Are you talking about legit ones or NSPs? The former shouldn't relate to the issue at hand, and NSPs are a "no no" with a XCI loader, but of course then you would need to limit yourself to cartridge games.. Now, there are actually two solutions to this problem: XCI builder, thus not having to install anything at all, or a emuNAND of sorts with a different Nintendo folder, i. e. SX OS's emuNAND. Of course, with a perfect emuNAND, you wouldn't need XCIs either if you want to stay ban safe, but still.
Updates and DCLs are NSP only. Updates are universal, thus you can't get banned, so those you can install whenever you want. But you have to install them if you want to play the latest and greatest patches.
What do you mean with "you delete them the same way as NSPs"? Are you referring to the "traces" of your usage of XCIs? Because otherwise, you would only need to delete them from SD card. And if you're talking about "traces", it is not an XCI related problem. If you wish to erase your traces, you restore your NAND, and anyway I'm here talking about the possibility of not having to do that if you only use XCIs.
That if you have a game which has either updates, DLCs or required parts of it downloaded, simply removing the cartridge (deleting/unmouting the XCI game) will still leave the installed stuff on your system, which you have to uninstall just like NSPs. So more steps required to get rid of a game completely.
Hmm.. Yeah, that's true, but if you cut them they are basically the same size of NSPs, so no problem.
Definitely. Just not everyone is doing it.
Yeah, but this is XCI unrelated : P
Yes, but it contradicts your idea that if I only use XCIs, I won't have traces or anything, yet a simple homebrew can get you banned. It is unrelated to XCIs themselves, but related to your idea of being safe while using XCIs. (The same thing can be said about NSPs as well obviously).
What do you mean play some games online? Only connected to the WiFi, or actually playing online multiplayer?
*Actually playing online multiplayer. Although being online without DNS should do the job as well (the job = get you banned)... Because in order to be really online, you have to have access to nintys servers, which you can't do with DNS (which is TXs stealth mode or any other DNS service).
But with NSPs, you ALSO need to restore the clean NAND if you wish to play multiplayer games online in sysNAND.
You should restore it, as it is the safest thing
even for XCI users because they also leave traces.
Sure, but with "stay online" you mean stay online with DNS, right? I don't think you are playing multiplayer NSPsonline, of course, and when booting sysNAND, you restore your clean NAND. Am I correct?
Nope. No DNS so far and no ban so far. I have no idea how, but I guess I am just extremely lucky. After update 5.0.1 I am purposely not using DNS to see when/if they will eventually ban me. Still nothing.
I am not playing any online games on the switch. But I sometimes go to the eshop to look at what's new. Also playing multiplayer games requires you to disable DNS, so that's a ban no matter what you use. This goes back to this
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Also, I have never restored a NAND backup on this Switch...
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Online with Pirated downloaded nsps? and play online on the nintendo server with that? and not banned? for sure not. LIES!
Nobody ever said that genius.
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Yeah, the temetry part is a big helper in reducing the ban risk.
About the nsp usage:
You probably can't use the games online function with them or can you? That's the main advantage I see in xcis, to go online with my own dumps.
Also just as a note, you can keep the updates on the internal NAND and the games on the SD of you want to, this way you don't need to delete them most of the time.
BTW, the first thing I do after cfw boot is disableling the save mode.
You shouldn't use XCIs online either. The problem is that you are online with CFW, not the XCIs themselves.
You can install them wherever you like, but you have to uninstall them anyways if you want to completely delete the game.
