{"id":360596,"date":"2026-01-09T09:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360596\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:02:10","slug":"mario-tennis-fever-officially-reveals-amiibo-functionality-and-every-amiibo-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360596\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Tennis Fever Officially Reveals amiibo Functionality And Every amiibo Supported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Mario Tennis Fever\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a6073b00cfc36\/mario-tennis-fever.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/mario-tennis-fever.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"563\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Mario Tennis Fever\"\/><\/a> Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Nintendo released a new trailer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/mario-tennis-fever\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Tennis Fever<\/a>, and in case you missed it, it highlighted amiibo support.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief segment at the very end of the video, Nintendo detailed how exactly this new entry would be compatible with its line of NFC figures.<\/p>\n<p>When you tap one of the following amiibo listed below, you&#8217;ll get a themed tennis ball design based on these characters. It&#8217;s noted in fine print how &#8220;ball speed is not affected&#8221; by this change.<\/p>\n<p>No other features tied to amiibo support have been mentioned, but if we hear anything, we&#8217;ll let you know.<\/p>\n<p>Super Smash Bros. amiibo:<\/p>\n<p>Super Mario amiibo:<\/p>\n<p>Mario<br \/>\nLuigi<br \/>\nPeach<br \/>\nRosalina<br \/>\nYoshi<br \/>\nWaluigi<br \/>\nWario<br \/>\nToad<br \/>\nDaisy<br \/>\nDonkey Kong<br \/>\nBowser<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Mario Tennis Fever\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8968154510261\/mario-tennis-fever.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767949329_629_mario-tennis-fever.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Mario Tennis Fever\"\/><\/a> Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo previously included amiibo support in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/mario_tennis_ultra_smash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash<\/a> on the Wii U &#8211; allowing players to train and level up characters (similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super Smash Bros.<\/a>) and use them in matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766909708_631_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo Yesterday, Nintendo released a new trailer for Mario Tennis Fever, and in case you missed it,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3058,59,138307,136,376,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-360596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-amiibo","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-mario-tennis","11":"tag-nintendo","12":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}