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.

  • UKFilmNerd@feddit.ukEnglish
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    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?

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      It looks like each game cartridge has an unique serial number. Nintendo could easily blacklist everything that touched a specific serial, because they can see from the telemetry something like 500 consoles ran the same cartridge in a day, immediately raising red flags

      Considering the non-security of the Wii u (“ah, you say you have a ticket for a game? Sure, feel free to download from the servers, I trust you, don’t need to verify that”), I’d assume that until a serial isn’t blacklisted, the console would automatically download updates as if it was original

      Seems like multiple games are swapped by removing the cartridge and reinserting it, would swap to the next title. So, 3-4 titles max or it will be annoying

    • trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      This is a newb talking so take it with a grain of salt but

      1. From initial videos it looks like when you pull out then put the cart back in, it seems to swap between games. So guess is that for the switch it looks like a normal game, not an initial boot interface to swap between, but what boots depends on which one the cart is chosen in the loop.

      2. You’re right it would be their own type, and likely a converter between them assuming the team doesn’t put some sort of proprietary stopper

      3. Likely the switch itself won’t know the difference, but Nintendo has dealt with this problem in the past with the 3ds. They add a unique code to every game, so when you pirate it and try to download and update Nintendo can see 1000s of downloads of the same game with unique key, then they can just ban the console. Same if you try to play online (then later patching happened where you can change the key yourself). Downloadable updates where available then afaik