• @Warl0k3
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    441 day ago

    At what point does nintendo make the process of buying their games so complicated that it actually becomes easier to learn how to install a modchip?? This is just ridiculous.

    • thermal_shock
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      251 day ago

      Already did, $150 bucks got me modchip, all games, SD card support, emulators, backups. Fuck the convoluted mess of Nintendo.

      • Gristle
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        624 hours ago

        Care to share more info? This sounds right up my alley. And maybe a bit of perma-attaching joycons. Maybe I just want an OLED lite haha

        • thermal_shock
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          Sure, I used https://socalconsolemodding.com/, I have the second gen switch. I shipped him a 512GB samsung micro sd card and the switch, no accessories. then i paid him and he shipped it back. his username is https://old.reddit.com/user/L3gendaryBanana on reddit, can message him for more details. very happy with the work and turnaround time.

          essentially mine works like this now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37EHkYqcXb4

          i used this gamepad also, the stock ones are too small for my hands, but they work great for multiplayer stuff and for the kiddo - https://amzn.to/4guNgvn

          there are much nicer ones, but i’m happy with the size and “bulk” of this one, feels good and makes it more durable feeling to me. and the price was where i wanted it.

            • @Warl0k3
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              Some 1st gen switches do not need a modchip. The tegra exploit was patched long befofe the release of mariko units, and those patched models still require a modchip to run CFW.

              • @[email protected]
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                -119 hours ago

                I wouldnt consider a patched chip (a literal change of hardware) to be first gen, but ok.

                • @Warl0k3
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                  Neat, you’re at odds with the definitions used by the entire switch CFW community, but I’m glad you get to feel like you know what you’re talking about.

                  Erista is v1, Mariko is v2. ‘First gen’ means Erista. This is how I’ve seen it for the entire six years I’ve been developing homebrew for the switch. It’s how my documentation lists it, it’s how everyone else’s documentation lists it. Otherwise you’re trying to delineate between multiple asynchronous hardware revisions, which with nintendo’s arbitrarily applied board codes boy does that get convoluted…

                  • @[email protected]
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                    018 hours ago

                    listen man, I’m just upset that the first persob got pissy with me because I just tried to point out that with my understanding of how things worked, and how they worded their first and second reply, they had paid some Reddit rando $140 more than they should have. I’ll admit that I am not “in the scene” so to speak, and that I find it odd that this is how they have chosen to label things as to people who aren’t in the know it would be very confusing. I apologize for being rash. I do not do well with perceived passive-aggressiveness over text.

            • thermal_shock
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              23 hours ago

              Good for you, but I got what I wanted, I don’t feel I got ripped off.

              Also, mine is second gen, already checked that jigger thing. I misspoke in other comment.

              • @[email protected]
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                123 hours ago

                sorry, didn’t mean to piss you off. you said first gen in the original post and in this economy most people would see $140 as something not to be wasted, but go off IG.

                • thermal_shock
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                  in this economy most people would see $140 as something not to be wasted

                  your opinion, you know nothing about me, my equipment, my finances.

                  but go off IG

                  if IG is instagram, you’re dead wrong again and assuming things about me. i don’t have an instagram account, nor did i see it on there.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    117 hours ago

                    BROTHER IG MEANS I GUESS LMFAO. And again, dont need to know anything about you to know the value of money, regardless of person it has the same buying power.

        • thermal_shock
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          317 hours ago

          all your games/operating system files are on the micro sd, you can easily back it up, copy it, replace it, etc, nothing is on the internal memory as far as i know. you’re in total control of the system, nothing locked out.

      • @[email protected]
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        151 day ago

        There are lots of region-locked digital games. Having a Japanese account is easy. Having a Japanese payment method is hard.

        • xep
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          I think that is rather the point, yes.

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      31 day ago

      I understand the outrage. I think that may be a bit of a stretch though.