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TheVerge : "The Nintendo Switch hacking scene is chaos right now"
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To be honest, the day Nintendo releases a Switch revision, i will buy that and homebrew the shit out of my launchday Switch, but until that day i can just laugh when i read things like people bricking their switches trying to essentially homebrew/pirate homebrew/pirating software.
Thats like trying to put out a fire with a flamethrower.
Thats like trying to put out a fire with a flamethrower.
I kind of love it, it's very cyberpunk and kind of every 1990s hacker movie.
Theyre ported, but most ran like crap.
After ScriseM said his cfw wouldnt be out until Pokemon and TX released their free version of their OS, which has some code from ScriseM's stuff,I just updated and moved on. I have an entry point on the current firmware for homebrew and emulators, there isnt any online games coming to Switch that I have to play and want to pay $20/yr to access, since I still have my WiiU and Mk8.
What an asshole hahaa. That was actually kinda entertaining. I'd be losing my shit if I were Kiesen in that vid lol.
It's happened before with the Gateway flashcards for 3DS. In that case, people with legit Gateways did receive bricks. So the homebrew community's concerns here are justified. TX stealing code while filling their product with DRM is the cherry on top.
I salute these early pioneers in switch hacking, in 5 years when switch is dead and hacking has reached psp/wii levels of any idiot can do it the switch is gonna be an amazing console to hack. I had assumed my vita would be the goat tier hypothetica hacked system, switch clearly has it beat in terms of potential for amazing things.
A year from now all of the currently known entry points are probably going to be useless on newly sold Switches. Switches with the bootloader bug are a finite resource.
Hopefully there's a way to get homebrew running while still able to access online features like the 3DS someday.
I don't know what all this means, but I've bought a 3.0.2 switch and I'm going to sit on it for a little while.
At the very least I can flip it and make my money back.
At the very least I can flip it and make my money back.
The ironic hypocrisy of this is almost delicious. "Don't hack my hacking code, bro".
Sounds to me like they really want to hack. :D
(I guess you meant they don't want to pirate).
I wouldnt feel anything if everyone with a modified switch got their console perma bricked to be honest. Anything to deter cheaters in online games, even if most are doing harmless stuff with it.
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The piracy dongle/program has an anti piracy feature to keep their program from being cracked, all while it's built on stolen code? Am I reading this right?
That's some rich-ass, shameless hypocrisy. Homebrew scene enables some genuinely great stuff, but I hope the guys that made this SX OS get their comeuppance.
That's some rich-ass, shameless hypocrisy. Homebrew scene enables some genuinely great stuff, but I hope the guys that made this SX OS get their comeuppance.
Usually once people get away with pirating one or two games they dont all of a sudden turn around and start purchasing more games. Why pay for something when you already got away with having it for free. If its easy to pirate people will pirate
I imagine the homebrew program thing has those countermeasures as usually all paths to open homebrew also literally bust open the models of protection for games entirely. Usually when you get "full homebrew" in about the same week, you get pirated software.
Interesting that they've tried to make protections around it, even if they're essentially using...stolen code to even accomplish what they did? How weird.
Interesting that they've tried to make protections around it, even if they're essentially using...stolen code to even accomplish what they did? How weird.
Sounds like things are a little tough for my one favorite feature of a hacked console: ripping physical games.
But won't the dongle be kind of useless when Mariko units are finally out on the market? That would fracture the scene, since gen 1 Switches will be rare and honestly, most people won't sell their gen 1 Switches (unless something like a Switch Pro arrives).
Honestly the only thing that makes me want to hack my Switch is emulation. With that screen + joy cons (on the go multiplayer) + docked (playing on a TV) I think it would be the ultimate device for emu gaming.
Yea this works just fine. My phone has a finicky charger so once its charging I don't like to touch it so I usually do this at night. Its nice too because it saves the DNS settings so you don't have to enter them every time you use the browser.
On topic seems like the scene is a bit messy, I'm patient though now that I actually own a Switch. Can't wait to see how things progress.
It'll get messier when the revised hardware fixes the bootflaw.
Then a bunch of people bought malware that can brick their systems... and can't be used on new systems.
are we talking about the same thing here?
Edit: Disregard, my reading comprehension isn't up to par, been a long day.
Considering some code being stolen is also not helping lol. The moment, Mariko drop. It will be even more chaotic.
You can discuss piracy as news topic / its effect on the industry. You can't post tutorials on how to pirate software or other content that is aimed at helping people pirate. Or discuss personally pirating software. This is laid out pretty explicitly in the rules.
This is sounding like a repeat of the PS3's hacking woes:
- A huge exploit breaks the entire system open (the PS3 had it's private signing key for all software leaked due to bad crypto)
- The hackers who expose the flaw take too long to get out something for homebrew for them (or get sued by Sony for hacking them lol)
- Piracy teams swoop in to sell their hastily thrown together and sketchy solutions that rely on stolen homebrew hackers' code and have nasty bricking code
- The homebrew scene splinters and falls apart with tons of different piracy devices needing different homebrew, so they're only used for piracy
- The console manufacturer eventually fixes their exploit or closes enough holes to make playing newer games harder to do
I just want to put moonlight on my Switch and not get banned, is that so much to ask when I paid for the damn system and I'm not pirating games or fucking with online
I mean... u can just put moonlight there. But the risk of getting banned is all also on you there.
The Switch for emulation has a lot of potential, but everything else pisses me off. People that cheat in online games deserve to have their consoles permanently banned, I hate that shit. I don't feel bad at all about this. It's a shame that it wasn't Nintendo that messed up this time, they really can't catch a break.
I don't care if you could pirate all the games you want, never being able to play online would make the Switch useless to me.
I don't care if you could pirate all the games you want, never being able to play online would make the Switch useless to me.
Just because it's open source doesn't mean you can't pirate it. Most common licenses have strings attached.