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Handheld gaming consoles that support piracy? (aussie.zone)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by SaneMartigan@aussie.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I'm thinking about getting a handheld as I'm spending more time away from my house and PC. I don't want to get buy hundreds of dollars of games to go with it.

3ds xl / switch / Steam deck / Legion?

There seems a lot of options and all have plenty of games to them. Is there an obvious choice that I'm not aware of?

Thanks.

EDIT: Thanks for the info, a lot to think about. Basically it seems to come down to money anerbic // new 3ds xl // Steam deck. There'll be games on any system that I'll be happy with.

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[–] AliOski@feddit.nl 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

None explicitly support piracy of course. However, I know the Switch is very difficult to conduct piracy on. You might be lucky depending on the firmware, whether you could hack it, but you can't pirate on a Switch without hacking the firmware.

I personally would go with the Steam deck or the Legion (Linux and Windows respectively), pirating there will be relatively the same as you are used to on PC.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Or get a modchip. Works great for me.

Don't try doing the install yourself unless you have microsoldering experience. I killed a Switch when I tried it myself.

[–] makefile@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

For the switch you need the v1 before they patched the hardware insecurities. https://ismyswitchpatched.com/

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Switch has MiG Flash. It doesn’t allow updating but most Nintendo consoles didn’t allow updating. So, you can play well-developed games but janky buggy games corrected after launch maybe not.