Hacking How/When will you hack your switch for the first time??

[YugamiSekai]

Hopefully when Atmosphere CFW/Fusee-Gelee comes out and it doesn't require a PC then I'll hack it. I've been on 3.0.0 since December.

 

[Noctosphere]

Hopefully when Atmosphere CFW/Fusee-Gelee comes out and it doesn't require a PC then I'll hack it. I've been on 3.0.0 since December.

that doesnt require a pc?
do you mean you have no PC ???

 

[YugamiSekai]

that doesnt require a pc?
do you mean you have no PC ???

I do, but no USB A-to-C cable

 

[Noctosphere]

I do, but no USB A-to-C cable

ok i see
Well you can order cheap one on ebay or amazon i guess?
Seriously, wires are cheap as hell online compared to in store

Well, I remember buying a 50ft long ethernet cable for like 20$ online
And it costed something like 80$ at bestbuy, in store

 

[igivenup]

Somewhere between first and second? I'll wait until the CFW has been well tested, and any kinks are worked out and then try it out. I don't plan on doing things day one but I ain't waiting a year after either.

 

[starburst]

I will install custom firmware a week or so after backup loading or GC/ Wii/ Wii U emulation is available.

I wait a week not because I am afraid of being banned (I do not play online), but because many issues are reported (and worked out) during the first days after a release.

If piracy were not a possibility in the near future, I would not have bought a Switch.

 

[Noctosphere]

I will install custom firmware a week or so after backup loading is available. Not because I am afraid of being banned (I do not play online), but because years of running a rolling release Linux distribution have taught me to wait and read before any important change.


If piracy were not a possibility in the near future, I would not have bought a Switch. (Well, a new, great Fire Emblem game might have made me buy one; but this is not the case.)

Personally, I use piracy to test games, and if i love them and want online features without risk, i buy it

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I think we are already past the point of comparing the stage Switch hacking is at now to the early days of 3DS hacking.
Since we already have a bootrom exploit, one that works regardless of FW and grants us full access to the system. We didn't get that on the 3DS until A9LH.
First wave already happened (with homebrew through the browser) but again isn't really comparable to 3DS 4.x, since 3DS 4.x granted us warez loading but not much else whereas the Switch is in the completely opposite situation right now.

The current bootrom exploit would be the second wave, which would be most comparable to ntrboot. Which has also already happened so there is no need to wait.

So I don't think the poll makes any sense whatsoever, but I voted second wave because I skipped the original browser exploit and have a jig on the way soon so I can try out the RCM exploit.

 

[Noctosphere]

I think we are already past the point of comparing the stage Switch hacking is at now to the early days of 3DS hacking.
Since we already have a bootrom exploit, one that works regardless of FW and grants us full access to the system. We didn't get that on the 3DS until A9LH.
First wave already happened (with homebrew through the browser) but again isn't really comparable to 3DS 4.x, since 3DS 4.x granted us warez loading but not much else whereas the Switch is in the completely opposite situation right now.

The current bootrom exploit would be the second wave, which would be most comparable to ntrboot. Which has also already happened so there is no need to wait.

So I don't think the poll makes any sense whatsoever, but I voted second wave because I skipped the original browser exploit and have a jig on the way soon so I can try out the RCM exploit.

But from what I heard, the newest switch coming out of factories will have this bootrom exploit fixed.
Is that just a fake news or could it be real?
Also, you say the bootrom exploit is available on any firmware
do you mean yet? or it's unfixable?

EDIT : nvm, they cant edit the bootrom, as the name says, you cant write on it

 

[Deleted User]

I'm waiting for CFW to come out and see what it does and doesn't do and how it affects users who go online. I didn't vote in the poll.

 

[The_Baron]

Im definitely waiting to see what the CFWs will look like, but if a modchip comes out thats cheap and waives the requirement to be tethered on boot, then I would probably pick one up!

 

[starburst]

Personally, I use piracy to test games, and if i love them and want online features without risk, i buy it

I agree, but I am such a casual gamer that I usually get too late to the party.

You see, the last console that I played on a regular basis was the Super Nintendo. By the time the N64 and PS1 were successful, I was already in high school and thought that video games were for kids.
I skipped all PlayStation waves, completely. Honestly I do not remember playing a PS game (1 or 2 or 3 or 4, it does not matter.)

It was not until very recently that, out of nostalgia, I discovered and enjoyed games of years past. A couple of years ago, I got a PSP because of ‘Ys’, but also because it could emulate older consoles. And last year I got a N3DS because of ‘FE Fates: Conquest’, but also because it could play GBA and DS games ‘natively’.

For me, piracy is a window to the past, to those ‘missed’ years. And, hopefully, the Switch will also let me play GC, Wii or Wii U games.

 

[Chary]

Not going to mess with any sort of CFW unless loading GameCube games and playing them fullspeed is a certainty.

 

[slaphappygamer]

With a tutorial made by a reputable temper.

 

[snails1221]

Whenever the first mostly stable thing comes out.

 

[Armadillo]

Probably as soon as something stable/decent comes out. Not paying to play online, so don't care about possibly getting banned.

 

[Ivellios]

I will wait until its stable and noob friendly, and i'll wait for softmod on firmware 3.0.2 as well.

 

[notimp]

I guess I was unclear
When I was talking about first/second wave of hack, I was meaning exploit
like with the 3ds, 4.1-4.5 wasnt for everyone, but 9.0-9.2 was much more noob friendly

And this isn't in any way or form the case on the Switch - so what do we do now?

As for the CFW, the reason I would delay it before installing it on my system is very simple
Nintendo might come out with something. Maybe theyll explore this CFW, and then, when it became popular... BANG, they ban all users with the CFW...

So thats why you separated them into "easy CFW" and "hard CFW"? Also you understand, that "hacks" and CFW are inseperable on the Switch?

Meaning, you'll always need to run "hacks" to load the CFW. It will never "just load on its own". If risk of banning is a thing you are worried about, then use CFW, but dont take it online?

There is no other solution coming along where you'd have appreciably less risk of getting banned, while using "something unlicensed" on the most current firmware. Except for maybe modchips with eemc nand, which are in no form confirmed or announced.

What this thread does is, that it follows a wrong premise, and uses all the tricks of the trade of the conartist, to be able to prop up a form of pseudo "expertise" that isn't there.

("What I meant was, when that thing will happen, that surely will happen - except that there is no indication of it happening - at any time, any where - because it happened that one time, remember - sample size of one...?"

What I meant was not CFW, what I meant was Nintendo, banning CFW, and if people would like to have their consoles banned, or wait... obviously?!)

The premise is entirely wrong. Nothing that happened in the 3DS scene "will repeat itself" in that form in the switch scene.

Here is the incredibly hard to create hypothetical, that ruins your entire gameplan.

What if.... On the switch there will be three waves of "hacks" and only one CFW? Then you of course meant the first two, and only the one..? Also - no understanding about how hacks factor into the CFW launch - no understanding, that hacks can lead to online bans as well - so can modchips. No understanding about what is in development. No recognition just how stupid the attempt of pressing the Switch hacking releases into the 3DS mold just is - just a "I think I might have explained my position badly - what I really meant was..." and then fluff.

I don't know why you made up those "parallels that don't exist", I don't know why you are insisting on waiting for stuff that never will be possible on the console, from our current knowledgebase, I don't know why you are seperating out approaches that can't be separated out - and I don't know, why you are getting the high participation responses you are getting - but this entire thread - is unfiltered nonsense.

Made up to look like someone could know what he is talking about. With an added user participation element, of "when will you think you will do" - which always is very popular, in instilling in everyone, that now their opinion is asked for.

This is nothing but a purely esoteric approach of "parallel universe" matching, that doesnt work in any way. Everyone that just participated, I hope your globuli havent expired just yet.

edit: Its always the user participation element of the poll that gets me...

And that no one will answer the question as follows: I will try and then fail, and then try - and then fail, and then try that someone else will do it for me, and then fail - and I'll try to be "first" all the way until I succeed. No - people pick their favorite sounding word out of a list of nonexistent options and then claim, that by hook or crook, they will stick to their decision, which of course they will not. As soon as you dangle the next shiny - they will try again.

And the scenes function at large is, to make "it" so easy, that everyone will succeed at the first try.

I also love the "I will wait until the warrenty has run out" approach, when you are literally changing nothing on or in your console at any point, that even would survive a boot. At least not with the jig into f-g into CFW approach - which most people currently are waiting for.

So you can look at those folks waiting. And waiting. And waiting. For no apparent reason. Of course if Nindendo had a way to proof, ... but our current understanding is, that they havent. And waiting.

 

[OblivionReign]

Just pure curiosity as to how/when average tempers will hack their switch
lets vote

Already using CFW and hbl on my switch (quite broken but its working)

 

[xpoverzion]

I have to admit that I haven't paid for anything that is digital since about 2003. I will wait to purchase a switch until it's hack/cfw is stable, and allows running pirated games.