Nintendo has quietly expanded its Nintendo Switch Online (NSO) Expansion Pack with a second, separate Nintendo 64 application rated for mature audiences, rolling out in Western regions on June 19, 2024.
The new app launches with two notable first-person shooters: Rare’s Perfect Dark and the original Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, offering Switch players access to classic N64 titles that carry higher content ratings.
Perfect Dark — developed by Rare and originally released for the Nintendo 64 in 2000 — arrives on the Switch Online Expansion Pack with online multiplayer support.
In journalistic terms: Perfect Dark has been reintroduced on the service with its multiplayer functionality enabled for online play.
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, developed by Iguana Entertainment and first released in 1997 on Nintendo 64, joins the lineup as the second shooter available in the mature app.
This mature-rated application is provided as an additional tile on the Nintendo Switch Home menu and cannot be integrated with the existing N64 application already available through the Expansion Pack.
Put simply: users will see a distinct second N64 icon on their Home screen rather than a combined library.
The separate mature app first debuted in Japan in November 2023, where Nintendo used the platform to add GoldenEye 007 and Jet Force Gemini in that regional release.
In later updates to the Japanese mature app, Perfect Dark was included prior to the Western rollout.
To access the new mature N64 app on Switch, subscribers must have an active Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription.
The app can be downloaded from the Nintendo eShop: open the eShop on your Switch, navigate to the Nintendo Switch Online section, and locate the additional Nintendo 64 application tile.
Once installed and with the Expansion Pack active, players can launch Perfect Dark and Turok: Dinosaur Hunter from the new tile.
These additions underscore Nintendo’s ongoing effort to broaden the Expansion Pack’s N64 catalog on Nintendo Switch.
Both Rare and Iguana Entertainment’s original releases remain notable entries in N64 history, now preserved and made playable on current hardware through Nintendo’s subscription service.
The new app launches with two notable first-person shooters: Rare’s Perfect Dark and the original Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, offering Switch players access to classic N64 titles that carry higher content ratings.
Perfect Dark — developed by Rare and originally released for the Nintendo 64 in 2000 — arrives on the Switch Online Expansion Pack with online multiplayer support.
In journalistic terms: Perfect Dark has been reintroduced on the service with its multiplayer functionality enabled for online play.
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, developed by Iguana Entertainment and first released in 1997 on Nintendo 64, joins the lineup as the second shooter available in the mature app.
This mature-rated application is provided as an additional tile on the Nintendo Switch Home menu and cannot be integrated with the existing N64 application already available through the Expansion Pack.
Put simply: users will see a distinct second N64 icon on their Home screen rather than a combined library.
The separate mature app first debuted in Japan in November 2023, where Nintendo used the platform to add GoldenEye 007 and Jet Force Gemini in that regional release.
In later updates to the Japanese mature app, Perfect Dark was included prior to the Western rollout.
To access the new mature N64 app on Switch, subscribers must have an active Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription.
The app can be downloaded from the Nintendo eShop: open the eShop on your Switch, navigate to the Nintendo Switch Online section, and locate the additional Nintendo 64 application tile.
Once installed and with the Expansion Pack active, players can launch Perfect Dark and Turok: Dinosaur Hunter from the new tile.
These additions underscore Nintendo’s ongoing effort to broaden the Expansion Pack’s N64 catalog on Nintendo Switch.
Both Rare and Iguana Entertainment’s original releases remain notable entries in N64 history, now preserved and made playable on current hardware through Nintendo’s subscription service.
