Gaming Is Nintendo blocking me from playing all my physical games?

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I have been banned, which I'm fine with since I don't play online, and I was prepared for this when I jailbroke in 2018. However, when I'm trying to launch FETH which I have in cart form today, I got the message "checking if the software can be played" message which prevents me from launching the game. Since I'm banned, I'm not connected to the internet, but I tried with internet on and with airplane mode on, both methods still prevent me from bypassing this issue and launching the game.

I did lots of searches online relating to this message, and everybody who gets this are people who have 2 switches and the one they are playing on is not set as primary. This is totally not my case since I never owned or used a second switch and I only have one account. So the only reason I can think of why I'm getting this is that I got banned and Nintendo is now preventing me from playing games I bought.

But that just doesn't seem likely at all, since I haven't seen other people reporting the same issue given how large the jailbreaking community is. But I wonder if it's because I still only play legit games rather than games downloaded online? I would really appreciate if people can confirm that they can still launch physical games that they bought after being banned. And of course, I would really really appreciate if people can help me solve this issue at all since all the solutions online do not work for me (e.g. calling Nintendo).

Thank you!
 

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i seriously doubt nintendo is going into a grey area after all your still buyin physical giving them money if true and they are blocking physical releases their in the wrong unless it's a game like DOOM or LA Noire which requires extra data
 
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i seriously doubt nintendo is going into a grey area after all your still buyin physical giving them money if true and they are blocking physical releases their in the wrong unless it's a game like DOOM or LA Noire which requires extra data
yeah I strongly doubt that too since that would be a huge scummy move to take away my right to basically use my console, and will likely be contested in court if it actually affects more people. But at the moment I cannot find any solution to the problem which would not be too different from Nintendo actively punishing me on purpose.
 
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found this on reddit too it maybe your answer

"This happened because you downloaded the update then deleted the update data. Nintendo restricts you from playing games that had an update downloaded onto the system which is no longer present on the system."
 
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found this on reddit too it maybe your answer

"This happened because you downloaded the update then deleted the update data. Nintendo restricts you from playing games that had an update downloaded onto the system which is no longer present on the system."
damn I must suck at google searches. I looked through results for this for the last 2 hours and somehow I did not see this message.
But I'm not sure if this is actually the case for me. I have the legit update downloaded from Nintendo servers back when I wasn't banned yet. I don't know how I could have deleted this file myself.
But I will look into this, hopefully this is what's causing the issue and I was just being paranoid. Thanks a lot!

PS: can you please link me the source where you read this passage? There might be other helpful information there :)
 
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Is it possible your account got hacked and someone made their console primary so they could play your games? My advice is to dump your game cart and install it as NSP without the cert. This should avoid the problem
 

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