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Rumored Nintendo Switch Flash Cart Video Shows Multiple Games on a Single Cart

wccftech.com Rumored Nintendo Switch Flash Cart Video Shows Multiple Games on a Single Cart

A video has surfaced online, showing a rumored upcoming Nintendo Switch flash cart loaded with multiple Switch games.

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why not just use an SD card?
- 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).
  
  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.
- Interestingly there appears to be an SD card in the cart they’re putting in the switch.
  
  That sounds like an SD card with extra steps
- This sounds like it’ll be able to run home brew apps. Like R4 for DS.
  
  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.
  
  I was just looking at my R4 powered DS. Memories...
- For a newer switch and lite model you need to solder a chip on it first.
- It's for pirating games
  
  Nintendo loves making us pay for their games multiple times over on every console release, so fuck ‘em.
- 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.
- 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 except 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.
  
  Edit: ignore my post. Its not a Nintendo first party product.
  
  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)
  
  None of what you said makes any sense. Do you even know what a flash cart is?
Based on what I know of the Switch homebrew scene, I cannot fathom how this would work. Any ideas?
- 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.
  
  Don't cartridges have unique IDs though? They could just start disabling cartridges by ID and banning any accounts that run them.
- This is precisely why everyone is so skeptical of it.
Only a matter of time before another vulnerability is found.
Something like this would have been hot news in 1986

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