Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube834k Nintendo has today announced it will be expanding its Switch Online + Expansion Pack service with two more games for the Game Boy Advance library. They include the Namco titles Mr. Driller 2 and Klonoa: Empire of Dreams, and they’ll be arriving next week on 25th September 2025. Here’s an official …
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Last night out of the blue, Nintendo released an update for its NSO Game Boy Advance app that brings some welcomed features to the emulator. The biggest update is a boost to 1080p rendering in handheld mode for owners of the Nintendo Switch 2, which should make the pixels look crisper on the device. The other updates are less impactful, …
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Nintendo Switch Online, the Switch subscription service with the deeply irritating name, is rearranging the furniture to try to make things make a bit more sense. For one, various libraries of emulated games from older Nintendo systems are now being designated as “Nintendo Classics,” while the Game Boy Advance section receives a couple of significant improvements. First and foremost, on …
Read More »We’re now several months into a brand new Nintendo generation, and waiting impatiently for important information such as the release date for Metroid Prime 4 and the whereabouts of the next 3D Mario game. But in the meantime, the company has been gradually updating its various retro console emulators on Nintendo Switch Online, with the latest being the Game Boy …
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Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube833k Switch Online’s ‘Nintendo Classics’ library has this week been expanded with Forsaken 64 and the Japan-only release, Magical Vacation. Although the GBA title hasn’t been made available locally, the app here has received an update, bumping it up to Version 3.0.0. Firstly, the official banner and icon for this app have …
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The Nintendo Classics Switch Online app has now been updated, and new features have been added in. Note that you’ll need to download and install version 3.0.0. The main addition is that button remapping is now supported. That means if you’re unhappy with the setup for a particular game, you can rearrange things to your heart’s content. Button mapping was …
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Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube833k Nintendo’s Switch Online + Expansion Pack service in Japan is this week adding Brownie Brown’s 2001 Game Boy Advance RPG, Magical Vacation. This Japanese exclusive will show up for the service on 4th September 2025. That’s the same date as the release of Forsaken 64 on the mature N64 app locally. …
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It’s always a risk betting on new video game hardware from a little-known company: what if game developers never show up? But the $50 Thumby Color, on sale this week, is an easier sell — the two-inch handheld is cute as a button, fits on your keychain, and lets aspiring programmers build and publish games right on the web, and …
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Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube829k WayForward has given us a Switch release date for Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution, the once-cancelled GBA sequel to the original Shantae game. Coming to Switch on 19th August 2025 — a few months after some fans got hold of a GBA cartridge with the game on it from Limited Run Games …
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