By now, you have probably heard about hackers and modders modifying their Switch consoles to display things such as pornography in their profile icons. This has resulted in the pictures appearing in games that show them, such as Super Mario Odyssey. Well, a Nintendo representative has released a statement to The Verge. The company is taking action against these users and banning them:
“A very small number of consumers have been using modified Nintendo Switch systems to display inappropriate or unauthorized material in certain online games. Nintendo always strives to provide a positive experience for all consumers and this includes continuously monitoring all threats to its products’ security and taking swift and strong action to prevent them. Modified Nintendo Switch systems have been banned.”
Come on, step it up, Nintendo. All these hackers need to be erased for all eternity.
Nintendo isn’t Zeno
Nintendo isn’t Thanos, no matter HOW balanced (like all things should be) the Switch is after all these stability updates.
Super Shenron brought back the universes Zeno erased which was part of Zeno’s plan. So your comparison is invalid.
Do you even hear yourself right now?
I don’t think all hackers should be banned, just the ones that abuse their powers. To me, the types that only hack so they can rip the assets are fine as they don’t cause any problems to the players nor Nintendo. To me, the ones that should be banned are the ones that display pornography and give themselves abilities that are impossible normally.
…and that distribute illegal copies of N’s software and/or use illegally downloaded software on their Nintendo device.
+Nintendo First Order Officer オンドラ
Oh yes! Absolutely.
What about the pirates? the actual thieves.
I was wondering how long it would take for them to say or do something about this.
Funnily enough, it’s Nintendo’s fault the images were able to appear in the game at all. They should have used indexed images where different numbers correspond to different profile icons like Mario, Luigi, Kirby, Inkling, etc, but instead they load whatever image you have as the profile icon directly into the game and transmit it to everyone.
On an unmodified Switch you have a limited choice of icons.
Even if you use indexed images the hackers could change the existing images and put their
That’s impossible without hacking into N’s servers and that’s just higher league than cracking your device.
No because the profile pictures are saved locally on every Switch
It would be a local only change because everyone else would only see image number 16 and not your custom image 16
Exactly
It seems like you don’t understand me, Reaver. When indexed (numbered) images will be used, images will be saved on the server. When game wants your avatar, it now downloads it from your Switch, but if they were indexed, it would just ask for number of your avatar and then download it from N’s server. Therefore, there would be no possibility of changing images (globally, not locally) without hacking into N’s servers.
But why people who have those hackers as friends can see their modified profile pictures? I think the pictures are saved somewhere on the Switch. If the profile pictures were on the server then Nintendo could just find who has the profile picture different and ban them but the case seems strange that the server doesn’t show the default picture or an ? picture
All pictures are currently saved in the Switch, however we were discussing possible way how to avoid this issue: save all pre-set images on the server and when user sets their image, then just send the number that the image has on the server. Therefore, no images would be transferred between the Switches themselves. In case of Miis, they’d be all saved on the server and the Switch would just send the number indicating “Mii” and then the server’d find Mii character for the account that the sender has. No image exchange between Switches.
That’s exactly what I was thinking about
Aha, then sorry for the confusion.
>Hacker Illgaly hacks its device and goes through the trouble of purposely placing porn on a children game
>Is Nintendo fault guys
uh this logic
Contrary to Nintendo fanatic belief, Nintendo isn’t perfect & they do make mistakes. So yes; sometimes it IS Nintendo’s fault.
I can’t imagine a bigger rockstar than someone who changes their Switch ID avatar to something lewd and sexy. Way to go, kiddos. The future is surely yours.
Just like Swapnote (except hacked)
Not really.
Swapnote was a Pedo luring kids with direct/personal messages and pictures.
This shenanigans seems to just be trolls displaying stuff for the lulz and attention.
Well I guess these hackers are never gonna learn huh? This is what they get for missing around with Nintendo Products.
“…missing around…” :D
Oh messing around I mean.
Thats an expensive prank from those hackers
*facepalm* Idjits…
They’ll find a way around the ban eventually, though, so this bullshit will repeat itself eventually.
What they mean is “we’ve unleashed the ninjas”