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What’s the switch 2 modding status?

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Message by SciresM on Reddit:

This kind of post is inane. Are you really posting a...random Japanese commentary on a short discord interaction?

Anyway; this is meaningless for end users, does not represent significant progress anyone here should care about.

I have been helping Hexkyz work on WebKit stuff so he can look at 19.0.0 because he's a friend and it's fun. Affirming that I am not making a cfw for switch 2 even if it gets hacked.

WebKit is known hackable and the existence of bugs in it isn't news. It's just high effort.

It doesn't grant interesting new capabilities over retr0id's rop in any sense that literally anyone here would care about.

This sub is a dumpster, man.
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Also chiming in that I and others have audited the kernel and found no bugs. Comex hasn't audited it yet, and I'm always happy for fresh eyes, but it's overwhelmingly likely nothing will be found.
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The point of mentioning SciresM's thoughts on kernel vulnerabilities is not to discourage people from looking into it. In fact I doubt that this would deter people who are seriously determined on reverse-engineering the kernel and searching for themselves. It's mainly for those who don't know what they're talking about, and just assume "they'll find it eventually!" - the people who know far more than you disagree.

Also, as SciresM stated before, he isn't the only one who has thoroughly researched the kernel and came back with no vulnerabilities.

If, knowing this, you still want to purchase a Switch 2 and not update it, you should keep in mind that it's a gamble where the odds are stacked against you. Are you sure you want to take the $450 risk that will almost certainly not pay off?

(Remember, if you want portable emulators and other stuff, there's other devices which are not locked down! You don't need the Switch 2 for this!)
 
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But the fun of it is to get it to run on a system it wasn't ment to be run on.. that's why I don't get the hype of Android or Linux on Switch as you're just using a shitty tablet at that point. Horizon or nothing
 
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M7L7NK7 said:
But the fun of it is to get it to run on a system it wasn't ment to be run on.. that's why I don't get the hype of Android or Linux on Switch as you're just using a shitty tablet at that point. Horizon or nothing
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I know that it’s very cool to hack a device to get it to run custom stuff. I am deep into 3DS hacking for this reason. But from a practical point of view, things have changed dramatically since 2017. There are just better devices for this nowadays.
 
I bought NS1 games to play on my Switch 2, but now I never have time to. I've been thinking I'll just sell the damn thing since I never use it.
 
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SciresM this, SciresM that. How about everybody stops taking a single person for his word and does their own research instead? He's not perfect, he can miss things just like anybody else.
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I invite everyone actually competent to do research, please, more fresh eyes are always welcome. That said, the kernel has been thoroughly audited by myself, hexkyz, plutoo, and at least five others who I've sent my fully labeled IDB (reverse engineering database) to, and none of us have found anything at all. It's very small (~600 functions, takes about eight hours to fully review), and the odds seem overwhelmingly likely that nothing will ever be found.

I sent Comex all of my reversing data in the hopes he finds it useful; if he finds a kernel bug, I would be thrilled. It is not impossible that I (and many others) have all missed something that he as another talented dev might find. But, I do think people should temper their expectations and mostly expect it to not happen.
 
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SciresM said:
I invite everyone actually competent to do research, please, more fresh eyes are always welcome. That said, the kernel has been thoroughly audited by myself, hexkyz, plutoo, and at least five others who I've sent my fully labeled IDB (reverse engineering database) to, and none of us have found anything at all. It's very small (~600 functions, takes about eight hours to fully review), and the odds seem overwhelmingly likely that nothing will ever be found.

I sent Comex all of my reversing data in the hopes he finds it useful; if he finds a kernel bug, I would be thrilled. It is not impossible that I (and many others) have all missed something that he as another talented dev might find. But, I do think people should temper their expectations and mostly expect it to not happen.
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Out of curiosity, have you heard anyone looking on the Switch 2, how well their hardware implementation is?

We all know Nvidia is what opened pandoras box and even a fix still had hardware vulnerabilities with the help of modchips. So I'm just curious how well Nintendo and Nvidia have engineered the Switch 2.
 
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SciresM said:
I invite everyone actually competent to do research, please, more fresh eyes are always welcome. That said, the kernel has been thoroughly audited by myself, hexkyz, plutoo, and at least five others who I've sent my fully labeled IDB (reverse engineering database) to, and none of us have found anything at all. It's very small (~600 functions, takes about eight hours to fully review), and the odds seem overwhelmingly likely that nothing will ever be found.

I sent Comex all of my reversing data in the hopes he finds it useful; if he finds a kernel bug, I would be thrilled. It is not impossible that I (and many others) have all missed something that he as another talented dev might find. But, I do think people should temper their expectations and mostly expect it to not happen.
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I know unreleated but thank you for making atmosphere my switch is super powerful now i have now games "borrowed" from the internet
 
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