So I was messing around on my Switch and found this shit.
Once you update a Switch cart and delete the patch data, that cart can't boot up without downloading the updates. Doesn't matter if they game was fully playable on it's base verison. It will just refuse to boot up.
This effectively makes the cart wortless once the servers go down.
What the hell was Nintendo thinking? Is there a way to bypass this?
Edit: There is a way to boot games after all. You just have to factory reset your Switch and disable automatic downloads. Here's a video:
You will lose your save files though but it's something.
Once you update a Switch cart and delete the patch data, that cart can't boot up without downloading the updates. Doesn't matter if they game was fully playable on it's base verison. It will just refuse to boot up.
This effectively makes the cart wortless once the servers go down.
What the hell was Nintendo thinking? Is there a way to bypass this?
Edit: There is a way to boot games after all. You just have to factory reset your Switch and disable automatic downloads. Here's a video:
You will lose your save files though but it's something.
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