In my search for knowledge about piracy and the dastardly fellows who partake in it, I came across an issue. How do these pirates attain nintendo switch games? i can't seem to understand. may anyone who is well versed in this topic provide some knowledge? much appreciated.

  • @Moonrise2473@feddit.it
    hexbear
    28
    7 months ago

    The first batch of Nintendo switch (millions and millions) have an unpatchable flaw that allows the owner to run whatever he wants. They use this flaw to run a program that simply extracts the files from the game cartridge

  • riseuppikmin [he/him]
    hexbear
    2
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    If it's early release it's a warehouse leak most likely that then gets dumped from a modded console (xci format). Some users convert xci to nsp for reasons unknown to me. Might be that switch cartridges have extra padding at the beginning/end that can be stripped to reduce file size.

    Otherwise it's just a standard dump from a modded console in either eShop (nsp) or physical (xci) format