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fail0verflow just released the SwitchX hack method (Read OP)
- Thread starter L.O.R.D
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And some potentials for a lawsuit since it broke the nondisclosure agreement timetable.
I'm not seeing the correlation here. This is about a homebrew method for Nintendo Switch, it has nothing to do with emulation.
Generally homebrew is used to grab content from the console's specific media. Wii games were dumped via Wii Homebrew just as Wii U games were dumped via Wii U homebrew.
I don't know, I'm asking if there's any as in the Wii U and 3DS days.
This is great news for those who want to mess around and play homebrew software. I mainly hacked my devices to circumvent region locking. I'm thankful console region locking is a thing of the past. No more need for me unless some cool/interesting homebrew software is made.
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?
- 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?
Do you think that modified chips are immune to undiscovered vulnerabilities?
Ah, now that I've read into it a bit more beyond my initial knee-jerk shit post, you are definitely correct. It's a Tegra exploit.
BS, we have found zero traces of Mariko, there's a 99.9% chance of getting a T210 Switch if you buy it now.
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.
Its not 'that' simple. You're putting your Switch in a fairly precocious situation when messing with its eMMC clip and board. That is your Switch, and it is signed with an unbreakable key that only Nintendo has, which is why it needs to be removed or corrupted, to bypass it. But if you mess that up, the Switch is effectively dead for normal use as it will never boot into a Switch environment ever again.
In Recovery, because you've gutted the actual expect boot, you basically can install *anything* over your old boot if you so wish.
This won't allow most high-level devs to do anything. There's nothing to work with here unless you want to install Linux permanently over your distribution of Switch FW, creating a 300$ tablet with joycons. Low-level devs need to make some form of CFW that is re-ed from the Switch FW to basically be a replacement Switch solution.
It doesn't, been known for months.
of course not.... everything can be hacked over time.
But using a known chip with known vulnerabilitys gives hackers a headstart.
I can understand the 3D printed blue tab thing, but how is this accomplished using a piece of wire? All i know right now is short pin 9 to pin 10 and power on, and you enter recovery mode. To use a piece of wire though you need to open joycon though and mod it. anyone shed light on the process
All Nintendo consoles have had homebrew, right? DS, Wii, and 3DS all had phenomenal software sales regardless.
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.
While I don't really have a personal interest in modding my switch yet, news of successful savegame backup does sort of have me looking over here like that meme of the guy with his girl looking back at another girl.
Except stock firmware is the upset girl and savegame backups is the girl I'm looking back at.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Both easily.
EDIT: I think Saturn can be a bit fucky, never emulated it. But DC works for sure, it's a bit more lightweight than PSP.
I dug a bit, seems its likely not far out at all. Probably weeks timescale, with a completely revamped security engine and loader.
It'll be soon. Nintendo's also not been sitting on a lot of backup stock so the roll-over will be fast.
Depends, Nintendo is both winning on the hardware for more sellthroughs, but long-term it's a loss because developers are now starting to lose faith in it. Developers who are pro-security and such.
Yeah that's true, anything to do with touching the Switch OS can have pretty bad consequences.
I talking about the "eMMC board" thing, because I thought they were talking about physically removing it.