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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[SamuraiErikku]

This feels like the second coming of Sky3DS. Lol

Now only if there was a Nintendo Switch Flash Cart was like Sky3DS+ to cycle through the games easily I think I would purchase that it that was the final product. I would also like to use my DLC & Updates + Digital Only Games on the Nintendo Switch Flash Cart too it would be very helpful.

 

[G33ksquad]

Interesting speculation from @hexkyz in this Twitter thread: https://nitter.net/hexkyz/status/1740168835607773473

Especially #5:

Not France, Germany. There's a Max Louarn associate from Germany, Kim Schmitz.

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Fuck Kim Schnitz.

Interesting, their email hosting is out of Italy, I tried to look into the hosting more but obviously cloudflare protection and it was registered right so I couldn’t get much more info.

 

[impeeza]

Interesting, their email hosting is out of Italy, I tried to look into the hosting more but obviously cloudflare protection and it was registered right so I couldn’t get much more info.

cloudfare are a set of reverse proxy servers AROUND the world so you can not to know really where the servers are hosted.

 

[Ryab]

I bet you're not shilling hard enough.

I mean there has been multiples groups who have added bricking code in the past.

 

[gbadl]

Price needs to be $30 or less for this as it is a simple device. If price is higher we shouldn't buy and wait for clones.

The cart switching feature isn't necessarily a bad thing. I see a button on the cart causing problems when closing the cart lid and you may accidentally eject games while in play, in addition the button may fail. You shouldn't have more then 2 to 3 games on this, keep backups on an 2tb external hard drive and only transfer what is needed onto a 64gb or 128gb microsd. I mean when traveling how many cartridges do people usually bring with you and how do you change the cartridges without removing them from slot? It would be the same thing as what this cart is doing when ejecting and reinserting.

A lot of people weren't around in the 90s, early 2000s when only 1 game could be on a flash cart at a time. I remember when flash carts were advertised on the back of EGM and Gamepro magazines, lol.

 

[Kioku]

Nintendo will be faced with the challenge of choosing to ban potentially innocent people who buy used games. I wonder how that will play out.

They’ll likely ban them if they detect the device.

 

[romog24247]

If it is works for with custom xci yes. But you need to use their dumper so until someone reverse it to produce a custom one or such, it looks bleak

not happening unless you can also patch out signature checks from fs and loader

 

[PacBunnyXV07]

Can someone tell me if this is worth getting a Switch? Then Nintendo announces Switch 2...

 

[fst312]

Can someone tell me if this is worth getting a Switch? Then Nintendo announces Switch 2...

If you don’t have a switch and want one, just get a switch v1. The flash cart isn’t really worth it, it is good for people that just have a v2 switch though but I would still wait to see if this really won’t cause a ban. The people that get this that really don’t care about online will be the test subjects.

Switch 2 might be worth it still but me personally I won’t be a day 1 buyer even if this somehow works on that. Using this on a switch2, will probably get you banned if it works.

 

[Hassal]

cloudfare are a set of reverse proxy servers AROUND the world so you can not to know really where the servers are hosted.

Cloudflare is an American company so you should think again if you believe you could hide behind a cloud service.

 

[impeeza]

Cloudflare is an American company so you should think again if you believe you could hide behind a cloud service.

but cloudfare only provide the reverse proxy, the hosting can be anywhere on the world and the only things cloudfare could be summoned are the proxy logs.

 

[Hassal]

but cloudfare only provide the reverse proxy, the hosting can be anywhere on the world and the only things cloudfare could be summoned are the proxy logs.

In any case, I have my doubt of all of this and think its just a sham to feed on desperate plebs who cannot be bothered to mod switches.
I mean think about it, they selling a questionable product and taking preorders where people would not question their motives and make millions from fools who will send them wire transfers and bitcoins. Might as well send all your money to Pablo Escobar.

 

[G33ksquad]

In any case, I have my doubt of all of this and think its just a sham to feed on desperate plebs who cannot be bothered to mod switches.
I mean think about it, they selling a questionable product and taking preorders where people would not question their motives and make millions from fools who will send them wire transfers and bitcoins. Might as well send all your money to Pablo Escobar.

I do agree, and there are plenty of TX devices that never had an actual release.

 

[Fred Molyneux]

Hmmmmm. Sounds like we can inject the Cert/UID of a personally owned cart into any other backup and play them all online. Sounds amazing, but I'll personally be waiting it out to see of there's a ban wave before I jump in.

This is exactly what I was thinking of and what the beta tester seems to imply in the original post on Twitter. Now can Nintendo detect if the Cert/UID is valid and unique (because it comes from one of your game you never shared) BUT not from the game you are playing remains to be seen. This beta tester said it works but 2 points:
1) Bans are known to happen a week or even longer after you break their rule
2) The fact that he/she wasn't detected when there is only a few beta testers out there doesn't mean it won't be the case when there is tens of thousands of people using the same trick.
But it is promising and if it works, it is definitely a hell of a feature!

 

[Gladuin]

haha hwfly picofly sux ass all u need buy mig switch nice like sd2vita

good luck only playing your own dumps! you'll get instabanned if you use public dumps lolol this thing won't even be able to run homebrew

 

[linuxares]

but cloudfare only provide the reverse proxy, the hosting can be anywhere on the world and the only things cloudfare could be summoned are the proxy logs.

Cloud Act forces US companies to hand out data to the US authorities.

 

[Purple_Heart]

why isnt it named Big Bitch? xD.

 

[G33ksquad]

Cloud Act forces US companies to hand out data to the US authorities.

I would be shocked they didn’t already have this, real or not, Nintendo I’m sure is taking it as real until they find out otherwise. Although SX OS was made and sold for quite a while before they stopped it.

 

[cainan__c]

I feel like if this device well and truly comes to market it'll be interesting. If everything is to be believed then it could well and truly could be a somewhat convinient solution for backups. Especially if it just seems to be bog standard XCI dumps.

If anything, I'm more interested in the backup device this product is said to come with. If they're regular XCI files then it would make backing up my ever growing Switch collection far more convinient for when I want to emulate my games.

But I'm very very skeptical of this so far, I have my doubts on if this is even a legitimate device.

Only time will tell, however.

Unlike most though, I don't care about the possible "piracy" aspect of this device (Hell, I go to great lengths to get some of the games I have physicially, even importing them if needed (e.g Ace Attorney, Omori, Persona 3/4, etc.) if they're not avaliable to buy in the UK physically (or go for much higher prices here...).) but moreso having something I can carry around that has all of my games instead of my cartridge binder that has, what, over one thousand £ worth of games in it. With that in mind though, switching between that many games sounds like an absolute pain without a physicial "switch games" button.

 

[linuxares]

I would be shocked they didn’t already have this, real or not, Nintendo I’m sure is taking it as real until they find out otherwise. Although SX OS was made and sold for quite a while before they stopped it.

Their lawyers most likely know all this. Not that companies can request this really from Cloudflare, they need a subpoena from the courts if so.

EDIT: Which is most likely really easy to do since they will ask the courts for it so they can use it for evidence.