Fail0verflow announce they have a coldboot exploit for Nintendo Switch, say “interesting times ahead”

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37 Responses

  1. Yami Justin says:

    FIRST! Finally, after years

  2. Gold Face says:

    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.

    • Michael Scarn says:

      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.

    • FFTW says:

      fully agree

    • Cypherous says:

      Respect for wanting to make money from piracy? 😛

    • drunkenmonk says:

      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.

  3. salvatore says:

    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?

    • TehCupcakes says:

      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.

    • xerotyme says:

      Disconnect your internet and delete any files that BotW may have previously created and then give it a try! 🙂

  4. Whirrrrrrrr says:

    In 10 months, #NintendoSwitch has become the most hacked console in U.S. history!

  5. Jonathan says:

    “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.

    • Jonathan says:

      a new exploit*

      • true but.. says:

        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.

    • FFTW says:

      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!

    • Yattoz says:

      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…

    • a7mag3ddon says:

      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.

  6. Retard boy says:

    Gove me hack all gor me hahahahahahhahaha

  7. Nonya says:

    Awesome

  8. Angelo says:

    First

  9. Yattoz says:

    Excellent illustration xD nice article and little analysis, thanks !

  10. lol says:

    LOL at the image of the dude looking back

  11. Lo says:

    Time to buy a Nintendo switch

  12. Techinicabor says:

    The lockscreen UI post-boot is from an earlier firmware.

  13. r says:

    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.

    • jp says:

      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

  14. Spaarks says:

    Dont buy from executer. wait a little longer. More will come. Trust me. Dont waste money on early hardware mods.

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