#gamecarts
Wave 2 of possible misinformation begins. Switch Virtual Gamecarts 🙄.
I do have my nephew's Switch at home so I could do some tests this weekend to see what is doable.
April 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I dont mind gamecarts that much but this could have been a 64gb one lmao
July 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
its ironic mostly the japanese titles are gamecarts
April 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Limited Run for the win!

Publisher Promises Its Switch 2 Game Carts Will Have Full Games On Them

buff.ly/5choGSM

#LimitedRun #Switch2 #Nintendo #GameCarts #Gaming
May 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
oh & i guess its this demoncracker country's birthday.

donkey kong country is much better, because it exists on little gamecarts & hdds.

usa is founded on theft & greed & continues to run off such. a sad state. blow up millions of $ a year to dazzle with light / trigger pets!🎆
March 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
i suspect the price increase isn't just due to tarrifs for physical but could be in equal part due to the faster storage requirements for switch 2 games. SD express uses faster PCIE based storage. stands to reason the gamecarts have the same tech, hence the inflated price compared 2 digital
April 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
wriiting a tool to perfectly rip psvita gamecarts, but then not making a tool to mount those gamecart rips, and instead trying to make hardware to replicate gamecarts, while being compleletely out of depth on all of it
July 7, 2026 at 4:16 AM
[vita scene drama continued;]

'but M reserached gamecarts and released all his findings you just made a emmc proxy, its useless!"

thats cool, except M never actually finished reversing the auth, and never made anything out of it; i did..

now i need the "useless" work; that does not exist […]
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June 11, 2026 at 9:29 AM
behold!
https://archive.org/details/SD_G_GENERATION_GENESIS

a VCI dump of the only dual-cartridge vita game ever; (cart 2 is kind of interesting)
SDガンダム GGENERATION GENESIS [PCSG00793] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
VCI / GcToolKit 1:1 dump of both cartridges for SDガンダム GGENERATION GENESIS.. this is the only vita game to feature 2 gamecarts
archive.org
April 13, 2026 at 8:12 PM
yesterday i learned that vita gamecarts can include an gro0:/appinst and gro0:/acinst directories, and the console will automatically install the corresponding apps and addcont found in those folders, up to at least 4 i think (possibly more-) it will read the license files from gro0:/license/app […]
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April 2, 2026 at 8:54 PM
[anarchism, being silly w language, gamecarts]

im a fake anarchist i rewrote a stateless algorithm in a extremely stateful way, and now your vita games are gonna do systemic oppression and violence.
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
["""repro"""" carts and the PS Vita]

i think vita gamecarts might be writable, but also imagine the chaos on the second hand market if that were true xS

like "fake games" exist for other platforms like DS/GBA/etc, but there all very easy to tell,

imagine just re-writing the contents of a vita […]
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September 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
the eMMC standard supports having partial write protection,

vita gamecarts are fancy eMMC with a custom firmware, and feature partial write protection

however, they do not actually use the eMMC spec feature for partial write protection.
June 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
holy fuck, wait ?? toshiba made gamecarts?

(This is Sen No Kiseki II, if anyone is curious)
May 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I’m not sure what the cpu architecture is used by vita gamecarts but whatever it is it’s clearly big endian, because the vita constantly bswaps numbers being sent to the cart then bswaps them back in the response ..
February 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
A good argument against the #NintendoSwitch2 #gamecarts.

Fritanga on DONT BUY Nintendo Switch 2 Cart Here's Why youtu.be/iOoGuF5zzkg?... #physicalmedia #videogameindustry #digitalmedia #gamecartridge #gamepreservation #Nintendo
DONT BUY Nintendo Switch 2 Cart Here's Why
YouTube video by FritangaPlays
youtu.be
April 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Usually rules get made to not count certain things against times.
IIRC, mario kart and odyssey both don't count loads anyway because gamecarts are slower than downloaded.
August 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
My read of that is they're still doing actual gamecarts, but now there's an option to sell physical DRM keys as long as it's labelled on the box.

That's vastly preferable to selling a box with a download code in it, IMO. Unless that becomes the default.
April 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
don't even get me started on the digital key gamecarts shit oh my god. this has gotten spread so much by people with 0 reading comprehension skills

it does NOT apply to every game. all physical releases are NOT just keys disguised as carts.
June 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM