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    Hacking Speculations about Switch 2 hacking

    The amount of online checks, virtual game cards and game key cards makes me highly suspicious about how Nintendo is going to enforce DRM on the new system, going all digital is their goal, maybe chasing some of the ways denuvo protection works. If i had to bet for a exploit vector, it would the...
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    ROM Hack Has anyone been able to get mods that have .lua files working in the new Binding of Isaac: Repentance update?

    Yeah, i was just reading about that one game that nintendo pulled out from the store because it had a hidden ruby interpreter, so it's logical that they got rid of the lua interpreter as well. Implementing the entire API seems a bit too complicated for me, but i will try doing some research into...
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    ROM Hack Has anyone been able to get mods that have .lua files working in the new Binding of Isaac: Repentance update?

    I'm working on this, but it seems that appending the main.lua contents of the mod to the original main.lua does not work, since it's never called inside the game, therefore, not executing the mod's lua. I'm researching some way to get the game to execute arbitrary code by editing some loose...
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    Hacking Question How big is the possibility that there is another RCM exploit?

    I mean, the new switch revisions might be immune to the rcm exploit but that does not mean that new vulnerabilities might not be present on them, be it software or hardware related. However, i think that the focus now is on getting to boot the cfw in a non volatile way on the base model. That...
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    Homebrew Question How to display an image using SLD_Surface in Switch Devkit pro SDL2

    You need to initialize the romfs subsystem to be able to access files in the folder. Like this: #include<iostream> #include<SDL2/SDL.h> #include<switch.h> int main() { SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO | SDL_INIT_JOYSTICK); SDL_Window* Window =...