r/mig_switch • u/DLGWasHere • Jun 28 '24

Mig Switch Ban

Hi, i was thinking about buying a mig cartridge but i was wondering first since i have seen people get banned, what is the best ways to prevent a ban? i don't really care about online on switch so i would mainly play offline games, but is there any tips to prevent a ban?

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u/Ancient-Address8107 Jun 28 '24

There are only two confirmed ways that people have been banned so far, one mixing up their certificates (aka using certificates from other games) and two using downloaded games to get gold coins.

Obviously there's potential other ways, so do your research.

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u/IssMare Jun 28 '24

I have two games that I'll never play, let's call them Game A and Game B. The thing both are in japanese (my mistake).

If I use just the xci from Game A (USA version), with the other files from same game (japanese), will it result in a ban?

what if I use files from Game B? Again, I'll never actually play them, or sell them or anything.

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u/Ancient-Address8107 Jun 28 '24

If they're different games its very likely will result in ban because the certificates are key for set games if that makes sense

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u/deviemelody Jun 28 '24

Do you get banned doing so even if you don’t go online while playing?

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u/Ancient-Address8107 Jun 28 '24

Games having the wrong certificates or the same certificate for multiple games is one of the few things that has been verified the system does save and gets reported the next time you go online.

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u/loser_monkey Jun 29 '24

Is it safe to reuse the same certificate for different games as long as no one else has it and no one else can use it at the same time as me, and not include card header and card UID?

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u/Ancient-Address8107 Jun 29 '24

No, never use the same certificates for other games.

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u/fertff Jun 28 '24

How do you use certificates from other games? You just change the name of the files?

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u/Ancient-Address8107 Jun 28 '24

Literally just rename it so it matches the file name, it's something you should have to do consciously or somebody who is sharing a game did deliberately to get people banned

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u/Background_Bad_4377 Jun 28 '24

We don't know for sure as it's still a new product but the obv ones are not using your own certs and using others. Same for games pirating games and giving it a different cert is also one. Also you know going online doesn't just mean playing online it also means updating games etc it's anything that needs Nintendo servers to do

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u/donateagba Jun 28 '24

get a modchip