I can’t believe no one has put this in a post yet....
Looking forward to this release!
Most people have better taste than to post a censored song
Just stating facts lad, modchip shouldn't be necessary.
What about the Switch's security would make you of that opinion?
Wait time out. I'm so clueless with this Solder and solderless thing. Like what is it??????????
Soldered is much like it sounds and you throw a bunch of wires and solder about the place to have it work. In this case the switch is a vaguely modern device so the points can be quite small and tricky to solder vs the things you might have soldered in the past.
Solderless can mean a few things (see something like the wii cable chips for one version) but here it most likely means something like the wii solderless mod chips. They typically come with covers that go over chips and get the relevant legs, or have pins which sit on debug points to do what they need to do.
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This can be easier to install (or at least does not require tricky soldering), typically is more expensive to buy (soldered is the chip and some board for it to go on, solderless of the type just discussed have custom made connectors and/or fancy pins) and can come with reliability issues (soldering is bonded all good and proper if done as you are supposed to, solderless then end up as something more of a held on by friction, to say nothing of corroded pins issues and accuracy problems (all those tiny pins measuring less than 1mm each? What happens if you are the next pin over which is very easy to do).
I expect a bit more from TX than some of the fly by night, even by mod chip circles standards, companies on the wii but it is still physics in the end.
Something just popped in my head
Over the years mod chips traditionally allowed for playing backup disks. Given the fact that this is a cart playing device i wonder how they will do their backup loading. Will it be a packet installer or something like gateway with an exploit tied to a cart
Current speculation is they get in before the boot sequence is over and with that they can load their own patched kernel. Said patched kernel would presumably then allow you to copy things right from USB/SD and run them despite not having the tickets.
My question is what Nintendo will do about it? Cause I’m pretty sure they know about these..
If it is what some think and a hardware exploit early in the boot sequence then no a lot other than a hardware revision to close the exploit.
Beyond that most mod chip vendors don't take paypal (which some seem to think is a nice payment method) because Nintendo had a word in paypal's ear. This reduces the amount of people that will go in for it. They will probably keep an eye on the shops and do a nice little raid on those that also install games for their customers (but downplay that part in the press aspect and focus on mod chips). They might get customs in some countries to intercept shipments. Any software hosting will then get taken down making people have to do installers or do more hidden downloads. They might also take a lesson from satellite TV vendors and release endless updates of the kernel so those looking to keep current have to hack new kernel after new kernel.
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