The name above the machine read: JSTERLING | LAST SEEN: 2026-07-12 .
He navigated to his stats. Everything was normal—except one new entry at the bottom: F-ZERO 99 -NSP--Update 1.5.5-.rar
His Switch, a patched V1 model he’d jailbroken years ago, sat in its dock. He loaded the base F-ZERO 99 NSP, then applied the 1.5.5 update via DBI. The system didn’t reject it. It didn’t ask for a signature check. It just… absorbed it. Silently. The name above the machine read: JSTERLING |