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When we were playing Donkey Kong Country in the early '90s, we never expected there would come a day when we would be able to play the game as Mario. But now, thanks to a hacker named RainbowSprinklez, it's finally possible to play as the iconic moustachioed plumber (specifically the version of...

Last month, we covered a story here on Nintendo Life about a coder named Joshua Barretto who decided to do a custom rewrite of Super Mario 64 for Nintendo's 32-bit handheld, the Game Boy Advance. If you weren't already impressed with this technical feat, this palm-sized project has now shared a...

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door topped the charts in the UK and Japan when it arrived on the Switch in May 2024, and some new data about its release in the US has now been shared. According to Circana (formerly NPD) via industry analyst Mat Piscatella, it debuted in second place right in...

Earlier in 2024, Nintendo introduced a new system to its Switch Online 'Missions and Rewards' which requires users to play a retro game before they can purchase icons. We've seen it with games like Super Mario World and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and the same "play and redeem"...

Mario & Luigi: Brothership kicked off the latest Direct broadcast and although we've already seen a fair bit of footage of the game, one thing Nintendo hasn't properly shown off just yet is the game's box art. Yes, it's been featured in listings here and there, but now in the latest update it's...

Nintendo's mobile title Super Mario Run has been given a boost of life in recent months with all sorts of collaborations (including a special movie event last year) and this trend is set to continue with the arrival of Luigi's Mansion 2 HD on the Switch this week. Until 31st July, you'll be...

Remember when you first caught a glimpse of Super Mario 64 running on the Nintendo DS and how utterly mindblowing it was at the time? It's easy to forget just how far handheld gaming has come in the years since, but seeing one of the greatest platformers of all time come to life on such a humble...

Pre-orders for Donkey Kong Country Returns HD and Mario & Luigi: Brothership have gone live via the Japanese eShop, confirming the estimated file sizes for each game. Donkey Country Country Returns is coming in at 9.0GB, while Mario & Luigi: Brothership is slightly larger at 10.0GB. We're...

Nintendo this week announced a brand new Mario & Luigi RPG, officially titled Mario & Luigi: Brothership. Like a lot of the company's new releases nowadays, it wasn't ready to reveal the team behind this Switch project, but we've now got a small update on this. Game File's Stephen Totilo asked...

I'm not making a Mario fan game (probably never) I just felt like doing some of the assets in my style as I don't wanna get rusty from creating Pixel Art. I had a fun time with these and am looking forward to make some more if given motivation later on, but what do you gentlemen's think?

This week's Japanese charts have arrived from Famitsu, and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has folded under the competition from this week's big new release, Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance. Originally a Switch exclusive, Vengeance brings the game to multiple platforms as well as adds tons...

The upcoming Mario & Luigi: Brothership will be the first game in the long-running RPG series that is not developed by AlphaDream. Mario & Luigi: Brothership was announced at the big June 2024 Nintendo Direct event. It was, in fact, the very first game shown off by Nintendo, setting the tone for...

Mod that changes target framerate to 60 FPS. Made for yuzu by theboy181, I have ported it to hardware. Changed handheld resolution from 1152x648/1024x576 to 960x540/854x480 based on info from 1080p mod made by M&M for yuzu. Both original mods can be found here...

That's right! It's time for the Summer showcase you've all been waiting for. A Nintendo Direct is about to air, bringing us 40 minutes of Nintendo Switch content. The event will start roughly an hour after this thread goes live, so stick around and enjoy the coverage when the broadcast airs, and...

Ahead of today's Nintendo Direct, Shigeru Miyamoto has shared a surprise update on social media about the new Super Mario Bros. Movie, revealing the launch date for Japan and also sharing a little insight on the project. Firstly, he's now confirmed this new movie will be arriving in Japan on...

Here's a reminder that the second wave of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door icons are now officially live. You'll have until 5th June 2024 to get this second wave containing characters like Koops, Vivian, Madame Flurrie, and more. Nintendo is going all out with the launch of Paper Mario...

Thanks to the release of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on Switch, we have been quickly reminded of just how much we love the hand-crafted aesthetic. The paper sprites, the craft backdrops, the theatre battle setting — it's all just wonderful, isn't it? We're hardly alone in this opinion...

Ratalaika Games has revealed that it is partnering up with Masaya Games and Shinyuden to release Rider's Spirits on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S/X, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch on June 7th worldwide (thanks, Gematsu). Developed by Genki and published on September 30th, 1994 in Japan, the...

Like its rivals the PS2 and Xbox, the GameCube had the ability to go online – although it didn't get the kind of software support to make this an entirely worthwhile venture. Due to this, the official GameCube Broadband Adapter is quite expensive – and not worth the effort, as the console's...

A new Rom Hack for Super Mario Kart has massively expanded the game 32 years after it originally launched on the SNES. Created by gridatttack, Super Mario Kart - Horizons offers eight new themed worlds, delivering 20 new circuits to race around. It also has four new Battle Tracks, new music...