Hacking where do we start, and what is the easyest way to do

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hello, let me give my self a little introduction! i am 40 from belgium and got a nintendo switch 1st generation , witch by the serial number seems to be hackable , i have seen many different youtube movies en did some research on the web, but doiing this just doesn't seem easy to do! i did a nintendo 3ds and and a wii in the past , but this seems very different!
the following items i have at this moment

a nintendo switch v1 software12.0
a 128 gb sd cart
and a rcmloader

i just want to be able to play free games
so what do i need to install? tinfoil or atmosphere?
how do i begin with this? any links here or youtube?


thank you in advance for all the help!
 

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Hi and welcome here. First step: make a backup of the sysnand. This is important if you'll have some problems... If you have original purchased games or downloaded from eshop, you need to make an emunand, a virtual copy of the sysnand on sd card. Thi is to prevent ban from Nintendo.

Here, you can find a complete guide for hacking Nintendo switch.

P.S. If you can, buy a 256Gb or more sd card if you wanna install a lot of games...( only for the emunand you need about 30 GB of free space on the card... and 128 Gb are not real.. 128 Gb...)
 
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i recently gave the nintendo switch a factory reset, because my first idea was selling it, how big is the chance that nintendo wil block it? i blocked nintendo switch servers via dns , is there a chance they still block it
 

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i recently gave the nintendo switch a factory reset, because my first idea was selling it, how big is the chance that nintendo wil block it? i found some setting of my dns on some site so my eshop is not visitable
 

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The chance of you getting banned raises by the things you do with it. Just a hacked switch probably* wont get you banned. If you do piracy, mod saves, cheat online or mod gamefiles, if you change your account icon to something else .. those are things that will sooner or later get you banned.

If you want 100% sure about not getting a ban, you arent allowed to go online ever**. There are things like 90DNS that blocks telemetry to nintendo servers but that doesnt have to be secure forever. There is also AquaticDNS, which blocks most telemetry to nintendo servers but not all - allowing you to go online, browse the eshop and so on.

* Probably, because no one knows. Everyone is assuming things but its not like we have a rulebook. We just know whats likely and whats not
** Not even staying 100% offline may prevent a ban. If you modify your system, its modified. There are always ways for nintendo to figure out what you did to your console, even if you reset it or try to clear the nand.

TLDR; The chance that nintendo bans your swtich is just as big as the risk you want to take. Dont do it if you dont want your switch banned. If you can live with a banned switch or think the risk isnt as high with counter-measurements, go for it.
 

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The chance of you getting banned raises by the things you do with it. Just a hacked switch probably* wont get you banned. If you do piracy, mod saves, cheat online or mod gamefiles, if you change your account icon to something else .. those are things that will sooner or later get you banned.

If you want 100% sure about not getting a ban, you arent allowed to go online ever**. There are things like 90DNS that blocks telemetry to nintendo servers but that doesnt have to be secure forever. There is also AquaticDNS, which blocks most telemetry to nintendo servers but not all - allowing you to go online, browse the eshop and so on.

* Probably, because no one knows. Everyone is assuming things but its not like we have a rulebook. We just know whats likely and whats not
** Not even staying 100% offline may prevent a ban. If you modify your system, its modified. There are always ways for nintendo to figure out what you did to your console, even if you reset it or try to clear the nand.

TLDR; The chance that nintendo bans your swtich is just as big as the risk you want to take. Dont do it if you dont want your switch banned. If you can live with a banned switch or think the risk isnt as high with counter-measurements, go for it.


this is our second switch, we have an other one! so i can switch wifi of, or do i need it for the programs? witch programs do i need if i only wanna play downloadable games , how long does is take to set this up?
 

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this is our second switch, we have an other one! so i can switch wifi of, or do i need it for the programs? witch programs do i need if i only wanna play downloadable games , how long does is take to set this up?
If you "turn the wifi off" as in "activating airplane mode" then you will not be able to do anything online or with friends. Airplaine mode means absolutly no connection to other swtitches, even if you want to play games like mario kart with your friend sitting next to you. If you delete all wifi networks instead, you will be able to play with your friends.

> or do i need it for the programs?
Games and Homebrews? you can install them without internet. Put the sdcard into your pc or use a tool like NXMTP to transfer files to your switch as if it were a usb stick.

> witch programs do i need if i only wanna play downloadable games
if you have no internet on your switch, you cant download games obviously. if you want internet on your switch and download games from the e-shop, you need to use AquaticDNS. Its a service, not a software. Search for it on GBATemp. This increases the risk of bans though, as you connect to nintendo servers.

> how long does is take to set this up?
thats entirely up to you. hacking your switch without a jig takes a little longer. i can do it in around 10 minutes but on your first time you will have to read a lot. an hour or two seem realistic.


by the way: why do you even want to hack your switch? If you want to play online, just leave it as is?

oh and there is also EmuMMC, which is a copy of your system on your sdcard. you can do the hacking stuff on the copy of your switch with no internet, and if you want to play online, you switch to the regular system.

I wont explain this any further though. Please read every page on this website before you do anything !!!!
 

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my son has a second nintendo switch, i just want to play downloaded games, nothing else this is not as easy as the wii to hack that is for sure, ik read so many different things that i have to do.... they all say something else! there is no need for online gaming on this switch , just to play the free games!
 

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The link i send you above is a guide thats always up to date.

In short (and if i remember correctly):
- Go here and check if you even can hack your switch: https://damota.me/ssnc/checker/
if yes, proceed - if not, bad luck

- if you dont care about absolutly nothing other than pirating games, browse here:
https://www.sdsetup.com/console?swi...thave;hekate_musthave;goldleaf;fusee-primary;
and click download.
- you also want : https://tinfoil.io/Download#download
- and https://github.com/ITotalJustice/patches/releases/latest (fusee.zip) to enable piracy
extract all files into a folder on your pc, make sure the files go in the correct folder.

- you need to short 2 pins in the right joycon rail to the switch to boot into "rcm" (recovery) mode. from there you can push payloads
- in that mode, push the hekate payload (should be in the downloaded zip from sdsetup)
- in hekate you can enable "autorcm". this will make you switch always boot into RCM, but this will require you always push a payload or the switch wont boot anymore. Without RCM you would need to short those pins on every boot or you could not push payloads to start a CFW.

- in hekate choose reboot to RCM
- take your sdcard out

- put all the files on your sdcard, and the sdcard back in your switch
- push either the hekate payload again, choose "payloads" and then "fusee-primary" or you straight up push the fusee-primary payload (under "bootloader/paloads" in the zip you downloaded)

you can push payloads on windows with this tool: https://github.com/eliboa/TegraRcmGUI
mac/linux and android phones can do it too with other tools.

and next time do your own fucking research. this board is filled with how-to's, youtube guides exist (although a bad source) and the guide i have send you is explaining everything too.

If you are that lazy i wouldnt be surprised if you brick your switch and render it useless forever. Reading text (the actual guide) is not hard and it will save you from a lot of trouble.
 
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hey thank you for the information, it is not about beiing lazy , but yes i have seen mostly youtube movies , and they all do different things in different ways, that is why i searched the www and came out here! i have already bought this kind of rcm loader . does this change anything in the way that i have to work? sorry for the trouble
 

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with the rcm loader, you can inject payload to the console everytime you need to do it withouth connecting the switch to the pc or smartphone. His use il simply... if you connect it to the pc, you'll see it like an usb pendrive with 6 folders inside. In every folder you can put a different payload for every CFW (custom firmware). The most used CFW actually is atmosphere, free and always updated. In the rcm loader you'll find the folder Atmosphgere / Hekate and in this folder you must delete the oldest payload, copy the newest and rename it payload.bin.

First step for hacking your console: make a backup of the sysnand with hekate and save it in a safe place.
 
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hey thank you for the information, it is not about beiing lazy , but yes i have seen mostly youtube movies , and they all do different things in different ways, that is why i searched the www and came out here! i have already bought this kind of rcm loader . does this change anything in the way that i have to work? sorry for the trouble
This just replaces the step of pushing a payload from your computer or phone making it more convenient to hack the console on the go.
 

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