Switch Online's "Mature" Nintendo 64 App Is Now Available In The West

Come on Shadowman, Conker, and Hybrid Heaven!

Maybe even Resident Evil 2?

Seriously, though, the amount of time my family and I will lose playing CTF on Conker will be significant lol

@MaxPlastic Hybrid heaven is T rated so it would more likely be on the original app.

It’s unfortunate they had to segregate out the mature games this way, but if that’s what it takes to get them on NSO, then so be it!

@MaxPlastic My brother and I played Total War endlessly.

give me Conker or go to hell!

I never realized Turok and Perfect Dark were mature games. I mean both games get pretty weird in the stories, I still wish the 64 games could be mapped better to the pro controller...

@rvcolem1 the Goldeneye pro mapping feels pretty great, and I played through the first level of PD before work today and it felt pretty clean! Analogue aiming is fine, even if there wasn’t really much in the way of analogue walking, but it’s a pretty minor gripe. Try that remapping! It made Goldeneye a breeze, and helps PD immensely feel more up to date.

@Greatluigi It's been so long I didn't remember lol I guess this makes it a little less likely now.

There are too man Konami games I don't think we'll ever get: Hybrid Heaven, both Goemon games, Castlevania 64... -__-

@rvcolem1 This works great...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B091QVBN73/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

@MaxPlastic I would like to play Castlevania 64 again for a few minutes. I remember fighting a giant skeleton (I think it was a giant skeleton, it was a long time ago). I don't want to play enough to buy the cartridge though.

I would literally DIE if Conker gets added. I’d love to see Switch users be able to experience it, plus it would be so cool if it got released on another Nintendo console.

I prefer if it's one app but hey, I'm not complaining if we can get conker and others mature nintendo 64 games in this app 😃

Also I really hope we can change key bindings per games in nintendo subscription apps soon, playing golden eye on switch controller is rough.

@wiiware It's remarkably easy to settle back into the C-Button settings provided you have a NSO 64 controller, but I know those are expensive and always sold out. I got mine by sheer luck from restock announcement on this very site.

But it does seem like if they can add online multiplayer, they'd be able to work in some remap options.

All people, myself, included, wanting to see Conker N64 at NSO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWY_ILRgV-Q&ab_channel=PenguinTM

I didn’t realize that you needed to download a separate app. Thanks!

Conkers Bad Fur Day or bust.

I have 3 words: Mortal Kombat Trilogy

The funny thing about Conker is that it received a mere M rating in Australia (the equivalent of a T rating in the US, or a 12 rating in Europe), but it would be locked behind the "Mature" app by virtue of other regions while the MA15+ rated Goldeneye is in the standard app (one of few N64 games to receive such a rating in Australia).

Both "Mature" games and Goldeneye would most likely receive an M rating in Australia if they were to be reclassified today. Even the far more bloody Quake I was dropped to an M rating from its original MA15+ (and that features gore flying all over the place). Quake II, curiously, retained its original rating, however.

I never played Perfect Dark when I had an N64, but heard lots of good things so booted it up… and what on earth do you do? I admittedly only had a cursory 10 minutes, but wanted to just start the action and ended up walking around a “training centre”, but couldn’t seem to actually do any training, was pressing every button but nothing seemed to happen. How do you bloody start the game? Very underwhelming.

I wonder if they'll add Mortal Kombat to this app someday.

That'd be awesome.

It's cool that they've found a suitable way to release these more mature games.
But couldn't they restrict access on a game level based on the user age (Nintendo account is mandatory), that would have been easier and more customer friendly.

But otherwise, that's not the kind of thing that will make me subscribe to the expansion pack. As much as the regular NSO is packed with features, the expansion seems really barebones in comparison.

Bring in Conkers Bad Fur Day and I’m there.

An extra icon might be a hassle, but if Nintendo's only alternative had been lumping "mature" games together with Super Mario 64, would we have ever got them? Exactly. And I already have the CGC apps installed in deliberate pairs to keep track of potential extra stuff in the Japanese versions, so I'd be a hypocrite to bellyache here.😆

Conker's Bad Fur Day CONFIRMED!!!

They said it couldn't be done!
They said the NSO is for all ages!
It was impossible!
This is one giant leap for mankind!

Cool, downloaded it but I'll probably not boot this up very much.

@MaxPlastic I can only buy it from ebay since even my local (and online) store doesn't sells it, it's more expensive that switch pro controller 😕

Mature?
Woo hoo!
Bring on BMX XXX!

****
Yes, I know, it's a GCN game...

Will Goldeneye be moved over to this app?

@Picola-Wicola Bring up the main menu and select solo missions for single player.
The Carrington Institute is literally a training area, with a firing range on the 1st floor, with some additional weapon challenges to do.

Combat simulator is the multiplayer mode, complete with bots. You'll also find 30 special challenge scenarios against a team of bots for up to 4 players to attempt. You can also issue orders to bots on your MP team. 8 bots + 4 players matches back in the day got insanely hectic and fun.

PD also has a full campaign co-op mode, as well as a "Counter-Op" mode where one player controls an enemy soilder and tries to stop Jo.

PD had it all (even hidden pieces of cheese in many levels, lol). Truly a groundbreaking game. It took everything Goldeneye did right, and refined, upgraded and enhanced the hell out of it. Hence why it remains my all-time favourite FPS, which I still return to now and then. Hope you give it another try when not rushed.

@Casco mortal kombat 4 was always a good game on the 64. I used to take it to school with me when we had our N64 club on a wednesday during lunch and rip peoples legs off and beat them with it with Quan Chi 😂

Anyone else having issues booting up the app? It just remains stuck on the N64 NSO Mature blah blah title screen

EDIT : okay my bad for some reason my console was not up to date. Everything's working PERFECT-ly fine.

Also guys. GUYS! It's there it's finally there! I seriously started to doubt because end of the console and whatnot, but finally Perfect Dark is there on that NSO service and it's brilliant.

Good that at least Nintendo listens to Helen Lovejoy.

@Casco for some reason hasn't be a release of any of the older MK games since the Arcade Kollection on ps3 and Xbox 360. It's not even backwards compatible

I recently bought a cartridge copy of Perfect Dark, so I was personally annoyed with the news - I could have saved myself the money.

And today, a copy of Conker's Bad Fur Day (£100) will be delivered, so I'd be extra annoyed if that turns up on this mature app, but I suppose it's a foregone conclusion now. How many other "mature" games could appear on the service?

At least I can console myself with the fact I can play them without having to pay for the Switch Online service.

Can they please put all the Hentai games in eShop in one app like this as well, I can't say I love seeing those trashy games in eShop.

@EVIL-C wow, thank you so much for that explanation! Very helpful and I will give it another go a bit later (if I can put Zero Mission down first).

@jrt87 Thank you, that makes sense now.

@nhSnork well isn’t this why the switch has parental controls?

Now get Conker on there.

@romanista for a single app to have to filter its content with? They're probably reluctant to shake the code up that much, especially since other CGC apps using the template don't seem to be accomodating anything rated "mature" anytime soon (most of the stuff that might fit the bill tends to get separate retail comebacks).

@romanista parental controls work on a per app basis. They needed a separate app to apply a different age rating than the original app.

hmm that's interesting, but when is Conker coming.

It’s so nice to see perfect dark. I prefer it to goldeneye for the bot support in multiplayer.

@Uncle_Franklin "It's the company's fault for making you want it so much."

Does this mean we'll finally get Diddy Kong Racing and Donkey Kong 64? Those games were filthy and gave me nightmares!

@Birdgas thanks I'll give it a shot

@TenEighty that controller looks uglier than my sister on a lazy Thursday afternoon around 605 eastern standard time, drinking an Arnold palmer on the front porch of a Georgia mercantile store while singing "what's love go to do with it" to a man she has never met. That man would go on to create a new flavor of bubble gum that only penguins and people from laramie Wyoming enjoyed...it was not a good look.

But thanks for the heads up. I had a lot of trouble with jet force Gemini.

@rvcolem1 LOL! Your poor sister.

Now I'm really getting rather mad they don't seem to know what creak there in. Unless they release conker's it be how would you like some of that you Nintendo Ninja's

@Nontendo_4DS some risks we shall not need to take. I'll look into this, I just got to work and all my creativity has left me. But golly gee 49 American dollars.

So dumb. So I now have two NSO/N64 apps wasting space on my screen to play all the games I used to play on one N64? Messy. There have only ever been 28 M-rated N64 games to begin with and only a handful of those even worth playing, so I don't see that app being utilized much, by Nintendo or players. The console with probably the fewest games already of all the consoles on the service. That is just stupid.

@rvcolem1 best of luck! It’s a super quick setup, and it makes such a massive world of different for playability. I hope you enjoy - it’s great with a more modern taken on control. ☺️

Nintendo always find an overly complicated way of doing something simple.

That's incredibly stupid.

@electrolite77 good one! 😀

@Teksetter I hear you but it seems kinda unnecessary; plus I’d like to have both Goldeneye and Perfect Dark in the same app. Oh well…

I could see why they made a separate app for Mature rated N64 games. The N64 itself had triple the amount of M-rated titles than even the Super NES which to my knowledge only had four (MKII, MK3, Ultimate MK3, and Doom). Games like Doom 64, Hexen, Quake 1 & 2, Resident Evil 2, Conker's Bad Fur Day, South Park, Duke Nukem 64, Duke Nukem: Zero Hour, Turok Trilogy, War Gods, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Mortal Kombat 4, Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero, etc., all had turn the N64 into an M-rated machine back in the days though I doubt most of these will ever grace NSO.

I hope we get now some of the Mortal Kombat games that appeared on the system, and Resident Evil 2!

It's great that perfect dark is on the switch mature app, but please nintendo can you stop spamming me over 60's porn adverts during gameplay. I realise this is a mature app but there is no need for such filth

@Picola-Wicola You're welcome. I always do enjoy a chance to talk about and reminise over Perfect Dark, lol.

@Picola-Wicola Oh and just as an aside, stuff like the campaign co-op, multiplayer challenges, etc.. (even nearly every gun having an alt fire mode which I forgot to mention but was so cool) were carried over into the Timesplitters series, as many of the staff were ex-rare/GE/PD developers.

Unplayable thanks to zero effort to actually adapt the controls to the system on which it will be played. Really beginning to hate the arrogance of Nintendo at this point. I’ve already stopped buying their games and I’m about to cancel NSO, I’m done.

3 words: Resident Evil 2

M rated games, hmm...

Conker's BFD
Shadow Man
Resident Evil 2

I struggle to think of many more...

Let’s go! Now they can finally add the original Animal Crossing! (joke)

@RygelXVIII Ironically, I find Nintendo's cloud saves to be the most reliable at actually retaining my save data, as the occasional Steam title save has been wonky for me. Same with Xbox's save feature. 7 years later, and my Switch is still getting regular active use. As cool as Steamdeck is, at this point, it's just a waiting game until Switch 2.

I think it's a smart way to help parents feel comfortable about having their kids play on the NSO apps. There is a clear delineation for them to distinguish which app is "safe" for younger kids.

sigh. guess they can’t do an age check on the nintendo id to have the games load into one app instead of doing the extra app.

@nhSnork all those stability updates could give one access to that data point... but anyway.. i can live with this i guess, but it feels so amateurish

@NotoriousWhiz oh i understand, but ut can't be too hard to give the app that setting... (all those stability updates can be used for something useful) This just looks like a óh exciting i can't access' app to minors....