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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.

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[–] riseuppikmin@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've been out of the loop since year botw. Can anything other than xecuter cfw run xci now?

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

Yuzu and Ryujinx can, emulator-wise

[–] spaceaape@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Most of my roms are in NSP format for some reason, I'm playing with an emulator though, my switch isnt hacked.