Interestingly there appears to be an SD card in the cart they’re putting in the switch.
Comment on Rumored Nintendo Switch Flash Cart Video Shows Multiple Games on a Single Cart
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
why, isn’t that what the SD card is for?
escew@lemmy.world 6 months ago
jackoneill@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That sounds like an SD card with extra steps
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s an SD card with less steps, actually.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Fewer, unless you’re measuring steps in volume, as in “these steps go up to eleven”
Brokkr@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Kind of is, but it probably gets around some of the security that Nintendo puts on running games from the SD card.
tarmac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
This sounds like it’ll be able to run home brew apps. Like R4 for DS.
csolisr@communities.azkware.net 6 months ago
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.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 6 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.csolisr@communities.azkware.net 6 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.
aniki@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I was just looking at my R4 powered DS. Memories…
yamanii@lemmy.world 6 months ago
For a newer switch and lite model you need to solder a chip on it first.
echo64@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s for pirating games
errer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nintendo loves making us pay for their games multiple times over on every console release, so fuck ‘em.
otp@sh.itjust.works 6 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…
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
why not just use an SD card?
Because then you could buy any old SD card and Nintendo makes no money from you. This way Nintendo can sell you the same NAND flash excepted wrapped in a propriety Nintendo container with the multiple orders of magnitude price increase to pad the bottom line. They can also pursue you for civil or criminal charges if you attempt to break into the container of flash charging you with copyright infringement and attempted hacking.
Kraiden@kbin.social 6 months ago
Lol, you've made some assumptions there. It's not a Nintendo product. Nintendo would NEVER release any kind of flash cart themselves, as they're begging to be used for pirated games.
Everything you've said about game carts are basically why we'll never see an officially licensed product like this from Big N themselves.
With that in mind, it still makes no sense as a product because you can run games off the SD card already (I assume. Very out of touch with Switch hacks)
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Lol, you’ve made some assumptions there. It’s not a Nintendo product.
You’re absolutely right. I saw the headline and responded. I withdraw my statement.
didnt_readit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It makes perfect sense as a product because running game backups off an SD card without any hardware modding only works on the oldest console version. If you have a Lite or OLED (or even just the patched original model) you need a mod chip which is not an easy install.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 6 months ago
None of what you said makes any sense. Do you even know what a flash cart is?
FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 6 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.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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).
Marsupial@quokk.au 6 months ago
Soft modding requires a 5c plastic part off eBay, it’s already safe enough to do and requires no modifications.
But a flashcart is far simpler.
Speculater@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I thought that only worked on older models before 2018?
csolisr@communities.azkware.net 6 months ago
Correct! The newer models (including all OLED versions) were already patched from the factory (or more accurately, redesigned to prevent the soft-mod from working).
NinjaTeensy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, basically only switches made in the first year can be hacked (without soldering).
sebinspace@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You need a lot of asterisks on that statement…
vox@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
patched on v2/lite models