Random: Switch Game Cards Are Tough Enough To Survive A Spin In The Washing Machine

That's very impressive. Though over time I'd be wary of any metal pins or connectors rusting. Was it a 200cc wash?

My Pokemon Platinum amputee veteran can rejoice, for Nintendo is saving it's grandkids from the same fate!

I've had a DS cartridge survive the wash.

Always get paranoid of things like this so I always check every piece of clothing and all pockets before placing each piece in the drum.

It's not really that impressive this commonly happens with DS cards, as I see @Aerona has also mentioned.

i wonder If I put Street Fighter through the wash it will wash away the stain of Hado from the game.

Did the clothes taste terrible after the wash? That's the real question here haha

@Aerona Ya, I'm nearly 100% sure that I've done the same.

My Pokemon Go Plus survived the washing machine a couple of weeks ago. Wouldn't like to try it again but a change of battery and a day in a cup of rice and it was all fine.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Nowadays, SD cards or any other similar flash ROM medium uses different alloys to prevent exactly such a thing from happening, so corrosion won't be an issue, unless Nintendo is using low grade materials, something we probably won't have to worry about...

@Aerona me too, back in the day it happened to a memory card of mine.

@Anguspuss
Psst.. it will not become a Hadou Ken.
It will become a SPIRAL ARROW ! 🤣🤣
But if the washing machine in Drying Mode, it will become SPINDRIVE SMASHER !! 🤣🤣🤣

So does it still taste bad?

You mean, just like DS/3DS and SD cards have been doing for years? Surprise.

Built Nintendo tough.

Pretty good! The $50 bill it replaced would not have survived! ;D

@crackafreeze So would an extra $15 mean the image on the cartridge not be ruined in the wash?

Now to test the console.
I want to play Switch in the shower.

I accidentally left my Pokémon Crystal in my pocket once when my jeans went in the wash. The game survived though and still works today.

I once washed and dryed Mario Kart DS. Works fine to this day. The label even looks fine.

I bet now all the clothes on that cycle taste awfully. :x

@HappyMaskedGuy
Huh ?!
Don't do that !
Your Switch will be Bzzzt... Bzzzt....!!

@Pod yes it would have.... Bills are made to withstand a lot.

I have run USB flash drives and DS carts through the wash at least a dozen times, and every one of them survived. In two or three of those cases, they also survived a dryer cycle.

(No, I am not nearly that careless with my electronics - but I have two kids and a wife who are. And even though I usually check the pockets of everything I wash, little things like DS carts do still slip through.)

To add a PSA to this - if you do accidentally wash your cartridges (and caught it before they went through the dryer, too) stick them in a bag of uncooked rice for a day or so. The rice will suck the moisture right out of the cart. Works on dunked phones and MP3 players, too.

I guess the person's clothes might taste bad now

Man, does ANYTHING destroy a Nintendo cartridge short of a nuclear fallout? Hell, my NES cartridges are a testament to that.

Noice. I figured Nintendo would make them rather durable, like they do with everything. I wonder what kind of amplifier the cartridge is sitting on in the photo.

@Anti-Matter But it might be AWESOME

@westman98

'He was sucking his trousers- and laughing!'

• Bernard Ludwig Black

Next step: make the card into a nice dish and see if it works after being slow cooked for 12 hours.

At least we know the game cards are tougher than most lighters.

This should hardly be news-- this has been the case for Nintendo's handheld carts since the original Game Boy. I've even heard of GB carts with internal batteries coming out of the washer with saves unaffected. I would have been far more surprised to hear if a Switch card DIDN'T come out of a washer undamaged.

@Tsurii Yep. A lot of my DS carts went through the washer. Came out unscathed, as well.

DS Carts are just as tough. One poor game of my brothers went through the washer AND dryer 3 separate times, and it still works to this day!

its not uncommon. you can dip an entire board in water and when it dries off it will boot up.

Doesn't surprise me. For one, Nintendo products tend to be fairly durable. Two, tiny cartridges like that don't seem too fragile. Especially cushioned by a bunch of clothing. Only danger would've really been the water and soup but clearly it's durable enough for that (not that I'm about to submerge my Switch cartridges).

Nonetheless this is why I keep all my Switch games in my BotW Switch case, don't wanna lose track of those tiny things.

lol that's nothing. I forgot my DS game carts in my pocket one time and went swimming in a pool for about 15 minutes. The game carts fell to the bottom of the pool and 10 minutes after I got out I realized what had happened and went back for them. After drying off they worked flawlessly.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
Reasonably neutral and even funny post duely noted! Thanks, mate! (and I'm serious, not mocking you, I swear!)

("You see, you can do it. You've taken the first step into a larger world!")

I just accidental swallowed my MK8 cart while I was tasting it. I'll let you all know if it boots up in approx. 24 hours.

I washed my USB thumb drive twice and it's still working. No big deal as long as you don't try to make it work while soaked.

Nice gonna wash all of mine to get that nasty taste off!

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Don't worry the contacts are gold plated so they should not rust.

@Thermoclorn
Did you accidentally swallow your Mario Kart 8 Deluxe cartridge ?!

@Thermoclorn THAT definitely won't taste better now!! Lmao!!

But does it blend?

@MeloMan I opened my Game Boy carts awhile ago and found battery corrosion that seemed like it was going to feast on a Japanese Kirby Star Stacker. I can't remember if it was water+vinegar or water+baking soda that was the proper thing to clean it. Well I gave the board some of both (mixtures applied separately) and then clean off and let it dry and it seemed to still run fine, aside from not saving scores anymore, expectedly.

Now taste it.

As a teenager unused to having a cell phone for the first time, as they were still uncommon back then, mine went through the wash a few times and always came out fine. Of course phones back then were practically analog. I broke my Galaxy S6 (more accurately my cats broke it) a few weeks ago, and my dad goes, "Why are you always so careless with your cell phones?" I was like, "What?" He goes, "First the wash, then you let one get stolen*, then you do this!" All of those incidents took place over the course of almost 15 years. He has quite the long memory, my father. I guess it's proof that you're still always going to be the irresponsible kid in your parents' eyes sometimes no matter what.

(*The time I got it stolen I was actually sexually assaulted and then mugged? So thanks for bringing that up, Daddy, that was a fun thing to be reminded of.)

I never let anything happen to my games however.

@SMEXIZELDAMAN
Nah, I've lost several bills that way.

Maybe they improved them over the past ten years after I got smart enough to check my pockets thoroughly.

@Arno Yes they all make that sound.

Strong stuff!