Is the switch really worth hacking? Why isn't it as easy as the 3ds/Wii/PSP?

There's literally no reason why not at this point.

If you can do it, do it. Get a Switch 2 for online.

>>714012404
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNQ-HHE503Q

>Why isn't it as easy as the 3ds/Wii/PSP?
be more specific. you seemed confused.

if all you want to do is illegal pirate, you just buy a flashcart like r4/migswitch. no special hacks needed.

if you want to actually run legal homebrew then you need to jailbreak the thing. that's different.

>>714011827 (OP)
>Why isn't it as easy as the 3ds/Wii/PSP?
What are you talking about lad, it literally takes 5 minutes of downloading a folder and transfering it to your switch's SD card to hack it
Sure it's a soft mod but it's easy to get around by just leaving it docked in sleep mode

>>714011827 (OP)
I like my hacked OLED, but I couldn't do the soldering myself, some of the components are fucking tiny

what's the current way to emulate switch on mac? tired of the crappy screen and battery

>>714013929
wait really. does it allow codes? I'm not interested in big hacks but I'd love to have that one mario kart 8 mod that displays the ingame speed.

I have like 3 softlocked switches that I can probably fix if I could be bothered.

I should get round to that and sell them.

>Mfw forgot to turn on airplane mode

I shut it down right afterwards but still should be safe from any major hurdles right???

>>714011827 (OP)
you have to be really careful when setting up emunand otherwise its fine you can't play online with other people anymore like you could back in the 3ds days (nvidia hardware fault aside) they stepped up their anti piracy measures a lot and even moreso with the Switch 2. It gets annoying with the jig and rcm every time but if you dont know/want to solder a picofly chip you can buy ones with the chip already soldered in to it on aliexpress iirc goes for the same a new switch would or i think even less now especially the lite models though we're kind of nearing the end of major switch 1 releases i think all that's left is Prime 4, Tomodachi Life and Pokemon ZA

>>714017381
If you had 90DNS set up you'll be fine or just opened some homebrew since they can't really see that but if you didn't and you went on a game then lol lmao even you're fucked

>>714017381
Honestly why even care at this point? Nintendo doesn't ban accounts so if you have a Switch 2 or ever plan on getting one then you can just use that for online

>>714011827 (OP)
I have a 2017 model and I was considering doing it just for the sake of transferring modded saves to my Switch 2 but then again I'd have to actually buy Switch 1 and I am enjoying Switch games emulated at 4K on my 4090 PC. I wish there was an easy way to transfer saves from emulator on PC to the Switch 2 for on the go.

>>714012972
wowie feels just like 2003 all over again!

Because you need an old switch or be very good at soldering. I just paid someone to do the solder job

you can emulate switch 1 games on rtx 3060 in 1440p 60fps
get switch 2 because it's unhackable

>>714012972
reminder not using trannyback netcode is objectively a good thing
most fighting games moving to it is almost the sole reason why you never hear of fighting games anymore aside from the 2D DBZ ones, and even that's just off spic and indian hype
even guilty gear just fizzled out in a wet fart despite the massive westoid pandering the series had and the momentum it was picking up with strive

>>714013197
for third worlders a NIG is far more expensive than just paying someone to install a modchip in one iirc
its nearly double the cost last time someone told me a year or so back

>>714013929
>Sure it's a soft mod
That only works if you have a modchip.
Even the ones that can technically be softmodded have a process involving constantly injecting a payload through the usb c connector from your compooter every single time you turn the bloody thing on.
Yes, it's made somewhat easier by external USB C devices to inject the payload manually, but it's no less obnoxious.

If you install a modchip into your switch, do you have to do a weird boot-trick or any sort of messing with a jig/paperclip every time you start it up, or does it just werk?

>>714022045
there's some rare versions of the modchip where you have to press the power button while holding volume down for it to boot into the jailbroken OS, but those already stopped being used around 2022 or so
it basically just werks now

if you have a smartphone made within the last 2 years, it runs circles around the switch. just emulate it. xenoblade x runs at 60fps on my phone while switch 2 is still 30fps.

I have a launch model switch 1 but can't really think of any reason to hack it besides running roms of switch games
how easy are these things to hack? any modchip shenanigans or just paperclip and gg?

>>714022445
Launch models are insanely easy to hack. If you give 0 shits about losing online access, then all you need is the jig and 10 minutes of your time dragging stuff into your SD card

>>714022541
>If you give 0 shits about losing online access
Yeah I have a switch 2 now so my switch 1 is not in use.

>>714022390
Is switch emulation really that good? Surely there are still hiccups right? Audio distortion bothers me and last I tried, even PS1 emulation has it occasionally.

>>714022575
Then hack it faggot, a hacked switch is insanely useful due to how easy it is to pirate games via tinfoil shops and there's also a shitton of cool game mods.
You should probably format your shit first since who knows whether or not that might trigger a switch 2 ban due to it still being linked to your account. Making an emuNAND after a system format will make you 100% ban proof.

>>714011827 (OP)
I think that the real issue with the Switch as a hacked system is that... Shit like the deck exists and genuinely does everything you'd want out of a hacked switch (Better performance, hacks, emulation, custom themes, homebrew) for round the same price with little to no setup besides just dowloading emudeck

A hacked switch is the worst way of playing pirated switch games

>>714021953
You only have to do that if you turn it off completely, you don't get kicked out of CFW if you keep the system in sleep mode.

>>714011827 (OP)
Not worth it in my opinion. If the battery dies you gotta reinject the payload every time, it's annoying as fuck. Can't even give it to my neice because of that

>>714022837
for first party bing bing wahoo? nearly flawless if a bit unoptimized sometimes
for anything else? good fucking luck, you may either get a flawless game, just some minor bugs, have it constantly crash, likely killing your video driver with it and forcing a full PC reboot, or simply have it not boot at all
it doesn't help second party games (FE and xenoblade specifically) are also under that "it may work perfectly, it may be fucked" coin toss

>>714022390
Why lie? The Xenoblade games have tons of issues even on PC

>>714023263
The goydeck has always online DRM, already making it inherently inferior to a switch.
And if switch emulation is already spotty on PC, on a goydeck have fun having the device sound and feel like a jet engine trying to run basic bing bing wahoo.

>>714024293
>The goydeck has always online DRM
Why are tendies so dishonest?

>>714024383
show me a guide to use it on game mode without logging into a steam account
>just use another distro bro
just use a jailbroken switch bro

Worth modding for the emulation alone imo, im playing some PS1 games using retroarch with light shaders and it works well

>>714024474
>show me a guide to use it on game mode without logging into a steam account
I don't know, I don't even own a steam deck. But if I did own one, I would just do the exact same thing that I would do on PC: double click the game icon

>just use a jailbroken switch bro
I already do bro. Haven't bought a single game since I got my R4 back in the late 2000's

>>714011827 (OP)
The Switch isn't worth hacking because it isn't worth owning

>>714024698
>I don't even own a steam deck.
No wonder you don't know it locks you out of game mode if you skip the login lol.

>>714012404
Yeah I just got a switch 2 and did the system transfer thing, and now all my downloaded games are tied to the 2 and removed from the 1, so there's no point in ever going back to use it for anything but piracy. Even if I wanted to use my switch 1 again, maybe for the better battery life, it would be a huge headache telling it "game belongs here now" for everything I touch, potentially in a place with no wifi

>>714011827 (OP)
It's extremely easy if you got an early model. It's not as easy on the other ones because you were late and they fixed the easy shit.

>>714024898
>it would be a huge headache telling it "game belongs here now" for everything I touch, potentially in a place with no wifi
If you do a system reset it unlinks from your nintendo account and have to set up everything as if it was right out of the box.
If you merely set up an offline user with no nintendo account, then immediately just boot into emummc, and block the nintendo servers through 90dns, you can use any of the tinfoil shops without problem.

>>714021953
You only have to inject a payload if you turn it off completely. Just leave it in sleep mode. It's a tablet, do you regularly turn off phones and tablets you use?

>>714011827 (OP)
If memory serves, the smash edition was one of the last easy-mod switches, right? I'm 100% fine with no more online. I don't use it anyways

>>714011827 (OP)
Yes.

>>714024070
The rabids game is in the "why, fucking why doesn't this work"
I own them both physically but I want to play it at 1440p

>have to update CFW because new games no longer work with the old sigpatches
is this simple to do because I see conflicting information on this

>>714026595
it's easy but tedious
first you update your atmosphere and hekate, then you update your syspatches, then you update any other sysmodules like mission control, then at last you can update the firmware with daybreak

I almost hacked mine with a modchip. The guy was only charging $80. But I read a little more and it seems that if the battery dies, you have to redo the jailbreak, and that was enough for me to give up on the idea. I'll play my Switch 1 until I finish my backlog and then just sell it or something. If I want an open handheld later on, I'll buy one of those portable PCs.

How do you find someone to install a chip? I bought a kit for my oled but I haven't attempted it, I totally fucked my first soldier job which was replacing mouse switches.

Beyond free Eshop games, it's not worth it. It's pretty disappointed compared to the 3ds and Wii. The best things I've done with my modded Switch is dumping anime to watch locally offline either on the TV or in tabletop mode. If you want a handheld to play older games on just get a retroid pocket 5 or whatever, at least that can run PS2 games unlike the Switch, which struggles with Dreamcast.

>>714026562
I don't wanna be that guy but it seems the 2 runs the first one at 60, the Framerate seemingly wasn't locked or something

>>714029191
>if the battery dies, you have to redo the jailbreak
that's only the case with v1 models retard, the ones you jailbreak with the paperclip