When you need to play illegitimate backups on a hacked Nintendo Switch, one of the most important tools you'll need are sigpatches; normally, custom firmware Atmosphere does not allow the running of pirated games, but these sigpatches allow users to install .NSP files that they've downloaded from the internet. As of today, though, one of the most notable and popular sources of sigpatches--user iTotalJustice's GitHub repository of them--has been removed permanently, through a DMCA takedown. The GitHub was still active as of earlier today, but if you try to access it now, you'll be redirected to a DMCA takedown form, filed by Nintendo of America.

Nintendo of America: The Nintendo Switch console and digital video games contain technological protection measures (“Technological Measures”) that permit the Nintendo Switch console to interact only with legitimate Nintendo digital video game files. This process protects Nintendo’s copyright-protected video games, including but not limited to those covered by U.S. Copyright Registration numbers PA0002213509 (Super Mario Maker 2); PA0002233840 (Animal Crossing: New Horizons); PA0002213908 (Luigi’s Mansion 3); and PA0002028142 (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) by preventing users from playing pirated copies of Nintendo’s video games on the Nintendo Switch console.

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[Spider_Man]

Nintendo seem to be putting alot of effort in stopping people pirating games they already own.

They should put more effort into making games consoles and quality games.

But nope, cheap shit to play old shit while nintendo finds any shit excuse to send their legal dogs after.

They should change their name to $hi£€nd0.

 

[seany1990]

I took down the github, now they will buy games now
-Nintendo, probably

 

[k7ra]

No way, Nintendo stop piracy!

 

[spotanjo3]

It doesnt matter. There is updater GitHub for sigpatches somewhere anyway.

 

[jellybeangreen2]

has anyone cloned the repo when it was online or downloaded all bundles?

 

[RednaxelaNnamtra]

you need the patches to run home menu forwarders and also indie homebrew games like https://github.com/D3fau4/Helltaker-switch and https://github.com/caspd3v/Cubic-Dweller-Homebrew

Yeah, and homebrew forwarders aren't needed, are not supported by atmosphere, and will very much get you banned, if you ever decide to go online with cfw and forwarders installed.
Also no, you don't need signature patches for any legal homebrew, those two either just decided not to ship any nro and not be compatible with stock atmosphere, or where using the Nintendo sdk, in which case those nsps are illegal for them to share.
There is literally no technical reason for them to require signature patches.

Edit: yep, at least the helltaker one is build with unity, so unless the developer got an agreement with nintendo, which I doubt, the developer either broke the nda with Nintendo, or got the sdk illegally.

kids these days are so entitled to their free mayrios. too many gbatemp users expect piracy to be handed to them on a silver platter.
when I was a kid I walked to school uphill both ways to get my roms working... damn you, get off my lawn

I was not talking about piracy in that part of my message.
Instead I talked about the legal usage with your own legal dumps, which is limited to the offline nand and single player only, and far more work to be worth it in most cases.

 

[Ampersound]

This is a rather resilient community and projects have a history of being moved elsewhere when pressured by the Big N. There are still options like Gitlab and other sites to host the code on. There are also plenty of devs who don't want to see projects like these for their own reasons. This is just a setback but it definitely doesn't mean that there's no chance for the project to be revived in some form.

Why should Gitlab be a better choice for repos compared to github, as to avoid the N-Ninjas?

 

[Cris1997XX]

Wow, I can't believe y'all fucking pirates got riled up and wrote over 100 messages. I guess you're THAT mad at Nintendo, huh?

 

[HinaNaru Cutie]

Jeez this is nuts, I didn't get by the nsp website I go to - post at all on 'last sigpatches' - assumed they word it wrong but nope,...it was connected to this poor guy..man I read the reddit post on what happened, well what the poster knew about, others as well and this sucks..I hope wherever this person is - is alright mentally and safe too God bless them.

Anyway, I am having thoughts that..things may start to hit the fan even more..but I can't tell, however, new nintendo examples of how petty they go is just toxic dump..so if it does hit the fan even more best be prepared to archive stuff also don't trust discord, they sold their buttcheeks to the government - not joshing here there new policy admits that they will sell you out if you state different opinions and do stuff that big companies pay them to stalk you on - so best to check our guilded, I know that they may or may not fall like discord but for now they are safer then discord.

Just an advice.

 

[Ryab]

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When you need to play illegitimate backups on a hacked Nintendo Switch, one of the most important tools you'll need are sigpatches; normally, custom firmware Atmosphere does not allow the running of pirated games, but these sigpatches allow users to install .NSP files that they've downloaded from the internet. As of today, though, one of the most notable and popular sources of sigpatches--user iTotalJustice's GitHub repository of them--has been removed permanently, through a DMCA takedown. The GitHub was still active as of earlier today, but if you try to access it now, you'll be redirected to a DMCA takedown form, filed by Nintendo of America.



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I can't be shocked. I mean it was the biggest opening to piracy that existed.

 

[LainaGabranth]

Nintendo literally gives us reasons to pirate their games. Want to find Nintendo games at an affordable price while supporting Nintendo? You can’t~ because their games rarely go on sales and their sales almost always the bare minimum. Wanna buy old Pokémon games and support Nintendo? Can’t, shut down your ability to buy them legally. Want get buy any older game not ported to the newer system? Buy them used because Nintendo shut down any legal means of supporting them. Nintendo is the reason why it’s always morally ok to pirate their games. Until they start giving people legal means of supporting them, it’s piracy or used, Nintendo still getting nothing in the end.

Daily reminder the WiiU perfectly supported Gamecube games and yet it was just software locked arbitrarily despite literally having the hardware necessary to run it almost perfectly. Nintendo objectively makes bad, anti-consumer decisions that encourage piracy, and anyone saying it's bad to do so should be pointing fingers at Nintendo, not at the pirates.

 

[The Catboy]

Why should Gitlab be a better choice for repos compared to github, as to avoid the N-Ninjas?

Multiple projects in the past have been DMCA’d on GitHub, moved to Gitlab, and stayed up on there without issues. Notabug is another site that I’ve seen projects move to without experiencing any future DMCA’s, freeShop being the best example.

 

[The Catboy]

Entitled much? You seem to think Nintendo owns you stuff, but they don't. Nintendo games don't age during the life of a system. A game goes on sale, because it becomes outdated or sells less, this isn't really the case with Mario or other Nintendo games.

The argument of buying older games also doesn't add up. A game has a certain life in stores, it's for every game like that. I collect N64 games, but have to get them second hand because offcourse they aren't made anymore.

You want to play old Pokémon games? Well, beside Black and white pretty much every other main game got a remake in the last 10 years or so, so you can't complain about that. Again, it's unreasonable to expect Nintendo keep offering old games. It would have been nice if they released GBA and GB games to the switch, but again it's not something we're entitled to.

So no, Nintendo does not make it morally right to pirate, they're pretty much the same as any other company. Stop being entitled and just enjoy what you have. Or just pirate but don't try to justify it.

Corporate apologized much? Nintendo doesn't owe us anything but they can't complain when their actions bite them on the ass. My issue isn't about physical games because those can't last forever. My issue is Nintendo shutting down legal means of supporting their products or buying their games, then complaining about piracy. The fact that they are shutting down legal means of purchasing all of the classic games on the 3DS and Wii U and already shut down the Wii eShop, without providing a replacement service, is the problem.

This is just an excuse on your end. Nintendo already has the games and software to make them work on the Switch. The fact that this already exists on the system and Nintendo is just sitting on it is pretty inexcusable.

Nintendo makes it morally ok to pirate by not giving any alternatives beyond either paying grossly inflated second-hand prices or piracy. I am sorry you are willing to accept less from Nintendo but this is unacceptable and Nintendo (nor anyone else,) should be given a free pass.
Have this funny but accurate video expressing why Nintendo is the problem

 

[RednaxelaNnamtra]

Daily reminder the WiiU perfectly supported Gamecube games and yet it was just software locked arbitrarily despite literally having the hardware necessary to run it almost perfectly. Nintendo objectively makes bad, anti-consumer decisions that encourage piracy, and anyone saying it's bad to do so should be pointing fingers at Nintendo, not at the pirates.

Thats not really true, there is hardware missing for Gamecube support, like the memory card and controller ports, or support for small disks in the disk drive.
Its also only posible to support gamecube games on it, because of all the time and experience that went into first dios mios and then later nintendont, somthing nintendo could have invested time and money into, but diceded not to, which is absolutelly understandable.
There are many things wrong with nintendo, but that is not one of them.

 

[LainaGabranth]

Entitled much? You seem to think Nintendo owns you stuff, but they don't. Nintendo games don't age during the life of a system. A game goes on sale, because it becomes outdated or sells less, this isn't really the case with Mario or other Nintendo games.

The argument of buying older games also doesn't add up. A game has a certain life in stores, it's for every game like that. I collect N64 games, but have to get them second hand because offcourse they aren't made anymore.

You want to play old Pokémon games? Well, beside Black and white pretty much every other main game got a remake in the last 10 years or so, so you can't complain about that. Again, it's unreasonable to expect Nintendo keep offering old games. It would have been nice if they released GBA and GB games to the switch, but again it's not something we're entitled to.

So no, Nintendo does not make it morally right to pirate, they're pretty much the same as any other company. Stop being entitled and just enjoy what you have. Or just pirate but don't try to justify it.

I know this dude did not just say wholeassed that Nintendo games don't age.

 

[Sylx3]

[...] is pretty inexcusable.

They will never apologize to you or anyone about that. It's their product, they can do what they want with it.

 

[The Catboy]

They will never apologize to you or anyone about that. It's their product, they can do what they want with it.

Peak taking my quote out of context because that's not the full point of that post.
The point was Nintendo has a Gameboy emulator already built into the Switch and is literally just sitting on it while shutting down the ability to buy Gameboy games on the 3DS. The fact that they are sitting on this software is inexcusable.

 

[LainaGabranth]

If a company does not make the physical editions of a game digitally available in some capacity it is always justified to pirate them, because no matter what you do, be it not play it at all, pirate, or buy second hand, no money whatsoever sees the hands of the developers.

Barring the fact piracy is already an inoffensive crime, it is objectively harmless in the cases of the Wii and backwards. Anyone with a problem with this position has no real objection beyond loyalty to a company who sees them as nothing more than a profit incentive.

 

[Sylx3]

Peak taking my quote out of context because that's not the full point of that post.
The point was Nintendo has a Gameboy emulator already built into the Switch and is literally just sitting on it while shutting down the ability to buy Gameboy games on the 3DS. The fact that they are sitting on this software is inexcusable.

And i'm telling you they will never apologize, so you can think they're "inexcusable" all you want.

 

[The Catboy]

And i'm telling you they will never apologize, so you can think they're "inexcusable" all you want.

This doesn’t warrant an apology and I am not asking for one. I am pointing out why it’s morally ok to pirate Nintendo games and why people shouldn’t feel bad for deciding to do so.