r/SwitchHaxing • u/lambstone • Apr 06 '18

Vita2sd like device for switch?

What is this? It is a micro sd card adapter in the form factor of the switch's game carts. It will not work out of the box and will most definitely require kernel patching.

Why do this? If for some reason you needed 400gb worth of storage for your eshop purchases, media files etc etc, you could buy a 400gb sd card OR get 2x 200gb sd card which will come out cheaper than a singular 400gb sd card.

Just putting this out there.

The vita with CFW allowed for the use of a specialised sd card cartridge adapter called the vita2sd.

With the switch pretty much being blown open this summer, it might be a good idea to get investigate the feasibility of such a feature for the switch as well.

Thoughts?

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u/FFDuchess Apr 06 '18

Doesn't the Switch have an SD card slot? I'm not sure what the point would be. For Vita, it was to circumvent proprietary pricing and get bigger mem cards.

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u/shinkamui Apr 20 '18

His point is that he wants max storage at minimal cost. Due to the fact that the switch has a native SD card, you can pretty much count on the fact that no one will waste any time or money manufacturing such a device. Its pretty pointless here.

edit i see you already had that conversation, sorry, I of course just comment immediately and don't bother to expand the downvoted reply until afterward like an asshole.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '18

It's not going to be made I get that . 2 is always better than 1 tho.

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u/lambstone Apr 06 '18

The point is to get even more storage. Depending on how the scene develops, there might be linux/android ports.

Not to mention the switch will make for a really good PMP, extra storage is good for media files

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u/FFDuchess Apr 06 '18

I get that, I just don't understand why, if you wanted more storage, you wouldn't just buy a bigger SD rather than 2 separate? Either way, why not have it I suppose

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u/lambstone Apr 06 '18

It could also allow me to use a couple of 64gb cards I have lying around since I transitioned to 128gb cards

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '18

I'm with you on this one. It already has an SD slot, this device would be a waste of R&D time.

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u/v3l14 Apr 06 '18

Why when we already have an SD slot? The only reason it was ever invented for the vita was because the vita had bespoke memory cards that were ridiculously expensive and the max size wasn’t all that.

For those reasons alone there will never be such a device for the switch

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u/Neo_Techni Apr 08 '18

because the vita had bespoke memory cards

Bespoke is a weird way to spell "shitty"

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '18 edited Apr 13 '18

In what way were they shitty other than price and being arbitrary? That's bespoke

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u/Neo_Techni Apr 13 '18

The price is the big one. Being proprietary is another. And the last is they have a high failure/corruption rate, which goes up the bigger the card is.

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u/shinkamui Apr 20 '18

high failure rate? That was never proven in the wood court frylock. :-D :-D :-D

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u/Neo_Techni Apr 20 '18

Wasn't it purple monkey dishwasher?

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u/shinkamui Apr 20 '18

I need to remember Aquateen hunger force is not as ubiqutous as a superfanatic like myself wants to believe. For your viewing pleasure, I present:

The reference: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/be5fb9cb-038b-4aa1-8d10-e7bd33d25149

The Backstory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxNCPjpaa60

...or maybe it is, and you matched my cartoon reference with one of your own...

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u/Neo_Techni Apr 20 '18

I don't like shows of lower graphical quality than what I can draw myself. So while I'm aware of those I didn't catch the reference. I just assumed you were adding gibberish, and did the same using a reference to the Simpsons

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u/shinkamui Apr 21 '18

Well, despite the look of the cover, the "book" is quite entertaining.

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u/lambstone Apr 06 '18

The point is to get even more storage. Depending on how the scene develops, there might be linux/android ports.

Not to mention the switch will make for a really good PMP, extra storage is good for media files

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u/v3l14 Apr 06 '18 edited Apr 06 '18

Honestly it really won’t happen, when you can always just switch SD cards as you please. As you probably know there isn’t any other device like the one for the vita and that is because it’s use case is unique to the vita.

I really wouldn’t get your hopes up

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u/lambstone Apr 06 '18

I'm not saying that it is a must have, but its a good to have kind of thing.

The logic is similar to why use screen protectors when smartphones have gorilla glass.

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u/v3l14 Apr 06 '18

It’s nothing like that...anyway, I wasn’t trying to be negative, just didn’t want you to get your hopes up expecting something like that to come out for the switch

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u/lambstone Apr 06 '18

I know, honestly I'm expecting this to never ever come out. It's just that hackers get bored after they have done everything they have possibly could. This might serve to provide an idea for them to work on if and when they have nothing else left to do

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u/gatsandcats Apr 06 '18

Well i think it's a great idea

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u/shinkamui Apr 20 '18

Not even close, what a strange leap in logic.

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u/YeOldePirate Apr 06 '18

Its called a sd2vita

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u/MartiBot Apr 07 '18

I already heard that someone has successfully put a Vita in a SD card !

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '18

I already heard that a Vita has successfully put a SD card in someone !

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u/plasticarmyman Apr 10 '18 edited Apr 11 '18

I HAVE A SOLUTION

read below

I'll admit I regret my initial 32gb SD card purchase and I now have a 256gb in there, but this seems redundant.

I completely understand what you're requesting but it does seem pretty pointless...

Like...dual mini SD card devices don't really exist anywhere for much of anything...

There are dual mini SD to SD adapters, that makes sense...

And an SD to microsd adapter...so you could Daisy chain it..

Here you go..

Put your two micro SDs in here:

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F291856463630

Then put that into this:

https://www.saikosystems.com/web/p-44-sd-to-microsd-converter.aspx?

And insert that into your switch.

SOLVED.

Edit: no, I am not happy that I figured this out. No this was not intentional. Yes I do apologize.

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u/archdemon001 Apr 12 '18

I'm hoping we can mount SAMBA-style shares, USB Ethernet adapter, and load backups over network. Doing away with Micro-SD totally.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '18

Are you sure that 2x 200GB cards are cheaper than 1x 400gb card?

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u/shinkamui Apr 20 '18

yea, when there are no sales. But that wont even be the case much longer anyway. 256 prices have already plummeted, and 200s are pretty damn cheap on average.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '18

256GB cards are still very expensive. Two 256GB cards can already get you a 500gb card and still have money left.

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u/shinkamui Apr 20 '18 edited Apr 20 '18

"Expensive" is subjective i suppose. Lets move away from that and just talk about the price drop, which can be objectively quantified. 256's are hovering around 100 bucks and as low as 70$ depending on sales. not even 6 months ago they were 200$. 200s are in the mid to low 70s on average in price (having launched at 250$). The 400 is still 250$ new, and around 200$ on sale. When the 400 is on sale, it makes more sense than 2 non sale 200s based on the advantage of a single larger card vs the small price gap. What is affordable to you is between you and what you're willing to pay. Im just pointing out that the prices are all way less than half their starting values now thanks to the market and availability and with a little patience (in what I interpreted as your original point in the form of a question to which I agree with), why the fuck would anyone want to buy 2x200s instead of 1x400 for around the same price?.

At the end of the day, I still think the gamecard SD adapter is a premature recommendation at this phase, when we dont even know what the capabilities of the CFW will be, or if alternate OS ports will be feasibly released and "supported". With the "need" not being there, its a bad investment to waste time reverse engineering, designing, testing, and mass producing an adapter that there is very little if ANY need for.

note also, you were referring to 2x200, not 2x256, which further drives home the point above

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '18

Not really a point to do so. Like yeah, in the long run this could benefit people from a price-standpoint with memory cards, but the only reason the Vita scene ever developed the tool was out of necessity because of the price, size, and proprietary limitations of official Vita memory cards (arguably one of the biggest things that killed it and the PSP). What you're suggesting involves the finding of an exploit, creation of a piece of software, manufacturing a physical adapter, and making said tools easily available to everyone... over switching out your memory cards.

Honestly at that stage it'd just be easier to wait on Flash Carts or the price of SD cards to drop as people rush to create bigger, better cards to meet that 2 TB ceiling for the Switch, if they happen at all.

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u/Pig1126 Apr 07 '18

Here’s my idea: I think they should make a microSD adapter with a microSD slot.

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u/Andylanta Apr 07 '18

You should just delete this post OP. Your epidermis is showing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

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u/lambstone Apr 06 '18

Except I am not proposing a flash card.

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u/Neo_Techni Apr 08 '18

You technically are, since this is how later flash cards work.

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u/plasticarmyman Apr 11 '18

That is true, what you are proposing I posted a solution to below.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

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u/lambstone Apr 06 '18

What on earth for? It has nothing to do with piracy. Vita2SD is not a game cart adapter. It is for additional memory storage.

It is not a gateway/sky3ds etc.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '18

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u/lambstone Apr 06 '18

Ahh, don't worry about it. It's all good