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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[WiiUBricker]

That is so beautiful it makes me feel like an ass if I were to hack the Switch. RIP :iwata: (← we need an Iwata emoji)

 

[DarkSeele]

Any vids of people playing out yet?

I can't get this to work myself. I have a 2.3 Switch that has never connected to WiFi or played any games and I cannot get this to run. Unless there is a button or something, or I'm on the wrong screen/doing the motion wrong... I did make sure the date was set to 7/11/17

https://twitter.com/NinDailyNews/status/910224113960194050

 

[RustInPeace]

Only Nintendo can nerf a word like "Flog" and make it family friendly. RIP to the original flog.

 

[ATofix]

Nintendo prob meant to reveal this next year...

 

[HaloEliteLegend]

Holy smokes, this was real? As in, you can actually play this? That's mind-blowingly awesome! What an amazing easter egg!

 

[DeoNaught]

I've gotta say, this is very heart warming, that they still honor him like this.

WHY GOLF... cause FLOG?

I just realized this. facepalm

 

[SirNapkin1334]

My friend has a Switch, I'll have to do it on his.

 

[supergamer368]

Nintendo knows how to easter egg alright Iwata would’ve loved it

 

[Deleted member 414991]

My friend has a Switch, I'll have to do it on his.

You can't. It's only doable on 1.0 systems that have never been connected to the internet.

 

[aykay55]

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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Lol kid didn't realize it's a real thing:

 

[SonyUSA]

I can't get this to work myself. I have a 2.3 Switch that has never connected to WiFi or played any games and I cannot get this to run. Unless there is a button or something, or I'm on the wrong screen/doing the motion wrong... I did make sure the date was set to 7/11/17

Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

If you are on 2.3 it talked to a network at some point.

What is the direct gesture exactly ?

Raise both hands from your sides keeping them close to your body and kinda thrust forward like pushing someone away.

 

[Deleted member 414991]

Lol kid didn't realize it's a real thing:

seems legit

 

[SonyUSA]

You can't. It's only doable on 1.0 systems that have never been connected to the internet.

It works on every firmware.

 

[aykay55]

seems legit

Are you actually joking? You can clearly see he put this vid together in iMovie, use Photoshop Mix to put the Golf image on top of the screen, then added that to the end of the video with Ken Burns to make it seem like it's still rolling.

 

[Deleted member 414991]

Are you actually joking? You can clearly see he put this vid together in iMovie, use Photoshop Mix to put the Golf image on top of the screen, then added that to the end of the video with Ken Burns to make it seem like it's still rolling.

i'm sorry you don't grasp the concept of sarcasm

 

[ScarletDreamz]

So... a LOT of people owe that guy an apology...... like.. A LOT.

 

[PrincessLillie]

So... a LOT of people owe that guy an apology...... like.. A LOT.

That guy being @Setery

 

[DeoNaught]

So... a LOT of people owe that guy an apology...... like.. A LOT.

was it that bad?

I guess i missed some more gbadrama

 

[pandavova]

Its a little bit sad that it got "leaked", the reactions next year would be... Lets say, very heartwarming...

 

[sarkwalvein]

was it that bad?

I guess i missed some more gbadrama

People were mean, gbatemp standard mean.
The OP was no snowflake though, he didn't take the ill intended posts to heart at all.