{"id":794828,"date":"2026-07-31T05:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/794828\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T05:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:49:09","slug":"major-nintendo-switch-update-adds-mario-sunshine-and-unreleased-virtual-boy-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/794828\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Nintendo Switch update adds Mario Sunshine and unreleased Virtual Boy games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has announced a major Nintendo Switch Online update planned for next month, which will add new games and features for Virtual Boy and GameCube.<\/p>\n<p>On August 13, Super Mario Sunshine will be added to <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; Nintendo GameCube [403 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/nintendo\/nintendo-gamecube\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo GameCube<\/a> \u2013 <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; Nintendo [6,590 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/nintendo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo<\/a> Classics on <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; Nintendo Switch 2 [1,330 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/nintendo\/nintendo-switch-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Switch 2<\/a>. Previously, the classic platformer was only available via the now-discontinued 3D All-Stars collection.<\/p>\n<p>On August 4,\u00a0<a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/2-unreleased-virtual-boy-games-are-coming-to-nintendo-switch-as-part-of-the-nso-expansion-pack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">two previously unreleased games<\/a> will be added to the Virtual Boy library, along with the previously announced ability to customize screen color.<\/p>\n<p>The two unreleased games are D-Hopper and Zero Racers. Notably, the latter is a spin-off game based on F-Zero that was \u201ccompleted\u201d but ultimately never released, <a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/an-unreleased-f-zero-spin-off-was-complete-former-nintendo-producer-confirms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to a former Nintendo staff member.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>G-Zero, which was later renamed Zero Racers, was originally in development for the Virtual Boy, but the commercial failure of the hardware meant it, along with a number of other planned titles, were never released.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of Virtual Boy\u2019s library has now been added to its <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; Nintendo Switch [6,141 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/nintendo\/switch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Switch<\/a> Online offering, which launched earlier this year and requires a physical accessory to play.<\/p>\n<p>The only Virtual Boy games that haven\u2019t been confirmed as coming to the service are Nester\u2019s Funky Bowling,\u00a0<a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/companies\/panic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Panic<\/a>\u00a0Bomber, SD Gundam Dimension War, Space Squash, Virtual Fighting, Virtual Lab, Virtual League Baseball, and Waterworld.<\/p>\n<p>However, because several of these games featured licensed IPs, they are unlikely to appear in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo has announced a major Nintendo Switch Online update planned for next month, which will add new games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-794828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}