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Online gaming ended up being the real death of piracy. I’ve got a hacked switch and the experience is significantly degraded since you can’t use any online feat
by Gigachad 2y ago
Online gaming ended up being the real death of piracy. I’ve got a hacked switch and the experience is significantly degraded since you can’t use any online features.
- auguzanellato 2y agoThat’s because on the Switch they figured out how to bind online sessions to digital certificates unique per game copy signed by Nintendo themselves. This way “copied” games can’t get online without being detected. The 3DS didn’t have any of those checks so you could actually play online with pirated games.
- CoolGuySteve 2y agoYou could download full games directly from the official online store servers using a homebrew front end. They did all the purchase auth on the 3DS but a hacked firmware could bypass it. They didn’t put the game file download process behind an auth layer until very late in the system’s life.