Hacking libnx now public

[TheCyberQuake]

I searched but didn't see any threads about it. But libnx, a Nintendo switch userland homebrew library, was just made public.
https://twitter.com/ylws8/status/909242513487286272

 

[TheCyberQuake]

For the people who continuously say "we won't see homebrew for two years", the evidence keeps pointing to it being more likely we will see homebrew sooner rather than later, and I stick to my estimate of 12 months or less

 

[s3phir0th115]

I hope there will be exploits and such released to make use of this. Until then it's useless to anyone without access to one.

Unfortunately, while there are patches to make Linux work well on the PS4 Pro as an example, there are no exploits publicly available where you could actually make use of it.

 

[AxlSt00pid]

Whaaat? Wew so early

 

[Gnarmagon]

12 months no Mario Odyssee

 

[Xzi]

For the people who continuously say "we won't see homebrew for two years", the evidence keeps pointing to it being more likely we will see homebrew sooner rather than later, and I stick to my estimate of 12 months or less

Homebrew is possible as fast as people can make it. It's CFW/backups which can be updated past fw 3.0 that I'll be skeptical about until I see it.

 

[adrifcastr]

Gonna build a quick hello world binary when I get time to get to it..

 

[InsaneNutter]

For the people who continuously say "we won't see homebrew for two years", the evidence keeps pointing to it being more likely we will see homebrew sooner rather than later, and I stick to my estimate of 12 months or less

Even if it happens I still think its going to be a choice between homebrew or been able to play new games.

Look at the PS4 scene, look at the Vita scene. I'd love to be proved wrong, however I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed once new games are released they can't play.

 

[Jayro]

Plus, the Switch has eFuses, so no downgrading... It's gonna be interesting to see what comes of Switch homebrew, and if the system will ever get a hack as amazing as A9LH/B9S that Nintendo can't patch out.

 

[Thelonewolf88]

12 months no Mario Odyssee

No biggie, I have a 2nd console for that

 

[WiiFoundLove]

A tutorial would be nice

 

[adrifcastr]

A tutorial would be nice

exact the same way of use as ctrulib.
Why are so many people unable to read the github readme's?

 

[smilodon]

Plus, the Switch has eFuses, so no downgrading... It's gonna be interesting to see what comes of Switch homebrew, and if the system will ever get a hack as amazing as A9LH/B9S that Nintendo can't patch out.

It may be possible to downgrade some parts of the system and not some other parts that are checked by the console, we still don't know anything really...

 

[WiiFoundLove]

exact the same way of use as ctrulib.
Why are so many people unable to read the github readme's?

Woohoo, what a helpful answer. I've never worked with ctrulib so now i know what I have to do... not! Where i do get DEVKITA64 or how do i install it??

 

[Gnarmagon]

Woohoo, what a helpful answer. I've never worked with ctrulib so now i know what I have to do... not! Where i do get DEVKITA64 or how do i install it??

You have no clue what this is right ? (the Github Repo)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/devkitpro/files/devkitA64/

 

[s3phir0th115]

Woohoo, what a helpful answer. I've never worked with ctrulib so now i know what I have to do... not! Where i do get DEVKITA64 or how do i install it??

I can't find much on it, but it looks like it's being incorporated into devkitpro: https://github.com/devkitPro/buildscripts/compare/master...devkitA64

 

[adrifcastr]

Woohoo, what a helpful answer. I've never worked with ctrulib so now i know what I have to do... not! Where i do get DEVKITA64 or how do i install it??

If you have to act like this, you probably don't have any knowledge in C. So this is not 4 you then.

 

[Bladexdsl]

you think someone is just going to pull a backup loader out of their ass? every time i see one of these threads i just laugh and laugh

 

[Gnarmagon]

you think someone is just going to pull a backup loader out of their ass? every time i see one of these threads i just laugh and laugh

Uhhh something like the Wii had (like USB Loader GX) would be nice especially with 5GB Saves

 

[WiiFoundLove]

Ok, got it. How do i solve this?

*** No rule to make target '/mnt/d/Switch/devkitA64/base_rules'. Stop.