The Nintendo Switch 2 has been hacked with a Userland exploit that requires SmileBASIC to run.
Following recent reports of character injection in Mario Kart World running on retail hardware, the security landscape is shifting rapidly. Commercial games are being dumped and datamined and of course some early homebrew is starting to appear, but what does this mean for the end-user and will we start to see emulators, decomps and recomps appearing anytime soon?
Lets talk about the Switch 2 Jailbreak, how we got here and what the future holds in todays episode!
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00:00 Switch 2 Hacked
02:07 The SmileBASIC Userland Exploit
03:49 Homebrew and fake stuff
08:36 ROM Dumping is here
13:07 Whats Next?
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Mistakes were made.
I just hope we could maybe get a switch 1 jail break even on patched switch without a mod chip. I know all ns1 can be jb but you need a chip I want a jb like v1 unpatched switch's.
13:40 video is total clickbait.
I'm hoping that I can keep my Switch 2 offline for long enough for another method to come around, because I was only about 30 minutes late to getting Smile BASIC and then another 30 minutes late to getting it the alternate way. I'm half tempted to just buy another Switch 2, but that'll have to be a bit farther down the line since I am a broke man right now lol.
Also, I heard that this exploit has been known about for a while, but it was being kept under wraps for as long as possible so Nintendo wouldn't patch it out and we could get more games available with a higher firmware. This Pepsi guy though found out about it independently and decided to just shoot it out there, much to some people's chagrin. Doors are wide open now, though, and I'm glad that this was at least done on a firmware that I had access to already.
Thanks for an actual, rational explanation. Frustrating how any discussion about this is full of people who are only interested in emulators and piracy and think we'll have them tomorrow.
That SILO reference 😀
Don't you hate it when you are expecting a healthy dump and all you get is a partial?
Point Nintendo right to the exploit so they can patch it with ease why don't you.
Switch 2 is stupid anyway
im still gonna buy games and try to support the only company at least trying to keep fun games and physical media alive.
I love AI.
It is a great news. I am not a fan of Switch 2, but I hope that it will speed up making a Switch 2 emulator (which maybe I will test someday).
Great… now the fair players (those who don't want to hack their systems) have to worry about:
1. NS2 Game Cards that have their contents dumped, because NS Game Cards that were dumped by prior owners or were subjected to the MiG Switch would be flagged as pirated software, which will trigger a permanent system ban once it is inserted into a Nintendo Switch 2 System regardless of player activity.
2. Cheaters in online play
3. Hack attacks on other players online, especially in Call of Duty.
I assume you meant Nintendo patched the exploit on everything after the original v1 Switches? They didn't patch v1 Switches because the bug exists in hardware so they had to do a hardware revision.
All the manufacturers should do what Xbox did. Allow people to run homebrew on their consoles. Once u allow homebrew, no one would want to hack your console.
If only these hackers would do something actually important with their skills…but I guess they don't watch the news or go outside or anything.
AI is going to make all this child's play soon. Ps6 comes out and it going to get jail broken the day off release.
Got any more vintage gamer content? It's all hacking videos mate.
I'm surprised that it took less than 2 years.
Welp, don’t expect the next Nintendo console to have backwards compatibility
I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo (maybe Sony…) basically just go "if we were hacked by someone asking AI to do this, why not do it ourselves" and this really becomes "100 people with Pro OpenAI/Claude accounts vs. Nintendo/Sony with 10s to 100s of people on Enterprise OpenAI/Claude/Gemini accounts saying money is no objective"
8:48 that fucking @ hit me like a flashbang dawg
Funny thing is is you could mod a 3ds using smile basic
Does this mean devs will be able to make their sw2 emulators finally run?
Switch 2 didn't got jailbroken so no homebrew software. The current memory exploit is extremely dangerous if you don't know what you are doing. It can damage your memory and make it unwritable. Meaning It can't load games or system can't boot at all. It's a step to a full jailbroken but many step is still needed.
First the PS5, then current generation iPhones, now the Switch 2? Crazy times for the jailbreak scene
"Mistakes are eternal."
Time to buy one soon. Used
Game companies should have treated the industry better.
I support homebrew, but, I also prefer games not being datamined right after or even before launch. It was kinda nice not to worry about spoilers for a bit, but this was inevitable.
This is what happen when a coding employee at nintendo or Sony breaks and post on the internet how to hack the hardware data, Dumping the switch data onto an A.I system and reprogramming the firmware and DRM, Finally A.I. is doing something that isn't Slop.
Yet the OLED is not jailbroken.
Dude, you said no way in hell mate. Remember that post? You doubted and you got proven wrong.
Everyone was excited for this phone and now it's just a meme. 😂
It's Nintendover.
The fact they're now poking at firmware etc means we're going to find some exploits before they can patch everything… no matter how much they try to bulletproof their hardware, there's always a way in. We've seen it so far.
Might not come any time soon, but it's going to come. And once we're there, suddenly the switch2 will explode for usability. Piracy sure, but full-blown homebrew and ports running native, making it another of Nintendo's systems popped wide open.
I just responded to a video about the ps5 breaks with this: We are seeing the beginnings of a much larger world wide movement that will encompass almost every part of society. It's not just console or videogame makers that people are upset with, it's just the part of society that already had an active scene that have been working on such things for decades. People are also fed up with gov, home appliances, automobiles, cameras, farming equipment, laptops and PCs, phones, tablets, TELEVISIONS, retail stores, and anything and everything beyond or in between. If it requires a subscription, if updates make products worse for profit, if things we buy and/or own enshitify and eula's lead to forced arbitration, it's in the crosshairs. These things are in almost every part of our lives. We are seeing the beginning of a movement that's about to burn capitalism to the ground and I'm so happy that I'm here to witness the match being lit.
We getting OoT remake on PC now. Lets fucking go.
5:46 "It's also worth being precise." Man, it frustrates me that I can't not automatically think AI when I hear phrases like that.
It kinda sucks not giving people the freedom of doing what they want with their own products they buy
I really wish they had kept the exploit itself from the general public a lot longer. the ninjas will definitely fix this very quickly. I wonder if fuze has any issues like this. it's the better basic anyways lmao.
I'm personally waiting for cfw at the pace these hackers are going most likely it will be within a month or so.
The floodgates are open. Good luck trying to hold this off. 🤭
People always scream piracy with console modding but it's really just enabling the system to do things it should've been able to do in the first place. Consoles are such restrictive pieces of shit; modding just enables them to do some things that a PC can normally do.
Interested to see what firmware all of the freshly manufactured Zelda 40th consoles will be running.
I hate modern AI, but it's good for two and only two things: language translation and brute forcing semi-complex things. I accept its use for finding exploits like this but I'm NOT looking forward to deluge of vibe-coded slop that's going to take over and push aside human created mods once the Switch 2 is fully jailbroken.
Waiting rom dumps. No need to buy a Switch 2 anymore 🙂
pepsi poo aye eye
can we call it smilehax 2
Seems like the only reason they created the switch 2 was to improve it's security. Once these games get dumped, I can't wait to see if they work on the original switch lol.