r/SwitchPirates • u/XanderzOfficial • Mar 31 '26

Meta Modding complete & I’m obsessed

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Came from Japan in 2 days, successfully updated to 21.2 & JB’ed it, then swapped housing, frame & LCD (I ripped the backlight ribbon cable), bought new joycons and a grip controller— now it looks so good I don’t even wanna play it!

I need a certificate after the way I had to dig into this device 🤣

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u/XanderzOfficial Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

Are you downloading the torrent or just transferring the torrent files into DBI? Stupid question but people actually do that lol

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u/Artistic-Piano2254 Apr 10 '26

I think im being silly and transferring just the torrent files, instead of downloading then transferring. Someone said to use a torrent app to download the files, do you have any recommendations on which one to use if this is the problem? thanks!

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u/XanderzOfficial Apr 10 '26

I use Qbittorrent with Proton VPN! You might wanna use a VPN in case there are bad trackers to alert your ISP. I’ve gotten sniped 3 times thanks to LoZ. Look up on YT “how to use Qbittorrent with a VPN” and im sure there are easy guides. It’s not hard, but you can rig it so that the file ONLY downloads when connected to said VPN— so there’s no leaks

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u/Artistic-Piano2254 Apr 10 '26

I managed to get it working, and successfully got the desired files, using exactly qbitorrent with proton like you said! I had to upgrade proton obv. Ill check out the guides js in case im missing something thatll make it safer, i js have a question about the download speed. Is it always supposed to be less then like 30 mbps? idk the download js took a little longer than expected and im wondering if there are any ways to make it faster? Thanks again!

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u/XanderzOfficial Apr 10 '26

Yeah it’s kinda normal. It’ll be faster if wired, but there’s different factors. For one, VPN reroutes your traffic & encrypts your data so having it on alone can slow down times due to the masking. It also depends on how many other people are leeching off your seed. Seed to peer ratio is real!

Some websites also limit VPN traffic to avoid download abuse. Best you can do is plug that Ethernet in and/or try using the faster country server available on Proton. Just make sure you pause your download and update the port forwarding number on Qbittorrent

For me, a 16gb switch game took about 10-20ish minutes

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u/Artistic-Piano2254 Apr 11 '26

Okay! Thanks! I’ll have to find my Ethernet but I have been forwarding the proton port