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TheVerge : "The Nintendo Switch hacking scene is chaos right now"
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The bans were largely surgical to hit pirates, not homebrewers. You're probably fine.
Switch software is strong AF right now, after the hardware exploit get fixed, the scene is back to square. 0
add in that nintendo is doing a pretty good job tracking people that hacked and banned their consoles, that means they no longer can just use discard able accounts so no more trial and error to figure out how are they getting banned and bypass it
Wow. I seriously had no idea. I live in India, and really thought I would had heard more about it if it was the case. Good? I guess.
That's true that I would love to have a reasonably priced Switch here, even if I could only play SP games.
There is quite a few atm. I haven't tested anything but from what I read 16bit and under are looking ok.
I'd love to get to the sweet spot where we can play homebrew on the Switch but not be able to pirate their games. I just want to play Super Mario RPG on the Switch. I'm not asking a lot.
I haven't tried this myself, but supposedly you can just change the dns to somewhere and you can use a full webkit based browser.
https://switchbru.com/dns/
Wait, you don't assume they'll just pirate all the games available anyway?
I downloaded age of empires2 a long time ago. It just made me search for other games more.
I dunno, to Nintendo I would imagine asking to break into their hardware and modifying it for purposes past its original intention is "asking a lot".
I mean I'm not asking. Homebrew scene will get there eventually, I just don't like new games being pirateable.
Or Pokemon. Or much of anything Nintendo releases any more, really, as it largely all has some or a lot of online integration.
Unavoidable with how nVidia fucked up. The revision will close the hardware exploit and Switch OS is largely secure, so the scene will fracture. But nothing can be done about nVidias initial cockup.
Aside from Nintendo forcing nVidia to do a recall or something which wouldn't happen .
I would laugh my ass off if they do issue a recall to stores for Gen 1 switchs
They won't. They'll quietly switch the Mobo on refurbs and returns over time, but they're not going to pull stock.
They'll just let it quietly roll over.
Unless nVidia somehow paid for their own fuck up, Nintendo's not going to burn millions pulling stock. And nVidia can/is paying for it in other ways any way.
I know they wont, its massive investment not worth + all those fucked up Soc are hot garbage, just the thought of it was funny
No.
There are some that love the hardware but have no interest in using it as a Nintendo console. A minority, absolutely, but they won't be dissuaded as easily as those looking for free games while stilling having a functional online console.
So, it seems the situation around SX is actually even worse. First and foremost, the brickcode is actually even worse than we originally suspected AND can absolutely trigger from normal use:
More over, the whole thing is built on stolen code from the normal Switch devs:
So, not only can it brick your console irreparably, it is built on stolen code.
More over, the whole thing is built on stolen code from the normal Switch devs:
So, not only can it brick your console irreparably, it is built on stolen code.
My reaction as well. It's still early and the progress so far suggests the hackers will achieve total victory sooner or later. I think a strong virtual console would be a decent deterrent here.
Yes. People should get a job and support developers by buying games legally.
Nintendo should make hacked Switches self-destruct.
I'm honestly baffled by how strongly some of you guys react to people from the hacking scene or outright pirates. Why the hell do you even care? I don't see how you get any satisfaction from this.
edit: Other than the porn profile pics. That's problematic, agreed.
edit: Other than the porn profile pics. That's problematic, agreed.
Please, defend your logic. I wanna hear why theft is the fault of someone selling something.
I thought that the only way nintendo can spot you is if you take a pirated game online, aka, you pirate mario kart and try to play online, then boom, banned.
But from what i can see, if people only pirate single player games and revert back to the stock firmware to play online with legit carts, they wont know. If it stops people from cheating in online games im good.
But from what i can see, if people only pirate single player games and revert back to the stock firmware to play online with legit carts, they wont know. If it stops people from cheating in online games im good.
Is this saying that someone who has not altered or hacked their console at all can get a bricked console?
This is my argument. You can homebrew on any mobile device. There's is literally the Nvidia shield that's basically a switch that you can safely use for homebrew.
PS4 not hacked? The PS4 is cracked wide open, want to know the best part of it? To kick off the hack you simply browse to website like the old jailbreak iOS hack
And the cheaters in online-games, which makes for a bad experience for everybody else, and developers, which don't get payed, because people pirate there games.
Modding may be okay, but griffing, cheating and piracy isn't. That is why people cheer, if bad things happen to those people.
Wow the pirates that released the exploit locked the exploit sw from getting pirated and trying to get around it bricks your Switch which is a harsher outcome than Nintendo itself enforces when they catch you pirating. Talk about these pirates that released the exploit being double garbage people.
I *think* it's saying this:
There is custom firmware, it is being *sold*
It is based on pirated code.
Some people are trying to pirate *the firmware*
It has defenses which can in turn brick your system if it detects that you are attempting to pirate the custom firmware.
It *also* is possible to trigger those defenses even if using a legitimate version of the custom firmware.
So the context there is entirely about people using the *custom* firmware, and distinguishing between people using a 'legit' version of the custom firmware (as in 'purchased from the makers', but it is in itself based on stolen code) or people using a 'pirated' version of the custom firmware.
But yes, it could be read either way.
Yeah people should honestly wait till everything is known about Nintendo's anti-piracy stuff going on right now. They clearly have upped their game since the Wii-DS-3DS-WiiU days. And that's great for devs who might have felt burned before by Nintendo's easily exploitable systems the past decade+.
No, this is about the fact that using the CFW can brick your Switch, permanently.
In a year gen1s (and at the rate we're going unbanned gen1s) are going to be a prime product to resell used. :P
Mariko will have long replaced the Tegra X1 unit by then, leaving the scene fractured as a result.
Where's the challenge in home brewing on something that is easy or already widespread?
Part of the point in hacking a device like a Switch that 'isn't supposed' to be hacked is the 'isn't supposed' bit.
For the people creatung the hacks yes. But not for all the people using the hack for " supposedly " homebrew only.
Some peoplehave claimed that swapping FW to CFW to FW left a foot print and they been banned too
Its funny that some people just install some homebrew on their console, like Switch or PS4, from unknown sources that could do everything with the data on the console. Its not like this people who create homebrew or tools to pirate software are all good people with good intentions.
Its just dumb to install software from those sources, its like installing software from warez sites on PC or apks from random websites on android, just naive and dumb.
Its just dumb to install software from those sources, its like installing software from warez sites on PC or apks from random websites on android, just naive and dumb.