Title explains it. I want to know if fresh juicy ripe switches bought from the store are hackable or if they're updated to the newest version before shipping out. I still don't have one and plan on buying when the homebrew is more gooder. Sorry if there is info on this somewhere already but I couldn't find it.
Is there any way to check in the store when the console was manufactured by looking at the box? Assuming I don't get kicked out for fiddling with all of their switches.
All current switches have the same bootrom. The bootrom has a known (but currently private) exploit, allowing arbitrary code to be loaded. While the bootrom exploit is currently private, both Team Executor (TX) and Reswitched wizards have indicated it will be released eventually. Therefore, in the long term, any currently available switch will eventually be hackable.
All firmware versions currently available have private exploits (Homebrew / TZ / CFW).
If you want custom firmware when it first releases (fastest), then you will need a 1.0.0 firmware console (now rare).
If you just want homebrew using public exploits, that currently requires a switch at 3.0.0 or lower firmware. To find one, you will have to use the serial number list others have already pointed you to. EBay tends to have them for a premium.
Note that bans are permanent, as the per-console certificates are tied to the hardware's serial and required for all online access. Thus, if Nintendo bans access via revocation of the certificate, not even firmware updates will be available from online sources for that console, and all online services will cease to function. Nintendo may be able to detect the use of homebrew, and may later decide to ban if homebrew usage is detected. Thus, you should expect that you will permanently lose all online services access if you run homebrew / CFW on the switch.
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Xdqwerty:
@SylverReZ, I dislike the kind of drm where you have to play single player games online all the time bc of some verification bs+1
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Xdqwerty:
@SylverReZ, I also heard one of the Prince of Persia games was so unfinished that it required the "24/7 online" drm so a puzzle could be done and the game could be finished. And that when the Ubisoft servers were closed the (cracked) game was impossible to finish or something like that
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@Xdqwerty, That's extra scummy. Ubisoft nowadays ship out incomplete games like Skull and Bones which was being worked on for nearly a decade now.+1 -
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Psionic Roshambo:
I like that games can be fixed after the fact, hate that it's being abused via beta tests... And DLC... I was a 7800 owner back in the day and loved Impossible Mission, turns out I couldn't beat it because it was actually impossible lol
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Psionic Roshambo:
I never knew about it at the time but a fixed version was available but you had to mail in your broken copy lol
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