The Switch Flashcart Thread (Mig Switch etc.)

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big question: playing mig games on emunand, ensures antiban protection?
No. Only preventing a dirty emunand from connecting to servers does help avoid a ban.
what about dl updates from ninty servers on emunand?
Sure, a clean emunand on a non-banned console should be able to update stuff just fine, if you let it phone home. But if it's dirty, a ban is most likely.

Remember that using a MIG with pirated content, just once, even offline, may dirty any nand.

Anyway, if you have emunand, you already have a modded console, so why bother with a MIG at all?
 
what about dl updates from ninty servers on emunand?
If you have Nintendo servers blocked on your emuNAND and want to use MIG Switch on that emuNAND, you can install the updates the usual way via your favorite title installer (Tinwoo, DBI, Tinfoil, Goldleaf, etc.)

Anyway, if you have emunand, you already have a modded console, so why bother with a MIG at all?
I hardly see a point as well, as you can opt out for a bigger SD card instead of using two smaller ones, one for the Switch and the other one for the MIG Switch. Plus, cycling through the games on MIG Switch is a bit of a chore, so I'm not really sure if it's even worth the effort.

MIG Switch and alike provide a decent way to backup your own cartridges so that you don't have to carry all your expensive games around with you. In this case, you're unlikely to get banned if you make proper complete dumps of your games. Another good case, as proven by TheStonedModder himself, is sharing games between a close group of friends, though it might be a bit tricky as we don't know how Nintendo will deal with the shared certificates in the future. So far, he didn't get banned and that's a good thing.

Using MIG Switch for pirated content might be tempting for some people out there due to the fact that you don't have to do any hardware modifications to the console itself, despite all the limitations of the MIG Switch, but to me it's just not worth getting your Switch banned.

If you have a banned patched Switch, don't want to install a modchip and have a modded Switch as well (for installing updates on a banned Switch), using MIG Switch for games on that system might be a "decent" use case, despite the limitations, if the end goal for you is just being able to play a couple of games. Keep in mind that the more games you have on your MIG Switch, the more annyoing will be to cycle through the games it, especially if you have a v1 MIG Switch (one without a button).
 
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I believe that you will be able to play the game unless it requires an update to even work properly to begin with. Most of the games that I've downloaded in MIG Switch supported format did come with an update so they'll probably be playable on the latest firmware. Sadly, I can't really confirm any of this as I'm yet to buy MIG Switch or similar.


You might be able to grab them while your console is still not banned, but I can't say for sure either. I know that you can update your games by matching the game version with another Switch in a local network. provided that the other Switch has that game with the latest update (that's where modded Switches are quite useful).
Thanks for the quick reply!

For the updates, aren't they usually in a .nsp format even if the base is in .xci? As far as I understand, .nsp can't be used with the mig switch, right?

Can anyone with a mig switch confirm this behavior? (Beeing able to play even without an update & beeing able to update as long as the switch is not banned)

Thanks
 
Thanks for the quick reply!

For the updates, aren't they usually in a .nsp format even if the base is in .xci? As far as I understand, .nsp can't be used with the mig switch, right?

Can anyone with a mig switch confirm this behavior? (Beeing able to play even without an update & beeing able to update as long as the switch is not banned)

Thanks
You don’t need the update unless you accidentally accept it in the future and continue your game on that updyae

Until then you can just ignore the update prompts
 
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Awesome Post man! Thanks.
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I am trying to understand the Dumper part of all of this.
Is a dumper a physical device?
Where can I learn more about this?
Thanks!
 
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I believe that you will be able to play the game unless it requires an update to even work properly to begin with. Most of the games that I've downloaded in MIG Switch supported format did come with an update so they'll probably be playable on the latest firmware. Sadly, I can't really confirm any of this as I'm yet to buy MIG Switch or similar.


You might be able to grab them while your console is still not banned, but I can't say for sure either. I know that you can update your games by matching the game version with another Switch in a local network. provided that the other Switch has that game with the latest update (that's where modded Switches are quite useful).
You should reconsider getting your switch banned. Any games you bought on the eShop will not redownload to it if it's banned. This is something I regret for having bought some eShop games without physical cards being made. Or the price was great. Anyway,I got a mig too and thought it would complement my modded switch. Rather than buying a larger SD card,I would use a second SD card in the mig to place games I had legit copies of and essentially extend the space available on my 1tb card to include the migs SD card. And you know what? I don't use it!it's a pain in the rear, since I already dumped my eShop and physical games. I didn't want to go back and download the three other files necessary to the mig.
 
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hello
wisedan here trying to be wiser
how quick is the ban from ninty?
coz i have 50 games on my mig and want update them directly from official servers and this will take about one day.
what do you think?
 
hello
wisedan here trying to be wiser
how quick is the ban from ninty?
coz i have 50 games on my mig and want update them directly from official servers and this will take about one day.
what do you think?
If they are from the seven seas probably a week or so
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Thanks to a random Redditor seeing my comments I now understand why the MiG has a airplane sticker lol
 

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So I bought a mig switch and I got a few games (torrented ones) on it,

Some games require an update like Super Smash Bros and I've looked around the forum to see if there is any way to update it while being banned (you can't).

But when I was downloading the same game as an XCI file to use on Yuzu, it included all the DLCs and updates.

My question is, since I got for Smash bros all the certs and the .xci, can I replace the XCI with the one that has the latest update and all DLCs?

Or will it not work due to different certs and allat?
 
So I bought a mig switch and I got a few games (torrented ones) on it,

Some games require an update like Super Smash Bros and I've looked around the forum to see if there is any way to update it while being banned (you can't).

But when I was downloading the same game as an XCI file to use on Yuzu, it included all the DLCs and updates.

My question is, since I got for Smash bros all the certs and the .xci, can I replace the XCI with the one that has the latest update and all DLCs?

Or will it not work due to different certs and allat?
It will not work because the copy of Smash you are using for Yuzu that has all the DLC and updates is an artificial .XCI file. In other words, someone modified the original .XCI file to include all of the updates and DLC. Mig Switch can only read unmodified .XCI files.
 
So I bought a mig switch and I got a few games (torrented ones) on it,

Some games require an update like Super Smash Bros and I've looked around the forum to see if there is any way to update it while being banned (you can't).

But when I was downloading the same game as an XCI file to use on Yuzu, it included all the DLCs and updates.

My question is, since I got for Smash bros all the certs and the .xci, can I replace the XCI with the one that has the latest update and all DLCs?

Or will it not work due to different certs and allat?
Hate to break it to you but if you already loaded that torrented game onto your home menu

You are flagged for ban
 
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Hate to break it to you but if you already loaded that torrented game onto your home menu

You are flagged for ban
Not banned yet, but I don't really care about the ban. I just wanted to know if it were possible to replace a .xci with a different one that contains the newest update,DLCs and allat.
 
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I can only speak for myself but I didn't really care at the time and put a pirated game on my switch and booted it up online. Instantly banned. I can't play online, I can't update games and I can't enter the e-shop. Couldn't care less. Had a great time on the seven seas and looking forward to more of the same with the Switch 2.
 
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