At a recent German hacking conference, a team of hackers have successfully hacked a Nintendo Switch. Taking advantage of the Switch’s off-the-shelf Nvidia Tegra chip, the team demonstrated that it is possible to install a program to allow for unofficial homebrew software. The video that showed users how to do so has since been scrubbed off the web and as always, we do not advocate hacking here at My Nintendo News. Hacking a console brings a good chance of voiding your warranty with Nintendo and, with regular updates being distributed by Nintendo, expect your console to work abnormally – or not at all.
This isn’t the first time the Nintendo Switch has been hacked. We reported back in March that a popular hacker posted his findings and highlighted the system’s hidden web browser that showed some vulnerabilities which were inevitably exploited.
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NO!
GOD PLEASE NO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Always there is the same scheme…
First “homebrew” and illegal emulation
Next hacks for games… I HATE HACKERS in Splatoon1 on Wii U. They DESTROY game.
Next pirates = console is dead.
Switch is first really great console, i don’t want to end it so quickly.
F*CK YOU DAMN HACKERS!
Yes. ok chill. 3ds is way more hacked than wii u and there it is. Still kicking ass
Splatoon 1 hackerS?Lol with 400hours i berely met 1 hacker or 2. in 3mins on each game.
lol splatoon 1 hackers always get ban anyway lol
yes.
And besides the way Nintendo switch update acts I wouldn’t want to hack, if my switch automatically update and it ends up brick or start acting weird
Not all hacks are bad yes the console is region free from what i read but still very restrictive in what you can actually do, so i don’t see the harm in a little. Who knows you may get access to a internet browser. hacking isn’t the end of the world guys and girls.
Hackers can kiss my big fat hairy butt!!!
I am a hacker. im coming babyyyy
As long as I’m able to buy physical copies of games I don’t care much for hacking, but once they take away my ability to buy physical all bets are off. Just give me my physical games and we won’t have any problems devs O_O
The most important reason for the success of the PS2 and PSP was piracy. Just saying.
Yeah, using a PSP to emulate Nintendo was a popular hack.
Of course, consoles are more successful when people find out they can be hacked, whether Nintendo and fans like it or not.
“Of course, consoles are more successful when people find out they can be hacked”
Can you come up with a single example of this? What are the major hack consoles? The Wii which was already a hit, the original Xbox which was a failure, the PSP and the Vita were both failures. What, the 3DS? Who’s primary demographic barely knows how to use an action replay?
Back in the PSX days, in my country it sold a lot, many children that were my age had it with a lot of xD clones. I don’t have numbers, it is just my appreciation, but it also happened with Nintendo DS, there were a lot of R4-like cards out there.
The PSP wasn’t successful, and the PS2 successful because of hacking? In what universe? Maybe 1 in 1000 PS2 customers did anything with it that sony didn’t authorize, MAYBE. I’d put a more realistic estimate at 1 in 5000.
Did you read my replies about both 3D and 2D DK being able to coexist well?
Actually the PSP was successful. DIdn’t it sell like an insane number of units? It’s the Vita that wasn’t successful.
Why hacking is a cause for an article? This is very unprofessional on your behalf.
Wooooo! Etika finally has a use for his second switch he bought specifically for this day!
I like hacks, tbh. Yeah, there can be cheaters online, but the moderation for that has been improved. I like the possibilities and potential the hacks can unlock. :)
||This is what the only good hacker looks like after we are done with them…||
https://youtu.be/gilvPbekkdo?t=37s
:O…
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Thats basically what I think about hacking as long as you do the right things like modding and stuff it’s alright making hacks like infinite stuff and etc is horrible and most likely makes the game unbalanced and Unfun I know because using hacks on the 3ds bored me to death like that
People get all riled up about hacking, and while I get that people automatically tend to associate it with piracy, there are many cool things you can do with it. I think it would be pretty awesome if someone made a hack to add characters to FE Warriors the way they did for Smash bros. As long as people keep their business out of online pvp, it’s pretty harmless.
This is actually a really good news. It means that switch can be used in more ways than what Nintendo offers us.
“as always, we do not advocate hacking here at My Nintendo News.” Then don’t report on it.
People will look at this article and take it as a queue to look things up and then next thing you know, online multiplayer on the switch is ruined by hackers.
Piracy is bad and all but the Switch could be an awesome emulation machine once 2TB SDs are compatible.
YES.
Gimme emulation, gimme homebrew, gimme mods and fan patches.
This is not good for companies , because they don’t make too much games for Switch .
If this could be happen every company lose the trust from Nintendo ..
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well thats cool