Nintendo iceberg

Nintendo iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. On r/IcebergCharts, the highest-scoring available chart on it, "The Nintendo Iceberg", was posted by u/InvinciblElliott on 4 July 2021 and had about 672 upvotes when it was collected.^[1] The subreddit has 3 other charts on the same or closely related topics; see Other versions. A text version, "A Nintendo Iceberg" by melissaisnotokay, is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 679 views as of 29 October 2026.^[2]

The IcebergThreads author describes it as: "not the most active, but proposals are welcome."

Entries reflect the chart authors' choices and are not verified fact.

Tiers[edit]

Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version^[2]. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.

world 1[edit]

Shiggy
Iwata
Nintendo Direct
Reggie Fils-Aime
Nintendo Apps – like nintendo today and music
Etika – r.i.p
Nathaniel Bandy
Nintendo Music requires NSO
NSO – nin switch online
Alarmo
Films
LEGO Mario
GameShare
DS Download Play
Miiverse
Pictochat
Snapnote
Homebrew
The Homebrew Channel/Launcher
Piracy
Rivalry with Sega – back in like the 90s
Joy-Con Drift
Consoles – general
Handhelds – general
L is real 2401 – (proposal)

world 2[edit]

Miitomo
Club Nintendo – succeeded by "My Nintendo"
Cubic Ninja
R4 Card
Fake games – common up until the 3DS era
Gateway3DS
Team Xecuter
Gateway bricks
NTRBoot
failoverfl0w – aka team twiizers
Mig Flash – slash mig switch, used to dump switch games
Tegra X1 exploit – used to hack early switches
ReSwitched
Shovelware – notorious on wii and switch
Anti-Piracy – not those fake screens, rather actual anti-piracy measures in games and such
3DS price drop – because poor sales at launch
TWiLight Menu++
MoonShell
"Genesis does what Nintendo'nt"
Dead GB/GBC batteries – your save file goes bye bye
Minecraft New 3DS Edition
Luma3DS
Pretendo Network
Wii U failure
SML
SMG4
DSi-enhanced games – ex: gen 5 pokemon games
Atmosphere
RCM Mode
HorizonOS
DS Craft
gbarunner2 – basically the ds equivalent of nintendont
Nintendont – used for playing gc games on wii
Lawsuits – pretty infamous for this
SuperTux
Brain Age
Gulf War Game Boy – the game boy that survived a bombing during the gulf war, somehow still works

world 3[edit]

FlashMe
NES games with save support – example: zelda 1 and 2
Virtual Boy
Panasonic Q
The Wii can play DVDs – only certain models and requires homebrew, doesn't officially support it likely because of licensing
Plainrock124 – the guy who smashed a switch 2 outside a nintendo store
Discord on Nintendo systems – mostly on 3DS, won't work and you may get banned
DSi-exclusive games – mostly bc of the camera
Running homebrew over DS Download Play – not an ideal solution to not having an R4 card
The Wii is an overclocked GameCube – it kinda is ngl
TOTK leaked weeks before release
Yuzu DMCA
Sky3DS – some other 3DS flashcart
Stargate3DS – basically just gateway 2, waste of money
eCDP – japanese mcdonalds employee training game for the ds
Nintendo can brick your system whenever – they've been able to do this as early as the wii, same with microsoft and sony
Datamining
Wii Sports wasn't meant to be free
Ryujinx shut down
NSMBW Anti-Piracy – it was more unique
Switch 2 "boycott" – failed since it was mostly an echo chamber, and half of the people ended up buying it at launch anyway :/
MCBE sucks on Switch
DS Internet Browser – not the one on 3ds
Nintendo Gigaleak
"7/10 too much water"
Dolphin on Steam – never happened
Linux on Nintendo systems
MIG Flash/Switch gets your Switch 2 banned
Development Kits
IR sensors in DS games – mostly in the gen 4 and 5 pokemon games, used for stuff like trading and such
R4 Card timebombs
Pokemon Brick Bronze
Pokemon Uranium
Pokemon Teraleak
DHS using Pokemon in ads – dhs using pokemon stuff in their ice ads without permission
SML C&D
Nintendo e-Reader
Mario Teaches Typing
Mario Paint
Mii used in a wanted poster
Racist Mario
Biden's Animal Crossing island
An exception occurred – common error on a hacked 3ds and wii

world 4[edit]

SDBoot – for wii, but comes from a leak so distributing it is illegal
v4.2 bricks on Wii
"tpcisdumb" – teraleak reference, if ykyk
Rust on Wii
eCDP on Wii U
Videos don't work on the Switch's (hidden) browser
DSBrick/Taihen
The Switch browser closes after 20 minutes
The original R4 card
The Dark Age of Nintendo – scott the woz series
gbaxxdumper
Pimp My Wii – don't use this
SX OS Anti-Piracy – very ironic coming from team xecuter, just like with gateway
Internal Nintendo emulators – emulators used by nintendo themselves, although they kinda suck
Switch Telemetry
Removal of GMOD content
Android on Switch
Patents
Nintendo PlayStation – nintendo and sony made prototype
The Switch blocklist has a limit – LTG found out for himself lol
Hacking the Alarmo
freeShop – homebrew app that would let you download games from nintendo's servers for free, no longer works and removed for obvious reasons
World edition Wii games

world 5[edit]

Sakurai hates Waluigi – he probably doesn't lol
"DSBrick/Taihen is safer than you think" – "and FlashMe is a lie"
Gateway3DS was actually Team Xecuter – likely
Stalking hackers
"The Smealum hack and what to do about it"
UnbanMii
FBI and CIA – related to the FBI app on 3DS being named "FBI" because the 3DS package filename extension is called ".cia" lol
Switch was originally supposed to run Android – supposedly
DIEGO – guy who gives free mewtwos on pokemon home
LLMs on Wii U
Fake NTR-031 cartridges – even the black ds cartridges can be faked
Denuvo on Switch – doesnt seem to have been used in any switch game so far
"Wiiphone"
PoGo was sold to the Saudis
Wii menu uninstaller
Hacking a Switch with a jailbroken iPhone
Team Xecuter FBI arrest – gary got the short end of the stick compared to the other 2
Nintendo products in South Korea – it was sort of weird until the Wii
iQue – nintendo products in mainland china basically
Tencent Switch
Minna no Oshaberi Chat – messaging app on 3DS, discontinued years ago
Touch Dictionary – a dictionary for the ds, only released in south korea
Coca-Cola DSi
Shaberu! DS Oryōri Navi – a cooking "game" for the ds? jp only
Napster on Wii U
DS Mode bricks – ex: running taihen/dsbrick on a 3ds, can be fixed though
Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen telemetry – for some reason the switch ports have telemetry that collects your in-game progress, possibly to ban cheaters, the game was also modified to support an emulator-level filter using custom syscalls
Pressure sensitive touch screens – some DS models seem to have this, and possibly 3DS models too
DS Lite unused video-out functionality
Japanese N3DS browser NSFW filter – only on japanese n3ds systems for some reason, requires payment to remove
iQue DS 7UP – one of the rarest DS models

world 6[edit]

Switch emulating itself – seemingly possible if it has linux installed
Hungry Hungry Iwata
iOS running on a hacked Switch – switch running linux running qemu running ios, the world's slowest iphone ever
Nintendo Today source code – they forgot to remove it from the ios version's internal files, removed in a later update
Donkey Kong's code was stolen
Gary Bowser's punishment – required to pay at least 25% of his salary to nintendo for the rest of his life
Blue ocean strategy
Thomas Edvalson – freeShop's developer, one search and you'll see why hes in this layer
Unreleased GameCube browser
Rakuten SHOWTIME on Wii U – JP only
Doumo, DS Desu
GC menu theme is the Famicon startup slowed down – if you speed up the GC's main menu ambience by 19x youll notice that its the famicon startup
Electroplankton DS model

world 7[edit]

The reason for litigious behavior – some say it is because of conservatism
Wii U production used child labor
Religious tolerance – ninty doesn't really wanna offend any religious groups for a reason
Yakuza connections
PoGo was used by the CIA – may or may not be true
XD3R-B3HH-9ZR2-FL16
DSpeak (NDS Tech Demo)

Other versions[edit]

Other charts from r/IcebergCharts grouped under this topic, ordered by score:

(Likely) The biggest Nintendo iceberg. HIGH QUALITY IMGUR LINK IN THE COMMENTS by u/geosunsetmoth, 22 October 2021 (365 upvotes)
The Nintendo Iceberg by u/NiiilsR, 3 October 2025 (62 upvotes)
Nintendo Iceberg by u/GlitchtrapIsOverated, 5 January 2021 (53 upvotes)

Text versions on other sites:

Nintendo iceberg on IcebergCharts.com (archived; 60 entries)

Sources[edit]

Featured Reddit chart: u/InvinciblElliott. The Nintendo Iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 4 July 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
IcebergThreads version: melissaisnotokay. A Nintendo Iceberg. IcebergThreads. 21 January 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.

References[edit]

↑ u/InvinciblElliott. The Nintendo Iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 4 July 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 melissaisnotokay. A Nintendo Iceberg. IcebergThreads. 21 January 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.

[top-1] u/InvinciblElliott. The Nintendo Iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 4 July 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2026.

[thread-2] 2.0 ^2.1 melissaisnotokay. A Nintendo Iceberg. IcebergThreads. 21 January 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.

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