What’s the switch 2 modding status?

[yankii]

Early Switch 2 emu

https://github.com/0xNikilite/oboromi

Emulating deez nuts?

 

[TheInsaneDarkOne]

I was thinking here, wouldn´t be something to think about to try to access Switch 2 nand and such with the "Switch 1 to 2" transfer process?

I mean, everyone has access to Switch 1 these days and can work on some altered files with injected codes here and there like a menu option or something to get access (like a letter bomb on Wii, for example), and, since the Switch 2 has this native "import files" from 1, wouldn´t this be a possible way to access the internal system?

Again, just wondering about it and decided to send this up as an idea for competent modders to reply, not that I really know anything at this point XD

 

[Reualed]

From what I understand, pretty much no exploit is going to matter unless you find a way to get into trustzone. And the only time we done that software wise was back on 3.0.0 and with the help of a hardware oversight on switch 1.

 

[isoboy]

I was thinking here, wouldn´t be something to think about to try to access Switch 2 nand and such with the "Switch 1 to 2" transfer process?

I mean, everyone has access to Switch 1 these days and can work on some altered files with injected codes here and there like a menu option or something to get access (like a letter bomb on Wii, for example), and, since the Switch 2 has this native "import files" from 1, wouldn´t this be a possible way to access the internal system?

Again, just wondering about it and decided to send this up as an idea for competent modders to reply, not that I really know anything at this point XD

Dip it in water and see if anything happens.

 

[Renos44]

Early Switch 2 emu

https://github.com/0xNikilite/oboromi

Really? Have people sunken so low to believe a basic JIT for ARM and memory management is a switch 2 emulator?
This is something a programmer can get done in a matter of days and its not even switch 2 specific. Heck i could get a LLM to do it for me in a matter of hours. Its also written in rust so might as well be useless for a switch 2 emulator performance wise,

Wish people would stop this clout chasing nonsense and wait for if/when the console gets hacked and actually work on something tangible. (Well before they get sued by the big N)

Post automatically merged: Oct 5, 2025

Really? Have people sunken so low to believe a basic JIT for ARM and memory management is a switch 2 emulator?
This is something a programmer can get done in a matter of days and its not even switch 2 specific. Heck i could get a LLM to do it for me in a matter of hours. Its also written in rust so might as well be useless for a switch 2 emulator performance wise,

Wish people would stop this clout chasing nonsense and wait for if/when the console gets hacked and actually work on something tangible. (Well before they get sued by the big N)

And as i look further into this.

One of the contributors who appears to be an unpopular minecraft youtuber is already just forking yuzu code and renaming it for their emulator. Which if i remember the settlement between yuzu and Nintendo was that Nintendo now owns all the code, SO already a red flag as well as just having a python keylogger made and curiously forked another WIP switch emulator,

So already off to a great start.

 

[lunarfreyax]

Early Switch 2 emu

https://github.com/0xNikilite/oboromi

what the hell is this ? LOL> just boot yuzu up, at least you can play "switch 1" game on it, you can't do sh*t with this nothing burger !

 

[BlusterBong]

And as i look further into this.

One of the contributors who appears to be an unpopular minecraft youtuber is already just forking yuzu code and renaming it for their emulator. Which if i remember the settlement between yuzu and Nintendo was that Nintendo now owns all the code, SO already a red flag as well as just having a python keylogger made and curiously forked another WIP switch emulator,

So already off to a great start.

And thus the flat circle of time begins again. See you all in a couple years when Nintendo takes down whatever Switch 2 emulator that does arrive because we can never learn from the Yuzu devs or anyone who has failed before.

 

[Lucas_Zxc]

Complete source code for HOS has leaked. Maybe this will lead to something

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what would this mean for unlocking and reverse engineering?

Post automatically merged: Oct 7, 2025

And as i look further into this.

One of the contributors who appears to be an unpopular minecraft youtuber is already just forking yuzu code and renaming it for their emulator. Which if i remember the settlement between yuzu and Nintendo was that Nintendo now owns all the code, SO already a red flag as well as just having a python keylogger made and curiously forked another WIP switch emulator,

So already off to a great start.

actually, according to what I remember, she doesn't own the code, the code is still open source

but also, everyone on the internet is going to say something different from oneself

Post automatically merged: Oct 7, 2025

according to what I was told, Switch 1 has been unlocked by the controller

if she made the same mistake, with that, we may have found a gold mine

 

[Lucas_Zxc]

So, as you've already heard, the Xbox One, a console that was considered unhackable at the time, has been unlocked after 13 years

That gives me a little hope, after all, it’s a Microsoft console, and they don’t mess around when it comes to security, and even so they did it

the question now remains: It was the Xbox One's turn, when will it be the Switch 2's turn?

Post automatically merged: Mar 20, 2026

what do you think?

 

[Cylent1]

The switch will be hacked soon enough.
Nothing is impossible, only improbable!
It will be a hardware mod and not a softmod.
I expect it to be a flash cart like the mig or a chip like the switch 1 had.
Also Nintendo has to get into dev mode on the switch 2 somehow!

 

[Lucas_Zxc]

The switch will be hacked soon enough.
Nothing is impossible, only improbable!
It will be a hardware mod and not a softmod.
I expect it to be a flash cart like the mig or a chip like the switch 1 had.
Also Nintendo has to get into dev mode on the switch 2 somehow!

Yes, and that has been proven true once again with the Xbox One

but I hope that now that hacking technology has likely advanced and we have AI on our side, it won't be long before the unlock is available, the same for the future emulator

 

[lunarfreyax]

Yes, and that has been proven true once again with the Xbox One

but I hope that now that hacking technology has likely advanced and we have AI on our side, it won't be long before the unlock is available, the same for the future emulator

if ai are so advanced, hacker already told them to go and hack a bank, not a console ! LOL

 

[Marc_LFD]

So, as you've already heard, the Xbox One, a console that was considered unhackable at the time, has been unlocked after 13 years

That gives me a little hope, after all, it’s a Microsoft console, and they don’t mess around when it comes to security, and even so they did it

the question now remains: It was the Xbox One's turn, when will it be the Switch 2's turn?

Post automatically merged: Mar 20, 2026

what do you think?

You already posted this comment on another thread, but here's why hackers weren't very motivated to hack Xbox:



If you had an Xbox One X or Series X/X you'd understand why it's not a big deal as it is on PlayStation and Nintendo.

if ai are so advanced, hacker already told them to go and hack a bank, not a console ! LOL

Yeah, go on a heist with AI.

 

[Lucas_Zxc]

if ai are so advanced, hacker already told them to go and hack a bank, not a console ! LOL

but I heard that the Xbox One hacker had the help of AI

Post automatically merged: Mar 20, 2026

You already posted this comment on another thread, but here's why hackers weren't very motivated to hack Xbox:



If you had an Xbox One X or Series X/X you'd understand why it's not a big deal as it is on PlayStation and Nintendo.

but even so, the Xbox One was considered unhackable and if that's because the Xbox didn't have much desire to hack, imagine the Nintendo Switch 2, which has a lot of desire to hack

 

[Marc_LFD]

But even so, the Xbox One was considered unhackable and if that's because the Xbox didn't have much desire to hack, imagine the Nintendo Switch 2, which has a lot of desire to hack

When the exclusives for the Switch 2 are out, yeah, there'll be desire to have it hacked. I can see a lot wanting to play the new Yoshi game even if it looks kinda boring.



I have it pre ordered and even though I wanted to buy Pokémon Pokopia I didn't because it's a Key Card.

 

[Lucas_Zxc]

When the exclusives for the Switch 2 are out, yeah, there'll be desire to have it hacked. I can see a lot wanting to play the new Yoshi game even if it looks kinda boring.



I have it pre ordered and even though I wanted to buy Pokémon Pokopia I didn't because it's a Key Card.

the exclusives are already coming out and we already have a lot of them and even so, there's already a desire to unlock the console, a lot, according to what I've seen and heard out there

 

[Marc_LFD]

the exclusives are already coming out and we already have a lot of them and even so, there's already a desire to unlock the console, a lot, according to what I've seen and heard out there

A lot?

Mario Kart World
Donkey Kong Bananza
Pokémon Pokopia
Mario Tennis Aces 2

That's hardly a lot.

 

[Lucas_Zxc]

A lot?

Mario Kart World
Donkey Kong Bananza
Pokémon Pokopia
Mario Tennis Aces 2

That's hardly a lot.

but they are still games that people really want to play on the PC

and you forgot about Mario Tennis Fever, Kirby Air Riders and Kirby and the Forgotten Land + Star Crossed World

 

[SecureBoot]

but they are still games that people really want to play on the PC

and you forgot about Mario Tennis Fever, Kirby Air Riders and Kirby and the Forgotten Land + Star Crossed World

Do they? I'm not sure any of those games are big enough to warrant a lot of effort

 

[InsaneNutter]

but I hope that now that hacking technology has likely advanced and we have AI on our side

You then end up with situations like this where the OP thinks he's patched the unpatchable Fusée Gelée exploit on the OG Switch: https://gbatemp.net/threads/we-do-what-nintendont.679617/