u/LLKMuffin

After listening to Surge, Cut Em Down, Flutter, Release Me, Heart on Fire and WatchDis!, all of which released since the old visualizer came back a little over a month ago... I get the feeling that this goes beyond just the 15th anniversary.

All of these new tracks feel unmistakeably "Monstercat", in a way that very few releases have since 2017 or so (besides the 10 Year Anniversary album). I could tell you blindfolded and hearing these tracks for the first time, that these were all Monstercat releases. They have that familiar melodic sensibility, production and sound design that I thought was pretty much dead as electronic music has moved on.

I'm cautiously optimistic that we might see a return to form for the label, seeing tracks that carry that old "feel", but with the mixing and polish you'd expect in 2026. That being said, there are a few tracks with the old visualizer like Techno Boy Techno Girl and Ego Check that don't really fit this trend, hence the caution.

Whatever A&R is doing, I hope they continue doing. I'm back to listening to every release as soon as it drops, something I haven't done in 10 years...

Hey there everyone.

I have a Switch 2 sitting in my closet, on 20.1.1 and with the microSD card slot enabled.

I've been thinking about using the MIG Switch right now to at least play singleplayer Switch 1 games, while keeping my console permanently offline.

My question is, if I decide to keep sysNAND completely offline until a modchip or softmod is available in the future (don't really care how long it takes), would I be able to make an emuNAND (cloned from the sysNAND) that I can take online? I'd be keeping the sysNAND permanently offline past that as well, of course.

Basically, it would be the opposite of what's usually done, which is sysNAND for online/emuNAND for offline. Just wanted to know if the emuNAND would be clean, or if it would immediately get banned when going online at that point.

I don't know enough about how Nintendo checks for and finds out about MIG Switch usage, hence this post. Does it leave any permanent traces on the sysNAND that would then get duplicated onto the emuNAND and lead to my console getting banned if I took the latter online? I believe Switch 1 owners would have a better idea of this, but unfortunately I never bought one.

Edit: Thank you all for the replies. Looks like sysNAND will irreversably be marked dirty, so any future emuNAND clones will be too and will get banned if you go online. I'll pass on the MIG Switch for now.