Nintendo Switch Online leak also includes unreleased NES games
Posted on April 20, 2022 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch
More news stemming from this week’s Nintendo Switch Online leak has come in, as information about unreleased NES titles has now surfaced.
Much has been made of emulators for Game Boy and Game Boy Color as well as the Game Boy Advance. However, it’s also been discovered that the same leak contains a different version of the NES application, which has all of the currently available titles plus ones that are not currently live. Pac-Man, Tetris, Galaga, Mega Man, and Castlevania are among them.
It’s worth noting that the application’s build-date is October 2019. As pointed out by Twitter user orcastraw, most of the games in the leak line up with what’s been rolled out officially thus far. That being said, there’s no guarantee that the new ones here will be offered officially in the future.
orcastraw also points out that not all titles in the leak are in the same state of work. Mega Man has an SP version and a description, but others such as Galaga have placeholders.
Here’s a closer look at what was uncovered:
The leaked application has a build-date of October 2019, and the games being rolled out officially have mostly lined up with what's in the leaked application, so it would appear that the plans for releases were set up far in advance, and this shows what they might release. pic.twitter.com/uXkkyjKVRz
— Kaitlyn Molinas (@orcastraw) April 18, 2022
Nintendo hasn’t confirmed when it will make more NES games available on Switch. It also has SNES games for the service as well as N64 releases for Expansion Pack subscribers.
