Hacking Cromchroll - A patch for Crunchyroll to allow it to work on banned/nintendo blocked switches!

[systemdev]

Hello all!
Want to watch stuff off of crunchyroll on a banned/nintendo blocked switch?
1) Install Crunchyroll normally
2) Extract the attached ZIP to the SD root, it contains an exefs patch for crunchyroll
3) Enjoy!
Hope you all enjoy!
-systemdev

NOTE: 1.5.0 is the latest crunchyroll version, please use the zip that starts with 150 for that version! The 140 zip is for 1.4.0, and is only here for legacy reference reasons.

 

[Kupie]

Thank you so much for this! This is JUST in time for an anime convention I'm going to

 

[driverdis]

Which version of Crunchyroll is this for?

 

[systemdev]

Which version of Crunchyroll is this for?

Should be for the latest!

 

[morterox]

I have incognito (the one that removes your serial) and I have just tried it and when I enter crunchyroll it is saying that my switch is offline but I am not offline

UPDATE: I was using crunchyroll ver 1.1.0, after updating it to 1.4.0 it works perfectly, so glad the dev did this! I would like to learn how to do this and start helping the community as well

 

[systemdev]

I have incognito (the one that removes your serial) and I have just tried it and when I enter crunchyroll it is saying that my switch is offline but I am not offline

Could you do two things to help me troubleshoot?
-Run "Fix Archive Bit" in Hekate, then reboot
-Check what version of Crunchyroll you're using

 

[morterox]

Could you do two things to help me troubleshoot?
-Run "Fix Archive Bit" in Hekate, then reboot
-Check what version of Crunchyroll you're using

Ohhhhh so so so so sorry! I just found that I downloaded the installer and update from a website thinking it was the latest but it was 1.1.0, what I did was matching versions with my other unhacked switch and I updated it to 1.4.0 and now it is working!! Thank you very much!

 

[systemdev]

Ohhhhh so so so so sorry! I just found that I downloaded the installer and update from a website thinking it was the latest but it was 1.1.0, what I did was matching versions with my other unhacked switch and I updated it to 1.4.0 and now it is working!! Thank you very much!

Glad it's working! Hope you enjoy!

 

[Kupie]

Thanks a ton, tested and works on my Switch!

Had to manually update to 1.4.0 is all, which is hard to find if someone already has a banned switch (I have another one that's not banned I used to share the update from)

Edit: May I ask what it patches in the exefs, or maybe what hex/bytes are changed? Would love to implement this into an installable patch for my friends

 

[mathew77]

@systemdev
Can confirm too that it works very good with the latest up-to-date v262144 (1.4.0) patch, thank you.

 

[Tmofnrev]

Can't find newest update as it's not on tinfoil or any of the other general places 🥺

 

[SylverReZ]

Do you have instructions on how to make your own patches or is there like a GitHub repository somewhere?

 

[systemdev]

Do you have instructions on how to make your own patches or is there like a GitHub repository somewhere?

Making patches like this is pretty involved, I keep meaning to make a tutorial sometime but I’ve been busy lately.

 

[Stormflora]

Out of curiosity... If you install Crunchyroll onto emuNAND without this patch (so, just vanilla CR), and it runs just fine, does that mean that the Switch you have isn't banned?

 

[Slluxx]

Do you have instructions on how to make your own patches or is there like a GitHub repository somewhere?

Here is a gist i made (mostly for myself) for patching the youtube app.

 

[UnderDev]

Crunchyroll was updated today, to v327680

 

[systemdev]

Crunchyroll was updated today, to v327680

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
on it, updating patch now

Post automatically merged: Apr 10, 2023

Updated for 1.5.0, did literally 0 testing, lmk if it works!

 

[Slluxx]

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
on it, updating patch now

Post automatically merged: Apr 10, 2023

Updated for 1.5.0, did literally 0 testing, lmk if it works!

can you tell me/us what bytes you patched?

 

[diegocobo8]

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW how the heck I install CRunchyroill normally on a softmodded Switch??, It doesnt appears on Tinfoil catalog, and I dont have an associated account with the eshop cause I dont want to be banned!

 

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