A few days after the monumental reveal of a work-in-progress flashcart being made for the Nintendo Switch, more information has been made available. The previously unnamed flashcart is set to be called "Mig Switch", and the initial Twitter user that unveiled the Mig Switch's existence, After Time X, managed to get in contact with the team behind it all. According to them, they were offered a review unit of the Mig Switch, but turned it down, as the After Time X team fears legal repercussions from dealing with "backup loader" hardware.

Another interesting tidbit is that existing dumps of Switch games will NOT be compatible with the Mig Switch, and backups will need to be repacked to function with the flashcart. Games played with the flashcart can be played online, as well.

The Mig Switch currently has a website, where it is seeking distributors to work together with in order to sell initial limited quantities of the Mig Switch device, with the first units to be delivered sometime in January. The team claims that full availability is expected around March/April 2024. It'll come with the Mig Switch card, and the Mig Switch Dumper, with the latter of which allowing you to back up your games using NXdumpTool.

More Details Has Been Uncovered About the First Switch Flashcart

After some digging around by our @AfterTimeX journalists, it was discovered that the “Switch Flashcart” in fact has a name, “Mig Switch” and they agreed to answer a few of our questions about some points that… pic.twitter.com/kQtXdSNg7E

— After Time X (@AfterTimeX) December 27, 2023

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[impeeza]

This is disappointing, it appears to be less useful than I thought it was.

yeah, this thread is full of noob crying about that, will be good to read the posts of this thread.

 

[Shadow_The_Hedgehog82]

Are you a copyright lawyer? Or an internet armchair copyright lawyer? Also this is a Russian product so unless you know much about Russian law or the country on which it's going to be shipped from I would guess you are just guessing about which laws it may or maybe isn't breaking.

Actually mod chips are legal in the UK since 2008, they might be illegal elsewhere and some other countries might not have any laws at all about them or even care about the law. Look at the amount of copyright laws China doesn't care about and and the amount of cloned tech that comes out of there. I would imagine people buying these carts won't be caring too much about breaking any laws, I know I certainly wouldn't.

>Actually mod chips are legal in the UK since 2008
source on this? i always thought they were illegal

 

[impeeza]

>Actually mod chips are legal in the UK since 2008
source on this? i always thought they were illegal

yeah, that's why you need to know the law no the things the news says, the factual law.

 

[linuxares]

>Actually mod chips are legal in the UK since 2008
source on this? i always thought they were illegal

Well it's still imho a massive greyzone. It's suppose to be legal in the EU (Which UK got its law from).

https://www.gamerlaw.co.uk/2014/modchips-now-legal-in-the-eu-ish/

But the European Copyright Directive states they're illegal. So it's a very weird situation to be honest.


This card however is 100% piracy only so it's definitely illegal.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Personally I think it will be intersting to see how many people buying this from China or wherever will be arrested and fined - I doubt anyone will be and nintendo will just need to suck it up.

gary better be in a country where he can't get extradited because if tendo gets their hands on him again..hoi boy

 

[linuxares]

gary better be in a country where he can't get extradited because if tendo gets their hands on him again..hoi boy

Either he needs to manage to convince the world after their blunder that he wasn't part of this (good luck!) or go to country and keep update with the extradition laws (which he seemed to have forgotten to do). Also be a citizen of said country.

I guess Cuba would be good? I don't know how stable the internet is tho

 

[cainan__c]

Looks like things are starting to ramp up, thing'll get pretty interesting in the coming weeks and months.

 

[Morricorne]

I wrote to them asking for device for testing. I have a switch without a ban with CFW. I wonder what and if they will reply at all

 

[madisonswitch]

Exactly, because you CAN NOT change the content of a XCI and generate a new Certificate because you have no access to Private PKI of Big N.

Yep, and for those exact reasons, this cart is a nothing burger. If you have the smarts to DL "backups" of games, it's not much more effort to research and do a chip mod. The chip mod solution is 100000000x better than this cart.

 

[realtimesave]

They made it VERY clear that it's MADE IN RUSSIA - I wonder why?

Is this to discourage the FBI from going after them? Has anyone bought anything that's made in Russia? Are they reliable?

Just because it's printed that it's made in Russia means nothing. It might or might not be. Personally I would prefer not to support Russians.

 

[BaamAlex]

Personally I would prefer not to support Russians.

May i ask why?

 

[linuxares]

May i ask why?

No you may not since I know what will happen.

 

[realtimesave]

May i ask why?

Several reasons, including attacking Ukraine. If I list all the reasons I risk ban, knowing how things go on here.

 

[Morricorne]

They wrote back. Whatever. I don't know about you, but I'm not going to support anyone. Who is afraid of the real opinion of a real user. This product of theirs will be great. It won't surprise me if it's a scam. Anyone who starts using it will get banned from Nintendo before they know it.

 

[izy]

Well it's still imho a massive greyzone. It's suppose to be legal in the EU (Which UK got its law from).

https://www.gamerlaw.co.uk/2014/modchips-now-legal-in-the-eu-ish/

But the European Copyright Directive states they're illegal. So it's a very weird situation to be honest.


This card however is 100% piracy only so it's definitely illegal.

UK resident here
they not legal, they bypass TPM
and as per my C&D

 

[linuxares]

UK resident here
they not legal, they bypass TPM
and as per my C&D

According to that law. But they been tried in EU courts at least and one party won there. But it seems to be a fat swing of the dice what happens in each case.

 

[phakio]

They wrote back. Whatever. I don't know about you, but I'm not going to support anyone. Who is afraid of the real opinion of a real user. This product of theirs will be great. It won't surprise me if it's a scam. Anyone who starts using it will get banned from Nintendo before they know it.

as far as I know they were sending units out to actual reviewers, so youtube videos can be made to passively advertise and show the device working. the beta testing phase was over months ago according to their site.
from your post and the message you sent them, plus your reply to them it seemed like you just wanted a free mig switch to "test" lol

i'm excited to see the device in action by actual reviewers! NickMoses05 did a livestream where he showed that the team emailed him and said they were sending him a review unit. Looking forward to it!

 

[M7L7NK7]

Exactly, why would they send a unit to some random person?

 

[realtimesave]

Exactly, why would they send a unit to some random person?

Yep or me, I did reviews for Maxconsole and now there's no more Maxconsole so I wouldn't be doing a review of this of course. Plus the US customs would probably jump in and confiscate it before I got it lol.

Anyways. I am wondering which site(s) are going to review this thing. Maybe gbatemp? Who knows. I don't really know of other sites that does this kind of stuff.

Post automatically merged: Jan 7, 2024

Btw, I bet you money that before February comes along, modmysystem will get in trouble with Nintendo. Not that I wish ill-will upon anyone but I still remember what happened with the US distributor of the SX product.

 

[White_Raven_X]

Gary will be blamed for anything that comes out with relations to hardware hacks for the switch

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