Hacking nintendo

They could also access payment services linked to these accounts, including PayPal accounts or credit cards to buy items on Nintendo's platform. In the future, we will make further efforts to strengthen security and ensure safety so that similar events do not occur," said Nintendo in an April announcement.

On the newer Nintendo Switch, users can simply create an account using an email address, although it was possible to link it to the Nintendo Network ID. Nintendo encouraged customers to check their purchase history for any unauthorized transactions and then request a refund. Credit card information wasn't exposed, according to the company.

The company is emailing affected users, urging them to change their passwords. Anyone who previously used a Nintendo Network ID to log in should now use their Nintendo account email address instead.

Those Odroid boxes seem pretty neat. I had a GPX32 ten years ago which was great fun. Being able to play games from a bunch of different platforms was really good. Sega, Nintendo, Amiga… Although the lack of keyboard was tricky for some Amiga games.

Nice screen, lots of buttons, and inside that gameboy inspired case is a Raspberry Pi, whichever Pi you want! The directional pad in the Game and Watch devices is leagues above the one in the Odroid devices.

The STM32 microcontroller series has a bunch of firmware protection and encryption features, soooo Nintendo just decided to ignore them? But why? To let other people write games for free so Nintendo can sell more over-priced hardware? This is weird.

Do the Japanese have an equivalent to the U. H-1B Visa? If yes, that might explain it. This application was written for Windows, so you will need access to a Windows PC to inject the payload. Again, you have to options here for download this application. The first is to download the official application here , and the second is to download my packaged version of the application, which you can download here.

Next, go back to the Payload tab and click the little folder icon next to the Inject Payload button. If done correctly, the screen on the Switch should remain black. Windows should recognize the Switch because of the driver that we just installed. Click the Inject Payload button and your Switch should boot to a textual menu screen. You will get very familiar with navigating this menu, as doing this is required every time you want to boot your Switch in to custom firmware. This includes:.

There is a YouTube video showing how this works, here. For full disclosure, I have yet to purchase and try one of these devices myself. Optionally Restoring the Switch to Factory Settings. What if you boot the Switch like normal without any RCM jig or without injecting payload? You can connect to Wi-Fi, download things from the eShop, play online, play your legally downloaded eShop and card based games, etc.

The first thing you should do at this point is to back up your NAND. This will allow you to return the Switch to normal if anything ever happens to it via malicious home-brew software. Know that you should do this though, and keep the NAND backups in a safe location. Since then the production of these chips has stopped, making them really hard to find, and really expensive. Recently, some clones of these modchips have surfaced on specialized websites, in particular some Chinese electronics retailers.

Additional reports indicate that these chips might not be super reliable. Video from Sthetix. Check out more of his findings on the SX Clones, on his twitter thread. Let me go straight to the point: if you want to hack one of these models in , your best bet, and not even the most expensive one, is to buy an unpatched V1 model e. Or buy any other model with a modchip preinstalled harder to find online, to be honest. Switch Lite: your only option is to buy an SX Lite modchip and install it yourself those are practically impossible to find today.

Mariko Switch V2 : You can either find an SX Core modchip practically impossible to find , or a HWFLY clone semi difficult to find but this might change, also see the issues related to these chips in the section above.

Patched V1 Switch: your only option is to buy an SX Core modchip and install it yourself those are practically impossible to find today.