When you pull out the cartridge from a switch you get a message saying: „always close the software before removing the game card.“ why though? What’s the worst that could happen?

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When you pull out the cartridge from a switch you get a message saying: „always close the software before removing the game card.“ why though? What’s the worst that could happen?

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Answer 1

It looks like a Nintendo Switch game card is a FLASH device similar to an SD card.

These devices will have a file system. Some of the state of the file system is on the FLASH and some of it is in RAM. If you pull the card while the game is loaded, the information in memory will apparently be lost. It’s possible that there are times when the file system on the device is corrupted until the software fixes it up.