Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy

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• neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The problem is when a new game is released that requires an update to a later firmware version.

  I think I’ve had it before where the updates applied to the system from the game card.

  Unless I misunderstood what was happening. We will have to wait for someone to figure that out.

  I’m rooting for someone to home brew the switch 2 ASAP

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  • tiramichu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You’ll probably have a long time to wait.

    The Switch 1 was only able to run homebrew due to a hardware exploit in the CPU which allowed injection of arbitrary code. The interesting thing about that vulnerability being that since it was a hardware vulnerability, it couldn’t be patched out even after it was discovered.

    Following that incident, I’m sure Nintendo has been working especially hard to ensure there are no similar vulnerabilities existing on the Switch 2.

    That said, console hackers are an amazingly creative and talented bunch, so I wouldn’t be surprised by anything.

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    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Hard to say. Consoles have certainly gotten more sercure and people finding vulnerabilities are far less likely to just give them out for free these days

      But there is incentive to hack any console and nintendo has historically attracted the biggest dorks. Additionally they also seem to historically make pretty huge blunders, though the switch exploit was nvidias fault tbf

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    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure all Nintendo consoles have had a problem with being hacked. As far back as the Wii, people were able to run hombrew pretty quickly.

      I think Nintendo just sucks at console security or maybe they are a bigger target due to their exclusives.

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Ever since I learned about the RGH Xbox 360 crack I’ve just assumed every console will be cracked and emulated no matter what. People are fucking clever.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You could have said that about every Nintendo console since the NES, yet here we are.

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  • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Firmware is dumped almost immediately as well, not a big deal to update a switch offline.

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