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ITotalJustice's Nintendo Switch sigpatches GitHub has been removed due to DMCA takedown

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When you need to play illegitimate backups on a hacked Nintendo Switch, one of the most important tools you'll need are sigpatches; normally, custom firmware Atmosphere does not allow the running of pirated games, but these sigpatches allow users to install .NSP files that they've downloaded from the internet. As of today, though, one of the most notable and popular sources of sigpatches--user iTotalJustice's GitHub repository of them--has been removed permanently, through a DMCA takedown. The GitHub was still active as of earlier today, but if you try to access it now, you'll be redirected to a DMCA takedown form, filed by Nintendo of America.

Nintendo of America: The Nintendo Switch console and digital video games contain technological protection measures (“Technological Measures”) that permit the Nintendo Switch console to interact only with legitimate Nintendo digital video game files. This process protects Nintendo’s copyright-protected video games, including but not limited to those covered by U.S. Copyright Registration numbers PA0002213509 (Super Mario Maker 2); PA0002233840 (Animal Crossing: New Horizons); PA0002213908 (Luigi’s Mansion 3); and PA0002028142 (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) by preventing users from playing pirated copies of Nintendo’s video games on the Nintendo Switch console.

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Bunch of prejudice hypocrites promoting piracy.
Nintendo literally gives us reasons to pirate their games. Want to find Nintendo games at an affordable price while supporting Nintendo? You can’t~ because their games rarely go on sales and their sales almost always the bare minimum. Wanna buy old Pokémon games and support Nintendo? Can’t, shut down your ability to buy them legally. Want get buy any older game not ported to the newer system? Buy them used because Nintendo shut down any legal means of supporting them. Nintendo is the reason why it’s always morally ok to pirate their games. Until they start giving people legal means of supporting them, it’s piracy or used, Nintendo still getting nothing in the end.
 

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You don't know these are erwhere? Many folks contribute and have the ability. Now even more will come out since many don't like Nins tactics. There's even tuts on how to make them.

Gimme 15.0 just so I can sigpatch you up baby :gun:

sounds good ,ill be turning to you when the time comes
 
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Don't panic, people
Don't forget mrdude documented how to create the sigpatches in great detail here:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/info-on-sha-256-hashes-on-fs-patches.581550/

And also, he created Python scripts to generate the patches out of the Atmosphere fusee-secondary file and the firmware files here:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/info-on-sha-256-hashes-on-fs-patches.581550/page-11#post-9783677

Oh and just a reminder, fuck you Nintendo, your shit practices and scare tactics are the reason I don't buy your shit anymore. You deserve every fucking ounce of piracy you get for being such a shit company to your fans and followers.
 

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Meanwhile Github is ignoring actual malware until someone points it out.
One of the reasons why big tech is the enemy in my eyes. I hate seeing companies get bought by Microsoft and get stronger, as they always ruin them.
 

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yes I'm definitely clicking the url named coomer dot party, totally not questionable at all
Meanwhile Github is ignoring actual malware until someone points it out.
Do you think they didn't ignore the switch signature patches until someone (nintendo) pointed them out? they aren't being inconsistent
To play devil's advocate, depending on how you backed them up you could also use them to play legitimate backups
wait. If you had legitimate backups... wouldn't you also have legitimate keys, and not need a signature patcher?
All the more reason to get a Steam Deck and just emulate the Switch. The Nintendo of today isn't the Nintendo we all grew up with.
"nintendo won't let me pirate their games, so I'm going to go pirate their games somewhere else"
ok, congrats?
Nintendo literally gives us reasons to pirate their games.
counterpoint: you don't need a reason. you don't need to justify yourself. they're a multi-billion dollar company. digital goods are infinite and no one is losing anything except potential profit. Who cares if you emulate Mario. Honestly I'd say the fact that people in communities like these consistently feel the constant need to tell everyone why they're right for stealing nintendo games reeks of insecurity. You don't need to prove yourself to the world, it's a waste of your energy, just go download zelda and have fun, that's a better use of your time than bragging about it on gbatemp.
 

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I think its only fair to pirate games. Not many can buy a $60 title. Many Nintendo games never go down in price or provide a demo to try out. Many pirates do piracy just to be a pirate and never buy anything but many pirates try to enjoy the experience first before buying the game. It's Nintendo's fault for not providing a refund system if you were to buy a bad game in the eshop
Uh, if you can buy a $250 switch, you can buy a $60 game. Otherwise you can just not play games?
 

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Nintendo literally gives us reasons to pirate their games. Want to find Nintendo games at an affordable price while supporting Nintendo? You can’t~ because their games rarely go on sales and their sales almost always the bare minimum. Wanna buy old Pokémon games and support Nintendo? Can’t, shut down your ability to buy them legally. Want get buy any older game not ported to the newer system? Buy them used because Nintendo shut down any legal means of supporting them. Nintendo is the reason why it’s always morally ok to pirate their games. Until they start giving people legal means of supporting them, it’s piracy or used, Nintendo still getting nothing in the end.
your really a savage and i love it lol

Don't panic, people
Don't forget mrdude documented how to create the sigpatches in great detail here:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/info-on-sha-256-hashes-on-fs-patches.581550/

And also, he created Python scripts to generate the patches out of the Atmosphere fusee-secondary file and the firmware files here:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/info-on-sha-256-hashes-on-fs-patches.581550/page-11#post-9783677

Oh and just a reminder, fuck you Nintendo, your shit practices and scare tactics are the reason I don't buy your shit anymore. You deserve every fucking ounce of piracy you get for being such a shit company to your fans and followers.
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I dont post to often but all this is going to do is make the community stronger lol.....im pretty sure they've been in worst situations like this before and overcame it like always....Nintendo just being Nintendo no surprise here this used to be the greatest company decades ago but now i dont know its just a former shell of itself
 

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Uh, if you can buy a $250 switch, you can buy a $60 game. Otherwise you can just not play games?
while that is true, i simply wouldn't wanna waste $60 if the game is bad. And who's to say the owner of the switch bought it? It could've been gifted by someone else
 

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yes I'm definitely clicking the url named coomer dot party, totally not questionable at all

Do you think they didn't ignore the switch signature patches until someone (nintendo) pointed them out? they aren't being inconsistent

wait. If you had legitimate backups... wouldn't you also have legitimate keys, and not need a signature patcher?

"nintendo won't let me pirate their games, so I'm going to go pirate their games somewhere else"
ok, congrats?

counterpoint: you don't need a reason. you don't need to justify yourself. they're a multi-billion dollar company. digital goods are infinite and no one is losing anything except potential profit. Who cares if you emulate Mario. Honestly I'd say the fact that people in communities like these consistently feel the constant need to tell everyone why they're right for stealing nintendo games reeks of insecurity. You don't need to prove yourself to the world, it's a waste of your energy, just go download zelda and have fun, that's a better use of your time than bragging about it on gbatemp.
If you backed up your cartridge for instance and converted to nsp, you would need patches.

Legitimate use case honestly if you didn't wanna lug a bunch of carts around.
 

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Honestly, I’m not shocked by this but it is quite a delayed reaction of them actively going for switch homebrew. Anyway, I’m going to enjoy my backups and sigpatches will still be around and change with each switch update, and so on and so forth. This is not that big of a blow,and we shouldn’t be too worried.
Cant Nintendo just mind their own buseness and make and sell games, cause that actually IS their buseness, and let people pirate and/or hack in piece and have fun with homebrew and stuff...
covid, war, inflation, shitty music.... i mean, can they just NOT be one more nuisance on top of it all? i guess not,
its Nitenazzi....
It's not really affecting homebrew, it only affects piracy and the small amount of people using it self dumped card backups, despite the extra work, limitations and risk coming with it.
 

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If you backed up your cartridge for instance and converted to nsp, you would need patches.

Legitimate use case honestly if you didn't wanna lug a bunch of carts around.
But only for single player games, and only with an offline emunand, for everthing else you will still need the cartridge.
I never bothered with nsp installs, since they just complicate the setup (extra patches, emunand, blocking of Nintendo) and add extra risks, instead I use cfw on sysnand 100% of the time for homebrew. But I used sxos xci loading, when it was still possible to use self dumped xcis online.
 
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