I dont know why people cant simply make sense of the situation - and why this threads have to always pop up to be answered time and tim again - but in the wake of the TX release - lets answer it again.
TX' cares not a single bit about -
- Emunand
- Not blowing efuses
- giving you any opportunity to get a software hack that doesnt require you to buy their dongle, or a smartphone - or a PC that runs the payload
- homebrew
(- if you are getting banned or not) Thats actually debatable, but by virtue of habit and their update policies, it s true as well
- And is still dongle dependent.
If all you ever cared about was piracy - and you dont mind walking into another DRMed ecosystem for that - by all means, do what they suggest, walk away from this community for good, and get all your help from maxconsole, or the xecuter website, or where ever they hold their cherrypick questions amas next.The likelyhood of this community supporting their aaproach over the long term is zero. But you are in it for piracy and undisclosed features - right? So leave.
They will not be the only act in town that will do piracy - and I hate to have to write this in this posting, but I strongly believe, that most people in here are what you would describe as "technologically illiterate leeches" that don't care about anything in the world, but their immediate pleasure. I'm sorry, that I didn't search for a less insulting way to convey this notion. But this is the most descriptive. Also I'm quoting another user here - so at least I didn't come up with it.
There have been lines drawn within this community - when an entire mob went on a ritual of extasy and fluffed each other on to buy stuff without knowing one bit about it. There have been lines drawn, when CFWs were DRMed, and there have been lines drawn, when distributors started spreading store links, before any information was released.
Now to a factual description of where we are at.
TX's solution. Hardware assisted only. DRMed. Encourages you to update your Switch to the most recent firmware. Has you use a dongle to coldboot into CFW, or boot - at all (if you installed "tools"). Doesnt care if you get online banned (high likelyhood if you installed tools), but maybe has a way around it, for people that are carfull and always willing to use both dongle and jig. Has the worst "compatibility" with homebrew, at least for some while - if the homebrew scene writes "better libraries" this might change.
Atmosphere. Hardware assisted, or launched via software ("lower is better" (or better <= 4.1.0 matters)). Counts on emunand, which means, that you can leave the Switch at low firmware to get softwarehacks in the future, and use a current CFW at the same time. Will have to use dongle and jig on higher firmwares. Will get softwarehacks on lower firmware. Doesnt trip efuses, doesnt rely on Nintendo for their update path. Doesn't have you update your Switch, before you get a current CFW. Not DRMed. May lack the "tools" portion (jig free launch, but you still need dongle) - for as long as it takes to reverse engineer TX' tools.
Both: Have the option of you updating your Switch to the most recent firmware - to play online (result being, you will always need at least the dongle in the future to run CFW - in that scenario. For a long, long time.. (Cant predict the far future)). Both can be operated without installing "tools" on the nand (if you go online with tools on your nand, Nintendo will ban you pretty quickly. Presumably.)
But - TX' update path will have you install a recent firmware first, through Nintendo, on your Switch - tripping efuses (issues with nand backups, no easy downgrade path (TX' say there is a potential downgrade path in their ecosystem only - with modified CFW - but that looks, and sounds horrible)), then tell you they can patch that firmware "on the fly in memory and on the system (?)" - unless they cant - because their patches dont work anymore on the next Nintendo firmware.
At which point, you cant update your Switch if you dont want to loose TX functionality - because, no emunand. Until they manage to get their patches to work on the next firmware.
Now that you know that, hype youreself up a bit more, buy whatever so you can have piracy - but don't expect any help in the future from anyone with a brain - if you go with the TX' OS solution (which isn't an OS; because they like to ride on false advertising also).
Have fun.
tldr; All the piracy crazed mob types will go with TX OS, but none of the more intelligent people will.
Also expect to got to different forums for support.
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Ruin Switch core functionality for great benefit, of using one dongle instead of two. Way to go. Cant wait, for those people to not be helped in here anymore - when they run into issues.
Heck, get a controller mod with a magnet gate to trigger pin 10 short, if you want the same functionality. Dont install a thing, that doesnt let the Switch boot without a dongle anymore... Would seem like common sense to me.
TX' cares not a single bit about -
- Emunand
- Not blowing efuses
- giving you any opportunity to get a software hack that doesnt require you to buy their dongle, or a smartphone - or a PC that runs the payload
- homebrew
(- if you are getting banned or not) Thats actually debatable, but by virtue of habit and their update policies, it s true as well
- And is still dongle dependent.
If all you ever cared about was piracy - and you dont mind walking into another DRMed ecosystem for that - by all means, do what they suggest, walk away from this community for good, and get all your help from maxconsole, or the xecuter website, or where ever they hold their cherrypick questions amas next.The likelyhood of this community supporting their aaproach over the long term is zero. But you are in it for piracy and undisclosed features - right? So leave.
They will not be the only act in town that will do piracy - and I hate to have to write this in this posting, but I strongly believe, that most people in here are what you would describe as "technologically illiterate leeches" that don't care about anything in the world, but their immediate pleasure. I'm sorry, that I didn't search for a less insulting way to convey this notion. But this is the most descriptive. Also I'm quoting another user here - so at least I didn't come up with it.
There have been lines drawn within this community - when an entire mob went on a ritual of extasy and fluffed each other on to buy stuff without knowing one bit about it. There have been lines drawn, when CFWs were DRMed, and there have been lines drawn, when distributors started spreading store links, before any information was released.
Now to a factual description of where we are at.
TX's solution. Hardware assisted only. DRMed. Encourages you to update your Switch to the most recent firmware. Has you use a dongle to coldboot into CFW, or boot - at all (if you installed "tools"). Doesnt care if you get online banned (high likelyhood if you installed tools), but maybe has a way around it, for people that are carfull and always willing to use both dongle and jig. Has the worst "compatibility" with homebrew, at least for some while - if the homebrew scene writes "better libraries" this might change.
Atmosphere. Hardware assisted, or launched via software ("lower is better" (or better <= 4.1.0 matters)). Counts on emunand, which means, that you can leave the Switch at low firmware to get softwarehacks in the future, and use a current CFW at the same time. Will have to use dongle and jig on higher firmwares. Will get softwarehacks on lower firmware. Doesnt trip efuses, doesnt rely on Nintendo for their update path. Doesn't have you update your Switch, before you get a current CFW. Not DRMed. May lack the "tools" portion (jig free launch, but you still need dongle) - for as long as it takes to reverse engineer TX' tools.
Both: Have the option of you updating your Switch to the most recent firmware - to play online (result being, you will always need at least the dongle in the future to run CFW - in that scenario. For a long, long time.. (Cant predict the far future)). Both can be operated without installing "tools" on the nand (if you go online with tools on your nand, Nintendo will ban you pretty quickly. Presumably.)
But - TX' update path will have you install a recent firmware first, through Nintendo, on your Switch - tripping efuses (issues with nand backups, no easy downgrade path (TX' say there is a potential downgrade path in their ecosystem only - with modified CFW - but that looks, and sounds horrible)), then tell you they can patch that firmware "on the fly in memory and on the system (?)" - unless they cant - because their patches dont work anymore on the next Nintendo firmware.
At which point, you cant update your Switch if you dont want to loose TX functionality - because, no emunand. Until they manage to get their patches to work on the next firmware.
Now that you know that, hype youreself up a bit more, buy whatever so you can have piracy - but don't expect any help in the future from anyone with a brain - if you go with the TX' OS solution (which isn't an OS; because they like to ride on false advertising also).
Have fun.
tldr; All the piracy crazed mob types will go with TX OS, but none of the more intelligent people will.
Also expect to got to different forums for support.
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Thats idiotic.
Ruin Switch core functionality for great benefit, of using one dongle instead of two. Way to go. Cant wait, for those people to not be helped in here anymore - when they run into issues.
Heck, get a controller mod with a magnet gate to trigger pin 10 short, if you want the same functionality. Dont install a thing, that doesnt let the Switch boot without a dongle anymore... Would seem like common sense to me.
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