Homebrew {Request} Can someone look into the FLOG Emulator? [Updated]

[Shadowfied]

I mean, we will have to launch it by hombrew, sorry i'm from spain and I don't speak English 10/10 [emoji28]

We will, but by the time we have homebrew running I imagine Ninty will have launched NES VC so it'll be kind of a moot point by then.

 

[ShiftaDeband]

Alright, if this is legit, I'd bet you can clear system and network time by following something like this:

- remove all saved network from the switch (or airplane mode but keep BT on?)
- remove back case, disconnect battery for a few moments
- reconnect, reassemble
- change time to July 11
- do direct motion (using joycon grip?)

Success?

Here's battery location: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nintendo+Switch+Teardown/78263#s156314

 

[PRAGMA]

CALLED IT!

Maybe the motion is the like infamous like hand motion Satoru does?

 

[Deleted User]

Alright, if this is legit, I'd bet you can clear system and network time by following something like this:

- remove all saved network from the switch (or airplane mode but keep BT on?)
- remove back case, disconnect battery for a few moments
- reconnect, reassemble
- change time to July 11
- do direct motion (using joycon grip?)

Success?

Here's battery location: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nintendo+Switch+Teardown/78263#s156314

lol no one in their right mind is gonna take apart their switch just to play nes golf

 

[vgmoose]

So, I'm not at my switch right now but some of my testing around this centers around the idea that the Switch "listens" for the motion at a certain point. As in, it would call something like "checkForSecretGesture()" at some point, which would check for 1.5 seconds and then never check again until it's called again, which could explain why flailing the joycons around never seems to do anything.

Posted earlier in this thread, yellows8 described the technique as this: "The motion seems to be a reference to this. Hold the Joy-Cons pointing forwards/downwards, then move Joy-Cons to a vertical position, and hold it there for a bit. The Joy-Con grip can be used for this."

In my experiments, I noticed that if you put the joycons down, the switch eventually dims and idles. then when you pick them up, it undims based on the motion alone. It doesn't use any buttons. My latest theory (with no proof mind you!) is that during this resume time, it's scanning for the gesture.

So with that all said, could someone try from the home screen:
0. have date be 7/11
1, put the joycon grip down flat on the ground
2. wait for the switch goes idle and the menu to dim
3. pick it up such that you do the gesture described in the video and in the comment above

Of course, it's just a guess and I can try it myself later when I'm at my switch. But I thought I'd share because hype!!!

Also, I tried for a long time to "fake" the Internet time sync, but I believe it to be done over HTTPS, not over a standard like NTP. So that would be unfakeable (stemming from the fact that even an offline console somehow "knows" the true date when you turn on Internet sync, even when you poweroff with a fake date). So hopefully having Internet time sync on isn't a requirement for this.

 

[PRAGMA]

The date stuff means that you have to use the Network Sync option and unticking it to manually set the date/time will make it not function, it doesnt mean it still checks online in the background or anything. This MIGHT be possible to spoof using Fiddler Modify and Rewrite.

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So, I'm not at my switch right now but some of my testing around this centers around the idea that the Switch "listens" for the motion at a certain point. As in, it would call something like "checkForSecretGesture()" at some point, which would check for 1.5 seconds and then never check again until it's called again, which could explain why flailing the joycons around never seems to do anything.

Posted earlier in this thread, yellows8 described the technique as this: "The motion seems to be a reference to this. Hold the Joy-Cons pointing forwards/downwards, then move Joy-Cons to a vertical position, and hold it there for a bit. The Joy-Con grip can be used for this."

In my experiments, I noticed that if you put the joycons down, the switch eventually dims and idles. then when you pick them up, it undims based on the motion alone. It doesn't use any buttons. My latest theory (with no proof mind you!) is that during this resume time, it's scanning for the gesture.

So with that all said, could someone try from the home screen:
0. have date be 7/11
1, put the joycon grip down flat on the ground
2. wait for the switch goes idle and the menu to dim
3. pick it up such that you do the gesture described in the video and in the comment above

Of course, it's just a guess and I can try it myself later when I'm at my switch. But I thought I'd share because hype!!!

Also, I tried for a long time to "fake" the Internet time sync, but I believe it to be done over HTTPS, not over a standard like NTP. So that would be unfakeable (stemming from the fact that even an offline console somehow "knows" the true date when you turn on Internet sync, even when you poweroff with a fake date). So hopefully having Internet time sync on isn't a requirement for this.

https doesnt actually stop this, https isnt what you think, you can easilly spoof this aslong as Nintendo doesnt do pre-flight requests which I think it does :/

 

[Shadowfied]

Welp, see you all next year then.

 

[SomeGamer]

https://twitter.com/Fiskerdin/status/910215694645649408

 

[Shadowfied]

https://twitter.com/Fiskerdin/status/910215694645649408

People without smartphones:

- Setery
- shuffle2
- Fiskerdin

 

[Raverrevolution]

Watch, this Easter Egg probably only works on the actual 7/11 date networked in like how some games would change based upon if it was Christmas and whatnot

 

[SomeGamer]

https://twitter.com/progranade/status/910217869945901057

 

[Deleted User]

People without smartphones:

- Setery
- shuffle2
- Fiskerdin

So, has anyone had success getting this running on latest? Because if not, that seems....weird.

 

[PRAGMA]

Seems like all requests go under receive and dauth and SSL Pins, meaning unless we get the SSL Certificate in windows applicable format, we cant do shit.

 

[Deleted User]

So, has anyone had success getting this running on latest? Because if not, that seems....weird.

i dont think anyone has gotten it running at all since all we have seen from multiple people is the same freaking screenshot

 

[Raverrevolution]

People without smartphones:

- Setery
- shuffle2
- Fiskerdin

Literally still didn't prove anything

 

[rileysrjay]

Holy crap @sarkwalvein , you just got mentioned and your post featured on ars Technica:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017...ion-to-unlock-the-switchs-nes-emulator/?amp=1
A couple others got mentioned too but he was the only one called out by name iirc

 

[Shadowfied]

So, has anyone had success getting this running on latest? Because if not, that seems....weird.

Nope.

 

[delta nite]

I did it. Here's footage:



Ok. I followed the steps from Switchbrew. My console is on 1.0.0 and has never been connected. I set the date as 07/11/2017, did the "Directly to you!" pose at the Home Menu, tried it a couple times and the screen faded to black, then the game booted. When I pressed ZL, japanese text popped up above the joycon icons. Tryed to play for a bit but couldn't understand the controls, motion controls did nothing.
Then I put the console to sleep. Upon waking up, I was at the Home Menu again. Couldn't reproduce it even after trying for a good 10 minutes.

 

[SomeGamer]

I did it. Here's footage:

FW version?

 

[punderino]

I did it. Here's footage:

Tell us what you did and the state of your console please.

 

[Shadowfied]

I did it. Here's footage:

THANK YOU!
TAKE NOTES PEOPLE! RECORD YOUR SHIT.