Hacking Discussion Do you regret hacking or not hacking your Switch?

[Deleted User]

This is not a debate about the ethics of piracy, nor is it an SX OS vs Atmosphere debate. I am not trying to encourage anyone to change their ways.

There are various advantages and disadvantages of hacking your Switch. Here are the main ones:

Advantages:

- Free games
- Overclocking
- Save editing
- Cheats
- Mods

Disadvantages:

- More games than you can possibly play
- Risk of a ban from online services
- Risk of a brick
- Requires time and effort from the end user

I don't have any statistics but I suspect most people hacking their Switches are interested in free games.

Imagine the following two situations:

- You spend $400 on a Switch, hack it and brick it. All you have left is a pair of Joycons, dock and AC adaptor. Your save data and money is gone. You now need to spend another $400 on a new Switch and wait for déjà-vú or go legit and spend more money on the games you want to play.

- You spend $400 on a Switch and another $400 on the games you want to play. Your Switch does not get bricked.

Some people here would have been better off not hacking their Switches.

On the other hand, you can save money by pirating games and enjoy a better user experience thanks to overclocking, save editing, cheats and mods. SX OS makes piracy and cheats very user-friendly.

At the time of writing, avoiding a ban is easy with SX OS emuNAND or more complicated and time consuming by making and restoring NAND backups. You might not care about a ban because unless you really love Splatoon 2 the online services suck anyway.

My opinion on piracy is you should buy physical copies of the games you intend to play and enjoy playing them. It's simpler, risk free and you wont waste time hoarding games you'll never actually play. I don't give two shits about the ethics of piracy, you do what you want.

 

[stephrk398]

True bricks are still very rare. Pretty sure 100% of people who didn't brick their Switch don't regret it one bit lol. The only downside for some people, which many including myself couldn't care less about, is no online play if you already made your system nand dirty prior to emunand releasing. There are probably some people out there who wish they didn't get SX OS until after emunand released.

 

[Paulsar99]

I don't regret hacking my switch. I'm happy playing online on steam and ps4. Only game that I would want to play online on the switch was splatoon and smash but I could live without it.

 

[Viri]

Fuck no!

 

[MikaDubbz]

Haven't hacked, and don't regret it. Especially now what we know a more powerful Switch will be released soon. When that happens and I get the upgrade, I'm gonna go to town hacking my OG Switch assuming I'm still able to. That way whatever risk I face with the console itself wont be of much importance, since I'll have the new model and my games and saves on there.

 

[Mouser X]

I haven't hacked my Switch yet (mostly due to lack of portable injector, but also fear of burning fuses, and accidently updating my game cart slot), but I bought a 2nd one (still on 3.0) specifically for hacking. I want to hack it for all of the reasons listed above, excluding "free Switch games." I want emulators (mostly Gamecube and NDS, but the GC game I want was originally on the Dreamcast, so that'd be acceptable as well), certainly, but I already own 80+ purchased games. If a game is worth playing, it's worth paying.