Hacking Interesting Switch Ban...

[Hayato213]

Hey guys,

As a bit of background, purchased a switch roughly 2 years ago, its been offline ever since, with a clean nand backup of 3.0.1. In the meantime, been using SXOS etc.

Last week, I restored this switch to the clean NAND backup and then connected online with no problems. The one thing to note here is that I restored saves using checkpoint on Super Smash Bros, Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (as well as Zelda I think?). I've also had

Couple of days ago, I got Nintendo Switch Online and everything has been fine (using it for Pokemon Sword). Last night i played Tetris 99 (from the Switch Online)

This morning, I noticed I was banned. Called up Nintendo and they said that it was for using pirated software.

Heres the interesting part:
They said they could reverse the ban if I sent in my switch with the games I played recently and they could determine the ban was a mistake? I plan to do this as there's nothing much to lose. Not like they can confiscate my shit. The only thing that could possibly tick them off is a mismatch in play time between my switch profile and the save files? However this could be a result of clearing play data I assume?

My question is, has anyone ever been asked by Nintendo to do this and has anyone tried? what happened?

TLDR: Ban with (almost) all precautions taken. Will send in to Nintendo to see what they say.

Well you restored your save via Checkpoint so that counts running CFW, so you don't have a valid reason to get unbanned.

 

[diba]

This morning, I noticed I was banned.

Can you please post exact error code(s) you got?

 

[ELY_M]

I dont think he remember error codes by now. btw I am still unbanned and I play pokemon sword and shield with cheats and pkhex the games are on game carts. ZERO nsps installed. I never used sysnand only atmosphere CFW.

 

[LightBeam]

I'm considering transfering my Animal Crossing save data from my emunand to my sysnand now that I have a cartridge, but it looks like it will be more complicated than that ...
I had installed the "leak" first and I'm playing on it since, but now I have received my cartridge and I don't want to loose my progress but it seems that playing on an actual cartridge won't help me not getting banned
Are they checking saves on Animal Crossing ? Because I guess they could know if I'm starting with some millions of bells the day I'm starting the game "for the first time" ... Guess I'm stuck for now