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Now that the OLED Nintendo Switch has launched, eager fans are playing games on the new revision of the popular game console, and others are opening the system up to see what possible exploits can be performed. A new YouTube video has been uploaded, showing someone who has gotten their hands on an OLED Switch, done a teardown, and installed the HWFLY modchip onto it. The HWFLY is a newer chip that is a clone of Team Xecuter's SX Core modchip. In this video, we can see the OLED Switch, after a little bit of fiddling, turn on and go right into the Hekate bootloader. Once he does that, however, the touch screen no longer functions. While it's not totally flawless, it looks like it is very possible for homebrew to potentially run on the OLED Switch model in the near future.

 

[CompSciOrBust]

Beause they all use essentially the same hardware. The additional engineering costs (contracts and sourcing different components, testing, and maintenence, etc.) aren't worth it to stop a couple thousand people from pirating games.

Updating the bootrom in new socs would be so easy though. From the TX1 source code leaks we know that they have code in place to stop fault injection they just didn't use it in the one place that it mattered, for some reason. Even the PS Vita prevents this type of hack in every model except prototypes. https://yifan.lu/2019/08/16/glitching-a-20k-piece-of-history/

 

[Adran_Marit]

Updating the bootrom in new socs would be so easy though. From the TX1 source code leaks we know that they have code in place to stop fault injection they just didn't use it in the one place that it mattered, for some reason. Even the PS Vita prevents this type of hack in every model except prototypes. https://yifan.lu/2019/08/16/glitching-a-20k-piece-of-history/

what they would need to do is burn an ipatch to prevent the timing that is used in the chip. the problem is they have a limited number of ipatches they can apply

 

[linuxares]

What about mod chips that were widely available during PS2, GameCube and original Xbox? I do remember that they had multiple motherboard revisions.

Nintendo in China = Tencent = China = CCP = No modchips from China.

 

[pwjpssdfvqyuhweuxx]

Nintendo in China = Tencent = China = CCP = No modchips from China.

why are the hwlfy chips made and being sold then?

 

[linuxares]

why are the hwlfy chips made and being sold then?

Malaysia

 

[nine0nine]

Malaysia

they're freely available on the chinese market, the gov doesnt know/care.

 

[linuxares]

they're freely available on the chinese market, the gov doesnt know/care.

Until Tencent say "no, bad!"

 

[Plazorn]

I thought that you had to be at a certain firmware for those things to work.

 

[Horizoncrosser]

are we still waiting for the nand soldering points. hoping to use a lite chip.

 

[HollowGrams]

are we still waiting for the nand soldering points. hoping to use a lite chip.

Yes.

 

[Adran_Marit]

are we still waiting for the nand soldering points. hoping to use a lite chip.

You'll be waiting a while basically until someone makes a tutorial on it, OR they figure out the points from the video.

 

[HollowGrams]

You'll be waiting a while basically until someone makes a tutorial on it, OR they figure out the points from the video.

The video doesn't show the nand points since they are on the back of the motherboard.

 

[Anxiety_timmy]

You think they will use the same Tegra X1 SoC for a pro model? I doubt that.

they cant move away from a non maxwell gpu

 

[gjac1]

There is this video now too :

 

[Anxiety_timmy]

first oled to get banned

 

[FR0ZN]

they cant move away from a non maxwell gpu

Why not?

 

[Anxiety_timmy]

Why not?

Basically, they would need to recompile every game or give up on backwards compatibility.

 

[NoNAND]

No upgraded CPU/GPU & RAM no care

 

[FR0ZN]

Basically, they would need to recompile every game or give up on backwards compatibility.

The thing is, according to SciresM, there is zero evidence in the switch firmware about any new revision.

In comparison, the first Mariko unit or even the Lite showed up about 1 1/2 years in the firmware, before these models were even announced.

So if I had to guess, I would say, that whatever this "pro" model is, is actually a completely new console like a Switch 2.

And if that new thing has backwards compatability is still TBD.

 

[Anxiety_timmy]

Its probably a new console, I dont really see N making another switch revision