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[–] acosmichippo 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

why not just use an SD card?

[–] dual_sport_dork 105 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just using an SD card requires modding your Switch to run homebrew and, er, "backups," right?

A properly constructed cartridge that can masquerade as a retail Switch cartridge would make owners who aren't willing to modify their console very happy indeed. That's how the various NDS/3DS carts work -- just plug and play (literally).

[–] escew 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interestingly there appears to be an SD card in the cart they’re putting in the switch.

[–] jackoneill -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That sounds like an SD card with extra steps

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's an SD card with less steps, actually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Fewer, unless you're measuring steps in volume, as in "these steps go up to eleven"

[–] Brokkr 20 points 1 year ago

Kind of is, but it probably gets around some of the security that Nintendo puts on running games from the SD card.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This sounds like it’ll be able to run home brew apps. Like R4 for DS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not sure if running from the cart slot is permitted to even detect anything not properly signed by Nintendo. Which means this one is squarely for "backups" and nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That wouldn't be a product, though.
This must bypass protections, or it wouldn't offer any advantage over the existing microSD card slot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It does have a specific niche: users of OLED models that just want to play "backups" and don't want to bother soldering chips to their products. A few people will like the hassle-free multicarts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was just looking at my R4 powered DS. Memories...

[–] yamanii 11 points 1 year ago

For a newer switch and lite model you need to solder a chip on it first.

[–] echo64 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] errer 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nintendo loves making us pay for their games multiple times over on every console release, so fuck ‘em.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I don't seem to recall Nintendo making me pay anything for something I didn't want.

I'm 100% in favour of emulation and whatnot, but I don't understand what your problem is.

Remakes, re-releases and ports? What's the big deal? If you had BotW on the WiiU, don't buy it on the Switch. TotK came out on the Switch, so they're still releasing new games.

Again, I love the emulation scene and I know piracy is important for game preservation. I don't understand what your complaint is, though..

[–] FangedWyvern42 6 points 11 months ago

That's what a flashcart is. It's a cartridge with an SD card in it, which has game ROMs on it. You can see a microSD card in the flashcart in the video.

[–] graymess 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Based on what I know of the Switch homebrew scene, I cannot fathom how this would work. Any ideas?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In the video that was posted, the user testing the card is manually inserting and removing the card in order to cycle through the different games on the cart.

It appears it cannot run unsigned code, as it doesn't have a menu. This is probably similar to the Sky3DS. It behaves like a real cartridge, so it would only run pirated cartridges. No DLC or homebrew.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't cartridges have unique IDs though? They could just start disabling cartridges by ID and banning any accounts that run them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

So like how they tried and failed to stop Tengen back in the day with their unlicensed NES carts?

[–] yamanii 7 points 1 year ago

This is precisely why everyone is so skeptical of it.

[–] sebinspace 2 points 11 months ago

Only a matter of time before another vulnerability is found.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Something like this would have been hot news in 1986