Nintendo Switch: Tegra X1 Bootrom leaked, could precipitate Custom Firmware release
An unknown group of hackers has posted a link to the Tegra X1 bootrom on pastebin. Various sources have confirmed the content of that link to be the “real deal”.
In the wake of the release, hacker @q3k has released .IDC files (script files to use with the popular debugger IDA) for people looking to investigate the bootrom, as reported by maxconsole. Other people have mentioned that the rom misses some of the Switch specific patches, but others have been quick to mention that such patches are openly available on switchbrew.
The release of the Tegra bootrom is not useful for the typical “end user” of Nintendo Switch hacks. However, it is a very interesting piece of software for hackers: the bootrom has most likely been acquired though glitching, a series of hardware techniques that not many hackers are familiar with, let alone having access to the required hardware. Because of that, getting the bootrom in itself is not the easiest thing to do, and therefore it is likely that the Tegra bootrom had, until now, been circulating only in fairly private circles.
With access to this piece of software, multiple software hackers could start looking for flaws in the Tegra bootrom. We already know such vulnerabilities exist, since multiple groups have been mentioning them in their work, including Team Xecuter, Reswitched, and Fail0verflow.
Reswitched in particular are scheduled to release a full Custom Firmware along with the Tegra bootrom exploits, sometimes this summer. But it is possible that this leak could precipitate the release of the Atmosphere Custom Firmware. Hacker Ktemkin and other people in Reswitched have been holding off releasing the exploit “too soon” until documentation for everything is ready. But if other groups start finding and revealing Tegra bootrom vulnerabilities, that point could quickly become moot.
A note: I believe sharing the bootrom is a breach of copyright laws in a bazillion countries, so we are not sharing the link here, directly or indirectly. I apologize to the sources of some of this information, that I cannot link to.
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Hahaha fantastic news, thanks Nvidia and Nintendo! Can’t wait for this summer!
Gotta love Nintendo for always using trash security, Switch fully hacked in just a year!
Can’t wait for CFW so I can use my Switch to it’s fullest capabilities despite Nintendo’s useless updates trying to lock people out 🙂
CFW doesn’t allow piracy. You must wait someone for writing a games loader for the CFW.
Maybe you had good intentions but TroloLulu is, in fact, a troll. Every news he repeat the same thing over and over again. In reality he makes cheap console war.
TroloLulu enjoy some free games on Switch finally you will play good games insteaf of budget movies.
I had some ISO here this CFW will run ISO SMOTHLY SORRY FOR YOU.
I know, that will follow soon after though, it always does.
Using a Tegra chip is not “poor security”, nor does the existence of exploits imply that Nintendo should have known better. There is a difference between finding an obscure flaw in a device and the device being poorly designed. NVIDIA is at the pinnacle of chip design, but even they are human. This is a very rare occurrence that happens to impact the Switch only because they decided to outsource their chips from NVIDIA – a very economical and reasonable decision.
Pinnacle of chip design yet every Switch is exploitable thanks to it, that’s the very definition of poor security. You don’t see this problem with any other modern console.
Regardless of FW, the Switch can be fully exploited, lol.
Thank you wololo for the news! So glad that we have you.
No need to link anything here! We use this site just for VERIFIED RELIABLE news! No need to risk the shutdown of this website!
Keep up the good work!
I still can’t understand why would that leak “force/precipitate” the release of already announced CFWs. Doing such thing would, without any doubt, result on uncomplete and buggy CFWs, and even more, that would mean that the possibility of causing major issues with the system would increase exponentialy, and that, is something not desirable in any way.
As already stated, that leak is useless for the “common people”, and it might help researching for even more ways to temper the Switch. Being the first to release a CFW doesn’t make it the best by default. Ask about early CFWs for the 3DS and you’ll understand my point..
How ironic, the files are .IDC lmao
I really hate Nintendo’s direction they’ve chosen to take.
This is not a Nintendo specific file format.
What exactly did they do, lol? Nothing has really changed with Nintendo since the DS (the Nintendo I got to experience personally) – and of course they wouldn’t want any of their systems to be vulnerable.
I wasn’t suggesting Nintendo created the .IDC format. I was referring to how I don’t care about the switch or its exploits, but I still read every Wololo article.
Also by direction I mean wanting too much money for cheap gimmicks, and pushing lame games. Have you seen that ball counting game?
Yes I saw it. Like I saw Zelda, Splatoon, Mario Odissey and I will see Metroid. Go f**k yourself idiot.
Dmaskell92 who is signed up on every ps hacking site on this earth and who write articles on sony console speaks of a one year old launch collection of mini games and pretends to forget other major games launched and “hurr durr muh powa grafix” to push his agenda. HOW SURPRISE!
My anti Nitendo agenda? I’m pretty sure I’m allowed an opinion, and don’t have to follow all the cows who’re jumping from the cliff. I’ll shout from the rooftops that Nintendo has been going in circles, and their hardware is sub par to the competition.
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Many hacking experts here.
glad to hear that. will most likely buy a switch when the full hack is released(especially considering that nintendo will most likely release a hardware revision that fixes this exploit.
hope it is released soon 🙂
Lmao *** off, she was just trying to prevent other parties from being able to exploit every device out there that uses the same hardware – since there’s not only “cool” hacking like CFWs.
Are you that mad you can’t pirate stuff immediately cause people don’t want malware on every device that uses the same hardware that you gotta get personal? That’s pretty pathetic.
Someone released the bug too, with a very small writeup
what is .idc ?
what is .idc
Hi there,
Kate strikes back and released on test POC payload + docu.
http://misc.ktemkin.com/fusee_gelee_nvidia.pdfhttp://misc.ktemkin.com/fusee_gelee_nvidia.pdf
Scripts here : https://github.com/reswitched/fusee-launcher
@ Wololo, hello from France, cheers guy
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I’d love to be excited about this. The problem is that there is nothing for the Switch that hasn’t been repeatedly nostalgia released to death by Nintendo. Having a *** over the backgrounds in Zelda isn’t that enticing either.
It’s gonna be free so why does it matter, just pirate everything! It’s what Nintendo deserves for holding back basic features like a web browser and save data backups, the fools.
Who speak like this? A 12yo for sure.
Go play your playstation idiotic fanboy and don’t pretending you’re not.
I like playstation fanboy fake concern because now nobody will casre about their console.
Reminds me when reloaded got leaked and many ppl soft bricked lol… patient ppl got a fully working version
*RGloader*
Wow, so much great news coming out today. Can’t wait for the Switch to finally be free of Nintendo’s shackles.
IT’S HERE
F0F RELEASED A BOOTROM EXPLOIT FOR THE SWITCH
Now we just need a port of the Nvidia Shield OS so we can play the tegra optimized half life 2 and portal ports
The Shield OS is Android idiot.
Congratulations, it’s almost like they use the same chipset aka Tegra X1, which means their instruction set is the same eh? Also android runs on ARM/Tegra X1 as the shield does so stop being a ***. And if you’re referring to LINUX IS AN ANDROID KERNEL, the *** game is optimized for the nvidia shield meaning you could tweak it and run it on the switch/android os/tegra x1. Where’s the proof of concept that android is running on the switch? Oh wait there isnt, idiot.
I am glad to hear that Tegra X1 is out for us. Even though it is not official, but I am happy with the news
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