Alright, so here’s the thing. MicroSD Express cards for the Switch 2? Yeah, they’re crazy expensive, like seriously. Makes you wonder why people bother, right? Enter the DIY crowd. Always looking for a workaround—and sometimes they actually find one. There’s this YouTuber, Better Gaming—never heard of them, but no biggie—who tried this wild alternative. Something about an adapter for the Switch 2 to run M.2 NVMe SSDs. I was skeptical, I mean, aren’t we all?
Anyway, the adapter’s called the SDEX2M2 project. Supposedly, it taps into the same tech that MicroSD Express uses. They tout some connection through PCIe Gen 3×1, blah blah tech jargon. You get it.
I guess Better Gaming snagged some blueprints and handed them over to, uh, someone who could whip up some PCBs. Fast forward, and boom—dude had a board with all the bells and whistles, including an M.2 connector. Soldering iron in hand and fingers crossed, right? What could possibly go wrong? Well, a lot, apparently.
First few tries didn’t pan out. Isn’t it always the way? But finally, success! There it was, a working adapter. They slid an NVMe SSD into the Switch 2. Everything seemed smooth. The console recognized it, no sweat.
But just when you think you’re in the clear—bam! Error code “2016-0641.” Whatever that means! Turns out the Switch 2 couldn’t handle the setup. Talk about hitting a wall. Passive adapters just don’t talk the way real MicroSD Express cards do, and the Switch 2 was like, “Uh, no thanks.”
Then I heard there’s rumblings about some developers (probably locked in a basement somewhere) working on a fix. They’ve got this idea involving an FPGA to pretend it’s a MicroSD Express controller. Intriguing move, if it works.
Supposing it does, gamers would finally get an actual alternative to pricey MicroSD Express cards. Imagine that! Those cards are over 50 bucks for just 256GB. Meanwhile, you’ve got 1TB NVMe drives going for about 90 bucks. I know which one I’d pick. If only I had a Switch 2…
