There is always a reason that the Universal USB-C ports don’t “just work” as you expect. In the early days, it was incompetent or bid. Later, manufacturers often get out cheap. But in the case of Switch 2 of Nintendo, it seems deliberately.
With Nintendo Switch 2, when you are traveling from home, video glasses or TVs should be easier to plug your new, more expensive console. USB-C does this. But Nintendo has deliberately breaks the compatibility of switch 2 with these devices, using a new encryption scheme and some forms of dedicated encryption chip, two devices manufacturers. Stuffy.
I have not yet found evidence of this encryption chip-but when I analyzed the USB-C PD traffic with Power Z Testor, I can clearly see that the new Nintendo Switch is not behaving like a good USB citizen.
A third-party switch dock, which is plugged in the USB-C PD Tester, is about to plug in switch 2. Please forgive the terrible picture. Photo: Sean Holster / The Verge
If you are wondering why there is no portable switch 2 posts in the market, that’s why. Even Jesox, which has made its reputation by defeating the Steam Deck Dock in the market, tells us that Nintendo’s steps have stopped its plans to make switch 2 dock. This is not just because switch 2 needs more voltage now, as was reported earlier. That is, Nintendo has made this generation even more difficult.
That is not always “universal” in USB, but this is usually true: If you plug any USB-C in a USB-C laptop, tablet or handheld HDMI adapter, dock, or hub that supports the USB-C video output, you can expect your own screen on your own.
Magic is usually possible due to a simple, standard guidelines on which any manufacturer can follow his docking station or center to “talk” at the computer. In fact, they are so easy that I can make fun of a basic version here for you:
- Dock: “Hi, I’m a power supply. Here is five different types of power I can give you!”
- Computer: “I’ll take 15 volts on 3 amps, thank you!”
- Dock: “Well, I’m giving you strength now, you are not giving me strength now, got it?”
- Computer: “Yes! So what are you, somehow?”
- Dock: “I’m a USB-C PD dock with additional ways, want to know more?”
- Computer: “Sure.”
- Dock: “If you want to get video out, I support the display port revelation.”
- Computer: “Go for him.”
- Dock: “It’s doing … it’s done!”
This conversation takes a small share of a second, using messages on the standard (“structure”) on the USB-C PD protocol.
But as you are suspected now, Nintendo Switch 2 does not do this. When you plug Switch 2 into a third party dock or hub, it can refuse to discuss power. Other times, it will gain strength for which he asks, but then the conversation will stop suddenly.
Because at the same time when the Nintendo Switch 2 will start talking in 2 code – proprietary messages can only help to understand Nintendo.
So far, you may be wondering how I can see any of it, coded or not. But all you need is a middleman in which the USB-C power delivery traffic should be smelled by the passing traffic between the dock and the handheld of Nintendo, such as the Power-Jade M. 003c that I purchased for this story. I plug one end in 2 (and comparison l Third Port my Windows PC with a long cable, then fired its app to log in passing data.
How does the conversation between switch 2 and switch 2 dock begin? Screenshot: Sean Holster / The Verge
When I analyze the conversation between the Nintendo Switch 2 and its dock, I can see that the two devices start talking in their taste of the “vendor” in their taste of Nintendo, before they sign any video output. And then, apparently before the dock confirms that the video out is busy, they send more than 30 proprietary “non -made” messages to each other.
The USB-C I have tested and the robbers have not had the same conversation-with a remarkable exception.
To date, only one third party claims to be synchronized with Nintendo Switch 2. And you would be surprised to hear that when I experienced the Ant 36 Antinks S3 Max (Arif Sewek TV dock station), I found out that it speaks Nintendo’s coded language.
Nintendo (0x057E) is here to respond to Nintendo’s request using the messaging. Screenshot: Sean Holster / The Verge
It does not move Each Message in the precise sequence like Nintendo’s dock, and it supplys a slight amount of electricity, but it sent almost exactly the same coded messages and reactions to Nintendo’s requests, including a repeated running code, which I am particularly interested in: 33 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 06 01 01 01 01 01 01 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 01 68 01 68 68 01 01 01 68 to 68 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 68 to 68 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 to 68 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 to 68 to 68 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 to 68 to 68 to 68 01 01 to 68 01 68.
According to Antink, who says he checked his chip supplier, that hexadiamal wire “is really the current key that is being used by Nintendo.” My other sources believe less.
But just like the official Nintendo Switch 2 dock, our TV lights send these coded messages after Antank.
But that does not mean that any company can only copy Nintendo’s commands and expect their dock to continue. “We expect Nintendo to further restrict third -party posts and accessories through system updates to maintain a system and system safety,” said JSAX spokesman Vinny Chen. Stuffy.
It seems that the Ink agrees with it. “Yes – the key should be considered subject to changing,” an antic representative writes that go through Susi. “However, our product firm supports updates the updates, and any future change in the key to verification by Nintendo can theoretically solved through software, which can ensure permanent compatibility.”
So why is any of these big things, especially when the switch comes with your dock in the box 2 box? Well, these are not just big posts on TV. Nintendo has also broken compatibility Portable Posts that you can take on vacation or to your hotel room, and with video glasses such as zerial One, which costs more than or more to switch itself.
And to fix it, you will need to buy a new hardware, apparently, JSAX, Antink, and Zariel. Although Zriel had actually suggested that this is a temporary problem that only requires “technical adjustment”, Zaril says that the fix will need a new gadget called Zariel Nine. Good News: Zariel’s spokesman Ralph Judes said Stuffy The new device is already working in the lab and will send “shortly after this year”.
Another argument I have heard on Reddate: Why should Nintendo not have the ability to protect Switch 2 from Flybai Night Docking Stations and Power Supply, which can damage its new handheld and can mobilize Nintendo Customer Support more calls?
There, I can tell that things are not necessary to close. When Nintendo issued the original switch in 2017, the accessories makers had to find out how to crack the inward docking protocol of Nintendo, and some of them (Nyko) allegedly damaged handhelds.
I expect that some Eagle -Eye Nintendo fans will also indicate that the switch 2, unlike the original switch, requires active air flu to operate properly: Nintendo’s official switch 2 is now a fan in the dock, and the bottom of the console is the third party. (In fact, the antic dock already stops those ventures!)
Nintendo Official (left) vs. Ink (right), hotspot in Top Vent
But before you suggest that the vent and the fan are strictly necessary, please know that the cooling fan in the switch 2 dock does not actually cool down the switch 2, and it does not seem that the switches do not score 2 runs than the official dock. I ran away Cyberpank 2077 For an hour straight with each dock, then extracted the thermal camera, and the intent really seems to be slightly cool. Perhaps the high flow of air on the screen and eliminating the effects of block vents behind the console. With this logic, the console may also cool down if Nintendo allows you to use USB-C in HDMI Dongal instead of the dock. If it didn’t just stop!
Immediately to remove from the dock. After, Nintendo Official (left) vs Intent (right)
Mostly, this is the principle of this matter. USB-C Should Just work, here’s a place where it usually does, and Nintendo has stopped doing so.
Nintendo will not confirm or deny whether he is using encryption and verification chips to lock the video output of Switch 2. He did not comment on this story.
- Switch 2 does not require 20V power. It accepts 2.8 amps, 2.67 amps, and 15 volts on a full 3 amps.
- However, devices manufacturers tell me that switch 2 will reject one Dock It does not offer 20V power mode. I tested with Antank. The video output appeared for a part of a second when I provided 15V power, then disappeared.
- An anonymous device manufacturer says that even if 20V power is available and a dock is passed through verification, the switch will test the quality of the 2 signal and if the quality is low, only the USB will fall into the mode. “If the dock stands on wiring, uses bargaining radiors, or is a poor PCB setting, the link training fails.”
- Although the Antink Dock works, plugging and plugging the switch 2 is more difficult than the official dock. My wife is not a fan.
- If you buy an antic, you may need a firmware update.
- Antank confirmed that the Sewek dock is the same product on Amazon.
- Neither Antink nor Zrail will tell Stuffy Referring to confidentiality or competitive reasons, their solutions in detail. Antank will only say that he “chose a completely compatible chip and improve the firmware to handle the new handmade of Switch 2.” That chip is now revealed.
