Hacking Question Help! How do I unlink all accounts from my banned Switch and format?

BlastedGuy9905 · Sep 21, 2019

I have a banned Switch, and I forgot the emails and passwords to 3 of the accounts (2 of them are throwaways, one for american eshop and the other for something else, cant remember, and one of them is my friend's, but his email got hacked so that's a no-go unless he remembers his password)
I deregistered my main account but I still can't format my Switch.
I'm trying to sell it (obviously saying it's banned) so it would be the best if I could just unlink all accounts. I'm at my wits end, but I thought of contacting [email protected] to ask them to unlink all accounts from my console, would that be possible?

sj33 · Sep 21, 2019

You can't, I'm afraid. This is intentional.

You can unlink the console online on the website (though only once per year) or over the telephone, but you cannot remove the account from the console.

BlastedGuy9905 · Sep 21, 2019

sj33 said:
You can't, I'm afraid. This is intentional.

You can unlink the console online on the website (though only once per year) or over the telephone, but you cannot remove the account from the console.

That sucks if it's true. But we'll see, I just sent an email to Nintendo.

isoboy · Sep 21, 2019

sj33 said:
You can't, I'm afraid. This is intentional.

You can unlink the console online on the website (though only once per year) or over the telephone, but you cannot remove the account from the console.

But you CAN if you format it completely....right? You'll have to unlink it on the webpage but you can completely clean it with a format...yes?

sj33 · Sep 21, 2019

BlastedGuy9905 · Sep 21, 2019

@sj33 @isoboy YES! Yes you can! Use Goldleaf to unlink then delete the accounts, then format

subcon959 · Sep 21, 2019

It's been a Goldleaf feature since 0.7

Code:

Added support for unlinking (locally ONLY) accounts, mainly for banned people who want to unlink their accounts in order to delete them.

sj33 · Sep 21, 2019

I stand corrected, that's a nice feature.

isoboy · Sep 21, 2019

New to me but I don't know why on earth I'd want to unlink mine since it looks like a few games require an account linked to be played. I'm banned and I'm not removing mine.

BlastedGuy9905 · Sep 21, 2019

isoboy said:
New to me but I don't know why on earth I'd want to unlink mine since it looks like a few games require an account linked to be played. I'm banned and I'm not removing mine.

I just unlinked mine so I can format and sell my switch

Andalitez · Sep 22, 2019

Couldn't you just format from recovery mode OP?

BlastedGuy9905 · Sep 22, 2019

Andalitez said:
Couldn't you just format from recovery mode OP?

Still needs to connect to the internet afaik, but it doesn't matter as Goldleaf is by far the easiest method imo

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