Can you hack your Nintendo Switch Lite without changing your Hardware?

[Cheezball420]

Well hello guys,

first of all i wanna excuse my bad english its not my native language but i try my best.

So i recently bought a Nintendo Switch. Before i did this decision i informed myself what you can and what you cant do with a Nintendo Switch lite. So i read that you can only hack your Switch Lite with a Modchip which coasts about 100€.

So i asked myself is there no Software only version to hack your switch lite or to get at least Homebrew on your switch lite?

Im appreciating any answers i get and have a nice day

 

[urherenow]

No. It requires a mod chip.

 

[Cheezball420]

Thanks for the quick answer.

Hmm is there at least a not so expensive alternative for mod chips?

 

[masagrator]

Thanks for the quick answer.

Hmm is there at least a not so expensive alternative for mod chips?

No.

 

[binkinator]

Thanks for the quick answer.

Hmm is there at least a not so expensive alternative for mod chips?

100€ is on the high side. Check aliexpress to see if you can find it for around 72€.

 

[empithree]

When the hacking scene discover the ability to hack the switch from the hardware exploit, they stopped researching the softmod capability entirely. Furthermore, Nintendo brings up updates to the firmware every now and then, and users are forced to update when connected to the internet. Which making it difficult to maintain lower firmware for modders to dig into it and try to find software exploit.

 

[binkinator]

When the hacking scene discover the ability to hack the switch from the hardware exploit, they stopped researching the softmod capability entirely. Furthermore, Nintendo brings up updates to the firmware every now and then, and users are forced to update when connected to the internet. Which making it difficult to maintain lower firmware for modders to dig into it and try to find software exploit.

100% agree with first point. That’s mostly it IMO. Why bother. We have what we wanted. Keep the good hax to yourself. For later…

It’s fairly easy to avoid updates. There are quite a few hangers on though…hoping that one day a new exploit will be revealed.

Until then…

 

[ChanseyIsTheBest]

When the hacking scene discover the ability to hack the switch from the hardware exploit, they stopped researching the softmod capability entirely. Furthermore, Nintendo brings up updates to the firmware every now and then, and users are forced to update when connected to the internet. Which making it difficult to maintain lower firmware for modders to dig into it and try to find software exploit.

I know this is nitpicky but the hacking scene didn't completely stop looking for software exploits - SciresM who made Atmosphere in the first place has spent 500+ hours searching for one on Mariko but he couldn't find anything and believes a non-hardware exploit is not going to happen because Nintendo's security is really tight.

 

[empithree]

I know this is nitpicky but the hacking scene didn't completely stop looking for software exploits - SciresM who made Atmosphere in the first place has spent 500+ hours searching for one on Mariko but he couldn't find anything and believes a non-hardware exploit is not going to happen because Nintendo's security is really tight.

ok i agree, furthermore, the more firmware releases, the tighter it get i presume?

 

[ChanseyIsTheBest]

ok i agree, furthermore, the more firmware releases, the tighter it get i presume?

Yeah Nintendo when updating kept patching out anything that could have been used remotely as an exploit even if it couldn't be exploited for hacks,

 

[zericzhao]

Until now, I didn't find any way to hack NS without hardware. The cheapest modchip maybe RP2040, a raspberry pi pico chip.

 

[binkinator]

Until now, I didn't find any way to hack NS without hardware. The cheapest modchip maybe RP2040, a raspberry pi pico chip.

When it finally works, yesh. Until then…it’s $70 to my dear friend Ali E

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Well hello guys,

first of all i wanna excuse my bad english its not my native language but i try my best.

So i recently bought a Nintendo Switch. Before i did this decision i informed myself what you can and what you cant do with a Nintendo Switch lite. So i read that you can only hack your Switch Lite with a Modchip which coasts about 100€.

So i asked myself is there no Software only version to hack your switch lite or to get at least Homebrew on your switch lite?

Im appreciating any answers i get and have a nice day

You informed yourself and you still bought a Switch Lite.
Should've bought an unpatched OG unit instead.
As they say, everything gets hacked eventually, but at this point it doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon. The Switch 2 (or whatever they decide to call the next console) will probably be out long before then.

When the hacking scene discover the ability to hack the switch from the hardware exploit, they stopped researching the softmod capability entirely. Furthermore, Nintendo brings up updates to the firmware every now and then, and users are forced to update when connected to the internet. Which making it difficult to maintain lower firmware for modders to dig into it and try to find software exploit.

Quite the contrary, in fact they rejected hardmodding entirely for a good while because you needed to buy TX' modchip and they didn't want to support TX, they intended to wait for an open source modchip. All the while, they were decrypting and (unsuccessfully) searching through the firmware files to look for exploits. It wasn't until much later on they changed their stance on that and started working on Mariko support for Atmosphere.

 

[Waddleclaws]

Well hello guys,

first of all i wanna excuse my bad english its not my native language but i try my best.

So i recently bought a Nintendo Switch. Before i did this decision i informed myself what you can and what you cant do with a Nintendo Switch lite. So i read that you can only hack your Switch Lite with a Modchip which coasts about 100€.

So i asked myself is there no Software only version to hack your switch lite or to get at least Homebrew on your switch lite?

Im appreciating any answers i get and have a nice day

Well, my only idea in mind is a possible future hack, most likely involving around safe mode and/or recovery mode. We use or formerly used recovery mode/safe mode for hacking many different systems. I myself do not know how to edit code, RAM, or anything of that nature.

 

[urherenow]

Well, my only idea in mind is a possible future hack, most likely involving around safe mode and/or recovery mode. We use or formerly used recovery mode/safe mode for hacking many different systems. I myself do not know how to edit code, RAM, or anything of that nature.

Why did you necro-bump this thread? Your last sentence says your "idea" is useless, not to mention baseless.

Today, however, there would be a new answer to the cheap modchip, as the pico thread is pretty solid and tested by many people on all the different models. The things you need to mod a switch are less than $10 now (not including the tools to do it), if you get the parts from aliexpress.