You can buy stuff from the eShops of other regions. You will need to make a dedicated Nintendo Account that is set to that region, add that to your Switch, and get some money in there. Though games are not region-locked, voucher cards from other regions are locked-out, so will have to get eShop vouchers for the required region online. The best way is to buy them directly off, say, Amazon, but you can also get marked-up versions of EBay, PlayAsia, etc.

A Japanese account is good for buy some shooters like ESP Ra.De. Psi, for example :)

List of games released only outside my region that I am interested in.

• ESP.Ra.De Psi
• PriPara: All Idol Perfect Stage - Music game with girl group and cute graphics
• Space Invaders Invincible Collection - Missing some games though :/ so maybe not really worth it. Like no '95 or DX, but there is '91 and Extreme.

• Switch shmup games list on the Shmups forum.

Switch games that support playing with the screen in a vertical position (AKA: Tate mode). Most popular for vertical shooters. There's a peripheral you can get called the 'flip grip' that holds the screen vertically with joycons attached.

• Downwell
• Dragon Blaze
• ESP.Ra.De Psi
• Gals Fighters (in multiplayer)
• Gunbarich
• Ikaruga
• Namco Museum
• Psyvariar Delta
• Space Invaders Invincible Collection
• Strikers 1945 / II

• https://www.thumbsticks.com/what-nintendo-switch-games-support-tate-mode/
• https://retronauts.com/article/946/the-comprehensive-list-of-flip-grip-friendly-vertical-games-for-switch

• switch recommendations.

Buying an SD card these days feels a bit overwhelming. They all have a bunch of logos and numbers on them.

For the Switch you can ignore most of this. The things to look out for are:

• The 'A1' means better for software / read+write
• Number in the 'bucket'/'U' is nMBx10 per-second write speed. A '1' is recommended though, as this is the max the Switch supports.
• Read speed is capped at 95MB per-second, so no need to grab anything faster.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbItTEmozxw
• http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/03/guide_best_nintendo_switch_micro_sd_cards

Best budget options seems to be the Mayflash sticks.

The 'F300' and 'F500' models seem to use the same parts, just the '300 is more plastic, so lighter feeling, and you can't add your own artwork (if that's your thing) or plug in headphones. They're both easy to mod, so Sanwa parts can be swapped in, and they're all solderless! You can also use them with the last two generations of Sony and Microsoft consoles, Android phones, Neo-Geo Minis, and PCs.

There are also 'Elite' versions of both, that have Sanwa parts already in there.

You can use any stylus made for other capacitive screens.

Unfortunately the games I'm interested in that would benefit most from one (Picross and drawing patterns in Animal Crossing) don't use the touch screen.