Throughout the Nintendo Switch's life, we've seen modchips and softmods aplenty. What has been missing in the Switch hacking scene, though, is a flashcart; and if rumors are to be believed, one might be coming soon. A user by the name of After Time X shared on Twitter that they have exclusive information regarding testing of a flashcart that will work on all models and revisions of the Nintendo Switch. A video of "proof" was shown, of someone cycling through rom backups, and loading the games to play on their Switch OLED unit. According to the rumor, these flashcarts will begin shipping as early as next month.

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[BaamAlex]

If the Switch system believes it has a legitimate physical game card inserted, you're permitted to download the update data for that game without issue. You'll still have to buy any digital DLC on offer.

I would never go online with this flashcard. Piracy copy of a game on it=BAM! Banned. Switch games have some sort of "certificates". So if the system somehow "notices" that several people in the world are using the "same cartridge" (erm...i mean backups...), then the ban is guaranteed. And keep in mind that the gamecard firmware can be updated by Nintendo and any vulnerabilities could be fixed.

 

[Bladexdsl]

If it can play games online without a ban then it would be huge.

surely you jest?

 

[fst312]

I hope this thing will be able to do more than just play switch games. Let’s say this could load any nsp, would that possibly mean hbmenu, that can be an nsp after all? if so, maybe that would mean things like retroarch should work, if atmosphere somehow can be used so you know to block nintendo servers. Homebrew browser nsp is something worth having depending on how this thing works. I’m just saying if this cart could load switch games hopefully if it’s real, it can do more than that.

 

[Ryab]

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Throughout the Nintendo Switch's life, we've seen modchips and softmods aplenty. What has been missing in the Switch hacking scene, though, is a flashcart; and if rumors are to be believed, one might be coming soon. A user by the name of After Time X shared on Twitter that they have exclusive information regarding testing of a flashcart that will work on all models and revisions of the Nintendo Switch. A video of "proof" was shown, of someone cycling through rom backups, and loading the games to play on their Switch OLED unit. According to the rumor, these flashcarts will begin shipping as early as next month.

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I mean if it can run homebrew that would be great. But past that I have no use for it. However even if this does miraculously work it would be very easy to detect on Nintendo's end. Likely also rather easy to patch on both sides.

 

[xtrem3x]

All these people saying it's great are probably the same people who used to argue that SXOS was bad and Atmosphere good because they're against piracy

 

[tommasi]

Bowser is on the move

 

[sley]

There would be no way to prevent a ban on an vanilla system with this, but maybe im wrong let's see

 

[CMDreamer]

[...] It’s much harder to track one double ID in a database than hundreds

It's not, it takes a blink of an eye to track any quantity of dupes. Today's DB implementations are not as they were the last month, even less the last year.

 

[Ettino]

Dang. Imma pirate Arkham Knight and play it in full 15 FPS glory!

 

[Bladexdsl]

i'm sure this will be fine it's not like the last guy who tried something like this ended up in jail. nah must be thinking of someone else

 

[tommasi]

This time the developer is Kamek lol

 

[TomSwitch]

In a perfect world this would work on Switch 2 too

 

[stanleyopar2000]

Meh.

In a world of CFW, Flashcards are kinda useless.

Except for unhackable devices like the switch OLED and Switch Lite

 

[Purple_Heart]

Imagine it turns out that the switch in the video is chipped and runs CFW..

 

[fst312]

Imagine it turns out that the switch in the video is chipped and runs CFW..

If that turns out to be the case, this won’t be worth it. Hopefully switch v2 users wait to make sure that’s not the case.

 

[dsdavis6]

Imagine Nintendo scrap backwards compatibility in the next console off the back of this

 

[Maq47]

Guess I'll repost this juicy scuttlebutt for the new thread



SOON is back!
Cue up another dubbed El Risitas video

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@2Hack

Wait, Gary is back, and is running this new flashcart? Legends never die. Who says crime doesn't pay?

 

[Nincompoopdo]

Did they waited until now to sell this because Nintendo is going to launch the New System next year - so they probably won't care too much to go after them?

The flashcart only supports XCI, therefore it can't play all the digital releases - like thousands of indie games in NSP format. CFW is still better.

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Wait, Gary is back, and is running this new flashcart? Legends never die. Who says crime doesn't pay?

What? I thought he is still monitored by the FBI?

The aftertimex.com and garyopa.com were registered by the same person. Did he relocated to Canada or Iceland?

 

[BigOnYa]

The flashcart only supports XCI,

Where did you hear/ read this info?

 

[Nincompoopdo]

Where did you hear/ read this info?

Look at the video, it works exactly like the Sky3DS - it basically emulates the cartridge without the need to hack anything. Only XCI games can fool the system to think it's a real cart, you can't use NSP - it's a digital download format.