Hacking Speculations about Switch 2 hacking

[peteruk]

He never even said he had an exploit here. Just a goal of something he'd like to achieve.

allow the locals some hope Ryan, be a sport

 

[M7L7NK7]

Hope doesn't do anything lol

 

[xadra]

from @Gezine:

Shit
That's shame

Shit is tight then

don't get your hopes up.

 

[Newhouse-Estates]

Well that amounted to nothing.
Did i format it properly or do we simply need an update to use the sd card reader in general?
Also if i hit update, what would it do?
-Update system software
-Get the exfat patch only
-Other
Has anyone gotten an sd card of any sort to read without the update?|
*Also, this was tried with regular micro sd as didn't want to erase my express card

 

[FernandoRocker]

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Userland obtained by Gezine (ps5 dev)

No, he did not.

 

[TPMJB]

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Userland obtained by Gezine (ps5 dev)

IIRC we had a userland exploit on day 1. It does almost nothing for us. It's just a cool trick.

 

[Skelletonike]

Well that amounted to nothing.
Did i format it properly or do we simply need an update to use the sd card reader in general?
Also if i hit update, what would it do?
-Update system software
-Get the exfat patch only
-Other
Has anyone gotten an sd card of any sort to read without the update?|
*Also, this was tried with regular micro sd as didn't want to erase my express card

You will need to update it. There's no way around it.

 

[Newhouse-Estates]

Luckily my gf has mario kart world, so if and when things get started and it's needed, We'll be good.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

IIRC we had a userland exploit on day 1. It does almost nothing for us. It's just a cool trick.

No we had an ROP exploit. Which is more just hijacking a currently running process and basically useless on its own.

 

[DigBar]

Luckily my gf has mario kart world, so if and when things get started and it's needed, We'll be good.

dam so i was right, and theres no way to use the sd without updating if u hadnt activated it early??

 

[TomSwitch]

dam so i was right, and theres no way to use the sd without updating if u hadnt activated it early??

No SD is not supported. Plug in a SD express card and it will just work after you restart.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

dam so i was right, and theres no way to use the sd without updating if u hadnt activated it early??

Yeah this was something we learned right when the system launched.

 

[Asia81]

DS lite got hacked with a screw (Flashme), Wii with Tweezers, Switch with a paperclip... i suspect switch 2 will get hacked with a... Fork.

Yeah, sure, a fork, why not.

and 3ds with a magnet

 

[Nakamichi]

and 3ds with a magnet

oh yeaaaaah thats right!
i completely forgot about that one ; 333

 

[Newhouse-Estates]

No SD is not supported. Plug in a SD express card and it will just work after you restart.

Is this SD express only? Does it need to be formatted fat32?

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

and 3ds with a magnet

Technically that already required CFW access to initially flash the cart but yeah

 

[DigBar]

No SD is not supported. Plug in a SD express card and it will just work after you restart.

i know i have the sd card activated on mine

 

[DiscostewSM]

Switch 2 can use a regular SD card, but it is limited to screenshots and video captures. No games can be stored/accessed on it while in use on Switch 2, which includes Switch 1 games. And because the Switch 2 is a completely different system, you can't just download your Switch 1 titles onto the card from a Switch 1, and then insert it into the Switch 2 to access them. They are encrypted by the system's unique signature. Tied to your Nintendo Account, but encrypted by your console.

 

[ChibiMofo]

The price increases are heavily affected by RAM and storage, not SoCs and APUs.

But Nintendo's SoC choice mean that they are still able to get their Nvidia SoC's fabbed on widely available 8nm wafters, which have not been hit by a wave of price hikes that most consumers haven't been paying attention to during the RAMcopolypse. Valve chose 6 nanometer for their AMD SoC's, which makes them more susceptible to cost increases for that chip, not even taken into account how many tens of millions more Nintendo is going to have made (economies of scale). Nintendo got it right.

 

[DiscostewSM]

But Nintendo's SoC choice mean that they are still able to get their Nvidia SoC's fabbed on widely available 8nm wafters, which have not been hit by a wave of price hikes that most consumers haven't been paying attention to during the RAMcopolypse. Valve chose 6 nanometer for their AMD SoC's, which makes them more susceptible to cost increases for that chip, not even taken into account how many tens of millions more Nintendo is going to have made (economies of scale). Nintendo got it right.

It had been rumored than the T239 would be on a newer fab because of numbers found in the giga leak that wouldn't work on Samsung 8N. But we all see that wasn't true, and that they did get it working on S8N. But the thing is, they designed it based on that long ago. Long before the RAMcopolypse was a thing, or even AI for that matter.

It wasn't a choice to avoid that. It was a choice to avoid everyone else wanting their hands on the latest processes.