>>715385126 (OP)Yeah it sucks and is confusing, I only just now finally wrapped my head around it. It was pretty poorly explained by Nintendo.
There is no "primary console" anymore, the primary console is whatever console the virtual game card is inserted in. The secondary console is the console without the virtual game card inserted. If your system does not have the virtual game card inserted it will do an internet check every time to make sure the other console isn't playing it.
I hate that this is something I have to actively manage and is not totally invisible, but the online license check does mitigate most of my issues with this nonsense.
My biggest pet peeve is that loading virtual game cards is cumbersome. There's an option in the software settings to "Check Virtual Game Card" and it will open a pop-up just to tell you whether or not it is loaded into the system but there is no option to load it immediately from that pop up, so you have to go into to the goddamn Virtual Game Card menu.
It is kind of neat that you can manage this shit from a browser, you can even redownload software from the virtual game card page.
>>715386317I'm honestly surprised how many people were doing this and acting surprised when these loopholes are eventually closed. Playing software online on two systems with a single license was always on borrowed time.