Hardware Ipatched Switch serial?

[Deleted User]

Hi all, sorry for making a new thread about it, but searching wasn't giving any answers.

A friend just got a switch, and we were intending to hack it, but figured we'd refrain from doing so for the moment because he updated it to latest FW so he could get Blastoise in Pokken tournament (lol his favourite pokemon).

So we don't know what it originally came with.

We know that Ipatched units have been coming with 4.1.0, but since he updated, we need to know what the Serial is to find if it's a patched unit or not.

Hopefully someone knows this and can let me know.

Again, sorry for making another thread about it.

Thanks in advanced though!

 

[Voridten]

Try booting it with a jig and upload a payload

 

[Deathwing Zero]

Try booting it with a jig

Which has nothing to do with anything whatsoever because you can boot into RCM on ipatched switches, you just can't send a payload. Now to answer the OP's actual question, we don't know what the cut off point is. According to this thread Serials XAJ700438 - XAJ700439 are ipatched as well as XAW100857 and XAW700183.

 

[aos10]

you mean mariko?
right now there is XAJ700438 and forward but maybe those are just normal unit that nintendo patched them in the factory, i've heard nintendo is taking back the unsold units and patch them in the factory and return them, so serial numbers won't matter anymore.

 

[Deathwing Zero]

you mean mariko?
right now there is not, however i've heard nintendo is taking back the unsold units and patch them in the factory and return them, so serial numbers won't matter anymore.

No, it doesn't work like that at all. Once a switch has left the factory it cannot EVER be patched. When people send their switch to Nintendo and get it back "patched" it means it's an entirely different console than the one they sent. The software can only ever be written ONCE. And, no, Mariko is not released yet that anyone is aware of. There are however ipatched switches in the wild.

 

[Deleted User]

We've got a XAJ700253

 

[aos10]

No, it doesn't work like that at all. Once a switch has left the factory it cannot EVER be patched. When people send their switch to Nintendo and get it back "patched" it means it's an entirely different console than the one they sent. The software can only ever be written ONCE. And, no, Mariko is not released yet that anyone is aware of. There are however ipatched switches in the wild.

i mean by "patched' in the factory is maybe they replace something in the board or manully reprgram the board.

 

[Deathwing Zero]

We've got a XAJ700253

Based on that serial I would guess it's not patched, but you should probably check it and report in the thread I linked earlier, just to have a more complete database.

i mean by "patched' in the factory is maybe they replace something in the board or manully reprgram the board.

Again, they can't do this. It's a physical limitation meant to prevent tampering. Once the software has been written it cannot _EVER_ be changed. By anyone. You also cannot just "replace" the chip on the board. It has to be a whole new board.

 

[Deleted User]

It's not even entering RCM. Using a jig I've had 100% success with using. uh oh!

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Never mind the above, turns out the jig wasn't just making a connection lol.

It wasn't a patched unit So I'll add that to the database.

 

[Deathwing Zero]

It's not even entering RCM. Using a jig I've had 100% success with using. uh oh!

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Never mind the above, turns out the jig wasn't just making a connection lol.

It wasn't a patched unit So I'll add that to the database.

Did you try sending a payload? That's what is being patched, not the ability to enter RCM. You don't need to boot into a CFW or anything, just see if Hekate or biskeydump will run properly. Best method would be following this but the quick and dirty of it is, if you successfully send a payload and your screen remains black, it's probably patched. I would still recommend following that tutorial though, as I could be wrong.

 

[aos10]

Based on that serial I would guess it's not patched, but you should probably check it and report in the thread I linked earlier, just to have a more complete database.


Again, they can't do this. It's a physical limitation meant to prevent tampering. Once the software has been written it cannot _EVER_ be changed. By anyone. You also cannot just "replace" the chip on the board. It has to be a whole new board.

Thanks for the conformation, i don't know where i heard about the other info.

 

[aos10]

Sorry, double post.