Two more GBA games arrive on Nintendo Switch Online this month



Get ready for F-Zero, because that's on the menu this month for Nintendo Switch Online. Two F-Zero titles from the GBA are coming to the NSO library, including one that never released outside of Japan. On October 11, F-Zero - GP Legend and F-Zero Climax will be available for subscribers. The previously Japanese-exclusive F-Zero Climax was the most recent entry into the series, prior to the release of F-Zero 99, and features a track editor that stood out to players at the time of its release in 2004.
 

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F-ZERO Climax getting an official localisation is a great addition... I'm assuming?

Can't remember if the game is entirely in Japanese or not, I've been playing an English Patched rom for some years now.

Climax is, I believe the best F-Zero for GBA.
Don't think they'll just randomly start localizing games they put out on NSO now. Except maybe if a translated rom has been lying around and they just have to upload it.
Luckily, the only Japanese text that actually gets in the way is the control settings screen. And if you know Katakana, you'll notice that they just put English words written in Japanese on there like "Saido Atakku" for Side Attack and so on. Everything else is even narrated by the English announcer :D
Oh, the "story" is also in Japanese, but this time it's just summaries of the anime episodes, not dialog and missions, like in GP Legend, since missions got moved to Survival Mode.

I also really like Climax, though I can't decide between GP Legend and it, which one should be my number one F-Zero game.
 

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Thank you

...is what I'd probably say if I was one of those people.
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My guess is because they have that trade feature that works with the Link Cable (if you've played Gen 1 to Gen 3 you know what I mean). Replicating it on the Switch would be difficult.

Also, the events.
I dunno, I think it's something more than that. I mean they put Gens 1 and 2 onto the 3DS virtual console. It feels like for whatever reason, even the oldest Pokemon titles are this sacred ace in the hole for Nintendo when it comes to NSO.
 

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...is what I'd probably say if I was one of those people.
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I dunno, I think it's something more than that. I mean they put Gens 1 and 2 onto the 3DS virtual console. It feels like for whatever reason, even the oldest Pokemon titles are this sacred ace in the hole for Nintendo when it comes to NSO.
I want to figure out what are the full details of this.
 

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I want to figure out what are the full details of this.
Yeah, it doesn't seem to really make much sense. It wouldn't exactly threaten the 'Pokemon economy' as far as Home integration goes, and it would probably make people see the storage app more favourably. Giving people the five mainline GBA titles would go a long, long way.
 
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My guess is because they have that trade feature that works with the Link Cable (if you've played Gen 1 to Gen 3 you know what I mean). Replicating it on the Switch would be difficult.

Also, the events.
If they could replicate it on the 3DS then they can do the same on Switch
 

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It's a good thing GBA games are still coming out on Switch, otherwise GBATemp would have shut down due to lack of interest in the GBA that was popular in like 2001.
 

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The Sattleview trackpacks and Fzero X track editor on 64DD are missing still.
I doubt these gba games play decently online but I suppose at least its there now.

Really wish they put this on a cartridge in a collection withvall the bells and whistles for preservation and celebration of the series and all it's content.
Would go great next to a GX/AX remaster but I'd fear they'd severely cut it down.

NSO and especially NSO+ is starting to feel more like a graveyard.
Maybe always was.
 

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