Despite the fearmongering going around about bricks, this is only online bans. Same thing they've always done, same thing Sony and Microsoft do too if you get caught there.
Frankly, if you try to go online with pirated games, you're an idiot.
Also it’s impossible to make legal backups with the Mig flash. Yes backups for personal use are legal, but under the DMCA bypassing the DRM is not legal. And the Mig flash is seen as a DRM circumvention device. And before y’all come at me no i don’t agree with this but Nintendo probably has the law on their side with this. Since players using the Mig are violating the EULA.
lol first response is a personal insult because someone takes it personally when someone else speaks truth that is disagreement with how they want things to be.
The problem is that updates are not automatically inserted in the flashcart. All the flashcart does is clone the original one as it was put on sale. Updates are always downloaded by the console and are not stored on the cart.
Let’s make a real world example: you go in a store and buy the cart for “disney dreamlight valley” for $40. You actually don’t know, but inside the cart there’s only a 34,6 MB file that only contains a splashscreen and a popup that says “connect to internet to download the update”. It then connects to Nintendo servers to download the 4.61 GB “update” that is the actual game. If you are blocked from Nintendo servers how can you get the update? Your console itself isn’t hacked, so you can’t just download it from random online sources with a different signature. You can dismiss the popup but then you can only admire your new $40 wallpaper.
This is the “gameplay” of said $40 game if you don’t have the possibility of installing updates:
The point I'm making is this: if you wanna pirate, you're on your own. If you can't get it working, tough shit. You played stupid games and you won stupid prizes.
The problem is that the people that got banned did not pirate the shit and paid with real money the games.
If the hardware is mine and i paid a valid license for the game, i am then entitled to play that game whatever i would like to play it. I can’t get a $450 paperweight if one day they decided that those 8-in-1 multiplexers for the dock aren’t supported. Or if one day a production lot of cartridges is glitched and they blacklist people at random
If they blacklisted the console, then it’s ok to block online gaming (and I would 100% agree with that), but playing offline games should still be allowed.
I vote with my wallet and i don’t support this shit
If you wanna take the attitude that you can do whatever you want with it including piracy, fine but you're on your own. If you can't get your flashcart working offline, tough shit. Too bad, so sad. It's your fault for using the flashcart.
Worse than disdain, it’s hostility. Their family-friendly image is at odds with their actual actions. Going after streamers because they dare play (and publicize) your games…? What the fuck!? Their attitude literally makes me reconsider buying their console and/or games…
They asked what's different from the others, because Sony and Microsoft will also ban you if you try to go online with pirated games. This news isn't actually anything new.
They’re much worse, for a myriad of reasons, but mainly because they are extremely litigous and overprotective of their IP to the extent that they regularly kill open source emulation projects that support games they don’t even sell, and also shut down any kind of fan-made projects or events.
The first flagship phones with the headphone jack removed.
The normalization of phones without expandable storage.
A phone where you buy the charger separately.
A walled-garden ecosystem without sideloading.
An OS that removed support for kernel extensions.
An authorized repair program that replaces instead of repairs.
A line of ATX-sized desktop PCs with storage modules that are only accepted if they’re the same capacity as the ones you originally bought the PC with.
Their entire software and hardware is an affront to personal ownership, right to repair, and consumer rights.
Don’t forget the thousand dollar basic monitor stand. Or the assumption that their users were too stupid to understand multiple mouse buttons until like the mid 00s. Or making a mouse that was completely round (still with one button) so you’d have to look at it to be sure it’s oriented correctly, though I guess that one was more bad design than lack of respect for their users.
Oh yeah. And the rechargeable mouse that needs to be flipped upside down to charge simply because the designers hated the idea of people leaving it plugged in constantly. Or the Mac Pro wheels that cost almost as much as an entire handheld PC.
It’s not the account that’s banned. It’s the device that’s banned. You can factory reset the Switch 2, completely wiping all data, and it will remain banned. This means that none of the games you’ve purchased legally will function, as cartridges no longer contain games and Nintendo’s services are required to play them.
You don’t, unless there are unofficial servers to connect to. This hypothetical console is banned anyway, so you’re being forced to pirate to actually use it.
How do you play any new game? You need an internet connection to download games as the majority wont be true physical games anymore (the cartridge is a “key-card”).
Your console is banned from connecting to Nintendo’s services (apparently not for the console updating service, as users from gbatemp.net have figured out), so you won’t be able to play the majority of the Switch 2’s library, even when purchasing a game legally.
Yes, but that’s not the same as merely putting the console into airplane mode. And it’ll be 2 to 3 years before CFWs, homebrew, and piracy will be viable on the Switch 2 (based on the time it required to do the same on the Switch 1, and 3DS).
Right, but the OP said being unable to go online to update the firmware made it a prime piracy machine. It follows that it has to be jailbroken to qualify as such.
According to those on GBATemp.net, the update server and the eshop server are both different. Your console being banned means it’s banned from all the shop services, but console updates still happen.
I think console updates are semi-forced, so you’ll still have to keep the Switch 2 offline and/or keep denying update prompts like usual, even if it’s banned.
Looking at the listings on Target and GameStop, I’ve noticed that many publishers decided to use the game-key card format. This is allegedly because Nintendo is only offering third-party developers the 64GB cartridge or the game-key card—there is no smaller, standard physical cart. This would explain why nearly every major (and minor) AAA release is on a game-key card, since publishers don’t want to pay extra for the more expensive storage space.
Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD, Hitman: World of Assassination, Hogwarts Legacy, Madden NFL 26, Raidou Remastered, Sonic X Shadow Generations, Split Fiction, Star Wars Outlaws, Street Fighter 6 Year 1-2 Fighters Edition, and Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut will all require an internet connection to download before playing. Civilization VII will actually just be a code in a box. I can image there will be more (of both) in the future; the Switch 2 only just launched.”
As a British citizen I am starting to get ideas. The following is about distance selling which includes online sales.
You must offer a refund to customers if they’ve told you within 14 days of receiving their goods that they want to cancel. They have another 14 days to return the goods once they’ve told you.
Yah, definitely not DS or DS lite. Playing online with pirated games on a hacked 3DS MAYBE, but certainly not flash carts.
That said, I hacked my N3DSXL AGES ago so I could back up my Monster Hunter saves in case something ever happened before XX was released and I could transfer my data, played online a shit ton (with my R4DS in the cart slot) and was never banned.
Yes, but it was only a few games when they were played/used on flashcarts before the game released :p
Happened with phantasy star zero iirc
It was also not nintendo’s choice but the game devs. So it was game bound, not console bound
It gives error only when you try to login, the inspector would need to create an account and login. Possible but they barely do “it turns on, it works, can be resold”, it takes too much time, Amazon many times just disposes perfectly fine stuff just because they don’t want to pay $5 for someone to check it
I had this pop up on my feed this morning. They are doing the same thing they did on hacked Switch 1 consoles and basically revoking their certificate, so it can’t connect to Nintendo servers any longer. youtu.be/ExgYTA18_vo
If only it was just that… this bricks your console. You can’t play games on it, or update it.
It would work for piracy eventually probably, but without firmware updates you’re stuck with older games (unless there are new games released with firmware updates included and pirating those games works)
the MIG Flash (formerly MIG-Switch) is a specialized, reprogrammable cartridge that’s designed to mimic a real Nintendo Switch cartridge, but allows you to store your own game ROMs or backups on its microSD card. This essentially enables you to hold multiple game copies on a single cartridge, letting you conveniently switch between them with the help of a button.
Which is ideal for someone who is constantly on the go/traveling/etc and don’t want to risk losing all their carts. Just dump’m, put them on one flash cart, and have all your games in one thing you never have to take out of your console.
You know, like the kinda of people the switch is geared towards
Exactly my thoughts, but I am waiting for the Steam Deck 2… Or something more future proof (that would be my 1st gaming handheld stronger than my overclocked hacked Nintendo Switch v1).
Probably still a ways off. They said they didn’t want to do a 2 until there was a substantial upgrade available… And while the latest amd apu IS better, its not the leap and bound they say they are looking for so likely not yet in any type of production
I’ve been enjoying Dr Robotnik’s Ring Racers. However, it’s rather technical compared to mario kart, so I would recommend against using the cheat-code to skip the tutorial.
Yes, they've always banned users for going online with pirated games, and the T&C has always warned you that they would. Sony and Microsoft do the same thing too.
The difference is that Xbox and PlayStation still allow you to access your digital games or completely reset the console and delete your accounts off the console.
Its different with Switch 2, because now you cannot acces the digital games you legally bought. You cannot even delete your account off of the console. If you bought physical cpoies of games that don’t have the data on the cart, you can’t play those either on Nintendo Switch 2.
ah, the old “let’s completely shit on the millions of people who give us money, in order to do nothing to the handful of people who torrent our shit” strategy
Yeah, if you pirate and whatever… fair enough. Don’t expect Nintendo to want to deal with you. But at least you know that is the risk you’re taking.
The other group of people this will impact are those who dump (legally) their own games so that they don’t have to swap out carts all the time. It’s also going to suck for those who pick up a second hand console to find that their online access is restricted. I don’t see an issue with Nintendo blacklisting a device from their services should it go against their ToS, but this just seems way too easy of a trap to walk into.
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