Flash cart for the Switch incoming?

[BigOnYa]

It doesn't, you just store it there for ease ig

Oh makes since. I thought it worked thru the cart slot to enable RCM.

 

[Blythe93]

How does it even do the RCM stuff from the game card slot? Only info that is currently known is the 'RCM jig exploit'.

Game card slot is just a holder for it, nothing else. it's really neat as you don't need to carry a jig and a RCM loader separately, you can just store it in the game cart slot and have it with you all the time.

 

[Barxilly]

Or not. Just buy a Steam Deck if you want something powerful than 2015 hardware.

I did think about buying a Steam Deck, but then I got distracted and never thought about it again. I guess I'll just have to live with my OFW OLED for now

 

[SylverReZ]

Game card slot is just a holder for it, nothing else. it's really neat as you don't need to carry a jig and a RCM loader separately, you can just store it in the game cart slot and have it with you all the time.

A holder?! Is that what this even is? If its a holder or dummy for the game slot, then it wouldn't be even doing anything.

 

[Blythe93]

A holder?! Is that what this even is? If its a holder or dummy for the game slot, then it wouldn't be even doing anything.

Dragoninjector (i.e. jig + RCM loader) fits into the game card slot, so the game card slot is its holder. It's one of the tiniest (if not the tiniest) RCM loader + jig combo. Here's a full review on GBATemp.

 

[SylverReZ]

Dragoninjector (i.e. jig + RCM loader) fits into the game card slot, so the game card slot is its holder. It's one of the tiniest (if not the tiniest) RCM loader + jig combo. Here's a full review on GBATemp.

AH, now I understand. So there is, what seems to be a USB with a Teensy-type microcontroller on-board for the RCM stuffs, and there's a jig provided to do the exploit.

Been a long while since I ever looked into this, I was more focused onto the lawsuit where they got sued for selling piracy devices much like the RCM Loader.

 

[BigOnYa]

Dragoninjector (i.e. jig + RCM loader) fits into the game card slot, so the game card slot is its holder. It's one of the tiniest (if not the tiniest) RCM loader + jig combo. Here's a full review on GBATemp.

I am surpried there has not been any clones since. Was a good idea. Makes me want to see if can find trinket small enough and just 3D print myself a cart. Then again I hardly use the Jig anyways.

 

[SylverReZ]

I am surpried there has not been any clones since. Was a good idea. Makes me want to see if can find trinket small enough and just 3D print myself a cart. Then again I hardly use the Jig anyways.

(for now)
Looks very simple to replicate as to how they did it. Just need to measure the dimensions of the cartridge PCB, and then squeeze a Teensy onto the board to make room for the USB and contacts.

 

[impeeza]

Apparently, a lot of people might have requested this for Xmas, as it "seems" to be coming soon:

never on our times, because the cartdrige reader have his own firmware and is a COMPLETELY separated device from the SOC, big N learned well from previous consoles. now the cartdrige have a HAL and is isolated, the reading occurs only on user privileges and should be no way to escalate privileges.

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Its incredible how each Christmas a new profile get this exactly new.

 

[Adran_Marit]

If this is legit that means the Lotus is cracked.d il believe it whe I see it

 

[impeeza]

wow imagine if we could boot games from ssd/hdd when docked instead of pushing up and down a new revolutionary pirate gamecard xD... But seriously what is the use case of it, can it run rips of games safely on og/non hacked system or what?

Never will happen again, because Atmo's team do not like the piracy and the one which develop the code to do that is on jail and NOBODY wants take over that code again.

Didn't those Dragon Injector thing work kinda like this?

Nah the dragoninjector is a RCM injector. It just sits inside the game cart slot, but doesn't do anything.

Game card slot is just a holder for it, nothing else. it's really neat as you don't need to carry a jig and a RCM loader separately, you can just store it in the game cart slot and have it with you all the time.

A holder?! Is that what this even is? If its a holder or dummy for the game slot, then it wouldn't be even doing anything.

Dragoninjector (i.e. jig + RCM loader) fits into the game card slot, so the game card slot is its holder. It's one of the tiniest (if not the tiniest) RCM loader + jig combo. Here's a full review on GBATemp.

Dragon Injector was the best RCM Payload Injector EVER they used the Cartridge reader as storage for the device so you don't needed another box on your pocket, but big N have all measurements of their console and devices copyrighted and was able to C&D the dragon manufacturing.

By example, in practice there is no difference between RCM Loader and Dragon Injector beside you can store the Dragon Injector on your Cartridge Reader.

 

[SylverReZ]

Dragon Injector was the best RCM Payload Injector EVER they used the Cartridge reader as storage for the device so you don't needed another box on your pocket, but big N have all measurements of their console and devices copyrighted and was able to C&D the dragon manufacturing.

By example, in practice there is no difference between RCM Loader and Dragon Injector beside you can store the Dragon Injector on your Cartridge Reader.

Yeah, it seems like the Dragon Injector was kind of a forgotten gem that should've been wide spread to begin with, but sadly didn't last long on the market. If some Chinese manufacturer creates a clone of this, then I suppose it would replace the tedious RCM Loader clones.

 

[impeeza]

Yeah, it seems like the Dragon Injector was kind of a forgotten gem that should've been wide spread to begin with, but sadly didn't last long on the market. If some Chinese manufacturer creates a clone of this, then I suppose it would replace the tedious RCM Loader clones.

Sadly the source code, 3d blueprints of the case and schema and board files of the project was confiscated by big N and the public available copies (was open source) was removed from the net, if you find some copies around you can try to build for you self but I don't think any Chinese company will see any niche on that device because is only for V1 consoles.

 

[SylverReZ]

Sadly the source code, 3d blueprints of the case and schema and board files of the project was confiscated by big N and the public available copies (was open source) was removed from the net, if you find some copies around you can try to build for you self but I don't think any Chinese company will see any niche on that device because is only for V1 consoles.

Confiscated? Nah, I don't think it would be that; rather, they've tried to wipe any existence of it off the web. Suppose the Wayback Machine still has forks available.

If this is legit that means the Lotus is cracked.d il believe it whe I see it

No evidence proves this to be the case. Only thing we got is a video. They don't show hardware specs, internals, nor nothing. Just the device being demonstrated on a Switch (possibly modded), so don't get your hopes up high.

 

[mrdude]

Each physical cartridge has a unique ID, even the same game will have a different ID, and Nintendo has banned specific IDs from ever going online due to ROMs being leaked.

Yep but ID's can be randomised in software and as the card is reading from micro sd I assumed the gamecard is using a chip which is running sofware and could be programmed to do this automatically.

 

[linuxares]

There never was any opensource files for the cart. He never got around to release them. Only firmware and software.

 

[ccfman2004]

Yep but ID's can be randomised in software and as the card is reading from micro sd I assumed the gamecard is using a chip which is running sofware and could be programmed to do this automatically.

Except that in order for the game to get online the ID has to be a legit ID, you can't just use random values. For offline use the IDs don't matter, only for online play.

EDIT: I should elaborate that when I say ID I am referring to the cartridge specific Nintendo signed certificate.

 

[impeeza]

never on our times, because the cartdrige reader have his own firmware and is a COMPLETELY separated device from the SOC, big N learned well from previous consoles. now the cartdrige have a HAL and is isolated, the reading occurs only on user privileges and should be no way to escalate privileges.

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Its incredible how each Christmas a new profile get this exactly new.

by the way "HAL" is Hardware Abstraction Layer is a separation between hardware and software, no the IA from Space Odity 2000

 

[ccfman2004]

by the way "HAL" is Hardware Abstraction Layer is a separation between hardware and software, no the IA from Space Odity 2000

And here I'm thinking it was a Nintendo Software Developer that made Super Smash Brothers among other games. LOL.

 

[masagrator]

If this works on unmodified Switches, then it means it must run unmodified XCIs. So people without CFW will be forced to play only base version of games. This won't be able to magically manipulate all those checks on FS and Loader to pass modded XCIs.