Hacking Are you looking to hack your Switch?

[Kikirini]

I'm definitely interested in hacking it (because I love me some emulators), but I'm a bit gunshy after being banned on the 3DS. I may wait until I can afford a second Switch before I hack anything.

 

[baxzxd]

If the solder chip looks simple enough I’ll definately do it

 

[leon315]

I still have a lot of unfinished ps4/steam games, so I'll stay on 3.0.1 for now and I'll wait patiently for coolboot cfw solution, Team xecuter will NEVER have my money!

 

[Proust]

My interest in hacking the Switch is in direct correlation with the great ‘new’ games they will release this year... at the moment that interest is: 0.
Hopefully E3 has something nice to announce...

 

[the_randomizer]

As much as I want to mod my Switch, several factors prevent me from doing so, the biggest one being no apparent softmod for 4.1.0 firmware. Modchips are all well and good, but modifying a small motherboard like the Switch's is bound to result in high failure. I'm not holding my breath for a softmod on 4.x.x.

 

[Deleted User]

Softmod 4.x.

 

[thekarter104]

Softmod 4.x. 5.x in the future.
I have to stay updated because I play a lot of MK8 Deluxe online with friends.

 

[pwsincd]

think the lack of info regarding actual soft mods was a little disappointing ... as im sure it will be the overall consensus of opinion.

 

[FliP0x]

Softmod.

I don't do tiny soldering on tiny motherboards.

 

[thewarhammer]

Right now, no.

As I have only one Switch and bought a lot of stuff at eShop, I'm not interested in the risk of the possibility of being banned.

In the future, who knows?

 

[Jahrs]

All i want is previous gen console emulation so that i basically have an portable wiiU that things is great for nintendo emulation all the way back to the nes and even ps1.

I dont mind online bans because im not a fan of playing nintendo games online i mostly just do local stuff like pokemon.

 

[PrincessLillie]

I'm not hacking my Switch until there's at least a Luma3DS equivalent on it.

 

[SnAQ]

yes literally th eonly reason ibought it, i would never had adopted it so quickly if not for the 3.0 announcement , got a 2.3.0
but i am waiting till after TX releases and then for the other developers to respond
i will go with whatever solution offers the most features but will also weigh it with which ever solution is easiest
i will go with the solution that enables backups and homebrew with the least hassle

everything is hanging on the TX release right now , what will happen? who knows
they may already have working software to go along with their hardware and most likely do,like a backup loader

will this be able to be used if a softmod is released will it be like GW where their tools will benefit the rest of the scene, will the softmod devs be salty and try to prevent a TX backup loader from working with their softmod, will the softmod devs release their own backup loader or will someone else release one shortly after a softmod is released
will we all be using TX software or will they lock it down? , so many questions , this can go so many different ways
we won't know anything until the TX release

The teams behind the currently known softmods will never release a backup loader.
They're against piracy (and they know that like 2 people in the world used actual backups of their own games).

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Edit: And to reply to the topic, no I'm not going to hack my Switch (I'm mostly here on this forum for the front page news, and I'm curious on the hacking progress.

 

[weatMod]

The teams behind the currently known softmods will never release a backup loader.
They're against piracy (and they know that like 2 people in the world used actual backups of their own games).

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it won't matter TX will release a hardmod that enables it and they are more against backup loading when people are profiting from it, they will release just to shit on the TX parade , even if not officially they will do it through back channels, or they will release a gimped version that other devs can easily un gimp

 

[8BitWonder]

As much as I want to mod my Switch, several factors prevent me from doing so, the biggest one being no apparent softmod for 4.1.0 firmware. Modchips are all well and good, but modifying a small motherboard like the Switch's is bound to result in high failure. I'm not holding my breath for a softmod on 4.x.x.

To be fair the only thing missing right now from 4.X is a new kernel exploit. Other than that, SciresM mentioned the TrustZone flaw is still present there (but would need kernelhax), and the only publicly known userland exploit is private for research.

 

[SnAQ]

To be fair the only thing missing right now from 4.X is a new kernel exploit. Other than that, SciresM mentioned the TZ flaw is still present there (but would need kernelhax), and the only publicly known userland exploit is private for research.

Yeah, but wouldn't Nintendo fix the TZ bug when the 1.0.0, rendering the 4.1 hack unusable on higher firmwares?

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[fadx]

With all the system data Nintendo collect, I'll be waiting a few months to see if there will be mass banning.

 

[8BitWonder]

Yeah, but wouldn't Nintendo fix the TZ bug when the 1.0.0, rendering the 4.1 hack unusable on higher firmwares?

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To be honest I'm not entirely sure what you're asking.
If you're asking if the TrustZone bug can be patched on firms higher than 4.1, then yes. But the idea would be to install and boot emuNAND from a lower firm.

 

[linuxares]

I'm not sure, I trust @SciresM and the gang. Plus it's prettier with a softmod than hardmod personally.

 

[Thirty3Three]

Softmod > Hardmod imo, (before anyone tries to bash me, that fun acronym means in my opinion. Cool right?).