Want to play Super Mario Sunshine on Switch 2, but missed out on Super Mario 3D All-Stars? Feel like you need another classic GameCube title to try out on the Switch Online app?
Well, if so, you’re in luck. Because Nintendo has now announced that Super Mario Sunshine is heading to the Nintendo Classics service on the 13th of August 2026.
Here’s their announcement about it on Twitter:
Dark days loom over Isle Delfino!
Clean up a polluted island with FLUDD at your side in Super Mario Sunshine, coming to Nintendo GameCube – Nintendo Classics on Nintendo Switch 2 for #NintendoSwitchOnline + Expansion Pack members on Aug 13! pic.twitter.com/8j5iWvjnJz
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) July 31, 2026
A trailer from the Japanese Nintendo YouTube channel here:
As well as the official description for the game, if you’ve somehow never heard of it before:
This title is an action game for the Nintendo GameCube released in 2002. Mario and his friends arrive on the southern paradise of Delfino Island for a vacation. However, Mario is falsely accused of vandalizing the island with graffiti. Promising to clean up the island, Mario sets out to prove his innocence and find the real culprit in order to recover the sun’s power, “Shine,” which was lost due to the graffiti. The game features water-based action, such as using a “pump” on his back to defeat enemies with water jets and fly through the air
So, it won’t be long until Mario’s island adventure is available on Switch 2. But that does make us wonder something.
That being, how well will the game run here?
Because Super Mario Sunshine can certainly be a bit of a buggy game. There’s a softlock if you read a certain sign with the language set to Italian, you can fall through the floor or get stuck in various situations, and the physics can be wonky at best, especially where the more poorly programmed levels are concerned (like the pachinko machine and lilypad ride).
Add this to the Switch Online emulators themselves having some issues here and there (like input lag, bugged textures and occasionally new glitches), and we’re curious how Sunshine will hold up here. Will Nintendo make the same mistakes they did in the first version of Super Mario 3D All-Stars? Or mess up some random texture like in that Galaxy 2 port?
Eh, we’ll just have to wait and see.
Still, what are your thoughts on the release? Are you happy to see Super Mario Sunshine made available once again? How do you think the game will hold up here?
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Source:
Super Mario Sunshine on Nintendo Classics Announcement (Twitter)