MIG Switch Flash Cart Review: Halfway There
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2024
- I got my hands on the first Nintendo Switch flash cart, so let's test it out and see whether it's actually a game-changer.
Check out Jeff's excellent video: • This $60 Flashcart Can...
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00:00 introduction
00:51 who is this for?
02:21 getting the MIG Switch
02:55 unboxing and impressions
04:04 how the MIG Switch works
06:06 MIG Switch and piracy
07:22 the gameplay experience
11:06 is the MIG Switch worth it?
12:22 summary and conclusion
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when Russ says he wants to see that dumper, i say yeah man me too
Oh no, Russ didn’t remind me to grab a snack and drink today, guess I’m gonna starve 😢
I think that's so inresponsible to his hungry audience
I think that’s for the longer videos but I find it funny that CZcamsrs end up finding there catch phrase
The snack is the MIG! Its too bad it doesn't taste very good
Too short for snacks
We aren't diving in deep today
It's piracy, that's why people buy this
Great video Russ!! Ty for the shoutout!! 🩷 I agree, this might be the last generation where we fully get to own our physical carts. Having a way to physically back up our copies is a really great investment. I carry around a tiny little case like that too, and walking around with the potential to lose $500 worth of games is always really scary lmao
Your playstation phone video was fascinating! Good stuff. :)
If "we the people" can get some laws passed to protect the people's rights, physical ownership should continue long into the future. If not though, strap in for subscription-based temporary access to virtually everything.
I like your videos, DammitJeff!
Hi Jeff!
The "click switching" of the games is a deal killer for me....but the idea is intriguing. Hopefully they could put some custom software on it down the road that could make it not need to do that. You can use the dumper to allow you to make a separate SD card per game for a proper backup and just pop it into the MIG to play it if you want. SD cards are cheap enough to allow for that. Good idea, just needs some polish and updates to get it going.
The in and out thing blows.
Just worthless in this v1 version.
Next version needs to have a menu. You go in. Select game. Play.
Then it's gonna be a must have.
@@livinliciousthe issue is that if it had a menu the ability to ban the switch would be even easier. The likely solution is to add a button to the top of the mig switch so you can flip through games without having to worry about sliding the cartridge in and out
If thats a deal killer then just get an adapter that allows you to swap games outside the Switch, people have already shown that works to trigger a swap for the MIG and you dont have to worry about your card slot breaking because Nintendo cut costs on it like the sticks on their controller
@@chiquita683Good to know it can do that. Just might invest in it now. Got a huge library that needs backing up, especially since some of the carts are nearing 7 years old at this point.
In the linked video in the description, there's a recommended dock with a remote for switching that will solve some of these issues for docked usage. Though there's no option for handheld.
The dedication to taste the MIG is what separate this channel from the rest 😅
Man I'm glad I have a first-gen Switch.
My brother has one. Won’t jailbreak it
@@turtlehead2what a waste. He should sell it and get an OLED for the same price
Running a modded Oled Switch myself. Love it to death.
@@thesmartIfr, some desperate people will buy it in a higher price because it's worth it, basically free games
I have an og one what’s the benefit of jailbreak?
Nice review as always, Russ! Was hoping you to review the MIG.
I don't remember where exactly I saw this, either on youtube or a short video from twitter or so, but there are switch docks that let you "reinsert" switch cartridges using a remote, the intended use for them was to have multiple cartridges attached to the dock and swap between them but it also works for the MIG switch
I love that the switch in the diagram has a poison hotline sticker on it, maybe the good graphics and true gaming was the safety on the way
The dumper really sounds neat to me! Im sure that someday in the near future we'll have a decent r4 type of cartridge available. I just got the EZ flash ordered for 3ds and it's so similar to this!
Can't wait for the V2 model to have a button as I use my Switch mostly handheld.
A use case that would save eject cycles at least in docked mode, there are multi cart switchers that let you plug in a few different games and swap which is active with a wireless remote.
Very interesting review. This doesn't look like a finished product based on the hassle to choose which game to play.
I would wait for a future version which allows to connect via Bluetooth with an app, or Wi-Fi and an internal web server to select which game is active.
Wireless capable MCUs can be tiny so it's definitely feasible.
Great vid as always! Hope you're able to get a review unit of the dumper tool too!
woah-oh! livin on a prayer!
That's what I immediately thought of too!
Take my hand, we'll make it I swear!
@@dragon2knightwoah squidward on a chair
You can definitely share files. I just bought mine from China and they gave me a link with 100+games.
Works perfect. $100 for 100 games, I'm loving it. 😂
So all 100games for free ?😮
With the cartridge dumper, wouldn't you still need a Switch to extract any bios for it to work on emulation devices?
Or do Yuzu and Ryujinx work with the roms without needing any Switch bios keys? Just thinking whether the dumper may be kind of pointless without a hacked Switch to do the same and more.
Nice to hear the small bits of your linguistic and military equipment knowledge in relation to to the name.
Love that we have 4k videos now. Thanks for always improving the channel!
Gotta have a beefy machine to edit 4k.
not that much, but the storage difference is quite drastic. For archival purposes, it's a hassle@@Jokerwolf666
You can see the hair on his knuckles!
Not really, not anymore, I mean yeah it's harder than good old 1080p, but it's far from prohibitive like some years ago @@Jokerwolf666
Thanks for noticing, it takes forever to upload now but I’m glad it’s appreciated!
I am from Germany and I watch your videos especially because I ordered a Retropocket 4Pro for PS2 emulation and own a modded switch. Thank you also for your Tutorials for Android Handhelds 👍👍
For this you dont need a modded switch.
Just remember one important thing. Whatever exploit this cart is using will be made public at some point opening up every system for hacking. It happens every Nintendo & Sony generation.
It'd not using any exploit. It just imitates the real carts very accurately.
@@clydefrosch Regardless of how it works there is an exploit that will make itself known when they move on from Switch 1.
@@Jokerwolf666 what do you mean? there is no exploit. the cart exploits the fact that the system can't differentiate it from an original cart, it doesnt do anything else
@@Jokerwolf666 you can see how it works even better when a cartridge switcher is hooked up and the MIG Switch is plugged into that. The MIG Switch is just using the files found on a cartridge to pretend to be a legitimate cart. Nintendo just didn't put in any additional security to verify the hardware of a cartridge; this exploit has been available since Day 1 and will probably continue to not be relevant when discussing jailbreaking the Switch 1.
@@rfry11 100%
Sounds like the MIG switch needs a simple “menu” app to organize the listing of the games on the sd card, and let the user pick the game from the menu, instead of cycling through a random order…
Yep. Pretty much how ds flash cards work.
Once the v2 or v3 or clones come out it's gonna be great.
Also I think online is way overrated on the switch.
Most games are totally fine offline.
So you can just spoof the keys of the card and don't need to worry about ban.
Heck you can even buy a banned used OLED from someone for a discount.
I'm pretty confident if this was possible they would have implemented it. There is probably a reason.
its not possible, software not signed by nintendo cannot be launched and it would be an instant ban
@@BooleanDev this makes sense. Need the private key for signing to run.
Just buy and returned the game
The music in your video is amazing, nostalgic, joy and games come to mind.
hey russ, just curious if it's possible to put homebrew or cfw directly on the migswitch cart and use that to cfw a switch, could make the whole modded switch process streamlined
That would be interesting 🤔
No modding, no homebrew, no romhacks, only cart rips. If it detects the XCI file was modified or tampered with in any way, it will not load.
Could this be used to patch original games? I am thinking of Dark Souls lo res music and sounds, maybe this could be uses to add the high quality sound files on Nexus for example
If you just want to play games offline, are the additional files needed ?
So many are so excited to sail the high seas with this and I'm here just looking for a more convenient way to carry all my games with me. Hopefully I get mine soon
I wanted to look at the MIG dumper so that I could actually buy physical switch games to play them without buying a Switch. Aka on Steam Deck or pc which I already own.
Oh you certainly won't be getting yours soon. Hardly anyone has theirs yet. I was in the first 100 orders... Nothing.
Update - Having mailed the team last week,they promise to have all orders shipped by this month. Whether that means within April or the next 4 weeks, I'm not sure, but they were very polite and I've been patient, so I'll keep waiting.
Very informative, thank you!! 🙂
I was excited for this back when I first heard of it because I switch between all my pokemon games often, (I'm a crazy lad working on a shiny living dex for home) so I was hoping to use the MIGSwitch to lessen the wear and tear of my carts and the cart slot.
when I found out you have to pop it in and out to switch games all my care for the product was thrown out the window.
I did however find a differnt product, there are 3rd part dock extrenions that plug into your switch's cart slot and let you have 4 games "plugged into" your switch at once and switch between them with the press of a buttion either on a remote, or on the dock extention.
so I will probably end up getting on of those.
For the stated purpose of switch game backups, I think the dumper plus mig switch cartridge are reasonable.
You would never put 100 games on the sd card. You'd put a few games that you're currently playing on it. Then switching between them isn't very cumbersome.
The other positive compared to a modded switch is that theoretically you can play online without a ban.
You're more likely to be in a situation where you're banned with a migswitch than you are with a modded switch. At least with a modded switch you're entirely disconnected from online entirely.
@@DammitJeffif you're playing your own first bought games, there's no risk.
Although, I guess that's only true if you only use one switch? what happens now if you use your games, in two different consoles? How do those not get banned, it's it cuz they're not at the same time?
If you only have a few games on it you might as well just carry the actual cartridges
I do wonder if they can update the mig switch to display all the games on the homepage at once cause there are official cartilages that have multiple games on them that display both at once on the homepage. Or at worse I think it would be better if they had a button on the top of the cartridge that you just press to cycle games rather than ejecting it constantly.
One of our friends had a cartridge for FAMICOm that was exactly the same. It was a clone of course. But it only had Contra game on it but once you press the power button and turn it on again it would show a bunch of really good games on it. But that cartridge only had two sides.
Nice, thx for this! 🎉🎉🎉
I have no personal use case for the Mig Switch. But, I want to say that I appreciate how precise and careful you were with what you said and showed us on screen.
And then….you managed to not only buy a copy of FF VII Rebirth on a cart but also copy that completely legitimate ROM onto the flash cart. 😂
Do you have to cycle all your games on the MIG everytime you want to play a different one, or its just a one time job and then you pick them from the list?
You have to eject the cartridge, I think twice in succession, and it will cycle to the next game when you re-insert it. You'll do this for as many times as necessary to cycle through your list of games you put on it.
When it’s docked you can use one of those multicart devices. Just cycle between the carts - so you don’t have to keep doing the in and out. It’s baffling how they haven’t just included a button or something, then you have the current method as backup (if button fails). Feels like MIG 2.0 might be the one to wait for.
Great review! Not only will you put wear and tear on your cartridge slot putting it in and out a lot of times, but what about the microSD card getting corrupted? Usually on retro handhelds you have to use the shut down option in the menu in order to prevent corruption of the microSD.
that only happens mid-write, and remember, all switch games are in ROMs, aka read-only memory
@@vexnity460 MIG card uses microSD. Just like an R4 cart for the DS, and others and myself have gotten those corrupted before.
@@Cyko.. Yeah maybe, but its greatly reduced by not being written to at all, unlike R4
@@vexnity460 It has to write something with saves at least, sometimes done automatically though? Sometimes it saves information when last accessed.
@@Cyko.. official nintendo gamecards are impossible to write to, it writes saves to either the SD card or internal storage on the switch
Do you have a hard and/or softmodded switch, did you use the cartridge on one of those yet? Do you still need the extra data when used in a modded device?
if ur on a modded switch why tf do u want this? you can literally just play any game for free without it
@vexnity460 because you can't hotswap sd cards. Sure, you can swap games in and out once the sd is full, but then when I want to play a game that's not on there I have to make space and put it on there. Not the most practical, but as a tinkerer I just wander.... what if... and why not... And before you say, uh just buy a bigger sd card... it will fill up with games i still want to play and haven't yet or games I haven't finished yet. But mostly because the main question of the video was, can you bypass the necessity of the extra files that are not present or needed when pirating so you could use the mig with pirated games... at which point I'm asking myself... did you even watch and fully comprehend the video... because you seem daft
So once the games are loaded, do you need to cycle the card again to play or do they all load? After that?
The Switch keeps a shortcut for recently played games on the home screen right? Would it not find game X if you just started from the short cut? Barring that I suppose the other option is using smaller SD cards with fewer games, then you'd know you coulg get 3 games on one card know which they are and reduce the amount of wear on the cart slot in the Switch. Of course the real solution would be Mig Switch V2 with a button on it to flip through the files while in the slot.
What I would really want; is something like the MIg Switch, but it can play all my retro roms from NES all the way to PSX and maybe some Saturn, without having to mod my Switch or the possiblity of my account being banned.
Agreed, I would love to have an emulation cartridge
The dream
I'm right there with you in the warning department, but I don't think this is realistic. This would require at least altering the MAC address for your device, which means custom firmware. It also doesn't do anything for your account being banned. That is something that is only on Nintendo's side. The only thing you could do is fake what your actual Nintendo account is, And what games that you own. It is true that they have cracked the system wide open like that before with CFW's, but I'm not sure it will happen again.
nintendo switch online?
@orangejuicekitten8657 You mean keep paying for access to play ganes I already bought and own, but to rent them on the Switch?
This actually does make sense for me since I'm literally in the same situation. Bunch of physical games, the carts are taken out and put into a mass storage (i have the same case even but it also houses my vita games). That said, I feel like its a little too soon to get something like this since the switch is still Nintendo's main focus so they have more eyes on this right now. It only takes one software update to render it useless unless the Mig company accounted for that and this bypasses any and all updates they do going forward.
I will likely pick up the dumper though since i do want a back up of my things.
[edit] watching a bit further, yeah... having to re-insert the flash cart a bunch of times is really not good for the hardware so ill pass on this iteration, if they ever add a selector on the cart itself then I might consider it later if i can get my hands on the dumper before that.
I think this would be a lot more practical if maybe it had a button on it instead of the ejecting it over and over situation it has now. That feels like it would lead to the cartridge slot wearing out really quickly just to find the game you want to play.
I feel like an e-paper display on the back and 2 buttons to change the active game would be a huge upgrade for a potential V2
Good review! I like the idea of backing up all my physical games to a flash cart, but this one doesn't seem feasible yet. Changing between games just seems unintuitive right now. I mean, currently you can just upgrade your Switch's micro SD and then just buy digital copies of your games as well without the need for a cart at all. I am curious if they might be able to update or iron things out with this flash cart to make it more appealing to the average Switch user.
I'm waiting for mine to hopefully arrive this or next month (with the dumper, that is). I mainly wanted to pick it up just because of how useful it would be, but at the same time I started using Yuzu like 2~3 weeks before Nintnedo killed it and I kinda like the idea of just using my ROG Ally to play my backups due to the better hardware and being able to record videos of the gameplay on the go, which is something I can't do on my Switch 😅
1 thing I missed in your video though was comparing the performance of a original cart VS MIG switch. I recall some other guy on CZcams did a comparison and it did seem like the loading times are slightly longer with the MIG switch, so it would be nice to see something regarding this just to see if it's confirmed or maybe just a special case, since I've only seen 1 video talking about that.
They need to make a revision with a button on it like a sky3ds.
A button that small would probably break quite quickly
I bought one back in the middle of January, haven't heard from them since. They were quick to charge me but I haven't received anything yet or any news from them. Emailed them a couple of days ago and haven't heard back from them.
I was quick with the fomo and had two preordered. Heard the dumper was no longer included with the original preorder, and promptly cancelled. Ridiculous you haven’t heard anything yet 🤨
Honestly as a user of the Steam deck to play his switch games, I'd rather have the dumper, but what would make this a killer deal is an accessory as it's unlikely we'll get unsigned code running on a unmodified Switch to allow for menu functionality anytime soon, but rather something the size of a PS2 memory card with a small LCD display, a couple buttons, and a slot that fits the MIG Switch. Use a cheap micro controller to power on the MIG communicate with it, and allow you to pick the ROM. Depending on how they've implemented this, we're talking a few dollars with of materials to build and maybe 20-25 dollar retail price.
That is a pretty elaborate set up. On the flip side you can just buy a USB hub that essentially does the same thing for you. Turning it on and off. Not sure if it cycles through properly but it works. There is a youtube video of it working. Not the cleanest set up but works if you are willing to overlook the mrss and save your original carts as well as card reader.
If you could choose the game you want to play on the screen, it would make for a great alternative to bringing carts with. I've thought about how much money I'm actually risking when I bring my portable game holder case filled with switch games and the MIG would be great for not risking that, but it would be easier to just use a hacked switch and thus a loaded micro SD card.Maybe the dumper will be more worth while though
I can see myself using one, or a competing product, to do what you mentioned: Backup all my physical game carts so I don't have to carry an expensive collection with me. But before I would do so, they have to redesign the product so that it works like some of the multi-game carts that exist for the Switch, such as the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters Collection, and the Dragon Quest I-III Collection, wherein you plug the cartridge into your Switch, and after it reads it, you see each individual game on your Home Screen, as if you had downloaded them all digitally. That small but important change would get me to buy one!
If you reboot the switch, does it detect all the games? or is it just because Switch doesn't support any multi-app cartridges?
Can you use any 3 syllable word to change Switch games on the MIG?
While obviously not Nintendo approved; the fact that it does keep all of the OEM drm restrictions in place for the games gives me hope that Nintendo will only give this the "side eye of disapproval" so we can have a more "legal / legit" way of backing up our games.
I just hope Switch 2 is backward compatible so this continues to work through the next gen
Lol. That's not Nintendo. They would sue the makers and all users if they could.
@@bern9642I think the reason they don't sue individuals is because, the damages are less than the cost to pursue those damages. Think about it, spending thousands to pursue $60 * games in damages, even if when they win, that person owes the legal fees.
Even if Nintendo had legal evidence to go after individuals for $6000 games damages, 10,000s of those legal fees. How many pirates would be bankrupt, instead of actually pay?
Trying to sue millions of people at the cost of thousands each will lose more money than it recovers. So they're strategic with their suits both to show they aren't permitting the copyright infringement and to stop the largest swath they can.
Additionally, those people might be shitty customers, but if they're buying some Nintendo, post law suit they probably won't buy Nintendo ever again
@@washuai that's a lot. If you pirate a $60 game and you get sued, you'll be order to pay $60 in damages. So yeah Nintendo isn't gonna sue for that. Even the people they do sue successful and the people who's lives they destroy like Gary Bowser, they still lose more money than they gain. The Bowser guy is never gonna pay the 14 million. He isn't paying a thing because he says he doesn't have the money. Yuzu probably isn't gonna pay the 2 million. I don't know how rich they are. And the guy who they had arrested because he uploaded the TotK art book ahead of time. But still Nintendo use they as scapegoats. Nintendo doesn't do it because they will gain from it, they are just petty like that. Switch is the 2nd best selling console of all time and the console that has sold the most games in history and made the most money but they will still ruin ths lives of pirates if they can even though they know they will lose money.
@@washuaiNintendo doesn't sue users for this because it's a legal gray area and every time they've attempted to adjudicate a legal gray area in the past, they've lost and set legal precedent against them.
Nice review, Russ! I think I'll worry about backup hardware after the Switch is discontinued. The idea is appealing, but having to click the cartridge in-and-out to change games sounds absolutely awful for lists of more than 10 games. I generally only carry around 4 or 5 games at a time anyway, so this wouldn't really benefit me other than getting a jump start on backing things up. The carts feel pretty durable, so I'm doubtful they will break any time soon. Thanks for the review, and take care mate.
Hopefully, the Mig itself will be cracked, then it might be less hassle to backup games, but switching games will still be a problem. Maybe it'll all function better on a molded switch, at some point. It's pretty expensive to buy the mig and dumper.
Could you check if the order of the game-swap matches the order of the files on your card?
Be careful Big N' is on patrol
I like the idea of having this since i have over 20 switch games, but i dont like the idea of removing then reinserting the cartridge to switch the games out.....
I think the simplest solution would be adding a tiny button on top of the cartridge to switch the games with just a touch of the button, either that or a sort of menu that pops up and allows you to select the game you want....
If I used it 5he exclusively with my own 100% purchased library is there a risk of my switch getting banned if connected online?
I saw that balan wonderland cartridge! I had my first 4 switch games in a case like that and 3 of them went missing after the cable guy came over, I've never used a case again, the cartridges are so small.
DammitJeff convinced me to just get my switch modded. I was debating buying the dumper and cart, but that doesn't do anything for capturing updates and patches for long-term game preservation. It also doesn't let me rip the few games I own that are digital only. So I'm going to send my switch to one of the modders on etsy.
Just imagine, if i want to play my 80th game and i accidently went to 81th. May be it can have a small power switch at the top so turning it off and on changes the game?
how did you get the mig switch do you work for mig switch i order my i have too wait for 1 month i pre order my i have yet too get my my was supposed too be april 12 but i never got my you must be parternet or working with them only select poeple got it not all youtubers got it
Nin: You can't beat me.
MIG: I know. But he can.
AIRPLANE MODE
is it possible to play modded switch games using this. Like if I dump Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and then insert mods into?
Nope
But what about digital games? Can we put digital only games on the mig?
Best use case appears to be: you can keep a handful of your rarest, most expensive, or most played physical games handy yet safe, and are able to play those games online (pirated or dumped carts on an online sysnand will get you banned). This isn’t really worth $65 to me but I can see it for others. If it got cheaper, I guess I’d want one just for the novelty.
Mister Russ thank you for the review and Mig Switch Flashcard is so cool to buy one
This device is just version v0.001. I'm sure very soon you will be able to transfer ROMs wirelessly and do the eject / insert wirelessly, perhaps with a LCD on top with buttons to quickly navigate ROMs to be swapped.
so you can only play the games offline as they are at day 1 without any patches?
I don’t see myself using it, but your joycons (transparent ones) are sweet. Where did you get them? :3
i have the same ones you have to replace the housing yourself:)
@@agent8990 I see. How big of a job is it? Worth the effort? Because it does look sweet.
@@dimbulb6443 the joycons are fragile but it took me about 45 minutes to do one joycon because i was trying to figure it out how to since it was my first time but it is worth it i love seeing the led light up in the joycon
Im excited to see this sort of thing get better over time, especially as we see the end of the Switch's time as the current Nintendo console. just like with the 3DS, soo many games became unobtainable without yar har fiddle dee dee, so while im glad that right now this thing doesnt seem to be viable for such, its nice to see that the ball is rolling to enable it by the time it is necessary for games preservation
I would imagine if only a couple of the same cartridge appeared at the same time it wouldnt lead to bans, simply due to the pre-owned possibility. It's probably more likely that certain cartridge identifiers will become blacklisted over time if the dumps are mass distributed online
I’ve preordered the dumper and not the flash cart. I just want easy emulation backups- and update it later
are these used for multiple games downloaded from the internet
Does it work with ROM hacks? Can you play fancy versions of smash ultimate on there, for instance? Seems like the best use case for it is not "games I already own physically" but "games that don't and can't exist physcially".
I look forward to seeing you use the dumper. 🙂
what about reading speed comparison?
There is a swutch game dock that has a button cor farely cheap that allows you to cycle through the mig without taking the thing in and out
Back when I had the Sky3DS, I would put like 4-5 games on a smaller capacity sized mSD card. I would have like 10 of these mSD cards for all the games I wanted and just swap out the mSD and cycle through the games on that specific mSD. Sure you would still need to carry around extra cards with you, but you didn't have to worry about your physical games getting stolen or lost. Also, so you know what's on each card, I would buy 1 mSD from a different company, or a different version, this is so the card would look different and would write down what was on that card.
You can share it only thing is yall both would have to play offline cause they cant ban you or track you if your offline on the switch🤷🏽♂️
my plan is to buy multiplayer games physically and back em up (cuz I game at a bar w friends) while "getting" 1pl game files and play offline.
that way I own the certif of the multi while enjoying solo games
6:14 - It's an interesting perspective but I don't know, maybe I'm seeing the glass half empty but assuming people will act in good faith and practical usage for dumping personal games may not always be the case. Jeff did discuss this briefly in his video but I also share the feeling if that dumper makes the process very easy, we might end up with some who have no desire to play the games but decide to dump cart, throw those files up online and resell the carts to someone else. Just to watch the chaos for Nintendo.. For those downloading and playing pirated games, they are aware and if a ban happens, that's the consequence but somewhere I wonder if some unsuspecting person will get hit by this madness. So I have mixed feelings. There may finally be a benefit to sealed Switch games for the most discerning collectors who want absolute certainty that their cart data hasn't been dumped.
2:57 - Appreciate the insights and I'm assuming one of the benefits of working as a translator is having these unique bits of information.
The big issue is going to be local sellers. Just buy and return a few games from Walmart/GameStop to dump and sell some preloaded carts to clueless people thinking they got a great deal.
@@THEKJM99 Yeah, definitely it could be local resellers and people getting scammed. I was wondering about buying games overseas with Amazon Japan. With favorable exchange rate and number of discounted used Switch games, it's been a great way to purchase games at a significant discount even with shipping and customs. At least it has been up to this point but I'm not sure if it'll be worth it to chance a ban. Guess we'll see how things go.
But are these additional files specific to the cartridge they're on? The 3DS had a similar thing where every individual cartridge has a unique private header, but it wasn't tied to the specific game. It just had to be valid, signed by Nintendo, and different from any other private header signed into Nintendo's servers at the time. So with the Sky3DS people would dump one private header and then use it with whatever games they downloaded.
The Switch may fix this oversight, and with any other console I'd fully expect it would. But Nintendo has a history of not doing obvious things.
The end result we would all want is to have a cart that's able to be put into a console, modded or not, and pop up as an original game, with online support. We're nearly there. This is the start, kind of a janky way of getting it to work, but, you can see the possibilities. I'd give this another year before they either implement their own way to a)put xci or nsp, drag and drop onto your SD card and b)a better way to select which game you're wanting it to be, be it with software or a que system that you make on your SD card to have some sort of order of your games.
What do you even mean wear and tear on cases and carts?
I'd be 100 times more worried about the cart slot on the switch system itself
the spring that locks the sd card in place and pushes the card back out of the switch when you push the sd card in.
@@ianswift3521yes. but he's talking about the mig use case being 'to protect his original carts and the cases from wear and tear. which seems a little farfetched
I would _never_ store my carts outside of their cases and in a flip book like that.
If they do a second iteration, they should put a little button on it that you press to change the games. it would make it less taxing on the card slot and easier to change games. even better if they figured out how to make it a menu system like on an r4 card or something
a menu is not gonna happen unless nintendo's private key is leaked, the switch can only run signed software
@@BooleanDevThis is signed ROM btw. No?
@@nayyarrashid4661 the games dumped from cartridges are signed by Nintendo, it includes a certificate file unique to each game. You cannot use that certificate for other software without risking a ban.
The games on Switch cartridges are often pre-release or even incomplete versions that require extensive patching. Playing the unpatches dumped versions would be am unpleasant experience.
This should be recognized as identical to the actual cartridge so if you download updates/dlc with the actual cartridge, you should be able to play those with this
Having to constantly eject and insert to switch games is a dealbreaker for me. I also share my game cartridge library with my two kids, so the fear that two or more of us accidentally log into the same game and get console banned is another deal breaker. Additionally, if i have to get up from my couch to walk over to the switch to eject/insert i might as well just swap the card out.
I guess for someone who doesn't share cartridges, primarily uses handheld and has a relatively small collection (so that you dont have to cycle 30 times to find a game) it could be useful.
Ninjas coming.... 😅
can you download games and play them using mig switcher?
Do both users of the same cart get banned ? It seems that this will be an issue when buying used games now, how do we know if the game has been copied or dumped ? Maybe the owner of the actual cart will be able to prove to Nintendo that they are the actual & current owner....?
This feels like the Sky3DS cartridge from back in the day lol.
Very interesting. I feel like this is in an early adopter state. It's a great idea, but it is quite rough. I'm certain this technology will iterate with better features and getting cheaper.
Lastly, why doesn't Nintendo come up with something like this?
Once it gets cloned aliexpress bootleg games are going to flood the market
MIG NEEDS a inside Menu like the R4, can read DLC and all?
Where did u get that pillow of rog ally
Do you think they'd be able to update it to do what the Five Nights At Freddy's collection does? (Pulls up all 5 games in the home screen at once)
Mig Switch needs to preload a menu with the list of all the games on the SD before loading it, so it would be easier to switch between games, similar to the R4.
I unfortunately have bought all my games over the years twice assuming something like this wouldn’t be coming out. Having a hacked Wii U/Wii and 3DS console collection I assumed it would just be a digital solution at some point. So for switch I have one digital and one physical. The benefit is I have a 90+% collection of unopened games and with the 1.5tb micro sd cards all my switches can have the full library installed as well. Too bad this didn’t come out a few years ago