Dataminers Discover SNES Listings In Nintendo Switch Online
If you’ve been impatiently drumming your fingers on the desk, waiting for Nintendo to support something other than the NES in their Nintendo Switch Online service, we have excellent news: the wait may not be much longer. Data miner and modder KappucinoHeck did some poking in the NSO code and discovered a placeholder list of SNES games, which he proceeded to tweet:
- Super Mario Kart
- Super Soccer
- Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
- Demon’s Crest
- Yoshi’s Island
- Stunt Race FX
- Kirby’s Dream Course
- Pop’n Twinbee
- Star Fox
- Contra 3
- Kirby Super Star
- Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts
- Kirby’s Dream Land 3
- Super Metroid
- Super Mario World
- Pilotwings
- F-ZERO
- Star Fox 2
- Super Punch-Out!!
- The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
- Super Mario All-Stars
- Breath of Fire 2
Poking further, modder SnowmealDome found evidence of four proprietary Nintendo emulators being used. The content of his tweet read thusly:
- Kachikachi (NES Classic)
- Canoe (SNES Classic)
- Hiyoko (???)
- Count (???)
The first two are well-known due to their use in the NES Classic and SNES Classic respectively. The third is a mystery, and the fourth may not even be an emulator, but a command that counts the number of emulators. It’s hard to know at this point.
But we do, at least, have confirmation that Nintendo has plans to make the Nintendo Switch Online lineup less pitiful. As it is, it’s no replacement for the Virtual Console, and even with these additions it’ll be missing a lot of things, but it’s a work in progress.