Made a new account, I forgot my username. You could say the last time I posted was before the time GBAT got bought out by a corporate company. Anyways... Hi! Hope all is well, and a good morning to you all. Wanted to drop in my two cents if it matters.
I remember back when soldering modchips could brick your entire console well not exactly the word, but more like destroyed. We all knew what we were getting into. Doesn't matter if there is some wack brick code. This is 3rd party black market grey area where you risk your money, and your time to tamper with a product so you can have homebrew and backups etc.. it has warnings written all over it. This is not some first party hardware where you have a say to it because you paid for it, no, you don't get a say to anything because you should have read the fine print before you bought it. But it's absolutely fucking common sense that once you decide in your head to tamper with said product, you already threw out your agreement along with your rights as a user of that said product. So you fucked yourself over for not realizing that my said product can be bricked or banned. Like really, why is there a need to complain.
As far as the brick code, TX already admitted it has the code, and stated that from their own forums that it's there so people can't reverse engineer their software. It's all their in their forum. I won't link it so just Google it or something.
All my time with GBAT, never seen so many spoiled kids complaining about everything. It's a divided community more than a unity. People stole this or stole that. Shit.. back then we all shared code, it wasn't about who came out first, it was to work together, and improve on it. It's not some self pride ego. Boo hoo you don't like the way TX handles their shit, but you have to admit they managed to find a way ahead of everyone else. This is why the open source community is so damn slow these days. It's because nobody gives a fuck about anyone else but themselves and what they can do better. All of you are reaching the same damn goal so why not just work together, and have something solid. That is what TX did because nobody else wanted to work with each other. I mean, how many different platforms do we need to run homebrew launchers?? Why can't we just focus on the base platform, and work up, and then do your own shit on that platform and call it a day. At least TX made it work, and that's what we all should be happy about? Right??? I mean that's your base platform fully functional on the Switch, and they are focusing on updating as how they already updated it twice?
You all should be glad it's actually gotten somewhere instead of throwing fits on why this, and why that. All the negativity is like wtf happened to the modding community? You want to start improving? well it's already right in front of you. You can wait for Atmosphere to finish, but by then TX is already going to be the base for a lot of homebrew because it's already there. So why wait if they are going to be the same anyways?? You can focus on reverse engineering etc.. but why waste your time on that when you can be building on top of that? One person made a comment about brick code and it sent waves, but why should that affect anyone? We all know the risks, and if you don't then you don't belong anywhere in the modding community. Just stick with your safety zone, and leave everything to the risk takers.