Hacking Question New to the NSW scene... exploiting

[Trappie]

Literally just bought a NSW 2nd hand.
Reason?
I want to play pirated games.

I have a 256 gb sd card for the use of back up roms.

Is it possible to load cfw through an sd card? All I see is people haxxing with paper clips and micro usb ports.
Is that the way to go? I'm not a technician and will probably mess up somehow and end up setting the house on fire.

P.S. looking forward to june 15th, everyone is mentioning it... No idea what'll happen, but sounds cool so far.

 

[matias3ds]

On june 15th xecuter osx dongle realeases and its going to allow to play pirated games.

 

[RobXcore]

It's better if you leech in the darkness if you aren't going to contribute to the scene LOL. For everything else, there is a search button bar in the right top of your screen. You're welcome.

 

[Deleted-442439]

Literally just bought a NSW 2nd hand.
Reason?
I want to play pirated games.

I have a 256 gb sd card for the use of back up roms.

Is it possible to load cfw through an sd card? All I see is people haxxing with paper clips and micro usb ports.
Is that the way to go? I'm not a technician and will probably mess up somehow and end up setting the house on fire.

P.S. looking forward to june 15th, everyone is mentioning it... No idea what'll happen, but sounds cool so far.

1. Read the FAQ

2. Read the guides in the tutorials subforum

3. If you still don't have a answer use the search function, and google.

Everything you can do is very well documented, and the current methods are easy to use. CFW / HB is however still in its infancy, so there is a lot of broken stuff.

 

[Deleted User]

Oh dear. This ain't gonna end well.

 

[DuckNoir]

Everything you can do is very well documented.

can you give a link to that ?

 

[punderino]

The only way to do exploitation that gets you enough privilege to run CFW is through FG, which requires the whole USB/paperclip thing. It's shorting a pin that makes a "secret" button held, and you boot with volume up and it puts the Switch in a recovery mode that's exploitable. So if you want piracy, you need to be able to get into that special recovery mode, your best bet would be to buy the Team Xecuter modchip, it'll have a plastic bit that'll short the pin out for you and a USB part that'll send the CFW to the Switch so you can get piracy. The public CFW that's going to be releasing for free will not be piracy enabled.

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can you give a link to that ?

Stickies.

 

[DuckNoir]

The public CFW that's going to be releasing for free will not be piracy enabled.

so there is no way to play backup games ?

 

[Deleted-442439]

can you give a link to that ?

Stickies, and tutorials section, everything you need is there.

so there is no way to play backup games ?

Not yet, you can either buy the TX SX stuff, or wait for a free implementation through Atmosphere / Homebrew

 

[punderino]

so there is no way to play backup games ?

There will be in less than a month from now.

 

[MrGizMo]

Close the gates

 

[jakkal]

Please close this shit thread
Use your brain and learn

Everything you need is on this site. Use your head

 

[dpad_5678]

Literally just bought a NSW 2nd hand.
Reason?
I want to play pirated games.

I have a 256 gb sd card for the use of back up roms.

Is it possible to load cfw through an sd card? All I see is people haxxing with paper clips and micro usb ports.
Is that the way to go? I'm not a technician and will probably mess up somehow and end up setting the house on fire.

P.S. looking forward to june 15th, everyone is mentioning it... No idea what'll happen, but sounds cool so far.

PLEASE use a search function next time. I Google'd "Nintendo Switch hacks" and found everything you were asking about within the first few search results.

 

[Taffy]

I see what @dpad_5678 meant now.

...kill me.

Backup loaders don't publicly exist yet, the paperclip shit is relevant, be patient.

 

[Sm0k3r83]

This thread is bait.

 

[gamer4lif3]

Is the rcm thing even enough to make a backup loader? Or is another bug/exploit needed?

 

[digipimp75]

Dude, seriously. You don't just blatantly announce that you want to pirate games, and expect the community to spoonfeed info that is readily available via a simple search.

 

[DocKlokMan]

Literally just bought a NSW 2nd hand.
Reason?
I want to play pirated games.

I have a 256 gb sd card for the use of back up roms.

Is it possible to load cfw through an sd card? All I see is people haxxing with paper clips and micro usb ports.
Is that the way to go? I'm not a technician and will probably mess up somehow and end up setting the house on fire.

P.S. looking forward to june 15th, everyone is mentioning it... No idea what'll happen, but sounds cool so far.

1. While piracy talk is tolerated here, no actual instructions to or links to rom or piracy will be found here. Now, for those looking to play backed up copies of games they own... keep reading.
2. CFW is going to be a file you put on the SD card, yes, but in order to launch that file you need to do a few things. The backbone of the hacking scene right now is booting your Switch into what's called RCM mode. To do this, you need to ground pin number 10 on the right side of the Switch where the JoyCon slides in, then power it on while holding the Vol+ button. That's what these paperclips, wires, and 'jigs' accomplish for us. It will be needed.
3. After getting it in RCM mode, you need to execute a payload to get the CFW started. This is done through the USB-C port on the Switch. What you use to deliver the payload can vary, it can be a computer, an Android phone, Raspberry Pi, or a dongle. Internal mod chips are also in development. You would need to do this each and every time you restart or power off the Switch.
4. Currently there's no actual CFW or backup loaders out, but a development team is working on an open sourced CFW called Atmosphere while a company is working on a closed source backup loader, which is to be released on June 15th. Their product will come with a jig for shorting pin 10 and a dongle for jumpstarting the CFW.

 

[Trappie]

1. While piracy talk is tolerated here, no actual instructions to or links to rom or piracy will be found here. Now, for those looking to play backed up copies of games they own... keep reading.
2. CFW is going to be a file you put on the SD card, yes, but in order to launch that file you need to do a few things. The backbone of the hacking scene right now is booting your Switch into what's called RCM mode. To do this, you need to ground pin number 10 on the right side of the Switch where the JoyCon slides in, then power it on while holding the Vol+ button. That's what these paperclips, wires, and 'jigs' accomplish for us. It will be needed.
3. After getting it in RCM mode, you need to execute a payload to get the CFW started. This is done through the USB-C port on the Switch. What you use to deliver the payload can vary, it can be a computer, an Android phone, Raspberry Pi, or a dongle. Internal mod chips are also in development. You would need to do this each and every time you restart or power off the Switch.
4. Currently there's no actual CFW or backup loaders out, but a development team is working on an open sourced CFW called Atmosphere while a company is working on a closed source backup loader, which is to be released on June 15th. Their product will come with a jig for shorting pin 10 and a dongle for jumpstarting the CFW.

Thanks for explaining, much appreciated!