Hacking Team Xecuter stalling?

[T-hug]

Announcing the device is a way to gauge the market and also could possibly force people making CFW or softmods etc. to show their hands.
Obviously with the Switch selling well, TX want a piece of that market, but tooling and releasing a chip that can't out-perform software hacks is a bad move.
Also, this same situation kind of happened with WiiU.

 

[Bladexdsl]

it'll be ready WHEN IT'S READY

 

[Frexxos]

Chinese New Year or 'Spring Festival' is China's most important festival and holiday. The next CNY falls on Friday, February 16th 2018, beginning a year of the Dog.
It's traditionally celebrated for 16 days, from the eve to Lantern Festival (March 2nd 2018). The coming 7-day Spring Festival public holiday will be February 15–21, 2018.

I work at a company in germany which is doing pcb manufacturing.
And we have every year the same problem: in the time when the chinese holiday time is - they cannot deliver any pcb we ordered. they start working again on march 1st.

So I personally think, Team X missed to order earlier or even more they finished the pcb/gerber files too late and because of this the chinise pcb company will only deliver AFTER march 1st.
The time when they start working again.

So in my opinion: They will deliver - but they need Time. I think it will be April (not the 1st lol).

 

[tunip3]

I am willing to bet that TX was a lot closer to releasing their product until other groups and such announced that they also had a boot time exploit but it did not require hardware mods, so that got TX back tracking and going back to the drawing board. The other groups are not going to release their boot time exploits likely until after TX releases their modchip. So it is kinda of a stand off at this point.

I think tx are hoping the other cold boot exploits are different and waiting till they are patched and it becomes some people's only option

 

[8BitWonder]

No they've given a couple updates already, no pics or anything but general info. Like that there would be both solderless and soldered options and a delay due to bad pcbs or something.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/team-xecuter-delay-switch-modchip.496759/
https://gbatemp.net/threads/team-xecuter-reveal-info-on-upcoming-switch-modchip.494294/

 

[TiMeBoMb4u2]

I am willing to bet that TX was a lot closer to releasing their product until other groups and such announced that they also had a boot time exploit but it did not require hardware mods, so that got TX back tracking and going back to the drawing board. The other groups are not going to release their boot time exploits likely until after TX releases their modchip. So it is kinda of a stand off at this point.

However... This kind of "stand off" is stupid, and not a single damn person benefits from this stupidity...except for Nintendo themselves.

What happened to the "good ol' days", when the first hacker or group to release something got the glory? Even if the hack was full of bugs and broke things, they were still praised, and people or other groups would build upon that tech to improve it for everyone! Now, they all want to be the center of attention, permanently, not share anything, and flaunt/tease things that will never be released.

EDIT (re-reading after a day of thought): I think I may have been a bit over-inclusive, when I said "they all". This is not entirely true. And for those teams/devs that do not hold back and assist, help, share, etc., I recant my original statement. However, I will still stand behind the majority of the aforementioned observations, as it sure seems that many are following this pattern.

 

[tomcoleman]

However... This kind of "stand off" is stupid, and not a single damn person benefits from this stupidity...except for Nintendo themselves.

What happened to the "good ol' days", when the first hacker or group to release something got the glory? Even if the hack was full of bugs and broke things, they were still praised, and people or other groups would build upon that tech to improve it for everyone! Now, they all want to be the center of attention, permanently, not share anything, and flaunt/tease things that will never be released.

excatly. its like saying i have a cure for cancer but im not going to release it unless someone figures it out.

 

[TiMeBoMb4u2]

excatly. its like saying i have a cure for cancer but im not going to release it unless someone figures it out.

Well... We get your point, but that's stepping over the line a bit, @tomcoleman.

 

[tomcoleman]

Well... We get your point, but that's stepping over the line a bit, @tomcoleman.

i was refering to team failoverflow on that one. Showing stuff but not releasing. Same applies to anything show and not tell.

 

[TiMeBoMb4u2]

i was refering to team failoverflow on that one. Showing stuff but not releasing. Same applies to anything show and not tell.

I was referring to the "cancer" analogy.

 

[tomcoleman]

I was referring to the "cancer" analogy.

yea an analogy?

 

[Kioku]

yea an analogy?

Eh, exploit vs cure. Not on the same spectrum.

 

[tomcoleman]

Eh, exploit vs cure. Not on the same spectrum.

most defo not but an analogy never the less.

 

[leon315]

TX can always convince or even buy source code from plutoo to create their parasite pirate thingy...

 

[LysergCooltyp]

I don't get the reason behind your outcry. It's not like Team xecuter is the only group working on a hack. Unless you were hell-bent on using a hardmod it's a win-win situation because one group will eventually deliver.

 

[tomcoleman]

I don't get the reason behind your outcry. It's not like Team xecuter is the only group working on a hack. Unless you were hell-bent on using a hardmod it's a win-win situation because one group will eventually deliver.

not an outcry just tired of allot of "grps" saying stuff and nothing happens.

better to get everything final before saying anything then release

way to many "coming soon" things.

 

[Arck]

Can't believe peoples are bitching about the "need to pay for hacks".

It always existed, and if it still exist then that because it work well, no need to act like shocked and surprised.

 

[Yami Anubis ZX]

I work at a company in germany which is doing pcb manufacturing.
And we have every year the same problem: in the time when the chinese holiday time is - they cannot deliver any pcb we ordered. they start working again on march 1st.

So I personally think, Team X missed to order earlier or even more they finished the pcb/gerber files too late and because of this the chinise pcb company will only deliver AFTER march 1st.
The time when they start working again.

So in my opinion: They will deliver - but they need Time. I think it will be April (not the 1st lol).

March 1st, now I see why Amdisi said to me that the Pelda Pro wouldn't ship till after March 1st cause that's when the workers get back to doing there stuff.

 

[BORTZ]

They never had a release date did they? lol

 

[guily6669]

Anyway they said they would only give news about it on Spring, so it's pointless making threads before even that time...

And they claimed to have delays so the news will probably only come after Spring...

Ps: if it was me I would be careful to if I would release a hacking chip... I would never show it or report anything about it before official release... Chinese companies might also copy the chip early, anyone with a lot of info about it might steal it + Nintendo is on the watch too...