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[–] Numenor@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

the MIG Flash (formerly MIG-Switch) is a specialized, reprogrammable cartridge that's designed to mimic a real Nintendo Switch cartridge, but allows you to store your own game ROMs or backups on its microSD card. This essentially enables you to hold multiple game copies on a single cartridge, letting you conveniently switch between them with the help of a button.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Which is ideal for someone who is constantly on the go/traveling/etc and don't want to risk losing all their carts. Just dump'm, put them on one flash cart, and have all your games in one thing you never have to take out of your console.

You know, like the kinda of people the switch is geared towards

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

Road to hell is paved with good Nintentions

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

The only game series I still play from Nintendo are all on steam now I feel so smug with my steam deck :3

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 185 points 1 week ago (25 children)

looks up from steam deck

wait what?

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago

Pretty sure Valve encourage people to do fun things with their steam deck. You want to run some custom OS on it? Go ahead!

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[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 107 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Going online with flash carts on a new console is certainly a choice. The first Switch already hardware banned for doing that, so this isn't new.

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[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 104 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Fuck Nintendo. No other company has as much active distain for their fans. And the damage they’ve done to game preservation is immeasurable.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 74 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No other company has as much active distain for their fans

Pretty sure Apple does.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 95 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted here.

Apple is the company that brought us:

  • Proprietary charging cables with DRM microchips.
  • The first flagship phones with the headphone jack removed.
  • The normalization of phones without expandable storage.
  • A phone where you buy the charger separately.
  • A walled-garden ecosystem without sideloading.
  • An OS that removed support for kernel extensions.
  • An authorized repair program that replaces instead of repairs.
  • A line of ATX-sized desktop PCs with storage modules that are only accepted if they're the same capacity as the ones you originally bought the PC with.

Their entire software and hardware is an affront to personal ownership, right to repair, and consumer rights.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't forget the thousand dollar basic monitor stand. Or the assumption that their users were too stupid to understand multiple mouse buttons until like the mid 00s. Or making a mouse that was completely round (still with one button) so you'd have to look at it to be sure it's oriented correctly, though I guess that one was more bad design than lack of respect for their users.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh yeah. And the rechargeable mouse that needs to be flipped upside down to charge simply because the designers hated the idea of people leaving it plugged in constantly. Or the Mac Pro wheels that cost almost as much as an entire handheld PC.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 32 points 1 week ago

Thar list is the lite version that doesnt include all the times theyve blocked open standards so their users can't interact with non apple things.

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Correction:

It's not the account that's banned. It's the device that's banned. You can factory reset the Switch 2, completely wiping all data, and it will remain banned. This means that none of the games you've purchased legally will function, as cartridges no longer contain games and Nintendo's services are required to play them.

It essentially becomes a useless flat tile.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 days ago

As a British citizen I am starting to get ideas. The following is about distance selling which includes online sales.

You must offer a refund to customers if they’ve told you within 14 days of receiving their goods that they want to cancel. They have another 14 days to return the goods once they’ve told you.

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[–] missingno@fedia.io 78 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Despite the fearmongering going around about bricks, this is only online bans. Same thing they've always done, same thing Sony and Microsoft do too if you get caught there.

Frankly, if you try to go online with pirated games, you're an idiot.

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Idea:

  1. Get a switch 2 from Amazon
  2. Get it banned from Nintendo
  3. Return it to Amazon
  4. Let Nintendo and Amazon deal with the pissed customer that gets it later
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