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After just 12 days, Nintendo is already nuking Switch 2 console accounts for players caught using Mig Flash
(www.tomshardware.com)
looks up from steam deck
wait what?
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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PC gaming just need a solid Mario Kart alternative and every other genre are covered.
Super Tux Kart is pretty decent tbh
I'll have to revisit it. It changed a lot since I last played.
Keep an eye on Sonic Racing: Crossworlds.
Every Mario Kart except World is playable on PC...but of course the online is far more limited since the pool of players is much, much smaller.
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Looks up from one of my hacked switches which are not banned
Heh, someone (the banned person) wasn't paying attention.
This is the way
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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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.
I know people that got their Nintendo DS banned for using flash carts. This ain't new.
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Fuck Nintendo. No other company has as much active distain for their fans. And the damage they’ve done to game preservation is immeasurable.
No other company has as much active distain for their fans
Pretty sure Apple does.
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.
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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Worse than disdain, it's hostility. Their family-friendly image is at odds with their actual actions. Going after streamers because they dare play (and publicize) your games...? What the fuck!? Their attitude literally makes me reconsider buying their console and/or games...
As it should.
Beside perhaps Apple
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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.
Is it still usable as in it boots?
Because then it's a prime piracy machine because it will never get patched again.
From what I've seen from the videos of people with banned Switch 2s:
Yes, it still boots.
There are active discussions already going on on GBATemp.net about Switch 2 bans and whatnot. I'd keep an eye on that forum to see how things develop.
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It's not useless. You can still sell it to people without telling them about the ban then ghost them
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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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.
Also it's impossible to make legal backups with the Mig flash. Yes backups for personal use are legal, but under the DMCA bypassing the DRM is not legal. And the Mig flash is seen as a DRM circumvention device. And before y'all come at me no i don't agree with this but Nintendo probably has the law on their side with this. Since players using the Mig are violating the EULA.
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People are saying it happened to them with non-pirated games they put on the cartridge for convenience.
If you're using a flashcart online at all, you're an idiot.
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Idea:
- Get a switch 2 from Amazon
- Get it banned from Nintendo
- Return it to Amazon
- Let Nintendo and Amazon deal with the pissed customer that gets it later
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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.
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After 12 days, people still buy the Nintendo Switch 2, when a month earlier the price was to high for them.
Is that against the terms and conditions?
Just asking!
Yes, they've always banned users for going online with pirated games, and the T&C has always warned you that they would. Sony and Microsoft do the same thing too.
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The Nintendo online play is a joke. Not connecting to the web is a boon imo
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Yeah, if you pirate and whatever... fair enough. Don't expect Nintendo to want to deal with you. But at least you know that is the risk you're taking.
The other group of people this will impact are those who dump (legally) their own games so that they don't have to swap out carts all the time. It's also going to suck for those who pick up a second hand console to find that their online access is restricted. I don't see an issue with Nintendo blacklisting a device from their services should it go against their ToS, but this just seems way too easy of a trap to walk into.
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ah, the old "let's completely shit on the millions of people who give us money, in order to do nothing to the handful of people who torrent our shit" strategy
The fuck are you talking about? Do you think millions of people are going online with flashcarts that aren't pirates?
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