Hacking Discussion PSA: Please be careful when installing custom NSPs

[Deleted-442439]

As Authoring Tools and a few other parts of the march 2018 sdk have leaked, it seems that people are trying to use our method of prodencrypting, dev encrypted nsp's for use on retail consoles.

As more and more people are able to figure out the patches, please be aware that installing improperly made titles, and especially dev encrypted nsp's directly from the sdk / edev dumps can corrupt your ticketDB. This has already happened to a few people such as myself and @GRAnimated

This usually causes the system to give the fatal error 2168-0002 when launching games. Only fix for now is either manually repairing the DB from a dump / hac discmount or doing a factory reset.

So please be vigilant in installing random stuff from the internet as always.

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[kumikochan]

As Authoring Tools and a few other parts of the march 2018 sdk have leaked, it seems that people are trying to use our method of prodencrypting, dev encrypted nsp's for use on retail consoles.

As more and more people are able to figure out the patches, please be aware that installing improperly made titles, and especially dev encrypted nsp's directly from the sdk / edev dumps can corrupt your ticketDB. This has already happened to a few people such as myself and @GRAnimated

This usually causes the system to give the fatal error 2168-0002 when launching games. Only fix for now is either manually repairing the DB from a dump / hac discmount or doing a factory reset.

So please be vigilant in installing random stuff from the internet as always.

Good that you took the time to warn people about this !

 

[Deleted-442439]

Good that you took the time to warn people about this !

Just trying to keep the community safe

 

[kamesenin888]

What nsp are on the wild doing this?

 

[jakkal]

There is a way to fix the broken tickets tho right?

 

[Flying Scotsman]

What nsp are on the wild doing this?

Untouched Devmenu.nsp is one. Anything SDK related (unless it has been resigned) is also Dev Encrypted and will cause this to happen.

There is a way to fix the broken tickets tho right?

Factory resetting your Switch or restoring a NAND backup before it became corrupted is the only way I've found so far which fixes it.