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The Switch Will NEVER be the Same: Nintendo Switch Dumper Review (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago by realitista@lemmy.world to c/nintendo@lemmy.world

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[+] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world -16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean you need a game cartridge and a Nintendo system to play a Nintendo game? Shocked, just like every console ever made, even up till now which require license verification within the game code?? Shocked.

But you want to go around Nintendo so you can "backup" and share the game and hack it and spread it to everyone for free, but that's not pirating?? Dude I'm pro pirating, but to call this anything but pirating is such a lie

[–] barooboodoo@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This comment explains pretty well about how this is going to potentially affect legitimate users, credit to neoman4426

Nintendo Switch cartridge based games have a file that's unique to each individual cartridge. The dumper and accompanying flash cart make use of that file. If Nintendo detects two people playing while connected to the internet with the "same" cartridge, there's a high chance of them banning both consoles. So any used game anyone buys after this point runs the risk that someone dumped it, maybe an old owner who resold, maybe someone who bought and returned it, etc, which means even a legitimate user who hasn't even heard of the flash cart could get banned. There's also the potential issue of people using the tech in the flash cart once people figure out how to use those chips to sell bootlegged reproduction cartridges that have the same issue