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    When will Switch 2 games be dumpable?

    Correct. And to further point out and clarify, what was leaked was the fact that the cart has an authentication generator on board. One can easily create an authenticator like this but to clone one is impossible. Sig-patches do not work as a stand-in for the authentication process, they bypass...
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    When will Switch 2 games be dumpable?

    You have to look at all of the instances of a game as they are all handled differently and a deeper understanding of signatures. Switch has two different type of signatures, NPDM executable and ticket/content (NCA Headers). To be clear sigpatches do not fake signatures they just tell the system...
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    When will Switch 2 games be dumpable?

    You can read up on Lotus2 and how it is structured if you want to learn more. But basically there is a security chip in every cart that when called, will generate a random password, this password is checked by the system. Think of it as a two-step verification process similar to google...
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    When will Switch 2 games be dumpable?

    One just needs to know the cart interface (likely new protocol (Lotus3+ or similar), to dump not necessarily any 'keys'. The switch will handle any decryption. Once dumped, then the real work begins to find out if the files use XCI2 or some new structure or if there is some new encryption being...
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    When will Switch 2 games be dumpable?

    For S1 carts, MigFlash stores the raw encrypted files and they are decoded by switch 1 & 2. No need to decrypt prior. Also as others have said, the cart format of S2 is just wildly different than S1. MigFlash and TotalJustice are probably the closest at getting dumps, and I am sure they are...
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    The MIG Switch reportedly does not work on the Nintendo Switch 2

    Switch 1 plays games from MigFlash because Switch 1 doesn’t require a full hardware-level check with a game cart. The system just thinks it’s an official game. Switch 2 blocks this completely, because the system uses hardware authentication. MigFlash or the dumped XCI doesn’t provide the...
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