Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Magician Some fun-looking physics in that there RR prototype - bouncy and yet sometimes not bouncy at all - but it looks like it was shaping up to be a fun racer, so forgive me while I belatedly mourn its loss ...

Good. Now gimme gimme gimme some o'dat sweet Mario Kart World content (free of charge, obvs) 🤤

Need help. Also, something interesting I noticed.

I'm holding off from updating my Switch 1 to the most recent system version, 21.0.1, which came out about three weeks ago. I know it's kind of dumb, but I'm still kind of mad about the new cartridge label that I'm not used to, and I'm just trying to get away with as much as I can. Everything was going perfect, until yesterday, when it would no longer let me enter the NSO application without updating. Now, as of today, it's not letting me do anything save data cloud related.

The thing is, I would like to be able to not update my Switch anymore, especially since my plan is to transfer everything over to a Switch 2 as soon as possible next year and turn my Switch 1 into a completely offline console. I'm also hoping to somehow reduce the version number of my Switch 1 so it doesn't have any of the version 20.0.0 and above features that will be completely worthless. I hear that doing that is only possible with modding. I will have to look into that further.

I assume that doing the complete system transfer from Switch to Switch 2 will transfer all save data, whether it was saved to the cloud or not. Then, on my fully updated Switch 2 (which I will be fine with having all the new updates), everything that wasn't cloud saved should become cloud saved, I think.

Also, a short time after Christmas, I was hoping to change my Switch profile icon to something not as Christmasy. But now I'm locked out of using any of my NSO icons unless I update. So I will now be going to use a built in system icon for the first time in two years. As a matter of fact, I will change it now as an act of defiance. Nintendo is not offering me a few of their NSO services unless I update. I will show Nintendo that I can go without them for a few months. I REFUSE TO UPDATE. Thanks for letting me rant a bit 😀.

I am really p*ssed off about needing to press "start software" two times just to play a freaking game. Thankfully, because I'm busy with Neptunia games on the PS4, I won't be playing much Nintendo stuff until I get my Switch 2.

@Nep-Nep-Freak NSO apps need to check in via an quick online connection weekly. That's why you can't use them.

However.

Why do you not want to update your hardware and are so....as you say "defiant"?. What do you possibly gain from this except less access to more games?

Also, you need to be a certain firmware version to transfer to Switch 2....which requires a sign in to your NSO account....

@Haruki_NLI, I know that this update doesn't really change anything, but... the more time goes on, I become scared of updates more and more. Updates keep making changes to the menu layouts that I'm used to on just about all my devices lately.

One example is back in 2024. Early to mid 2024 if I recall correctly. There was an update that happened on my Chromebook. Before that update, the controls menu with the power off buttons had all power off options as seperate buttons. So I could just press "sleep mode" and be done with it. But after the update, I had to start pressing a smaller power button, and then all the power off options would appear. Since then, I have had to press the power symbol, and then the "sleep mode" option that shows up. That's two button presses compared to just one before, therefore that update was an inconvenience to me that I never wanted in the first place, yet it was shoved onto me anyway. I never asked for two button presses. One button press was quick and efficient. Since then, I have refused to manually update my Chromebook out of worry that the updates will change anything else that I'm used to, but I'm pretty sure it just auto-updates a few days later anyway. Thankfully, other than the appearance of Gemini, nothing else has happened to my Chromebook because of updates. Frankly, what I described here was when my update paranoia first started. It started small, but it only got worse.

To name another example, the Virtual Game Cards update for the Switch 1 that came out in April 2025. It added a few new menu options to the home screen as well as changed the color of a few older ones. At this point, my update paranoia was still pretty small, but it did grow a bit larger because of the update. Everything that I knew about the Switch menu for years was... useless. I had to relearn some things. Right after I updated the console, I spent over an hour exploring all of the new menus and the other older menus that also got changes for some stupid reason. My reaction to the Virtual Game Card update wasn't "major freakout" like what happened with the Chromebook, but I was still quite shaken. And this was after I had been quite upset with Nintendo of America since the previous fall for a completely different reason.

The September 2025 for the Switch 1 / 2 was even worse for me. The fact that the cartridge label on the home menu that I was used to was replaced by something really different scared the heck out of me. Sometimes, I still have a * very small and over in just a few seconds* freakout session when I turn on my Switch because of it.

And the Samsung One UI 7 update that was forced on my Samsung Galaxy smartphone this summer made so many annoying changes. To this day, I still have trouble telling what volume I have my phone on because they changed the look of the volume bar to make it look more sloped instead of flat. This was the point when my update paranoia started rapidly increasing.

I've noticed these days that many people my age say they suffer from depression. I don't suffer from depression. What I do suffer from is paranoia about... quite a few things these days.

A few more notes:
My "defiance" is basically just me wanting to have a bit more control over the media and products that I own. This has kind of turned me into a bit of a control freak (the controlling possessions kind, not the controlling people kind).
And, as long as you have a free Nintendo Account (which I already have), you do not need an NSO subscription (which I also have) to do a system transfer. The only thing that NSO does with save data is saving it to the cloud. This information is from the Nintendo Support website.

@Nep-Nep-Freak
The cartridge icon when your games are physical is not something scary.
Instead, it tells which is my physical games and which is my digital games.