Thread title should really clarify that this is a proof-of-concept of a Nvidia bootrom bug. It was supposed to be publicly revealed in June so it could be responsibly disclosed first to manufacturers using Tegra and provide time to develop CFW, but the bug leaked which forced the early release. That leaves us with where we are now, with a launcher with nothing that end-users can launch.
Remember when the excuse to hack Wii U and 3DS was the region lock?
What's the excuse for Switch?
xcnnxfgh bitych
Did you hear that sound? It was the sound of the PC Gamer crowd collectively yelling in excitement because it just another brick in the sidewalk that leads to 4k Super Mario Odyssey.
Its a word that begins with P.
I'm not seeing the correlation here. This is about a homebrew method for Nintendo Switch, it has nothing to do with emulation.
I don't know, I'm asking if there's any as in the Wii U and 3DS days.
really? so to use an unmodified tegra x was whose idea?
Yup soon as they get emulators working.
No me.
Imagine the possibilities of homebrew and emulators played on the Switch insane
Too late, heard T214 is out already.
That I don't know.
From what someone more knowledgeable has told me in the past it seems to be a flaw on nvidia's part, not Nintendo's
I mean it also includes a lot more effort than that for it to actually be useful as mentioned before on this thread (including fucking with the eMMC board), but that's the basic entry way.Ha, this is neat. I currently have no interest in any modding on my switch but I love reading about it.
Hilarious that such a simple trick opens a vulnerability wide open. Maybe I'll tinker with it a few years down the line.
Why even bother saying that? You know it's coming very soon.
So does someone with technical know-how and the talent for teaching want to offer up a layman's TL;DR for us?
- A simple-to-execute method was just revealed that will let anyone boot the Switch up in recovery mode
- While in recovery mode custom firmware can be flashed / run
Is that the gist? So the assumption is that spreading of this method will empower developers around the world to start contributing to a homebrew scene / user-end software for booting and running homebrew?
of course not.... everything can be hacked over time.Do you think that modified chips are immune to undiscovered vulnerabilities?
Yeah, I'm only talking about opening the door, I'm aware of the amount of work it takes to actually do anything with that door.I mean it also includes a lot more effort than that for it to actually be useful as mentioned before on this thread (including fucking with the eMMC board), but that's the basic entry way.
Reading about emulators for NVIDIA Sheild portable, makes me think the Switch could run my ps1 games. Most of all I'd like Saturn games though.
As I understand it, if you do the joy-con trick, there's no need to fuck with the eMMC board (the contents are still able to be fucked with)
There's three ways to get the switch to not boot from the internal memory, one s removing physically the eMMC, the other is using the joy-con method and the last one is changing a register, but currently that cannot be done.
So no need to touch anything internal inside. Three's still the possibility of fucking with the switch regardless however.
What about Saturn then? Or even Dreamcast?Wut? Of course in can run PS1.
Even $70 phones can run PS1.
Switch could even run PSP at 720 or 1080p, and maybe some lightweight GCN games.
I said it's out but I never said it's in circulation. :/BS, we have found zero traces of Mariko, there's a 99.9% chance of getting a T210 Switch if you buy it now.
BS, we have found zero traces of Mariko, there's a 99.9% chance of getting a T210 Switch if you buy it now.
Yeah that's true, anything to do with touching the Switch OS can have pretty bad consequences.You don't need to remove it if you corrupt it. The not-removing-it-but-corrupting-it-path is just that much more likely to obliterate your distribution. You still need to screw up the eMMC expectations such that it doesn't boot the signed loader.