riseuppikmin [he/him]@hexbear.nettoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Continuing my research, how do these "pirates" get the files for nintendo switch games?English
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1 year agoIf it’s early release it’s a warehouse leak most likely that then gets dumped from a modded console (xci format). Some users convert xci to nsp for reasons unknown to me. Might be that switch cartridges have extra padding at the beginning/end that can be stripped to reduce file size.
Otherwise it’s just a standard dump from a modded console in either eShop (nsp) or physical (xci) format
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