• Kanzar@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Given they can’t seem to have a loader, I know they have to somehow trigger the Switch to know there’s another game - but can you imagine having to do that several times to cycle to the game you want? The cost needed to repair the cartridge slot after too many pushes is definitely going to outweigh having just bought a Steam Deck and emulated the Switch instead.

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        9 months ago

        That’s a third party multi cartridge device, not related to the MIG cart at all tho.

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        9 months ago

        Ugh… yeah… guess it’s cheaper than chipping it. I do wonder how quickly the big N will ban people all using the same game ID.

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            9 months ago

            Maybe if you use the widely circulated ones.

            I can imagine plenty of people will start(have been) dumping rental carts from ie. the library.

            If those dumps loaded onto the mig are indistinguishable from the original and Nintendo starts banning those, they risk banning a lot of other legitimate players who also rented and played on those carts.

            Correct me if I’m wrong, but it didn’t use to be an issue to Nintendo because you had to install the xci and that was detectable. Now you can run the game off the cart directly.

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              9 months ago

              The MIG uses its own IDs from what I understand, and if they’re invalid (randomly generated) or used by others (not random and used by other MIG users) Nintendo will know, autodetect, and ban you

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                9 months ago

                Ah okay so I guess the mig can’t spoof ids. Then in any case it’s probably only a matter of time the console gets banned if it ever reaches the internet, which is worse than modding because now you have no way of updating the firmware for future games.

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                  9 months ago

                  I do wonder if they’ll check if you have played a game via the MIG offline then go online later with a legit game, I don’t think they do currently but with the existence of the MIG I am certain Nintendo will make that happen with an update.

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                  9 months ago

                  To be fair, once your console gets banned you can get the firm upgrades pretty much freely from the Archives and won’t have to ever worry about any kind of “desync” that could Alert the Mothership.

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                    9 months ago

                    How would you install the firmware that you obtained from the Archives tho? Remember that the console for all intents and purposes is unmodded so Daybreak is not an option.

                    Unlike previous handheld generations, system firmwares are no longer embedded into the game carts either so while a game can require a newer firmware, it does not come with an option to update offline afaik

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      9 months ago

      If I were to get my hands on one of these, I probably wouldn’t put too many games on there, maybe just one or two that I’m adamant on playing at the time.

      I do have some low capacity micro SDs scattered at home as well that should barely be large enough to house a single switch game. So worst case scenario, I could also just pop the cart out, swap the micro SD, and plug it back in to only require a single insertion.

      Granted, this might not be feasible for people who just want to use the migswitch as a backup tool to put all their legal games on one cart, but for pirates like myself I’d consider it only a minor setback.

      Not to mention the cartridge slot probably being designed to last a lot of insertions before failing