Hacking Have you been banned? If so, post here. Wanna see if we can find the source of the problem.

[Deleted User]

@Simon Shiny Quagsire said on twitter he wasnt sure if it was about the CDN or Homebrew , so have your eyes open on 5x nintendo could sniff every detail

 

[vickdu31]

I hope they dont start to check logs of 3ds and wii U CDN x)

 

[rubean]

how would i know if i've been banned i cant access eshop since im not on latest firmware

 

[Rune]

I hate to be negative...

Liar.

 

[Nemean]

So what happens when you are banned am I right in saying it would mean no online and no Eshop but otherwise no change?
Odd thing is for me I’m not bothered about online and banning people from Eshop will encourage piracy on systems that might only want homebrew.
Is there any other downsides I am missing as it seems if you are not bothered about online then no major issue?

 

[TheSynthax]

with splathex

He probably modified his clothes to have perks that aren't available on those specific clothes. Or unlocked something unobtainable.

I hope they dont start to check logs of 3ds and wii U CDN x)

Wii U didn't have authentication on the eShop.

 

[Rune]

So what happens when you are banned am I right in saying it would mean no online and no Eshop but otherwise no change?
Odd thing is for me I’m not bothered about online and banning people from Eshop will encourage piracy on systems that might only want homebrew.
Is there any other downsides I am missing as it seems if you are not bothered about online then no major issue?

This depends. Lets say there's an exploit that's important to use and it hypothetically requires a web applet, and lets say the ban prevents you from loading any web applets, then you're now going to miss out on using that exploit.

 

[Ericthegreat]

Liar.

It's true.

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I hope they dont start to check logs of 3ds and wii U CDN x)

They won't do that, just because you hacked one system, they shouldn't bother you on another one.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

how would i know if i've been banned i cant access eshop since im not on latest firmware

If you aren't connected to the internet I'd guess you're fine

 

[CapitanSburro]

So what happens when you are banned am I right in saying it would mean no online and no Eshop but otherwise no change?
Odd thing is for me I’m not bothered about online and banning people from Eshop will encourage piracy on systems that might only want homebrew.
Is there any other downsides I am missing as it seems if you are not bothered about online then no major issue?

I mean, not playing Smash online is a bit of a bummer imo...

 

[Dmafra]

a friend of mine was banned because he used a modified backup of splatoon 2 and several users the same problem

I heard about someone gain access to the part of the octo expanssion early, could be that?

 

[Nemean]

This depends. Lets say there's an exploit that's important to use and it hypothetically requires a web applet, and lets say the ban prevents you from loading any web applets, then you're now going to miss out on using that exploit.

Fair enough thats a good point but with the old switch we always have at least an entry point to boot CFW so is there anything we may need another exploit for other than Softmod rather than a hardmod? Curious as I’m trying to weigh up how major it would be.

I mean, not playing Smash online is a bit of a bummer imo...

This is true however most of my play is local with friends or family so while it would be an issue I would rather have cfw on my switch. Also not as clued up on this stuff as others but would it be possible to have hacked servers for us all to use even if we had been banned? My assumption here is that banning us stops the console from connecting to Nintendo servers. so if we had our own servers would we be able to do everything just with a much smaller player base?

 

[CapitanSburro]

Fair enough thats a good point but with the old switch we always have at least an entry point to boot CFW so is there anything we may need another exploit for other than Softmod rather than a hardmod? Curious as I’m trying to weigh up how major it would be.



This is true however most of my play is local with friends or family so while it would be an issue I would rather have cfw on my switch. Also not as clued up on this stuff as others but would it be possible to have hacked servers for us all to use even if we had been banned? My assumption here is that banning us stops the console from connecting to Nintendo servers. so if we had our own servers would we be able to do everything just with a much smaller player base?

My guess would be that games perform a server check before going online, nintendo can't be that stupid

 

[leonmagnus99]

are these perma bans like sonys (which destroy your console id for good) ?

 

[Nemean]

My guess would be that games perform a server check before going online, nintendo can't be that stupid

Fair enough so only way would be to spoof that server check which if it is written into each game could be an issue or if it is firmware related then cfw could spoof it?

 

[netovsk]

But he used in in Aug 2017 why would they hold off for 9 months then ban him?

It's more effective to ban in waves. You ban a guy single handedly people start to panic and looking for ways to avoid it, like this topic.

 

[Hyokai]

all this paranoia about getting banned or not it is so stupid.

a) you dont wanna get banned. dont use CFW/Homebrew and so on
b) i never got banned on my 3DS because i played my "not" legal backups only offline and the games i wanted to play online, well i bought them lol

so if you like online play dont mod your console and buy everygame. for me i like online play but i dont mind to get a ban, because if i want really something to play online then i gonna choose my pc over the switch.

that is the risk with modding your switch or doing stuff with it that is not intended by nintendo.

For Example. Nintendo can see your Record of recently played games, but they cant ban you because you could have borrowed a copy from your friend, this would be such a pr disaster....

And i dont think nintendo is so stupid to ban everything because they can get still money from the eshop(DLC content) or the subscription fee for online play, but thats just my opinion.

 

[DaveLister]

We can expect others who used Simon's cdn downloader to get it in the teeth also would imagine .

 

[ICEM4N]

So what happens when you are banned am I right in saying it would mean no online and no Eshop but otherwise no change?
Odd thing is for me I’m not bothered about online and banning people from Eshop will encourage piracy on systems that might only want homebrew.
Is there any other downsides I am missing as it seems if you are not bothered about online then no major issue?

You lost your purchases (DLCs) and probably game updates too, some games are broken without those updates

 

[Nemean]

You lost your purchases (DLCs) and probably game updates too, some games are broken without those updates

Yeah so would mean I would have to use a backup loader to get my Eshop games. And pirate going forward but I wouldn’t really feel any moral dilemma in that situation as Nintendo restricted my access to the Eshop. So for me at least if I get banned then so be it while not ideal I can live without online features. I’m on 4.1 atm and still enjoy my switch. And with gba and gbc emulators I enjoy it even more.