Hacking Misc Switch updates

[ieatbananas]

Hello everyone,
i wanted to ask if you knew how updates on the switch work and if there was a method to fake an update an inject it?
It all goes back to the 'hack a switch without a chip' thing, cuz i've read bad reviews of hwfly and i am not 100% sure of installing it.
Neither i wanna buy a used switch

 

[Draxzelex]

Hello everyone,
i wanted to ask if you knew how updates on the switch work and if there was a method to fake an update an inject it?
It all goes back to the 'hack a switch without a chip' thing, cuz i've read bad reviews of hwfly and i am not 100% sure of installing it.
Neither i wanna buy a used switch

I recommend asking in the Switch Noobs Paradise.

 

[impeeza]

Hello everyone,
i wanted to ask if you knew how updates on the switch work and if there was a method to fake an update an inject it?
It all goes back to the 'hack a switch without a chip' thing, cuz i've read bad reviews of hwfly and i am not 100% sure of installing it.
Neither i wanna buy a used switch

what your are asking is a non-sense question, please be more elaborated on what you whant and what you need to get.

give more information about your system, and read the noobs thread.

 

[Takokeshi]

To do what you're asking you would need to be able to replace the update servers with your own. In theory you can repoint the addresses to your own using a custom DNS, *but* this isn't going to help you because the console isn't going to accept updates from unofficial servers. You wouldn't be able to have the correct certificates on your servers, and there's no way you would be able to fake them either (as of yet, I suppose. But don't get your hopes up.)

Even assuming you could fake the servers and serve your own updates, the console's not going to accept it unless you can either sign the contents with Nintendo's private key, or bypass the signature checks somehow. Again, not something that's possible on ofw right now.

 

[ieatbananas]

To do what you're asking you would need to be able to replace the update servers with your own, in theory you can repoint the addresses to your own using a custom DNS, *but* this isn't going to help you because the console isn't going to accept updates from unofficial servers. You wouldn't be able to have the correct certificates on your servers, and there's no way you would be able to fake them either (as of yet, I suppose. But don't get your hopes up.)

Even assuming you could fake the servers and serve your own updates, the console's not going to accept it unless you can either sign the contents with Nintendo's private key, or bypass the signature checks somehow. Again, not something that's possible on ofw right now.

Thank you! This was exactly the answe i was looking for