Switch 2 Account Bans Continue: Redditor Challenges Nintendo After Ripping 20 Games and Playing Online—Warnings Follow Suit

Oh wow, so here’s the deal — some Redditor is out there claiming they’re still cruising online with this Mig Flash update, 1.2.2, in tow. Yeah, they’re like, “Hey, ripped 20 carts, played them all online, and guess what, my Switch 2? Still ticking.” No bans, nada. But you know, folks are waving the red flag, all like, “Just wait, Nintendo’s coming for ya.” They’re this fierce watchdog over their stuff, right?

Mig Flash, oh boy, it’s like this genius cartridge for Switch and Switch 2. I mean, it starts all innocent, backing up games you supposedly bought. Load ‘em all in one card and bam, you’re good to go. But — and this is a massive but — it opens the door for the pirates of the gaming world, and Nintendo? Yeah, they went ballistic when the Switch 2 hit the scene. Suffice to say, it took like 12 days post-launch before the ban hammer came rattling down, even if you were just flipping your own ROMs. What a mess.

So then, Mig Flash dropped a little update nugget on July 1. Supposedly, it hides the thing so well it looks like a legit game card. And they doubled down with update 1.2.2 by July 9, after some bug had them scrambling. Some anonymous hero (or villain?) earned a nifty 0.2 ETH bounty for spotting this gremlin — think $600 in real-world dollars. Nice pocket change, but they’re still saying, “Hey, wanna risk your console? Go ahead, but don’t say we didn’t warn you.”

Yet, oh man, the horror stories. Switch 2 folks feeling burned after using these carts, then waving goodbye to their original games post-backup. Talk about a brutal surprise with Nintendo swinging bans left and right. And worse, there’s chatter about people snapping up second-hand games from places like eBay, sweet deals but oh, if only. Some poor content creator even got slapped by buying a game already flashed elsewhere. A nightmare! Nintendo of America might toss you a lifeline if you’ve got a solid sob story, convinced them you got duped. But, for Mig Flash users falling into Nintendo’s crosshairs? Yeah, game over, man. Even those like our Reddit friend up there, swaggering in their ban-free zone, they’re just tempting fate at this point, aren’t they?

So there you go, you’re always on a tightrope with this stuff. Play smart — or maybe, just maybe, don’t play at all.