Fail0verflow announce they have a coldboot exploit for Nintendo Switch, say “interesting times ahead”
Team Fail0verflow have uploaded a video showcasing a Nintendo Switch running an exploit as the console starts (video below).
This announce happens right after Team Xecuter stated they would release a hacking “solution” for all models of Nintendo Switch in Spring this year. I don’t believe in coincidences here and I personally read this as a message from Fail0verflow to Team Xecuter, that whatever commercial scheme they have in mind could be trumped by a free hack. The announces from these two teams happen as a homebrew launcher has been scheduled to be released for firmware 3.0.0 in a few weeks.
With that being said, Fail0verflow haven’t released fully weaponized hacks in a long time, in particular on the latest firmware of current generation consoles, so it is not clear if they intend to release anything at this point.
The “Demo” runnning at boot on the console in their video states:
Fail0verflow presents shofEL2, a coldboot exploit for NV Tegra. Greetz from this dinky ARMv4T Core to all Switch hax0rz! Interesting Times ahead…
It is also not clear if this is running on the Switch latest firmware (Team Xecuter have stated their solution is “Future proof”, a claim that many hackers have debunked as an unrealistic sales pitch – Nintendo could always release a hardware revision), or if there are limitations involved. But given the video says it is an exploit on the CPU itself, this could be actually working on all firmwares.
We made a nice scroller for Switch 🙂 pic.twitter.com/kUWTVMQf8s
— fail0verflow (@fail0verflow) January 7, 2018
Source: Fail0verflow
FIRST! Finally, after years
Just release it. I hate how people sit on this stuff for years at times. Team Xcuter gets some respect for at least saying they plan to release rather than tease and wait for attention.
Groups refrain from releasing these kinds of things because they want to give a non-piracy environment as much of a chance to flourish. Piracy doesn’t necessarily kill sales, but it does deter development and commercial dev support. And groups like Fail0verflow waiting this long while sitting on an exploit could mean that they are fairly certain the xecuter exploit will enable piracy. In these situations, they’d rather see user-based, unsigned code *not* be hidden behind a paywall or risky hardware modification while a company like xecuter makes money hand over fist for a shoddily-designed product that gets little to no support after it leaves the distribution center. I’m guessing this is similar to what happened to the level 0 exploit on PS3: Responsible groups had the exploits and were sitting on them until some assbag company also found the exploit and tried to cash in on enabling piracy, then said group released the exploit to prevent such a market from taking off in the first place.
fully agree
agree….wiiu was the same story…
Respect for wanting to make money from piracy? 😛
Quit whining you dont even have a Switch kid
When you are starved anyone who throws you a bone shall be respected 😉
agreed, though comparing the two, xecuters seems to have a faster boot time than overflows. But I don’t even remember the last time fail0verflow released an exploit to the public, they just tend to wave their dicks around saying we’re the best and we totally got this exploit guys. They even piggyback on other people’s work, like yellows8, yellows8 is the true unsung hero.
For real I’d love a TX switchsploit, I’d buy it right away.
I’m currently on software 3.0.0 and wanted to play BOTW but it tells me it requires to install a software update to continue. I always thought BOTW was on a lower software version already?
The first launch of BOTW is compatible on 3.0, but the DLC require newer firmware. Nintendo also has released a new revision for the BOTW cartridges. If it has a “001” on the back instead of “000”, then that cartridge is only playable on 3.0.1 and above. Sorry. Also, update data could break compatibility with lower versions, but I can’t confirm that it does for sure.
Disconnect your internet and delete any files that BotW may have previously created and then give it a try! 🙂
In 10 months, #NintendoSwitch has become the most hacked console in U.S. history!
Id say the Xbox Classic was by far the most hacked console. It defines what a console home brew scene is. Project’s that started on that (Xbmc, now Kodi) still live on today on other platforms.
the 360 says hi
PSP took a few weeks so there’s that.
you must be new kid
“Future proof”, a claim that many hackers have debunked as an unrealistic sales pitch – Nintendo could always release a hardware revision)
I think its obvious here that when Team Xecuter says “Future Proof” they mean for this specific hardware. If Nintendo releases new hardware a need exploit would be needed.
a new exploit*
future proof would technically be the wrong term then. Since they are trying to pitch this exploit to many people then they need to choose their words more carefully.
Maybe “Future Resistant” seems more realistic.
exactly lol. as far as i am concirned,being future proof on current hardware is still being future proof.
still,it is obvious that the overflow guys took this as a challenge,and if their hack is indeed unremovable by new updates(like how the hacked 3DSs are)then this would ofcourse be a much better solution as it would be free. either way,interesting times ahead for sure!
EXACTLY, future proof as in current hardware ALA A9LH/B9S, it doesn’t matter how many firmware patches you throw at it, it won’t go away… Obviously a hardware revision is like a new system that works differently…
Yes they could make a new hardware revision, but their software would still need to work on the ALL the consoles that were released up to that point.
Gove me hack all gor me hahahahahahhahaha
Awesome
First
Excellent illustration xD nice article and little analysis, thanks !
LOL at the image of the dude looking back
a very poor Photoshop job
Time to buy a Nintendo switch
The lockscreen UI post-boot is from an earlier firmware.
I don’t understand these scenes, everyone is always like “We publicly hate piracy and we don’t want plebs having the free gamez” but then also say “If anyone tried to make money from hacks we will give everyone the piracy for free!!” like doesn’t make sense to me. Also was listening to discord discussions on where the Switch scene is at and a lot of the devs while trying to pretend they were anti-piracy were also very clearly anti-paying-for-stuff so it really does confuse me.
Personally I’m just hyped to use the switch to play media on it’s just a great tablet with good sound.
simple. they dislike piracy. but they dislike people who make money off of piracy more. when teamxecutor releases a modchip people can pirate if they pay team executor. so fof then releases a free softmod. it doesn’t enable piracy since it was already available with hardmod. it just takes away customers from teamxecutor
Dont buy from executer. wait a little longer. More will come. Trust me. Dont waste money on early hardware mods.