We all know the 3ds is comically easy to hack, do you think the switch will reach that level of ease?

I have a v1 I might mod after eol

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    I think it will be, I think the only console that can’t be hacked without a hardmod is the Xbox 360? But I am unaware if it is because it has a solid security system or just the lack of interest for prominent people lol.

    I don’t think it’s lack of interest, over the years they have streamlined the process of hard modding, nowadays you don’t even need a glitch chip you just need to connect a wire between two points to attain a similar result.

    I imagine that it’s likely a similar type of refinement will happen in switch hard modding.

    Very doubtful of full soft mods happening anytime soon though unless the keys are obtained somehow.

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      7 months ago

      Very doubtful of full soft mods happening anytime soon though unless the keys are obtained somehow.

      Yeah, I meant about softmodding, so I guess the security of the hardware is actually good yet…

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        7 months ago

        Well the 3ds is much older and also never had it’s hardware exploit released to Nintendo before the New 3DS came out.

        Not the case with Nintendo because as Kate Temkin on her moral high horse decided to kiss Nintendo’s ass and give it away to be patched on all later Nintendo Switch revisions (wasn’t entirely her but she helped Nintendo directly). So there goes the Switch’s equivalent of NTRboot and also probably its eqivalent of B9S as well since the New SoCs also disable auto payload rebooting functionality in AMS.

        With how much the bootloader has been documented it seems unlikely anything besides a glitching exploit (or massive leak at Nintendo) will be able to mod the later Switch revisions, you never know of course, but it doesn’t look promising