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Nintendo Switch Online N64 games have gone live, but the new way to play classic games hasn't made the transition entirely without issue.
The new set of nine games went live via the latest Nintendo Switch system update earlier today, and Eurogamer immediately noticed some issues upon putting them through their paces. One of the most glaring issues comes in Mario Kart 64, which repeatedly displays a warning message that it won't be able to save ghost data (that is, a playthrough of your previous races which you can more directly compete against) without an N64 Controller Pak.
This is an authentic error to the original version of the game, but there's not much players can do about it when they're playing on Switch. This is probably the first time many people playing have even thought about the now-forgotten concept of dedicated memory cards for game saves, or at least the first time in a decade or so. The only way to fix the issue will be for Nintendo to make some tweaks to how it handles emulating Super Mario 64 on Switch.
Another major issue pops up in Sin & Punishment, an arcade shooting game which was originally released exclusively in Japan. If you're playing with a standard Switch controller, the button for shoot is also perplexingly used to remap the face buttons into the C buttons, temporarily changing which button you need to press to strafe right.
