Modding Your Switch Can Land You In Prison🎙Darknet Diaries Ep. 136: Team Xecuter
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Changing the parts on your PC and making copies of your software is a long-held tradition. So if game consoles are just tiny computers, shouldn't you be able to modify them? You used to, until lawsuits started favoring game companies instead of players. This is the story of Gary Bowser, a long-time hacker and modder who landed in VERY hot water with Nintendo.
This episode features Gary Bowser. You can find more about Gary here:
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It was a real pleasure working with Jack to produce this interview.
I just started listening to this. Don't know who you are yet. Team Xecuter caught my attention.
@@YTInnovativeSolution once you finished listening, you will know alot more about me! -- Enjoy.
@@GaryOPAI am fully invested into this. Enjoyment level 10 engaged
Hope you get back on your feet. Hearing about all this in the news and online when it happened made it sound like you did what Max did. Nintendo did you really dirty, it was really unfair that you were practically the fall guy for him.
I also just started watching. I found the channel a couple days ago when the video about our social media accounts not being safe.
Is this your channel? Is this you being interviewed or the interviewer in this video?
This was a pretty huge deal, and I still hate Nintendos guts for it. Sony, Nintendo, EA, Activision Lizard, all these are companies I actively boycott.
I would expect Microsoft to be there if you're naming all those companies
i think you missed ubisoft from your list
I boycott EA too
Don't forget valve!@@LazyJesse
@@yarharyar for once I don't agree, I want to know your reasoning
Incredible episode. It sounds like Gary was, unfortunately, the fall guy because he was the easiest to get unofficially extradited to the U.S. by booking him on a flight where he had to go through U.S. immigration. I bet that was planned. Max Louarn not being able to leave France must be a real pain for him. We often see Russian hackers go on holiday outside of Russia only to be caught and extradited to the U.S. I wonder how long he'll have to wait until it's safe for him to travel!
I like how my favorite travel vlogger listens to my favorite podcast😂
@@IvanNedostalthere are occasional border checks. I was checked on a train from Germany to Denmark.
@@thewhitefalcon8539 Switzerland too. When you enter the Swiss border by train, there are checks: passport, etc.
@@j.erickson8571 Switzerland isn't in the EU
@@mestari6289 🥰 same, Karl does rock..... ✌️
Who remembers game shark
My favorite 😊
Thats the one we had for 64 growin up :)
I love listening to you explain what a Game Genie is to those who weren't born't yet.
Good old times.
I was more of an Action Replay guy, though.
The beauty of tag sales allowed me to have both, and as I recall, I leaned toward the AR.. Tryna remember the name of the one for the Saturn..seems like it was neither of these.
@@YerBrwnDogAteMyRabit oh man, I can't remember either. But that brings up some good old memories of playing Sega Rallye Championship and Daytona. What a great console... iirc the first 32 bit one before the PS1 (?), way ahead of its time and badly marketed by Sega, further sealing their downfall.
Wait, wasn't there another one called Game Shark or smth like that?
@@allyouracid Yup, that was def the name of it, and thats prob what I'm thinking of. I think that's the one I may still have buried somewhere too, box and all...
It's insane that you can't modify something you buy yourself.
You can. There are court rulings.
@@armyofninjas9055 well we've heard stories here where kids got prison time for modifying Xboxes and modifying switches
It’s not the modifying that’s the problem. You can do that all you want. If you modify it for common reasons tho, then you’re going to steal content, that’s illegal.
@@armyofninjas9055 Recently, Microsoft starting selling replacement parts for their controllers so you can repair them yourselves, slowly companies are learning to support the "right-to-repair" movement, but as for Nintendo most likely never!
Wait until you hear what Valve got the courts to do to a man for modifying his Steam Deck. Spoiler: they executed him, his family, his dog, and his plant. Lol anyway, you got to love handheld PCs, you can do anything you want with them.
Imagine if your shirt company could force you to wear it with only their ties.
Offer to cut the sleeves off your friends shirts and you'll go to jail!
NEW EPISODE!! YES!!
NEW EPISODE!!!! YES!!!!!
Being waiting since 1969
@@deanvangreunen6457and I bing chilling
Yea I'm rock hard rn
Gahd you little kids
Dude, don't forget about the PS2's backwards compatibility. That was the best feature in a console ever and greatly contribute to it dominating the market.
I wonder if this also affected the Gameboy. Nintendo consoles also gained it starting from the Wii (with GameCube compatibility, but you needed a GameCube controller because the Wii controller was totally different)
It definitely did hell the DS was compatible with everything going all the way back to the gameboy color, that wasn't just throw in there for shits and giggles.
Despite the wii controller being completely different the pointing/gyro function of the wiimote did a damn fine job at emulating the second stick, granted you weren't already used/habituated to the gamecube controller.
@@yarharyar Nintendo handhelds were compatible 1 generation back. The gameboy color was compatible with the gameboy. The gameboy advance was compatible with both the gameboy and color, because they were basically the same, but the GBA had all new circuits and had a separate GBC circuit for the compatibility mode. The DS ditched the GBC compatibility circuit so it only had GBA and DS compatibility.
@@thewhitefalcon85393ds can to back all the way to the GBA. But they only ever used it for the ambassador program
I have so much respect that you don’t shove ads down our face here on UA-cam. Thank you for the content
its SCREWTUBE, just like all the other criminal corporations running this screwed up world. corporations are the enemy of the people of the 21st century.
of Team Xecuter the only negative thing i've to say is they broke the pirate code of ethics by selling the tool when free alternatives exist, they took advantage of people's craving for convenience and their ignorance of how to use atmosphere. Other than that I really don't have an issue with what they did. Gary did not belong in prison. Nintendo was the villian here.
They put malware in their switch CFW to brick your switch if you tried to modify the binary.
there CFW is close source, litterally got DRM in it, but is also built from GPL code.
fuck team xecutor.
There's absolutely no such thing as "taking advantage of" people's cravings for convenience. If people want convenience, you provide it, they pay for it, willingly. It works with everything. People can make their lunch at home for significant savings, yet CHOOSE to buy it instead. If they prefer to part with their money vs doing something for themselves, it would be foolish not to capitalize on that opportunity.
Oh, and I'll never understand why people willfully opt for the easy way out and don't educate themselves. I'll take inconvenience, education and savings over convenience all day long, just to be clear. Convenience is for suckers 😂
@@YerBrwnDogAteMyRabit I opt for inconvenience, education and savings too but my point was simply pirates operate by a set of ethics there's a code even among the internet warez community to not profit off of the activity unless absolutely needed to continue the work. Garys device enables pirates, whether that was his actual intention or noot is- debatable.
Yeah, there's honor among even thieves. We operate by a set of rules and expectatons. A lot of pirates were upset with Gary for it. myself? I was like well maybe but does that mea he belongs in prison? I don't think so.
About the GPL - it's actually locking the software down that went against the spirit of the license. Charging is fine - the license writers intentionally allowed it.
Exactly, some research lacking on this episode.
Did he even mention the "feature" SX OS has where if you try Crack the license check it bricks your switch ?
Agree. IANAL, but as I recall GPL means you must provide the source code either for free or at no more than reasonable cost for media assuming a physical copy. - Signed a happy Emacs user.
@@LiEnby yes
I agree with you about. Just because he was the 9nly one they could catch. He has to suffer the harsh consequence. What happened to the punishment fitting the crime???? He should have to do more time because the detective arent very good at their jobs finding additional criminals
Team executor was basically a for profit organization that sold a custom firmware, the thing is the premium version of the cfw explicitly has the feature to load game backups. Like you specifically had to pay to get that
Also some other shitty things like the thing had code to brick your switch if you tried to modify the firmware at all
Jack, if you only knew how much software you use (and pay for) on a daily basis that is using at least some form of software licensed under GPL
oh what a coincidence, there is a IP in nintendo super mario for Bowser. and the hacker is called Gary Bowser. lol the coincidence is impecable
Why doesn’t your merch shop meet your customers where they are and offer bundles where customers pay what they want and you donate a % to charity? Or do you only support other sellers to do this?
why the clickbait, false title? modding your switch cannot land you in jail. MAKING modchips for the purpose of piracy, or arguably for the purpose of piracy, is a different story
Major clickbait
Yes SX OS litterally pay walled the piracy feature
A multi billion dollar company like Nintendo doing this guy dirty makes me feel some kinda way towards Nintendo specially that I purchased my kids a new switch, not that it would have even made a dent but if I heard this episode prior to the purchase I would not have spent $500 on the console with all the extras, I would have happily put that towards his go fund me, as long as he promises not to pay Nintendo with it haha only kidding, I hope you are doing well brother, much love from Australia and thanks for another great episode Jack ❤
@@IvanNedostal I'm glad it's disgusting for you, I'm makes me happy I can make a grown ass man child feel disgusting 😘😘 now go get a hug from Mama to feel better 😘 I hope my kisses make you feel more disgusted 😘😘 have a nice day lil boy
@@IvanNedostalyeah how dare you suggest your kids need to have like anything, especially like yknow something to have fun with or whatever, is totally unthinkable >_>
Nintendo goes after streamers too. They claim people won't buy their games if you can watch someone play lol. Being a pirate is a moral obligation.
Interactivity of a game is why pepople buy them. Not to watch them. If Nintendo is worried about people not buying their games to watch them then, it's time to change your business model and steer away from the notion of marketing "glorified films" and focus on making engaging video games. It's not hard to understand. Ohhh corporate types.
To be completely fair they haven't done this in a long time ..
Except for like games that aren't released yet and got leaked online uh
@@coreym162have you ever played anything from Nintendo their games are absolutely not just glorified films .. like that's just flat out fucking wrong
Very well done episode, I knew what to expect as soon as I heard the name Bowser. I just wish the OG Sega master system had these hacks to warrant setting up my old system today.
I screwed up my ps2 trying to solder all those wires. Good times
If anyone ever opened up my OG PS1 and saw my somehow successful soldering attempt that miraculously didn't burn the house down, they'd think it was done by blind, mildly retarded monkeys with one arm and even less fingers...
Nice of that Max guy to send lawyers and a big fat cheque to make sure his bud doesn't get trampled by the system.
Oh ... ohhhhh 😢 😢
I sub to love the Humble Bundle, but let's be honest, the devs selling their games in those bundles aren't making very much and that's the last place they tend to sell their games, especially on the Humble monthly choice. I agree it's the best place for someone broke to pick up a bunch of games though.
On top of all of that IGN owns them and the amount of $$ they actually give to charities has been investigated and I guess there were serious inconsistencies.
Charging for a device made for piracy built with open source code is kinda fucked up 😅
Hmm like it's not done before
i don't agree with TX policy in the charging part, but i had no say in that matter, and even tho its been proven parts of SXOS were from open-source projects, they also were had a few firsts before open-source did, so it was not all built from other projects, alot of the open-source was sadly needed to be added to be compatible with various popular homebrew apps,. but again i had nothing to do with the overall development of these devices, sadly just the management of the web servers / forums and posting their PR's.
No one was forced to buy
It also made it incredibly easy to tell which hacking news sites were actually good ones, like hackinformer being sponsored by SX right after the whole bricking thing went down ...
Well I'd say watching pain drying is still much more entertaining than most have anything the BBC put out for years. Just underneath watching washing machines made by manufacturers of course.... also availabe in youtube
I don't think that I fully understand the thrust of this video.
Consider: At about 52:30, the presenter begins telling us that XECUTER started placing anti-piracy measures in their product.
Is this not the same practice that the first 50 minutes complained about when Nintendo and other companies did the same? Is the video saying that adding anti-piracy measures to video gaming hardware was NOT OK when Nintendo did it, but when XECUTER did the same thing it WAS OK?
The comparison seems exact, but perhaps I missed something important in the video. Someone, PLEASE tell me where I missed the proper explanation!
Alot of respect for Gary . Been doing the same thing since i was 10 years old - it all started with a double tape deck player/recorder .
Many thanks, Respect back to you as well! :)
It is actually not agaginst the spirit of the gpl to charge for FOSS. Many Projects like SLE(SUSE Linux Enterprise) charge for licences.
People where also mad at Red Hat because they made their source code less available. Nobody had a problem with RHEL licences costing money. After all Red Hat customers also pay for services like tech support.
Relevant Stallman(creator of GPL and Free Software Foundation) clip: ua-cam.com/video/9tgkpDwS97I/v-deo.html
Bro got Gary bowser that's wild 1969 damn og in the community mad respect
many thanks, love the support!
Haven't liked Nintendo for decades over their hyper enforcements of any modding. They very protective of their IP. Legally rightfully so but it's just odd watching their competitors go about it different. Even things like streaming and youtube they move differently.
Nintendo is nintendo they have to do everything differently..
Love the gaming hacks episodes!
Nintendo deserves to be boycotted for all of the awful things theyve done through the years. If not for this, then for how theyve been actively attacking retro ROM sites where people download classic roms for systems like the GBA, SNES etc. How do they expect regular people to obtain games for these systems? Buy overpriced cartridges on Amazon or Ebay for thousands of dollars on a single game? Then theres the fact that they never make any effort to make these older games available on newer systems. Alot of these classic games are lost to time and the only way to play them is through downloading them via roms, and they dont even want us to do that. Theyre not even losing any money when people download older roms because theyve stopped manufacturing these games *years* ago. The nintendo corporation is pure evil and they use their control of alot of beloved ips to bully anyone they think is threatening their bottom line. Pirate away 🎉✨
I love you rhysider and am so greatful for all the great work you do, all the great research you do to provide complete breakdowns on topics you teach...but america is ghetto...we are not japan we are not the safe countrys of Europe... California is falling apart...for every market there is market research done. The walmarts, wholefoods, targets, etc...that are having to abandon ghettos because it is hurting their bottom line so bad they cant even suck up the losses anymore after years of losses. This cat on this episode knew he was taking a risk. He did his bit in prison and is a total G....but thats the risk you take. He knew the risks. He may be smart and a bad ass an gamed the system for years. But my boss always told me...dont climb a ladder you dont know how to get down. We all make our beds an we all have to lie in them. Hes not a hero... hes a gangster...a video game gangster...not some anarchist revolutionary. Without the lines of society to color outside of innovation suffers. But to have a family an a home and a healthy society we still need those lines. There are particpants on both sides of the cat and mouse game that are honorable and dishonorable...but you cant destroy society to live in a wasteland of psychotic freedom
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Team Xecuter did a lot for the xbox modding scene back when also. I still have a bunch of their tools. Matrix boards to do the rgh hack even. good old days of timing attacks and jtag.
when you said in austria they don't check your ticket:
1. I don't know when you were in austria, so i can't judge anything for that date.
but 2. i live in austria and they check my ticket sometimes, but also what's sad (which i personally experienced many times while traveling with the train, if for example: you go over the boarder and police comes into train to check for passports, policemen check people who's skin is black or who speak a foreign language more often
I love the Op-Tempo Jack, all these new episodes have been great 🎉
another thing with humble bundle: you can choose how your purchase is distributed between each of the the available charities, humble bundle themselves, and the developers.
World Famous Hacker Kevin Mitnick passed away recently and there was no homage paid?
Who would he interview?
@@JK-gm6kk friends, co-hackers, prosecutors, lawyers, family, neighbors, jail-mates, etc etc
Did he? I heard nothing about Kevin's passing.
@@fredneedle123 That SHOULD be impossible that HE didn't hear that. But . . . the possibility is SLIM!
RIP Kevin, fuck cancer
But isn't Apple doing the same thing by 'hiding' the ability to upgrade, by soldering this and that, especially on the iPads?
Loved the episode, but you got the PS2 release way off. It was 2 years later, not 2 months.
That's why I don't buy stupid nintendo's :D. It's not a game anymore, it's just a business.
You can already pirate the good games and play them on pc with higher frame rate and any controller of your choice and billion mods.
I finished totk before it even officially released
It always was a business- and they've always been like this.
They like singlehandedly got video game rental stores banned in Japan.. during like the NES days
I absolutely love your content! Everything about it: the guests, the topics, the atmosphere, the tunes, and perhaps above all the depth with which you dive into all this…
Thank you so much. Greetings from Amsterdam
Have to agree best place on YT.
I wonder if the irony of charging a license fee and putting in anti piracy software into your piece of pirating hardware was lost on Maximilian?
Total hypocrite!
Hellllllooooooooooo
I'm 17 and love to hear stories like this. I'm writing a paper on game console security featuring cracking, hacking, modding and piracy, so this really was fun to here!
Moral:
dont buy nitendo games guys
A pirates life is the life for me
OK but splatoon ...
play on emulator audhuashduhsadas@@LiEnby
Just listening to this on the podcast Jack, it wasnt the PS2 That killed the Dreamcast, there was an earthquake/volcano that trashed the factory producing the console. Also the graphics on the Dreamcast made the PS2 look trash (I had both), on top of which the Dreamcast memory cards were an amazing innovation and the platform was all in all a huge loss for the competitive nature of the console market. I never bought another console after it. Phantasy star online which was the first true MMO game didn't release on PS2 until long after the death of the Dreamcast the console that birthed the concept.
I love your podcast, but please recind your suggestion that the PS2 outgunned the Dreamcast, it didn't and we have all suggered a huge loss by losing Sega in the console market.
If you Assume your Customer is a Criminal then everyone is a Criminal until proven otherwise.
You're right about the added cost of security & turn styles.
But then when most people ARE dishonest then you Must make that assumption. And lock all food/medicine behind glass to be unlocked upon purchase. In other words, everyone is treated as a Criminal.
Civilization isn't Technology but the difference between the Animal kingdom (where ever twig snap might be instant death) or a Civil world where one could walk the streets at 2am without concern.
Thus Tech is NOT Civilization.
Is it Civilized? Or a Technological Barbarism?
Steam single handedly saved PC gaming when CD-ROM's started falling off of the shelves in favor of console games. Might add more but I'm only 40 seconds in.
I just don't have anything, at least nothing newer then 10-15 years old, I no longer use windows, I've been having issues getting solar power for my house, because I don't believe in this lease model of buying stuff, I believe that if you buy something it's yours to mod as you wish, so I can't buy anything anymore, not till things I'm allowed to actually own are available...
Which gets me really nervous over the patenting thing with genes and any human genetic material... How much of my body is Legally owned by corporations?
I don’t agree with, but I understand Nintendo’s stance at the time, it was the 80’s right after the video game crash nearly killed the industry, and what killed the industry was a marketplace flooded with poor quality games. And they were taking a huge financial risk going overseas with the famicom. The licensing system was intended to curate Nintendo’s catalog but it went too far. That mindset became the default for game manufacturers after that
This is mostly a myth, console sales were dead in America, games were still made for personal computers, and like the entire rest of the world.
This reminds me of how terribly non-rigorous the process is to get the ENERGY STAR credential for consumer products from the EPA in the USA.
Maaaan the game genie was the shiizzznit! Brought me all the way back 😂
I wonder if the others involved in this would contribute money to the one who got caught, if they were reached.
I owned a game genie. It was awesome back then
I pirated Minecraft before I could afford it. Only bought a copy (that I don't really use) when I became an adult and wanted to play on servers that are unavailable with a pirated copy.
You've fallen out of touch. I thought your content might be worth revisiting but nah... you don't take it seriously enough
I still have my Xecuter 3 and Xecuter 2.6CE xboxes I made back in the day. Ill never sale!
This episode is like the most delicious sandwich you've ever had. The first bite blows you away and I've been on one just listening. Thanks Gary & Jack!
I loved having my game genie! Used to subscribe to the gamer magazines too to get tips and tricks on how to use it better and little cheat codes and stuff to put on it. I loved it on my Nintendo 64 with GoldenEye activate things like Golden gun and things like that game genie wasn't awesome device and with friends when we all figured out codes we could get together and transfer them all so we could all have the same codes on all of our systems
For the most part, Nintendo is an evil company. I'm actually glad I've never owned one of their systems and after hearing about the smash bros tournaments I never will. Screw Nintendo. They're a 1 trick pony anyway, all they have is Mario and that keeps getting rebooted a million different ways. They haven't really had an original idea in decades. The switch console was an absolute fluke by the R&D dept but other than that it just mario mario mario. They're a waste of time and energy to be honest
"They haven't had an original idea in decades"
Is splatoon a joke to you or something?
I can't wait for Nintendo to go under. so many short sighted decisions. I hope more people can see them for the heartless greed and good will dries up
Don't hold you're breath - "The history of Nintendo is from 1889 to the present, starting as a playing-card company to eventually becoming a multinational consumer electronics conglomerate. It has always remained headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. Nintendo was founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda playing cards."
@@rambozo_fpv176 Oh I know, believe me. I can hope a fate similar to Atari or Sega befalls them though
Sad, as much as i want those thing happen. Not in 2-5 years, but maybe a few generarion ahead. I mean look at how pokemon sold, nintendo nowaday can sell those ps2 quality game on full price, and yet people still defend it for what it is.
In capitalism, the most greedy companies are the ones that stay alive. Only good companies, like Instant Pot, go under.
Gamers are too brain damaged to stop handing over $$$$$$$$$ ask EA.
53:20 No fucking way. This pod is one of my fav stories I've heard in a long ol time. Takes me back to my Xbox moddin days.
the things this poor guy went through... I'm proud to say that Nintendo has 0 of my Dollars
new episodeee letsss goooo Jackkk u the best G 🏆🤝
First!
The only reason i watched this is because it comes without ads so it doesnt disturb my sleep, + you feminized your voice. Big L
Their voice isn't that feminine really .. this is from someone who actually has put effort into feminizing their voice
This Max guy might be Soulja Boy
jack sounds a lot like Louis Rossman in this episode, the speech patterns like spacing and emphasis. maybe it's just me
"Hope you're having a wonderful day.."
😂 same bro same
When Jack mentioned "WaRez" I immediately flashed back to early/mid 90's on AOL. Not that I ever partook, of course not, but yeah... Fun times.
Nobody spells it like that nub
@@danc8458 Had you ever seen/used "it," you would know would know what I'm talking about and know better. It probably fell out of existence before you were born. "Nub" that's cute. Thanks for the comment, it shows you really care.
@@danc8458A+ on making a complete ass outta yourself tryna call someone out on something you CLEARLY know nothing about, Mr. "Nub". A++ actually, since ya fckd up twice ya dingaling😂
@@jjann54321Yeah, F7 tells me you erroneously neglected to capitalize the "Z" as well. Unbelievable.. made me recall FOSI as well..those were awesome times.
’90s* …apostrophes are for possession and contraction.
What does Nintendo do with the bling after suing people? Keep suing more people.
My friend makes a living modding switches full time
I have my old game genie still in working condition. So cool😂
Do you still have to 🌬 blow into the cartridge? 😉
I've heard parts of this story before but never an interview, it's even more interesting because I remember a lot of it. Getting to the crazy stuff now, thank you!
Weird, I din't remember the PSmini. PS2 is my favorite console, still have my Gamecube too.
Finally I get to hear the last third of this. I can't believe they treated you so poorly over practically nothing, it's not like you were trying to be a bad guy. This is so messed up! i'm so sorry all that happened, but props to France and Tanzania! Nintendo is such a mean company, shame on them! I agree with Jack, this was so wrong an unfair.
@@IvanNedostal 1:10:09
I bought 2 copy's of Myst 3 exile at the game store at the day it was released, to give a co-worker who bragged about pirating software and music, He liked Myst at the time, and so did I, and thought it was important to support the creator. I talked to him about how we love the game, and should support what we like, Kinda making the first step to supporting the content creator, He had no concern.
Tldr ..clickbait, its not individuals getting in trouble, do whatever you want with your own switch.
They went after the fall guy for the group selling moded intellectual property from nintendo? Is that basically what happened? Or was it sony that took him to jail?
Oh man, "Warez in the 90s"... After C=64 and PC wares, I got a Multi-GameHunter to copy SNES and Genesis games onto 3.5 floppy and traded them around local bulletin board systems. Woah... Paradox (PDX) was a very well known warez group! And I forgot how much Warez couriers relied on calling cards to upload and download files by making long distance calls via modem. All that time uploading and downloading at 14.4k baud could have serious LD charges. :)
When I got my Z/Dr. 64 to copy Nintendo 64 games onto 100mb Zip Disks, the lady at Blockbuster looked at me quizzically when I'd return the 3 games I'd rented that morning for 3 more I'd return that night, only to grab 3 more to return the following day. She either thought I was nuts or was up to no good, the latter clearly being the case.
@@YerBrwnDogAteMyRabit Lol. Love it
Jack stays being the GOAT 🐐
Hey that’s my line
11:45 You make it sound like Garry is the white night in shining armor trying to open these things up. TX main goal is and was piracy and not to advance the scene in any meaningful way. otherwise they would have open sourced their code too. Speaking of open source: Atmosphere is still going strong after all these years, unchallenged by Nintendo because its legal. Modding your switch doesnt land you in jail. Working with a piracy ring that rips off their "customers" does. Nintendo is not perfect by any means and Garry is not the only one that was in TX or had relations with the guys. It is unfair (to him) that he basically had to take all the blame - BUT: with all the bullshit TX has done to the switch, the scene and every device before the switch, i am so glad that these guys are hunted down.
The first program I made for a c64 was Jan or Feb of 1983... A hex editor. Not going into eproms and modified OSs here, but could do damn near anything even with the drive OSs... Fkn amazing. Worked great for packet radio too if you built the interface and modded the radios. DOT radios worked excellent. Damn. Wish I had the ballz to spill it all. Don't need and can't afford any financial issues at this point in life. Love listening to your episodes though. Fun times! Many deep stories.
Hardly just a "mod"..... They pay-walled their software, and keyed it! Modding your switch it's self wont do anything to you, but making money off someone else's work and IP is kinda a bad move as it is. They kinda deserved what they got. and TeamExacute promoted Piracy, CFW and Homebrew is not about Pirating games... Just some peeps bring it there, and give the ones only using homebrew a bad rap!
In the early days of PS1 modding you didn't even need a mod chip to play copied games on PS1. If you had an early enough model then you could 'disc swap' where you would put a legit game in, keep the CD tray open (trick the console into thinking it's closed by holding down the button, or put a cigerette filter there to hold it open), wait for the SONY security boot up, then quickly swap the legit copy for the CD copy you made on your PC of the game you just rented out, and play :)
This is why I will never buy Nintendo's locked down Tegra Android Tablet. I will just buy a regular one that supports emulation and bit torrent, connect a Switch style controller or an Xbox one via bluetooth or USB-C, it's a much better experience and the tablet itself is useful for eBooks and offline video watching
1:09:18 that's America for you sticking their nose, where it doesn't belong again.
Well, just in case the guy who is the episode, his boat is reading this I am Canadian to and the teacher little trick. Also, for all the rest of Canadians out there. Open up your passport to the photo page go one page, pass that to the signature page . Now look down and read what it says: in foreign countries, seek out a Canadian embassy or consulate. If one cannot be found go to a British embassy or consulate, or ask for a British embassy or consulate member in Lou of the Canadian consulate. Why is this the case because we are commonwealth country. This could really save your ass. And this also works for anyone who is a citizen of a commonwealth country for example Australia, Canada New Zealand (I'm not really sure what's going on with you guys so I'm pretty sure still you're good but who knows) British Virgin Islands permit, falcon Highlands no I don't really agree with that one on the list gum sure goes on and on and on similar there's even places near Madagascar. The point is if you can't find a consulate in your country in my case and this guys case, which is Canada if you have the queen/king whenever the hell they get around to changing up the money that is on your money then I'll bet that money you can do what I just said open up but I think it's the third or fourth paid your passport to check know if they say they don't have either Canadian or British consulate they're lying and just refuse to go anywhere make a massive stink of it
i don't mind piracy, but I HATE the ideological pirate who believes their theft is a service that benefits society and that they are the good guys with a god given right to have other peoples hard work for free. What makes them so insufferable is when their panties get in a bunch over measures taken to limit their stealing.
Dude, I understand people have different life situations that may make stealing/piracy arguably acceptable, just stfu about being the good guy.
RedHat charging money to support the use of Linux in business and making improvements is a good thing, not an example of "violating the spirit of open source licensing". It is a valuable service that improves the usefulness of linux for everybody: better software, more trained admins. The money charged allows people to support their families by teaching others about linux and improving open source software, which I don't think is as evil as you make it sound.
Honestly screw Nintendo, and screw Japan in general. Archaic outlook and copyright.
Again and again, when you see these kinds of cases, you see all this shady BS from the companies, and countries, and legal systems. It's just disgusting.
Pirate forever, it's the moral thing to do
Nintendo has been that annoying little next door neighbor for a while now... You know the one who calls the hoa and reports you for mowing your grass 6 inches across the property line... I think its time we boycott Nintendo. This story was the last straw for me. I will never purchase ANY of their products again... Not even a pikachu stuffed animal ...
Modifying hardware is not illegal. Modifying software is. It's a pretty clear distinction. In other words you can do whatever you want with the hardware, but if you touch the firmware in any way you run afoul of dozens of laws. You can put your own custom firmware, as long as it's not derivative, but you cannot modify the existing firmware.
Apologies if this is a dumb question, but I'm having difficulty understanding the timeline. So Gary was making Texas Instruments-related replacement hardware and software in the 80s, but he is in his early 50s, so does that mean he had a company when he was an early teen?
If we assume it´s mostly in the middle/end of his 50s and it was late 80s, he could be around 18-20 starting his career.
@@Skyforger23thank you, I actually relistened to it and he says he had already started his company by 1984 and he was born in 1969 (so 15). Very intelligent and hardworking man! Incredible
Yes, I started programming computers by age 10 for my own fun (Elon Musk started at that age as well), and by age 15 I had already started my business Oasis Pensive Abacutors, I went into business early mainly because my mother died just before I turned 15, so since I was already had some skills, and I had already finished high school (yes, very early as well, skipped a few grades), and was already taking courses in electronic design, and being the last kid of 3 for my father, my father was already retired by the time my mom died, so it was the most logical thing to do at the time, to start my business and support my father as well.
@@GaryOPA Thank you for sharing your story and for doing this interview when you didn't have to at all, learning about you has really inspired me. You know this of course but what you went through was grossly unfair so I hope your time laying low now is healing for you!
@@v2cantthinkofahandle Elon Musk started at 15-16 too.
I pirate a lot of various media and I have never pirated something over buying it I pirate stuff because buying isn't an option and I have bought media later only because I got to experience the media through piracy first which wouldn't have happened and I wouldn't have later bought the media otherwise
So if I want to shoot my Xbox with a gun or drop it from several stories up...am I now guilty of modifying it? Or can I destroy it just not improve it?
I get protecting their stuff but once I have bought it- it is now mine. They got the money for both unit and the games, yes?
"Modding your switch can land you in prison"
This is why I like Valve's approach with the steam deck: "it's your device. Do what you want with it"
I really hope you make enough to live on this channel. Awesome content, gonna back on patreon whenever i get my steady paychecks going again
if a scammer buys your shirt and sends you the wrong one back i would slap a dark net logo on it qnd sell it as a special item cus scammers normally work on the dark net.
I would like Nintendo to know I have not purchased (or played) a Nintendo product in the last 10 years and I will not be in the future.
I encourage all to do the same.
I do not support an evil company
Duh. Its nintendo. Only their doo doo ass 2011 tech they sell as a game console almost 10 years later would of course be the only company to send folks to prison for modding it.
I bought Doom because shareware was awesome.
Love the videos, two in the span of two days is a treat!
I clearly remember seeing Watching paint dry up on the steam storefront and barely even thought twice of it besides a "Wow, I guess they really do publish anything nowadays, huh".
Kinda crazy to hear it being mentioned in this way here now 😅