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Music included at launch:
Nintendo Entertainment System
- Metroid (FDS)
- Metroid (NES)
- Super Mario Bros.
Game Boy
- Dr. Mario
- Kirby's Dream Land
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
- Donkey Kong Country
- Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Nintendo 64
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Star Fox 64
Game Boy Advance
- Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade
Nintendo GameCube
- Metroid Prime
Nintendo DS
- Tomodachi Collection
- Nintendogs
Wii
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Wii Channels (including Wii Shop Channel, Forecast Channel, Everybody Votes Channel, Photo Channel, News Channel, Mii Channel and Check Mii Out Channel).
Nintendo Switch
- Pikmin 4
- Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet
- Splatoon 3
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Kirby Star Allies
- Super Mario Odyssey
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (includes Booster Course Pass tracks)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Music announced to release later:
- Wii Sports
- Super Mario 64
- The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword
- Splatoon 2
- The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker
- Donkey Kong Country 2
- F Zero X
by razorbeamz
31 Comments
I’d kill for a desktop app or webapp of this.
I hope they add Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door in the future!
I would buy an Device if they made it compatibles with Nintendo Alarmos.
So happy about this! Can’t wait to see what other games they add, and at what frequency.
I am surprised there isn’t anything for 3DS at launch. Wii U doesn’t have anything directly either but the ports are included like Mario Kart 8.
My favorite feature is the extended loop feature. So glad it’s an option
Yeah, I’m gonna need some more GameCube games. Some of the older Animal Crossing hourly tracks are among the best songs in the series, so those… are obviously never coming with the drip feed model that the trailer made it seem like we’ll be getting.
It’s a neat addition, and it’s long overdue for Nintendo to give fans a way to access their phenomenal music catalog. But why does this feel like it’s going to be another drip feed like NSO’s game library?
What album/game did everyone look for first?
I’ll go first:
Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze 😢
Need that twilight princess soundtrack
Slight annoyance with the botw ost: they grouped the day night themes for each town into a single track. I personally really enjoyed listening to each version on its own.
I hope they don’t do the monthly release like they down the games and say “oh hey we added this one game for music. Cya”
Pardon my language, but are they doing a dripfeed for a fucking music app? At the very least with NSO you can have people focusing on and talking about specific games, but almost nobody will be talking about this when their music is already so accessible elsewhere (even if it is technically a legal gray area).
Still a good app though don’t get me wrong.
The app dropped at a good time, right before I went grocery shopping. So I manage to listen to it quite a bit in the couple of hours its been out. So far these are my impressions.
Sound quality on it is really good, about on par with the quality found in the major music streamer services and certainly seems like Nintendo picked the better audio quality files they had.
UI is really well organized and they got different playlists based on characters and even types of music like a playlist dedicated entirely to boss battle music. Also shout out to some of the Splatoon 3 playlists, for being deign and named after in universe albums. Also on top of the basic loop feature that is to be expected, some tracks have an option to extend them to be either 15, 30, 60 minutes.
Biggest issues so far is the small selection of games that almost feels random and lack of credits to any composer even someone well known to Nintendo fans like Koji Kondo, just isn’t credited.
Super Mario bros 3!?!?
Is the play button just not working for anyone else? It was working before and now it refuses to start any songs, even if they are downloaded.
I’d love Smash Ultimate to be on it but the third party music might cause some trouble.
It won’t let me get past signing in
This is awesome, needs more games, an option to see composers, better skip (swipe left or right as well as press the button), better dragging for music played (I want to press in the middle of a song and not drag it) and not to stop because a video is muted on Reddit. These imo quality of life improvements would take this from a 7 to a 8 or 9. Overall great idea, solid execution, just needs a little more things for this to become great. Would also be cool to be able to see your switch friends list and their playlists or something.
I love the app and how everything is presented. Each game has a selection of best tracks, a selection of all tracks, and a variety of playlists based on different themes.
Man, I was hoping to hear some Earthbound / Mother 3 bangers and I’m SO disappointed right now
Just give me the arms soundtrack
This is such a cool step for Nintendo allowing us to listen to their music although I do hope it’s updated at least somewhat frequently. The game catalog does feel kinda lacking at the moment.
Who else is just blasting [the Wii Shop Channel Theme](https://m.nintendo.com/shared/en-US/CA/tracks/6030eb13-b55b-41b4-8a23-27887eca363f)..?
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My individual post got deleted, so I just wanted to inform everyone that you can send feedback to Nintendo for the app
1. Click on your profile picture in the top left of the app
2. Scroll down until you see “Support Site” and click on it
3. Click on “Share your feedback from here”
4. Select the type of feedback (positive, negative or both) and write down your opinions.
If there’s anything you wish to say (Me personally, I’m going to write about credits for the composers on the tracks) please do so, and in a respectful manner. Hope this helps.
I said this in another thread:
For people wondering “Why Nintendo is choosing to do this instead of sharing on (insert streaming service) –
Nintendo has always been very protective of their products and IP. Even when it can seemingly be to the detriment of their fanbase or services. They’re notoriously tough on any infringement or infraction with their IP, refuse to discount first party titles, and always march to the beat of their own drums when it comes to consoles and direction.
Theyre generally are very cagey about having their IP / Products on services that aren’t strictly Nintendo owned hardware or software as well. (Barring a few exceptions)
They probably stand to make more money and control over their brand this way, versus outsourcing to a pre-existing streaming service.
Why does this company always need to drip feed their content
No, it’s not anti-consumer because it’s not on Spotify. I have a hard time calling this anti-consumer when it’s directly benefitting the 38 MILLION consumers that use NSO.
I really hope they add more music at a consistent quick pace. The way they’ve been slowly releasing N64 games is fucking ridiculous, and the launch library here is pretty poor. More Mario RPG soundtracks, please!
Fire Emblem: Three Houses when, Nintendo?
Please get the old Pokémon games on there ASAP. I need the original theme on loop, and the rival and gym battles too.
Did they stealth add Super Mario Bros. Wonder music to the app?
Making a playlist and music from the game is appearing in search.