A few days after the monumental reveal of a work-in-progress flashcart being made for the Nintendo Switch, more information has been made available. The previously unnamed flashcart is set to be called "Mig Switch", and the initial Twitter user that unveiled the Mig Switch's existence, After Time X, managed to get in contact with the team behind it all. According to them, they were offered a review unit of the Mig Switch, but turned it down, as the After Time X team fears legal repercussions from dealing with "backup loader" hardware.

Another interesting tidbit is that existing dumps of Switch games will NOT be compatible with the Mig Switch, and backups will need to be repacked to function with the flashcart. Games played with the flashcart can be played online, as well.

The Mig Switch currently has a website, where it is seeking distributors to work together with in order to sell initial limited quantities of the Mig Switch device, with the first units to be delivered sometime in January. The team claims that full availability is expected around March/April 2024. It'll come with the Mig Switch card, and the Mig Switch Dumper, with the latter of which allowing you to back up your games using NXdumpTool.

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… pic.twitter.com/kQtXdSNg7E

— After Time X (@AfterTimeX) December 27, 2023

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A few days after the monumental reveal of a work-in-progress flashcart being made for the Nintendo Switch, more information has been made available. The previously unnamed flashcart is set to be called "Mig Switch", and the initial Twitter user that unveiled the Mig Switch's existence, After Time X, managed to get in contact with the team behind it all. According to them, they were offered a review unit of the Mig Switch, but turned it down, as the After Time X team fears legal repercussions from dealing with "backup loader" hardware.

Another interesting tidbit is that existing dumps of Switch games will NOT be compatible with the Mig Switch, and backups will need to be repacked to function with the flashcart. Games played with the flashcart can be played online, as well.

The Mig Switch currently has a website, where it is seeking distributors to work together with in order to sell initial limited quantities of the Mig Switch device, with the first units to be delivered sometime in January. The team claims that full availability is expected around March/April 2024. It'll come with the Mig Switch card, and the Mig Switch Dumper, with the latter of which allowing you to back up your games using NXdumpTool.

https://twitter.com/AfterTimeX/status/1740049621320077458

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Selling a device designed around piracy for a profit huh? Well this has never gone poorly before on the Switch.

 

[kcajjones]

It won't support current dumps? Hmm... Is that a "safe" thing for online use or just a "buy more of our proprietary hardware/software" thing?

 

[LightBeam]

So if the games need to be repacked .... Does it mean somehow it could be playable online and appear as a legit game ???? That's very intriguing

EDIT :

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.

Now I'm less confident

 

[guitarheroknight]

Buying this as soon as it hits the market!

 

[eriol33]

meh, this one is developed by the russians. not giving them any money until russia stops the war in ukraine.

 

[djpannda]

my fingers automatically typed maxconsole for more news lol def giving me sxos vibes and im all for it!!

 

[DJPlace]

can't use old game dumps... and have to make your own? what is the point of this? the only thing i would use this for is homebrew and save import's and stuff like that. stupid nintendo for locking save's to the system same thing for PS5.

 

[chrisrlink]

now I have a new reason to jump ack onto gamefly funny i saw "development" was also in the title makes me wonder if dmnt cheats will be available like in sxos later on

 

[kuro0628neko]

meh, this one is developed by the russians. not giving them any money until russia stops the war in ukraine.

We are leaving this comment up but not my factual information LMFAO.

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"Back to Twitter with this crap" aka REALITY.

 

[chrisrlink]

meh, this one is developed by the russians. not giving them any money until russia stops the war in ukraine.

the only good thing about this being made by russians nintendo (or the US for that matter) cant chage them like they didv Gary bowser yes i agree the war is very bad but I must admit this is a nelson HA HA moment to nintendo because they can't slay this dragon at the heart like TX

 

[RupeeClock]

It won't support current dumps? Hmm... Is that a "safe" thing for online use or just a "buy more of our proprietary hardware/software" thing?

According to their website it'll be possible to convert NXDumpTool XCI dumps to work on the Mig.

The product they sell is reportedly a pair of items, a Mig Switch Card and Mig Switch Dumper, which allows someone to make backups of their own Switch games.
It'll be interesting to see if Mig backups can be used in emulation.

This is a product from Russia however, so that's very dubious.

 

[linuxares]

They claim it to be russian, but it's most likely just the same old same old.

 

[Sono]

I'm not sure if it's bad or good that I already know that if I could acquire one, let alone causing yet another "3DS private header" situation, is that this is completely useless (to me at least), as all the game dumps I want to run are all digital-only games, meaning there is no real way to repackage them as a cartridge image.

gg

 

[BaamAlex]

Still prefer custom firmware.

 

[krzys4x]

I hope when mig comes out that switch will be 200 dollars max

 

[Asia81]

I don't care of it as I'm a picofly + cfw user, but that will be very interesting to follow

 

[M7L7NK7]

Still prefer custom firmware.

Not everyone has that option

 

[krzys4x]

usless becouse game from web are not allowed

 

[linuxares]

haha hwfly picofly sux ass all u need buy mig switch nice

Only so far seem to work for cartridge games so a tiny bit limited. Hopefully it works with custom xci