Colors | For your viewing pleasure, not only is all of the data logged as "Y" for "Yes" and "N" for "No", each cell is colored to the corresponding action. Basically green=good, red=bad, and blue=somewhere in the middle. |
eShop | The date a user receives the error code 2124-4007 for trying to use the eShop. May also be confused with an account ban but those are rare. |
Unbanned | The last date a user was not banned. Can be useful for tracking the time between banwaves. |
Clean NAND | Denotes if a user restored a clean, hack-free NAND prior to going online. Hard to verify how clean the backup was but if it was done before hacking, it is indeed clean. |
Updates | Checks if a user can update their games or not. If they are unable to, the error code can be 2181-4008 |
Atum | Identifies if banned from Nintendo's CDN servers by checking for the error code 2137-7403 when trying to update the system firmware. |
Account | Can be checked by trying to log into Nintendo's website using the Nintendo Account linked to the console. |
SX | If you have used SX OS in any capacity, offline or otherwise. |
SX EmuNAND | As of V2.0, SX OS now features EmuNAND. However rather than recreating the NAND on the SD card, it creates a smaller copy of the NAND and stores it in the USER partition. This is dangerous both from a banning and bricking perspective. |
Trimmed XCI | Usage of .XCI files that had their empty data removed in order to make the file smaller. |
SX Online | Indicates whether a user used SX OS with an active Internet connection and/or if they activated their license online via the console. |
XCI + Cert Online | .XCI files injected/dumped with a certificate so it can be played online. It should also be noted that injecting a foreign certificate will flag you for a ban as noted by the well-known hacker, SciresM, here. There is also at least one user who reported a ban despite injecting a certificate from the same game as the one he injected it into so assume matching certificates are unsafe otherwise. |
Cert Ban | Nintendo has the ability to discern when certificates/headers are used illegitimately as compared to the 3DS era. The relevant error code is 2124-4025 which occurs when you try to use the online service of a game that contains the banned certificate/header. Certificate/header also denote the same term. |
SX Version | What version of SX OS used. In the event that anyone has used multiple versions, the lower one is logged. The one exception is if the OS was used offline on a lower firmware, but is used online at a higher firmware. |
Non-SX LFS | DANGEROUS
A file swapping hack that was perverted to play backups. This one has caused most of the bans known to date. TX also began supporting it in SX OS, but the ones who use it in those cases aren't using it for backup launching hence the 'Non-TX' distinction. |
Non-SX LFS Online | DANGEROUS
Reserved for users who used LayeredFS to play backups with an active Internet connection. Can include people who use it for modding as well. |
Played Non-SX LFS Online | DANGEROUS
Using LayeredFS to play backups directly online. Many reasons why this is unsafe not limited to piracy, mismatching files, and a chance of crashing/errors due to it being a WIP hack. |
Inject Cert via LFS | DANGEROUS
Injecting a certificate from a .XCI file into another game using LayeredFS in order to play that game online. |
DevMenu | DANGEROUS
An app that was leaked from an EDEV unit. For reference, this is what I am talking about. A banned user received an e-mail from Nintendo that they were banned due to an illegal ROMID which can only refer to DevMenu. Outside of the program being copyrighted, this can and will get you banned. |
NSP | Similar to .CIA for the 3DS, .NSP is the file format used for titles installed into the Switch. Console must be hacked to install these so simply uninstalling them is not good enough to avoid a ban. |
NSP Online | Having an Internet connection with .NSP files installed either on the system or the SD card but not playing them online. |
Played NSP Online | Used the online services of a .NSP game which can be a major red flag to Nintendo since fake tickets are needed to launch .NSPs you do not own. |
CDN | DANGEROUS
Downloading eShop and update content from Nintendo's CDN servers whether through Freeshop (or its derivatives) and/or a CDN downloader with your own console's certificate. Nintendo can track which console downloads what so the risk of being banned for using these is high. |
Updated Backups | Refers to how people update their games online. Category is stratified between CFW and OFW since some users tend to believe it is safer to update backups in OFW rather than CFW (which has been shown to be false). |
ReiNX | Indicates whether a person has used ReiNX in any capacity, whether online or offline. |
Homebrew/non-SX CFW Used | Usage of any homebrew and/or non-SX OS CFW including crashes and error reports. |
Homebrew/non-SX CFW Online | Usage of any homebrew and/or non-SX OS CFW with an Internet connection. |
eShop in CFW/homebrew | Accessing the eShop while using homebrew and/or CFW. SciresM provides a nice write-up on how eShop access works here which can explain why it may not be safe. |
AutoRCM | Corruption of the Switch's BCT. It is unknown how TX corrupts the BCT hence the distinction in the spreadsheet. |
Fuse Mismatch | Updating the firmware without burning fuses meaning running a firmware that is foreign to the number of fuses currently burnt in the console. |
exFAT Offline | Obtaining the exFAT update without connecting online which involves being on the latest firmware. There are multiple ways of achieving this but all involve hacking one way or another so they are not separated here. |
GDPR Block | A full explanation of this can be found here. In short, you can toggle a certain setting for EUR accounts or block a specific URL to eliminate some of the telemtry sent to Nintendo. |
Disabled eclct | Turning off the eclct sysmodule in Horizon by replacing it with a pm.kip to reduce telemetry sent to Nintendo from the device. |
creport | Shunts all error reports generated from the console to the SD card which prevents them from being transmitted to Nintendo. |
Logs Cleared | DANGEROUS
There is a module known as nx-dreport that clears error logs contained within your device. For best results, this should be run before the console is given any connection to the Internet. Based on this tweet from SciresM, running nx-dreport on firmwares 5 and above may be unsafe. Additionally, Nintendo told a user they were banned for having gone from error logs to no error logs. |
WiFi Deleted | If not in Airplane Mode, the console will automatically connect to any Wi-Fi settings saved if in range. The Switch also has hidden Wi-Fi settings in the form of Nintendo Hotspots that will connect the console online if close enough to one of these. |
Region | The region of the user, both console and account if they differ. |
Comments | The questionnaire's not perfect and there might be something that banned/non-banned users do to retain their particular status. Feel free to add anything that is NOT obvious after answering the questionnaire. |
Proof | Evidence that said user was banned. Video is preferred due to the prevalence of forged imagery via Photoshop. |