{"id":396476,"date":"2025-09-04T05:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/396476\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T05:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:48:11","slug":"switch-onlines-gba-app-has-been-updated-version-3-0-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/396476\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch Online&#8217;s GBA App Has Been Updated (Version 3.0.0)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"youtube-watch\"><a title=\"Watch This Video on YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5yI9NY3WQL4\" class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on <strong> YouTube<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <a class=\"sub-button external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube833k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Switch Online&#8217;s &#8216;Nintendo Classics&#8217; library has this week been expanded with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/forsaken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forsaken 64<\/a> and the Japan-only release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/magical_vacation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Magical Vacation<\/a>. Although the GBA title hasn&#8217;t been made available locally, the app here has received an update, bumping it up to Version 3.0.0.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, the official banner and icon for this app have been updated \u2013 swapping out the &#8216;Switch Online&#8217; branding for &#8216;Nintendo Classics&#8217;. Apart from this, there&#8217;s <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-classics-switch-online-gba-app-adds-new-functionality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly been some added &#8220;functionality&#8221;<\/a> including button remapping options along with 1080p support in handheld mode on Switch 2.<\/p>\n<p>An easter egg has also been added to the start up screen. If you hold the left analogue stick when starting the app, the original GBA boot up screen will appear (<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vooks.net\/game-boy-advance-boot-screen-easter-egg-add-to-switch-nintendo-classics-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s a look via Vooks.net<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Since the release of the Switch 2 in June, Nintendo has updated its other Switch Online retro apps with new features, improved filters and additional games. Nintendo highlighted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/08\/icymi-nintendo-highlights-super-nes-nintendo-classics-features-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updates to its SNES app<\/a> in a new video last week, including mouse support for multiple titles.<\/p>\n<p>If we hear anything else about this latest GBA app update, we&#8217;ll let you know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-classics-switch-online-gba-app-adds-new-functionality\/\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-classics-switch-online-gba-app-adds-new-functionality\/\" target=\"_blank\">nintendoeverything.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753583769_175_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube833k Switch Online&#8217;s &#8216;Nintendo Classics&#8217; library has this week been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30209,136973,123,270,2733,53,16,15,8642],"class_list":{"0":"post-396476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gba","9":"tag-nintendo-classics","10":"tag-nintendo-switch","11":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","12":"tag-nintendo-switch-online","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-updates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}