Switch title "A Dark Room" included a Ruby code interpreter, gets pulled from eShop

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Yesterday, an indie developer revealed that their game, A Dark Room, featured a Ruby interpreter and code editor within the game's files as an easter egg. Though the intentions were to inspire users to want to learn to code on their Nintendo Switch systems, and it was "tested thoroughly" to ensure that it couldn't be used as an exploit, offering such a capability was likely against Nintendo's developer ToS. The game was promptly pulled from all regional stores within a few hours of the announcement. A Dark Room initially released on the Nintendo Switch earlier this month, on April 12th. It remains to be seen if Nintendo will allow the game back on the eShop if the code functionality is removed, or if the game is permanently unavailable due to this.

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Downloaded this when I heard the news a few days back, its interpreter is actually awful to use and it's mostly useless if you don't understand their engine but it still feels nice to have something Nintendo doesn't allow on my unhacked console.
 

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Downloaded this when I heard the news a few days back, its interpreter is actually awful to use and it's mostly useless if you don't understand their engine but it still feels nice to have something Nintendo doesn't allow on my unhacked console.
Now dump it and upload it on dark places!
 
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Sorry, but U never mentioned it.
Downloaded this when I heard the news a few days back, its interpreter is actually awful to use and it's mostly useless if you don't understand their engine but it still feels nice to have something Nintendo doesn't allow on my unhacked console.
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Downloaded this when I heard the news a few days back, its interpreter is actually awful to use and it's mostly useless if you don't understand their engine but it still feels nice to have something Nintendo doesn't allow on my unhacked console.
and nintendo thinks they can hinder me from trying to access that particular interpreter by pulling the game from eshop
luckily i can get a nsp version of this game
but its not that i could make any use of this interpreter anyway
 

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What part of "unhacked console" did you miss?
To be fair, as long as it's not a patched Switch you can use MemLoader in RCM mode, mount your NAND, pull your keys, extract your game and keep a backup of it all without running CFW or leaving any traces behind on the Switch itself. Alternatively, backup NAND, go offline, run CFW, dump game, restore pre-CFW backup to remove all traces, continue enjoying console.

So it's not completely out of the realm of possibility if you have an unhacked Switch, just that it's an unpatched Switch.
 
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Except they're allowing this to release on the same platform in a couple of months. :P
I'm assuming the distinction there is that FUZE always admitted it's running code, and is properly sandboxed to prevent anything (Though we'll see how long that lasts..)
Kinda like petit computer and the 3ds one I keep forgetting the name of. Which is interesting since the 3ds one did eventually get an exploit..

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To be fair, as long as it's not a patched Switch you can use MemLoader in RCM mode, mount your NAND, pull your keys, extract your game and keep a backup of it all without running CFW or leaving any traces behind on the Switch itself. Alternatively, backup NAND, go offline, run CFW, dump game, restore pre-CFW backup to remove all traces, continue enjoying console.

So it's not completely out of the realm of possibility if you have an unhooked Switch, just that it's an unpatched Switch.
It's patched though, so none of that works.
 

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I'm assuming the distinction there is that FUZE always admitted it's running code, and is properly sandboxed to prevent anything (Though we'll see how long that lasts..)
Kinda like petit computer and the 3ds one I keep forgetting the name of. Which is interesting since the 3ds one did eventually get an exploit..

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It's patched though, so none of that works.
Well there you go. Now that shuts down all possibility. If you lead with that it'll cut down some of the spam.
 

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Well there you go. Now that shuts down all possibility. If you lead with that it'll cut down some of the spam.
I never felt the need to distinguish because I never expected someone would reply to it like they did. I was simply talking to myself when I said I enjoyed the fact that I had a code interpreter running on an unhacked console. That fact is, to me, independent of whether or not the system is patched.
It simply amused me that I have never made any attempt to hack this console and yet it is running custom code of some kind. That is all.
 
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