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

DocKlokMan · Apr 27, 2019

Seriel said:
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.

If this was the first time, that's fine. But typically if someone comments they snagged a game or update or something that was quickly then pulled from the stores they're bound to attract the attention of others who want them to dump or copy it in some way.

Frankbel · Apr 27, 2019

Well done Nintendo, with such powerful code interpreter people could run unlicensed copies of Super Mario Bros.

Ericthegreat · Apr 27, 2019

Frankbel said:
Well done Nintendo, with such powerful code interpreter people could run unlicensed copies of Super Mario Bros.

I dont doubt they were afraid of a emulator.

bobmcjr · Apr 27, 2019

I don't understand these Indie devs who try things like this, or make their games <current Nintendo platform> exclusive, then surprised Pikachu face when their games are taken down or are otherwise forgotten and lost.

WiiHomebrew+Snes · Apr 27, 2019

Seriel said:
and the 3ds one I keep forgetting the name of.

SmileBASIC I believe. I always wanted to mess with that one but the english guides were limited.

BiggieCheese · Apr 27, 2019

Dev’s gonna be lucky if this doesn’t get them sued and/or maybe even blacklisted from releasing games on Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft’s platforms, lol. Deliberately hiding stuff from cert teams (and likely breaking rules from various release/distribution contracts in the process) is pretty egregious and doesn’t happen that often.

Ev1l0rd · Apr 27, 2019

I'd be sadder about it if he didn't use it as an excuse to flog his 40$ closed source ruby game engine.

Kubas_inko · Apr 27, 2019

I am sure that we will see it back in the eshop, but this time the "easter egg" will be a dlc.
That will teach them that learning isn't free.

aaronz77 · Apr 27, 2019

10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10

nasty kids...

gnmmarechal · Apr 27, 2019

Dumb move by the dev. And Ruby, of all things. Eh.

DJPlace · Apr 28, 2019

kinda don't see the point of removing unless it allow's hacking or something...

zoogie · Apr 28, 2019

DJPlace said:
kinda don't see the point of removing unless it allow's hacking or something...

An interpreter by itself does not constitute a vulnerability, but it greatly increases the attack surface.
And in the case with the Switch and its ASLR, it actually makes a userland exploit possible (see webkit).

DJPlace · Apr 28, 2019

oh so it's like someone can hack the eshop or something i think i get it....

Deleted_413010 · Apr 28, 2019

Seriel said:
but it still feels nice to have something Nintendo doesn't allow on my unhacked console.

Atleast with this you wont be banned

chrisrlink · Apr 28, 2019

well that sucks like i understand on one hand because of the BASIC computer fiasco on 3ds (which was only userland iirc) but nintendo probably got their rep (and possible future employees) went down the shitter nintendo has to learn people die and they need to replace those employees game design is a dying art as it is the devs had a good idea but the higher ups at nintendo Ltd in Kyoto are probably filled with stale grumpy Japanese men (you know how racist and sexist japan is in the workforce) fyi it occurs in 2016 (yes only 3 years ago) the japanese gov made it illegal to discriminate in public and jobs against Non Japanese forigners/citizens), all in all what I'm saying is vg companies hate when forigners dabble in their systems even try to find work with the parent company (being NOJ) thats part of the reason (other than piracy) we hack consoles

WAUthethird · Apr 28, 2019

chrisrlink said:
well that sucks like i understand on one hand because of the BASIC computer fiasco on 3ds (which was only userland iirc) but nintendo probably got their rep (and possible future employees) went down the shitter nintendo has to learn people die and they need to replace those employees game design is a dying art as it is the devs had a good idea but the higher ups at nintendo Ltd in Kyoto are probably filled with stale grumpy Japanese men (you know how racist and sexist japan is in the workforce) fyi it occurs in 2016 (yes only 3 years ago) the japanese gov made it illegal to discriminate in public and jobs against Non Japanese forigners/citizens), all in all what I'm saying is vg companies hate when forigners dabble in their systems even try to find work with the parent company (being NOJ) thats part of the reason (other than piracy) we hack consoles

that escalated quickly

but yeah I agree
though you can't deny the dev was kinda in the wrong here as well...

midstor · Apr 28, 2019

oof, that sucks hope someone gets its dumped, though it wouldnt matter.. for preserving it.. right? that passes... ok i'll leave again

Foxi4 · Apr 28, 2019

zoogie said:
Except they're allowing this to release on the same platform in a couple of months.

I think Nintendo just hates Ruby, which I can totally understand.

I can't wait to use a Game Maker with a proprietary coding language.

Frankbel · Apr 28, 2019

Ericthegreat said:
I dont doubt they were afraid of a emulator.

It's sarcasm referring the recent choice to stop the C64 port of SMB.

notimp · Apr 28, 2019

DJPlace said:
oh so it's like someone can hack the eshop or something i think i get it....

Ehm. eShop is a website.

People generally dont wait for a ruby interpreter on a Nintendo console, if they want to attack one of those. Also people dont want to attack one of those, because thats illegal as hack.

Your own switch - you might be able to argue, that you bought it, and should be able to do whatever you want with it. Nintendos servers? Not so much.

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