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 Posted: Sat, 23rd Dec 2023 22:10 Post subject: [OTHER] Nintendo Switch Flashcart teased |
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Dec 2023 22:39 Post subject: |
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I've got no idea what any of this means:
https://x.com/hexkyz/status/1738614885137760481?s=20
Mike Heskin
@hexkyz
Forward DNS: www(.)aftertimex(.)com, aftertimex(.)com, phoenix(.)garyopa(.)com ...
Only took 8 months... That's gotta be a record lmao
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| Posted: Sun, 24th Dec 2023 16:16 Post subject: |
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Probably that garyOPA is behind is.
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Dec 2023 19:19 Post subject: |
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https://twitter.com/AfterTimeX/status/1740049621320077458
| Quote: | More Details Has Been Uncovered About the First Switch Flashcart
After some digging around by our
@AfterTimeX
journalists, it was discovered that the “Switch Flashcart” in fact has a name, “Mig Switch” and they agreed to answer a few of our questions about some points that weren’t fully clear to us, after watching that short video from one of their beta-testers last week.
As their product is ready now, they also kindly offered us a review sample, but our staff have declined because for one, we are not a review site and also because of all the legal ambiguity of “game backups” in our team countries, and most important our opinion is that although they are marketing their product as a “backup and development device” on their website: https://migswitch.com it is clear that many video gamers will use it solely as an “ultra-convenient piracy tool” on their #NintendoSwitch consoles.
After reviewing their website, it seems also that the “backup” ROMs that are currently floating around out there on the Internet are NOT supported, as the format that the “Mig Switch” uses is slightly different, we don’t understand all the technical reasons behind this change, but you can be sure that “scene release groups”, won’t take long to make compatible repacks available to the piracy masses out there, as the instructions published on their website are clear, so it seems to be a very simple process.
In speaking more with their beta-tester about online play (as “Mig Switch” refused to answer any questions not related to pure backup play) he told us that he used one of his game’s “Cert/UID”, which he never shared to anyone before, to be able to play online with his other “game backups”, but so far he has never experienced any issues. Now, of course this will have to be verified in the long run with many gamers online using this “trick”... But, the team did confirmed their product has been tested and works on every single existing model of Switch they could find, and are very confident they are all fully supported.
Reading the comments from our ATX followers here on X, we also inquired about their choice of using the “game eject” function to switch to the next ROM on the inserted SDCARD, and if they fear it could damage the game port with long-term usage. Their answer was that “real life usage” is not like in the video the beta-tester released, meaning you don't switch your games every other second or even every minute, and the overall quality of your #Switch is high, including its game port, but they didn't close the door to designing a second version of their Mig Flashcart, with a switch on the cart itself, and they were quick to point out, when considering the size of an actual game cartridge, there is more chances for a tiny switch to break with long-term usage than the console game port itself, which is sturdy. We guess that overall user demand will in the end decide the fate of them releasing a different version with a built-in switch.
Finally, the last and maybe most important question for would-be buyers, we asked the big one: Can #Nintendo BLOCK your product with a firmware update. Their answer was a quite confident “NO”. Although only time will tell, plus they told us: “our product design is fully and conveniently upgradable”.
To be continued... |
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| Posted: Wed, 27th Dec 2023 23:46 Post subject: |
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Whatever they say, there must be doubt regarding whether Nintendo would be able to disable the functionality of these via firmware updates. Also, from their website:
Copyright Mig-Switch 2023 - A product of Mig Switch, developed and produced in the Russian Federation
Good luck to them trying to export these in volume.
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| Posted: Thu, 28th Dec 2023 12:06 Post subject: |
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Very skeptical, too good to be true and GaryOPA ties feel scammy. Would hold the horses for now
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| Posted: Thu, 28th Dec 2023 19:09 Post subject: |
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It weirdly feels like either TX doing a terrible job of not trying to look like TX, or another group doing a terrible job of trying to look like TX.
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Jan 2024 22:49 Post subject: |
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Scam exposed or real deal?
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Przepraszam
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Jan 2024 22:59 Post subject: |
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| skx7 wrote: | | Scam exposed or real deal? |
Seems like it's real but the way it works is fucking stupid. |
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| Posted: Fri, 5th Jan 2024 05:30 Post subject: |
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I have a sneaking suspicion we'll never see this MiG card - we'll see clones, but the Russian one feels like a Red Herring. Like it's clearly TX behind it, they have no Russian connection and this is a heck of a time to try and sell a russian product globally. So my theory is they'll anounce Mig has shipped to distributors, but claim their shipments were ceased or something, and very very soon after that Chinese "clones" will hit the market, but they'll be sold by the folks behind Mig.
Make sense?
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| Posted: Mon, 22nd Jan 2024 07:34 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 23rd Apr 2024 04:59 Post subject: |
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It's kind of funny how little interest there is in this product on this forum. I was going to post this in the main Switch thread, but I don't think the flashcart even got a mention in there, so I'll keep this in this one.
It seems there's some drama going down.
Since the last post in this thread, several reviewers for their hands on MIG Switch carts. I assume the above "Video Unavailable" video was from Alien Retro Guy, he seems to have just walked away from YouTube for odd reasons. People have started receiving their orders, though there's been some reports that one of the top resellers Modded Hardware has taken money since January and not shipped anything, while others ordering from AliExpress in April are seeing orders arrive in 7-9 days. Also a few resellers took orders assuming the cart and the dumper would be priced together at $70, but as the product came to market it turned out that that wasn't the case, and that the dumper would be sold separately, and at a later date. I think a few people have now started receiving the dumpers. Meanwhile, an alternative product appeared on the scene. UnlockSwitch posted in March that they had hacked the MIG Switch and would be releasing their clone cart. Reviewers started receiving samples of UnlockSwitchon April 20th but just two days later one of the review channels claim they were contacted by MIG who was able to show that the review cards had to be repackaged MIG carts since they passed the encryption check on the firmware update software.
I think that's a good summary, and I didn't miss anything out. It's a bit all over the place, but I'm too high for chronological order.
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| Posted: Tue, 23rd Apr 2024 05:11 Post subject: |
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I can already pirate switch games or play on an emulator. I don't get why i should care about some flashcart
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| Posted: Tue, 23rd Apr 2024 05:49 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 23rd Apr 2024 06:25 Post subject: |
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| Stormwolf wrote: | | I can already pirate switch games or play on an emulator. I don't get why i should care about some flashcart |
Those are both fair points, and I'm a v1 switch owner too, and I'd probably be using an emulator too if I could ever get round to building my new PC. But I've still been following the scene and am just surprised I'm the only one, especially given the drama.
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| Posted: Tue, 23rd Apr 2024 10:29 Post subject: |
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| rayida wrote: | It's kind of funny how little interest there is in this product on this forum. I was going to post this in the main Switch thread, but I don't think the flashcart even got a mention in there, so I'll keep this in this one.
It seems there's some drama going down.
Since the last post in this thread, several reviewers for their hands on MIG Switch carts. I assume the above "Video Unavailable" video was from Alien Retro Guy, he seems to have just walked away from YouTube for odd reasons. People have started receiving their orders, though there's been some reports that one of the top resellers Modded Hardware has taken money since January and not shipped anything, while others ordering from AliExpress in April are seeing orders arrive in 7-9 days. Also a few resellers took orders assuming the cart and the dumper would be priced together at $70, but as the product came to market it turned out that that wasn't the case, and that the dumper would be sold separately, and at a later date. I think a few people have now started receiving the dumpers. Meanwhile, an alternative product appeared on the scene. UnlockSwitch posted in March that they had hacked the MIG Switch and would be releasing their clone cart. Reviewers started receiving samples of UnlockSwitchon April 20th but just two days later one of the review channels claim they were contacted by MIG who was able to show that the review cards had to be repackaged MIG carts since they passed the encryption check on the firmware update software.
I think that's a good summary, and I didn't miss anything out. It's a bit all over the place, but I'm too high for chronological order. |
Thanks. You're right there hasn't been much discussion, so I appreciate the update (I wouldn't know where to start to follow this type of stuff). Thanks again.
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