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PSA: Enjoy Rumble In Super Mario 64 On Nintendo Switch Online With The Japanese Version

You’ll have to work for it.

Nintendo Switch Online’s Expansion Pack is now live, adding various Nintendo 64 and SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis games into the mix. There are a small number of regional differences at the moment, and perhaps the most notable is that Super Mario 64 has rumble in Japan and not North America and Europe.

Before those pitchforks are sharpened, there’s actually an interesting reason for this. In Japan the version on the Expansion Pack app is the “Shindou Pak Taiou” edition, which was a re-release of the game only in Japan that added Rumble Pak support. So, as it goes, it was the most recent and best version of the game in Japan, and that’s the one that’s been emulated to Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack in the country. If you’re using the North American or European app, however, you get the original version without rumble.

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