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Rumored Nintendo Switch Flash Cart Video Shows Multiple Games on a Single Cart (wccftech.com)
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[–] graymess@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Based on what I know of the Switch homebrew scene, I cannot fathom how this would work. Any ideas?

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't cartridges have unique IDs though? They could just start disabling cartridges by ID and banning any accounts that run them.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 10 months ago

So like how they tried and failed to stop Tengen back in the day with their unlicensed NES carts?

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

This is precisely why everyone is so skeptical of it.