Flash Carts for the Nintendo Switch are Here // MIG-Switch Review

Pandora's box has been opened. In this video, we review the new MIG-Switch flash cart for the Nintendo Switch. We cover how it works, how it is updated, and some potential issues and concerns now that it exists.

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[TakiUdon]

Be gentle Nintendo ninjas.
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[sneezyday]

If purchase isn’t ownership then piracy can’t be theft

[lamarmota]

And just like that, taki udon's body was found in a river in Japan

[GamerFromJump]

I’d love this to let my niece and nephews use my collection without having to loan out my personal cartridges. However I think I’ll wait for a version that doesn’t require insertion cycle to do it.

[Kriskirby]

I can't believe an r4 dsi cartridge I found at a Mexican flea market 7 years ago was what would eventually bring me to this video years later

[FoxyDrew]

I love how he laid a few extra Switch Cartridges out at the top of the frame lol

"Nintendo look I swear I buy your games please don't sue me"

[danielcalabrese]

This is perfect for someone like me who only plays single player games on my switch, the fact that Nintendo games are always so expensive even years after releasing is the reason this new cartridge is great and something that I will definitely use once it has been refined. I can't wait to be able to get a ton of Nintendo games that I otherwise would never have played.

[zaratiel_]

This could've been the only time were someone could've made the intro "everything I show is to inform people, everything you do is not up to me" this was really a good video, really interesting

[michelefiordispina]

The chip labels are scratched off to avoid being identified by whoever sold that FPGA. This happened as well during the chip shortage; you would do that to prevent a ban from the supplier's website. 3:08

[KarimJovian]

Reminds me of the SKY 3DS+ took an SD card and had a ton of 3DS games and played normally

[kytechnelson]

This sounds very similar to the story with 3DS flash carts before they became essentially obsolete, particularly with the role of the unique identifier data and how it is very likly to be involved in online functionality. With 3DS cart dumping, it's known that dumping and reusing that header data when playing online could easily result in bans, so I think you were spot-on when it comes to the concerns. Considering how the Switch OS is built off of the 3DS's OS, it makes a lot of sense.

[joeym]

I had an R4 cart for my 3DS. I liked it for viewing mp4s and to listen to mp3s. I would love to be able to do that on my Switch.

[abdulhamza]

Crazy that this tiny piece will have a major impact on the market

[JonasC]

I'll never forget obtaining my first R4i card by accident.
I bought small lot of 10 or so random boxless DS games, and there was this one label-less one that had a micro SD card in it, and I understood what it was instantly. It opened my world to them.
It turned my DS from a near useless thing(unless I spent tons of money) into an AWESOME console. I still keep my DS next to my bed with like 800 games.

[Synthetic-Chicken]

Reminds me of the early playstation modding, the whole inserting and ejecting to make it select the next game was similar to pushing the button on the PS1 to trick the console into thinking the lid was closed and a game had been placed. As good as technology gets, humans always figure out ways to tinker with it, extremely fascinating.

[DarkHorseParatrooper]

It's funny cause if you look in the back of the booklets of all the old games, including Nintendos, it tells you you're allowed to make a personal backup copy of your game just in case.

[terenarosa]

I love that idea of putting all your games on one cartridge and not having to constantly switch them out! If only we could just own the digital copy automatically when we purchase the physical. 😫😞😒

[Clubs]

I love purchasing physical media and the idea of just being able to store my collection on an SD card is so convenient. It's the best of both worlds, having the peace of mind of physical media ownership with the convenience of digital media access.

[TheDanaAddams]

Everyone is focussed so heavily on the prospect of using it for backups, but the Switch homebrew scene is really quite good! Using it to launch homebrew on an unmodified Switch is far more interesting a prospect to me, but it's a question nobody seems to have an answer for.

[Dragon_Slayer_Ornstein]

There's no way Nintendo are going to ban people for this unless the UID is from the wrong game. Imagine all the oblivious people who get caught in this because they bought a game from eBay.