Nintendo Switch hackers Team Xecuter leaders arrested, charged in federal indictment

Willgheminass · Oct 5, 2020

Haha lol, now SX users have to resort to using a FREE and OPEN-SOURCE cfw. Just like what piracy intended, free everything.
Can't believe people bought piracy products in the first place when there's literally free options available.

lafleche · Oct 5, 2020

The_Provider said:
Haha lol, now SX users have to resort to using a FREE and OPEN-SOURCE cfw. Just like what piracy intended, free everything.
Can't believe people bought piracy products in the first place when there's literally free options available.

As if sx users suddenly have a non working device.... My backlog is huge and that for switch alone

britain4 · Oct 5, 2020

Tenny said:
Yes it's a patched v1.
did not someone mentioned that you can use Atmosphere for example if you like?
i've heard that it does not work atm on Mariko Consoles cuz atmosphere hasn't been updated?

Yeah I’ve got Atmosphere running with mine, you have to do a “cleanup” in the SX bootloader then you can load Hekate as a payload and run it that way

Sweetch · Oct 5, 2020

I’ve just ordered a SX core. I’m okay with staying on 10.2 forever. I just hope the activation server will be up by the end of the month when I will receive it...

Believe it or not but I almost don’t care about piracy. What I really want is a way to backup my Minecraft save data locally and managed by myself.

leerpsp · Oct 5, 2020

britain4 said:
Yeah I’ve got Atmosphere running with mine, you have to do a “cleanup” in the SX bootloader then you can load Hekate as a payload and run it that way

So you have Atmosphere running on a patched switch with modchip?

linuxares · Oct 5, 2020

I wonder if it's possible to reverse the chip and add OSS to it instead

Kei00 · Oct 5, 2020

The_Provider said:
Haha lol, now SX users have to resort to using a FREE and OPEN-SOURCE cfw. Just like what piracy intended, free everything.
Can't believe people bought piracy products in the first place when there's literally free options available.

There is no free option available for v2 or Lite users.

realtimesave · Oct 5, 2020

The_Provider said:
Haha lol, now SX users have to resort to using a FREE and OPEN-SOURCE cfw. Just like what piracy intended, free everything.
Can't believe people bought piracy products in the first place when there's literally free options available.

Oh yeah buddy we are going to use a free and open source (in caps) cfw for a Mariko switch right now. In your dreams.

Only the leet can have modded Marikos, the lame have to stick with the old hardware ;D

Tenny · Oct 5, 2020

britain4 said:
Yeah I’ve got Atmosphere running with mine, you have to do a “cleanup” in the SX bootloader then you can load Hekate as a payload and run it that way

What do you mean with cleanup? Reinstall everything ?
When SX OS won’t be updated for whatever reason I’ll switch to atmosphere and I’m ok ? Even if Nintendo updates their software ?

masbass · Oct 5, 2020

there's also no free option for v1 ipatched users too. You want homebrew now = you need a modchip. If you don't mind waiting for a possible exploit (that might never come too) then sure, wait for the free option.

Cleanup before launching payload is just a button push that clears some initial stuff that SX OS loads at boot so it can launch Hekate successfully. It's not formatting your SD or anything.

Tenny · Oct 5, 2020

masbass said:
Cleanup before launching payload is just a button push that clears some initial stuff that SX OS loads at boot so it can launch Hekate successfully. It's not formatting your SD or anything.

Thanks mate for this information
Can you update the software as usual with Hekate/Atmosphere (Of course once atmosphere release an update) or does it require an update from SX ? i don’t wanna Stuck on a certain software version. At least not yet, maybe later once I get a second switch.

MarkDarkness · Oct 5, 2020

leerpsp said:
So I just got to thinking something guys, When you activate SX OS on your switch it only works on that switch and is locked to it and you can not use that on another switch, So if I was the FBI (and i'm not) I would keep the page up see who activated there sx os key's and what switch's they are tied to and track down the location of every switch that poped online, also would look at the backlogs of who actiavted there key's and go after everyone only keeping the web page up as a big HoneyPot.

You are misguided as to what a law enforcement agency can spend their resources on. The days of this kind of BS are long gone in the 2000s when there were much smallr fish to fry and traditional media conglomerates had much more power than they do nowadays.

britain4 · Oct 5, 2020

Tenny said:
Thanks mate for this information
Can you update the software as usual with Hekate/Atmosphere (Of course once atmosphere release an update) or does it require an update from SX ? i don’t wanna Stuck on a certain software version. At least not yet, maybe later once I get a second switch.

Yeah if you boot into SXOS bootloader (volume + during boot) then “options” you’ll see a “cleanup” option under “NAND” I think

you need to do this then load Hekate through payloads every time you want to boot Atmosphere

if you only want to use AMS and never SX OS I think you can save having to hold volume + every time by just leaving the license.dat off the SD card

This way I don’t THINK it will matter if SX never release another update as long as you can still update Hekate and Atmosphere like normal

Apparently someone is working on a boot.dat which will negate the need to have any SX software on there at all

Tenny · Oct 5, 2020

britain4 said:
~snip~

Who’s working on the boot.dat ?
Or is there a thread I can follow ?

Rail Fighter · Oct 5, 2020

GBAtemp can publish a book just out of this topic.

Joom · Oct 5, 2020

The_Provider said:
Haha lol, now SX users have to resort to using a FREE and OPEN-SOURCE cfw. Just like what piracy intended, free everything.
Can't believe people bought piracy products in the first place when there's literally free options available.

People have been doing this for decades with flashcarts. So uh, good point I guess. You sound more like someone who couldn't afford an SX product, and now feel vindicated, but whatever. Also, you do know that the stuff necessary for developing the things that enable free piracy costs money, right? None of it is free.

gregory-samba · Oct 5, 2020

I wouldn't put it past the feds to start monitoring who logs into Xecuter's servers. Every time they take down a dark web site they spend a few months running the site themselves to figure out who the users are and then arrest them all.

shanefromoz · Oct 6, 2020

calagan said:
I think they went too far when they made their TrueBlue dongles so easily available on Amazon.

Amazon should be in trouble also for allowing them to be sold

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digipimp75 said:
Damn. So no more SX OS updates from now on? I'll really miss the ability to run xcis off of an external hdd

There will be sxos updates. They will never get the team in China

Interesting Max Console is now down also

Tenny · Oct 6, 2020

Amazon won’t be in trouble because they have way more money than Nintendo they can spent on lawyers and don’t they have an automatic process that accepts the product you want to sell so yea.. I mean you find a lot of those devices where you have one thousands games on it. Which is obviously illegal but does Amazon care ? No, not really.

Yea I’m pretty sure they will drop an update I mean why shouldn’t they because there’s obviously still money you can make... those devices may cost in production a couple euro like literally everything what’s been made in China. - so they make easily 55€ profit.

shanefromoz · Oct 6, 2020

So are you telling me i can sell rocket launchers on Amazon?

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