Hacking switch downgrading

[brayden0925]

if I downgrade from 15.0.1 on my switch to 8.0.1 to hack it will it be alright I have a v2 mariko but I would like to hack it with no modchip will this work without bricking and killing all the fuses

 

[pic1972]

If your switch is a V2 Mariko unit, to mod it you need a modchip... without a modchip you can't do anything....

Before operate on your console, please, read some guide....in this way you don't brick it....

 

[Hayato213]

if I downgrade from 15.0.1 on my switch to 8.0.1 to hack it will it be alright I have a v2 mariko but I would like to hack it with no modchip will this work without bricking and killing all the fuses

You need a modchip as stated above, you won't even be able to downgrade without the modchip.

 

[brayden0925]

İ wonder if anyone is working on a enlbufferpwn hack for switch without the requirement of a modchip

 

[Hayato213]

İ wonder if anyone is working on a enlbufferpwn hack for switch without the requirement of a modchip

Don't give too much hope into that, SciresM said he couldn't find any flaw with patched v1/v2 units.

 

[Ryab]

Don't give too much hope into that, SciresM said he couldn't find any flaw with patched v1/v2 units.

I'm sure we will one day. But yeah currently the newer models are seeming very well secured. If it wasnt for the RCM exploit the Switch would still be a very locked down console.

 

[MrVtR]

İ wonder if anyone is working on a enlbufferpwn hack for switch without the requirement of a modchip

Probably not

 

[brayden0925]

İ wonder how the pegascape hack got patched and if there a similar way on newer firmware versions on the switch

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İwonder if there is a similar mod to pegascape that still maybe works or a way to bypass where nintendo patched it

 

[sith]

You need a modchip as stated above, you won't even be able to downgrade without the modchip.

you can't ever "downgrade".. the fuses on the unit are burned cause its on 15 and not modded.

you can "revert" if you have blocked fuse burning with autorcm

Edit: you can do a custom bootloader that overcomes the efuses and boots an older firm emunand if you're trying to run sxos for some reason, but i don't know if that is even possible on mariko. see this other thread https://gbatemp.net/threads/is-it-safe-to-downgrade.623879/

 

[Hayato213]

İ wonder how the pegascape hack got patched and if there a similar way on newer firmware versions on the switch

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İwonder if there is a similar mod to pegascape that still maybe works or a way to bypass where nintendo patched it

No, as your system and firmware doesn't meet the condition.

 

[brayden0925]

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İ wonder how the pegascape hack got patched and if there a similar way on newer firmware versions on the switch

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İwonder if there is a similar mod to pegascape that still maybe works or a way to bypass where nintendo patched it

Maybe even a glitch in the patch

 

[impeeza]

İ wonder if anyone is working on a enlbufferpwn hack for switch without the requirement of a modchip

definitively not happen, at least not in the next decade.

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Maybe even a glitch in the patch

no, is not probable to happen.

Post automatically merged: Dec 29, 2022

this question has been responded several times here on GBATemp, use the search function at top of page and you will find long histories about why not probable to happen.

 

[BaamAlex]

İ wonder how the pegascape hack got patched

My guess is the following: 4 years ago two pull requests from "balika011" were received by hekate to fix the standby mode on downgraded switches with too many fuses. And kosmos (that was the name of an aio package earlier before it has been archived) 11.7 included this "leak". And funny enough, the name of this release was "Déjà Vu".

 

[brayden0925]

So if we delete the files that were patched would it be hackable or if we go to a version before that

 

[BaamAlex]

So if we delete the files that were patched would it be hackable or if we go to a version before that

To get deeper into the system, you would need a modchip again. Without it, you can't execute unsigned code on patched units (or Mariko). And if you have a modchip installed, there is no reason to downgrade (there never is anyway because it is pointless). You have a chicken-and-egg problem here, to put it bluntly i would say. And atm all trustzone bugs are fixed. But we dunno what comes in the future. Maybe there is one, but who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

EDIT: And even if you could mod the console without a modchip, there is no guarantee that you can patch this patch "out" of the system.

 

[Draxzelex]

if I downgrade from 15.0.1 on my switch to 8.0.1 to hack it will it be alright I have a v2 mariko but I would like to hack it with no modchip will this work without bricking and killing all the fuses

Just give it up. Many hackers have said there are no new exploits for patched consoles. Either get a modchip or get an unpatched Switch.

 

[l7777]

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Maybe even a glitch in the patch

1. You dreaming
2. Why do you think that the existing players in the space have not already looked/tried/investigated the ideas you have? Unless you're a security researcher/pen tester with new info there is little point in asking if new publicized vulnerabilities can be exploited to take over the Switch OS. Any new vulnerability that allows this will not be publicly announced until after it is already patched.

 

[impeeza]

1. You dreaming
2. Why do you think that the existing players in the space have not already looked/tried/investigated the ideas you have? Unless you're a security researcher/pen tester with new info there is little point in asking if new publicized vulnerabilities can be exploited to take over the Switch OS. Any new vulnerability that allows this will not be publicly announced until after it is already patched.

And really besides of PegaScape, hasn't been any software vulnerabilities inside HOS, the exploit used on early models is a "Hardware" error on manufacturing so was a NVidia Fault not Nintendo one.