to July 11th if your Switch has been connected to WiFi at ANY point, as the Easter egg goes by the network time, which does not relate to the system time as configurable by users. You may override this timestamp with homebrew/hacks, and has been proven to work consistently, but anyone on a newer firmware will not have access to this until they go public or wait until next year.


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[anhminh]

This is why I hate data mining. There is no Easter eggs, no surprise present, no hidden cheat code anymore, just a bunch of data sitting on a screen tell you "that is it". What worse is that everyone don't even thing it is a spoiler and put it on every goddam first page like it something everyone must know asap.

I pay respect for Nintendo crew for paying tribute to Iwata. Maybe they too want to surprise us and make us remember about him on that day, not today, and definitely not by a leak like this.

 

[Zoloco]

Someone deserves an apology!!! Hahaha

 

[Ritsuki]

was it that bad?

I guess i missed some more gbadrama

God, I don't know why but "gbadrama" made me laugh so hard

But yeah, it was really not super nice, with a lot of people calling him a liar or insulting him.

 

[whateverg1012]

This is why I hate data mining. There is no Easter eggs, no surprise present, no hidden cheat code anymore, just a bunch of data sitting on a screen tell you "that is it". What worse is that everyone don't even thing it is a spoiler and put it on every goddam first page like it something everyone must know asap.

I pay respect for Nintendo crew for paying tribute to Iwata. Maybe they too want to surprise us and make us remember about him on that day, not today, and definitely not by a leak like this.

why are you even here?

 

[Raverrevolution]

The saddest part about this all is that before 7/11/18 this tribute Easter egg will probably have something Homebrew enable it or some savvy devs will figure out a way to get an NES emulator running and the Easter egg will be redundant.

 

[MadMageKefka]

Im on 2.3, fresh out of the box, never set up an internet connection. Cant get it to work. Saw on reddit it requires 1.0.0, any truth to this? Instructions on joycon movement are also kinda unclear. Moving them from pointing forward to a vertical position doesnt match the nintendo direct gesture. Anyone have a video of the gesture with actual joycons?

 

[anhminh]

why are you even here?

It was on the front page so here I am.

 

[jamezfat]

Aw, I was kinda having fun messing around with settings and swinging my arms around trying to get it to work...


For once, out of all the times nintendo has tried to get me to exercise, this time, they actually did it...


Those tricky tricksters.

 

[SonyUSA]

Im on 2.3, fresh out of the box, never set up an internet connection. Cant get it to work. Saw on reddit it requires 1.0.0, any truth to this? Instructions on joycon movement are also kinda unclear. Moving them from pointing forward to a vertical position doesnt match the nintendo direct gesture. Anyone have a video of the gesture with actual joycons?

If it was exposed to WiFi it has network time stamped, it will not work. 2.3 means you have used it and thus it probably saw a public network at some point and probed it for time. It does work on 3.0 confirmed by the homebrew devs themselves by modifying the date with hacks.

 

[DuoForce]

this sounds like one of those methods to unlock Luigi in super Mario 64

I don't think its real, I'll look for a video on YT

 

[PrincessLillie]

I don't think its real, I'll look for a video on YT

It's real, otherwise it wouldn't be on the front page.

 

[Thirty3Three]

I don't think its real, I'll look for a video on YT

Bruh you're WAY too pessimistic.. about EVERYTHING. Smoke a blunt.

 

[Meeooww]

Omg, the crazy guy was right. I'm sorry crazy guy!

 

[Xzi]

Ohhh this is cool. I kinda wish I didn't know though, because now I'll be anticipating playing this next summer. Ah well, I think Golf Story comes out on the eShop soon, that looks really neat.

 

[DarkenedMatter]

If it was exposed to WiFi it has network time stamped, it will not work. 2.3 means you have used it and thus it probably saw a public network at some point and probed it for time. It does work on 3.0 confirmed by the homebrew devs themselves by modifying the date with hacks.

I mean.. I bought mine at 2.3 and never have set it up to WiFi so does that count?

 

[MeowMeowMeow]

Woah, the guy in that thread was actually right.

Lmao yes, to bad he got banned for it and burned as a witch. Well mistakes can happen.

 

[BvanBart]

Lmao yes, to bad he got banned for it and burned as a witch. Well mistakes can happen.

He is not banned? And his topic is still there

 

[RY0M43CH1Z3N]

Incredible easter egg!!

 

[MeowMeowMeow]

He is not banned? And his topic is still there

it was a joke

 

[rg]

That guy being @Setery

Maybe, however he did not start it on the 11th, and he did not say he was on 1.0

So how?