Reports were saying the Switch was coming q4 2024, but now Nintendo is reportedly telling its partners that it’s been pushed to q1 2025

  • Geek_King@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I hope that works! I never got into digital downloads on consoles in any big way, how companies make games from the online shop inaccessible once the console goes end of life is a damn shame! It feels like the more and more consoles move toward digital only, the less we’ll have viable retro consoles in the future.

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      9 months ago

      Also, I wouldn’t know how to back the sd cards up in case they break. You can’t exactly do an image and duplicate them. It doesn’t work so well with SD cards.

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          9 months ago

          You can have errors when you write it back into another SD card and end up with a corrupt card. That was from experience a long time ago.

          Maybe the tools are better adapted now?

          • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
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            9 months ago

            That’s going to be a function of your SD card reader and the quality of the card itself. If you’re really concerned, copy it to your HDD, then read again and verify. And then when writing, do a verify step as well.

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              9 months ago

              Not with a Nintendo Switch SD card I would think?

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            9 months ago

            If this were universally true then SD cards would be completely useless, as regular writes would fail in the same manner. Bad card, bad slot, or bad tools.