let's just get Nintendo to allow custom pictures but not allow nsfw pictures, like there should be something to automatically remove one if it finds one but maybe not ban, that'd be too much or just make it not allow the pic before it can be chosen as profile pic
@@lepone6811 Honesty they should suck it up and focus most of their time, money and resources on other stuff that are just as important. Just like Sony and Microsoft. Both companies know that it's an unending war with pirate/hacker. Sure, spending some of your attention on anti hacking is not a bad idea but in the length nintendo is willing to go to weed out pirate/hackers, is ruining other important task that should take priorities.
@@lepone6811 not necessarily, piracy also motivates companies to treat their consumers well. For example, imo piracy is justified if there is a company with a monopoly in a certain region charging extremely high prices because they have a monopoly.
1:07 I got my not-hacked switch banned too, all my games were bought, in the shop I bought many indies too and I was even paying for the online service. Messaged them, and their answer was that "the ban was permanent and they couldn't do anything about it". So I actually hacked it and sold all the physical games. Fuck you, Nintendo.
Same thing happened to me, my console got banned for no reason, I'd spent over £1000 on Games and Eshop titles. Nintendo wouldn't do anything regarding the ban, so I hacked my Switch, bought a few 512GB Micro SD cards, and sold all my original games to CeX for about £500 (good thing Nintendo games keep their value) and tbh, it's the best choice ever, I don't play online anyway and I've still got access to SNES and NES games, and every new release. Ant this only happened about 2 months ago, so whatever Nintendo are trying to do to stop piracy, it's not working, as every Switch console is hackable, even the Lite versions, on any firmware too.
Also known as white hats, gray hats, and black hats. Black hats are the malicious hackers that use it for bad purposes. White hats are sanctioned by companies to detect major flaws in the system and report them to the company. Gray hats are more ambiguous, the usually do similar things as white hats but weren’t asked or sanctioned by the company. Similar to Kate temkin’s situation.
The problem is that they don't see it as something that needs fixed. In an interview recently, I think it was Miyamoto who said that NSO is not behind other online services.
@@redwidow1358 Seriously - it's 2019 and they're still shitting the bed with this. My two switch consoles lag when playing on LAN and they're both within 10ft of a router unobstructed. Not to mention the occasional lag in online play as well. PC, xbox, ps4 etc have no issues and they're separated from the router by at least 2 walls.
Fans: Can we play NES games on the switch? Nintendo: Sure! Just pay (amount) of money and keep doing it. Fans: And what about the other games? Nintendo: nah, we don't feel like it.
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Only 1 reason why I like cfw on the switch: --Can backup ALL game savefiles for FREE. Yearly paying bs for a cloudsave that doesnt backup all savefiles is a big no-no.
Funnily enough, they disallowed cloud saves to prevent cheating, but to modify a save, you need a hacked Switch anyway. So they're only screwing over people who don't want to modify Switches or saves.
@@redwidow1358 you could cheat quite a lot by loading your pokemon backup after trading a pokemon away, thus duplicating it, this applies to many other games but to prevent this theyd only have to force you to make a new save file in the cloud each time you need to save in game
@@redwidow1358 If they would allow to backup save games on non-hacked switches those save files could be modified without a hacked switch. In pokemon for example it would be easy to clone pokemon without a hacked switch. Just backup the save, trade the pokemon to another persons switch and then restore the save game. And if people would plug in the sd card they backuped the save file into their pc, they could you modify the save files and then restore it to the switch.
@@simonbrungs7577 You assume those save files won't be encrypted. They would be, using your console specific ID. To obtain your console's unique ID and decrypt your save file for editing, you would NEED to hack it.
If you're talking about the SXOS team, there's no irony. They're just assholes. They stole code from free software that works far better, charged people for it, and when you try to do anything other than what they want with the software, your Switch might get bricked permanently. All for software that's greatly inferior.
Ommo, but to use homebrew in the first place, you need a custom firmware, you could either use Atmosphere, free, reliable, and regular updates, or you could use SXOS, a stolen version of Atmosphere, nowhere near as good, locked behind a paywall, and not updated as often, and run by a bunch of tossers, who will get their custom firmware to brick your switch if you don't bow down to them.
Well, you will never understand any of this without doing it yourself. It's kind of this way with any kind of tech. You need experience with it to understand what is really happening.
Corrections: The recovery mode shown at 7:05 isn't the recovery mode used in the RCM bug. The recovery mode used shows no output and is accessed by pressing the tegra's home button (by bridging some pins) and pressing volume up. The bootloader is not installed onto the Switch. It is injected manually every time the Switch is turned on. You do not need to run a custom program to play the pirated games (unless you're counting the custom firmware). They just run from the home menu once installed. 8:35: You can run pirated games directly off the SD card with other custom firmwares. They run exactly the same as a game downloaded from the eShop. 10:33: There are other methods to hide pirated games from Nintendo, such as 90DNS, which blocks all communications with Nintendo.
@@DJ4461 Probably not. Because I've done this during legitimate actual use, and in-fact, you pretty much need too when you own multiple switches. This is why I think it's a HUGE false-positive measure. There is no good way to tell if someone is running a legitimate copy off of another device because they simply moved the physical cartridge onto the other device they own. I think the only way a ban might occur is if it completely region-jumps, or it detects TWO exact copies of the game playing at the same time. That'd be my guess, but there might be more sophisticated ways.
@@HiddenRealm yeah, I was thinking the 2 at once thing was a better way of figuring it out when I was rewatching this one. Because I was worried what would happen When I play My carts and My downloads on my dads switch instead of mine.
It's because it can be abused, and nintendo is scared of being associated with things that tarnish their reputation or associate them with other companies
"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem" Gabe Newell, 2011. GIVE US A VIRTUAL CONSOLE TO PLAY GAMECUBE OR OLDER TITLES. A majority of the homebrew market is for emulators, there is your service problem.
@@rayminishi689 I feel like you are mssing the point of a handheld system if you expect people to take gen 4, 5, or 6 consoles everywhere. People are upset because they did a great vitual console and are refusing to bring it to the Switch.
@@EATSxBABIES also the ease of use and convenience of just going to the eshop to buy a gamecube game digitally instead of going out to gamestop and hoping they have a gamecube for sale there along with the game you want
@@rayminishi689 Yes let me just lug around my fucking gamecube, a battery and a screen. Do you ever like use your fucking brain? Like at all? Also these fucking companies will never do that, they want to get your money. So they will release a limited amount of games, that you will have to rebuy ever time they come out with a new console.
The unofficial and open source emulators are better anyway, including NES and SNES emulators. They are more accurate and sport more features than Nintendo's own official emulators such as the emulator used for the Nintendo Online NES games. So you're better off going with that option either way.
Its really not. People are going so far to create their own Atmosphere (most popular cfw) only Discords and communities. Ends up being a lot of nasty behavior and elitism from non pirates against pirates.
Fans: can we have custom pfps? Nintendo: we'll think about it Hackers: *makes custom porn pfps* Nintendo: this is why we dont give you guys good things
Eh, Xbox live has custom propics and detects inappropriate ones. Sometimes I think Nintendo is just lazy. I mean why didn't they put Netflix or a browser on the Switch? Why there are only a black and white theme?
@@JohnnoNonno lazy and mostly because they know how we'll treat what they give us. Nintendo: you want a web browser? Fans: yes Hackers: *looks at porn through browser exploit * Nintendo: no
@@kuroi_1153 there are browsers everywhere, even on the Wii, but you couldn't stream porn. Also, what you do with your console it's not anyone concern, the problem with the balloon thing was that it involved other users, maybe even underage ones.
6:24 DYKG did you mean the purpose of a middle man is to protect the LEAKER? because what you said was that the purpose of a middleman was to protect a middleman's identity. lol
i think he meant both the leaker and the pirate protect the middle man's identity so that the middle man can keep doing his job as the middle man ; at least thats how i heard it
Sounds like a pretty epic battle You got the good hackers, the bad hackers Nintendo themselves and everyone else in between who gets caught up in the crossfire
It's very likely that the Switch will become one of the most hackable consoles ever of the modern era. It's literally a modified off the shelf SoC. It's rare that there's so much documentation of a console's internals before it's even released. Remember, it's literally a gaming tablet with an SoC that was very very similar to ones found in a few Android tablets. It's actually quite impressive that it's NOT yet the next PSP as far as modding goes. One would have never expected them to make a Linux tablet using a Tegra X1 so secure considering the Wii and Wii U.
Imagine getting a game for a cheap price online, only to find out that it was pirated and you cant even use it, I hope theres a way to check just by looking at the cartridge
the only time I would ever pirate would be if having to get a game that was digital only and was removed from the store. that stuff is BS. can i get an F for scott pilgram vs. the world?
I also don't see the big deal in pirating games that are no longer sold in stores. Like I can still sleep at night for downloading some Super Nintendo ROMs lol. Buying them second hand doesn't see any of that money going back to Nintendo or the devs, so for me I don't see the problem with emulation for things like that. Although I do like playing games on the orignal hardware for the most part.
@Thomas Corley makes no sense. P.T. makes sense: Hideo Kojima was fired so Silent Hills was cancelled, making P.T. a teaser for a game that doesn't exist. But who would delete a game from existence because of an expired license? How many hours of love were put into this game only for it to be removed and unplayable forever?
@@coldzero8584 gave up on supporting it. There's still one guy at Sony who's paid to keep an eye on the hacking scene and patch it every now and then but it won't last forever. They're no longer making money from it, no 1st party games or consoles for sale so it won't last
Yep so true especially applies to so many areas that where it can be used for a good purpose has also a bad purpose that it’s really hard to fully distinguish where it can morally land on for everyone involved.
I knew people would love that quote, which is why I've turned it into a short video clip of its own! Right-click and select "Loop", and enjoy! ua-cam.com/video/rdmuevBmp8U/v-deo.html
Honestly, Nintendo should focus on banning people who hack to cheat or pirate. Seriously, I just wanna have my custom music in Smash Ultimate, that was so fun to do on Smash Wii U. lol
While that would be a good thing, this hardballing on hackers in general is probably because of the cheaters and pirates in the first place. It's just a guess, honestly, but it's those who give hacking a bad name are why we can't gave nice things, like that one hacker said (I forget her surname).
The problem is that Nintendo can't distinguish between a legit and harmful hack, to them (probably an automated script), all modified code looks the same, whatever it may be a music hack or an infinite lives hack.
I legit want every console to be hackable and softmodded at this point since we're entering the age of streaming services for games. Can't really do much when support for an outdated console is dropped.
No company is going to make a console run unsigned code out of the box. That being said, there's homebrew for nearly every modern console (except the original Xbox).
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CEWIIH Piracy is never a problem at any point in a console's lifespan. Consumers outnumber pirates nearly always on current hardware, since it requires some/significant technical knowledge to go through the entire hacking process.
It used to be nice when hackers where doing it for fun instead of doing it for resume and working at companies. Back then progress was much faster, hacks were much safer and with far less drama involved. In the end "piracy" doesn't hurt anyone.
From the moment the specs dropped, we knew that it was gonna be easy to hack. Its SOC setup is basically built to run Linux. It's kinda fun to learn about though.
I remembered when people were hacking to put p0rn in the Balloon World mode in Mario Odyssey. I fortunately never saw them when I played Mario Odyssey, but that proves that people can be WTF sometimes
@A.C. Jelly Especially after MegaUpload fiasco, when FBI closed one of largest pirate hubs on internet at the time (what was legal, with whole operation being questioned). It resulted with drop in number in legal acquisitions with exception of small increase in case of AAA category. In short most pirates would not buy product anyway (so losses are virtual) when some of them buy they favorite products. It cause positive effect basically ending dark age of DRM, what in practice hurt only legal players with bullshit security measures. At one point one game developer published crack as a patch to own game, as bullshit DRM make it unplayable. Of course minimal level of security preventing kids from copping discs in home is needed (like on Dreamcast), but anything more then that is pointless. In fact whole situation show how much behind Nintendo really is (after all piraci is credited as one of reason why X-Box 360 was more popular then PS3).
I dont get why everyone says is the best handheld for old consoles emulation if it cant run retroarch cores at a proper frame-rate. How does the Switch fares with Retroarch cores?
It so cool to learn about the unseen hacking war going on with the switch. Its a complete mess, Nintendo vs hackers, and leakers, with the homebrew coders caught in the middle.
@@frunk6185 Except it does. Nintendo really doesn't like switch piracy related videos and blocks them from UA-cam. They even blocked entire channels, even official ones, though this is an automated process. There was this one time when an official Russian Pokémon YT channel was blocked near instantly because it wasn't yet whitelisted by the higher-ups at Nintendo of Europe. Luckily nothing like that happened after that, maybe.
10:09 Wouldn't that affect legit second-hand copies, copies shared with friends and such? Oh who am I kidding, this is a AAA publisher, of freaking course it could...
@11:00 And that right there is exactly why people hated Nintendo's "enforcement" of this. If that's possible and does happen, then non-hackers will get banned. That's ridiculous, but you see the quarrel that Nintendo are in. They can't outright ban people solely based on game carts, nor can they ban them on digital codes because the ability to pre-own games and the chance a duplicate key can be generated are always a possibility. That's exactly why the community has gotten on to Nintendo over these bans. In addition, that's quite ridiculous to charge that much. This is another example of the loony court system being out of control. None of those switches will ever be worth that kind of money. This is exactly why people have softened up to piracy and "illegal" CFW solutions. Because companies like Nintendo use fear tactics and walled gardens instead of actually giving people what they want.
Best part is that there are few open source emulators of Switch in development, that are running on Windows. Where all you have to do to have fun with it is to dump own console firmware, games with certificates, extract your console unique ID and encryption codes and you can run quite a few games and homebrews. It is loads of fun to experiment with.
Man, all I want from a hacked switch is the ability to play BOTW and Smash ultimate with skins and different player models. But I actually (and sadly) agree with nintendo's measures. If people didn't hack the switch to get pirate games, or to post lewd photos on their profiles (Who the hell does that?), then Nintendo would be open to the modding scene. A rotten apple ruins the bunch.
Two things that were left out: 1) 90dns blocks all nintendo servers by using DNS, so nothing can be sent to them. Combined with running homebrew and other software on the emuMMC, which is the eMMC running on a SD card without touching the eMMC at all, Nintendo has no way to detect the mod as the system physically remains unmodded except in the sd card, which should be removed when the legit switch is booted. 2) Incognito can erase the Switch's identifiable info so Nintendo knows that a console is being modded but has no information to ban it. The switch can't connect online, but it also can't be banned. If a user uses recovery mode to restore the switch, then it can connect online and once again all traces of being modded are lost. Overall a good video, these things are probably just more recent or are irrelevant to the overall video.
I've never heard of any switch being banned from talking to a hacked switch. I have four switches, three of which are modified and the other goes online regularly to play online and download game updates. I use the online switch to download updates for the offline switches, and even system updates so that I don't have to download anything. The offline switches can also go online since I only install Homebrew onto an EMUnand, and sometimes I do take them online, but the point of the offline switches is to be able to run network Homebrew while the point of the online switch is to be able to just play online and enjoy the products I purchase. I've been doing that for a very long time without ever being banned from any of the consoles, so obviously Nintendo is unable to detect a modified switch thru such communication. The only way I could think of is if a banned switch gets some type of a flag put on to it when it talks to Nintendo to find out that it's banned, or else a list of banned Keys would have to be downloaded to every switch. I highly doubt Nintendo was using a buried flag concept, at least not currently, because really they could easily identify a hacked switch just by reading the contents of the MicroSD card and doing a simple plain text matching of characters. For the record, modification doesn't have to mean piracy.
What's that? The Switch can finally play Gamecube games, but only through the use of hacks? Boy howdy, I was saving up all this *fresh, delicious MONEY* to give to Nintendo for that, but I guess I'm modding my Switch instead! Woohoo!
Be warned however GameCube emulation isn't perfect, and your Switch may be patched Furthermore, you might want to wait a bit until emuNAND is fully implemented, or buy a second Switch and transfer your stuff to that one.
Also, I am sure that some hackers that are out there will exploit even the Switch units that were made and June of 2018 to override the anti hacking protocols and programs...just you all wait and see on this issue and see if it does not happen eventually.
Something you didn't mention is that nearly every single modded Switch user has the 90DNS settings set up on their Switch, and these block ALL connections to Nintendo servers. There is no way for Nintendo to ban you with these settings on, because there's no way that any information can be transfered between your Switch and Nintendo.
This video is very misleading. The brick code was removed from SX OS in the update directly after it was introduced due to the huge backlash. And not a single Switch got bricked because of the code. There are no confirmed reports.
It is always a good thing for hardware that is a walled garden and locked down to be able to be made into unrestricted hardware. It increases overall value and longevity. Take the Nintendo DS and Wii for example. There are still people playing multiplayer Mario Kart for the DS and Wii even though it's been years since Nintendo shut down the servers. How? Because people reverse engineered how the multiplayer servers worked and implemented their own. I feel the same will happen with the Switch by the time Nintendo shuts down the servers for it. So thanks to the work of reverse engineers, you will still be able to play Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Luigi's Balloon World with other people many years after Nintendo closes the official servers for them. This is an example of reverse engineers (or as the media calls them, 'hackers') benefitting people with unmodified consoles. Their work will allow you to enjoy ALL the features of games you own indefinitely, where as there is a clock ticking down for the official Nintendo servers and once those are gone the only way to enjoy the multiplayer features of your Switch games will be to play on unofficial ones. There is also the issue of software preservation. Piracy is the only way to effectively preserve things. One day, the Switch eShop won't exist, or rather the servers hosting it will be gone. For popular games like Mario Odyssey there is virtually no risk of them disappearing as they have physical game cards, but there are many obscure games that do not have physical versions where one day the only way to play those games will be to obtain them unofficially and illegally. Video games are just as relevant to our culture as paintings, music, and motion pictures and so they are just as worthy of long term preservation - I'm talking decades to centuries here. So future generations can still play these games long after there's no legitimate way to purchase them. There are many great NES and SNES games that will never ever be officially re-released because the publishers no longer exist and in some cases it's not known who the actual copyright holder is. That you have a way to play those games is thanks to the scofflaws who broke the law and dumped the ROM images and uploaded them to BBSes back in the day. So we fast forward to the year 2031, you are suddenly feeling nostalgic for a Switch eShop-only game you bought back in 2019, but since that time you bought a new Switch and never got around to redownloading it to the new Switch, and it's now too late because the Switch eShop no longer functions. Thanks to software pirates, you can grab that old game and play it still decades later. Many publishers don't care about long term preservation or can't afford the infrastructure to effectively store them for decades on end. There has been untold numbers of games lost because publishers didn't care enough to archive them for re-release later down the line. It falls on the scofflaws of the world to be our culture's renegade archivists for future generations. And open source development of alternate firmware for proprietary hardware adds features that won't ever get added officially. This is especially true when it comes to network appliances such as routers. Where Netgear would stop providing updates a year to two years after release, open source developers continue to provide updates for their open source alternative many years afterward. For the Switch, examples include being able to back up save data for ANY game - and it backs up a local copy to your SD card that you can place where ever you wish. Whereas Ninendo Online's 'Cloud Save' feature only works for some games, and those 'Cloud' servers won't be around for longer than 5-10 years. After that, all your precious backed up save data is gone. Whereas if you could make local copies of your save data and you made sure to store it properly you can go back to that save data 20 years from now. Reverse engineering of the hardware is also necessary for emulation. In the distant future, there will be no working Switches left. And so the only way to enjoy Switch software will be through emulation. That is covered as well luckilly and so even after the last working Switch dies decades down the line, you'll still be able to play those old games on a modern platform. Future generations will be able to experience the games their grandparents and great grandparents played rather than be left with a few old gameplay videos and articles describing them.
Yep, but now it's basicaly impossible to get banned as long as your spoof your Serial Number and play on a emuNand. I just wish they start to find a real firmware exploit at some point, but in the meantime this adds value for the unprotected Switches, so...
Nothing about the Splatoon 2 player who hacked the ranked leaderboards to spell out "please add anti cheat"?
Is there anti cheat yet?
Ohh the irony
Jesse11spykid yeah there is. If the game detects a player hacking (online), it will ban them in 24 hours
Seems like a real chaotic good thing to do.
At least they use their talent for good.
"This is why we can't have nice things" is the best way to describe the profile pic incident
let's just get Nintendo to allow custom pictures but not allow nsfw pictures, like there should be something to automatically remove one if it finds one but maybe not ban, that'd be too much or just make it not allow the pic before it can be chosen as profile pic
Because then you’d inevitably end up with more bad things. With every joy there’s a con.
@@underlinedcg1574 BRUH
@@underlinedcg1574 LOL
@@Dragonime Good idea. Maybe an approval system would work, where Nintendo has to approve your picture before everyone else can see it?
Nintendo pours this much effort into their anti-piracy, but like zero effort in their online.
Or into the console itself. Right side joycon drift is a MFer.
@@lepone6811 Honesty they should suck it up and focus most of their time, money and resources on other stuff that are just as important. Just like Sony and Microsoft. Both companies know that it's an unending war with pirate/hacker. Sure, spending some of your attention on anti hacking is not a bad idea but in the length nintendo is willing to go to weed out pirate/hackers, is ruining other important task that should take priorities.
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@@lepone6811 not necessarily, piracy also motivates companies to treat their consumers well. For example, imo piracy is justified if there is a company with a monopoly in a certain region charging extremely high prices because they have a monopoly.
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Damn I still have my launch day switch. I didn't know it could be hacked so easy.
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Me too, and I'm not giving it up, ever!
Same, if a switch pro comes out ik what im going to do with my old one :)
@@ooofexe7210 nicee for me I’m just gonna wait 5 more years
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I remember the Mario Odyssey balloon thing. Out of all the things I expected in Odyssey, a balloon with hentai on it wasn't one of them.
A surprise, but a welcome one to be sure.
When they meant “balloons” I’m sure they didn’t mean that kind…
I don't know why I laughed so hard at "a balloon with hentai on it"
You expected Mario to fight a hentai monster instead, I know.
DaPootisJedi at least you saw one of fake porn. I remember seeing an actual screen shot of a porn site for the New Donk city balloon time trial 🤯
Users: crack the switch inserting a paperclip in the joycon connector
Nintendo: *New Switch Lite, with no joycons!!*
Erm...Nintendo prevented new consoles from using the gib hack over a year ago yanno.. :)
@Just Squid I'm not aware of anything that can be done for iPatched consoles yet
CEWIIH Yeah but old consoles are still shipping if you’re lucky. I just picked up a spare from Amazon and it’s vulnerable.
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snyder very much ENGLISH
1:07 I got my not-hacked switch banned too, all my games were bought, in the shop I bought many indies too and I was even paying for the online service. Messaged them, and their answer was that "the ban was permanent and they couldn't do anything about it". So I actually hacked it and sold all the physical games. Fuck you, Nintendo.
Wtf Nintendo
Same thing here, they gave me no other fucking choice.
I bet they are willing to lose some innocent users rather than take any chances. Lame
Same thing happened to me, my console got banned for no reason, I'd spent over £1000 on Games and Eshop titles. Nintendo wouldn't do anything regarding the ban, so I hacked my Switch, bought a few 512GB Micro SD cards, and sold all my original games to CeX for about £500 (good thing Nintendo games keep their value) and tbh, it's the best choice ever, I don't play online anyway and I've still got access to SNES and NES games, and every new release. Ant this only happened about 2 months ago, so whatever Nintendo are trying to do to stop piracy, it's not working, as every Switch console is hackable, even the Lite versions, on any firmware too.
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Battles between different factions of hackers? Am I living in a sci-fi dystopia?
Nah, this is just how it's always been, only difference is now you know it exists.
All cohorts have scene drama. It's just part of the human condition.
even ytp has drama
Hey a guy in 2020 and this aged like bread
@@emmettjenner1872 How naive I was
Good hackers and Bad hackers. Fighting their own wars against hackers and pirates. What a complex situation.
Yep. It’s like a giant web of political intrigue
They should make anime around this concept.
Also known as white hats, gray hats, and black hats.
Black hats are the malicious hackers that use it for bad purposes. White hats are sanctioned by companies to detect major flaws in the system and report them to the company. Gray hats are more ambiguous, the usually do similar things as white hats but weren’t asked or sanctioned by the company. Similar to Kate temkin’s situation.
@@adonaibaptiste4803
Hackers and Pirates... I'd watch it
Fight fire with fire. Send a wolf to catch a wolf.
"Cracked in 4 hours" Wow...
Almost as fast as people lewding Sonia from Pokémon.
*YOU'RE ALREADY CRACKED*
Reminds me of the time an australian kid bypassed the australian porn-age filter thing-a-ma-bob in about half an hour
@@pizzachu2281 not all heroes wear capes
@@pizzachu2281 I'm sure Chinese kids can breach the great firewall in less than that.
With all the time Nintendo spend on this
Yet they still can't fix their online services
The problem is that they don't see it as something that needs fixed. In an interview recently, I think it was Miyamoto who said that NSO is not behind other online services.
@@redwidow1358 Seriously - it's 2019 and they're still shitting the bed with this. My two switch consoles lag when playing on LAN and they're both within 10ft of a router unobstructed. Not to mention the occasional lag in online play as well. PC, xbox, ps4 etc have no issues and they're separated from the router by at least 2 walls.
@@redwidow1358 yea i heard about that
which freaking sucks
Online were better on Wii U even with 1 million people playing Mario Kart 8 online at the same time on global server.
@@V3ntilator True, i have a Wii u and can confirm
I just want a quiet life where I can play GameCube games on the Switch in peace.
Just play them on your phone. That's what I do.
Fans: Can we play NES games on the switch?
Nintendo: Sure! Just pay (amount) of money and keep doing it.
Fans: And what about the other games?
Nintendo: nah, we don't feel like it.
Killer Queen have touched this Switch
@@MadeOfBugs what kind of phone do you have to run that?
@@pikmansion1648 I currently have a Galaxy S9 and everything runs smooth.
"This is why we can't have nice things."
Truer words have never been spoken.
he lier dude new us law when buy some ti you mdoe of you want just as lony uo use use to steel games make meon of the mods get it 2nd rocket said ntoin is owrn fna mdoein shit do think you that te torl know rme then Rockstar game hell no they udnerstn fans said it show cvoer fans yb doni mods when buy gam or cosnoe it yoru nto tntiend not sony not ms any more then no right tle you wha tou can can do wit just logn tuo steel games games htat not yours get it
signerleo snyder I have no idea what you just said.
Absolutely.
@@ssjgotenks2009 Dude. Where did you learn to type/write?
@@ssjgotenks2009 yes
I remember the hacking fiasco with Odyssey's balloon mode
Those were good times
Excuse me?
Christopher Moon Yup
annoying times
Yeah I had to avoid New Donk City for a long time because of it. Lol
Gotta love impossible clips
Only 1 reason why I like cfw on the switch:
--Can backup ALL game savefiles for FREE. Yearly paying bs for a cloudsave that doesnt backup all savefiles is a big no-no.
Funnily enough, they disallowed cloud saves to prevent cheating, but to modify a save, you need a hacked Switch anyway. So they're only screwing over people who don't want to modify Switches or saves.
@@redwidow1358 you might be able to save scum in splatoon 2, but this is wHY YOU SHOULD SAVE LEADERBOARDED STUFF TO THE SERVERS INSTEAD OF SAVE FILE
@@redwidow1358 you could cheat quite a lot by loading your pokemon backup after trading a pokemon away, thus duplicating it, this applies to many other games
but to prevent this theyd only have to force you to make a new save file in the cloud each time you need to save in game
@@redwidow1358 If they would allow to backup save games on non-hacked switches those save files could be modified without a hacked switch. In pokemon for example it would be easy to clone pokemon without a hacked switch. Just backup the save, trade the pokemon to another persons switch and then restore the save game. And if people would plug in the sd card they backuped the save file into their pc, they could you modify the save files and then restore it to the switch.
@@simonbrungs7577 You assume those save files won't be encrypted. They would be, using your console specific ID. To obtain your console's unique ID and decrypt your save file for editing, you would NEED to hack it.
The sheer irony of hackers building anti-hacking features into software that can only be installed on hacked consoles.
If you're talking about the SXOS team, there's no irony. They're just assholes. They stole code from free software that works far better, charged people for it, and when you try to do anything other than what they want with the software, your Switch might get bricked permanently. All for software that's greatly inferior.
@@redwidow1358 Atmosphere, FTW!!
@@woodie4577 Always and forever, free and fantastic
Uh, what? You mean anti-piracy measures. Not everyone who uses homebrew pirates.
Ommo, but to use homebrew in the first place, you need a custom firmware, you could either use Atmosphere, free, reliable, and regular updates, or you could use SXOS, a stolen version of Atmosphere, nowhere near as good, locked behind a paywall, and not updated as often, and run by a bunch of tossers, who will get their custom firmware to brick your switch if you don't bow down to them.
The BGM's in this video makes the atmosphere so tense lol. in a good way.
Know the name of them?
@@drakedragon4572 I second that, I've heard it, but I can't name it, and it's been driving me crazy
I know it’s a Brinstar Depths remix but can’t find the specific remix...
Okay I found it: it’s the Super Smash Bros Ultimate remix of Brinstar Depths. What a great song!
@@PixelsAmpersandBits do you know the first one?
Technology is so interesting. I feel like an idiot when I hear about all of this.
nice
Don't worry were all idiots at the end of the day.
Well, you will never understand any of this without doing it yourself. It's kind of this way with any kind of tech. You need experience with it to understand what is really happening.
EpicJohnCenaFan Ikr that's why I understand this now but back when I was 12 I couldn't even understand what an emulator is
Aron Jasper De Leon
Yeah. You can learn all the theory you want about technology, but the best way to learn is with experience.
Corrections:
The recovery mode shown at 7:05 isn't the recovery mode used in the RCM bug. The recovery mode used shows no output and is accessed by pressing the tegra's home button (by bridging some pins) and pressing volume up.
The bootloader is not installed onto the Switch. It is injected manually every time the Switch is turned on.
You do not need to run a custom program to play the pirated games (unless you're counting the custom firmware). They just run from the home menu once installed.
8:35: You can run pirated games directly off the SD card with other custom firmwares. They run exactly the same as a game downloaded from the eShop.
10:33: There are other methods to hide pirated games from Nintendo, such as 90DNS, which blocks all communications with Nintendo.
Good comment, I was scrolling for a while to see if anyone else said something like this.
And will the cartridge ban take effect if using the same cart on multiple switches?
@@DJ4461 Probably not. Because I've done this during legitimate actual use, and in-fact, you pretty much need too when you own multiple switches.
This is why I think it's a HUGE false-positive measure. There is no good way to tell if someone is running a legitimate copy off of another device because they simply moved the physical cartridge onto the other device they own.
I think the only way a ban might occur is if it completely region-jumps, or it detects TWO exact copies of the game playing at the same time.
That'd be my guess, but there might be more sophisticated ways.
@@HiddenRealm yeah, I was thinking the 2 at once thing was a better way of figuring it out when I was rewatching this one. Because I was worried what would happen When I play My carts and My downloads on my dads switch instead of mine.
Meanwhile I just want to be able to customize my switch more and to get my background to be more than just black or white
Nintendo: Ho ho, is that all you got?
Illegal Pirates: No, but thank you for asking!
Lmao implying there are legal pirates
@@Insidious_NX xd
*plays Gangsta's Paradise*
It happens the other way around too
"We're spendin' most 'arr' lives sailin' in a pirate's paradise"
This was such an intense video. The music, Liam's reading of it, plus the actual content of hackers and pirates. It really felt like a fire.
One day the Switch will end up like the PSP.
CFWs, Homebrew, Emulators everywhere.
I look forward to that day.
True :)
Hamburger King 9 that’s a weird way to spell 3DS
We're already pretty close, ReiNX, atmosphere, SXOS... All still have support.
Hamburger King 9 CFWs?
@@mvxsr Custom Firmwares, basically a custom version of the OS that a console uses. Ex: Luma3DS and Atmosphere for the Switch.
Nintendo hates homebrew even though people just want more features for their consoles
It's because it can be abused, and nintendo is scared of being associated with things that tarnish their reputation or associate them with other companies
Yet their fans will defend them anyway because of nostalgia lmao
thanks captain obvious
its still piracy lmao
@@GhostKunShinka how though?? it’s obviously innocent
So the switch can easily play any games that can run on dolphin yet we still have NO virtual console?
Skyward Demise and i mf OOP-
right?
Dolphin doesnt run very well. Some gamecube games run decently and wii doesnt run at all.
@@Just_Red_ how about nes or snes. (seriously wish they'd put out earthbound)
I will hack my Switch instantly once they release a working PS2 emu
"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem" Gabe Newell, 2011. GIVE US A VIRTUAL CONSOLE TO PLAY GAMECUBE OR OLDER TITLES. A majority of the homebrew market is for emulators, there is your service problem.
What is this obsession over the gamecube? Just buy it physically.
If you can't, you can't join the hobby at all.
@@rayminishi689 I feel like you are mssing the point of a handheld system if you expect people to take gen 4, 5, or 6 consoles everywhere. People are upset because they did a great vitual console and are refusing to bring it to the Switch.
@@EATSxBABIES also the ease of use and convenience of just going to the eshop to buy a gamecube game digitally instead of going out to gamestop and hoping they have a gamecube for sale there along with the game you want
@@Veribius Yes, exactly my point with that quote! I would drop $10 to play old pokemon, F Zero GX, ect.
@@rayminishi689 Yes let me just lug around my fucking gamecube, a battery and a screen. Do you ever like use your fucking brain? Like at all?
Also these fucking companies will never do that, they want to get your money. So they will release a limited amount of games, that you will have to rebuy ever time they come out with a new console.
Nintendo doesn't let me buy old games on the eShop? Fine, I'll just add the entire library of NES/SNES/GB/GBC/GBA/N64/GC/WII/Genesis games.
Honestly nothing wrong with that, unless you pirate *Switch* games.
you can do that for the wii
The unofficial and open source emulators are better anyway, including NES and SNES emulators. They are more accurate and sport more features than Nintendo's own official emulators such as the emulator used for the Nintendo Online NES games. So you're better off going with that option either way.
@@RQeeb-os1jb Sorry,but you can't stop third world countries.
Yeh,i hacked my switch and i downloaded emulators and playing super mario galaxy now on switch.
You completely forgot to mention Pikabrick, emuMMC, and how people who use CFW use clean backups to avoid getting banned.
The Chaotic good/neutral/evil side of the community sounds badass.
They are called pirates for a reason
Maurizzio Bravi modern day pirates
@@user-qi1nn9vg3x Evil Pirates
Its really not. People are going so far to create their own Atmosphere (most popular cfw) only Discords and communities. Ends up being a lot of nasty behavior and elitism from non pirates against pirates.
Like listening to an anime plot
Fans: can we have custom pfps?
Nintendo: we'll think about it
Hackers: *makes custom porn pfps*
Nintendo: this is why we dont give you guys good things
^THIS
Eh, Xbox live has custom propics and detects inappropriate ones. Sometimes I think Nintendo is just lazy. I mean why didn't they put Netflix or a browser on the Switch? Why there are only a black and white theme?
@@JohnnoNonno lazy and mostly because they know how we'll treat what they give us. Nintendo: you want a web browser?
Fans: yes
Hackers: *looks at porn through browser exploit *
Nintendo: no
@@kuroi_1153 lol as a kid I remember a bunch of people already used the DSi browser to look up porn. It's not really "piracy" or "hacking"
@@kuroi_1153 there are browsers everywhere, even on the Wii, but you couldn't stream porn. Also, what you do with your console it's not anyone concern, the problem with the balloon thing was that it involved other users, maybe even underage ones.
Got it: “Echo, order me an RCM jig, and a 200GB SD card”.
200gb? I have a 512gb sd card and I still want more space
6:24 DYKG did you mean the purpose of a middle man is to protect the LEAKER? because what you said was that the purpose of a middleman was to protect a middleman's identity. lol
i think he meant both the leaker and the pirate protect the middle man's identity so that the middle man can keep doing his job as the middle man ; at least thats how i heard it
I like how they start talking about pirates and then play Ridley's smash bros theme in the background. Thats some good shit there.
@@Dimchek970 still a pirate
Pirates of the Carribean: Nintendo E-shoppers Tell No Tales
Freeshoppers would beg to differ
Sounds like a pretty epic battle
You got the good hackers, the bad hackers Nintendo themselves and everyone else in between who gets caught up in the crossfire
gotta love watching a company worth billions go after random people
i just want to give Mario his fire flower costume back nintendo plz
Nintendo: silence, liberal
It's time to switch to Fire Luigi
I just woke up from a coma I sure hope my favorite UA-camr projared is going to that con
lel
He cheated on his wife xD
Strap in friendo, you're going on an *emotional rollercoaster*
Well I have news for you
yeah....about that.
It's very likely that the Switch will become one of the most hackable consoles ever of the modern era. It's literally a modified off the shelf SoC. It's rare that there's so much documentation of a console's internals before it's even released. Remember, it's literally a gaming tablet with an SoC that was very very similar to ones found in a few Android tablets. It's actually quite impressive that it's NOT yet the next PSP as far as modding goes. One would have never expected them to make a Linux tablet using a Tegra X1 so secure considering the Wii and Wii U.
Imagine getting a game for a cheap price online, only to find out that it was pirated and you cant even use it, I hope theres a way to check just by looking at the cartridge
This topic is so fucking cool tbh. And the music makes it sound even cooler 😂
Lol I know right music making this shit sound epic.
He chose great music 🎼
Frank Cassidy Language
Facts 💀😭😭😭
the only time I would ever pirate would be if having to get a game that was digital only and was removed from the store. that stuff is BS. can i get an F for scott pilgram vs. the world?
StudioUAC major F, that game was lit
I also don't see the big deal in pirating games that are no longer sold in stores. Like I can still sleep at night for downloading some Super Nintendo ROMs lol. Buying them second hand doesn't see any of that money going back to Nintendo or the devs, so for me I don't see the problem with emulation for things like that. Although I do like playing games on the orignal hardware for the most part.
Man, Scott Pilgrim vs The World. Can't believe I deleted that shit to make room. RIP.
Why was it removed anyways? It seemed like a perfectly fine game. Also F for P.T.
@Thomas Corley makes no sense. P.T. makes sense: Hideo Kojima was fired so Silent Hills was cancelled, making P.T. a teaser for a game that doesn't exist. But who would delete a game from existence because of an expired license? How many hours of love were put into this game only for it to be removed and unplayable forever?
Peanut Butter Gamer is trying to look like an Yu-Gi-Oh protagonist?
Just like the war between hackers/homebrew vs Sony during the PSP/Vita days. Sony knew when to give up, though.
Sony rolled over and just gave up on the vita basically so hacking it now just makes it even better!
nintendo might give up one day but i doubt it
@@Riknos
>gave up on vita hacking
>recently released 3.72
Pick one.
@@coldzero8584 gave up on supporting it. There's still one guy at Sony who's paid to keep an eye on the hacking scene and patch it every now and then but it won't last forever. They're no longer making money from it, no 1st party games or consoles for sale so it won't last
@@Riknos Sony have now released FW 3.73 for the vita. They aren't giving up, not by a long shot.
"... this is why we cant have nice things." I love it.
Yep so true especially applies to so many areas that where it can be used for a good purpose has also a bad purpose that it’s really hard to fully distinguish where it can morally land on for everyone involved.
I knew people would love that quote, which is why I've turned it into a short video clip of its own! Right-click and select "Loop", and enjoy! ua-cam.com/video/rdmuevBmp8U/v-deo.html
You thought lightning was fast. But ain't got nothing against nintendo hackers
“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news. But that obeys it’s own special laws.”
That's because Nintendo pisses off everyone and makes themselves targets of hacking. Hackers hate Nintendo far more than Microsoft and Sony.
@@Deadsea_1993 And they expect Nintendo not to hate them back, Nintendo is bad but they aren't helping tbh
After buying my second set of joycons I don't even feel bad about this.
You guys always know how to get me..just when I think I’ll never watch another one of your videos you just know what I want to watch
Honestly, Nintendo should focus on banning people who hack to cheat or pirate. Seriously, I just wanna have my custom music in Smash Ultimate, that was so fun to do on Smash Wii U. lol
While that would be a good thing, this hardballing on hackers in general is probably because of the cheaters and pirates in the first place. It's just a guess, honestly, but it's those who give hacking a bad name are why we can't gave nice things, like that one hacker said (I forget her surname).
Joeynator3000 agree, and add costumes too.
Even innocuous hacks can be abused by those with less moral intentions. Ask the Splatoon community how that went.
@@dustymcwari4468 I never got around to adding skins, ah well. lol I just cared about the music. xD
The problem is that Nintendo can't distinguish between a legit and harmful hack, to them (probably an automated script), all modified code looks the same, whatever it may be a music hack or an infinite lives hack.
I legit want every console to be hackable and softmodded at this point since we're entering the age of streaming services for games. Can't really do much when support for an outdated console is dropped.
No company is going to make a console run unsigned code out of the box. That being said, there's homebrew for nearly every modern console (except the original Xbox).
That's exactly why I hacked my 3DS the other day. It's discontinued, and Nintendo have nothing to gain from me anymore.
I'm sure as hell gonna love when my favourite game just vanishes forever,because the company doesnt want to offer it anymore.
Fuck game streaming
watching this on my hacked switch
The Dark Room game was like Brain Age on the Wii U. It allowed exploits to happen such as cold booting your wii u
When I saw that he was showing people how to use the exploit I was like "That's a bad idea" and sure enough Nintendo took down his game
Piracy isn't itself the problem,
Whenever a device is beyond their support circle (as has been demonstrated eternally) it is left for dead
Piracy on a current gen console is *always* a problem. No excuse for it ever, kids need to get a job like everyone else.
nit to see some get it like me we need more pooel on here like you so these torll ahter who dick ride comey for there mdodenr carp can lrian ge thro heads
@@MorrisseyMuse It's not a problem. Piracy does not hurt profit in any significant way, there have been studies done on this.
@@MorrisseyMuse something something piracy is a service problem, something something overpriced decade old ports that never go on sale.
CEWIIH Piracy is never a problem at any point in a console's lifespan. Consumers outnumber pirates nearly always on current hardware, since it requires some/significant technical knowledge to go through the entire hacking process.
9:57 so is this why there's a slur of eBay switch games that are being bought that don't work or getting people band?
If they don't work, they're fake or broken. Banning a game doesn't mean you can't play it, it just means you can't take it online.
video and nintendo literally states "that the dumped card gets banned as well" good job reading idiots.
7:50 That transition made me think that kid was Simon.
It used to be nice when hackers where doing it for fun instead of doing it for resume and working at companies. Back then progress was much faster, hacks were much safer and with far less drama involved. In the end "piracy" doesn't hurt anyone.
"We believe even in the USA, our product should be legal"
Are you FOR REAL?!?!
"They just don't understand our business model." ~G2A on their business practices
Lol okay Ryuuji.
Not only they are serious, they have some legal ground too
Felipe Roman how?
@@Borals Backups.
DYKG: *Talking about Piracy*
Me: Why do I hear boss music?
A pirate friend once told me: Dead men tell no tales.
From the moment the specs dropped, we knew that it was gonna be easy to hack. Its SOC setup is basically built to run Linux. It's kinda fun to learn about though.
I remembered when people were hacking to put p0rn in the Balloon World mode in Mario Odyssey. I fortunately never saw them when I played Mario Odyssey, but that proves that people can be WTF sometimes
Wow. They are willing to go THIS far in a Nintendo game. Mario.
Lol it’s not that deep
make sure to cover your eyes dork
meanwhile sony when you hacked the ps vita
sony: Oh no
That was basically how they reacted to the PSN breach too. Sony doesn't give a fuck
@A.C. Jelly Especially after MegaUpload fiasco, when FBI closed one of largest pirate hubs on internet at the time (what was legal, with whole operation being questioned). It resulted with drop in number in legal acquisitions with exception of small increase in case of AAA category. In short most pirates would not buy product anyway (so losses are virtual) when some of them buy they favorite products. It cause positive effect basically ending dark age of DRM, what in practice hurt only legal players with bullshit security measures. At one point one game developer published crack as a patch to own game, as bullshit DRM make it unplayable. Of course minimal level of security preventing kids from copping discs in home is needed (like on Dreamcast), but anything more then that is pointless. In fact whole situation show how much behind Nintendo really is (after all piraci is credited as one of reason why X-Box 360 was more popular then PS3).
@A.C. Jelly YES SONY! U GO GIRL!
I dont get why everyone says is the best handheld for old consoles emulation if it cant run retroarch cores at a proper frame-rate. How does the Switch fares with Retroarch cores?
Hackers: we hacked the Vita
Sony: yay, someone is playing the Vita!
It so cool to learn about the unseen hacking war going on with the switch. Its a complete mess, Nintendo vs hackers, and leakers, with the homebrew coders caught in the middle.
It just shows you how powerful and how much potential the switch actually has
D.Y.K.G. banned by Nintendo for talking about the hacker-scene in 3....2...
download this video quick
Download the video quickly on Darknet. 😄
0.. wait
no
I could see some hackers will get Pokemon Sword and Shield before it released earlier and spoils these games by leaking on the internet.
Nintendo has never been good at preventing leaks, and since Pokemon Sword/Shield are such Big Titles, it will most likely happen
Hehe! "Fusée Gelée" in French means "Stoned Rocket".
Wow, I assumed there would be some Switch hacking but this is way more extensive than I assumed it would be.
Nice video.
Here before this video gets taken down by you-know-who
We're already on it!
oh man videos taken by nintendo that's lowkey nostalgia, well.. that doesn't really happen anymore
@@frunk6185 Except it does. Nintendo really doesn't like switch piracy related videos and blocks them from UA-cam. They even blocked entire channels, even official ones, though this is an automated process. There was this one time when an official Russian Pokémon YT channel was blocked near instantly because it wasn't yet whitelisted by the higher-ups at Nintendo of Europe. Luckily nothing like that happened after that, maybe.
Voldemort?
Voldemort! Sorry, I’ve read to much Harry Potter :(
Only thing I ever hacked was my psp 2000
And my wii
I also hacked both of those things and they are both still epic because of it
hacking stuff is actually fun and cool
pirating them isn't
And my DS, DS Lite, 3DS, New 3DS, and my PS2.
ImplodingAnimations 3ds for me
my 30 $ ps classic rondo of blood is awesome
I love this pirates vs Nintendo and pirates in fighting going on! 😁
Now let's wait and see who'll pick up the pieces and make the profit.
Thank you, Did You Know Gaming, for making long videos perfect for car rides
Oh the poor people (poor if they were children) that ran into those lewd profile pics.
10:09 Wouldn't that affect legit second-hand copies, copies shared with friends and such?
Oh who am I kidding, this is a AAA publisher, of freaking course it could...
No. It only bans the cart if its being used on multiple accounts at the same time.
There is misinformation in this video, it'll ban the game if it's being used several places at once.
Yes, if you buy a cart that was one that was dumped by a pirate, you could get banned for it because of other people playing the dumped game
@@LiEnby That was _very clearly_ framed as a rhetorical question.
@11:00
And that right there is exactly why people hated Nintendo's "enforcement" of this. If that's possible and does happen, then non-hackers will get banned. That's ridiculous, but you see the quarrel that Nintendo are in. They can't outright ban people solely based on game carts, nor can they ban them on digital codes because the ability to pre-own games and the chance a duplicate key can be generated are always a possibility. That's exactly why the community has gotten on to Nintendo over these bans.
In addition, that's quite ridiculous to charge that much. This is another example of the loony court system being out of control. None of those switches will ever be worth that kind of money. This is exactly why people have softened up to piracy and "illegal" CFW solutions. Because companies like Nintendo use fear tactics and walled gardens instead of actually giving people what they want.
Best part is that there are few open source emulators of Switch in development, that are running on Windows. Where all you have to do to have fun with it is to dump own console firmware, games with certificates, extract your console unique ID and encryption codes and you can run quite a few games and homebrews. It is loads of fun to experiment with.
Man, all I want from a hacked switch is the ability to play BOTW and Smash ultimate with skins and different player models.
But I actually (and sadly) agree with nintendo's measures. If people didn't hack the switch to get pirate games, or to post lewd photos on their profiles (Who the hell does that?), then Nintendo would be open to the modding scene.
A rotten apple ruins the bunch.
One of my friends actually hacked his Switch just to run dj hero 2 on it, it runs surprisingly well.
Scott 0852 Are you fr? That’s one of my favorite games!
Incredible. That game is amazing. Switch is more powerful than Wii U, Ps3, and 360, so emulation should be great
Two things that were left out:
1) 90dns blocks all nintendo servers by using DNS, so nothing can be sent to them. Combined with running homebrew and other software on the emuMMC, which is the eMMC running on a SD card without touching the eMMC at all, Nintendo has no way to detect the mod as the system physically remains unmodded except in the sd card, which should be removed when the legit switch is booted.
2) Incognito can erase the Switch's identifiable info so Nintendo knows that a console is being modded but has no information to ban it. The switch can't connect online, but it also can't be banned. If a user uses recovery mode to restore the switch, then it can connect online and once again all traces of being modded are lost.
Overall a good video, these things are probably just more recent or are irrelevant to the overall video.
I've never heard of any switch being banned from talking to a hacked switch. I have four switches, three of which are modified and the other goes online regularly to play online and download game updates. I use the online switch to download updates for the offline switches, and even system updates so that I don't have to download anything. The offline switches can also go online since I only install Homebrew onto an EMUnand, and sometimes I do take them online, but the point of the offline switches is to be able to run network Homebrew while the point of the online switch is to be able to just play online and enjoy the products I purchase.
I've been doing that for a very long time without ever being banned from any of the consoles, so obviously Nintendo is unable to detect a modified switch thru such communication. The only way I could think of is if a banned switch gets some type of a flag put on to it when it talks to Nintendo to find out that it's banned, or else a list of banned Keys would have to be downloaded to every switch.
I highly doubt Nintendo was using a buried flag concept, at least not currently, because really they could easily identify a hacked switch just by reading the contents of the MicroSD card and doing a simple plain text matching of characters.
For the record, modification doesn't have to mean piracy.
How convenient that this video would show up in my recommended now, of all times..
What's that? The Switch can finally play Gamecube games, but only through the use of hacks? Boy howdy, I was saving up all this *fresh, delicious MONEY* to give to Nintendo for that, but I guess I'm modding my Switch instead! Woohoo!
Be warned however
GameCube emulation isn't perfect, and your Switch may be patched
Furthermore, you might want to wait a bit until emuNAND is fully implemented, or buy a second Switch and transfer your stuff to that one.
@Muse Suse well that is not good
I understand that it was a reference, but who?
Also, I am sure that some hackers that are out there will exploit even the Switch units that were made and June of 2018 to override the anti hacking protocols and programs...just you all wait and see on this issue and see if it does not happen eventually.
It already has. An exploit for even the Switch light has already been found. It just hasn't been made public yet.
Something you didn't mention is that nearly every single modded Switch user has the 90DNS settings set up on their Switch, and these block ALL connections to Nintendo servers. There is no way for Nintendo to ban you with these settings on, because there's no way that any information can be transfered between your Switch and Nintendo.
I would love to have a custom avatar on my Nintendo Switch.
But nope, very sad.
And why can't people use certain things for good, instead of bad?
This video is very misleading. The brick code was removed from SX OS in the update directly after it was introduced due to the huge backlash. And not a single Switch got bricked because of the code. There are no confirmed reports.
Watching this before the big N copyright claims it and disallows anyone from seeing it.
One year and waiting...
I feel like piracy is a really interesting topic that most people overlook. I really enjoy listening to the stuff in the background.
It is always a good thing for hardware that is a walled garden and locked down to be able to be made into unrestricted hardware. It increases overall value and longevity. Take the Nintendo DS and Wii for example. There are still people playing multiplayer Mario Kart for the DS and Wii even though it's been years since Nintendo shut down the servers. How? Because people reverse engineered how the multiplayer servers worked and implemented their own. I feel the same will happen with the Switch by the time Nintendo shuts down the servers for it. So thanks to the work of reverse engineers, you will still be able to play Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Luigi's Balloon World with other people many years after Nintendo closes the official servers for them. This is an example of reverse engineers (or as the media calls them, 'hackers') benefitting people with unmodified consoles. Their work will allow you to enjoy ALL the features of games you own indefinitely, where as there is a clock ticking down for the official Nintendo servers and once those are gone the only way to enjoy the multiplayer features of your Switch games will be to play on unofficial ones.
There is also the issue of software preservation. Piracy is the only way to effectively preserve things. One day, the Switch eShop won't exist, or rather the servers hosting it will be gone. For popular games like Mario Odyssey there is virtually no risk of them disappearing as they have physical game cards, but there are many obscure games that do not have physical versions where one day the only way to play those games will be to obtain them unofficially and illegally. Video games are just as relevant to our culture as paintings, music, and motion pictures and so they are just as worthy of long term preservation - I'm talking decades to centuries here. So future generations can still play these games long after there's no legitimate way to purchase them. There are many great NES and SNES games that will never ever be officially re-released because the publishers no longer exist and in some cases it's not known who the actual copyright holder is. That you have a way to play those games is thanks to the scofflaws who broke the law and dumped the ROM images and uploaded them to BBSes back in the day.
So we fast forward to the year 2031, you are suddenly feeling nostalgic for a Switch eShop-only game you bought back in 2019, but since that time you bought a new Switch and never got around to redownloading it to the new Switch, and it's now too late because the Switch eShop no longer functions. Thanks to software pirates, you can grab that old game and play it still decades later. Many publishers don't care about long term preservation or can't afford the infrastructure to effectively store them for decades on end. There has been untold numbers of games lost because publishers didn't care enough to archive them for re-release later down the line. It falls on the scofflaws of the world to be our culture's renegade archivists for future generations.
And open source development of alternate firmware for proprietary hardware adds features that won't ever get added officially. This is especially true when it comes to network appliances such as routers. Where Netgear would stop providing updates a year to two years after release, open source developers continue to provide updates for their open source alternative many years afterward. For the Switch, examples include being able to back up save data for ANY game - and it backs up a local copy to your SD card that you can place where ever you wish. Whereas Ninendo Online's 'Cloud Save' feature only works for some games, and those 'Cloud' servers won't be around for longer than 5-10 years. After that, all your precious backed up save data is gone. Whereas if you could make local copies of your save data and you made sure to store it properly you can go back to that save data 20 years from now.
Reverse engineering of the hardware is also necessary for emulation. In the distant future, there will be no working Switches left. And so the only way to enjoy Switch software will be through emulation. That is covered as well luckilly and so even after the last working Switch dies decades down the line, you'll still be able to play those old games on a modern platform. Future generations will be able to experience the games their grandparents and great grandparents played rather than be left with a few old gameplay videos and articles describing them.
9:48 every kid in public when after standing still for two seconds
That honor among thieves bit was quite interesting to watch.
Correction: The brick code in SX OS was removed long ago, after the first update was released.
Yo. My man Projared gonna be at the con?
*Oh wait, he already IS a con*
I laughed harder at this than I should have.
Can't wait to see him get shamed publicly. :)
*Thats not a joycon thats just a con*
I was looking for a comment like this. On a Normal Boots video about cheating what else am I supposed to think about?
Hes been PROVEN innocent though...
"a group of pirates"
then shows a family ordering pizza
Congrats on Trending. Miss see this kinda stuff on regular trending.
Yep, but now it's basicaly impossible to get banned as long as your spoof your Serial Number and play on a emuNand.
I just wish they start to find a real firmware exploit at some point, but in the meantime this adds value for the unprotected Switches, so...
Seeing footage of Fire Emblem Three Houses gives me strength.
You can really feel the Nintendo Creators Program on this video
I thought they stopped that
This was a great video, learned a lot! But it still sucks Nintendo has to fight so much more than I thought against hackers.
I wanna mod my old switch when i get a new one for emulators and postal 1 port tbh