Hacking Are we setting ourselves up for the first Switch banwaves?

[tecfreak]

Also, only this - if the "permanent shortening" is easily detectable at a higher level (coded in to show up as a "button thats pressed" f.e.)

I bet it is.

 

[reminon]

They could always map it to the same keypress as the joycon home button, which would constantly bring up the sidebar, making it annoying as hell to leave a permanent solution installed.

 

[RHOPKINS13]

They could always map it to the same keypress as the joycon home button, which would constantly bring up the sidebar, making it annoying as hell to leave a permanent solution installed.

Pretty sure at that point Nintendo would much rather just ban them.

 

[Ericthegreat]

We should all expect a ban.

 

[TerraPhantm]

I don't think they'd ban people for having that short since it'd be too easy for someone to unknowingly buy modded controller second hand or something. They could implement some sort of popup that says the joy-con has "dangerous unauthorized modifications" that doesn't go away until the joy-con is removed.

 

[RednaxelaNnamtra]

While it should be possible for them to detect cfw if it has some additional service and maybe ban cfw users this way, I don't think they will ban people for having a shortened pin, since there are many possible ways this could have happened, without activly modding it.

 

[reminon]

While it should be possible for them to detect cfw if it has some additional service and maybe ban cfw users this way, I don't think they will ban people for having a shortened pin, since there are many possible ways this could have happened, without activly modding it.

^This.

 

[Viri]

Yes, but I don't really play online, so Idgaf.

 

[Hanafuda]

I wouldn't dream of doing this with my main Switch. Bought a second one for homebrew that will never go online.

That's why I haven't bought a Switch for myself, and absolutely will not futz around with my daughter's. Online is too important now. I love it, but I hate it. The single player for a lot of games today flat out sucks, so their longterm replay value is junk. (Compared to every generation of game console made until about 6 years ago, which will always be as enjoyable as they were when new.)

 

[TheCyberQuake]

The easy solution is to just wire in something like a Reed switch or a small button into the pin short wiring. Make magnethax a thing again or only have the pins short via a small button on the back

 

[dubbz82]

I need to switch banks.

Autocorrect sucks.

 

[gamesquest1]

doubt they would ban, they might add an error to the home menu in a future update warning about illegal modifications or just a generic hardware fault error although cfw would probs bypass that error easily but I guess once cfw is developed it might be something to mask to the OS

 

[charlieb]

The easy solution is to just wire in something like a Reed switch or a small button into the pin short wiring. Make magnethax a thing again or only have the pins short via a small button on the back

reed switch is a great idea. small, cheap and easy to hide from little fingers

 

[annson24]

Meh, I wouldn't be able to go online after september anyway, lol.

 

[PabloMK7]

They are not going to ban even if they detect are able to detect it. Reason? False positives, there may be people which may have accicentally damaged their joycons causing a connection between said pins. While this is unlikely to happen, only if a single false positive is recorded and reported somewhere as "OMG Nintendo is banning random people without any reason" it would hurt the company and cause fear to consumers. An error reporting a hardware fault would be more likely to happen tho, but they probably won't even care because they know it could be bypassed very easily.

 

[subcon959]

Reminder: ShofEL2 cannot be patched in existing units (it will work on *any* firmware, past or future), it allows full access (all keys and secrets), and it is completely undetectable by normal software. You can dual boot Linux and Switch OS with impunity. https://t.co/bqpmqBWkem

— fail0verflow (@fail0verflow) April 24, 2018

 

[zoogie]

https://twitter.com/fail0verflow/status/988627868598001665

In a perfect world people would choose Linux over a cfw'd Switch OS and running pirated games online and cheats -- but alas -- the world is not perfect.

 

[subcon959]

In a perfect world people would choose Linux over a cfw'd Switch OS and running pirated games online and cheats -- but alas -- the world is not perfect.

In an even more perfect world OtherOS would be built in to every console and therefore most hackers wouldn't feel the need to exploit in the first place (and therefore open the door to piracy).

 

[notimp]

The single player for a lot of games today flat out sucks, so their longterm replay value is junk. (Compared to every generation of game console made until about 6 years ago, which will always be as enjoyable as they were when new.)

This video touches on why btw - ( ) its a little too enthusiastic about the game it compares those concepts too, but it gets many of key differences correct. Imho. Modern games are much too concerned about the loop to allow the player to show much agency..

 

[kevin corms]

I dont mind staying offline in excahnge for free games, most of my nintendo games have been either single player or couch co op anyway.