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Do you think switch hacking will become safer in the future?

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

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  • 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

    • So only v1 systems can be nodded?

      How are things like switch lites modded in that case?

      • By use of a voltage glitching chip that glitches the chip to bypass checks and inject the boot code. It's a different exploit altogether and requires hardware modding. That method can mod all Switches from Late v1 systems all the way up to the OLED and the exploit might even work on the Switch's sucessor (would require a new chip for the new hardware and likely modifications to the glitching routine)

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