Last we heard from TX they were searching for Switch units that have been patched by Nintendo in the factory, and they have just announced today that support for these so-called "unhackable Switches" will be coming in due time from the developers at Xecuter, so stay tuned for more news regarding this amazing development in the near future, in the meantime, read their official announcement below regarding the IPATCH changes as they slowly work on getting to the bottom of it, and finish working on releasing complete SX PRO and SX OS support in due time!

Dear fans, we hope you're all enjoying your weekend!

Recently, it has come to our attention there's a new revision of the Nintendo Switch in the wild which is incompatible with our SX Pro product. This isn't simply an incompatibility with SX Pro but rather appeared to be a fix of the infamous "USB RCM" exploit.

Naturally, we had to locate one of these new Switch units to get to the bottom of this. Our new Switch unit arrived to us at firmware version 5.1.0 and what we found out is the following (sorry, time to get a bit technical):

One of the IPATCH entries in the fuse set (entry #3) has been replaced with a new patch. The old patch patches the bootrom location 0x10fb3c with the value "00 20" (mov r0, #0 in thumb), and the new patch patches the bootrom location 0x10769a with the value "00 21" (mov r1, #0 in thumb). This new patch effectively zeroes out the upper-byte of the wLength field in the USB RCM endpoint 0 handling code.

Those who are paying attention probably wonder how we know the exact details of this IPATCH entry change, since we can't read out the fuses without our precious USB RCM exploit, right? It is a classic chicken and egg problem.

The answer is obvious: There is more than one coldboot bootrom exploit, and it is not just the warmboot one.

So don't fear: we will deliver a solution for these new "unhackable" switches in due time!

Thank you for attention.

-- Team-Xecuter - Rocking the Switch in 2018 and beyond! --

Source: MaxConsole

 

[gamesquest1]

inb4 "THIS IS A GPL VIOLATION!!!!!!ARRRGHHH, CLONERS, CODE THEIVES " etc etc

PS, this means, we have heard it all before, keep the thread on topic, tx updates and theorizing about how/when tx will release a solution

 

[Ericthegreat]

So this is probably the exploit that was leaked.

 

[AcktCC]

whose code are they stealing now? that's outrageous!

 

[leon315]

He told about his right hand named Jennifer.

Wut? That's fukken gloss.

 

[nikeymikey]

I say I say well done TX, we have heard nothing from the so called open source guys regarding the new patched switch but yet people still hating on TX.

Why do you haters get so butthurt about TX and SX OS?? Were you this mad about them when they were basically the only team out there supporting Xb360 hacking?? Or when they were No1 team for OG Xbox mods?

 

[Bladexdsl]

people keep gassing on about stolen code etc but do they realize in the pirating world everything is stealing?!

 

[Quantumcat]

Reminder to all that gpl violation and code stealing stuff is off topic, there is a thread for that.
@98otiss

 

[Clapmaster]

This team is leaving everyone in the dust.

 

[CapitanSburro]

These guys work fast damn

 

[Mateto]

Oh man, can't wait for June 15th!

 

[Insane]

I like how they told everybody how to update their bootrom dump for further analysis

 

[salvatore]

WOW TX

and now we need EMUNAND , please we are in your hands!!!

 

[Mr. Wizard]

What will the haters say now?

 

[Ty_]

Good to see a couple of mods keeping things focused (and yes I know this is technically off topic). I'll make this my first and last post about it.

Back on topic though this is great news. At the very least this makes homebrew accessible to as many people as possible going into the future

 

[Rabita]

I knew its great news for new customer with new switch revision, but can we (older customer) get the promised cheat support

 

[Phenj]

Holy shieeet!
Fun enough.
Team Xecuter|Drama-ish devs
2-------------------------0

 

[gnmmarechal]

Not bad.

 

[rrocha]

I say well done TX, we have heard nothing from the so called open source guys regarding the new patched switch but yet people still hating on TX.

The open source people (and other teams) are holding on to the unreleased exploits for obvious reasons: they don't want Nintendo's eye on them. Since they are doing this mainly for research, the more people know about the said exploits, the more chance it has to be leaked and therefore patched. They have zero gain in releasing it before Mariko revision comes out. On the other hand, TX has a product and they need to drive sales. And what better to drive them than keeping the hype over 9000? Even the ones that are stuck in iPatched boards are now prone to invest in the SX Pro package as soon as stock is back on resellers, as they will want to jump on board from day 1. This being said, it's still very fuzzy if this will be a new payload, updated dongle hardware or something else. We'll have to wait and see. I just hope that this won't become a crystal ball thread with everyone asking about release dates. We don't know yet, TX will announce when they have it ready.

Why do you haters get so butthurt about TX and SX OS?? Were you this mad about them when they were basically the only team out there supporting Xb360 hacking?? Or when they were No1 team for OG Xbox mods?

What will the haters say now?

Holy shieeet!
Fun enough.
Team Xecuter|Drama-ish devs
2-------------------------0

Haters will continue to hate, fanboys will continue to support and bash the haters. So posts like these will mainly be seen only as inflammatory as you're basically hatting the haters. Please do understand that I'm not attacking you on a personal side, nor do I want to engage in a discussion about your real intentions that I might have misread. I do concede that already. I'm just saying that I guess it won't ever change, and stating these facts for one side or the other won't really help.

As a close follower of both the TX and open-source camp, I'm very happy that things are moving forward at this absurdly fast pace. And as a licensed user of SX OS, I'm very happy about the updates and the continued support they're giving to their user base. Like I said on another thread, I'll happily jump on the open-source bandwagon as soon as they have feature parity and all the convenience of an all-in-one solution like SX OS provides. Until then I'll keep learning, gathering info and supporting the best I can.

Peace

 

[Nollog]

No release no news imo.

 

[Mr. Wizard]

No release no news imo.

It's too soon, if they release it now it will get patched...