If one follows this and jailbreaks their Switch 2, are they in danger of getting their account banned by Nintendo, and their games unaccessible?

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ada-h00k 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The chances of getting banned for this are extremely high. The Switch 2 has plenty of mechanisms to detect tampering. Even if you were completely offline during the process and then reset the Switch afterward, there are logs. People have already been banned for using the MIG Switch to play backups of Switch 1 games on the Switch 2.

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m4rtink 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I wonder if this would be a reason to sue in the EU ? IIRC you can even replace the firmware without voiding the warranty, unless the manufacturer can prove the firmware cause the issue.

Here I guess you could just RMA the device or even sue Nintendo for retaliating after you just used the device you bought ?

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m4rtink 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also, Louis Rossmann, please buy a Switch 2, apply the exploit & go online. Thanks in advance! :D

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realusername 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I also don't think remotely bricking/banning the console is legal in the EU.

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chii an hour ago | parent [-]

they dont need to brick the machine - they can simply ban your online account, which they can use EULA to make you agree to before getting that account. You lose your games if the game requires online verification (which implies an account). This way, you won't be able to play your games purchased, even if it's a physical copy - you can only play games that don't have verification like this (i dont own a switch, so i dont know if this is actually true).

	▲	realusername an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The law has superiority over the EULA, they could probably get away with disabling online multiplayer with concerns of cheating but I don't see any legal basis on how they could take away purchased games. That would go against any consumer right laws.

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joenot443 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I jailbroke my Switch 1 the day I bought it, was banned from Nintendo Online the next day. The only games I bought were physical. I was told this would happen, so it wasn’t an issue at all.

I’ve told my friends if you plan on playing online on it, definitely don’t jailbreak.

	▲	drdexebtjl 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		IIRC the current approach makes your switch dual boot the unmodified firmware and the custom firmware with online capabilities disabled, so you could still play online and avoid bans. But I wouldn’t trust that with an expensive account-bound digital library.

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asimovDev 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

never go online and even if you reset the console afterwards , assume the console will get banned when connect to the internet as they know to look for markers of customer firmware.

Switch 1 hacks bypass this by copying ofw from flash onto the microSD card and patching it there to my crude understanding, so that unsigned code never touches the firmware on the system memory.

Something like this definitely will be needed again for the Switch 2 so I'd only do this if you don't care about being banned.

EDIT: ofw = OFW = official firmware

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discordance an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No doubt we will soon enough get de-Nintendo’d alternatives that service jb’d devices

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GolDDranks 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

(I'm interested in Homebrew, and I'd love to port my self made game dev framework on Switch 2, but I'm afraid of losing everything)

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josu 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, you will get banned.

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