Can you load switch games from a HDD?
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I mean I have some rather large games. Both Hyrule Warriors, both Fire Emblem games, all 3 Xenoblade games, Topical Freeze and a few more. Back when I used to pirate tons of stuff I don't think I even made it close to 512gb.
man 1tb sd card costs around 120-150$ sometimes more i can get 2tb nvm or 2x 1tb for that, don't even want to count hdd space in this price xD is it similar in terms of 512gb you can get 1tb m2 drive for like 50$. It will be nice to boot games from the dock and have them stored there(or even boot them from usb straight from the drive on the go).
I get that this is impossible for now and perhaps never will be possible but don't just put a reasonable card here in terms of the price differences between slow and overheating sd cards(mainly lexar play) vs proper m2 disk or even solid as quack hdd Btw i have 512gb sd card it is not that much of space in there especially if you put some roms for emulators on it
Lemme start w\, my bad... I see now I was letting old bias' cloud my judgement. Most of the cards that 'died on me' were a long time ago, majority were probably cheap and I never tried recovery software on them. I also see your point about the slots being about the 'bottom line' (how did I miss that!?! The VAST MAJORITY of questions, EVER, can be answered with "$?").
Years ago, I noticed the slots being taken away from phones and tried an 'experiment' on my phone (Verizon Droid I think? Old stuff, now), I took the mSD out and it did actually perform way faster. My assumption was that mSDs are glitchy as a medium and an OS constantly trying to access said glitchy-ness from a pogo-pin-using-card (possibly the reason for the glitchies, in my mind), while bouncing around in your pocket, made a revolving mess that killed cards that are already prone to "dying". Just had one die a couple days ago, but... again, old, unlabeled and I didn't try recovery software. That being said, I still 'just don't like them'. It feels like they're trying to shove too much into an old tech. How many times has 'small USB' changed since we've been using these pogo-pin mSDs? Seems we're way overdue for 'the next SD card'... wonder if it has anything to do with money? Sony sure as hell has 'tried' a few times, though
I still don't get the IMMEDIATELY angry attitude of the opposition to the functionality associated with OP's question. How can ANYONE be opposed to functionality?
All your pros for SSDs are exactly what I want and I don't mind having a bigger portable to attain it (built-in dock w\ mini-HDMI
). With CAD, a 3D printer and an open mind, sky's the limit. I was wrong about the new Pico FW being able to help in this, it's on the OS to implement. If this is the functionality of the OS that keeps NINjas away, fine. I don't buy it though. As stated, I can always be wrong though.
The MicroSD form factor is good, no need to change it. The internals have changed and improved a lot though, take UHS-II for example, it's not as common as UHS-I but adds more pins for extra data lanes similar to USB 3.0. I guess most devices just don't need that kind of speed, so they don't bother supporting the extra pins, since it's backwards compatible, and UHS-II cards are more expensive. I'd like to see it supported more widely, though.Lemme start w\, my bad... I see now I was letting old bias' cloud my judgement. Most of the cards that 'died on me' were a long time ago, majority were probably cheap and I never tried recovery software on them. I also see your point about the slots being about the 'bottom line' (how did I miss that!?! The VAST MAJORITY of questions, EVER, can be answered with "$?").
Years ago, I noticed the slots being taken away from phones and tried an 'experiment' on my phone (Verizon Droid I think? Old stuff, now), I took the mSD out and it did actually perform way faster. My assumption was that mSDs are glitchy as a medium and an OS constantly trying to access said glitchy-ness from a pogo-pin-using-card (possibly the reason for the glitchies, in my mind), while bouncing around in your pocket, made a revolving mess that killed cards that are already prone to "dying". Just had one die a couple days ago, but... again, old, unlabeled and I didn't try recovery software. That being said, I still 'just don't like them'. It feels like they're trying to shove too much into an old tech. How many times has 'small USB' changed since we've been using these pogo-pin mSDs? Seems we're way overdue for 'the next SD card'... wonder if it has anything to do with money? Sony sure as hell has 'tried' a few times, though
I still don't get the IMMEDIATELY angry attitude of the opposition to the functionality associated with OP's question. How can ANYONE be opposed to functionality?
All your pros for SSDs are exactly what I want and I don't mind having a bigger portable to attain it (built-in dock w\ mini-HDMI
I was wrong about the new Pico FW being able to help in this, it's on the OS to implement. If this is the functionality of the OS that keeps NINjas away, fine. I don't buy it though. As stated, I can always be wrong though.
There's also SDUC which is the successor to SDXC - who knows what kind of improvements we will see when that goes mainstream.
I have 2 og switches one with an trinket which cant read sd and one without trinket which I use. And an OLED.
You should learn not to eject the SD card and rely on usb mount feature and ftp, I have a trinket unit lying around from 2018 it still work fine.
Would someone be able to make it independently of the Atmosphere Devs, like as an external sysmodule? I mean people were able to do that for other Rejected Atmosphere features.
Yes, it's fully possible to do. No one have done it so far for threereasons.
1) Scared of Nintendo
2) No needed because of nsp works fine.
3) Ethics since XCI is only for piracy
EDIT: Added the third reason people told me
I mean, SX-OS relied on a lot of Atmo’s code base as it is, I can’t imagine the functionality couldn’t be added, there’s just no interest from the community to do so.
Does SciresM have a say in what third party devs do with Atmosphere? I mean it's not like he has any power to really stop them.
Also I should note that people have said the same thing back in the Wii community with regards to USB loading (some continue to do so to this day but most sensable people gave up that argument long ago) give it some time and things will change.
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In theory he can just stop updating Atmosphere or implement anti-piracy measure. Not that I think he would do either nor care about trying to stop people for backups. Thankfully the Switch is still selling well and it's such a small minority that pirates for it anyway.
I don't get how your SD card flex keep getting broken though.
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I don't think he care what other devs does, he just won't support it, that why you don't see sig patches with atmosphere on atmosphere github, unlike ReiNX came with sig patches.
True. It's also pretty obvious why SM doesn't ship AMS with patches. Look at all the sigpatch repos that got taken down the last year.
It just makes sense to provide AMS as a product which an end user can use as they please. I know people who use AMS and still use the console completely vanilla, online; they just use it for game mods and game cheats. (Smash Ultimate, mainly.) AMS is so compliant that people don't even worry about bans unless you're actually doing something stupid like running backups that aren't yours.
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