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Share discontinued Nintendo Switch Edition with others with the new Virtual Game Cards (slrpnk.net)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/38174093

Something that a lot of you might find really cool: With Nintendo's recent update for the Switch, you can now share most digital games (and DLC) with your friends/family using "Virtual Game Cards". Essentially, you're lending a digital copy of your game to your friends, and lose access to it yourself, for the duration that your friend is borrowing it.

One of the very first things I wondered was if you could share discontinued games that have been delisted. I personally have 2 or 3 of such games myself, including the legacy version of Minecraft Nintendo Switch Edition, which never got a physical release and was delisted from the eShop in 2018 when the bedrock version replaced it.

I went to my friends house today to let him borrow a game, and we decided to test it out. I can confirm that it works! My friend has been wishing he could play the legacy version on Switch for years, and he can now finally do so because I was able to lend my digital game to him!

The lending is for 2 weeks, and the game will be automatically returned to me once the time is up. At that point, I will have to meet up with him in person again if he wants to continue borrowing the game.

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[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

You can only share with your Family Group, but yeah, this is a good way to share digital games between different Switch in your home.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago

Who wants a virtual card of the Splatoon 2 World Premiere Splatfest? Or the Arms Global Testpunch? I can do that apparently.

What I can't do specifically is a virtual card of Super Mario Bros 35. Of course it wouldn't work either, but that tells me they specifically removed that possibility.

They're ashamed of what they took from us for absolutely no reason. SMB35 was the shit.