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So all one needs to do to make exploits/jailbreaks/backup loaders for switch is to get a Nintendo developer account? Sounds like a win

rococode 8y ago
Apparently, getting a Nintendo developer account is pretty difficult. You have to pitch a specific game to them and follow a bunch of rules to make your game and code secure. That's also why Nintendo treated this incident as such a big deal - they are very strict about access to the platform, and this blatantly broke their rules.
- naikrovek 8y ago
  Getting the account is easy. Getting approval to develop for the Switch is much harder. You can buy Wii U and 3DS dev kits right away, though. And boy they are EXPENSIVE.
Jasper_ 8y ago
... and buy separate devkit hardware (relatively cheap compared to Wii U days, but still), make an actual game (devkit does not play retail games, and retail console cannot install dev-signed apps), get it through TRC/lotcheck, pay the fees to publish the game, give trailers/launch material to Nintendo, never once mention its secret purpose as a jailbreak, and then secretly share it with all your friends without any bit of the hacker community finding it out. Extremely easy.
- Wowfunhappy 8y ago
  ...it occurs to me that some developer could be hiding a secret Jailbreak in a retail game. But we would never know about it. :D
- kuzehanka 8y ago
  > never once mention its secret purpose as a jailbreak The switch is completely thoroughly irreversibly jailbroken at the hardware level already. I don't think the secret purpose was to be a jailbreak.
  - beefhash 8y ago
    > The switch is completely thoroughly irreversibly jailbroken at the hardware level already. This has been fixed in hardware revisions since about a year ago. Getting a unit that is vulnerable to the so-called RCM exploit has become increasingly difficult. (The boot9strap exploit against the 3DS, on the other hand, was never fixed. One wonders why.)

rococode 8y ago

Apparently, getting a Nintendo developer account is pretty difficult. You have to pitch a specific game to them and follow a bunch of rules to make your game and code secure. That's also why Nintendo treated this incident as such a big deal - they are very strict about access to the platform, and this blatantly broke their rules.

naikrovek 8y ago
Getting the account is easy. Getting approval to develop for the Switch is much harder. You can buy Wii U and 3DS dev kits right away, though. And boy they are EXPENSIVE.

Jasper_ 8y ago

... and buy separate devkit hardware (relatively cheap compared to Wii U days, but still), make an actual game (devkit does not play retail games, and retail console cannot install dev-signed apps), get it through TRC/lotcheck, pay the fees to publish the game, give trailers/launch material to Nintendo, never once mention its secret purpose as a jailbreak, and then secretly share it with all your friends without any bit of the hacker community finding it out. Extremely easy.

Wowfunhappy 8y ago
...it occurs to me that some developer could be hiding a secret Jailbreak in a retail game. But we would never know about it. :D
kuzehanka 8y ago
> never once mention its secret purpose as a jailbreak The switch is completely thoroughly irreversibly jailbroken at the hardware level already. I don't think the secret purpose was to be a jailbreak.
- beefhash 8y ago
  > The switch is completely thoroughly irreversibly jailbroken at the hardware level already. This has been fixed in hardware revisions since about a year ago. Getting a unit that is vulnerable to the so-called RCM exploit has become increasingly difficult. (The boot9strap exploit against the 3DS, on the other hand, was never fixed. One wonders why.)