Is Team Xecuter behind the Nintendo Switch MIG Flash Cart ?
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Happy New Year! I've been looking into the Nintendo Switch Flash Cart, known as the MiG Switch over the holiday break and wanted to learn more about it. It's...

I apologize if this video has already been posted here. I did a rudimentary look through the posts of the past few days and couldn’t see it.

  • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    11 months ago

    Do these things “just work” like the R4 for the Nintendo DS? I know that’s old as hell but it was the last console/handheld I’ve owned lol

    • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      Supposedly according to the reading material on the flash cart, yes? It seems like you just need the game file on the SD card and to put it in however cycling through multiple games on the cart is gonna be bad cause it looks like their isn’t a loader in-between but you need to eject the card and put it back in to cycle to the next game you have on it.

    • KNova@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      The R4 was the pinnacle of my gaming career. I had so much fun with that. I don’t think anything has come close to scratching the itch the same way. I think it meant a lot to me, too, because I got the DS for free (online, long story) and paid for the R4 chip with money from my first job.

    • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachtsEnglish
      12·
      11 months ago

      I could be wrong, but I feel like the initial work of putting the system in recovery mode via tinfoil/modchip would still be required, but after that everything could run off the cartridge

      • Tattorack@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        8·
        11 months ago

        Pretty sure the whole talk around this flashcard is that entirely no modding whatsoever is required. Just insert and play.

  • leaskovski@kbin.social
    8·
    11 months ago

    If it lets me run moonlight on my switch without having to mess with the offical OS of the device, then brilliant

  • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    11 months ago

    Gary has nothing to lose, Nintendo are already bending him over for the rest of his life.

  • UKFilmNerd@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    This card has two drawbacks as far as I can see. Firstly, there’s no loader to swap between games.

    Secondly, it only supports its own format when you back up your own games. The games you download from the net aren’t compatible but it’s assumed the pirates would ‘repack’ their past releases to be compatible.

    Here’s a question, would the Switch be oblivious to how the game is stored and download any updates? Do pirated games come complete with the latest available updates?

    • AtomicPurple@kbin.social
      6·
      11 months ago

      1. This shouldn’t be an issue. Nintendo has allowed for carts containing multiple titles for years now. Inserting the cartridge causes all the games on it to appear on the home screen.

      2. The Switch is massively popular. Assuming the cartridge works and sells even somewhat well, we will 100% see games being shared in whatever format it uses. It might take awhile for the Switch’s full back-catalog to be dumped and uploaded in the new format, but popular / recent titles will be circulated within a matter of days. If there’s a way to convert existing XCI / NSP rips to the new format, there are plenty of individuals / groups who will race to get everything converted as quickly as possible.

      3. Assuming the cart is completely transparent to the Switch, which is likely to be the case, then I see no reason why updates wouldn’t download as normal. If Nintendo is able to detect the carts and ban Switches that use them, it may still be possible to access updates by rolling them into the same file as the base game and loading them from the cartridge. Personally, I think the second option is fairly likely, as it’s already possible to do this with NSP rips, and it’s the method that offers the most resistance to whatever countermeasures Nintendo may deploy.