Aaaaaand the switch 2 is hacked already
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This fantasy of controlling how people use the things they buy for themselves needs to end. It's an absurdist excuse used to justify all sorts of horrific rights violations, all in pursuit of such trifles as money.
Nintendo should burn for this. I say this as someone who grew up almost exclusively on Nintendo hardware.
It also fucks game preservation right in the ass, which is a hanging offense in my book.
It was done via webkit, which Nintendo full well knows is a a vulnerable piece of shit and more than likely accounted for webkit being exploitable. Talented hackers probing at the console have said the baseline security of the system is much better, making any kind of kernel level exploit difficult if not practically impossible to achieve. The hardware is resistant to methods like voltage glitching.
Not to say something won't be found but it could be a long time for something useful to be discovered.
That’s a bit of an overstatement.
Nintendo apparently shipped using a version of Webkit from 2015. Hackers had a decade to shred that thing to pieces. The actual vulnerability seems to be this:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4657
Patched 9 years ago!
As a PC Master Race dude, I don't know if this is good or bad.
If more modability and freedom, good. If taking advantage of people, bad.
Either way...sounds like Nintodon't failed.
Jailbreaking Nintendo consoles is the goal.
Old models Switches can be jailbroken without hardware modification, but the exploits were removed ( and now you need to do a hardware mod to jailbreak recent models ).
It's possible the Switch2 will also require a hardware modification.
The handheld 3DS consoles can be jailbroken by following a tutorial that holds your hand from start to finish. All you need is an SD / microSD card and a PC with an adapter to prepare the SD card.
( And to make modding a 3DS worth anything, you need an SD card anyway to store games. )
Whats the point of jailbreaking a console exactly? Are you able to get free games out of? Or is it more about installing 3rd party software and such.
You can...
costumize the menu / interface in ways the company didn't implement themselves,
remove region lock to play games from outside your console're region ( and play the fan-translated patched version ).
play games without licenced cartridges ( either your own dumped games from your microSD card, or pirated versions ),
install mods / ROMhacks for your games ( legal but Nintendo dosen't want you to ),
install emulators with games not officially supported,
and as you said, 3rd party software.
On a jailbroken Switch, you can boot into the Atmosphere interface and do pretty-much whatever a non-jailed handheld console would do.
In the case of the 3DS, it means restoring online functions that Nintendo terminated ( though fan-made Pretendo ),
install costum themes and badges for the menu ( with Anemone and Theme Plaza ),
make a copy of your save files and then restore that save point ( Checkpoint ).
make StreetPass functions and MiiPlaza actually usable with Netpass
Install the 3DS port of the SNES9X emulator and play whatever SNES game you want ( or other emulators ).
If your volume button is broken, you can use the Rosalina menu to override the physical slider and adjust volume in software.
There is also a fan-run platform hosting the entire 3DS games catalog for free ( Nintendo no longer sell them ).
It's the only way to get 3DS eShop exclusives since Nintendo pulled the plug.
Thanks! Good to know!
I can’t wait to emulate all those great Switch 2 ga… Oh, right.
If theres no new brawl, I’m not getting a switch 2