Nintendo has announced that the Nintendo Switch Online paid service will launch for both Hong Kong and South Korea sometime this Spring.

Nintendo has released this month’s NES games for Switch Online, and alongside are two new ‘SP’ versions of Metroid and Blaster Master that start near the final boss.

On February 13, 2019, Kirby’s Adventure and Super Mario Bros. 2 will be added in a Nintendo Switch Online update worldwide, while Japan also gets a sumo fighting game.

The NES – Nintendo Switch Online has updated to its Version 2.1.0 that adds Blaster Master and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. It also stealth-released SP versions of Ninja Gaiden and Ghosts‘n Goblins.

Strings of text for SNES titles have been datamined from the data for NES Online, indicating that these titles may be joining the available list of games sometime in the future.

The Nintendo Switch Online NES game library is gaining Zelda II: The Adventure of Link and Blaster Master worldwide. In the Japanese version of the app, Joy Mech Fight is also being added.

To help people better understand how the Nintendo Switch NES controllers available as a Nintendo Switch Online promotion work, a walkthrough video has been released.

Nintendo Switch Online subscribers who want an edge in Dr. Mario or Metroid can now play SP versions of the games in the Nintendo Entertainment System app.

Nintendo revealed the next three classic NES – Nintendo Switch Online titles that are coming on December 12 with Wario’s Woods, Ninja Gaidan, and Adventure of Lolo.

Special versions of NES Open Tournament and Gradius with unlocked elements have been added to Switch Online, similar to the special The Legend of Zelda version last month.

Nintendo has stealthily added a modified version of The Legend of Zelda alongside October’s Switch Online NES lineup, which starts Link off with various items and max rupees.

Nintendo have clarified that cloud saves will be kept up to 180 days after Nintendo Switch Online membership expires, contrary to the previous FAQs.

People looking for another way to pay for Nintendo Switch Online can put their My Nintendo Gold Coins to good use.

The Nintendo Switch Online cloud save data functionality has some limitations, which means people need to maintain a subscription to ensure Nintendo keeps storing their backed up saves.

We saw the wireless NES Controllers for Switch the West is getting, and Japan is getting something similar except they’re getting the Family Computer Controllers based on the original Famicom controllers.