159
Nintendo takes down over 400 Switch emulator repositories in a single day (nintendoeverything.com)
submitted 1 week ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/nintendo@lemmy.world
25 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Nintend'oh.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Wait I'm confused now, if you play a legitimate game online using a switch which has previously had a flash cart used it can be banned? I was under the impression that as long as you didn't go online it was fully undetectable, allowing you to use legitimate games online as you want without needing to switch between emummc and sysnand. Nintendo probably doesn't care about the homebrew software in the same way they do piracy, but unfortunately for them that's all the flash carts can do, hence why from their perspective I say every version is cracked.

I'm not up to date on switch modchips but last I checked you needed to solder a flex pcb such that it made contact with pads under a BGA chip. As it goes that's quite intensive rework for a hobbyist. I'm an electrical engineer and use professional BGA rework equipment at work regularly. Our success rate for BGA rework is like 80% for ICs that have been desoldered and resoldered before. Sure you don't need to remove the chip to get the flex PCB soldered, but the risk of shorting balls and needing to remove it on an expensive piece of hardware is too much for many hobbyists.

[-] Anivia@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

Wait I'm confused now, if you play a legitimate game online using a switch which has previously had a flash cart used it can be banned?

Yes

I'm not up to date on switch modchips but last I checked you needed to solder a flex pcb such that it made contact with pads under a BGA chip

That was only the case for the OLED model, not the LCD and Switch Lite. Nowadays on the OLED model a different method gets used to solder to the Dat0 connection (known as Kamikaze method).

I've done it on all three models and the OLED is the only one that is genuinely difficult to do, yet I was still able to do it without a microscope. The LCD version and Switch Lite are easy enough to do that someone with basic soldering skills can do it

this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2026
159 points (98.8% liked)

Nintendo

25131 readers
19 users here now

A community for everything Nintendo. Games, news, discussions, stories etc.

Rules:

  1. Stay on topic.
  2. No NSFW content.
  3. No hate speech or personal attacks.
  4. No ads / spamming / trolling / self-promotion / low effort posts / memes etc.
  5. No linking to, or sharing information about, hacks, ROMs or any illegal content. And no piracy talk. (Linking to emulators, or general mention / discussion of emulation topics is fine.)
  6. No console wars or PC elitism.
  7. Be a decent human (or a bot, we don't discriminate against bots... except in Point 8).
  8. All bots must have mod permission prior to implementation and must follow instance-wide rules. For lemmy.world bot rules click here
  9. Links to Twitter, X, or any alternative version such as Nitter, Xitter, Xcancel, etc. are no longer allowed. This includes any "connected-but-separate" web services such as pbs. twimg. com. The only exception will be screenshots in the event that the news cannot be sourced elsewhere.

Upcoming First Party Games (NA):

Game | Date

|

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave [S2] | Sep 17 Nintendo Switch Sports Resort [S2] | Oct 22 The Duskbloods [S2] | 2026 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time [S2] | 2026 Pokémon Winds & Waves [S2] | 2027 Xenoblade Genesis [S2] | 2027

[S2] means Switch 2 only.

Other Gaming Communities

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
slimerancher@lemmy.world
picandocodigo@lemmy.world