Hey guys, so I recently purchased a used Nintendo Switch OLED Model, and the guy gave me a pretty unique cartridge along with the console. He said it was some kind of developer cartridge to use with the Switch, and when booting it up, it has what look like demos for the various technological parts of the Switch, which I assume are for developers to experiment with the Switch’s various inputs to optimize their games for the Switch. It also looks like some kind of diagnostic tool, but I'm not sure.
Even after scouring the internet, I couldn't find ANYTHING online about what this is supposed to be, so l've turned to Reddit: What is this? Is it worth anything? Is it rare? Does Nintendo only give these out to developers? I’m really curious to hear what you guys think.
by XogoDaFox
19 Comments
Digital Foundry would love this.
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*Doug Bowser wants to know your location*
I agree about contacting Digital Foundry. He’d probably know or at least know where to begin with this thing.
My guess would be repair center diagnostics or a development demo.
Email Digital Foundry with this.
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How in the world did you get your hands on that? This is freaking amazing!!
Put on eBay for couple of hundred, it may pay off the price of the console
Somewhere a nintendo lawyer just got a nosebleed, and he doesn’t know why.
Hilarious you were just given this with the console ngl, or so you say
Yeah I got nothing to add that hasn’t already been suggested but looks interesting
As others have said please contact digital foundry about this we could get an interesting video about this for all of us to enjoy.
It looks like diagnostics and not something we probably don’t already have in homebrew. Your switch was probably repaired and this is one of the carts they test with.
!RemindMe 3days
he pawned it off so the ninjas didnt get him
I recommend contacting the people already mentioned so that information about this can be archived for the purpose of preserving history. If Digital Foundry wont have you, I also recommend contacting Modern Vintage Gamer and he most certainly will.
Given this could also gain some traction, I should think that some Nintendo Suits might like to ‘have a word’ hence the need to get this handled properly by people in the knowledge before anything like that can happen.
I’d personally advise contacting [Modern Vintage Gamer](https://x.com/modernvintageg), he has more knowledge about dev stuff as he is a developer himself.
Looks cool definitely won’t experiment with my pet dolphin in a tamagotchi