Guilty Gear 20th Anniversary Pack puts two games on your Nintendo Switch home menu

[ggx2ac]

If you ordered the Guilty Gear 20th Anniversary Pack from Europe or Japan, you would see this happen when inserting the game card:

Instead of having to pick between the two games in-game, they let you choose from the Switch menu.

What benefits does this give?
It allows you to make collections of games that have already released on the eShop and put it into a single game card like the Psikyo Collection which is now up to its third volume:

With regards to the Guilty Gear Anniversary Pack, since Guilty Gear and Guilty Gear XX Accent Core + R are listed separately on the eShop. You can choose to buy only one game instead of spending more to own both if they were released as a pack on the eShop.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Guilty Gear is 20 this year? Dino Crisis is too!

 

[Deleted member 10737]

this is huge, i always thought this was impossible and that's why capcom went with download codes for their mega-man collections. guess there's no excuse anymore.

 

[FuzzyAssassin]

I wonder if this was added in a recent OS update. I know the PS4 only added this capability in the last couple years.

 

[Deleted member 10737]

Guilty Gear is 20 this year? Dino Crisis is too!

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you're not even subtle about dino crisis astroturfing anymore...
/s?

 

[Atheerios]

Oh wow I wonder if that functionality was included on Switch since the beginning or it was through an update.

 

[ggx2ac]

Guilty Gear is 20 this year? Dino Crisis is too!

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Yes it is, here is the 20th Anniversary message from Daisuke Ishiwatari:

 

[Nachtfalke]

The european version of Child of Light / Valiant Hearts on Switch did the same thing.

 

[Robin64]

These games also do that:

 

[Lite_Agent]

Would be nice if they gave the option between unified icon and separate ones, but that may be too complex to set up. Or just add those damn folders already, ha ha.

this is huge, i always thought this was impossible and that's why capcom went with download codes for their mega-man collections. guess there's no excuse anymore.

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There never was any excuses, ever. What Capcom did with the Mega Man Collection is utter bs.

 

[Krvavi Abadas]

I'm curious what update added this. The Xbox One has had this feature for a while (I think all the way back to launch?) While the PS4 took much longer to get it, and in fact, multiple collections (Such as the Dead Island one.) suffered from the infamous "only one game on disc at a time, the rest have to be cordoned off to a DL code" problem way before the Switch became well known for doing it.

 

[Deleted member 2171]

I'm curious what update added this. The Xbox One has had this feature for a while (I think all the way back to launch?) While the PS4 took much longer to get it, and in fact, multiple collections (Such as the Dead Island one.) suffered from the infamous "only one game on disc at a time, the rest have to be cordoned off to a DL code" problem way before the Switch became well known for doing it.

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The Xbox 360 supported this from day 1, it would just iterate through the titles it found on any media and show them in your games library. XBLA collections did this, demo discs, Halo Anniversary's multiplayer (which is a stripped down Reach) can be launched into from the dashboard instead of loading up CEA itself first. So no surprise the One had it.

So my guess is the Switch does the same thing, it just treats carts as storage anyway so it looks for titles it sees on that storage and puts them in the menu.

But this also depends on the developer actually making them separate games in the first place

 

[Myriotes]

I'm still waiting for digital stand-alone release of Torna, maybe on its first anniversary? I want the icon on my screen. Not holding my breath anyway.

 

[twinturbo2]

I know the original didn't age well, but I had enough gold coins in my account to purchase it for fifty cents. I think I made out well.

Accent Core R is on my wishlist.

 

[Stryda]

I'm still waiting for digital stand-alone release of Torna, maybe on its first anniversary? I want the icon on my screen. Not holding my breath anyway.

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There is a digital stand-alone, it just costs $10 more

 

[Hero of Legend]

Guilty Gear is 20 this year? Dino Crisis is too!

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Crisis Gear: Guilty Dino

 

[SiG]

So single cards can now produce two icons?

 

[Myriotes]

There is a digital stand-alone, it just costs $10 more

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I should have clarified that I was talking about Europe. There is none here. (Just tested it with my account and my brother's; so I hope I'm not being stupid somehow)

Is there really a digital stand-alone in the US?

 

[Stryda]

I should have clarified that I was talking about Europe. There is none here. (Just tested it with my account and my brother's; so I hope I'm not being stupid somehow)

Is there really a digital stand-alone in the US?

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Yep, I didn't buy it myself but I think they also email you the code to get the other 4 packs if you buy it too