Possible ban because of Tinfoil "Am I screwed?"

Deleted member 704126 · Jul 8, 2024

4d1xlaan said:
you can still clear serial and certs from nand directly with tinfoil

It's one thing to do this with emummc. I would not make actual changes to sysmmc.

4d1xlaan · Jul 8, 2024

ebussy_foot said:
It's one thing to do this with emummc. I would not make actual changes to sysmmc.

Personal preference, but you wouldnt be prodinfo blanking on sysmmc anyway

IceBlazeWinters · Jul 8, 2024

BadBoyXxX said:
but u used it on sysnand or emunand? because im new i have a oled with modchip only want to play and edit the savegame nothing more

sysnand

Raydi said:
Yeah you don't run emulators or pirated games but you have a modded Switch.

because i have no reason to run emulators

and pirating games is how you get sued by nintendo and thrown in jail for theft

i'm prefectly happy using cheats and mods in my games as i only play online with friends and i make sure my mods are wi-fi safe before installing anything

M7L7NK7 · Jul 8, 2024

IceBlazeWinters said:
and pirating games is how you get sued by nintendo and thrown in jail for theft

Show me one case of that happening to someone for just installing pirated games

The Real Jdbye · Jul 9, 2024

Blythe93 said:
Everything you do on the console is getting logged and those logs are being sent to the Nintendo servers as soon as you connect to the Internet, assuming you aren't blocking Nintendo servers by using 90DNS or DNS MITM. At best you'll get flagged for ban so you can still use online features until they decide it's time to issue a ban. As far as I know, some people don't get banned for months until the fateful moment happens.

Assume that pretty much everything gets logged, failed installs included.

Staying offline is just delaying the inevitable.
Cleaning logs got people banned in the past.

Restoring a clean NAND backup is a viable option, but there are few things you need to make sure before you do it:

You must create your sysNAND backup before you do any hacking activity.

Before restoring your NAND backup, you must be 100% sure that you didn't connect to the Nintendo servers afterwards because, if you restore an old backup that is missing newest logs that you sent from your console to the NIntendo servers, you'll cause a log mismatch which will eventually lead to ban.

People usually fail on the 2nd step, therefore restoring NAND backup is suggested only in cases where fixing NAND isn't possible by any other means. Use it as a last resort, provided you have one.

If you're playing pirated games only, you aren't missing out on anything much, really.

It's questionable whether prodinfo blanking is useful at all as, by the time the Exosphere's blocking hits, the data may be cached elsewhere in the system. (Source)
Using 90DNS and/or DNS MITM should be enough.

I've used blanked PRODINFO for years and never bothered with DNS MITM and I'm not banned yet, make of that what you will.
It's quite possible that the info is being cached somewhere but as long as the servers to just reject the connection as soon as they see an invalid PRODINFO, that data never gets sent to Nintendo.

Ethelbert · Jul 9, 2024

The Real Jdbye said:
I've used blanked PRODINFO for years and never bothered with DNS MITM and I'm not banned yet, make of that what you will.
It's quite possible that the info is being cached somewhere but as long as the servers to just reject the connection as soon as they see an invalid PRODINFO, that data never gets sent to Nintendo.

Atmosphere blocks telementry by default. Maybe this is enough.
https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/At...ce/dns_mitm/dnsmitm_host_redirection.cpp#L324
https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/At...rce/dns_mitm/dnsmitm_host_redirection.cpp#L67

Raydi · Jul 10, 2024

IceBlazeWinters said:
sysnand

because i have no reason to run emulators

and pirating games is how you get sued by nintendo and thrown in jail for theft

i'm prefectly happy using cheats and mods in my games as i only play online with friends and i make sure my mods are wi-fi safe before installing anything

bro you didn't go through the colossal effort and gigantic risk taking of buying an old Switch and modding it for "cheats and mods" and to make sure mods are "wi-fi safe", whatever that means

also there's this cool thing called a VPN, ever hear of it?

BeniBel · Jul 10, 2024

Nintendo bans in waves. Your console is flagged, and will be banned in the next wave. When will that be? Noone can tell. It's been a long time since the last wave, so who knows, maybe there won't be a wave anymore. Don't keep your hopes up though.

IceBlazeWinters · Jul 10, 2024

Raydi said:
bro you didn't go through the colossal effort and gigantic risk taking of buying an old Switch and modding it for "cheats and mods" and to make sure mods are "wi-fi safe", whatever that means

also there's this cool thing called a VPN, ever hear of it?

i bought my switch in 2018 brand new before toys r us shutdown again

i did only mod my switch for cheats and mods, i have zero reason to pirate things or run emulators

vpns are useless and steal your info and sell it just like everything else does

Raydi · Jul 11, 2024

IceBlazeWinters said:
i bought my switch in 2018 brand new before toys r us shutdown again

i did only mod my switch for cheats and mods, i have zero reason to pirate things or run emulators

vpns are useless and steal your info and sell it just like everything else does

So you bought it in 2018 and didn't update it for years? Uh okay, who the hell are you trying to fool here.

"I have zero reason to pirate things or run emulators" but you do have a reason to use "cheats" (which almost none exist) or "mods" (which the Switch is too weak to actually use)?

lol tell me you don't know what a VPN is without telling me you don't know what a VPN is.

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