Hacking Four new people paid off by Nintendo in the HackerOne program

[linuxares]

#whitehackers
They're there to bring good, not bad. Stop blaming everyone.

Bu ma free gamezzzzzz lol (Ouch that hurt me to just type...)

 

[the_randomizer]

The only thing that pisses me off is seeing "ryanw" on the list, because if he's who I think he is, we all know he's just leaking other people's shit to get a quick buck

Who do you suspect this person is? I wouldn't be surprised if those sycophantic wieners were responsible for getting Nintendo to "update" the Wii U.

Edit: Wait, you mean that ryanrocks dude or whoever it was?

 

[castdreams]

It's honestly a pretty smart move from Nintendo, and it's obviously working to some extent.

Most people in the console hacking scenes don't do it for money. (Legally it's next to impossible to actually make money off homebrew and console exploits, for obvious reasons.) They do it for personal use, or for recognition in the community.

Nintendo has basically said: "Hey hackers, come hack our stuff. If you find exploits we'll pay you money." Not only are they getting recognition from Nintendo, they're actually getting paid for their hard work. And by doing so, Nintendo effectively outsourced some development work.

I wonder if any of the big developers in the 3DS and Wii U scenes have submitted anything under an alternate username to make some quick money haha. I wouldn't blame them if they did.

 

[Deleted User]

I just hope they won't prevent us from homebrewing the Switch. I don't care about piracy.

It's their job to prevent you from homebrewing shit.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

A penny for your thought?

"Ryanrocks" is a guy who, before he was banned here, leaked a bunch of Mario Kart 8 stuff that he didn't develop early before it was ready for the public and Nintendo released a mandatory update if you wanted to go online.

He's also still on Twitter pretending to be a master hacker

 

[the_randomizer]

"Ryanrocks" is a guy who, before he was banned here, leaked a bunch of Mario Kart 8 stuff that he didn't develop early before it was ready for the public and Nintendo released a mandatory update if you wanted to go online.

He's also still on Twitter pretending to be a master hacker

I wouldn't put it past him to pull some bullshit stunt like that. I can't stand white knighting sycophants.

 

[BlastedGuy9905]

It's their job to prevent you from homebrewing shit.

Homebrew was never illegal, that's why I think it's stupid.

 

[Yepi69]

People who are angry at this often forget that if the Switch was already hacked, it would enable piracy.
Which means that developers would not port or create a single game for that thing considering that its already hacked and easy to download games rather than buying them.
Sometimes, you need to put yourself in the shoes of a game developer and realize things from a different perspective.

 

[ihaveahax]

remember, if it's your exploit, you are able to do anything you want with it. if you would like to report your own exploit to Nintendo to get paid, that is your right. while it's nice that many people do, you are not entitled to give it out.

who knows what the others did? all we know is that at least one of them did sell an exploit that was not theirs.

 

[BlastedGuy9905]

People who are angry at this often forget that if the Switch was already hacked, it would enable piracy.
Which means that developers would not port or create a single game for that thing considering that its already hacked and easy to download games rather than buying them.
Sometimes, you need to put yourself in the shoes of a game developer and realize things from a different perspective.

Enable, yes. Except if we don't get a piracy tool. Additionally, many people would still buy the games.

 

[punderino]

The only thing that pisses me off is seeing "ryanw" on the list, because if he's who I think he is, we all know he's just leaking other people's shit to get a quick buck

ryan has ACTUALLY been pretty good with not leaking the current "things" he has.

 

[the_randomizer]

People who are angry at this often forget that if the Switch was already hacked, it would enable piracy.
Which means that developers would not port or create a single game for that thing considering that its already hacked and easy to download games rather than buying them.
Sometimes, you need to put yourself in the shoes of a game developer and realize things from a different perspective.

If there was only homebrew for emulators, media player, etc, but not ROMs, I wouldn't see anything wrong with it.


Good: Emulators (since Nintendo is being ass-backwards about the VC)
Media players
Language/audio hacks
Disabling forced updates


Bad: Switch ROM loading


What I'm sick of is people thinking that enabling hacks automatically equates to piracy when homebrew doesn't steal anything. I don't see how anyone can think installing something on a console is pirating. Circumvention, yes, but stealing no.

 

[Yepi69]

Enable, yes. Except if we don't get a piracy tool. Additionally, many people would still buy the games.

There's no piracy tool, once a console is modified piracy is already enabled.
Just take a look at Gateway 3DS, one of the first to discover exploits for the system which enabled them to sell their own shitty flashcard for people to download games without paying.

If there was only homebrew for emulators, media player, etc, but not ROMs, I wouldn't see anything wrong with it.


Good: Emulators (since Nintendo is being ass-backwards about the VC)
Media players
Language/audio hacks
Disabling forced updates


Bad: Switch ROM loading


What I'm sick of is people thinking that enabling hacks automatically equates to piracy when homebrew doesn't steal anything.

Come on Brandt, we all know noobs just want the console hacked as fast as possible to avoid wasting more money on games.
All of those things you just specified aren't Nintendo-signed, which means games can also have the same breach.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

ryan has ACTUALLY been pretty good with not leaking the current "things" he has.

??? Who the hell is trusting him with anything and what does he "have"?

Or is that the joke?

 

[BlastedGuy9905]

If there was only homebrew for emulators, media player, etc, but not ROMs, I wouldn't see anything wrong with it.

Not even piracy. Many people would still buy the games if they choose to support Nintendo and help them not fail.

 

[Deleted User]

Homebrew was never illegal, that's why I think it's stupid.

You're violating device's warranty and company's ToS for rooting or trying to modify/alter functions to your own uses.
It's not illegal. It's running unauthorized software on your device which wasn't supposed to be there.

 

[BlastedGuy9905]

There's no piracy tool, once a console is modified piracy is already enabled.
Just take a look at Gateway 3DS, one of the first to discover exploits for the system which enabled them to sell their own shitty flashcard for people to download games without paying.

Oh, you're right. But first, the flashcarts still need to get developed and made, maybe mass-produced.

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You're violating device's warranty and company's ToS for rooting or trying to modify/alter functions to your own uses.
It's not illegal. It's running unauthorized software on your device which wasn't supposed to be there.

When you buy something, it becomes your property, and unless you do illegal shit, you can do anything you want with your system.

 

[punderino]

??? Who the hell is trusting him with anything and what does he "have"?

Or is that the joke?

im not at liberty to say, but he has stuff, and he wont even tell me about half of it

 

[Yepi69]

Oh, you're right. But first, the flashcarts still need to get developed and made, maybe mass-produced.

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When you buy something, it becomes your property, and unless you do illegal shit, you can do anything you want with your system.

Then find your own exploits if you think so.

 

[BlastedGuy9905]

Then find your own exploits if you think so.

I wonder where I said that? I was saying that if you don't do stuff that is against the LAW, you can do anything. I never said that I'm a hacker/dev.

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Please, for the sake of my fingers and my keyboard, stop arguing, my palms are starting to sweat from all this typing.