Some time ago, something happened in the gaming circle, and it was related to Nintendo, which players are all too familiar with.
There's a thing called Mig Swicth, which can be used to play cracked Switch games by simulating the way of plugging and unplugging cartridges...
This is undoubtedly a huge provocation for Nintendo, the strongest legal department in the Eastern Hemisphere.
What's more, this time the cracking method is different from the past, this Mig Switch has a very low threshold for use, and there is no complicated steps to crack it before.
In the past, the Switch was cracked, either by installing software such as a virtual machine, or directly dismantling the machine and soldering a chip or something.
And the Mig Switch's method is extremely "elegant" in comparison, you just need to insert this Mig Switch, which looks like a cassette, into the position of the card, and you're done...
And this thing looks like a cassette at first glance, but it's actually more like a card holder that can insert an SD card, and you see there's an SD card in it, so everyone should be familiar with it.
What's even more outrageous is that this set of equipment is sold to the outside world, and the pre-sale price is 60 US dollars, which is about the same price as a game cartridge...
At this time, many people will have the same questions as Tony, I said stop, Nintendo's legal department is not in a hurry to attack?
And Mig Switch is obviously prepared, as soon as you click on their official website, a notice page will pop up.
In terms of streaming, we have a tool to help players "back up" the game, and you can't use it casually, because backing up the game is illegal in some countries...
We also don't allow you to run pirated games from the Internet or from friends, which is illegal and we don't give you a warranty.
I'll go, this set of combos, this righteous and awe-inspiring statement, almost deceived me, a battle-experienced old Tony...
In short, this statement is trying to do everything possible to get rid of my relationship with pirated games, and I "backup" the game, how can it be said that I am playing piracy?
Okay, okay, now I pretend to believe your nonsense, click on the official website, and then I was stunned when I saw this festive page.
This page not only has a very strong flavor of "Qi Tusu", but it is simply written directly at the bottom that it is produced in Russia, and it is accompanied by a large list of Russian languages. . .
But because this style of painting is too stereotypical.,So Tony thinks it should be the developer who deliberately "framed" Maozi.。。。
The specific usage and ins and outs of this Mig Switch, Tony won't talk about it in detail here, after all, piracy is not recommended.
But one of its important parts, that is, this "cartridge" and an SD card, some old players have probably seen it, which is similar to the "flashcard" of the year.
To put it simply, a flashcard looks like a cassette, but in fact there is a card slot for the SD card, which contains all kinds of games.
And as a big cassette holder of Nintendo's handheld,Lao Ren can be said to be tormented by this thing.。。。
For example, Nintendo GBA, NDS and 3DS and other models have flashcards on them, which may be cool for us players, but it is too much of a headache for Nintendo...
In the early days, pirated games were actually everywhere, but Lao Ren can be said to be the hardest hit area of pirated games.
In addition, people's awareness of genuine copyright was not so high back then, and not everyone had spare money in their pockets to buy games, so naturally some people were eyeing this pirated business.
For example, the R4 flashcard, which was popular all over the world back then, has been searched for in orange software until now, and there are many stores selling this thing.
But now the people who buy it are basically tossing the old handhelds, after all, there are Switch and Windows handhelds to play now, and they generally don't specifically study the flashcard.
But back then, it was different, and many players basically relied on flashcards to play the world's NDS games.
For example, a 2008 report said that 9 out of 10 NDS players in the United States use R4 flashcards to play pirated games...
9 Players, think about how bad the sales of this game were...
Nintendo had no choice but to initiate various lawsuits to alleviate the situation of pirated games flying around.
Tony estimates that the title of the strongest legal department in the Eastern Hemisphere may have been born at that time...
Who is the strongest legal department in the Western Hemisphere? Of course, it's the company whose copyright for the original animation image has just expired.
Sony's PSP handheld is also plagued by pirated games, but don't think you can't crack it if you switch to a disc.
Although Sony has specially given the PSP a whole UMD disc, and there are no blank UMD discs and recorders on the market, everyone should already know the ending.
Tony remembers playing his classmates' PSP as a child, which was a game package downloaded from a well-known pirate game website and copied directly from his computer to the console.
And now if you want to relive the old game, you don't even need a console.,Just go straight to the emulator and it's over.。。。
But that's for later, in any case, pirated games were a common and even a bit widespread in those days.
Fortunately, in recent years, everyone's awareness of genuine version has become better and better, and many people have chosen to buy game cartridges and sell them to return to blood, forming a positive cycle.
Or there are Tony's kinds, who bought physical cassettes and game discs just to collect.
Although there has been information related to Switch and PS5 cracks in recent years, it has not made any big waves, and the subscription service is becoming more and more popular, so everyone seems to have stopped eating this set.
And this year is the end of the life of the Switch, and it is already very difficult to run a new game like "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom", and at this time, cracking the game in a way similar to a flashcard is very limited.
But anyway, Mig Switch does give the new generation of players a little piracy shock, so it turned out that it could still be played like this back then?
However, times have changed, this approach is good for everyone to look at the picture, Tony does not recommend everyone to play pirated games, or to support the genuine within the scope of their ability, so that developers can get due remuneration, so that everyone can continue to play more fun games in the future.